The multiverse, as we've seen it, seems to be a bunch of similar universes with subtle differences, and a few "out there" ones, like the one where everyone is paint. In some universes, Wanda lives a more normal life with her children, but in 616 her children were conjured magically. Wanda wants to be with her children again, even if it means being with a pair from another universe.
Are you a parent? If not, it may not make as much sense, but if you are a parent, it makes perfect sense. If your child dies, you would do anything to bring him back.
Her line about all kids being made up didn't mean what you seem to think. She was making a sort of sarcastic comeback to what someone, I believe it was Doctor Strange, had said to her. He said she created her kids, and she was pointing out that every mother creates her children, as in all kids are grown from nearly nothing into a baby by a mother.
I found the story very believable and compelling, perhaps more so than most superhero films. Usually the villain is driven by vague desires for wealth or power, but a mother striving to reunite with her children makes sense. And, it was nicely paralleled with Strange's interaction with alternate-universe Christine. That moment when he told her he loved her really tied the entire movie together, and makes one reconsider everything that has happened to that point.
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BruceBanner (59)
3 years ago
Ok... so I guess I missed the point that there's another universe where her kids are real and not still conjured up and Wandavision world still in action (despite the kids looking the same as her made up ones.. woah... what a coincidence!) :D
I guess the fact that the kids are the EXACT same as the ones she lost (conjured up) in Wandavision threw me off, it felt like she was trying to get back to Wandavision illusion again, in some other universe and I just thought 'but you're the scarlet witch... just make them here again? Why go to all the (destructive) trouble?'
Unless... she actually DOES value real life kids more than conjured up ones, which makes her flippant sarcastic comment make even less sense... (and yes I understood what she meant by it at the time, life is a miracle bla bla, little bundles of magic lol etc etc).
But even if she does have real kids in another universe and wants to be with them, I think if she truly felt like there was no difference to conjuring up the babies via magic vs 1v1 hip bumping (with vision etc) then she could just create them again in her own universe, I didn't quite see the connection between having to seek out the multiverse and get to another world to solve her pain, she's the friggin Scarlet Witch! She can literally change reality. Or... she's also totally hot, get a boyfriend and make some real babies this time...
I dunno... I felt as though for her to suffer so badly from her illusion grief was a little weird, it felt like it undid some of the closure of Wandavision.
It wasn't a bad movie, I think perhaps it lacked emphasis on the evil book thing making her mad, evil and corrupted. Yes I'm a parent, and if my kids would unfortunately die it doesn't mean I'd have it in me to go on a killing spree for a guaranteed reunion. Good Wanda would probably not have done this either, it's because she was evil, not that it's a rational justification for any grieving parent... jesus...
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