It currently seems that there are no plans at Disney for WandaVision season 2, and this is the best way to avoid ruining the Scarlet Witch’s story. After a reshuffle of releases due to the Covid-19 pandemic, WandaVision became the first Marvel series to be aired on Disney+. The series achieved much critical acclaim and was subsequently nominated for 8 Primetime Emmy Awards, but the prospect of a second season seems highly unlikely.

In a recent interview with SFX magazine, Moon Knight director Mohamed Diab stated that Disney has no plans to move forward with another WandaVision season. Speaking to the magazine, Diab stated, "It’s like a crazy world. Even with the successful shows, like WandaVision, they’re not doing season two. She jumped into a film, maybe she’s going to come back or not. I don’t know. And that’s exciting." Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff will appear next in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where she will use her newfound powers as the Scarlet Witch to assist Steven in navigating the multiverse.

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Disney’s decision to not move forward with WandaVision season 2 is the best way of ensuring they do not ruin Wanda’s character arc. From the first season’s position as a stand-alone story to the potential of undermining its emotional ending, a second season runs the risk of changing the Scarlet Witch’s story for the worse. Unlike Loki – whose storyline can only be further developed by a second season – Disney is right to leave WandaVision’s personal narrative as it is.

Scarlet Witch in WandaVision

The first season finished in the perfect place for Wanda. Having enslaved the town of Westview to process her grief over Vision’s death at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, Wanda freed all the town’s residents and was forced to come to terms with her lover’s absence. The season played like a series of sitcom episodes, with each one representing Wanda’s attachment to the past and longing for a sense of nostalgia. Defeating Agatha Harkness in the season finale, Wanda assumed the position of the Scarlet Witch and began learning dark magic from the spells contained in the Darkhold. The season encapsulated Wanda’s navigation of her grief and finished with the character in a wholly different place as she assumes the position of one of the most powerful beings in the MCU.

Creating Wandavision season 2 would risk undermining the character development which was crucial to the success of the first. Wanda’s control over Westview never would have happened without her undergoing a deeply affecting emotion, and a second season would require the character to endure a similar event again if it was to encapsulate the show’s nostalgic sitcom-based feel. The transition from Wanda Maximoff to the Scarlet Witch was based on this emotional arc, and a second similar event would demoralize all the power that she gained in this process.

The prospect of a second season is equally diminished by Wanda’s appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, with trailers seeming to suggest that the Scarlet Witch could occupy a villainous role in the upcoming film. A central question of the first series was whether Wanda’s cause justified her actions, and seeing the character transform into an antagonist would make it difficult to achieve a similar narrative for season two. Wanda’s role in the MCU after the Doctor Strange sequel remains to be seen, but Disney’s plans to not move forward with WandaVision season 2 provide hope that the character’s perfect development in the first is not going to be ruined.

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