Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 by Ben Pearson
Yesterday we wrote about how a detail from Marvel’s upcoming series appears The falcon and the winter soldier was apparently confirmed by a T-shirt. And today it seems that a new piece of WandaVision merchandise can give an indication of the future of one of the characters of the program.
Warning: potential spoil ahead.
On the pages of Marvel Comics, the character of Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) gained superpowers and over the years has performed under a number of different superhero identities: she was long known as Captain Marvel, and other names include Pulsar, Spectrum and Photon (the latter was her mother’s military call sign, Captain Marvel character Maria Rambeau). Fans have long suspected that Monica would also get superpowers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and in last week’s episode of WandaVision, we saw Monica’s X-rays come back empty after being tested after her ejection of Wanda’s ‘hex’. The program quickly moved on to the next scene, but fans captured the mysterious series as possible evidence that Monica had expelled forces in Westview or through the hexagonal off-field.
Well, a new WandaVision sweater for sale in the Disney store can give an indication of which person she can adopt. The jersey has a SWORD logo on it, but it is the black and white color scheme that caught the attention of some fans. ScreenRant suggests that the black-and-white design may indicate Monica’s superhero identity of Spectrum, whose costume was also black and white. That sweater image looks a lot like what Monica is wearing this WandaVision character poster; now that it’s also a piece of merchandise, it feels less like a possible Marvel appearance to the fans and more like a real costume that will actually appear in the show.
In the comics, Spectrum is able to phase through solid matter and certain energy fields, depending on their wavelength – a power series that is precedent in the MCU. The character of Ghost, as seen in Ant-Man in the Wasp, was imbued with the same kind of abilities, and she eventually learned to use and arm that power. It will therefore not be beyond the possibility of seeing that the skill realizes for Monica.
Elsewhere in the comics, Spectrum ‘came to the realization that she had risen to humanity with her power, become an immortal being of light’, and later sacrificed her powers to help save Vision, whose body was not functioning. It happened during a fight with Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night, a character I would be not appears on WandaVision. But I was fascinated by this excerpt from Spectrum’s wiki page:
The end of this adventure brought the heroes to the entrance of the House of Ideas, a level of existence and the core of all reality. Monica burns most of her power to reach Vision within the House of Ideas, becoming the only hero Nyx can follow inside and stop her. As a result of this effort, Monica returned to her previous strength levels and became human again.
This seems to be questionable WandaVision will launch a version of the House of Ideas in this show (which may bite a little more than one show can chew), but if the studio wants to give Monica powers as a nod to the comics, but is not interested in it to not be her as a new superhero on the board for the long term, I can imagine a scenario in which she briefly gains powers and then has to sacrifice to save Wanda, Vision or both from everything that really happens within Westview. This could leave her at the end of the series as a normal person, and probably enter a higher leadership role at SWORD
It’s just a theory right now, but we’ll see if any of this plays out as new episodes of WandaVision is released every Friday on Disney +.
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