"love is best measured in what we forgive"

“You don’t need around you what does not need you anymore.”

I recently re-watched WandaVision and was reminded how much people slept on Tyler Hayward as an antagonist. Sure, on the surface he was a pretty stereotypical governmental/militaristic asshole representing the trope of The Government/Military Industrial Complex will unethically or immorally weaponize anything (one anyone). But deeper than that, one aspect of his thematic relevance to this chapter of Wanda’s story was very well summed up in Monica’s plea to Wanda: “Don’t let him make you the villain” (1x07). Implying Hayward’s being, in a meta subtext, emblematic of the male comics writers who’ve used Wanda’s (and other female super-characters’) trauma and power to do just that, multiple times over the decades (usually as a plot device to instigate some exec-mandated crisis or crossover event to retcon or restart the timeline or the universes or whatever). And Hayward was pretty explicitly aiming to exploit (and frame) Wanda’s trauma and power for his own agenda (starting even before the Anomaly).