Warning: This message contains major spoilers for the seventh installment of WandaVision.
Once upon a time, Marvel fans would have flocked to multiplexes to attend sold-out screenings of the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster. In COVID times in the quarantine era, they only swarmed Disney + when the latest episode of WandaVision falls and shuts off the power service. This is what happened overnight when the seventh episode, ‘Breaking the Fourth Wall’, premiered on the West Coast at midnight. Moments later, Downdetector, the disruption website, reported thousands of cases of disrupted Disney + service in the Pacific time zone. Can we assume that this is an actual episode of Agatha All the time?
But let’s keep the climate – and widespread – Big Bad off the air for a moment, as ‘Breaking the Fourth Wall’ also introduces a new Big Time Hero that takes us directly into the events of Captain Marvel 2. Carol Danvers threatened most of the season in the background, while Monica Rambeau (Tayonah Parris) wrestled with the legacy of her surrogate. In the nineties, the young Monica saw Aunt Carol create the mantle of Captain Marvel and then fly into deep space for future adventures while she and her mother, Maria (Lashana Lynch), remain grounded. But the present-day Monica seems less in love with her child hero, perhaps due to her absence after Maria was diagnosed with cancer. When Captain Marvel’s name appears this season, she’s clearly startled and changes the subject faster than Peter Maximoff can talk himself into a corner.
Carol returned to earth for the events of Avengers: Endgame – which took place three years after Mary’s death – which put her in a good position as Luke Skywalker level WandaVision cameo to which Elizabeth Olsen referred. And she does appear in ‘Fourth Wall’ at an important moment. When Monica’s first attempt to penetrate the Hex barrier in a SWORD vehicle fails, she decides to break through on her own to the other side. In the red static wall that surrounds Westview, she hears the voices of her mother, her aunt and even Nick Fury echoing in her ears via sound directions coming directly from Captain Marvel. “Your mother is happy: when they handed out children, they gave her the hardest one,” Danvers says as Maria makes one last push through the Hex, her eyes glowing just like Aunt Carol.
In continuity of Marvel Comics, Monica Carol Danvers preceded as Captain Marvel and took up the mantle after the first version, Mar-Vell, was killed in a groundbreaking 1982 graphic novel. During her tenure, she joined and eventually led the Avengers, later handing over the Captain Marvel monk to Mar-Vell’s son and adopting the name Photon instead. WandaVision’s In the fourth episode, it was determined that “Photon” was Maria’s nickname at SWORD, and the sixth episode pointed out that the reign of the Hex twice changed Monica on a cellular level … as in superpowers. This means ‘Fourth Wall’ functions as Photon’s origin story within the MCU and as the prelude to Captain Marvel 2, which will be directed by Nia DaCosta later this year and will hit theaters on November 11, 2022. Is it any wonder fans are anticipating a true Brie Larson cameo? WandaVision wrap around?
Really like how #WandaVision serves cleverly as an origin story for 👀 certain characters 👀 so that the movies (in this case, Captain Marvel 2) can dive right. Hope the other series continues with this approach
– ANDREW (@andrewnavs) 19 February 2021
Watch Wandavision since I’m up, and not going to spoil it. But … the big cameo they mentioned is not the ones throwing everyone there IMO. Must be someone who will not be on the shelf for years. I’m going with Carol Danvers.
– Rob Bonnette @ (@ rbonne1) 19 February 2021
If Aunt Carol does show up, it will probably be too late to help Wanda and Monica in their fight against Agatha Harkness, Kathryn Hahn, a magical, and certainly angry, neighbor. Fans already suspect from the very first episode that “Agnes” is Agatha: a powerful spell that has a long history with Wanda in the comics. And ‘Fourth Wall’ finally offered confirmation, revealing that everything that had happened up to this point – from Pietro’s resurrection to Sparky’s death – was her fault. It’s an intrigue that viewers enjoy, even if they were not the least bit surprised.
After the stone hanger, West Coast viewers could steel themselves better for more service interruptions when WandaVision‘s penultimate episode falls next week. Expect it to start with Photon’s very first supervillain fight: a bonus scene of middle credits shows her confronting the Agatha-controlled version of Pietro as she tries to reach Wanda.
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–ohhhh no monica and pietro can fight next episode …
– L 🌙 | NEGE-NEGE !!! (@mvnflwr) 19 February 2021
okay ily pietro but here’s the plan
monica kicks pietro’s ass> pietro is out of agatha’s control> monica and pietro team up> besties team up and fight with wanda– lydia (@lushanyatj) 19 February 2021
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