Doctor Strange 2 writer reveals why Wanda has changed in the movie

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnes🌜s writer Michael Waldron has explained why Wanda is so different in the movie. Major spoilers ahead! 

In the film, Wanda has shifted from the former-Avenger we know and love to an out and out villain as the Scarlet Witch, who is chasing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:America Chavez through the multiverse to steal her reality-traversing powers, which would allow Wanda to reunite with her lost children 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Billy and Tommy Maximoff

. "It was always where Wanda was headed in the MCU, even as I inheritedꦰ the movie. The question just became, when would it happen? Certainly, there was a version of this movie where Wanda was part of the ensemble that ended, I guess, with her turning bad, and then she could🎶 have been an antagonist of another movie. But I feel like in that case, you would have had a watered-down version of Wanda going bad because it’s still Doctor Strange's movie. She wouldn't be the protagonist, and she wouldn't really be the antagonist. You'd have to have a [different] antagonist throughout the entirety of most of the film."

The last time we saw Wanda was the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:WandaVision season finale, when she brought down the Hex – the magical forcefield surrounding Westview trapping everyone inside Wanda's idyllic version of reality – and in the process destroyed her newly built family. She then retreated to a cottage in the forest to study the Darkhold, an ancient and evil spell book she acquired from fellow witch 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Agatha Harkness

Waldron doesn't think the film conflicts with the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Disney Plus show, though. "You know, she's doing bad stuff throughout WandaVision. She does make the heroic choice to let go of all those people. But it's also revealed to her that the family she's built is not real. Then she gets the Darkhold at the end of the series and learns that there is a real version of her children out there. And if you've got the Book of the Damned whispering in your ear long enough that your kids are out there and 🍎you could go get 'em, maybe that can push you to do some terrible things." 

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is in theaters 🀅now. For much more o⛄n the movie, check out our explainers on: 

Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in En♏glish.