Why Wanda Doesn’t Have Her Accent In Doctor Strange 2’s Trailer

Although Wanda has left Westview, her Sokovian accent is mysteriously gone again in Doctor Strange 2’s trailer. Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff was last seen influencing the town of Westview in her Disney+ series WandaVision, during which time she used Chaos Magic to recreate the nostalgic nuances of different American sitcom eras and lived a fantasy life with the deceased Vision. Wanda had lost her thick Sokovian accent for a well-assimilated American dialect while in Westview, but regained it upon facing the truth of her actions and isolating herself in a remote orchard.

Following a mid-credits Venom stinger, Spider-Man: No Way Home’s post-credits scene was a quick teaser trailer for the upcoming 2022 MCU film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The trailer depicted Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange recruiting Wanda Maximoff to help him understand the multiverse, where he finds her maintaining a well-grown orchard on her own. Wanda first believes that Strange has come to punish her for her actions in Westview, where she oddly speaks with the same American accent that she had seemingly broken after coming back to reality.

Considering Elizabeth Olsen teased that Wanda would regain her thick Sokovian accent after WandaVision, it was particularly striking that her only few lines in Doctor Strange 2’s trailer were still spoken in her American intonations. Olsen had previously explained that Wanda’s American accent was more a product of her ideal American sitcom dreams rather than her assimilation into the country, and is why she would revert back to her Sokovian accent when addressed with her cruel actions and larger reality in WandaVision. Wanda still using her American accent when speaking to Stephen in the Doctor Strange 2 trailer suggests that she’s still putting on a similar facade, whether that be just for Doctor Strange or due to her own fantasy life at the orchards.

Wanda’s Sokovian accent is sure to return in Doctor Strange 2, as confirmed by Elizabeth Olsen, but this may only come out once she has fully embraced her Scarlet Witch persona and become honest about herself. Using her Sokovian accent again towards the end of WandaVision dealt with accepting who she is, becoming comfortable with herself, and no longer hiding her trauma behind American sitcom fantasies, but Strange’s reappearance may have interrupted her sense of peace and self-comfort in solitude. It’s possible that being confronted head-on about her cruelty by an Avenger made her feel that she had to prove herself assimilated enough not to deserve punishment, nor to be suspected of tampering with reality and studying the Darkhold as seen in WandaVision’s post-credits stinger.

Elizabeth Olsen’s character may believe that speaking in her Sokovian accent would hint too much at her Scarlet Witch change, in which she would be embracing her Chaos Magic and Scarlet Witch prophetic myth. Either way, Wanda is clearly hiding the darker aspects of her magic when meeting Stephen in Doctor Strange 2’s trailer, thus still putting on a show for him to alleviate suspicion. Wanda is later seen practicing magic in her Scarlet Witch outfit in Doctor Strange 2’s trailer, but her voice wasn’t heard again after her first encounter with Stephen. It’s likely that Wanda will regain her natural Sokovian accent once she embraces her Scarlet Witch alias in Doctor Strange 2.

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