“But, a thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts.”
The Vision, to Ultron, Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
I know. I know I used this quote for the last WandaVision post and how dare I be so derivative of myself. Well, the quote fits far better for this post than the last and while I can’t undo what has been done, I can redo it again now in a more appropriate context.
I know I can undo it. Edits exist. I won’t undo it because then it ruins this whole first section. The timeline must be preserved!
The End is the Beginning
It has been confirmed that there will be only this one season of WandaVision, since the events from the series will more likely than not lead directly into Doctor Strange‘s sequel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Knowing this, we can expect tomorrow’s series finale to tie up a whole bunch of loose ends from the show while also leaving plenty of ends still loose to be addressed in DSITMOM. That is a horrid acronym and I promise I won’t ever use it again.
It should go without saying, but here I go saying it, there will be significant spoilers ahead, from episodes one through eight, but no spoilers or leaks from the finale, as I have tried my hardest to avoid not only leaks, but reading other fans speculation.
Billy and Tommy
We know now some of the truth about Wanda and the Hex. We know that the twins and Vision are not like the other residents of Westview since they are able to act on their own free will and Wanda has minimal control of their actions, if she has any at all. Agatha has declared that Wanda is “supposed to be a myth, a being capable of spontaneous creation”. In her grief and pain she was able to create the sitcom-inspired reality inside the Hex and recreate a new Vision, the original of whom was lying dead and in several pieces in a lab. Oh, and mind control everyone in the entire town into playing the parts she needed them to play.
Except Agatha, newVision, Billy, Tommy, Monica, and Fietro. Oh, and now Dr. Lewis since newVision freed her mind back in episode seven. It is unclear at this point if the twins or Fietro can exist outside of the Hex, but we have already seen evidence that newVision likely cannot.
Speculation: Therefore, I don’t believe Wanda’s twins will survive the series. I think this is one loose end that is going to be tied off at series end. I don’t know what their ultimate fate will be, but I imagine they will simply cease to exist once The Hex is taken down. However, I think this will be untied later on in the MCU and the twins will be introduced in their reincarnated forms down the road, perhaps in Multiverse of Madness, but likely later, perhaps in a Young Avengers project, or in some of the other announced projects that could lead to a Young Avengers cast.
Original Vision or White Vision?
I am very interested in seeing how this plays out. We saw at the end of the last episode that Hayward, director of S.W.O.R.D. had successfully rebuilt and repowered the original Vision, and turned him into White Vision. In the comics, White Vision was introduced to split up the couple, and I think the end result is going to be similar here, although for very different reasons.
Old Vision and White Vision did not exist at the same time in the comics. White Vision was a deconstructed, rebuilt and memory-wiped version of OG Vision, and had no knowledge whatsoever of his relationship with Wanda and also, no real emotional depth. Think Data sans Emotion chip.
But now, we have oldNewVision (this is getting complicated) and New White Vision existing at the same time, and in the same place. According to physics, two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Science! So it stands to reason that when the dust settles, only one Vision will reign supreme. There can be only one and I am running out of clichés to throw at this!
It is being set up that White Vision has been created as a weapon of S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient Weapons Observation and Response Division) to be used to take down Wanda and the Hex, leading to a confrontation between Wanda and OGViz against White Vision (and maybe Agatha?)
Speculation: White Vision wins. We saw that Original Vision (The OV?) cannot survive outside the Hex since he is not, strictly speaking, real. However, I don’t think White Vision will be the antagonist for long. There will be some grain of JARVIS leftover, some remnant of the original consciousness left that will allow White Vision to not be controlled by S.W.O.R.D. and he will become Vision again. Though he will be Vision again, he won’t have had the same relationship with Wanda, so even though Vision may have been returned to life through a roundabout process, she will still have lost him.
Everything Else
The fate of the twins and the Visions have been the most interesting for me to think about since it rests upon what we know currently of reality in the MCU. Our understanding of that reality (Wanda’s powers, whatever is going to happen in Multiverse) is likely going to change, and I am sure that is starting here with WandaVision. There are a number of factors that could completely negate my thinking above. I will elucidate below about just how wrong I could be.
- Dr. Strange shows up. I am not sure if this has been confirmed in any way, but it makes too much sense for it not to happen. Especially when you consider that WandaVision is directly leading into Dr. Strange 2. I am hoping it’s not just as some deus ex machina hand-waving. I could see him being in some post-credits scene, sitting in the Sanctum Sanctorum when he feels a great disturbance in the Force … err, a breach in the fabric of reality and space-time. And then bam, create portal to Westview, witness carnage through portal, Strange walks through, portal closes, end scene.
- We won’t see much of Monica Rambeau this episode. She’ll be rescued from where ever Fietro keeps snoopers, and she and Wanda will exchange nods of acknowledgement as she walks/flies/rockets away to go off and explore her new found powers and eventually join up with Danvers in Captain Marvel 2.
- I have no real sense of what will happen regarding Fake Pietro. He may just blink out of existence when the Hex collapses. He could somehow have been pulled there through the Multiverse due to Wanda’s amazingly powerful warping of reality. I really don’t have a strong feeling, except that I think it will be important and is not just a fan-service easter egg.
- We will see the introduction of the Next Big Bad Boss of the MCU to replace Thanos. If not them, then the Penultimate Baddie. Could be Mephisto (what was up with the book in Agatha’s basement). Could be Dr. Doom, which would be absolutely shocking but we know Fantastic Four is coming and how could the MCU not use Doom? I read elsewhere that White Vision could be Ultron 2.0 and that Ultron will return as a villain in the next MCU phase, but I doubt that very strongly.
The finale episode of WandaVision drops tomorrow. What do you think will happen? Let me know how wrong you think I am on Twitter or Facebook or below or wherever fine nerd products are sold.