We're all supposed to see Sylvie as this "hero on a crusade for good🤮" and not criticize her actions at all because there has never been a narrative more protective of any other character than this one is of Sylvie. I don't even think the narrative of WandaVision was all that protective of Wanda!
It's like they expect us to watch Sylvie torch a field full of people alive, turn hunter C-20's brains to mush, use people as her personal meat puppets, and sit there and go, "wow that was awesome, aww that poor sweet little baby!"...what???
And the scene where Loki was warning Sylvie of the potential dangers of killing HWR, like, she did not care. What about all the little girls she's supposedly "crusading" for? When killing HWR could drastically alter or erase these little girls' entire reality or entire existence? I think her reply was something like, "so what?"
SO WHAT?
What a heroic crusader she is! 🙄 Give me a freaking break! At least with Wanda we're allowed to see the bad things she's done as actually bad. Wanda isn't being coddled by the narrative nearly as much as Sylvie is. It's like whoever created Sylvie wants it both ways - for us to see her as this badass powerful ruthless dangerous kickass unstoppable feral force to be reckoned with AND a poor sweet delicate fragile porcelain china cup!
It's so frustrating when people don't know how to write or handle female characters! Well thank goodness they've got "misogyny" to protect themselves with! 🙄😒
Damn, I couldn't agree more with you!
It's frustrating to read so many people claim Wanda was "coddled" by the narrative but none of them say a damn thing about Sylvie. How was Wanda coddled exactly? The framing never justifies her actions, in fact she's not only told what she's doing is wrong, she has to face the people she's hurting and she's in massive pain throughout the whole thing...
Hell, she killed her own family so that the people of Westview could escape!
What did Sylvie do? Risk the entire multiverse so she could have her own personal revenge - and the framing not only justified it but painted Loki as a villain for trying to come up with a better solution. That's what coddling really is, that's what narrative protection means: to always have her actions justified no matter what, and for the characters around her who dare question her behaviour to be framed as villains.
Did Sylvie ever face the people she hurt? Were her actions ever disputed, or did Mobius apologize to her almost immediately? Did the narrative ever show her vicious murders of the agents in a bad light, or were her crimes swept under the rug to push a narrative of her being a hero despite her actions? Was her murder of HWR shown to be entirely selfish or was it framed as a heroic act?
What Wanda did was wrong, I've never said otherwise, and Sylvie killing HWR was entirely selfish. The main difference is that WandaVision showed her to be in the wrong, they allowed her that grief and pain and complexity so that the audience could see a morally grey character going full dark then embarking on a journey of self-reflection and heroism. Sylvie is an entirely one-dimensional wish-fulfilment character framed as a hero but not written as one, who inevitably needs to be protected at all times by the narrative otherwise the audience would see her as what she is: a villain.
