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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8217596" data-attributes="member: 18182">Wanda isn't facing any serious consequences for her treatment of the Westview townsfolk . . . . yet. This story isn't over, even if the television series is. Still, something would have been nice within the context of WandaVision, you're not the only one to feel dissatisfaction on this point, I've read it in several online reviews.But she certainly made a sacrifice. One only possible in comic book stories. Wanda could have continued to power the hex and control all within in order to keep Dream Vision and their kids alive, but she was able to finally see what she was doing and choose to end the hex instead.As far as justice is concerned . . . . what exactly needs to happen to Wanda? Who has the authority and power to arrest, try, and punish her for her crimes against the people of Westview? What would be the appropriate punishment? What about the significant mitigating circumstances of her apparent disassociative personality and not being fully aware of what she was doing? Could Wanda somehow offer restitution to the people of Westview on her own? What would that look like? Granted, these are all questions to be answered by the writers of WandaVision, or the follow-up in later MCU shows . . . . but this sort of thing is a problem in comic-book stories in general. How do you bring our modern sense of justice to super-powered beings?Imagine a more mundane parallel . . . a woman hurts others while acting out in extreme grief, trauma, and a dissassociative personality break, but minus the super-powers. What would be appropriate? Jail? Counseling? Some sort of mental institution? We don't handle these sorts of things in the real world all that well, add super-powers to the mix and I can see why the writers punted the issue other than Wanda's walk-of-shame through the townsfolk towards the end.</blockquote>

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