Spoilers For WandaVision Start Now

Now, I’m going to talk about the show here, not the prediction or what we got wrong about those. If you want to hear me talk about that, you can do so over with the 10 Minute Marvel podcast. But I will talk about the questions and end credit scenes and what we might be looking at.

What’s the Story

WandaVision is a story, at it’s basic level, about Wanda dealing with her grief. She has just lost Vision twice and the snap happens and dusts her. Then the blip happens and brings her back and she gets to fight Thanos. When the show starts, however, she’s had weeks to start to process her grief.

Things start out very haywire in this 1950’s sitcom show. Wanda is there, Vision is there, and they are happily married living in this almost ideal world. However, we see that things aren’t quite right. But the community seems to be good, they have the classic nosy neighbor and Vision works at a job that makes no sense like in sitcoms. The next episode we move into the next decade and so on, until we break to what is the outside world and we see that Wanda has basically taken the whole town captive to create this ideal world for herself where she can get Vision back.

We get the introduction of a lot of interesting characters. We see Jimmy Woo, FBI Agent from Ant-Man, back and he’s learned close up magic, Darcy from Thor is there, now Dr. Darcy, and Monica Rambeau, the young girl from Captain Marvel, now all grown up. And that’s just outside of the Hex spell that Wanda has cast. Inside there is Agnes the nosy neighbor and the witch Agatha Harkness. And the two kids that Wanda creates, Billy and Tommy.

Things do have to come to an end, though, when Agatha wants to take Wanda’s powers, the acting-Director of SWORD is out to create his own Vision, and Wanda comes to realize that she’s torturing the people in the town. Now there’s a ton more to that, but if you’re this far into this article, you’ve watched the show as well.

Thoughts On The Show

I really loved WandaVision, I won’t go into the random theories like I said, but even those were fun. I thought that this was great show to come back with. I love the sitcom universe that has been created and the decades that they go through. They nail how they get through the decades and they nail the intrigue in the story.

It is interesting, I’ve heard about people who waited to binge the show, and they did get as sucked into the mystery. Based off of the format of the show, I think that a lot of us who were watching it week by week and had missed Marvel, it was easy to try and see clues in everything. But even with going down that rabbit trail, I still loved the show. I didn’t think that the end was disappointing at all. In fact, in my 2nd to last 10 Minute Marvel on it, Season 2 Episode 7, I wasn’t sure where it was going to end.

What stood out to me as so great, though, was Elizabeth Olsen’s performance as Wanda. We really got to see Wanda’s character being fleshed out. But not just fleshed out, but in this small world dealing with the grief of everything that’s happened. It’s heart breaking at the end, and it’s tough to see what she went through growing up. Though, I do love the Easter Egg that she seems to have had powers before dealing with the mind stone at all, and that’s cool.

Kathryn Hahn as the nosy neighbor Agnes and the witch Agatha Harkness was amazing as well. I love the fact that they didn’t kill of her character. I know that we’re getting a multiverse, but Marvel has killed a lot of characters that if they want to bring them back in, it’ll be a bit hokey. Wanda just used magic on Agnes to make her into that nosy neighbor character she had chosen to play. I want her character back, and I can see her coming back possibly as early as Dr. Strange And the Multiverse of Madness.

Overall, just a phenomenal show. I think it is unfortunate that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier didn’t come out first. WandaVision had very high expectations for something very big. And the mystery format encourages people to dive into the story and try and figure out and find every clue. That said, I like that it didn’t need a ton of big reveals or twists to tell an amazing story. And it has a lot of twists and some reveals anyways.

What Questions Are There Going Forward?

Now, Marvel rarely does anything without some future plans. Especially now, it is so big, they can plan out years in advance. We know everything that’s coming out in the next two years and some beyond that. But how will WandaVision tie into that, and are there any loose ends to be answered.

Who Is Jimmy Woo’s Missing Witness?

Now, some think that it might be Ralph. He has a head shot, maybe that is to help him get into his new character. However, there is a major flaw with that thinking. Jimmy Woo sees Evan Peter’s/Pietro on screen. If Ralph is the person in witness protection, Woo would have recognized him. Now, that might be a plot device to get him there and have him as a character in the show. But could WandaVision have worked without him there, probably, it could have been anyone. I like the call back to him, but I want to know who his witness was, and will that come up again?

Where Did Vision Go?

I am not talking about the one in the Hex, that was a construction of Wanda. But the white Vision. After the hex Vision gives white Vision his memories, White Vision just peaces out. He flies away, he doesn’t help Wanda, he doesn’t do anything, just heads away. Where did white Vision go to? I mean, he’ll likely return, I could see him returning to help train a team of Young Avengers.

What Did Wanda Hear At the End?

Yes, I know she heard her kids. That part is obvious, but how, I guess, might be a better question. This could go back to one of the original theories. In the comics, Billy and Tommy are part of Mephisto’s soul. That might still be the case in the MCU. It could be that she is hearing them call across a dimension for her to find them. This scene, I think, is important for Dr. Strange And the Multiverse of Madness, and I’ll talk about that more soon.

Why does Monica dislike Captain Marvel so much?

Now, this seems like it could be for a few reasons. I have heard theories that the radiation from Captain Marvel caused Monica’s mother’s cancer. Or it could be as simple that Captain Marvel wasn’t there to stop Thanos at the first snap. Had she been there, could have Monica at least been by her mother’s side when she passed away? But it’s only been three weeks, it feels like it might be a longer cause, so the causing the cancer, or not coming or being available when Monica needed her during that time.

So We’re Getting Skrulls?

I talk about this in 10 Minute Marvel as well, but we are getting more Skrull. The comic Secret Invasion storyline is all about Skrull being able to be anyone on Earth. They can pretend to be heroes, they can get into important places in the government with the plan to take down and take over the world. Now, Skrull, that we’ve seen, aren’t like that in the MCU, the Kree are worse. However, we know we get a Secret Invasion story which will star Nick Fury and will tie into Captain Marvel 2, so what is going on there. And how will Monica play into it?

What Will Happen In Dr. Strange 2?

Final question to ask, but what will happen in Doctor Strange 2? I think that’s the question most people have. We knew that WandaVision was going to tie into Dr. Strange 2, and it seems now probably into Spider-Man 3 as well. But how will that work? I, of course, have thoughts on what this looks like.

In Dr. Strange And the Multiverse of Madness, I think that Wanda will start off as the bad guy. The Darkhold, the book that she is reading, in the comics was created by Chthon. He is an elder god of chaos, I could also see it being created my Mephisto in the MCU. But basically, I expect it will have corrupted Wanda. Wanda is going to start tearing open the multiverse looking for Billy and Tommy, and tear into the Dark Dimension as that is where Chthon resides, of course so does Dormammu. Dr. Strange will confront her and he will lose a battle. In fact, he might lose his magic to some extent because of Baron Mordo. But being a Doctor and not someone who gives up, he will go back to Wanda and instead of fighting her, he will try to heal her. At that point in time, though, a ton of damage will be done and it might be impossible to close off the multiverse again. He will be able to heal her and he will help her to find Billy and Tommy. But together, both will have to fight against Chthon or Mephisto, whomever has the boys. If they want to make it more focused on Mordo, then Mordo would somehow have them. Together, they defeat the big bad and Wanda gets her boys back.

What do you think of that idea? Would you watch that movie? Let me know in the comments below.

And what do you think of WandaVision? Did you go down the theory rabbit trail? Where you hoping for something bigger to happen?

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If you have questions, suggestions for topics to cover, theories as to what might be happening in WandaVision, let me know in the comments below. Or you can do so over on Twitter where you can find me @TheScando or use #10MinMarvel. I’m very curious to hear what people are thinking about WandaVision. Is Wanda the bad guy? I know that there are some leaks out there, but I am not interested in those, just in theories. And let me know what you think of these episodes with their speculations, do you want me to cover more of what’s happening in WandaVision, breakdowns of the plot, or do you like the speculation? And after the series is done, what should I cover next? I know we’ll have The Falcon and the Winter Soldier coming out shortly after that which I’m planning on covering as well.

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AIM

Now this one is one of the harder ones that I have buying. It’s in episode two when the beekeeper shows up, or the person in the beekeeper suit. It was pointed out that this is fairly similar to the outfits that the AIM scientists wear, generally a yellow hazmat style suit, but it’s the 1960’s world so maybe that just looks like a beekeepers suit. However, the outfit has SWORD’s emblem on the back, and we’ve already seen that in places. I think it’s probably more likely that SWORD is trying to figure out what’s happened to the people in the helicopter that was sucked into this world or what has happened to Geraldine, aka, Monica Rambeau. Whatever it is, it’s something from outside of Wanda’s reality and she’s trying to get rid of it.

Agnes

Now this section might be a little bit long, but there’s a reason for that. Agnes seems like she is going to be an extremely important character, and in fact she’s made herself into being Wanda’s closest friend outside of Vision. It’s almost like Agnes is always there.

Let’s start in episode one, she starts hinting about romance and the idea of kids, this then plays out in the second episode about how everything is for the children, which is plenty creepy. Why does she care about Wanda having kids? Well, the speculation is that Agnes is actually, in the real world, Agatha Harkness (or the MCU version of that character). Agatha Harkness is a witch from the Salem witch trials who is still alive and in cahoots with Marvel’s devil, Mephisto. It’ll get weirder, but we have a few things that suggest this might be the case.

First, there is the broach that Agnes is always wearing. This is a common image for Agatha Harkness in the comics to have a cape with a broach. There is the day that she and Ralph, her never seen husband, got married, June 2nd. This is the real world day that the Salem Witch trials started. So maybe it’s less that she got married, but she entered into another type of contract with the devil to survive.

Mephisto

Now, as Dottie says, “The Devil is in the details.” or more likely, as Agne’s says, “That’s not the only spot he is.” But it seems like we might have a mastermind pulling the strings behind everything. Comic book wise we almost have more hints than other places in the show. The whole Ralph character is a sitcom trope, but also might imply him, there’s the big red gum, the devil, Senor Scratch, Scratch being slang for the Devil in the middle ages, and that line above.

But in the comics, Mephisto is the reason for Wanda’s children for the manifestation of them. Parts of his soul are in them and he wants to get that back. This actually leads to be a big story line, which will be our next topic. There have also been rumors that we’re going to be getting Evan Peters, who was Quicksilver in the X-Men movies, as Mephisto in the comics. Plus, in Loki, we see a stained glass window with what looks like Mephisto in it. So lots of things that suggest he might be pulling the strings behind things.

House of M

If you’re up on the 10 Minute Marvel podcast, you’ll know that I’ve talked about this a lot before. Mainly, I thought that they might do some sort of reverse House of M where Wanda creates all the mutants, and I think we might be seeing that. The first hint for that is the Maison Du Mepris, translated as House of Mepris, or House of M.

However, it might not be right now that we go full House of M, that might be Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. It seems likely that something will happen to Wanda’s children, like it does in the comics, and that’ll cause even a greater break from reality than she is having now. That is how it happens in the comics as well, and it’s only Charles Xavier who can keep her in a coma so that nothing happens, but Pietro “rescues” her, thinking that she might die, and which when she wakes up she completely changes the world where she and her family are in control over everything.

Stark and Stucker

I’m lumping these two together because they show up in the commercials in the two episodes of WandaVision. Now, some people think that this might mean that Hydra is also somehow involved, but I tend to think that’s not the case.

Looking at Wanda’s timeline that we know, we know that she was in Sokovia when a bomb with the name Stark on it hit the apartment and apartment building that she, Pietro, and her parents were living in. Then next we see of her, Strucker is experimenting on her and Pietro with the mindstone, unlocking their powers. I tend to think that the next commercial will somehow tie into Age of Ultron, maybe even Ultron himself, the next being who shaped their life, basically playing through some of her “greatest” hits. The commercials are an interruption to normal TV shows, and now in this case, they are an interruption to her made up world, basically reality forcing it’s way back in. I suspect at sometime she’ll acknowledge or become aware of the commercials.

Grim Reaper

Now, honestly, I don’t know what to do with this one. In the animated, Be-Witched style, credits we see in Episode 2, Vision goes through the floor, and we see the space between. One of the things we see is the Grim Reapers helmet. He’s a super villain, but how would he fit into this story?

Comic wise, he’s Wonderman’s brother whom Visions brain patterns are based off of, and he’s angry because it feels like Vision has stolen something from his brother. But I don’t know how you work that into a bigger story.

What’s Ahead

So, in my opinion we’re going to see a Mephisto storyline play out. It seems like the biggest clues and the closest tie-in to the comics, while still being different. My guess is that, if we’re going to work the Grim Reaper in, he has made some deal with Mephisto or has been tasked to crash land Wanda into this reality, somehow aiding in her break from everything. He is working along with Agnes, Agatha Harkness, and we’re basically seeing Wanda creating this world while Agatha is helping shape it so that Wanda doesn’t realize that it’s not the real world and that Vision isn’t real.

Things go sideways at some point in time as SWORD, Sentient Weapon not World as in the comics, is trying to get her back out. However, it’s an outside intrusion upon her world, which is why she keeps on rejecting them. Geraldine can stick around because Wanda doesn’t realize that she’s a SWORD agent, yet. Eventually Wanda will figure this out, but by then it’ll be too late and she’ll have had the kids, which Mephisto or in his place, Agnes might take, since they have some of Mephisto’s soul in them. We know that Evan Peters is going to be appearing in WandaVision, but I wonder if instead of making him look like the Devil he might look like a version of Pietro.

At that point in time Wanda goes on the rampage against everything and everyone in there, and starts to break from reality, possibly creating even some more of the sitcom realities looking for a real Vision and for her children again, splintering off the multiverse but also pulling and putting things in other multiverses. Spider-Man 3 is also supposed to deal with the multiverse, so I’m wondering if because WandaVision might be taking place in New Jersey, her powers spread shooting Spider-Man into other dimension or other Spider-Man into Earth 616, aka, this Earth in the comics/movies.

This makes sense to some extent because the movies we have between now and Spider-Man 3, Black Widow, Shang Chi, and Eternals don’t have to spend much time in the current world, but are more set in the past. That way they don’t have to deal with the multiverse.

It’ll all eventually culminate in Wanda finding her Children hidden amongst mutants or something of the sort in Dr. Strange the Multiverse of Madness, and bringing them and that reality, possibly even living sibling into the world again.

There’s probably even more that we can pull out from in there. There are a ton of references and nods to think, the Vision comic included that I haven’t touched on, but those are my thoughts on it for now, and there’s a lot to unpack, what’s your theory on how the show is going to go, or what might be happening?

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