Hello, fellow CBM enthusiasts.
When I first heard about the news that the Maximoff twins would be in the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie, I was against it.
Not because of the X-Men rights/Can't say "mutant"/Can't mention Magneto issues, but because of two things:
1) I wanted Doctor Strange to be the MCU introduction to magic (I realize that technically Loki already overruled that)
and 2) I just couldn't see what those characters could bring to an Ultron storyline that would justify their inclusion.
As time went by, I began to warm up to the idea. I thought "Hey, if they become faithful to the nature of Wanda's powers, Doctor Strange can still feel new. After all, Strange is a master of all magic, while Wanda can only do one specific kind of magic: Chaos magic"
And that's when it hit me. By trying to solve the first problem I had with the twins inclusion, I ended up solving the second as well.
So, Ultron.
Nobody is sure of who exactly is going to create him (SHIELD? The World Security Council? Tony Stark? Bruce Banner? Hank Pym, because Feige and Whedon are two lying rascals?) but most people think they already know
WHY he was created: To maintain order, peace, and harmony in the world (or just in the US).
Of course, Ultron realizes that humanity is too erratic, chaotic, and self-destructive to exist freely into an ideally harmonious world. So, seeing humanity itself as the biggest obstacle on the way of achieving his programmed objective of a world in perfect order, he decides to rule over all of us (not unlike Loki in Avengers 1) to accomplish his goal. Sure, he'd later try to solve the problem by simply wiping mankind out of existence or replacing them all with robotic copies, but for now he'll set on just governing over us.
After all, what better way to ensure order than to exercise total and complete control?
And how do you defeat a villain that is all about control? Why, with a hero(ine) that is all about CHAOS!
Enter Wanda Maximoff.
Wanda's power is changing probability. She turns improbable into inevitable. Her hexes are pretty unpredictable by their own nature rooted in chaos. They probably result in disaster whenever she's trying to help. This could make her reluctant to use her powers during most part of the movie. Pietro, her brother, could serve the role of either a supporter who encourages Wanda to use her powers, or that of a protector who tries to prevent Wanda of using her powers in public as to not cause enraged villagers to
Burn the Witch, burn to ash and bone.
This reluctance, wheter dissuaded or encouraged by her brother, will set up Wanda perfectly as the Avengers' secret weapon against Ultron. As soon as she accepts her gifts, like Banner accepted the Hulk, she will turn the tides of the battle. Ultron's obsession with being control will prove to be his ruin when facing Wanda Maximoff.
Because the more one strives for control, the more he becomes susceptible to chaos.
This chaos/control duality will also present itself in the form of whoever desired to predict threats before they happened and to have complete control of the situation ended up creating a monster (Ultron) while the chaotic and unpredictable group of loose cannons (The Avengers) save the day once again.
So, what will be the moral of the story? That control isn't inherently good and chaos isn't inherently bad. Freedom can't exist in an enviroment of absolute control, so, if we really desire to be free, we need to accept a little bit of chaos in our lives.
So, what do you think? Sound off bellow.
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