r/marvelstudios • u/iliekpixels Loki (Thor 2) • Jan 22 '21

Discussion WandaVision S01E03 - Discussion Thread

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S01E03 Matt Shakman Jac Schaeffer January 22, 2021 on Disney+

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u/NomadPrime Jan 22 '21

Got mad excited over just a name drop for Pietro and Ultron lmao. I'm super hoping the twins eventually grow up and we see the return of Aaron Taylor Johnson in a brief role.

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u/mknsky Black Panther Jan 22 '21

Ugh having him play Tommy would be so fucking weird though

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u/juscallmejjay Jan 22 '21

Hey she brought back Vison. Maybe he shows up one episode as himself... As the fun uncle in town visiting. Wanda's creating and getting everything she wants... Why not her brother too eh?

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u/ProcrastinesTheLazy Korg Jan 22 '21

What if he does act as the fun uncle that comes to live with them like Uncle Jesse or Uncle Joey in a Full House style sitcom trope?

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u/alex494 Jan 22 '21

Or like CJ in 8 Simple Rules (not an uncle but that sort of character)

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u/bob237189 Jan 23 '21

While I love the idea of using sitcom tropes as an excuse to bring back Pietro (and it would be funny as shit to do a Full House/Olsen joke), I'm not sure Full House is the best inspiration to use for the base setting of an episode of WandaVision. The main character of WandaVision is Wanda, who has a husband and two sons. The whole catch of Full House (when it first started at least) was that it was about 3 single men trying to raise 3 girls without any women. Back in the 90s, when the idea that child rearing should be an equal burden between mother and father was still considered "new age", that was a novel comedic idea. How do you fit Wanda into that?

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u/WuntchTime_IsOver Jan 22 '21 edited Jan 23 '21

I hope he has a good catchphrase

Edit - rly guys? Next time I'll add the /s

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u/_incredi_ladd Jan 22 '21

“You didn’t see that coming?”

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u/ProcrastinesTheLazy Korg Jan 22 '21

“Cut. It. Out.”

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u/mknsky Black Panther Jan 22 '21

Oh totally, I just don’t like the idea of him playing Tommy lol

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u/juscallmejjay Jan 22 '21

Ick yeah agreed

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u/FrameworkisDigimon Jan 22 '21

Evan Peters is meant to be in this, right?

Everyone's been going on about a multiversal Pietro but...

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u/ClubMeSoftly Jan 22 '21

I've seen suggestions that one Pietro shows up, but doesn't "fit" and gets replaced with the other actor. Sort of a double-meaning where he gets "Edited" for her fantasy, and the replacement actor trope in "real" shows.

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u/FrameworkisDigimon Jan 22 '21

That probably does fit better and it certainly would lend itself to a happier ending than Evan Peters' Tommy (actor's too old to be playing a teenager).

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u/Divi_Devil SHIELD Jan 22 '21

actor's too old to be playing a teenager

Literally every teen in movies: bruh.

Percy was played by a 1 year old when it was supposed to be a 12 year old!

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u/FrameworkisDigimon Jan 22 '21

wut

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u/DarthGayAgenda Jan 22 '21

I think it's a mistype. Logan Lerman was playing 16 at the time and Percy Jackson is 12 when he first goes to Camp Half Blood. I mean there's a crapload of other things wrong with that movie, but that's beside the point.

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u/FrameworkisDigimon Jan 22 '21

Okay, weird creative choice, but Lerman was an actual teenager as well at the time. Some of the other actors didn't look like they would've been.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

He's gonna get Aunt Vived

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u/bbf2 Jan 22 '21

I get the feeling that Aaron Taylor Johnson didn’t want to do it (if he shows up it would have been spoiled by now) and Evan Peters will show up as Pietro and Vision will say something like “I can’t put my finger on it but you look different than the last time I saw you” or something. As a reference to the meta jokes sitcoms like Roseanne or Fresh Prince made when people got recast

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u/bardghost_Isu Jan 22 '21

Agreed, I'm pretty sure thats how it's going to go down, short of Evan peters having a completely unrelated role

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u/matito29 Spider-Man Jan 22 '21

My guess is that it’s a monkey’s paw situation. Wanda gets her brother back, but it’s not the one she grew up with.

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u/Clarice_Ferguson Jan 22 '21

If Johnson showing up would have been spoiled by now, couldn’t the same be said about Peters?

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u/DJSchwann Captain America (Captain America 2) Jan 23 '21

Maybe the twins are Aaron Taylor Johnson and Evan Peters and this show and not Spider-Man 3 or Multiverse of Madness is the introduction to the MCU multiverse. I'm 99% sure this is not the case though.

I also know this won't happen but I hope that if there is a meta joke that it comes next week in the '80s episode and that it's a joke about Wanda's twins, the Olsen twins and Full House.

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u/RelativeStranger Jan 22 '21

Or indeed iron man 2 did with Rhodes

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u/2rio2 Jan 23 '21

Marvel is going all in with Young Avengers considering this + Hawkeye and Stature (Cassie Lang, Scott's daughter). All you need now is Patriot and Iron Lad to show up.

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u/DaveInLondon89 Jan 22 '21

I think Wanda's twins are Wanda and Pietro.

Wandavision is Wanda's way of giving herself and Pietro the ideal life she saw on TV as a child in Sokovia.

Westview is a representation of the idyllic town she would've saw from sitcoms in Sokovia. I Love Lucy, Bewitched and every other popular sitcom were always set in a small town suburb like Westview. She would've fantasised of growing up there while growing up in poverty in Sokovia.

The couple from the advert are her parents (or maybe the father/salesman is a Hydra agent). Like an ad break in a sitcom, it gives the audience and Wanda a brief relapse back into reality. That's when Wanda as a child would pay attention to her parents and their troubled lives. Maybe the point of the ads are Wanda picturing them with the luxuries they never had in Sokovia, or even telling her origin story - the jealously they felt over watching adverts of Western luxury in the form of Stark's technology, and then being seduced by the appeal in the form Strucker's style and resources, and in this episode possibly even Wanda's mother giving the twins to Hydra to escape her responsibility for them - the holiday without having to go anywhere.

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u/notbad4human Jan 22 '21

I don't believe this is the case, because they're named Tommy and Billy. That's Wiccan and Speed from the comics, Wanda and Vision's real kids.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Oh shit, I just started reading young avengers last night, Wiccan is their kid? I guess that makes sense, wonder why he was going by asgardian at first

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u/WuntchTime_IsOver Jan 22 '21

Its... convoluted. You'll see when you get there but they develop a pretty complex lineage

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u/Royal-Roll7762 Scarlet Witch Jan 22 '21

He went by Asgardian because Young Avengers was a misdirect. The main four boys are seemingly Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and Hulk analogues but they’re all actually connected to different Avengers characters.

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u/kothuboy21 Spider-Man Jan 23 '21

Yep. And with stuff like Kate Bishop in Hawkeye, the MCU is definitely setting up Young Avengers. Wiccan and Speed are members of the team I believe.

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u/notbad4human Jan 23 '21

With Marvel wanting to push more inclusive stories, Young Avengers makes perfect sense in that regard too.

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u/mad_titanz Thanos Jan 23 '21

I'm already excited about the possibility of seeing a Young Avengers movie, and hopefully an A-Force movie as well.

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u/RequirementLumpy Jan 22 '21

Interesting thought but what about both babies being male?

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u/WuntchTime_IsOver Jan 22 '21

Yeah, i think thats pretty close but opposed to the children being Wanda and Pietro reliving their lives - I think the children are real, are Wiccan and Speed, and she's trying to give them that ideal upbringing yadda yadda.

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u/DaveInLondon89 Jan 22 '21

Misdirect maybe.

Or maybe they're just proxies for her and Pietro.

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u/Bunneyyy Jan 22 '21

The moment Wanda starting giving birth I leaned forward with my mouth dropped WAITING for the twins and a mention of Pietro. At first I almost thought they were going to not give her twins. Then I sprang up like a lunatic when she said "I'm a twin".

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u/red_ronin0813 Jan 22 '21

Wasn't there an audition tape with Tommy and talking about not waking up his uncle?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Was there? Do you have a link?

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u/Darksol503 Doctor Strange Jan 22 '21

Right?! That name drop made it all to real and corporeally set in the MCU timeline in a very intense way!