WandaVision's introduction of Scarlet Witch's twins, Tommy and Billy, has begun to set the scene for the show's traumatic conclusion. If there's one thing the Disney+ MCU series has been incredibly good at, it's balancing the cheerful comedic sitcom tones of shows it references continually with the deeply unsettling implications that something is very wrong, and that Westview hides a more sinister purpose.
Nowhere is this clearer than in WandaVision episode 3, which sees Wanda birth twins that she'd seemingly become pregnant with the day prior, all the while repeatedly ignoring and potentially silencing anyone who mentions how this should be impossible. It's hard to begrudge her happiness at birthing healthy twin boys given all that has happened to her in the course of the MCU, but her attachment to two precious infants who appear intrinsically linked to the chaos and questionable reality that WandaVision takes places in naturally raises a lot of concerning questions - most crucially, how will Wanda cope if they turn out to not be real?
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It's readily apparent that Westview is either something that has been made to contain Scarlet Witch and others, or was made by Wanda so that she could retreat from reality into a comforting world. As such, elements of the world that don't make sense - like as Vision appearing alive and unharmed when he was brutally murdered in Avengers: Infinity War and confirmed to still be gone at the closing of Avengers: Endgame - are likely also fake creations made to appease Wanda, either of her own design or crafted by whoever seeks to control her. Given Wanda's new twins Tommy and Billy have similarly unexplainable origins due to their incredibly short gestational period, it stands to reason they are also ultimately not real. This means that they are likely to suffer the same fate as the comic version of Tommy and Billy, as they would ultimately cease to exist due to the fact they'd been made via magic. With WandaVision possibly being the result of Wanda's grieving over Vision's death, her reaction to discovering not only is he still dead, but also that her children are now gone could well be the final nail in the coffin for her precarious mental state.
This total meltdown could be what ties her to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, as if Wanda begins to massively warp reality due to her grief, Stephen Strange is one of the few individuals who would be able to navigate these distortions in order to find and help her. Interestingly, this would draw significant parallels between Doctor Strange 2 and how the House of M storyline, as this also sees Strange recruited to attempt to combat Wanda's chaos magic. Given that the MCU establishes him as the Earth's protector from magical and mystical threats, that would certainly fit.
WandaVision doesn't have to spell a permanently sad fate for the infant twins, however, as the MCU could bring them back much the same way the comics did - by having their souls (or some essence of them) reincarnated after they ceased to exist, which would produce the Young Avengers members Speed and Wiccan. As Phase 4 seems largely focused on the future of the MCU and the next generation of heroes, it seems more likely than not that these two will appear at some point in the future - so even if WandaVision has an entirely brutal ending that sees the pair killed off, they could still have a happy reunion with Wanda sometime in the future.
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January 24, 2021 at 04:57AM
