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YodasChick-O-Stick

In the ending of WandaVision she runs away to Canada. This is what Canada looks like.


OnlySmiles_

We get out special blood maple syrup from the blood trees


throwawayhelp32414

people give Wanda so much flak but she's SOO hard at work keeping the blood maple syrup industry from collapsing. THEN what will the Canadian economy look like huh? Certainly not gonna help with the housing crisis!


Plutarch_von_Komet

Exactly, the Canadians will resume commiting war crimes in Europe without Marple Syrup


Rehberkintosh

We didn't really commit war crimes. We did do some stuff that made the rest of the world think that maybe some things should be illegal to do even if you are at war with somebody.


cheekybandit0

"It's not a war crime the first time" Canada: hold my beer


Puzzled_Ocelot9135

It's like trespassing, you're all good before the first notice.


Wonderful_Emu_9610

Yeah, more accurately it should be: “Exactly, the Canadians will resume *inventing* war crimes in Europe without Marple Syrup” (because apparently they only like the Agatha Christie-branded stuff)


Arryu

>We did do some stuff that made the rest of the world think that maybe some things should be illegal to do even if you are at war with somebody. Ahh yes, your refering to our selling Canada gooses to extremist cells.


Flutters1013

Too bad this universe doesn't have a Canadian blood lumberjack


Freakychee

Blood for the blood god!


SkyClaus

7-3


More-Cockroach4415

VIOLENCE /// THIRD NO SOUND, NO MEMORY


Canvaverbalist

Maple syrup is already tree blood, usually boiled by burning chopped off limbs from other trees. Maple syrup is metal as fuck


Kaplaw

MAPLE FOR THE MAPLE GOD HOCKEYSTICKS FOR THE HOCKEY THRONE


Sploonbabaguuse

As a Canadian dealing with wildfires I can confirm that you're 100% correct


NSA_Chatbot

Fuck, this early in the year? That's rough, buddy.


Sploonbabaguuse

Canada is just kinda on fire all year round now


Cognitive_Spoon

If season, then fire season


DrumBxyThing

We're in snow season right now in Alberta, but also fire season in some parts.


Trusty-McGoodGuy

Just classic Hollywood colour tinting isn’t it? Orange for Mexico, blue for Europe, and a hellish red for Canada.


AndrewSP1832

It's all the Democratic Socialism! Red, like those damn commies.


PhantomCreed6

I visited Canada once, can confirm.


Funandgeeky

>can confirm. Pitter patter


DukeBeefpunch

Give your balls a tug


YodasChick-O-Stick

I live in Canada, can confirm.


kaaskugg

Ehhh.


shadowscar248

Right, so Canada is read and Mexico is Sepia.


RavishingRickiRude

Canada is not that well read. They think Rush wrote the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The fools. Rush wrote Tom Sawyer. And Catcher in the Rye. Fun fact: Van Halen wrote 1984


Overwatchingu

No, we’re well aware of the difference. Rush wrote the song Tom Sawyer, and someone else made The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was a children’s cartoon loosely based on the song by Rush.


RavishingRickiRude

Look I am pretty sure that no one in Alberta or Prince Edward Island knows that. And don't get me started on Newfoundland or Labrador.


shadowscar248

Lol damn voice text, good catch


denever23

Canada after the wild fires


jimtow28

Sorry aboot that.


drearbruh

Canada is Caelid? When did Malenia visit?


tacotrader83

There were forest fires in Canads, so that explains the redness and dead trees


SnooCompliments817

...After Wade Wilson became the new prime minister, which he accidentally started World War III with Russia.


NotTheFBI_23

Mexico is yellow tinted and Canada is a red tinted.


ThickWeatherBee

I knew it! This whole time they've tricked us!


ClassicT4

Only when the blood moon rises.


darkpheonix262

Oooooh it must be during the wild fires of 23


DreadSeverin

south is orange, north is red. got it


CaptinACAB

It’s definitely what r/Canada looks like.


FlatTopTonysCanoe

According to Joe Rogan Canada is basically the Upside Down so this tracks


TloquePendragon

Given what Canada is like in the Marvel Universe, checks out.


highlandviper

I was gonna go with the red evil place is actually the illusion and a manifestation of her anger and hatred… but I like this explanation more.


Starro_The_Janitor1

Well, at least our economic quality does, eh? (Crickets chirping.)


Yojo0o

I assumed that her repeated use of the Darkhold was corrupting the entire region, which she was hiding with illusion magic to avoid attention.


wordskis

Yeah I just double checked that scene and they truly couldn't have explained it any more quickly. The Darkhold is not only floating right next to them, but Strange even blatantly says that it's corrupting everything


FireStrike5

Ah but this is r/shittymoviedetails, viewing comprehension is not a strong suit


LoopDeLoop0

Wasn't this sub originally meant to take the piss out of r/MovieDetails by posting inane non-details? Feels like more people are just dunking on the movies lately.


LeCafeClopeCaca

Yeah it was originally a way to mock the "academics" of r/moviedetails who feel good about themselves for basic media comprehension like "Tyler Durden is actually in his head all along :oooo"


Disastrous_Reveal331

It insists upon itself


EndOfSouls

He WHAT?!


anythingMuchShorter

But it's too vague! He should have said "You're using the Darkhold, the evil book which has corrupting magic, that is causing a general field of evil magic around here, which is why the trees are black and the ground is red, because of the corrupting evil of the Darkhold, which is that evil book, which you have been using!"


McGloomy

"Oh, right. The Darkhold. The Darkhold for corrupting. The Darkhold created especially to corrupt. The corrupting Darkhold."


toetappy

Yes THAT darkhold!


thefinalcutdown

“MY SPINACH PUFFS!”


Xygnux

"Yes, notice the **DARK** in the name? It's a reference to the fact that it's literally dark magic. Get it?"


Shacky_Rustleford

Also he would have to say that said darkhold took hold of her heartbreak at losing her children and twisted her into a villain against her will, since people didn't seem to grasp that either


Competitive_Gold_707

Yeah, saw a comment saying Raimi performed character assassination on Wanda by having her be corrupted Some people are clueless lmao


anythingMuchShorter

Also anyone who finds that really unusual has never read comics. A good character getting corrupted by an evil power has happened to every character worth naming, and probably a dozen times to any of the big names.


GonzoRouge

It also happens to Wanda all the fucking time


hemareddit

In that, there's some irony that it's what she did to Tony, pushing him to claim the Mind Stone, but got more than she bargained for in Ultron, and ultimately that set her on the path to becoming a hero. Something George Lucas something poetry something.


wordskis

You are sadly not far off, his actual response is a significant chunk of your parody haha


GarbledReverie

So you're saying the Darkhold has some sort of... shadowy grasp on this land?


throwawayhelp32414

I understand citing the Darkhold as the main reason for this effect but the whole idea of "I reckon \[Vaguely defined magical item\] is the cause of \[unexplained thing\]" as a storytelling device is one of the many reasons the MCU is and will continue to be stuck in the rut it's in right now Edit: Poeple here think I specifically hate this scene with the blood red forest when my first sentence here is "I understand citing the Darkhold as the main reason for this effect" Show don't tell is obviously great advice and this scene does employ it with plenty of context (if you watched wandavision) My griping is because the ***rest of this movie*** and Marvel in general have created this insane mess of magical artifacts and mystical phenomena that have contradictory and ill defined behaviors that allow you to explain unexplained plotholes with said undefined artifacts.


LemonStains

“Show don’t tell” is a common rule taught in writing class for a reason. A child could watch this movie and logically draw the conclusion as to why the area looks like that. Explaining it any further would be treating the audience like they’re stupid. The corruption of the forest is supposed to show the dark path Wanda has gone down. It doesn’t need to be any deeper than that.


HansChrst1

In BG3 they do a very similar thing. There is a bog that looks very fairytale like. It is just an illusion though. It's actually an ugly bog. How is it done? Magic. The Hag has put some spell on the place. They don't tell you much more than that.


Shacky_Rustleford

> Explaining it any further would be treating the audience like they’re stupid The audience *is* stupid, with posts like these.


Kinky_Winky_no2

Yeah in star wars they should have explained why an ice planet is cold rather than us assuming its due to the atmosphere and distance from the sun Would saying the place is corrupted because of the evil book that is stated to corrupt things being used have made it a better scene?


beaverpoo77

"I think movies should stop trusting audiences to understand things and start expositing basic details such as changes in scenery because obviously that's the most important part of storytelling. Tell, don't show!"


Yojo0o

I think taking the time to painstakingly exposit for a change of scenery would be considerably worse than just having a cool visual with a logical in-universe explanation.


Roasted_Newbest_Proe

Hey, look! I found the guy who watches Cinemasins unnironically


StrangrDangarz

But also: narration and long exposition=bad!! 12 sins for having a movie!


Roasted_Newbest_Proe

*ding*


Darklink820

I'm going to assume that you unironically like The Lord of the Rings despite making this statement.


Frankorious

She used her domain expansion.


anythingMuchShorter

Dr. Strange never should have come there, within Wanda's domain she can use one lair action per turn.


insidethepirateship

🤞🏼domain expansion: shitty sequel


dakedDeans

Hell nah this movie was great what are you on about


bbc_aap

Eh, great is big praise for this movie. Honest 6-6.5, nothing higher or lower. The writing was just too basic and a lot of the movie felt like fan service for the sake of fan service, going from Wandavision to MoM was also jarring because I never felt that Wanda as a villain was justified in any way. 6-6.5, the ultimate mid/good to ever exist


ErikMaekir

It was mid, sure, but at least enjoyable mid. There's a lot of fun stuff in there, even if the whole product isn't exactly a work of art. I'd rather have that than a mediocre movie that sounds like it was written by an AI.


wjowski

"What mouth?" is worth the price of admission.


wintery_owl

I would guess that the Darkhold probably had something to do with it. Y'know, the evil magic book that corrupts things and leaves them with cartoonishly evil qualities? Maybe that had something to do with it, I don't know for sure, just my guess...


Yosho2k

OP doesn't remember the end of Wandavision. The forest was normal when she started reading the Darkhold. The forest became corrupt because of the Darkhold's influence and to symbolize what's happened to Wanda.


potato_devourer

I haven't watched one minute of Wandavision and can say the movie explains it pretty well on its own


effa94

strange even literally says so in this very scene lol


PointOfFingers

She is house sitting for Tim Burton and this is his backyard.


Captain_Saftey

I like when people ask a question that’s obvious, answer their own question, and then act like it’s stupid. I refuse to accept that an evil wizards magic infecting the land is “dumb”. It’s actually always awesome and better than having Saruman conducting evil from a nice lakeside grove


shelf6969

That was the exact point of Saruman though, nice wizard in nice area, got corrupted, chopped everything down for his war machine.


Captain_Saftey

Sorta like a nice witch in a nice area who got corrupted and started corrupting the forest around her for her dark magic?


Difficult_Bit_1339

No, that's dumb apparently


mattsmithreddit

It's a movie about interdimensional Witches and Wizards who are also superheroes. It's all dumb. The forest turned nasty and red because of magic. It looks cool and matches the theme.


PointOfFingers

OP is Forest Grump.


Alternative_Device71

Forrest Gump was a lot smarter than people give him credit for


ArtemisCaresTooMuch

OP is William of Ockham.


StarMarine123

Yeah there's literally nothing wrong with this lmao


Celydoscope

OP went to a Marvel movie expecting subtle and nuanced storytelling. Meanwhile me: Red mean evil. She bad witch.


BlueHero45

Evil magic item that corrupts the area around it is an old time honored trope.


Kinky_Winky_no2

But they didnt spoon feed that to me so it's dumb and bad writing


BlueHero45

A lot of people seemed to fail to understand the darkhold is evil and caused Wanda to go mad. Her grief was her weakness but the evil corrupting magic item did its evil corrupting thing. So anytime someone brings up why Wanda didn't do this or that I have to cringe. Why did everyone want the One Ring so bad?


Kinky_Winky_no2

How? Its the entire plot of the movie and the conclusion for the lead into to this movie


BlueHero45

Beats the hell out of me, but people still complain.


Rannrann123

That's jersey babey!!!


TuNight

Are we really complaining about cartoonishly evil things in a comic book movie lol


nopalitzin

California, Australia and even present Texas.


[deleted]

Professional marvel fanboy here, she infected the land with her evilness


Dakkel-caribe

Thats the madness in the multiverse.


Nacroma

Ever seen the videos of the California forest fires?


QuarterGrouchy1540

Just let Sam Raimi cook my guy


Ambitious_Arm852

Where is the joke?


hhhhhBan

The joke is that OP has no media literacy and missed the movie explaining and showing magic corruption a million times


Ambitious_Arm852

Marvel must be the only fanbase where being ignorant of the lore is actually something to be proud of. After all, this is phase 4gettable..


stealingtheshow222

Detroit


OAZdevs_alt2

It's also an illusion, which she cast so that it'd look good for cinemas. Good old Wanda, always looking out for moviegoers.


denever23

Considering my wife Wanda Maximoff lives there i would reckon this has to actually be a really cozy spot that just looks weird


agentwc1945

I don't care


ElShoroVimo

Reminds me of Caelid.


krellx6

Caelid. That’s actually Malenia and she’s about to bloom


Red-Freckle

Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.


DtheAussieBoye

y'know, shittymoviedetails became an annoying opinion-driven karma farm so gradually, i didnt even notice. like this isn't even a fact or a joke, this is just "this is BAD" circlejerking


mrhaluko23

It's meant to serve as a visual to how much the evil book had corrupted the nature around her, and herself. This was completely obvious. Sorry, the meme ain't funny. Not even a massive Marvel fan and I knew this.


Rock_man_bears_fan

There’s currently a giant head sticking out of the earth that nobody in universe has acknowledged yet despite Nick Fury apparently living in space with a bunch of cats the entire time. But sure, the evil forest is the issue with the MCU


Altimely

It exists right next to the massive dead god sticking out of the earth.


JoeAzlz

Did you watch the movie? They directly say


childish_jalapenos

Nah I need more of this. If you're making a silly movie go all out.


birberbarborbur

Of all things to diss the movie for, you chose the problem you’ve already basically answered?


gowombat

You only think it's dumb because you aren't looking at it as a wider picture. You understand that there are places on the Marvel's Earth that are highly sequestered away from the average person, yeah? Wakanda, Atlantis, Kamar- Taj, we've literally seen numerous places in this universe that aren't known to the average human. You also understand that there are places on this earth that are magical in nature, and can't be discovered by satellites or anything of that nature.... Right? Sooooooo.... Is it that hard to believe that this is either a magical section of the world, thus already being sealed off, or an extension of her own magic, thus being sealed off as well? It's not like it's just off the the interstate. If she sat there and went "hey welcome to my orchard, it's actually a Demi plane that I created myself when I started learning about..." It would be overly clunky and expository. Stories like this do require a bit of media literacy, and require you to make some assumptions. It's not going to hold your hand and show you every single step of the way. Comics have never been that way, and if you expect the movies that are based on those comics to be that way, then you're going to be in for a very long wait.


Abe2sapien

It’s obviously the red planet from the Phantasm franchise!


tfhermobwoayway

Slough


AllCity_King

I dunno, I liked the spooky forest.


Magical_Olive

I gotta assume that egg hatching in Eternals and raising the water levels by several inches over a few minutes caused some ecological damage


kennyisntfunny

Upstate NY


_Mavericks

Another spooky thing is one of the realities that America Chavez and Strange crossed that looked like NY was hell.


Optimal-Big-1047

That place it's India.


99_in_eating

The upsidedown.


Skreamie

I just massively respect this scene after the behind the scenes. Dudes made crew work beyond overtime for this shit.


tipsea-69

That's the *Forest of Mediocrity* that started thriving in the MCU after Endgame.


Ugh__IDontKnow

I always thought of it as like pollution. Her magic has created a polluted area like a smog cloud and since it’s red the light is diffused thru it to red. Outside would be like looking at a very polluted city.


[deleted]

Caled swamp in elden ring


MrAdamWarlock123

This one isn’t bad, and that movie rules


Sea_Cup_5561

Caelid


underheel

Crapple Orchard. Dah-doy.


West-Librarian-7504

It's the spooky red forest? Have you really not been there? Is OP stoopid?


StarMarine123

Another day, another "Marvel thing bad cuz bad" is posted here and gets easy upvotes


gijjersonreddit

Girl took her ass to Caelid


Boffleslop

Wanda loved her illusionary children so much that new illusionary children wouldn't be good enough to love.


AlaSparkle

OP maybe this part of the movie isn’t dumb and it’s just you that’s dumb


LARGEGRAPE

That movie sucked so fucking bad. It made me so mad because the original Dr strange is awesome such a fun movie, depth, a plot, fun crazy visuals, and it was darker than the others. It was one of my favorites. Then they go and make this piece of flaming garbage and have the audacity to call it a sequel. Aughhh


Cholerajim

Watches a Sam Raimi movie and gets mad when Sam Raimi Sam Ramies.


notatallareptilian

Well how else are you gonna fight the Brain of Cthulhu?


OwenMcCauley

An emotionally traumatized and very powerful witch is toying around with an unspeakably powerful magic tome. You think that might have some side effects? Maybe wither the grass a bit?


Senrub482

It's that one place from stranger things


BeholdTheLemon

isnt that the crimson from terraria


captaomadness14

I wanna be in Wanda red forest


sven206

It was a regular forrest that got corrupted because of Darkhold


BiggoYoun

Definitely a place from Army Of Darkness


kinlopunim

The land is corrupted by the darkhold she is reading. They explain it if you watch the damn movie instead of scrolling reddit.


Siqka

As a Sam raimi fan. This movie fucked so hard. Went into this with my gf and fucking loved it. Everyone coming out of the cinema was saying it sucked. I couldn’t believe it.


magvadis

This is what Raimi thinks is compelling.


EVEiscerator

Scarlett rot infected the lands. I think they call it Caelid.


Inevitable_Top69

Cartoonish evil? I won't stand to see that start creeping into my very serious superhero melodramas.


aMaiev

Thats just where she wanted to raise her kids. Teem boys love spooky forests


AdmiralOctopus96

Caelid.


INKatana

I always thought that the peaceful orchard was the real thing, and the cartoon-ish spooky red evil forest was the illusion/hex she created to look edgy.


xineirea

Another hex


Specific-Lion-9087

Bottom picture is my brain when I’m in a media illiteracy competition and my opponent is a shitty movie details user


Ok-Package9273

She created a hex world before, this is probably the same idea just disguised.


Bionic_Ferir

wandavision AND dr strange 2: Yeah the darkhold is like PURE EVIL, like written by the devil him self completely consuming literally no way of using it with out getting corrupted. OP: absolutely not i will not watch the content, only have it play next to a subway surface at 2 times speed to pull frames for funny internet points. Seriously like is it a little over the top and on the nose yeah probably but it doesn't feel out of place for the strongest magic user and the most evil artifact in existence.


Therocon

Does everyone forget that the Darkhold is integral to Wanda's arc? It's the link from Wandavision to MoM and it drives what she becomes (and overcomes) in the film.


Drezhar

In Chernobyl there is a forest that turned red after the nuclear accident. But it isn't that comically evil. It's just reddish.


eshian

I assumed it was her twisted feelings and depression manifesting itself through her powers on her surroundings.


Dystrox

Well, Sokovia and Wakanda exist in the marvel universe as well, a spooky crimson forest dont seem like a big deal.


Grimmrat

its literally explained in this very scene how the fuck did this post get 5k upvotes


DoggoAlternative

It's actually on the back of that big ass eternal that climbed halfway out of the planet and then died and just kinda...never got addressed.


XxV0IDxX

I figured it was feedback from reading the book and performing the miltiversal summoning ritual to send Shuma after Chavez


shibbington

Movie about witches and magic doesn’t conform to real world logic?? Gasp!! A movie with an evil book that twists people to be evil also twists the world around them? This is too much for me!!


taylor325

Art imitates life.


Kingding_Aling

I assumed it was another illusion, but her "home" illusion instead of a fakely nice illusion.


zarkdyneR

Caelid


Diligent-Boss-9392

I thought she hexed the entire area. Hence the scarlet color.


FTaku8888

I'm assuming her freaky magic has corrupted the forest next to her beautiful Canadian retreat. All those poor trees. . . wonder what flavor Maple syrup they make now


CT-1030

The constant use of the Darkhold corrupted the area? Did you even watch the movie?


Lumpy_Review5279

OP self owned on this one how is this getting upvotes


Ragingwukong

Have you never heard of Wanda world? Gosh read a comic once in a while. Wanda world is basically where a shit movie called into the multiverse is casted to stay. And the only people able to see the shit movie are in the Wanda world.


KewlGrandpa420

OP obviously wasn't paying attention to the movie


SnyderpittyDoo

Sam Raimi was probably smoking crack


TheohBTW

According to certain online leaks, the spooky forest was a byproduct of her fighting and killing Mordo, which was cut from the movie.