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The credit scenes of Wandavision set up a lot of things in the MCU and throughout this post, we’ll be discussing how they can be taken and what they imply for the future.
Full Spoilers ahead so if you haven’t seen the episode then I recommend that you turn now.
Scene 1
Jimmy Woo
The first scene picks up almost immediately after Wanda flies out of Westview. In the town centre, Jimmy is directing agents to places so that they can provide medical and psychological attention to the citizens who’ve been stuck in an episode of Father Knows Best for the past week.
Due to Monica’s comments on Authority looking good on him I’m guessing that Woo has been put in charge of clean up and because of his work in Westview he’ll probably be moving up the pole. Now juxtaposing this Hayward will probably have a pole moving up him because he’s going to jail….fffss is are these the best jokes we’ve got? Dear me…anyway.
Tannhauser Gate Reference
At this point, Monica has fully become Photon and she now possesses superpowers which have clearly caught the attention of someone else.
This special agent calls Wanda to the theatre which is showing a film called the Tannhauser Gate.
This is actually a callback to Blade Runner, namely Roy Batty who discussed the things he’s witnessed.
The character states:
“I’ve watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.”
Now, this actually foreshadows the journey that Monica will be going on but we’ll get into that more in just a bit.
The name Tanhausser actually refers to a knight from German Folklore who had to journey into the underworld to find a pagan queen much like how Monica had to travel into the Hex to find the Scarlett Witch.
Yes, we’re reaching.
Nick Fury & The Skrulls
Inside, the Agent transforms into a Skrull and, unfortunately, this isn’t Talos’ daughter who was friends with her in Captain Marvel. However, she brings an important mission with her and the character says that she’s been sent by an old friend of her mother’s.
Now, this could apply to Talos or Nick Fury but I’m siding more with the latter for several reasons. Firstly, Fury is with the Skrulls at the end of Far From Home and they are journeying through space.
That film actually takes place 8 months after this show, so it seems like they may have met and then travelled out into the vastness of the stars to complete a mission.
During this time Talos was, of course, masquerading as Fury and therefore it makes sense that he selected him to stay on Earth whilst he and Monica journeyed into the Cosmos.
We know that Monica will be featured in Captain Marvel 2 and as we discovered in Endgame, she’s policing a lot of planets throughout the universe.
Now, this episode pretty much confirmed through the Darkhold that Agents Of Shield is not canon in the MCU. Therefore if we stick with the timeline then they were disbanded after the end of The Winter Soldier. Thus Fury has probably been looking for a new Agency to work with and this will likely be SWORD.
In both the comics and MCU it’s clear they dealt with space matters and it’s only after the events of the snap that the latter version changed direction. With their acting director no longer being an acting director I think that SWORD will be travelling back to the stars and they will be led by Monica who has filled her mother’s shoes.
The SWORD logo on her uniform is clearly there for a reason and who knows they might even meet Daisy who too travelled into space after Agents Of Shield.
Look I’m begging yeah, just make it canon.
Scene 2
Now cut to the second post-credits scene and we travel to what I believe is Wundagore Mountain.
More like Wandabored mountain ammirght.
Now why I believe that this is the case is because of The Darkhold.
It was actually in a chamber known as the Darque Hold that Chthon wrote his book of black magic The Dark Hold and this is a paramount possession that ties heavily into the series.
Ok I give in, it’s not Mephisto
Now though I rode that Mephisto train until me and Eric Voss were the last passengers on it I’ve actually gone on to think that Chthon is the true one behind it all.
In the comics, he was actually the being that bestowed Wanda’s powers upon her when she was a young girl and as we learned in episode 8, she was always a witch even in this continuity.
The fact he also wrote the book ties him in quite heavily to this and the villain also possessed Quicksilver in the comics much like how Agatha possessed Ralph’s Bohner.
Not even a good one.
Now speaking of Bohners, we catch Wanda getting a bit of Morning Glory in a cabin that’s surrounded by Runes. She strolls back inside and it’s revealed that her Scarlett Witch version is on the Astral Plane reading through the book.
It’s at this point that she hears the voices of her children who are clearly still out there.
Now, what does this mean?
Well, there are a number of ways you can take it, either the dark lord Chthon has manifested them as a trick to make Wanda delve deeper into the book or they’re trapped in the Astral Plane. This is a sort of Afterlife and could be where their spirits have gone.
In Doctor Strange, we saw the titular character doing a similar sort of thing to what plays out here and therefore we can kinda shut down the idea that there are now two Wandas.
I feel like they’re going on a sort of Dark Pheonix trip here with the alter ego within her being something that could potentially turn to the dark side and destroy the world.
However, she always has Agatha to turn to and she will likely become a mentor to the character, similar to what she was in the comics.
As for her children, they scream out for help and sound in pain so it makes sense that Wanda would try and track them down.
Now, we know going forward that the character will be appearing in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness and it is likely that her trying to bring them back is what causes things to go hay ward.
Billy & Tommy’s Future
Shoutouts to Andrew Lemacks on Twitter for pointing out that we never actually see the kids vanish and someone could’ve snuck in there and taken them before the Hex closed.
I actually think that Wanda will try and manifest her children through the Darkhold but in doing so she’ll also bring forward a dark entity. In the comics both Billy and Tommy were originally extensions of Mephistos soul and they were used as a way to bring the villain to earth, however, our heroes managed to stop him.
The kids disappeared in the process, much in the same way that they did at the end of the series but they have returned to the comics now as fully fledged characters.
I know I’ve touched upon this in other videos but just in case you missed them, the pair did post photos showing that they were in London during the time that Doctor Strange was being filmed and therefore it’s a safe bet that they will return.
White Vision
Going ahead there’s also White Vision who is still out there.
In the episode, it looked like he was gonna go all Terminator 2 on everybody but Vision managed to get through to him and restore his memories.
This included his life with Wanda before the snap and he said “I am Vision” before flying off.
Now, the character is still alive and he will likely be the person that has to reign Wanda in from going off the deep end. I’m kinda torn on this as I do feel like pretty much everyone who dies in the MCU eventually gets brought back and I did want some real consequences from Infinity War.
Wanda said goodbye to the memory of Vision in the finale and it seems like we’re kinda going back on things just allowing him to return.
However, I love Paul Bettany and do wanna see Vision more so meh, I suppose it’s a get-out-of-jail-free card that I can live with.
These really feel like Marvel’s first family to me now and though that’s typically The Fantastic Four, I feel like they’ve slotted into the role nicely and would love to see Wanda bring them back.
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