— now or never!

2) MCU Wanda and Pietro willingly work with HYDRA (the ACTUAL NAZIS), and allow HYDRA to run experiments on them both. The most famous Romani superheroes in comic book history join the ACTUAL NAZIS in the MCU.

(ETA: Yes, they joined HYDRA willingly. They volunteered. That’s according to Marvel’s own website, found right here. “Years later, they both volunteered to undergo genetic experimentation overseen by HYDRA’s Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, using Loki’s scepter, to potentially give them powers.”)

Why would they do this? Wanda’s brief tenure in HYDRA in the comics (Secret Empire run) only happened because she was possessed by the Elder God Chthon; she never joined them willingly. If you’re unfamiliar with the Romani Holocaust, you can read about it right here.

3) The MCU draws most of its inspiration from The Ultimates. Writer Jeph Loeb made Wanda and Pietro’s relationship incestuous in The Ultimates, and the MCU decided, for some bizarre reason, to make this part of the films. Elizabeth Olsen admitted in interviews that they intentionally hinted at incest between the twins in Avengers: Age of Ultron. If you’re unfamiliar with incest as a Romani stereotype, that’s awfully lucky for you, but you can read about it right here.

4) Elizabeth Olsen is also an unrepentant racist. On The Graham Norton Show, all the way back in 2015, she used the word “Gypsy” to describe Wanda and was corrected by the host. The actress has never apologized. (Mark Ruffalo was also on the show, and apologized on Twitter for repeating the slur after Olsen said it.) Olsen didn’t apologize because she wasn’t sorry; it wasn’t the first or last time she’d done it. Elizabeth Olsen keeps using slurs and stereotypes in interviews, as recently as last month. If you don’t know the history of the word “Gypsy” in English, you can read about that right here.

If you went into the MCU with no prior knowledge of the comics, or with limited knowledge of the Romani people, I understand that. I even wrote a post about it that you can read right here.

Fortune-teller costumes are only the tip of the iceberg.

“You can do the talking and I’ll wait my turn.”

“You spoke and I conquered most fears.”

“What have we done?”

“I killed your mama.”

“You better run.”

“This is what the future holds.”

“It’s hopeless from the start.”

“Take me home with you, I’ll do what you want.”

“I thought they were my friends.”

“This is our decision to live fast and die young.”

“But there is really nothing, nothing we can do.”

“Love must be forgotten.”

“We were fated to pretend.”

“I’ll miss the comfort of my mother.”

“Yeah it’s overwhelming, but what else can we do?”

“Are you starting to change?”

“This is what the world is for.”

“Control yourself.”

“I feel your racing heart.”

“There’s a light beneath your eyes.”

“I forgot my fear…”

“Are you mad at your walls?”

“It tastes like death but it looks like fun.”

“I was a loner, I was just waiting by myself.”

“It’s you who’s being used.”

“It would only take a few seconds of darkness to figure out what’s in store.”

“You convince yourself that you want it, but you don’t know.”

“You keep trying to wash the blood from your hands, but it won’t go.”

“I said you got the good stuff baby, won’t you flaunt it?”

“Am I just someone from the past?”

“But if I try to feel at all, I am deceived.”

“Love is only in your mind and not your heart.”

“It hurts to stay at home.”

“You can’t get a grip if there’s nothing to hold.”

“I’d rather die before I get sold.”

“I would feel better knowing that I was alone.”

“Real emotion’s such a drag.”

“I’ve got a pistol that’s aimed at your heart.”

“You speak without even knowing.”

“If you can’t save it, leave it dying on the road.”

“Wide open arms can feel so cold.”

“The older I get, the more I suspect there’s a trick.”

“Running away isn’t rough, but it’s not enough.”

“As strange as it seems I’d rather dissolve than have you ignore me.”

“Damn my luck and damn these friends.”

“Be quick dear, times are uncertain.”

“Numbers can’t decide if the day’s supposed to smile.”

“It’s a blessing but it’s also a curse.”

“Those days taught me everything I know.”

“You don’t need smoke to cover most of the world in a gloom.”

“What you find shocking, they find amusing.”

“Don’t sympathize with the mystery disease, all it is, is a feeling.”

“It’s no fun to face what you don’t get to be.”

“Trap what you want, waste what you need.”

“Your life is a lie.”

“I’ve come to terms with what I have.”

“I can’t touch you only once, you always leave me wanting more.”

These may have been edited for clarity or length or to better apply for roleplaying.

❛ Uh, I was just kind of in the middle of something here. ❜

❛ Well, maybe I can help. ❜

❛ I think I’m just gonna head home. ❜

❛ Are you all right? You didn’t sleep at all last night. ❜

❛ I got a solid eight minutes, not consecutively, but still. ❜

❛ It’s fine. You’re not even that blurry. ❜

❛ You gotta take it easy, man. I mean, you’re not sleeping. Your eye’s twitching. ❜

❛ Fine, but you need to get some rest. ❜

❛ This morning, you bit into a raw egg like it was an apple. ❜

❛ Thank you so much for getting me home safely. ❜

❛ Try not to fall apart. ❜

❛ Oh, yeah, I thought I recognized you. ❜

❛ You never cared about me. ❜

❛ What’s going on? ❜

❛ I can explain everything. ❜

❛ Just give me one second, okay? ❜

❛ How do we get out of this? ❜

❛ But you’re forgetting one, crucial piece of information right? ❜

❛ So sorry for eternally dooming you. ❜

❛ My brain is melting. ❜

❛ Okay, but, um what the hell is this? ❜

❛ I’m done. ❜

❛ Rule number one I get to do whatever I want, and you all just have to deal with it. ❜

❛ Rule two no more Spider-Man movies. ❜

❛ Rule three everyone leave me alone. ❜

❛ That does not make it easier. ❜

❛ I can’t help you. ❜

❛ You are a good person, NAME. ❜

❛ Sorry, it’s been a weird day. ❜

❛ You put the Peeps in the chili pot and eat them both up ❜

❛ You put the Peeps in the chili pot and it makes it taste bad  ❜

❛ I’m gonna eat all this chili and or die trying. ❜

❛ Dip your paws in my chili. ❜

❛ The world is empty. ❜

❛ There is no point to anything,  and you’re just gonna die. So do whatever. ❜

❛ And now I’m gonna eat my marshmallow-candy chili in silence, and you all can jump up your own butts. ❜

❛ Who cares? Good-bye. ❜

❛ Feeling all right? ❜

❛ I feel fine. ❜

❛ Um is everything okay other than, you know, everything? ❜

❛ It’s all chili under the bridge. ❜

We may be dead, but our music isn’t.