Wanda's Multiverse Mess: A Two-Year-Old plot hole in the MCU?
Agatha All Along and the Scarlet Witch's Unnecessary Death
Whoa, MCU fans, this is a wild ride into spoiler territory! We're talking about Agatha All Along, the WandaVision spinoff series which is also a direct response and critique of those things portrayed previously, providing critical and thought-provoking additional details! And one major revelation from Agatha All Along, episode 6 (“Familiar by Thy Side”), has seriously blown the ending to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness wide open! Specifically focusing on Wanda and that now-problematic ending, the major and important thematic arc explored suggests that her tragic demise might not be necessary at all! The original conclusion had already received criticism! Why is this so important?
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, dies heroically (or so we thought) in Multiverse of Madness. This plot decision has been seen by some as simply nonsensical. That revelation? Agatha All Along has presented some hugely crucial information concerning the actual fates of Wanda's kids – Billy and Tommy (conjured in WandaVision)—completely reframing that storyline and creating the possibility for several additional scenarios involving Wanda's actions throughout the story arc presented.
WandaVision's Missing Clue: The Truth Hidden in Plain Sight
The WandaVision post-credits scene ends with Wanda hearing Billy and Tommy calling for her! This completely sets that multiversal quest of Multiverse of Madness. And Agatha All Along reveals a crucial fact which really adds an incredibly dramatic twist here. Billy's spirit actually moved into William Kaplan—a significant point concerning Billy's arc. This means Billy’s not in the multiverse. He is far closer, in William Kaplan's body and it's rather important that people realize this pivotal point in understanding why some have suggested her sacrifice could've easily been prevented had this connection been previously made clear to audiences!
This brings the major question and significant thematic critique to light: how could Wanda (one of the MCU’s most powerful magic users) totally miss this insanely obvious point? The claim of hearing her kids from the multiverse might now look entirely invalid after being reassessed from another point; and especially with this additional, crucial new detail being made clearer now.
Was Wanda actively blocked from discovering this fact? This major misinterpretation completely undermines that emotional journey portrayed! The implications are shocking. She basically launched a Multiverse-spanning massacre because of a fundamental miscalculation! This key misjudgement changes that entire story entirely!
A Death That Didn't Need To Happen
This revelation has shifted perceptions of Multiverse of Madness completely; showcasing a fundamentally flawed narrative; completely creating new perspectives on what would've been achievable in those areas never explicitly shown before. It was previously believed that Wanda's descent into villainy was primarily a function of her grief over the lost twins! But Agatha All Along now shows it was based entirely on a flawed assumption that would easily have been avoidable; had she previously realized what her son Billy truly was.
This storyline creates the possibilities for revisiting those important elements from the previously portrayed narrative. Even critics of Wanda's actions were suggesting Wanda could’ve found a world to create a new and peaceful home with her sons, a vastly different direction. That is an option that viewers easily suggested even years prior; an ending option for Wanda's character which could provide a much more fitting and well-balanced ending for her. Yet even this alternate option pales next to the new possibility created here, where Wanda's desperate search was completely pointless because her son remained far closer than she previously expected!
Could the Darkhold Be to Blame?
There’s a possible explanation that mitigates that issue, showcasing the possibility of Wanda’s missteps as functions of forces acting entirely beyond her control. Could the Darkhold be the reason Wanda made those horrible choices? It certainly added some critical influences; influencing perceptions through its own terrible dark magic which might explain those fundamental errors shown.
This evil magic played a key part in that descent to madness! It manipulated her and created those terribly limited points in her reasoning, causing that horrific loss. This might involve a very creative connection presented in Agatha All Along: it could imply this magical object limited and restrained its own user's abilities for an unspecified reason and only the loss of that object could unleash previously constrained abilities, thus opening an incredible possibility and opportunity: could the Darkhold have obscured Billy's location through that specific manipulation that had those deeply-set effects. It's worth noting.
Conclusion: A Major MCU Plot Hole That Demands Recalculation
Agatha All Along changed the way people saw Wanda's Multiverse of Madness sacrifice, showcasing how significantly details released even years later can completely reshape the understanding concerning earlier released works and its characters, even including significant elements such as the Scarlet Witch’s very tragic ending which creates several new narrative possibilities surrounding her story, particularly showing how easily missed clues could actually become huge plot devices, influencing how people view the narrative itself and the decisions made.
The impact from these later events has really put into serious question and made many audiences question and challenge the narrative presented in earlier installments and in various related narratives from both series, emphasizing just how crucial each decision for narrative progression really is.
