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Uncle Jesse broke the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or at least a loving pastiche of the Voltal heartbreaker did what many fans expected Professor X and Magneto to accomplish.
A few days before WandaVisionThe fifth episode that aired started the Disney marketing apparatus in too high a direction. Elizabeth Olsen, head of the series, has promised fans a turn on the level of Luke Skywalker who appeared in season 2 of The Mandalorian. From there, publications began to spread a clip by Olsen discuss the comic strip of 2005 House of M– a mini-series with eight editions that contains the X-Men a lot. It felt like a calculated blitzkrieg for the first viewers was meant for the type of big splash that eluded WandaVision in its first four episodes.
For weeks, WandaVision loving (and accurate) deceptive sitcoms from the 1950s, ’60s and’ 70s, but when it came time to dig out a sitcom from the 1980s-90s like Voltal, no character in the Marvel show played an uncle Jesse type. That’s until a knock comes 30 minutes to Wanda’s door in this week’s episode. “Wanda, who is this?” Vision asks as a dazed Wanda stares at a white Evan Peters and puts on a leather jacket for the era. “She recreated Pietro?” asks the surrogate of the program, Darcy, surprised.
Depending on your degree of fandom and patience, you are confused by this twist or foaming at the mouth. Wanda’s brother, Pietro Maximoff, also known as Quicksilver, was last seen dying in 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron, returned from the dead. But instead of Aaron Taylor-Johnson repeating the role, he was replaced by Peters. And to even register why that no matter, you should be aware that Peters as Pietro is in three X mans films released by 20th Century Fox before Disney acquired it. The X-Men moment for the MCU came far above the schedule as WandaVison’s last-minute turn money.
“It’s going to take a while,” said Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios. io9 in 2019 about any of the mutants appearing in the MCU. ‘It all just started, and we worked on the five-year plan we were working on before one of them was adopted. So for us, it’s a lot more about the details of when and where now, and more just the convenience factor “of the X-Men being” home “again under Marvel. ‘But it will take a very long time.’
According to Jac Schaeffer, WandaVision lead author, Feige was convincingly needed to apply the surprise. ‘We loved the idea of [bringing Pietro back]. And then we were like, how in the world are we going to make this logical? Like, how do we justify it? Schaeffer said in an interview with Marvel. ‘I think Kevin [Feige] wanted to make sure there was a reason for it, that it made sense. ‘
The debut of Peters’ Quicksilver at the end of WandaVision can possibly increase the timeline. Earlier this year, Feige shared it with Ryan Reynolds Dead pool franchise will also enter the MCU with its R rating intact. So far, the X-Men’s future looks like its past. If you were a popular mutant in Fox’s universe, chances are you could appear in the MCU at any time.
To fully appreciate mutants who inhabit the same world as Thor and Spider-Man, you not only need to know the Marvel history of 23 movies, but you also need to know the 13 X mans films that started in 2000. If rumors are true that the third Tom Holland Spider man Peter Parkers, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
More than a decade of fandom, world-building and consolidation has created a content maze. It will take a new fan months – maybe even years – to navigate. The MCU machine has spent most of its existence turning big-budget films into television, and now with the release of its first Disney + program, the house that Feige built is trying to turn the film spectacle into the boundaries of TV. With the possible arrival of the X-Men to the MCU, it’s hard to know if the interconnected nature of the 20-plus movie tree is its greatest strength or if a riparian wall is going to break.
As much as WandaVision is a loving ode to the sitcoms of old, it’s also a show about other shows, a collection of fandom-fueled possibilities disguised as plot progression. In many ways, this is the promise of the MCU since Nick Fury wanted to talk to Tony Stark about ‘the Avenger initiative’ after the credits were fitted on the 2008 series. Ysterman. With each successive Marvel movie, the codas and Easter eggs have created a cottage industry of content and fandom. Predicting what would come next was more important than just watching. It was a new approach for an underdog movie studio that sells a vision of a future franchise that no one has seen before. But within the confines of a weekly TV show, the constant nod and wink to the plot thread that will be developed in another MCU movie or show feels like commercials.
Every week on WandaVision a new character exposure or plot now has implications for franchise building. Does Peters’ Pietro look an X-Men franchise? Are the twins of Wanda and Vision destined to be Young Avengers? Can shout for a “Fun X-Files”—What does it mean – Jimmy Woo becomes something? It does not matter that Episode 5 of WandaVision was one of the best in the season as it finally tested how far Wanda would go to protect her simulated life. The emotional climax between the confused Olsen and the furious Paul Bettany was about to open when the door opened.
Comics are now fully entrenched in the era of the multiverse – a framework created out of necessity to manage the different stories told by a variety of diverse writers and artists. It’s a concept that ensures that everything matters (eg a beloved Pietro Maximoff in Evan Peters that exists in two different franchises) and that it makes sense if you just sneak hard enough.
The multiverse was popular in the 1961s The flash no. 123, which revealed that the modern Barry Allen Flash and World War II originator Jay Garrick Flash lived in two separate worlds. By the 1980s, Marvel said its comic book world was one earth among many, specifically Earth-616, in a series of Captain Britain comics by David Thorpe.
‘The wonderful and wonderful thing about Marvel Comics is the fact that over the generations it’s actually written like one big, big novel by many different people – probably hundreds and hundreds of different writers and many more artists. And they all need to be internally consistent. And if that’s not the case, you tend to have someone sign up somewhere and point it out, ‘Thorpe explained last year. ‘This idea of consistency can be a bit limiting. As Marvel has grown, and it has poured billions and billions of pages of ink, it’s likely that things happen that were not originally intended. ”
It’s only natural that comics would use this idea and use it to juggle the various actors, characters and franchises built for the screen and streaming services. 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduced audiences to a Black and Puerto Rican Spider-Man, a talking pig Spider-Man and a noir Spider-Man, all of whom existed in different universes. Last year, DC revealed that it was launching a multiverse to recognize the reality that several Batmen and Jokers will soon be running simultaneously. The next Doctor Strange movie has a subtle title Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness after the concept was teased by the Ancient One in 2016’s entry. The multiverse of madness Elizabeth Olsen plays her role as Wanda Maximoff.
But one of the main reasons why the physical comic book market is still faltering while comics are flourishing is because of what the multiversity has inevitably wrought. If you go to a comic book store in the United States and ask to pick up a comic strip from Vision and Scarlet Witch, you will inevitably get a hundred different answers. Want a story from the 616 universe, the Ultimate universe, a miniseries from the 1980s, or something more recent? Depending on who takes over again, Wanda may be a mutant, the daughter of Magneto, or none of the above. Vision can be alive, dead, a teenage Iron Man, or father to a bunch of robot kids he built.
For better or worse, the MCU looks more like its source material. Whether the films can succeed where the comics still fail is the biggest challenge. Running the Marvel Cinematic Universe is one thing. The shepherding work of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse will be something completely different.