They: But OMG, you are so cruel! Wanda is a war orphan” She lost her parents because Evil Stark’ weapons! She is young and traumatised!
Me: Yeah, I totally see the people of Johannesburg, you know, the innocent city in which she unleashed the Hulk, caring about Wanda Maximoff’s parents dying in a civil war/terrorist attack/American intervention. Of course that the people that loved their loved ones are going to cuddle her and tell that she is just a little kid when she had no reason at all for messing with Bruce Banner’s head (a man that never did harm to her). Yeah, they are totally wrong and Wanda is a hero and Bruce must get over it and protect her.
PS: Guys, look at the notes of this gifset, not a single Wanda stan defending her here.
She’s not even attempting to apologize. “I know you’re angry” is something people say right before they “but *here’s why it doesn’t matter/you should get over it*”
“I know you’re angry” but….
It’s not only a non apology, she’s not even taking ownership of what she did. She could have said “I know I made you angry” or “I know I hurt you”. Neither are apologies but they are acknowledgement that she did something wrong.
I think her choice of language here is very telling. I think she doesn’t think she did anything wrong aside from teaming up with Ultron. The Avengers were her enemies from her point of view so what she did to them was justified. Which is absolutely disgusting but I guess ownership of her bad decisions doesn’t line up with the victim narrative she’s crafted for herself.
“I know you’re angry” puts it all on Bruce – “I know you have an issue with what happened” like it’s his flipping problem.
God I hate MCU Wanda so much.
P.S. – I’m wondering if Wanda forcing the Hulk out causing death and destruction in Johannesburg and it being swept aside as well as Romanoff pushing him off a cliff are contributing factors to the Hulk’s rage he used in the area in Thor Ragnarok?
I mean, if I were Bruce and my teammates glossed over what Wanda did to me to accept her on our side and my romantic interest told me they adored me, kissed me, then shoved me off a cliff saying they needed my hated alter ego I’d want to vent some of that rage in gladiatorial combat as well.
Not saying Bruce allowed himself be used as a competitor, I’m just saying the rage wasn’t too hard to reach for and he may be inclined to let some of it out for a change.
I literally can’t stand her and here’s the reason why.
I honestly felt that comic / animated series wanda was amazing and she deserved so much more than this “turn you in to a Nazi even though your Jewish and destroying the community that helped you after your parents deaths because they were the convenient victims to execute your revenge” I’m not salty that this character could have been really really cool and instead became This. Nope.
Forget all the other ‘teams’ through MCU. I want this one. I want them to have group nights or more like nights when the nightmares are too horrific to keep staring at the dark ceiling, when their breathing is just too loud but still they hear their own screams and pleads for mercy, the nights when the pains just too deep,
Those are the nights that end up with Bucky and Nebula trying to one up each other with past battles over bottles of vodka and whatever space alcohol Nebula brings to see if it can finally break the serums tolerance, as Rocket and Tony are off in the background trying to out engineer each other, which devolves into seeing how big an explosion they can make. They’re the only ones who understand how alien they feel in their own bodies, how they feel lesser, they understand the soul deep ache of having something foreign being forced into their body against their will and having to live with that pain daily – because it never goes away, there’s only tolerable days and bad days. There’s no platitudes or excuses, no looks of pity, disgust, there’s no fear or horror. They understand the days when it’s impossible to look into a mirror and see a stranger stare back at them. Together they come to realize even for a little while that they aren’t the monsters they perceive themselves to be.
People are difficult, they require a lot of focus. They, uh, they have a rhythm that I haven’t quite been able to–like brunch! What is brunch? You wait in line for an hour for, essentially, lunch. I mean, I don’t know. People are… a little slow.
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