WandaVision episode 1 and episode 2 Easter Eggs and Marvel references

She’s a magic star in a small town, he’s a sharing machine and they share a love like you’ve never seen before. This is the nice intro to WandaVision, but what Easter eggs and Marvel references can be seen in the first two episodes now airing on Disney Plus?

WandaVision episode 1 and episode 2 are now available, with new episodes of the nine-part Disney Plus program to follow every Friday, begins with delivery 3 on January 22nd. We will summarize each episode as it arrives, shaking off the low tension over how Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and her robotbeau Vision (Paul Bettany) arrived in this surrealistic suburban sitcom. ..

Here are the Easter eggs we’ve seen so far, and we’ll add more as we see it. But be warned: Spoil for both episodes!

The door number

In their picturesque suburban street, Wanda and Vision live at number 2800. In an award-winning 2015 comic book series by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Vision moved into a suburban street, but although the highly recommended comic strip was very different, it’s nice to note Viz lives on no. 616. It was a reference to Earth-616, the version of reality in which most Marvel comics take place.

Other parallel dimensions – as seen in the different worlds Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse – have their own numbers. The meaning of 2800 is therefore unclear, but with WandaVision it is reported that it is linked in the upcoming film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness it can have a kind of multiverse meaning.

The ads

WandaVision’s pastiche of ’50s and’ 60s sitcoms like Bewitched and I Love Lucy contains a laugh track, stylized set and farce situations. It also extends to the fake ads in the middle of each episode. In Episode 1, a Stark Industries toaster is sold to us – a soft ball of an Easter egg, as most viewers will see a reference to the company that Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) and his father, Howard Stark, driving for him.

However, the seemingly harmless Toast Mate 2000 takes a creepy turn when it ominously squeaks just before the bread pops up – a bit like a bomb. We know this from 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron that Wanda’s parents were killed by an explosive device, leaving her and her twin brother, Pietro, under rubble. The Maximoffs stared at an unexploded Stark Industries shell for two days, expecting it to explode before being rescued. So it would probably not go well with Wanda to have a squeaky Stark technology.

However, the commercial break takes a darker turn in episode 2. This second ad advertises a watch named Strucker and Hydra. Hydra is, of course, the sinister terrorist organization that threatens Marvel’s world, and Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is the evil scientist who developed Wanda’s powers and pitted her against the Avengers in Age of Ultron.

The ad’s headline “He will make time for you” implies a continuing role for Strucker despite his death at Ultron’s hands, and it could join the television themes of the show if he were to be seen on a TV screen again. become, like Arnim Zola, scientist from Hydra in Captain America: The winter soldier.

If these are references to Wanda’s origins, the ads may represent Wanda’s memories, though the toaster ad warns, “Forget your past, this is your future.” In which case, it could mean that the same woman and man appear in both ads. Could it be Wanda’s parents?

The supermarket sign

Speaking of commercials, watch out for the supermarket characters in the animated opening credits of episode 2. The store advertises Bova Milk, a reference to the super-developed cow who served as a midwife at Wanda’s birth (comics!). Another character mentions Aunty A’s Kitty Litter, which is surely a reference to another member of the supporting cast, the ancient witch Agatha Harkness and her feline name Ebony. What can make you wonder about Kathryn Hahn’s fantastic neighbor who happens to be named Agnes …

The songs

By singing the infectious rock ‘n’ roll song Yakety Yak from 1958, Vision takes on the role of both parent and child, giving and receiving commissions in a suburban world. (“Do not talk back.”) Interestingly, this view of suburban teenage life is in its own way a construction: Yakety Yak was written, produced and arranged by Jewish songwriters Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller for Black performers The Coasters as a parody. of the white middle-class society.

It is a reach, but there is still a possible meaning. In the 1988 comedy Twins, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a naive outsider who arrives in America and sings the song. Wanda had twins, her brother Pietro (also known as Quicksilver) who was shot dead in the MCU by Vision’s creator in Avengers: Age of Ultron. She also miraculously gave birth to twins in the comics in the 1980s.

And the meaning of Old McDonald? With his moo moos and baa baas boss, Vision once again plays the role of characters enclosed against their will. Or it’s just funny.

With the second episode, the song we hear at an important moment is a hit Help Me, Rhonda from 1965 by the Beach Boys. Along with hairstyle and costume changes, it’s one of the subtle signs that progressed the program from the 1950s in episode 1 to a pastiche from the 60s in episode 2. And Rhonda is, of course, easily heard for Wanda. But why does someone ask, “Who’s doing this to you, Wanda?”

Oh, and does the line “Get her out of my heart” join the presence of the Heart in episode 1?

Big red

The glue that glues Vision’s works is Big Red, which was also the working title of the show when it was filmed in Atlanta in 2019. Whether it’s just a stupid code name or something more important, is something you need to chew on.

Speaking of the magic that is disrupted by Vision’s gums, the couple adopts the names ‘Glamor and Illusion’. In the comics, Vision and Scarlet Witch befriended a married sorcerer named Glamor and Illusion, who also secretly used superpowers to perform their tricks.

The wine

When Wanda magically holds dinner, the wine she pours is a fine drop of Maison du Mépris. It means a house of contempt or contempt, but more importantly, back to the core story of the House of M comics in which a traumatized Wanda transformed the whole of reality into a new world ruled by her family.

The angel of death

Cut and you might miss the moment Vision phases through the floor in the opening credits of episode 2. Beneath the pipes and cobwebs are some legs and a dark shape that looks suspiciously like the helmet worn by Marvel villain Grim Reaper. In the comics, he is the brother of Wonder Man, whose brain waves were used in the creation of Vision. In the 2015 series where Vision leads a suburban life, Grim Reaper showed up at his house and reached a tough end.

The beekeeper

At the climax of episode 2, Wanda and Vision scare a manhole cover sliding backwards and a shady beekeeper climbing out. Comics fans may see a resemblance to the helmet uniforms worn by villains of the evil Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM), a cabal of rogue scientists and a forerunner of Hydra. On screen, AIM was the biggest threat in Iron Man 3. Or maybe it’s not so literal – could the beekeeper be another reference to the envelope and observation in a built space?

The sword

Whatever happens to Wanda and the Vision, the people who observe use a logo depicting a sword in a circle. There’s an organization called SWORD in the comics that complements SHIELD’s earthbound activities by addressing extraterrestrial threats. Given the presence of Geraldine, reportedly becoming an adult version of the young Monica Rambeau seen as strangers in Captain Marvel, WandaVision could make a turn for the extraterrestrial. Or as Vision puts it: “My wife and her flying saucers!”

However, it is unclear why the helicopter was painted red and yellow in episode 2 of Iron Man’s signature.

The bump

At the end of episode 2, Wanda is suddenly and noticeably pregnant. It reflects a storyline in The Vision and the Scarlet Witch, a series of 80s comics in which she gives birth to twins in a wonderful way. The children are unfortunately revealed as fragments of the demon Mephisto (comics!). Upset about the loss of her children, Wanda later revisited the reality in the 2005 story of the House of M series.

The MCU has so far not seen many supernatural things. Thor is an alien rather than a god, while Wanda is a super-powered mutant, not technically a witch. But it is possible that Mephisto may be involved in the strangeness that Wanda and Viz include. The neighborhood queen-by Dottie is Emma Caulfield, who previously played a demon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And what about Agnes and her unseen husband? The devil is in the details, but this is not the only place he is …