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'WandaVision' echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere

  • Written by Michael Nichols, Professor of Religious Studies, Martin University
imageWhat is Marvel if not mythology persevering?WandaVision Images/Disney Plus

During a flashback scene in Marvel’s Disney Plus show “WandaVision,” the superpowered android Vision comforts his wife, Wanda Maximoff, after the death of her twin brother. “But what is grief,” he tells her, “if not love...

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