WandaVision; An Intense Look At Grief & Loss

Amanda Bussman
5 min readMay 11, 2021
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

On January 15th Marvel Studios put out the first installment of their new venture. Taking their audience from three films per year to a plethora of episodes. The first of this new form of media was WandaVision.

WandaVision is a 9 episode mini-series that followed two of our beloved characters. Vision and Wanda. An android and an enhanced human. The audience has watched both characters from their very first appearances. Visions “birth” at the hand of Ultron and Wanda in the loss of her brother, becoming one of the good guys.

For those who follow the films, we know that these characters have each had difficult pasts.

What WandaVision did for these two characters was a form of expression that gave the viewers an understanding of grief. As an audience, we’ve learned that pain can be all-encompassing. There are times when the hurt fills up every crevice of a body and makes everything else difficult to comprehend.

Here’s a look at what WandaVision was able to do.

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Amanda Bussman

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