The penultimate episode of WandaVision has quickly crept upon us, and it didn’t slow down on the show’s greatness. We learned more about Agatha Harkness and her motives, Vision has come back to life, and Wanda’s origin is finally fully explained. The first MCU Disney+ series has been quite he nail biter and has caused Marvel fans to theorize on multiple plot points for weeks. Next week everything will be wrapped up, and I for one am a little weary if they’ll be able to do it justice considering how a handful of plots and characters will need to be explained. But in Kevin Feige [president of Marvel Studios] I trust!
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This whole episode is basically Agatha trying to figure out exactly what Wanda is, since her power is off the charts. After going through major moments in Wanda’s past and acting as a mean therapist in a way, Agatha realizes that Wanda's wielding Chaos Magic and is capable of "spontaneous creation," before speaking the thing we’ve wanted to hear for six-years… "And that makes you the Scarlet Witch."
For nearly forty-years in the comic books Agatha has been not only Wanda’s mentor, but her friend. If this episode subtly revealed anything, it’s that this could still be the case. While Agatha went through a handful of Wanda’s past traumas with her, she did provide good advice in these moments that could seemingly help Wanda move on from certain heartbreaks that she’s endured. While it’s safe to assume that Agatha wants this power for herself, I don’t think it’s that simple. Especially if Evan Peters’ Peter Maximoff isn’t who he seems.
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I’m going to put it out there, for my final theory on the matter, that Peter is actually Nightmare in disguise. Fooling both Wanda, and Agatha in the process for a great reveal in the finale. Agatha realizing that Wanda has control of the Chaos Magic and not being evil, could be where her turning point as a character comes in. Helping Wanda, Vision, Billy and Tommy in the end and fighting off whomever Peter may be, would be a perfect way to redeem Agatha. It could also set her up to have an important role in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness to help Wanda and Doctor Strange in the film.
Agatha says fake that Pietro wasn't "literally" her, she was just possessing him. She also states that it wasn't necromancy, so it wasn't the original MCU Pietro's body with a new face as many seemed to assume. It's still unclear if “Fietro” is actually the guy from the X-Men universe. In the comics, Wanda's status as a Nexus Being, someone whose power can affect probability and change the flow of time, means she can interact with other realities in the multiverse. If that's the case with Wanda in the MCU, she could have plucked Pietro out of Fox’s X-Men reality where he was called Peter. Nexus Beings are monitored by the Time Variance Authority, a group that'll show up in the upcoming Loki series and perhaps in next week's WandaVision season finale to set up the show. Owen Wilson’s character in Loki, Mobius M. Mobius, happens to be a high ranking member.
It’s also possible that Peter could be Nicholas Scratch. Scratch is Agatha’s son whose a fellow sorcerer, and while his mother is a hero of sorts, Scratch is far from it. Mommy dearest becoming an ally to Wanda, after the two were in cahoots to try to take down Wanda, could be what pushes him over the edge. Maybe even as much to make a deal with Mephisto or Nightmare to kill Wanda in the Doctor Strange sequel.
Mephisto has been the fan-favorite guess as to who Peter truly is, and I like that theory a lot. If Agatha really is evil, and if she kills Billy and Tommy even by accident, I would expect Mephisto to reveal his true self to Wanda. To make a deal with the Scarlet Witch to possibly bring her children back. Deals with the Devil infamously have a price to be paid, and it could play a big part of Wanda’s future in the MCU. One that Doctor Strange himself would have on his radar.
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The episode reveals that S.W.O.R.D. director Tyler Hayward has had Vision’s body all along. Hayward seems to know about magic as he used a drone to absorb the chaos energy surrounding Westview to bring Vision back online. How did he or any of his colleagues know to do that? Hayward is another character that could secretly be Mephisto, or my pipe dream, Ultron, and either would explain why he knew that. It’s also revealed that the Vision we’ve been seeing all along is a magical construct that was manifested by Wanda when she created the Hex.
The real Vision being reanimated is revealed to be white, like he was in the West Coast Avengers comic book series. The series had a storyline called “Vision Quest” where Vision is kidnapped and disassembled by an international government spy consortium. While that didn’t happen on WandaVision, the pages and the show tend to meet after Vision’s body was recovered by the Avengers. Hank Pym was able to rebuild Vision, but with a few twists. For starters he was entirely white, has no capability to express emotion, no memory of falling in love with Wanda, or what the concept of love even is. He’s basically all ones and zeroes, no heart.
There is a plus side to his reincarnation though, being that he’s actually alive this time around and is not just an android. He’s without the Mind Stone and is more sentient, even though he is without emotion. He is literally a walking weapon and will likely be S.W.O.R.D.’s puppet, for the foreseeable future at least. The same story arc that gave us white Vision, is the one in which Wanda had to confront the fact her twin sons, Tommy and Billy, don't technically exist. This was a massive emotional blow that remained constant through the next few decades of Wanda's stories. Some of which saw her being a full-blown villain occasionally.
So one can assume that Wanda seeing her dead husband brought back to life, which was all she ever wanted, but he likely won’t remember her, will tear her apart. And it’s safe to assume that Agatha will be frightened by what Wanda could then unleash with her Chaos Magic. Agatha revealed that Wanda created life with Billy and Tommy. I’d like to believe that Marvel Studios wouldn’t kill the twins, but I have a feeing that their time in the MCU is slowly winding down.
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While the eight episode was phenomenal, there were scenes that seemed to speed things up a little bit. The opening scene of Agatha in 1693 Salem, MA and the final scene, didn’t seem to correlate all that well. In Salem we see Agatha’s Coven and her own mother try to destroy her because Agatha’s been dabbling in forbidden “dark magic.” In the final scene from the episode we seemingly see Agatha scared of Wanda due to some “Scarlet Witch” prophecy that seems to frighten Agatha.
The blue energy Agatha turns back on her coven, seems rather significant. Her magic manifests itself as purple energy, a combination of red and blue. Since Wanda's Chaos Magic is red, it seems plausible that this was the forbidden power Agatha got in trouble for using, she just couldn't use it at the same level that Wanda can. We’ve seen now that Agatha is jealous of Wanda’s abilities in a way, and is a little angry that it took her centuries to master spells that Wanda has seemingly learned overnight. So Wanda mastering Chaos Magic, could be why Agatha seems to have it out for Wanda.
I don’t necessarily think that this means that Agatha is a villain, I think she’s more of an anti-hero. A sorceress who once another magical being used Chaos Magic, she became jealous. At the end of the day, I think she’ll be fighting on Wanda’s side against Nightmare.
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It is possible that Doctor Strange could appear in the finale. And rumor has it that Wong could as well. With Chaos Magic appearing, Wanda creating a the “Hex”, and Peter Maximoff seemingly coming from another world within the multiverse, it could draw the Sorcerer Supreme’s attention to Westview. Not to mention that Elizabeth Olsen will co-star in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness alongside Bendict Cumberbatch. I would assume that the two would need to meet before one stars in the other’s movie. Even the final scene being a mere, “Wanda. You’ve done a lot of chaos and you need to atone for your crimes”, or something small like that would suffice.
A huge fight scene in the end featuring: Wanda, Vision, White Vision, Agatha, Strange, Wong, and possibly Peter or whomever he or Hayward could be in disguise, would be really nice to see. There hasn’t been a fight at all in the series yet, and the finale will surely give us that. Wanda and Agatha will duel it out in the beginning, but the episode is reportedly set to be 50-minutes long. Which presumably gives us time for a comic book fight that fans have been longing for since the credits rolled in Avengers: Endgame.
We’ll see Monica again before she makes her way over to Captain Marvel 2. Considering that she now has powers, maybe she’ll be in the final battle as well? Not to mention her “aerospace engineer friend” who has been rumored forever to be Reed “Mr. Fantastic” Richards or Hank “Beast” McCoy. Teyonah Parris, who plays Monica, has said that we will find out who the engineer is this season, and that he or she will please die hard comic book fans. Having a member or the Fantastic Four or the X-Men would definitely please us. There is the possibility that Talos, or his daughter from Captain Marvel now all grown up like Monica, could be the engineer though.
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Secret Invasion is coming to Disney+ as a TV series staring Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn. The series will surely get setup in Captain Marvel’s sequel, but we could get the seeds planted early with WandaVision. Secret Invasion is a classic comic book story that revealed that Skrulls had infiltrated Earth for decades. Taking part in governments all around the world, and even some superheroes. Having Talos’ daughter, who still remains nameless in the MCU to this day, could be the key. Maybe her and her father have begun to hear about Skrulls, hopefully lead by Kl'rt aka Super-Skrull, and come to Monica in the end of the episode to seek her assistance.
Whoever the aerospace engineer is will most likely be a character that will please us all. The finale is almost here! Episode 9 of WandaVision airs this Friday only on Disney+.