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.
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