Hear me out about my favorite s.o.b in the Wilson family :
I think Wade is deeply unwell, and Frannie should've dragged him to a fucking therapist as soon as she noticed how intense and abnormal his negative feelings towards Slade were instead of feeding into the jealousy and paranoia, consciously or not...
We don’t see much and and we don’t really know anything concrete about Slade and Wade’s childhood, but the way Frannie absolutely fawns over Slade in the few issues she shows up in? I can’t help but think that could’ve done some serious damage to the way her son’s personality formed.
Like… imagine growing up constantly feeling like your mother prefers another “son” who isn’t even hers.
And then that same guy ends up marrying someone you used to date??
Of course, for any of this to even remotely work psychologically, you would already have to be completely unwell—like, fully consumed by jealousy and paranoia levels of unwell :
But I honestly think Wade is convinced of what he’s saying. That Slade IS the big villain of his life, born just to take everything from him and make his existence miserable. It’s a pretty classic paranoid delusion pattern, honestly.
A little bonus just for you guys, since you went to the trouble of reading my little take 😌 :
