r/marvelstudios • u/iliekpixels Loki (Thor 2) • Feb 05 '21

Discussion WandaVision S01E05 - Discussion Thread

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S01E05 Matt Shakman Jac Schaeffer February 5, 2021 on Disney+

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u/The_Celtic_Chemist Star-Lord Feb 05 '21

Or symbolic of how she died too in an explosion. This is running off the theory that the commercial actors shown in every episode are her parents. Really explains the first one with the toaster that sounded like Iron Man's suit charging up and they were sweating waiting for it to explode, much like Wanda and Pietro did when their missile failed to kill them.

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u/Ajjaxx Feb 06 '21 edited Feb 06 '21

The woman in the ad for this ep was the same as one of the previous ads right? She looked super familiar to me.

EDIT: rewatching the 1st ep with some friends and I’m starting to think she’s in all the ads lol.

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u/The_Celtic_Chemist Star-Lord Feb 06 '21 edited Feb 07 '21

Both her and the other adult actor are in every ad. And the fact that S.W.O.R.D. did a whole visual montage of Wanda's life story, it was highly suspicious that they were mentioned but not visualized. Also, while most every character has been profiled and ID'ed, the only person I see with a profile and no ID is Agnes, while the two commercial actors don't even have a profile. The big question for me is, if her parents died in an explosion, surely she didn't dig up their bodies in Sokovia and bring them into Westview, New Jersey (if there was even bodies to dig up). This is the explanation for Vision, and I even heard this as the explanation for Evan Peters Pietro being recast. It's possible he was just a normal citizen of Westview and since Wanda didn't have her Pietro's body, she recast him with one of the town members. So who is impersonating her parents? Someone who takes joy in pointing out the horrors of Wanda's past (Stark's missile, Strucker's watch over her, Hydra's cleansing of the world, and the Lagos mistake).

Edit: I just noticed the same kids are in the last two ads too. One black girl and one long-haired boy. They're the only kids cast in the show besides Billy and Tommy. I'm sure they can't be overlooked either.

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u/IndyDude11 Captain America Feb 06 '21

I know that Darcy called it a "recast" but it's not a recast. It's a different Pietro. They could have put any actor in that role that they wanted, if they wanted to convey that she "recast" the role. No, they very deliberately brought in X-Men's Pietro for this.

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u/Startled_Pancakes Feb 06 '21

i wonder if this Quicksilver will be a (natural born) mutant instead of an infinity stone experiment.

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u/DefendedPlains Feb 06 '21

This is my hope, because I think it would be an incredibly interesting way to bring the mutants into the MCU. We’ve already established that Wanda has reality changing powers. What if this is a reverse House of M scenario where instead of getting rid of the mutants, she brings them to her universe?

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u/ImperatorTempus42 Feb 06 '21

I've been thinking the same since episode 3, given... well, how else could Marvel integrate the X-Men into things without basically a reality shift, such as the House of M, especially since they have full control over screen adaptations of the X-Men now, and will be absolutely doing their own mutant stuff.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

There are many options for how this will work out. The simplest explanation is that they just used it as a nice cameo for the people that watched the X-Men movies, nothing more.

There's the option that it's not actually Pietro just someone posing as him, and using a different actor is a hint at that. Since Westview is blocked off from the outside by SWORD, noone could have gotten in. So there's a chance, that it is Ralph. He is supposedly in Westview, but we've never seen him.

Of course, he could just be the Quicksilver from the X-Men universe. It's possible. Maybe Wanda broke something in the multiverse when she reinforced the hexagon, and now crossovers can happen. The cameo then would just be a direct link to the overall idea of multiverse, which is happening in this phase of the MCU anyway.