Functional Order: Fi/Ne/Si/Te
Dominant Function: Fi
Wanda is guided by her passion and her ideals. She’s willing to go to great lengths to do what she thinks is right or justified. Early on, this included things like protesting, volunteering herself for scientific experiments, and eventually joining the Avengers. At her best, she is compassionate, determined, and purposeful, willing to change course the moment she realizes that she’s on the wrong path. Her dealings with Ultron are a good example of this. Wanda initially works with Ultron, but then switches sides when she realizes the true nature of his plan.
Wanda is occasionally shown to be judgmental of others, especially Stark. She views him as a threat to others, lacking a strong sense of right and wrong. Similarly, she finds herself frustrated by Doctor Strange’s hypocrisy.Wanda keeps her emotions private, and often allows them to fuel her actions. She’s extremely reserved, and processes everything internally. This backfires on her, after she suffers great loss. Wanda drowns in her pain and sorrow, eventually allowing that pain to drive her to do things that she wouldn’t have otherwise done. This culminates with her death in The Multiverse of Madness. On a milder level, when confronting Ultron after he kills her brother, Wanda expresses a desire for him to feel the same pain that she felt, and then promptly kills him.
Wanda forms her own sense of self, and allows it to update with her life experiences. In Civil War, she explains to Vision that she’s different yet still herself. Along the same lines, in Wanda Vision, she snaps back at Agatha Harkness for trying to tell her who she is. In Multiverse of Madness, she doesn’t realize the error of her ways until she finally stops denying that she’d become a monster.
Auxilliary Function: Ne
Wanda sees the possibilities that her powers represent. From them, she derives solutions that will fulfill her wishes, no matter how improbable they might seem. Wanda Vision demonstrates the most obvious example of this. Wanda literally creates her own perfectly idealized life. While she is ultimately aiming for a normal suburban life, in the early stages, the life she’s crafting departs wildly from standard reality, which demonstrates her Ne being preferred over Si. For instance, initially, at the beginning of the series, her life with Vision is portrayed in varying creative styles and time periods. It goes through multiple shifts until finally settling into a recognizable, modern era. In addition, her children age rapidly until she finally forces everything to slow down to a normal pace. Her mission in the Multiverse of Madness also showcases her Ne decently well. She proves herself to be someone who wants to account for all the variables and possibilities. For instance, she refuses to just utilize America’s powers once and then let her go. She explains that she needs America’s power to be her own, just in case her kids get sick, or suffer some other tragedy. The ability to jump universes represented a possible solution for anything that might go wrong.
Tertiary Function: Si
Wanda has an ideal image of reality in her mind, which she spends the Wanda Vision series trying to lose herself in. She is unable to move on from her past loss and grief. Instead, she fully detaches from reality, and uses her abilities to recreate her lost love. Unfortunately, she can’t actually revive him, so the entire experience is essentially one massive illusion that can never become real. In addition to Vision, she creates the life and the family that she wishes that they could have had. Eventually, the illusion shatters, but Wanda is still unable to move on.
With her newfound chaos magic abilities, Wanda seeks yet another way to rebuild the past, this time with the focus on gaining a real version of that fake suburban life. She learns of a way to jump between universes, and then obsesses over finding an alternate version of her children so that she can have a family once again. This constant failure to move on from the past, and let go of that ideal image in her mind, eventually results in both her moral corruption and death.
Inferior Function: Te
Wanda’s Te comes out the strongest during her time in Westview. She uses her abilities to tightly control the entire town, forcing the residents into scripted lives, so her fantasy can be fulfilled. Every time she perceives a threat to her false reality, Wanda deals with it in an extreme way. When there is an intruder (an investigator), she initially takes control of the intruder’s mind, and forces her to join the facade. However, when a person becomes uncontrollable, Wanda instantly (and physically) ejects them from the town, to protect her reality. At times, she even expands the borders of her influence, in a desperate attempt to maintain control and keep the illusion going.
Note: This argument has been taken from Practical Typing
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