So, Wandavision?

[tomBitonti]

Except previously Wanda was not considered or depicted as a magic-user - other than some baddie referring to her as "the witch" in AoU, IIRC. So we just had Dr. Strange, and Thor talking about magic and science as kind of the same thing...and maybe some other references in Thor movies?

Yup. This whole idea of ”magic” was only briefly hinted-at. The audience is being introduced to some additional structure: Witches exist, and have power sources and spells and covens, and a detailed history.

 

[MarkB]

Except previously Wanda was not considered or depicted as a magic-user - other than some baddie referring to her as "the witch" in AoU, IIRC. So we just had Dr. Strange, and Thor talking about magic and science as kind of the same thing...and maybe some other references in Thor movies?

Such as Loki doing really quite a lot of illusion magic.

 

[pukunui]

So is MCU magic just some kind of really advanced science, as per Asimov’s Third Law (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”)?

 

[ART!]

So is MCU magic just some kind of really advanced science, as per Asimov’s Third Law (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”)?

I think the first Thor movie would have us think that, but outside of that there's no argument being made than magic is fancy science. I think magic in the MCU is actual magic - whatever that means.

 

[Rune]

So is MCU magic just some kind of really advanced science, as per Asimov’s Third Law (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”)?

Pretty sure that was from Arthur C. Clarke’s Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible.

Asimov’s Third Law [of Robotics] states: “A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”

 

[Davies]

She expressed the very human emotions of bitterness and anger that her closest friends and allies, including her own mother, betrayed her and tried to murder her.

No, she didn't. Without visible emotion, she sauntered up to her mother's corpse and robbed it. And she later mocked Wanda's pain. You are inventing excuses for a sociopath. Their only mistake was using magic to try and execute her. They should have just hung her by the neck or cut her throat.

 

[Umbran]

I think the first Thor movie would have us think that, but outside of that there's no argument being made than magic is fancy science. I think magic in the MCU is actual magic - whatever that means.

I don't think we need to think of magic as science. From what we have seen, it is perhaps most accurate to say... energy is energy. You can manipulate it any number of ways. Some cultures (like Asgardians) use so much of both that they hardly care about the distinction. It is all "ways the universe works" to them.

 

[Umbran]

No, she didn't. Without visible emotion, she sauntered up to her mother's corpse and robbed it. And she later mocked Wanda's pain. You are inventing excuses for a sociopath. Their only mistake was using magic to try and execute her. They should have just hung her by the neck or cut her throat.

I can No Prize that to be... with whatever powers she was playing with, simply cutting her throat may not have done the job. Either she may not be terribly vulnerable to normal physical weapons, or she'd continue to be a spiritual issue afterwards.

 

[Maxperson]

No, she didn't. Without visible emotion, she sauntered up to her mother's corpse and robbed it. And she later mocked Wanda's pain. You are inventing excuses for a sociopath. Their only mistake was using magic to try and execute her. They should have just hung her by the neck or cut her throat.

After the hurt looks, angry looks and betrayed looks, sure. She showed plenty of emotion during the ordeal After it was over, shutting down emotionally in emotional overload is also human. You're calling her a sociopath based on 2 seconds after an tremendous ordeal where he closest friends and family tried to murder her.

 

[embee]

No, she didn't. Without visible emotion, she sauntered up to her mother's corpse and robbed it. And she later mocked Wanda's pain. You are inventing excuses for a sociopath. Their only mistake was using magic to try and execute her. They should have just hung her by the neck or cut her throat.

And Voldemort should have smothered Harry with a pillow.