

You see, in the comics, Scarlet Witch’s powers are a bit ill-defined, but the basic idea was that she made the possible more possible. This is a very clever Easter egg, as it translates to “House of Contempt.” There’s also an M on the neck of the bottle, suggesting we look at the product as, “House of M.” In other words, they’re subtly telling us to look at Wanda Maximoff’s far-from-finest hour from the comics, a story called (you guessed it) House of M. Hart started questioning Wanda and Vision’s relationship while his wife yelled, “Stop it!” which seemed to be a mix of, “Let them finish,” “Stop breaking the illusion,” “Stop forcing us into this illusion,” and, “For the love of God, stop choking.”Īs Wanda used her sitcom witch powers to set the table, she poured a bottle of wine called Maison Du Mepris.

Outside of the awkwardness of the toaster commercial, the first time things really started to break down was the dinner, where Vision’s boss Mr. As the show goes forward, there’s an increasing feel of there being something wrong, but it took a while for that to kick in in the first episode. So far WandaVision is a suspenseful mystery wrapped up in a warm blanket of wholesome sitcom nostalgia. Marvel’s swerved fans with the Mandarin and the Skrulls and it got to the point where people were second-guessing if trickster villain Mysterio really was a trickster villain. Other times you get something like Logan, where the source material had you prepared for Wolverine being responsible for the X-Men being dead when the film throws a curveball and reveals it to be Xavier’s doing.
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Sometimes you get something like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where comic fans knew the Bucky twist the second the movie was announced. Sometimes, the movie uses that against us. It lets us know what to look for and what to expect.
With superhero movies – Marvel movies especially – what we know from the comics adds a bit to the experience. This article contains WandaVision episode 1 spoilers, and potential spoilers for the rest of the series.
