I finally drew Vision all nice and proper!!! I’ll colour this up later.
I kinda made a… Half movie version half comic book kind of Vision? His movie version is too hard to draw right and the comic is too simple, so I made a middle-ground!
Paul Bettany is such a great Vision. I totally used his face for reference here.
I always get so freaking mad about this scene. Who the heck told Steve that his was was the right way.
In this scene he gets mad bc Wanda is under house arrest. Tony is protecting her.
When Tony is in charge, she’s in a nice and comfortable house, with everything she needs in arms reach.
When Steve is in charge she’s in the frigging raft.
Everything would have been great if Steve had opened his mind and thought “maybe my way of seeing things isn’t the only right way”
Obviously Civil War wasn’t his fault only. Tony gets part of the blame.
But while Tony deserves a slap upside the head, Steve deserves a slap upside the head and two slaps across the face.
You tagged #wanda maximoff and #steve rogers so I’m hoping it’s okay to respond?
So Steve specifically addresses and rejects the idea Tony is motivated by a desire to protect Wanda:
Tony: “It’s a hundred acres with a lap pool and a screening room, there’s worse ways to protect people.”
Steve: “Protection? Is that how you see this? This is protection? It’s internment.”
This is what Steve means when he says “the right way”. Holding someone indefinitely without charge nor intent to give trial is internment. Steve, who personally remembers the US’ history with internment, is rightfully angry over this.
Her freedom is contingent on signing the Accords, but that is not what Ross says is going to happen when he talks with them earlier. He says if they don’t sign, they retire. Not only is Wanda is not being given this choice, but the Accords come with an agreement to act as the UN’s task force, going where and when they want. Wanda’s freedom is being held on contingency with agreeing to being the UN’s weapon.
And Tony knows this–his reaction to Steve’s accusation is not denial, it’s passive agreement because he looks aside with (IMO) guilt, and then switches arguments something closer to the heart of the matter:
Tony: “She’s not a US citizen, and they don’t grant visas to weapons of mass destruction!”
Here Wanda has been reduced to a thing, a weapon of terrible power not deserving of rights.
But if Wanda is too dangerous to be granted a visa, then she’s too dangerous to be used as a weapon at all. Signing a document doesn’t make her less dangerous.
Still, if Tony is dehumanizing her, Steve infantilizes her:
Steve: “She’s a kid!”
She does have terrible powers. She is dangerous, and she is not a citizen. This, by the way, is why I’d be Team Iron Man in real life if there weren’t such things centuries-long perfect government takeover conspiracies (i.e., run on comic book logic). But as it is, if nothing else, Wanda is a person, and her personhood should not be contingent on anything.
We’ve been together since before we were born. We are each other’s only family. We’ve served on the same teams for years. Saved each other’s lives. But so often our lives have felt so far apart. And so often the fault has been mine. I’m the fastest man in the world, but I’ve run out of time to fix things with the only person who ever really cared about me… or have I?
I do understand disappointment if the show is Scarlet Witch & Vision and not just Scarlet Witch, but this isn’t about that (although I’d point out that Disney never officially announced a Scarlet Witch-specific show so it’s not like anything was taken away). This is for those who feel that, even if the show does star Wanda as the main character, it somehow is not about her if there’s a romance in it.
I might understand if only female superheroes had romances. But that’s not even close to being accurate.
Here let me just point out that every single MCU franchise starring a single character has romance as a major element at least starting out (save perhaps Ant-Man). This includes the TV series.
But for some reason, I’ve only seen people truly complain about the idea of a romance being important there is a female lead: Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Jessica Jones, and here Scarlet Witch. Despite the fact all the male characters have romances as major parts of their story.
So, why is a woman immediately less important than the man she romances in her own story?
Is he not the oft-maligned “love interest” role? Does he not exist as a way to develop our main character? Is he not only there to be with a woman? No one questions that Tony is the main character of the Iron Man franchise. No one thinks the Thor movies were made so he could romance Jane Foster.
This attitude that women are solely defined by the men in their lives arises in part because we have this attitude that only men are capable of defining. I reject this. If a Scarlet Witch series has Vision as a main role, it’s still her story.
Those Celestial Bodies 