Hey Qaw, I had a question about the MCU that's been bothering me for a while. I’ve talked to a few others, and it seems like a lot of people share the same concerns. I wanted to ask you first before possibly making a CRT. Sorry to disturb and thanks a lot in advance!! This might be a tad long though
This statement says that Wanda
"turned the Darkhold's dark magic against itself." In other words, she used the Darkhold’s own power to destroy it across the multiverse. To me, this clearly indicates that it wasn’t Wanda’s own magic that accomplished the feat, and therefore it shouldn't be used as a basis for her AP rating.
After giving it some thought, the only logically viable interpretation is that she triggered a kind of self-destruction mechanism in every universe by redirecting the Darkhold's dark magic back onto itself.
This suggests that every Darkhold operates through a shared connection to this
"multiversal well of evil," possibly with each copy drawing power from the same source of dark magic, exactly like a well. That's why it's likely Wanda tampered with the source of this dark magic, used the Darkhold's dark magic against that source or well, and triggered the self-destruction mechanism in the other Darkholds. If not, then at the very least it suggests there’s some sort of connection between the Darkholds.
The wording in the WoG statements and from Wanda herself supports this interpretation: they emphasize that Wanda
"cut off the links" to the multiversal well of evil, and Wanda herself said
she had "to close it" when referring to the Darkhold.
While Wanda was dreamwalking in Kamar-Taj, a sorcerer named
Sarah tried to stop her by destroying the Darkhold. When she pierced the book with a dagger, it triggered a reaction, the Darkhold ignited with magical fire, burning both itself and Sarah to ashes. Later, when Wanda destroyed the Darkhold across the multiverse, each one was
consumed by a similar magical fire.
That’s why I support the idea that there’s a built-in self-destruct mechanism, some form of magical self-immolation used as a defensive measure.
Honestly, I'm not even sure why we scale this feat. It's incredibly weird and inconsistent to scale. The Darkhold is a known amplification totem, a book of dark magic and a storage of chaos magic. Throughout Multiverse of Madness, Wanda was empowered by the Darkhold for nearly the entire film, which is further supported by the MCU Timeline Book stating that Wanda
had new dark powers from the Darkhold during her attack on Kamar-Taj.
Her current key is labeled as being "at peak," specifically during the moment she destroyed the Darkhold, which is pretty misleading and inaccurate. There’s no indication she somehow reached her absolute peak power during that brief two-minute window when she destroyed the book. This would also imply an uncountably infinite increase in power, going from Tier 5 to Tier 2, which is absurd considering she was already bloodlusted and actively empowered by the Darkhold in many earlier scenes.
If Wanda was already empowered by the Darkhold during the Kamar-Taj sequence, and her peak is defined as being while empowered by the Darkhold (according to both her profile and the CRT that originally upgraded her), then by that logic the sorcerers’ shield would have to be capable of withstanding infinite AP. That seems extremely implausible given the finite number of sorcerers and the finite nature of their magical power.
To me, this seems more like low complex multi range via hax, specifically
energy manipulation (magic), or
limited causality manipulation, rather than a raw AP feat.
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