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WandaVision is proving to be quite the head-scratcher of a mystery for MCU fans. One big question is who is Agnes’ husband Ralph? While a theory is that he’s Marvel devil Mephisto, a popular new one argues he’s HYDRA scientist Arnim Zola and boy does this one make a whole lot of sense.
The first three episodes of
WandaVision relied very heavily on an overarching mystery angle. There were hints and nods that there was something much greater happening, but nothing substantial was given away in those first three episodes. Every time there was something that could explain the mystery, it was rewound or censored. The fourth episode, titled “We Interrupt This Program,” forgoes this by diving into everything that’s been going on behind the sitcom facade.
Instead of paying homage to shows of the past, this week’s episode tells us how Teyonah Parris’ character, Monica Rambeau (aka Geraldine), ended up in Wanda’s life and why she was catapulted out of it. Starting with Monica re-materializing during the Blip, she finds her way back to a S.H.I.E.L.D.-like organization, called S.W.O.R.D., where she reconnects with her old colleagues after a five-year absence.
Marvel Comics Have Introduced A New Way For X-Men To Join The MCU
Fans are understandably excited about the prospect of the
X-Men joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a reboot is currently in the very earliest stages of development. It looked as though we’d never see Charles Xavier’s team of mutants sharing the screen with the various members of the Avengers, but all it took was for Disney to continue swallowing their competition whole.
WandaVision began slowly introducing the multiverse into the mix. It’ll take some clever storytelling to explain that mutants have existed in the MCU the entire time without it feeling forced, but Marvel Comics may have provided a new method for making it happen.
X-Men #4. A decade later, in
Giant-Size Avengers #1 by Roy Thomas and Rich Buckler, the story expands with a flashback. Introduced by the Golden Age hero the Whizzer, this Mount Wundagore myth leads to a confession. The speedster Robert Frank claims to be Wanda’s long-lost father. This story is also where we first meet Bova as the midwife to Wanda and Pietro’s mother.
Bova becomes the storyteller five years later in
Avengers #186, telling Pietro of her own origin. She was a cow evolved to human form by super-geneticist the High Evolutionary in his Wundagore lab. Bova then contradicted the Whizzer’s tale, informing Pietro that his mother was a distraught wanderer named Magda.