The Wizard Competition in Wizards of Waverly Place Makes NO SENSE

Wow never expected so many people to see this video, just had a lot of thoughts after rewatching the series. If you like these types of videos be sure to subscribe for more videos on tv shows and movies from our childhood. Also shoutout to the Justin sympathizers, never meant to bash your fave stay strong ❤

Honestly the discrepancies of the final season are most likely because the original creator left the show after season 3 and was replaced by someone who didn't understand the show

Honestly, I agreed with Stevie. I think it's total BS that only one wizard per family gets to keep their powers. It's an arbitrary rule that seemingly exists for no reason except to create division between families.

Actually, Justin's character in later seasons is not consistent to his character. He was caring in earlier seasons. It's like the writers decide to kill his character to make Alex look better.

The big thing is that there was no way Max was going to win. While he was on his 5th lesson they were in the 300's. Does Max get a handicap, extra time, or are his siblings preventing from training so he can catch up? No! He has a crippling disadvantage right from the start, because he wasn't born sooner. People are complaining that Max was ok not keeping his powers while both his siblings got to keep theirs, that's cuz he had his entire life to get used to the idea.

What happens if mom and dad have another kid? Say Max is 13, and suddenly they get a baby sister. Do they have to wait for the baby to grow up to do the competition? What if the parents have another kid After the competition is done? So after the series finale, after Alex wins, they have another kid. Does the kid never get power at all?

Max was done so dirty at the end. I know he’s supposed to be kind of dumb but theres no way he was actually content with losing his powers while the other 2 kept them. If the rule was for only one sibling to keep their power then the writer had to stick with that. Giving Justin powers too seemed like it was done out of pity.

Ngl, in retrospect, I'm surprised ALL the siblings aren't as toxic as Justin is in the final season. Imagine telling 3 kids that only one of them gets to have future by competing with each other. The high stakes, high stress, and low maturity would be a breeding ground for the most vile family dynamics you could think of.

They replaced the writer and producer in season 3. The original creator told Disney that Alex was to give up her powers to stay with Mason because in the previous seasons wizards can only be with wizards. Alex was supposed to have a redemption arch where she realizes that she doesn't need to have powers to live happy. So that's why season 4 is a mess they basically replaced everyone for final season to wrap it up.

Really weird how they leaned in to making Justin the villain. Especially as the oldest.

Something I’ve always thought might have been a cool idea for an ending was that only one of the children wins and then they get the full magic but decide to split it between the three of them. They wouldn’t be able to do extremely difficult spells unless they were all together and harnessed the power together but they all would have magic and could use it in everyday life. I’m still mad that max got nothing so this was the only way it worked in my head.

Wait so all three of them spend their lives studying magic, when only one of them is guranteed to keep them? And the elder siblings have a HUGE advantage? AND they decide who you can and can’t date based on if you win or not? So if you lose you just lose everything your life has been building up to. That’s incredibly immoral.

you are SO RIGHT for all of this! i was always so surprised at the ending of the show. i thought it was going to be something where the Russos dismantle the competition system as a whole and allow all wizard kids to keep their powers, especially since it's proven time and time again how much it destroys everyone's family relationships. AND MAX GOT COMPLETELY SCREWED OVER, i'll never get over it

The fact Juliet his VAMPIRE girlfriend cared more about his sister and her best friend almost getting their blood sucked says what I need to know about him

Wizards: You are no longer allowed to have these powers you have spent literally your entire life at this point mastering. Me after losing bc I tripped: Are you going to erase my memories? Wizards: No Me: ... Wizards: ... Please don't tell anyone about us or try to get revenge. Me: No

What confuses me is why don't the Wizards just have one kid? It seems almost cruel to force your children to compete against each other. If you want to raise more kids, what if two people were wizards, and they got married, but then they decided to have a kid with other people (Father with a mortal, mother with a mortal, but the two wizards raise the kids together), technically, those two kids would be step-siblings. Does that mean they don't have to compete in the competition? That way, you can have two kids and they both keep their powers. Or what if you adopt a wizard kid? Does your adopted wizard kid have to compete with your biological wizard kid in a competition? If it doesn't matter whether or not the kids are biologically siblings or not, does that mean if you are a wizard and you have a kid, but you adopt a non-wizard kid, does that kid have the opportunity to become a wizard just because they are step-siblings with a real wizard? Or are you not legally allowed to adopt a non-wizard kid because you'll expose wizards to a mortal? But then Jerry's wife is a non-wizard and she's allowed to be exposed to magic because she's married to Jerry. I have too many questions and no answers.

My theory for why the competition exists is that there is only so much magic to go around. In one episode, it is said that magic comes from a power planet powered by dragons & in another episode they show us that wizards have individual magic generators/conduits in their homes to channel their powers. So magic seems to be dulled out through some kind of energy & maybe too many cant have it.

I rewatched the Wizards finale recently as well and something that bothered me a lot about the part where they all "lose" the competition was not just Justin's behavior(which was horrible of course like bordering on sociopathic. actually) but also how out of character Max acts during that part. My man has just been vibing for most of the show. I'd even argue that he was the best character at times because he had such underrated moments where he actually seemed smart somehow? But the point is, he never seemed to care nearly as much about winning the competition as the other two. Literally at the end of the finale. he's the only one that ends up mortal and is just so happy that Jerry is letting him take over the sub shop one day. Like he doesn't care. He doesn't get mad. That's not who he is. He is the most level headed(if not the only truly level headed) person in his family, maybe even the entire show. So him getting mad at Alex and giving her the silent treatment initially and treating her almost as bad as Justin over the competition like that made zero sense. Zero. I know that they were trying to create a massive dramatic conflict because Jerry had fallen out with his own sister and barely talked to his brother and that was like a thing and they wanted to tease the idea of the same thing happening to the kids to make it more intense or whatever. But like...come on. It just didn't fit Max.

Also, what about AGE??? Imagine if Max was like 2 years old, Alex maybe 7 years old and Justin already 15 years old. Wouldn't it be unfair for Max and Alex to compete with Justin for the competition? Justin would be way ahead just because he's older. So, then what? Until they're all caught up with the lessons and ready for the competition, Justin might already be 26 then. What if he's married to a vampire then but then he ends up losing the competition. Would that mean he'd have to divorce his vampire wife since he's not a wizard anymore?

I think the concept of the wizard competition and the whole idea surrounding the family wizard could have been such a great look into toxic familial structures of outdated familial inheritance. And that Justin's whole arc could have been him trying so desperately to hold onto the idea he's had since he was younger that as the oldest he was destined to be the family wizard, only to see Alex who didn't put as much effort into her studies as he did, catch up since she's resourceful and naturally gifted. And his attitude starts to become more and more angry and self-fulfilling, based pretty much around the superiority and inferiority complex he's been conditioned to have by his parents and most of the high ranking wizards. And why is it a law that they need to battle, if they all agreed to not do it, couldn't they have just agreed to stay partial wizards the rest of their lives. (Unless that was touched on, I aged out of the show before the last season). I kinda don't blame David Henry for not being in Alex v. Alex special since the story and writers completely destroyed whatever semblance of respect anyone had for Justin as a character without giving it a reason other than "he's just an asshole". Could have been better I think...