Thanos and the Scarlet Witch: To Covet Godhood

 At the end of Avengers: Infinity War, we see that Thanos has gone to live in a mountainous region far from civilization in a cabin alone. And at the end of WandaVision, we see that Wanda has done the same. In both cases the camera seems to pan down toward the cabin(s) from a distance, and the fact that the last scene in WandaVision mimics that of Infinity War suggests we are to see a parallel between the two figures. There is a contrast in the two, though. Whereas Thanos comes out of his cabin from the inside and sits down on the steps, having completed the work he intended, Wanda begins sitting down on the front steps, arises, and goes inside her cabin, where we find she is still busy at work constructing her desired reality. The two figures are mirror images of each other. 

But the similarities don’t stop with their visual presentations.

We see in both characters the sort of willful individualism and isolation which is always the tendency of a person failing to deal with their pain and disappointment correctly. Both individuals sought to use their power to construct reality according to their own liking. The power they sought exceeded what they had any right to, and both showed themselves to lack the wisdom and goodness necessary to wield that power properly. No one person can ever have the qualities necessary to rightly conduct another person’s life, let alone multiple other lives. And the desire to do so always reveals a hateful narcissistic evil that can only lead to death. “You will never be a god,” Loki tells Thanos. And this is the heart of all of the occult: it is an arrogant hatred of the one true God, and a desire to kill Him and take His place.

The point of the end of WandaVision, then, is that Wanda has become her abuser, her persecutor, and the very thing she hates. “You took everything from me,” Wanda tells Thanos in Avengers: Endgame. Wanda does the same to the citizens of Westview in WandaVision, and the last scene of the show suggests she hasn’t yet learned to deal with her losses.