WandaVision 10 Ways It Made Wanda & Vision More Interesting

WandaVision: 10 Ways It Made Wanda & Vision More Interesting

When introduced to the MCU, Wanda and Vision weren’t the most exciting characters, but Disney+ series WandaVision made them totally compelling.

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When Marvel first announced that it would be moving into the realm of streaming with a series revolving around Wanda Maximoff and Vision, fans weren’t particularly excited to see the show because those characters hadn’t been all that interesting in their big-screen appearances.

Vision had always been characterized as a one-note Superman figure who likes to wax intellectual and Wanda’s most memorable trait was her ever-changing accent. Their romance had previously been panned as one of the MCU’s worst. But with the spotlight allowed by WandaVision, creator Jac Schaeffer and her team of writers fleshed out Wanda and Vision into two of the MCU’s most fascinating characters.

10 The Pilot Set Them Up As Brand New Characters

In WandaVision’s pilot episode, Wanda and Vision are introduced as newlyweds in the 1950s in the style of the Petries in The Dick Van Dyke Show or the Ricardos in I Love Lucy.

Of course, this Vision is later revealed to be the original Vision’s corpse animated into a fabricated TV world by Wanda’s overwhelming mutant powers, but introducing Wanda and Vision as brand-new characters as opposed to the same boring pair from Civil War and Infinity War got the series started on the right foot.

9 Filling Out Wanda’s Backstory In Sokovia

After Agatha is revealed to be the mastermind behind Wanda’s madness, WandaVision dedicates a whole episode to filling out the character’s backstory. It was already established that Wanda grew up in war-torn Sokovia and her parents were killed by Stark weapons, but WandaVision ironed out the specifics, which made her harrowing background feel much more real.

It also filled in the key piece in the puzzle that connects Wanda’s tragic origin story to her TV-inspired fantasyland, as Wanda’s parents helped the twins to learn English and escape from the horrors of war by watching classic American sitcoms on DVD.

8 Small-Scale Conflicts

No one could’ve expected that the biggest conflicts in Marvel’s follow-up to Endgame’s gargantuan “Battle of Earth” would be a poorly planned dinner party and a magic show sabotaged by chewing gum.

But that’s precisely what made WandaVision such a success. The fact that it wasn’t a large-scale spectacle, but rather a character-focused sci-fi mystery series, made it feel like a breath of fresh air.

7 Letting Elizabeth Olsen And Paul Bettany Show Off Their Range

Like Rey and Ben Solo, Wanda and Vision’s on-screen relationship in the movies suffered from uninspired writing and coasted entirely on the chemistry shared by the actors playing them.

In WandaVision, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany finally had some material to work with that was worth their talent. The mix of well-timed sitcom line deliveries and juggling genuine emotions like grief and existentialism allowed Olsen and Bettany to really show off their range in WandaVision.

6 Darcy Lewis Was A Great Foil For Vision

One of the greatest things about Paul Bettany’s performance as Vision is the deadpan delivery he brings to the character’s lines. Since he’s a machine and not a human being, he thinks logically — and often presents that logic very dryly.

Darcy Lewis is similarly dry, and while the character didn’t quite fit into the early Thor movies, Kat Dennings made a hilarious foil for Bettany’s all-powerful android in WandaVision.

5 Agatha Was A Great Foil For Wanda

Just as Wyatt Russell has arguably given the most memorable performance in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as impostor to the throne John Walker, Kathryn Hahn stole the spotlight in WandaVision in the role of Agatha Harkness.

Introduced as a quirky neighbor in the show’s initial sitcom entries, Agatha is eventually revealed to be the evil mastermind behind everything. Hahn made a terrific foil for Elizabeth Olsen, both in sitcom form and as a full-blown mustache-twirling baddie.

4 Exploring Different Incarnations Of Their Relationship

The accelerated timeline of WandaVision’s TV world allowed the audience to see a few different incarnations of Wanda and Vision’s relationship. Civil War depicted them as essentially a prisoner and her warden, then Infinity War skipped their actual relationship and forced them to make the ultimate sacrifice.

In WandaVision, they’re introduced as newlyweds. Then, over the next few episodes, we see them as parents to babies, then to toddlers, and eventually to grown kids with the ability to talk back.

3 Introducing The New Vision

As the Wanda situation escalates and S.W.O.R.D. gets more and more eager to break into Westview and put an end to the Scarlet Witch’s reign of terror, they decide to create their own Vision. Introducing the new Vision helped to define what makes the original Vision so unique.

Their philosophical musings in the finale are hardly groundbreaking enough to give Nietzsche a run for his money (or make every screenwriter in the world whisper a reverent F-bomb), but the Visions do raise some thought-provoking ideas.

2 Making Wanda An Antihero

Wanda is neither a straightforward hero nor a straightforward villain in WandaVision. She could be described as an antihero. Yes, she’s holding an entire town hostage — but she’s been through a lot and she has more power than she knows what to do with.

Although defeating Agatha doesn’t forgive Wanda’s misdeeds completely, it did show that she’s capable of good and might one day be a great superhero.

1 The Finale’s Emotional Closure

The WandaVision finale was described as controversial when it first aired, and while “The Series Finale” may not have provided closure for fans who were banking on big cameos, it did provide closure for the story at hand. Wanda and Vision’s final farewell as the fantasy version of Westview crumbles around them was pitch-perfect.

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