A fuller explanation comes from Jonathan Hickman’s run on New Avengers volume three. In keeping with the fast pace that director Sam Raimi brings to the film, Multiverse of Madness spends little time explaining the concepts of incursions. All that remains in that universe is the ruins of the Sanctum Santorum, home to an evil and broken Doctor Strange. Later in the movie, Wanda uses America Chavez’s powers to exile Strange into a universe made desolate by an incursion. Although he and the Illuminati stopped the incursion, the threat was so great that the Black Bolt executed 838 Strange before he could do further damage. What is an Incursion?Īccording to the Illuminati of Earth 838, the Doctor Strange of that universe used the Darkhold when desperate for power, causing a universe destroying incursion. Superhero deaths are notoriously temporary (unless we’re talking about Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark, who we’re pretty sure is staying dead), so if Elizabeth Olsen wants to return, writers have plenty of options to bring her back. While 616 Wanda may have died, that certainly does not mean that we’ll never see her again. ![]() That convoluted, multiversal answer gets at the heart of comic book deaths. Through her sacrifice, the Scarlet Witch stopped the evil part of herself so that the good part could live on in the form of 838 Wanda. More importantly, she destroyed the Darkhold so that a Wanda from another universe cannot learn to control her 838 self and threaten those children. She destroyed the Darkhold to prevent anyone else from following her footsteps, dream-walking to take control of variants of themselves. Moreover, the Wanda of 838 shows unbridled heroism, the best of who Wanda Maximoff is as a mother and an Avenger. When she sees the look of horror on the faces of the Billy and Tommy of Earth 838, Wanda realizes that she’s become a threat to the very people she wanted to save. But Wanda spends all of Multiverse of Madness as a monstrous killer, dying a villain instead of a hero.īut it’s important to remember that Wanda sacrifices herself as an act of heroism. ![]() ![]() These fans saw Wanda’s adoption of the Scarlet Witch title and retreat to Wundagore Mountain as a step toward healing (even if she did spend her time reading the Darkhold).
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