WandaVision Trailer Breakdown 20 MCU Secrets & Story Reveals

WandaVision Trailer Breakdown: 20 MCU Secrets & Story Reveals

Vision and Scarlet Witch continue to get weird in the second and final trailer for the Disney+ series WandaVision. Here’s our breakdown.

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Scarlet Witch and her synthezoid partner are back in the final WandaVision trailer before the Disney+ series’ January release. Starring MCU familiars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, the new WandaVision trailer continues to promise a “Visionary New Age” for Marvel Studios, nodding to some of the strangest stories found in the pages of its comic book source material.

The superpowered couple have been in something of a limbo since the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which sees Vision dead at the hands of Thanos and Wanda misplaced after awaking from the Mad Titan’s Snap, and her resultant disintegration. Scarlet Witch’s powers, though largely undefined, have been teased as some of the universe’s most formidable; however, the final WandaVision trailer is really amping up the Wanda’s comics-accurate reality-bending and magic-using history.

This makes sense considering Marvel’s upcoming slate, which includes other seemingly weird projects such as a timeline-hopping Loki series, a multiverse-traversing Spider-Man 3 (which will reportedly bring characters from Sony’s previously Spidey-centric franchises into the MCU), and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which will feature Olsen’s Wanda in a prominent role. While there are far more questions than answers regarding what’s to come in WandaVision, judging by the clues and Easter Eggs from the trailer, it is certain that the upcoming series will serve as a crucial pivot point for the larger MCU.

20. A Suburban Life

The trailer opens on a very normal looking suburban home, an image often associated with the Avenger power couple in the comics. They have enjoyed two runs of Vision and the Scarlet Witch in the comics, a four-issue mini-series in 1982 and a twelve-issue limited series in 1985, both of which explored the pair’s desire for traditional life. In the first series, Wanda and Vision have taken a break from the Avengers to live in New Jersey, only to be met with anti-mutant sentiment (Wanda was confirmed to be Magneto’s biological daughter during the arc, a plot point that was recently retconned). The second series saw Wanda somehow giving birth to twin sons, despite Vision being an android, an event that would end in tragedy with the discovery that the children didn’t really exist. While it is unlikely that the MCU will delve into that particular weirdness, pieces of these stories may well make their way to the Disney+ show.

19. Wanda Appears to Be Willing Things Into Existence

The WandaVision trailer begins with a puzzling exchange between Wanda and Kathryn Hahn’s “nosey neighbor” character (rumored to be the witch Agatha Harkness), in which Hahn refers to Wanda as a “single gal” – a characterization at odds with the first trailer, which features Wanda in a wedding dress and the couple driving down the street in a car boasting a “Just Married” sign. Wanda gives a brief confused expression but quickly asserts that she is indeed “married to a man…a human man” before the scene is punctuated with discordant canned laughter. The WandaVision trailer seems to suggest that Hahn’s character immediately accepts this information as fact, indicating that Wanda may be consciously or unconsciously influencing the world around her while those in her presence fail to notice.

18. Daydream Believer

The Monkees’ popular song “Daydream Believer” – sung by Davy Jones – plays throughout the WandaVision trailer; however, it is given an unusual and appropriately psychedelic treatment. Vision’s first shot in the trailer is accompanied by the lyrics “But it rings and I rise, wipe the sleep out of my eyes,” perhaps referencing the android’s unexpected awakening from his Avengers: Infinity War death. However, Olsen’s many quizzical expressions and double takes could hint that the words also relate to Wanda’s foggy and fractured mental state. This version of the tune really contributes to the trailer’s eeriness as Wanda and Vision’s mundane world grows increasingly unsettling.

17. Borrowing From Bygone Eras of Television

Kevin Feige and WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer have not hidden that WandaVision would be paying homage to some classic television shows from decades past – it has been confirmed that the first episode, which will presumably pay tribute the 50’s and/or 60’s, and was therefore appropriately filmed in front of a live studio audience. That particular era was defined by broad and slightly over-the-top performances excellently replicated by the WandaVision cast in the black-and-white sequences, adding the absurdity of the proceedings. There is a rather charming bit which serves a little tongue-and-cheek joke in which Wanda uses her powers – presented in the spirit of I Dreamed of Genie or Bewitched – to move hers and Visions separate beds together. Televised media at the time showed married couples sleeping apart in the desire to avoid any implications of sex and clearly Wanda just won’t stand for that.

16. “We just don’t know what to expect”

While in their 7o’s Brady Bunch-esque inflected reality, Wanda utters the WandaVision trailer’s most meta line, which surely voices the feelings of many fans waiting eagerly for the series to drop on Disney+. However, based on the shot of Wanda and Vision which precedes Olsen’s delivery, the two titular heroes appear be similarly disoriented by their continually changing and strange surroundings. In frame, the camera lingers on Wanda and Vision as the room around them morphs from black-and-white to color, and both observe in wonder. Unlike other shots in which Wanda appears to be consciously altering reality (her hands are often raised in ways seen previously in her film appearances), this change looks to be happening on its own. Is it really Wanda’s doing and she just doesn’t know it yet or are she and her lover just along for the ride as someone with more sinister machinations toys with them?

15. A Familiar Outfit

While in her home decorated with the sleekest of 70’s finery, Wanda is briefly seen reading an issue of Glamorous while telekinetically vacuuming. Freeze framing the shot may allow viewers to spot a familiar outfit worn by the model on the front cover; one that is very similar to the Scarlet Witch’s original costume in the comics. Like Wanda’s comic book version, the model wears a somewhat revealing red number with tights. The MCU has been known to cleverly update many of the their heroes crime-fighting costumes, so it is unlikely that Wanda will ever be represented in a meaningful way going forward (there have been shots of her wearing what looks to be a Halloween knockoff version), but this may just be a fun little wink to the audience as they consider the ridiculousness and impracticality of the original.

14. Butterflies

In a brief shot, the colorful mobile hanging over the crib of the couple’s children springs to life and forms a cluster of fluttering butterflies. This may be another example of the show’s mind-bending bizarreness, but it may also be a tiny Easter egg meant to indicate more magical implications. Memorably, in Avengers: Infinity War, Doctor Strange is shown using his sorcery to transfigure Thanos’ deadly attack into a harmless swarm of butterflies. Additionally, Strange’s first out-of-body meeting experience with the Ancient One, he pauses long enough to reach out to a single orange-winged monarch. If the insect is meant to be an indicator of magic, this would be huge for Wanda’s power set within the MCU, since she – unlike her comic book iteration – is yet to tap into her skills as a sorceress. The fact that the potentially magical butterflies hover over the crib is also significant, as in the comics, her children Billy and Tommy are more-or-less conceived by magic and Strange himself is present at their births.

13. Who’s Herb?

Kathryn Hahn’s character makes numerous appearances throughout the new WandaVision trailer, and in one of them, she is accompanied by a man – identified as “Herb” in the subtitles – who greets her new neighbors. The mystery man’s cameo is a brief one, but his name may refer to the comic book character “Herbert Wyndham,” more commonly known as “The High Evolutionary,” a figure who features prominently in the origins of Scarlet Witch and brother Quicksilver. Though Wanda and Pietro were previously identified as mutants and children of Magento, this backstory was retconned in 2015’s Uncanny Avengers, which revealed that they were actually failed experiments of the High Evolutionary, a powerful being who obsesses over the genetic perfection of humanity.

12. The Title Card Makes a Big Claim

The trailer intersperses a series of title cards which shares a bold message with the audience. “A Visionary New Age of Television Begins,” it reads and given the hype surrounding the series and the many changes that may be coming to the entertainment industry in our own world, it is hard to argue with that. WandaVision kicks of the MCU’s Phase 4 and given the plethora of material on Marvel Studio’s slate, it is becoming increasingly clear that we are entering an age of storytelling unlike anything that’s come before; an era in which heroes and villains will indiscriminately surface in both television and films as the universe’s larger plot demands (and the often extensive actor contracts allow).

11. Happy Parents

The last trailer offered a glimpse of a pregnant Wanda, but the new one shares a particularly touching image in which Vision has his hands on her protruding belly and she happily looks up at him, giggling. In the comics, the story surrounding the couple’s parental journey is easily one of Marvel’s most convoluted plot lines – which is saying something. Suffice it to say, in the source material, Wanda becomes unexpectedly pregnant thanks to her own reality-bending and magical abilities and she and her husband are overjoyed. But eventually, people begin to notice that Wanda and Vision’s twins, Tommy and Billy, start to strangely disappear for short periods of time before reappearing again and it becomes clear that they are mere manifestations made unconsciously by Wanda and, when her mind wanders from them, they simply evaporate. To complicate things further, it is revealed that in her bones-deep desire to be a mother, Wanda’s powers unknowingly reached out to find a bit of life needed to create her babies and accidentally repurposed bits of Mephisto’s broken soul.

10. Vision’s Comic Costume Easter Egg

It is becoming clear that the lovers will be spending some time celebrating Halloween, a choice made all the more appropriate considering the 1982 Vision and the Scarlet Witch limited series. In issue #1 (aptly titled “Trick or Treat!”) the couple, desperate for a sense of normalcy and a life in the suburbs, move into a simple home – similar to the one shown in WandaVision – on Halloween. However, after opening a mysterious book full of Druidic Magic (a gift from Captain America), three neighborhood children have their Halloween night interrupted as they are transformed into ghouls who attack their new super powered neighbors.

9. A Closer Look at Adult Monica Rambeau

In the first WandaVision trailer, a grown up version of Monica Rambeau (played by Teyonah Parris) was seen being hurled outside of the force field which separated the real world from the dreamlike town within, but the second trailer spends a bit more time with her. Monica, dressed in seventies garb, has a nightmarish exchange with Wanda and, after being asked who she is, a distressed Rambeau replies, “I don’t know.” Characters having a loss of memory and a sense of distorted reality is consistent with the “House of M” storyline, in which the Scarlet Witch creates an alternate universe where her father, Magneto, is the ruler. Is it possible that Monica, having entered the barrier undercover, lost her memories and was forcibly ejected because Wanda – or someone else – knew she didn’t belong there?

8. The Radio Message

Throughout the WandaVision trailer, Wanda and Vision both being to see cracks forming in their oddly perfect home and that growing realization comes to a crescendo with an incoming message via a radio, which attempts to break through their glamor. The speaker, whose voice is distorted, may be unknown, but he hurriedly asks, “Wanda? Can you hear me? Who’s doing this to you?” This suggests that those outside Wanda and Vision’s constructed reality believe someone else is moving the strings and the comics provide a few possible options. Professor Xavier, a powerful telepath, is key to the Scarlet Witch’s construction of the “House of M” (his consideration of killing an out-of-control Wanda contributes to her snapping and braking the main universe). However, since there have been no real X-Men-related announcements, his involvement seems unlikely. Mephisto is another candidate, who played a role in the creation and subsequent erasure of Wanda and Vision’s children, an event which shaped much of the Scarlet Witch’s character arc in the mid-aughts.

7. Mystery Man

While the radioed voice asks, “Who’s doing this to you?” there are a few jarringly creepy shots of someone dressed in a white beekeeping suit or some kind of PPE. While person’s face is obscured, the presentation and ominous lighting suggests that this man (or woman perhaps) is not to be trusted. In fact, Wanda (still in the same outfit and with the same hairstyle she had while receiving the incoming message), looks alarmed at the sight of him/her. It is possible that this is Evan Peters, who has been rumored to make an appearance in WandaVision, but whose absence has been notable in the show’s promotion. Of course, he could be playing a cross-dimensional version of Pietro (Peters played Quicksilver in Fox’s recent X-Men movies), but the actors history of playing darker characters in American Horror Story may serve him well as the series’ potential villain. Could he really be playing the MCU’s version Mephisto?

6. Kathryn Confused

There has been many rumors circulating around Kathryn Hahn’s mystery character and if she will eventually be revealed as WandaVision’s big bad. There has been some speculation that she may be Agatha Harkness, Wanda’s mentor in the mystical arts and occasional antagonist. However, this most recent trailer begins to sow doubts that the person Hahn is portraying as a firm enough grasp on what’s going on to be the series’ antagonist. At one point in the trailer, appears rather desperate as she implores of Wanda, “Are you here to save us?” Regardless of what her role ends up being, one wouldn’t hire an actor of Hahn’s caliber without giving her plenty of scenery to chew on, so she will certainly be a character to watch.

5. The Spell Appears to Break at Some Point

A short exchange between Wanda and Vision seems to the depict the couple as far more in control of the control and their faculties. Wanda, dressed in a contemporary outfit asserts, “This is our home” and Vision, seen in his traditional super hero garb and cape from the Avenger flicks promptly answers, “Then let’s fight for it.” Though the context of the conversation is unclear, the scene is reminiscent of more traditional entries and the characters’ shared determination implies that the heroes will eventually have the clarity to take on the force that is behind their current predicament.

4. First Appearance of Agent Woo

Although he didn’t appear in the initial trailer, Randall Park’s Agent Jimmy Woo is briefly shown in the second WandaVision trailer. Park previously played the role to hilarious effect in Ant-Man and the Wasp, as an FBI agent and Scott Lang’s parole officer. It is still unclear as to how Woo will function in WandaVision, but considering how much time has elapsed since his last appearance, it is possible that in the interim he has transitioned to a new department; perhaps previously-hinted S.W.O.R.D, a counterpart to S.H.I.E.L.D. which deals with larger and intergalactic threats.

3. Red Force Field (?)

A quick shot in the trailer shows an odd red mass which appears to surround the neighborhood where Wanda and Vision have found themselves. The power looks shares a similar signature with Wanda’s powers as shown in the MCU so it’s possible that it is of her creation. The imagery is also associated with the now-destroyed Reality Stone – particularly in its Aether form seen most prominently in Thor: The Dark World – despite Thanos having discarded it after completing his mission in Avengers: Infinity War. Considering numerous implications that things in the series are not what they seem, the color choice is certainly appropriate.

2. Darcy’s Back

Speaking of the oft-maligned Thor sequel, Darcy hasn’t been seen in the MCU since that film was released in 2013. Darcey (played Kat Dennings) gives a quick look of surprise or horror near the conclusion of the trailer, an appropriate reaction especially if a force akin to the reality-bending Aether is involved. Darcey’s role in WandaVision and the wider universe has not been revealed, however her background in dealing with powerful beings and her exposure to Jane Foster’s scientific research may well be an asset in figuring out just what exactly is going on.

1. The Mind Stone Returns

If fans thought they had seen the last of the Infinity Stones, the closing shots of the new WandaVision trailer prove just how wrong they were. One of the trailer’s most enticing sequences shows footage of Wanda staring wonderingly at the yellow gem as it seemingly reforms itself from mere particles. It is unclear as to whether or not it is being rebuilt on its own or by her own doing, but either way, its continued existence would be a game-changing revelation in the context of the MCU.

The stone was thought to have been atomized by Thanos after his Snap (along with the other Infinity Gems), but it is important to remember Wanda’s special connection to the Mind Stone. Both she and her brother were powered by the stone after HYDRA’s experimentation which preceded the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron. Her eventual partner Vision was, of course, kept alive by the Mind Stone’s power, and in Avengers: Infinity War, she is deemed the only one left powerful enough to destroy it. Is it possible that she is the only being in the Marvel Universe also capable of reassembling a powerful object? Given the precipice of uncertainty on which WandaVision is teetering, truly anything is possible.

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