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Guys, I cannot even freaking remember
the last time I was so invested in a show
from week-to-week the way I am with WandaVision.
Well, that's not true.
It was the Mandalorian like two months ago,
but, either way this show has my attention.
It just seems like it gets better and better each week
and I cannot stop thinking about it.
Oh, and they're doing the thing where every time
they answer one question,
they just introduced like six more.
Oh, okay, so everyone's like
hearing Wanda's voice inside their head
and sort of being like forced
to do whatever it suggests.
I get, oh no, wait a minute.
Why is Monica's head scan all white?
And why isn't she letting them take more blood?
- She does that.
- It's because she has power similar
to that of Captain Marvel.
But that's probably a whole different video either way.
If you think it's a coincidence, her rank is captain,
you're kidding yourself.
But obviously the huge thing
that seems to have insane ramifications,
not just for Wanda and the people of the WestView
but also for the entire MCU at large,
is the sudden reappearance of her twin brother,
Pietro Maximoff.
But not quite as we remember him.
- You didn't see that's coming.
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Okay, so episode five of WandaVision titled
"On a very special episode" is crammed
with explanations and revelations and little hints
about what's been happening and where the show is going.
And it's a lot to unpack, but let's start
with the title on a very special episode, is actually
an advertising term that used to be really popular
for promoting certain kinds of TV Sitcoms,
specifically episodes that were going to deal
with a more controversial topic or social issue.
That is why despite most
of Wanda's episodes being very upbeat and chipper.
This one was a little more subdued
as Wanda taught her rapidly aging children
about the permanence of death, a minorly ironic lesson
as it is totally confirmed in this episode that Wanda broke
into S.W.O.R.D and stole Vision's corpse
and has been reanimated again
and just the most creepy way possible.
- What is it? What's wrong?
- What is less clear as Jimmy Woo points out
is how Wanda is able to do this,
without the use of another Mind Stone,
but don't worry, we'll get to that.
For now though,
let's focus on Wanda breaking into S.W.O.R.D.
which Tyler Hayward seems to be using
as his key piece of evidence that Wanda is up to no good.
Well, besides like, yeah, mind controlling the entire town
and forcing his own men to point their guns at him.
That's not good either, but that hadn't even happened yet.
So while her breaking
into sword certainly is hard to ignore,
to me it reads much more like a misdirect
and points much more to someone else is controlling Wanda
or manipulating her whispering in her ear
that, "this is what you need to do."
Now who that is remains pretty unclear.
Although I have to say,
Agnes is looking more and more sus each episode
and she certainly had her eye on the kids
in this episode.
- You want me to hold the babies?
- Now we've talked before about how it seems like
the entire situation happening inside the Hex as it were
- You called it the Hex.
- Is for the children.
- For the children.
- But before I thought it was because Wanda
wanted the children, and now I'm starting
to lean more towards someone else wants the children.
They just needed Wanda to create them.
I mean, they obviously have their own set
of powers as they age themselves up twice in this episode.
And they are immune to Wanda's powers.
- Kids, can't control them,
(audience laughing)
no matter how hard you try.
- And, that line is interesting
because it really makes it sound like Agnes
has tried unsuccessfully to control a child of her own.
I mean, not for nothing,
but Agnes is almost definitely going to end up
being a character called Agatha Harkness,
a really powerful witch from the comics
who has a child named Nicholas Scratch.
And what have, you know it,
Agnes has a rabbit named Senior Scratchy,
who she's keeping in a cage, but getting back on track,
Billy and Tommy being immune to Wanda's powers
means that she would be somewhat helpless to stop them
if they were put to use by the wrong hands,
which is what I think Agnes is up to.
And make no mistake, these kids are gonna be powerful.
I mean, they see in this episode that Wanda
is the only one who could have beat Thanos on her own,
although Jimmy Woo disagrees.
- Well I'd argue that Captain Marvel came close.
- We are not talking about her,
we are talking about Wanda.
- And what was that?
Look, Monica, is that because you
and Captain Marvel had a falling out?
Is it because you didn't show up while your mom had cancer?
Is it because you are Captain Marvel,
do you wanna change subject? I'm on you.
That's it, I think it is also worth noting
that while the kids definitely have powers,
it's possible they weren't the ones that aging themselves up
as Agnes is present both times it happens.
In fact, she's also present when it looks like the boys
may age up a third time and even presents a catalyst
for it to happen in the form of their dog dying,
but Wanda intervenes.
- Don't, don't.
- Don't what?
- Don't age yourselves up.
- Billy and Tommy are not the only mysterious twins
in this episode though, as much to the surprise
of even Wanda, it seems her twin brother Pietro
shows up at the end of the episode.
And you may recall he died in "Age of Ultron."
- You didn't see that it's coming.
(crowd applauding)
- Not only did he die,
but you much like Darcy probably noticed
hey that's not what Pietro looks like.
- She recast Pietro?
- But you know what?
It is what Pietro looks like.
You're just thinking of the wrong movie
because this isn't the same Pietro who died
in "Age of Ultron."
It's this one from the "X-Men" movies.
And if our audience is anything
like the real life conversations I've had with people,
half of you were like, "yeah, we know," but the other half
of you were like "what?"
But to answer your immediate question and or concern,
this is a big deal because no, the "X-Men" movies
are not a part of the MCU.
And yet here Pietro is crossing universes.
So like what the heck is going on?
Well, let's back up a tick.
When Pietro first rings the doorbell,
Wanda says, "I didn't do that" to which Vision
is pretty skeptical.
- You don't believe me.
- Wanda, I want to.
But at this point, I'm ignoring statistics entirely.
- Now what they want you to think
is that Wanda actually is genuinely surprised
and that Vision is fairly misguided in his skepticism.
But what I think is happening is that they're both correct.
Vision is accurate that Wanda did make this happen,
but Wanda is still genuinely surprised
because she doesn't realize she made it happen.
But I think she did because Wanda makes the rules.
And earlier in the episode, when her sons asked
if she had a brother, she responds.
- I do.
He's far away here and that makes me sad sometimes.
- I do, not I did, but I do present tense, have a brother.
Now, to be fair,
it is not uncommon to refer to a deceased, loved one
or friend or significant other in the present tense.
And that might be what Wanda thinks she's doing here.
But within the context of the show,
I think she might've inadvertently brought something
or someone into existence,
or else into this existence from a different existence.
But see, saying she has a brother in the present tense
creates a bit of a conundrum,
for this reality because her brother is dead,
and they actually discussed the rules of death
in this episode.
- We can't reverse death, no matter how sad it makes us.
- So reversing death is not a power Wanda has.
So the reality's solution to providing her a brother
in the present tense is to grab the same person
from another reality.
Okay, time for real-world talk.
The reason the "X-Men" thus far have not been a part
of the MCU, despite also being Marvel characters
is because Disney did not own the movie rights
to the "X-Men," that was owned by Fox.
Disney on the other hand, owned the rights to "The Avengers"
which put Wanda and Pietro Maximoff
in a very interesting position
because they have historically
been notable members of both franchises, which is why
both sides actually somehow got to use Pietro Maximoff
aka Quicksilver.
Although I think this is also worth noting,
Disney actually couldn't use their like superhero names.
So even though we all know Wanda
is actually the Scarlet Witch,
they haven't actually said that name on screen
which is what this whole joke was about, by the way.
- Does Maximoff have an alias?
- No, sir.
- No funny nickname?
- Not a one.
- But anyway, Disney recently purchased Fox,
finally giving them a full access
to other Marvel characters like the X-Men
and Fantastic Four, which by the way
the aerospace engineer, Monica texts right here
is almost definitely read Richard's aka Mr. Fantastic.
But we'll see either way with the purchase of Fox,
it looks like the idea of a Marvel multi-verse
is actually finally fully coming into fruition.
I mean the next "Doctor Strange" movie
is all ready called "Multiverse of Madness,"
and it looks pretty confirmed that Toby McGuire
and Andrew Garfield
are gonna be appearing in "Spider-Man 3."
Spider-Man is actually Sony, not Fox,
but that's not the point.
The point is that Marvel is clearly moving ahead
with the notion of heroes from other non-MCU storylines
finding their way into the MCU,
and Pietro Maximoff is the first one.
That said, you might be wondering now, wait a minute.
If Wanda can't bring people back from the dead
what about Vision?
To which I would say
while he was very much certainly really alive.
He was also very much certainly not a real human.
So I'm thinking some different rules apply here,
but there is still Jimmy Woo's question
of needing another Mind Stone to consider.
- But how did she even do it?
Bring him back without the Mind Stone?
- But similar to how Pietro arrived,
I think it's pretty possible another Mind Stone
just arrived from another reality.
I mean the whole middle section of "Endgame"
is literally the Avengers traveling
to other realities to retrieve such stones.
And like not for nothing, but the ancient one
actually explains to Bruce the dangers
of taking a single infinity stone out of one reality,
but then we never get to see anything dangerous
actually happened because of that.
But maybe, that is what we're gonna see.
And there is a reality out
that's now missing it's Mind Stone.
Alternatively, it is also possible
that since Wanda's powers are from the Mind Stone,
and she was the only one who could destroy it.
Maybe she's also the only one who could make another one,
but who says you even need the Mind Stone at all?
I mean, Shuri was doing something
in Wakanda with the Mind Stone.
Maybe she just like uploaded his consciousness
and they won't even need one.
I mean, all that said,
we all ready know it's not actually Vision there
and that one was just reanimating his corpse
and then it's really just him with a hole in his head.
So maybe there is no Mind Stone at all.
And it's just an illusion.
Anyway, the point is this Pietro looks different
from Wanda's brother, because this is a whole second Pietro.
This is not just another town's person
that Wanda is dressing up or shape-shifting to fit
into her narrative because if it was,
he just looked exactly like her actual brother
and it is also not just some crazy Easter Egg.
Like, oh hey look, they got the guy who played Pietro
in the "X-Men" movies to play the recast version
of him and WandaVision, that's hilarious.
No, that is the Pietro from the "X-Men" movies.
And whatever happened to him
in those movies happened to this guy.
So he is going to be like super mega confused
if and when he ever like gets out from under Wanda's spell,
which brings up some really interesting possibilities
because there have been a lot of rumors floating around
about a Luke Skywalker-Level Cameo happening this season
on WandaVision, which in case you don't know
as a reference to Luke appearing in the final episode
of the Mandalorian this past season.
Now it's possible that Evan Peters showing up as Pietro
in this last episode was that Cameo, but I don't know,
I mean, Luke Skywalker is the main character
of the "The Original star Wars Trilogy."
Like he's showing up in a TV show, 30 years later is crazy.
Pietro feels more like the Ahsoka episode.
If you ask me like big.
Yes, but Luke Skywalker big? Maybe not.
Not that the implications
of a Marvel Multiverse incorporating the Fox franchises
isn't huge, but I'm just not sure
if like Quicksilver is the Cameo they were building up.
But so who then could it be?
Well, you know we have guesses,
so let's start with our first one.
We know that at least in the Fox, "X-Men" universe
that one Magneto is Quicksilver's father.
And as this is a family sitcom,
I am gonna put at least one bet
on either Ian McKellen or a Michael Fassbender showing up
because that would indeed be like, whoa
like if you accidentally create Pietro, great
but then if you accidentally recreate your dad,
then you're gonna have a real problem.
Now going in a different direction,
a lot of people have also guessed
either "Doctor Strange" or "Captain Marvel,"
just because of the "Multiverse of Madness"
or because Monica is on the show
and they keep talking about "Captain Marvel."
And while again, that would be awesome.
I'm just not sure, it's like Luke Skywalker-Level
because in the MCU, it's just not that uncommon
for characters to crossover anywhere.
Like, I wouldn't even be surprised
if I saw other Marvel characters.
No, I think for it to be that big
you got to go other universe.
And we've mentioned the "Fantastic Four" a couple of times.
So here's our wild card guess.
Wanda sees a man and it can't be, but it is.
And the camera turns around
to reveal a not super old Steve Rogers.
And you're like, oh my gosh, is Cap back?
But no, instead flame on, like I'm sorry
it doesn't get much bigger than Chris Evans,
who you think to be Captain America
secretly being Johnny Storm
introducing the "Fantastic Four" into the MCU.
That would be like Luke Skywalker.
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