Every MCU Theory WandaVision Debunked

Spider-Man: Far From Home arrived to close the Infinity Saga and make way for the highly-anticipated Phase 4, which will not only cover the movie side of the MCU but also TV/streaming, as Marvel has a lot of TV projects coming up.

Kickstarting this new era in the MCU is WandaVision, a TV show focused on Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany). Set after Avengers: Endgame, the series follows Wanda and Vision as they live a seemingly perfect family life in the town of Westview, but it’s soon revealed that things in town are not what they seem. After a lot of mystery and speculation, WandaVision revealed that Wanda was not the only being with superpowers in Westview, as her “nosy neighbor” Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) is actually Agatha Harkness, a powerful witch who wanted to take Wanda’s powers, as she is the Scarlet Witch, a mythical and very powerful figure among magic s.

Thanks to WandaVision’s format of dropping one episode per week (with the first two released on the same day), fans had time to come up with a variety of theories about what was truly happening with Wanda, the town, Vision, and more, as the show took its time to address each mystery. Although the season finale solved most of the main mysteries and answered most questions about everything that happened in the series, it also debunked a bunch of fan theories, which inevitably disappointed many viewers. While these theories are now invalid, that doesn’t mean that all of the characters assumed to appear at some point in the series can’t show up in the MCU’s near future, though not in the same way and context as initially expected. Here’s every theory WandaVision debunked.

The People In The Commercials Are Wanda’s Parents

A minor but popular theory among WandaVision viewers was about the identity of the people in the commercials. The first episodes (except the fourth, which was a “prequel” episode) in WandaVision were made in the style of different sitcoms from different decades, covering from the 1950s to the 2000s, and as such, every episode had a Wanda and Pietro’s parents, and she was projecting them as actors in commercials.

This was debunked in episode 8 “Previously On”, where Agatha forced Wanda to relive key moments of her life, and through them, she took viewers a few years back, to the night where Wanda and Pietro’s parents died. Through that flashback, viewers learned that the commercial man and woman were not Wanda’s parents, and were just two actors with no real connection to Wanda nor Westview.

Magneto or Doctor Strange Break Wanda Out Of Her Fantasy

Scarlet Witch Chaos Magic in WandaVision and Doctor Strange

With Disney and Fox now being one, fans have been waiting for the WandaVision could see the surprising appearance of Magneto, who they hoped would arrive towards the end or in the season finale to help Wanda and break the Hex, and through him, the MCU would have officially introduced mutants.

The other potential savior that fans were eager to see was Doctor Strange, and he was an understandable choice given that WandaVision will directly tie into Doctor Strange was the best (and kind of obvious) choice to save her from the fake reality she created, which could have easily turned dangerous and more chaotic. In the end, WandaVision had no time to deal with mutants and other superheroes like Doctor Strange, and it left it to Wanda to come to with her grief, what she created, and take full responsibility for all the chaos she brought.

Magneto Is Controlling Wanda

Marvel fans are anxiously waiting for the X-Men to the MCU, and in another attempt to make it happen and explain Wanda’s actions in the process, they came up with a theory about how Evan Peters’ Quicksilver was WandaVision’s Pietro instead of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, but ultimately, Magneto had nothing to do with Wanda and Westview, and Monica’s case was one-of-a-kind.

Dottie Is Emma Frost & Controls Westview

In another effort to explain who was controlling Westview and bring the X-Men to the MCU, fans theorized that the once mysterious Avengers: Age of Ultron when Wanda displayed some of her abilities. This led them to believe Emma Frost, who is a powerful telepath, could be the one controlling Westview or using Wanda as a conduit. Why Dottie specifically was believed to be her was due to her role in the first two episodes of WandaVision, where she played the neighbor that pretty much ruled the street and was absent from later episodes. In the end, Dottie was revealed to be just another resident of Westview who was pulled into Wanda’s fake reality without her consent and was made into the antagonist of one of Wanda’s scenarios – and Emma Frost, just like Magneto and other X-Men, was never part of the series.

Monica Rambeau’s Engineer Is Reed Richards

reed richards aerospace engineer monica wandavision

With Marvel working on a new Mr. Fantastic himself, Reed Richards. The reason for him to be at the center of those theories is that he’s a genius scientist who has made advancements in space and interdimensional travel, so infiltrating Wanda’s fake reality seemed like a challenge a man like him would be interested in.

Ultimately, WandaVision wasn’t the introduction of the Fantastic Four to the MCU, and Monica’s engineer was Major Goodner, who has zero connection to Marvel Comics, which allows her to have a more prominent role in the MCU if this universe allows it, while also leaving it to other projects to make way for the arrival of the Fantastic Four.

Evan Peters’ Quicksilver Comes From The Multiverse

Wanda and Quicksilver in WandaVision Episode 6

One of the biggest surprises WandaVision brought was the return of Wanda’s twin brother Pietro a.k.a. Quicksilver, who died during the Battle of Sokovia in Avengers: Age of Ultron. However, this Pietro wasn’t the one viewers met in the second Avengers movie and was instead Evan Peter’s version from the X-Men prequels. This made viewers believe it was Pietro from the multiverse, which would have easily explain his recast and the differences between his powers and those of Taylor-Johnson’s version, while also making way for the “multiverse madness” that will come in Doctor Strange 2. In the end, Pietro (or more like Fietro), was actually a Westview resident named Ralph Bohner (yes, Marvel made that joke) who was under Agatha’s control all the time thanks to an enchanted necklace and was the mysterious husband Ralph she kept joking about.

Westview’s Location Is All About The Nexus of All Realities

As many small things in WandaVision turned out to have big implications in the story, it was only natural that viewers began to question every single detail that felt slightly off. One of those was episode 7’s Nexus commercial. In the comics, “Nexus” is a term used for two important elements: the Nexus of All Realities and the Nexus Beings. The former is an area where the fabric of spacetime is very thin, so anyone can find their way into any existing reality through it, while the Nexus Beings are rare individuals with the ability to affect probability and the future, and among those is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s villain, Kang the Conqueror.

Although the existence of the Nexus of All Realities shouldn’t be ruled out, Westview isn’t it, and Wanda arrived there as Vision bought the lot where she built their family home, and not because it was the spot where she could access other dimensions and realities through which she could bring another Vision to life.

White Vision Is Ultron

A lot was said about White Vision, bringing out the Ultron-side of his consciousness. In the end, White Vision was not Ultron and was simply a weapon created by S.W.O.R.D. under Tyler Hayward’s (Josh Stamberg) orders so he would destroy Wanda’s Vision, be rescued by Hayward, and he could frame Wanda.

Mephisto Is The Real Villain

WandaVision every Mephisto reference explained

The biggest WandaVision theory, and thus the one that once debunked brought a lot of disappointment, was that of Loki trailer already hinted at his presence in this connected universe.

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