Dissecting The INSANE Lore of Wizards of Waverly Place

stevie was so right i dont know why they literally murdered her

Let’s be honest the writers didn’t know what they wanted to do with Max. He always felt like just comic relief and a background character

Jerry won his Family’s Wizard competition but gave up his powers to marry Theresa since she was mortal. He gave his powers to Kelbo over their sister cause Kelbo wouldn’t be able to survive life without magic.

Controversial opinion: I actually like the movies version of the family wizard competition better. Justin thinking he had the edge because he knew more spells when in actuality it’s framed more around creative ways of using simple magic is cool. Gives anyone a chance to win and makes it less unfair for siblings of all different ages to be expected to know the same magic.

Tbh I always just assumed max was fine with loosing his powers simply because he never thought he really had a chance during the show so by the time the competition actually happened he had already come to terms with it, which is really fucking sad

it's still so weiry weird to me that there is a competition at all and that the others become mortals. Imagine being the sibling to keep living for thousands of years and see your siblings die of old age shortly after winning against them. This would have large scale consequences for anyone's psychie.

I wonder how big of an age gap the wizard competition could have? Some siblings are ten or more years older than their younger siblings.

I wonder if microplastics being found in humans would affect how spells impacted them.

54:37 it’s even crazier that both younger siblings Kelbo & Max have been women for long periods of time.

I love how the siblings know all the rules but the audience is LOST

I feel like the wizard competition should have been like you get a wider range of power if you win and if you lose you keep like standard level powers. So you do get something and if you don't win, you won't feel resentment to your siblings.

I am with Stevie, get em, destroy the wizard world and this oppressive system

Plastic being a weakness to magic in this verse is hilarious. I can picture Batman in a fully plastic suit to fight wizards 😂😂😂😂

Having only one child in the family become the family wizard actually makes some sense when you consider how old the tradition is. In ancient civilizations the first born child would inherit the family's lands and the others would have to find something else to do. If every family split up the lands between their kids, the lands would continue to become smaller and smaller and no one could use them. Having one person be the inherentor was a nessecity. Similarly, if everyone born with wizarding powers became a wizard, things would become very chaotic and unstable. The winners of the competition are usually the most responsible, so by ensuring the most responsible inherits the magic, it creates more stability.

One thing I find so dumb about the wizard competition is that literally none of the losers have gone public. How have none of the losers revealed the wizarding world to the mortal world?

Justin was book smart but STILL couldn’t utilise simple powers with the resources provided. That’s why Alex was able to do simple spells with the resources they were given. It sucks how they always discredit Alex that way when she was and always WILL be that person with the powers regardless. Justin only cared about having powers, but Alex had more sympathy with its usage OF powers and saving people, something Justin lacks in. He was so ready to leave his best friend in that nest or to be eaten 😭 and having the audacity to blame Alex.

what if Kelbo had kids? What would that mean for the family competition? Would Alex, Justin, and Max have even gotten powers in the first place? What if they already had powers when he had kids? Technically they’re not the direct descendants of the family wizard, since Jerry gave his powers to Kelbo. But if they had powers AND his kids had them, would they all compete together in the competition? So many questions…

I thought they said in the show only one wizard could keep their powers in order to prevent the chance of non wizards learning about the wizard world. It's a stupid reason, and honestly might've been my head canon but that's what I remember

Regarding the wand thing, I don't think they're based on gender. I think they just order wands and the gemstone is probably just a customization feature that both Alex and Stevie chose to have on their wands. They're probably ordered from the World Wide Wiz Web.

Honestly, the fact that Stevie was able to find over 5,000 wizards struggling with their own competitions and fears says a whole lot about how unfair the system is - especially when given no reason. Seriously, would it have been so hard to give an actual reason??? Like maybe because wizard families always had multiple children, it eventually caused some of the more troublemaking wizards to cause chaos and destruction and thus a wizarding civil war broke out and it caused this whole competition to be made in the first place. But instead it’s just given a shrug and ‘don’t question it’… Worse still, if you were to think about it, not everyone studies the same and some have a hard time concentrating or have test anxiety - so really the competition benefits the book smart individuals like Justin, but not those who are street smart like Alex and arguably Stevie, do good deeds but not the most intelligent, or who strive for change in the magic and/or mortal world. And since they clearly know that this competition alone has torn families apart, then why not have it that if those who lose also looses their memories of having powers and thus it doesn’t entirely destroy families. But then again I could be over analyzing this whole thing 😖