This article addresses a number of important plot points (and ensuing questions that stem from those plot points) from Season 1, Episode 6 of “WandaVision” from Disney+. If you don’t want to read spoilers from that episode, you should close out the browser now.
Pietro Maximoff basically broke through the fourth wall when he turned to Wanda and asked: “How are you doing this?”
That’s what has been on my mind during the first six episodes of WandaVision on Disney+, and, after the most recent episode, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular,” viewers still don’t have an answer.
We now understand — or think we understand — why she’s has created the Westview Anomaly: grief. She’s mourning the loss of Vision (and Pietro and basically everyone she’s ever loved), and has built an alternate reality to cope with the immense loss she suffered. But as Pietro acknowledged, Wanda’s power has rapidly grown beyond anything he’s known.
“It’s a pretty big leap from nightmares and shooting red wiggly-woos out of your hands,” he said, of Wanda controlling everyone in Westview.
Wanda proved to be one of the most powerful Avengers during “Endgame” in her duel with Thanos, a villain that proved a major challenge for Thor, Iron Man and Captain America. The Scarlet Witch seemed to have a significant advantage in a 1-on-1 fight with Thanos in the middle of the final battle sequence — so much so that he orders a massive assault that kills his own soldiers. So we know she’s very powerful and capable of more than “wiggly-woos.”
That said, Wanda’s demonstrations of power grow in scale with each episode. The latest example, of course, is that she makes the Westview Anomaly large enough to swallow the S.W.O.R.D. facility on the edge of the bubble. The last thing that we see is that it’s still growing.
So how did Wanda’s power scale so enormously?