WandaVision fans, we have a lot to discuss after today’s episode of the first-ever MCU TV show. We’re five episodes in, and each one gives us more and more insight into what the heck is going on in this sitcom world that Wanda has created for herself and her “perfect family.”
There are still a lot of pieces to fit together, but we do know that Wanda has manipulated reality to create a world where she and Vision are married and have a family together. And this week we learned that Wanda broke into S.W.O.R.D. headquarters and stole Vision’s corpse. Presumably, she’s reanimated him, which catches us up to where we are now.
And the surprises keep coming. While Wanda and Vision are having an argument, who should show up but Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver, Wanda’s twin brother! Only there’s something different about him: in the MCU, Peitro was played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and died in Avengers: Age of Ultron, something Wanda and Geraldine discussed a couple episodes back. But this Pietro is played by Evan Peters, who portrayed the character in Fox’s series of X-Men movies.
Disney purchased 21st Century Fox in 2019, meaning they’ve had the film rights to the X-Men for a while. Is this their way of starting to introduce the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and where does it go from here?
Did the X-Men officially enter the MCU through WandaVision?
And how does it work within the show itself? Wanda is supposedly in control of this little reality bubble she’s made, although as we can see in the latest episode, her control has started to slip. Maybe she brought back Quicksilver but “recast” him as Evan Peters, either consciously or unconsciously.
There’s also been a lot of talk about WandaVision setting up the next Doctor Strange movie, called Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The next Spider-Man movie, too, will involve the multiverse. Perhaps Wanda is manipulating reality to the point where it’s starting to break down, and other universes are starting to bleed into the one we all know.
Or what if you combine these ideas and theorize that Wanda has been unthinkingly influenced by movies from another dimension and “recast” her brother as an actor she’s now vaguely aware of existing. Or what if there’s another figure behind the scenes who is taking advantage of the walls between reality weakening and has plucked Evan Peters’ Quicksilver out of one universe and put him in another?
Given that Disney is invested in creating a Marvel multiverse, this could just be the beginning. Might other X-Men characters show up before the end? Wanda, after all, started life as an X-Men character. Maybe she’ll be the one to bring the mutants into the MCU.
We just over halfway through WandaVision at this point, so I’m hoping next week’s episode gives us some clarification regarding Pietro and what Marvel is trying to do here. It’s definitely an interesting time to be a fan.
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