In the final minutes of
WandaVision Episode Four, Wanda Maximoff briefly sees a glimpse of reality: Vision s grey, lifeless corpse a hole in his head from which Thanos ripped The Mind Stone. What s wrong, the Vision corpse asks. Suddenly, Vision is back in full color, he s alive, telling Wanda, We don t have to stay here. We can go wherever we want. No we can t, she tells him. This is our home . don t worry darling. I have everything under control. This final scene seems to reveal what fans have speculated about
WandaVision for weeks: That she s created this alternate reality in which she can live with Vision forever, escaping the truth of his death and her pain. It s a plot that seems to be adapted from the popular House of M comics, in which Wanda manipulates space and time in order to cope with loss.
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In the closing moments of the first episode, the show briefly zooms out from this strange televised existence where we see a mysterious figure (in color) watching Wanda and Vision on a TV screen in black and white. We explain who we think the mysterious character is and where they are.
The mid-century sitcom world of
WandaVision is as weird and charming as it is a cool meta exploration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In just two episodes that run less than a full hour, there s a lot to unpack from this black-and-white slice of vintage Americana. And part of that is the brief commercial interruptions we get in episodes one and two, which quietly serve as a secret explanation of the
The first commercial we see midway through Episode One is for the Stark Toast Mate 2000. “It’s the go-to for clever housewives,” the add pitches. The most obvious clue here is that this toaster comes from Stark Industries, a reference to Tony Stark s and his father s business empire. But what s really interesting here are some of the more subtle details. When the toaster is turned on, it makes the unmistakable sound of the Iron Man armor powering up. There s also a red light flashing on the front of the toaster with a sound like a bomb counting down. This, as fans have specula