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Wanda Maximoff is a unique hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in that she doesn’t start out as one of the good guys. Instead, she’s actively working against the Avengers when the audience meets her in Age Of Ultron. Though she ultimately commits to being an Avenger, Wanda continuously makes big mistakes as she learns how to use her power. Her traumas and her grief also often overwhelm her.
Wanda’s struggle to be good, and her struggle for control, mean that she actually has a lot in common with many of the heroes that populate television shows. There are a lot of fan-favorite characters who go through her same struggles to become even stronger heroes.
10 Caroline Forbes Goes From Traumatized Teen To Vampire
While most attention in The Vampire Diaries is paid to Elena Gilbert and the Salvatores, Caroline Forbes actually has one of the best character arcs in the show. She begins the series obsessed with controlling everything around her and worried most about herself. Her emotions end up magnified as a vampire. She does, however, have bouts where her humanity is turned off so she doesn’t have to deal with her emotions.
That experience of turning her humanity off allows Caroline to briefly escape how she feels, just as Wanda retreats into the world of sitcoms to avoid her own grief in WandaVision. Also like Caroline, Wanda learns quickly, mastering different aspects of her abilities as soon as she realizes she has them, like learning how to use protection runes as soon as Agatha Harkness discusses them.
9 Tommy Oliver Wants To Do The Right Thing
When Tommy Oliver is first introduced in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, he’s not a good guy. He has been manipulated by Rita Repulsa to make him her own personal weapon. Once he’s free, he’s able to make his own decisions, and he always wants to do the right thing – even when it’s hard for him. Tommy constantly tries to make up for the bad things he did under Rita’s influence.
His path as a Power Ranger isn’t unlike Wanda’s as an Avenger. While she begins her time in the MCU as a villain, she’s also manipulated into believing she’s doing the right thing when she and her brother team up with Ultron. She sees Tony Stark as the problem, not realizing that he’s trying to do better, just like her. Wanda starts trying to do the right thing, though her own actions often backfire.
8 Julia Wicker Is A Powerful Magic User
Most characters in The Magicians are stronger than they initially realize. Julia becomes as powerful as a goddess over the course of the show. She’s initially rejected in her attempt to attend a magical school, but she finds her way to magic by not-strictly-legal means. Like Wanda, Julia initially teams up with those who skirt around the law, those who experiment with magic without always understanding it.
Also like Wanda, Julia experiences a lot of loss in her life, but it doesn’t completely halt her from moving forward. Julia and Wanda both fight back against the things that wreck their lives. In Julia’s case, it’s a god, and in Wanda’s, it’s Tony Stark. Both young women come into immense power and make it their mission to save the world as they deal with their respective traumas.
7 Piper Halliwell’s Grief Is Powerful
A few seasons into the original Charmed, actress Shannen Doherty left the series, and as a result, her character was killed. When Prue died, the grief hit Piper particularly hard. It was so hard, in fact, that she nearly left her life as a witch behind as her grief and rage caused her to begin to turn into another supernatural creature.
That desire to escape the grief and pain causing a magical outburst is much like what Wanda felt when her brother Pietro was killed in Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Her cry of pain unleashed a wave of power, destroying all of Ultron’s bots around her. Likewise, her own pain at Vision’s death provided her the power to create the sitcom world she encased Westview in years later. She and Piper both use their magic as an outlet.
6 Cordelia Chase Has A Similar Character Arc
Much like Caroline in The Vampire Diaries and a younger Wanda Maximoff, Cordelia Chase was initially out for herself in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She put her own needs first, even when it came to participating in vampire slaying once she found out the truth about her hometown. Like Wanda, however, Cordelia became more in tune with the world around her as time went on and left her hometown behind to pursue bigger dreams. While Wanda became an Avenger and discovered her magical heritage, Cordelia became a valued member of Angel Investigations – and her power eventually elevated her to goddess status.
5 Cindy Berman Is A Villain Who Wants To Do Good
Cindy has a lot of anger in Stargirl. Unlike Wanda, Cindy embraces it instead of trying to avoid it, so they do have very different personalities. What they have in common though is wanting to turn over a new leaf. Wanda sees the Avengers in action when they attempt to save Sokovia from Ultron. That propels her to want to help. Cindy sees what it’s like to help save everyone when she makes a temporary alliance with Stargirl in the second season of the series. Like Wanda, she decides she wants to be better and help, even though others might not trust her to do the right thing.
4 Logan Echolls Knows How To Hold A Grudge
Like many of the characters Wanda has a lot in common with, Logan Echolls doesn’t start his journey as a hero. Instead, he’s a recurring antagonist for the title character in Veronica Mars, making fun of her and getting under her skin. He initially holds a grudge against Veronica, blaming her as much as he blames her father for messing up the investigation into his girlfriend’s death.
That grudge-holding is where Wanda and Logan have a lot of common ground. If someone crosses Logan, he never forgets. Just as Wanda holds onto the name Stark from her childhood and holds Tony personally responsible for the death of her parents, Logan knows exactly who to blame and where to focus his anger throughout the series.
3 Daenerys Targaryen Fights For Her Family’s Legacy
Despite her parents being long gone and her brother treating her as a bargaining chip in Game Of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen places the highest importance on her family legacy – even as her family becomes a traveling band of allies and a trio of dragons. Daenerys becomes one of the most dangerous heroes vying for the throne in the series as a result.
Wanda is a lot like Daenerys in that regard. Her immense power makes her extremely dangerous, but so does her allegiance to her family. Before she fully understands what she’s done in WandaVision, Wanda uses her impressive abilities to bring her family to life and make an entire town play out her own sitcom happy ending.
2 Mary Hamilton Hides Her Feelings Until She Can’t
At first glance, Batwoman’s Mary Hamilton might not seem like she has much in common with Wanda. Mary comes from a background of privilege and is studying to become a doctor, while Wanda comes from a war torn country where she sees participating in a secret experiment as a way to survive.
Both young women, however, experience intense loss in their lives, and both young women try to hide their feelings about certain subjects until they’re so overwhelmed that they can’t. For Wanda, that means bringing a version of Vision back to life in a small town in New Jersey. For Mary, that means allowing all of her anger to spill over when she’s infected by Poison Ivy.
1 Sabrina Spellman Tries To Have It All
Sabrina Spellman doesn’t do battle with overwhelming grief in the same ways that Wanda Maximoff does. She does, however, struggle reconciling her desire to be good with her pull toward the darkness inside. She also makes a lot of mistakes while using her abilities, much like Wanda.
At one point in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sabrina even uses a duplicate of herself so that she can experience both halves of her life, leaving her duplicate to rule in Hell while she live on Earth. Wanda’s never had to do that, but she has used her magic to create a whole new life for herself. They both even end up in sitcom versions of their lives!
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