Rune
Once A Fool
The ticking in the Strücker watch commercial also speeds up ominously. Make of that what you will.
So, Wandavision?
- Thread starter Morrus
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SWORD likely has thousands of personnel. They probably don't all know each other on sight. At night. From a distance. In clothes that they probably didn't start out in.
MarkB
Legend
Plus they're dealing with Wanda, who has mind-affecting abilities as part of her suite of powers. Anyone who's been around her for an extended time would have to be considered potentially hostile, or at least compromised.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Yes, it seems like a reasonable abundance of caution to me. If Wanda's altering reality, everything that comes out of the zone is potentially dangerous. After her medical checks and debriefing, I'm sure she'll be reinstated.
Weiley31
Legend
Possibility that time is running out for Wanda before her entire fiction breaks and shatters her mind.
ART!
Deluxe Unhuman
If the era sitcom reality bubble was even partially created are reinforced by her, all that's required is that she saw some old sitcoms at some point and those notions of an idyllic, traditional USican life are still in her head somewhere, even if she thought they were ridiculous. If the reality bubble already some or all of that, then that part of her brain that remembered those shows could have latched onto that, given her grieving over the loss of a traditional family-like life.
You know, if she has reality-altering powers, she could just want a US accent sometimes and have it, and switch back to her native accent whenever she wanted.
Dire Bare
Legend
Well, sure, but . . . it hardly takes magic or superpowers to do so, it's well within the range of human skill.
I submit that her mind is already broken. It does not seem to me that she is in a normal mental state and just "pretending". This is a traumatized woman1 who has retreated into a fantasy world to protect herself - which would entail that most of the time she's not really aware of the full situation. She is mostly immersed in her role, and the oddness of events is as strange to her as anyone else, because she is not consciously supporting it.
1. Let us recall - she grew up in war-torn Sokovia, where a building collapsed with her in it. She was taken in by Strucker, who experimented on her - which was probably torturous. She became a terrorist, was shown the error of her ways, and saw a large part of her home city lifted into the air, her brother killed and the city destroyed. She was then made a criminal, escaped, fought a war against aliens, was snapped out of existence... and back, and saw the one person remaining in the world that she loved die. She has a right to be broken.
hawkeyefan
Legend
She actually watched him die twice. Once by her own hand.....then rewound so that his sacrifice meant nothing, and then casually destroyed and discarded by Thanos. Oof.
But based on how she closed out that movie, speaking to Hawkeye after the funeral at the end, she seemed at least to have some sense of peace about it.
This is why I think something else will be shown to have happened to serve as a last straw. Something like this:
I'm not saying she went screaming out of the movie and did this the next day. In real trauma, seeming to have some sense of peace at some given moment, in no way, shape, or form, means that the person has healed from their trauma and everything is okay.
Sure, possibly. But maybe not. Remember - PTSD does not need another traumatic, or even stressful, event to set it off. And Marvel has shown some small understanding of the subtleties here.
