Having these two godlike beings throwing down on an ordinary suburban street kind of drives home the “anything can happen anywhere at any time” ethos of superhero comics. In most superhero movies or TV shows, the big fights are happening in big cities or battlefields or cosmic spacescapes. The whole banality of the setting for the big fight between Agatha and Wanda is particularly comic book-y in its own way.It’s been reported that the young actors who played Billy and Tommy, Julian Hilliard and Jett Klyne, filmed scenes for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessin London last year.There are several villains we can think of that would try to lure a powerful being like Wanda into another more dangerous part of the multiverse, but let’s not start throwing “Mephisto” around again just yet. Maybe they are still alive, but this smells an awful lot like bait to us. During the second post-credits scene, Wanda hears the twins call out to her for help from …somewhere.Wanda makes an odd comment to the boys: “thanks for choosing me to be your mom.” Does this mean that they aren’t purely just creations of her own magic? Did she pull them from elsewhere in the MCU? Or somewhere else in the multiverse entirely?.Fitting, considering the monologue came from a synthetic man accepting his own death in his final moments. In the un-Hexed version of Westview, one of the movies showing at the theater is Tannhauser Gate, a reference to the famous “tears in the rain” monologue at the end of Blade Runner.Vision excuses himself and sheds a single tear in private as further proof of that humanity. In Avengers #58, various members of the Avengers give Vision a rousing endorsement, particularly citing his heroism and humanity, before inducting him into the team. This is a reference to one of the most famous Vision (or Marvel Comics in general) moments of all time. Right before Vision discorporates as the Hex ends, he sheds a single tear.But this scene works so well in practice that it’s really hard to ask for MORE Marvel references than we’re already getting. Did they MAYBE miss a trick by not having White Vision’s voice come out as James Spader’s Ultron voice? Maybe.This is almost certainly Mount Wundagore, the place where Marvel Comics canon indicates that Wanda and Pietro were born, and a place that continues to loom large in Scarlet Witch history. At the end of the episode, in the second of the two post-credits scenes, we see Wanda in a tiny cabin at the foot of a beautiful mountain.It seems that whoever holds the title of “Scarlet Witch” is more powerful than the Sorcerer Supreme, so Stephen Strange had better take notice.We’re all about making Wanda a little scary again. Wanda goes back to her creepy, “sneak up on you and whisper in your ear and do witchy hand gestures” thing that we first saw her do in Avengers: Age of Ultron.Wanda gets her first official, full blown Scarlet Witch costume in this episode, and it looks really great.
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