Aside from people giving Peter Quill shit for his actions in Infinity War (which annoys me since his actions were completely understandable and human), I don’t get so much blame being leveled against Wanda for what happened. I’ve seen a lot of posts talking shit about her (things to the effect of ”She was willing to let half the universe die for an overblown toaster!”), but… was it just Wanda? No.
Almost everyone was on board with stalling: Steve and Bruce specifically and vocally disagreed with killing Vision. No one protested the plan to take Vision to Wakanda to fix him. T’Challa opened up the doors to Wakanda, so clearly he agreed on some level. Shuri was on board with the actual operation. Not one person aside from Vision was on Team “Hey, Let’s Destroy the Mind Stone Now”.
So why criticize only Wanda for this? If people want to throw Wanda under the bus for waiting too long to destroy the Mind Stone, they should also throw every other person who agreed with Wanda under the bus too. At least Wanda had a good reason for not wanting Vision dead. She was in love with him.
This fandom has a weird habit of picking and choosing certain characters to target with their ire while ignoring the complicity of their own personal faves or outright ignoring the less-than-stellar actions of them. Like damn.
Tag: vision
Concept art
Btw it’s possible he was initially meant to have his android appearance in the early drafts, but both of these images are also previous paintings photobashed into new concept art, just to give an impression of setting, lighting, tone, etc.
Mama Widow taught her well.
Now I know I wasn’t the only one thinking that they have a mother-daughter relation ship. Now Natasha almost freaking out when she sees Vision’s lifeless body hurts even more. She saw the body and Wanda wasn’t there…she saw the others turning to dust, Wanda just let herself go without saying a word #Feels
Hey people with the “Okoye was willing to kill her husband but Wanda won’t kill Vision” hot take
Okoye is also supporting the plan to try and save Vision. She also doesn’t think an innocent woman has to kill an innocent man when there’s an alternate solution. She recognizes the difference between that situation and the one with a traitor to her country who was trying to help kill the royal family and take over the world.
Wanda: I wasn’t that drunk last night.
Natasha: Yes you were. You were flirting with Vision.
Wanda: So what? He’s my husband.
Natasha: You asked him if he was single
Natasha: And then cried when he said he wasn’t.
I wish that the writers of Infinity War had shifted the timeline of the moral crisis with Vision somewhat.
I think that introducing the idea that Wanda could destroy the Mind Stone and then have her refuse the option (even just as an emotional reflex) primed some of the audience against the decision to go to Wakanda. While I have talked extensively on the importance of this decision and why some extra consideration should be made, it’s always going to be really hard to hear the stakes are ‘half of all life’ and have sympathy for people debating the value of a single one.
Instead, I wish the writers had introduced the idea of extracting the Mind Stone to hide it first. Bruce could mention that he and Tony’s research in Age of Ultron showed no energy on Earth could destroy it; Steve could mention Wakanda having the tech to extract it.
Then, at Wakanda while Shuri is investigating, have Vision say exactly what he originally said in IW: he’s done some analyzing and figured out the type of energy Wanda’s power is could destroy the Stone.
Now the decision to destroy Vision stands on equal footing to the possibility of saving him. Now we have time to focus a bit on the Wakandans feelings (who, in the original movie do clearly support the idea of trying to save Vision but seem more passive in the decision), to more clearly establish they are on board with saving him.
It also would have strengthened the parallel between Thanos’ experience with his people and the Avengers with Vision. On Titan, the option to kill half of everyone wouldn’t have come before the various solutions they would have attempted to fix overpopulation. That would have been introduced later, only to be dismissed while prior solutions were still attempted.
The movie can continue exactly as before, but I think the audience would have had more time to process the choices, to sympathize and engage, instead of reflexively objecting to it.
Those Celestial Bodies 