Is it fair to compare Wanda’s arc to Daenerys’s in Game of Thrones or Jean Greys in X-Men the Last Stand?
Personally I think the answer is an unquestioned yes, but I’m curious to know, now almost 2 years after Multiverse of Madness and the continued lack of clarity as to what will happen with Wanda, what most fans think
This of course, assumes MCU fans are also fans of Game of Thrones AND also watched the 2000s X-Men trilogy
I’ve seen many, including myself, compare Wanda’s offscreen turn to a 1-dimensional psychopath from Wandavision to MoM to Daenerys’s almost inexplicable decision to murder tens of thousands of civilians in the penultimate episode of the series, thus “justifying” her murder. I think many compare the two partly because they happen so close together.
I do think, however, that Jean Greys offscreen corruption by the Phoenix persona in X-Men the last Stand is also very similar. Moreover, despite being a hero and a friend to many protagonists in the movie, no one seems to keen on trying to help her or at least nullify her without killing her. They simply kill her off. Moreover, through the movie, she’s barely a character with minimal speaking roles, serving more as a plot device. We have little understanding of what’s going on in her mind, or what the Phoenix really wants.
And contrary to what many people have argued, Wanda’s not really in control of her actions either. Like the Phoenix persona, the Darkhold/Chthon is presumably behind the steering wheel. You cannot argue that Wanda would have done any of what “she” did in MoM without having read the Darkhold first
Yet in both movies, the nature of the Phoenix as well as how the Darkhold is corrupting Wanda are poorly described, and no one tries to help them
Moreover, I think it’s safe to say neither the ending of GOT nor The Last Stand are remembered fondly, primarily because of what they did to the female leads. Daenerys was more than her fathers daughter, and Jean was more that a vessel for the Phoenix. And Wanda is more than her grief consuming her. Which I think is partly why, for the X-Men movies, they effectively retconned The Last Stand with Days of Future Past
Anyways, do you think it’s fair to compare all three characters and their arcs?
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