Wandavision has come and gone. The limited Marvel series staring the MCU’s Sunny and Cher, Wanda “Scarlet Witch” Maximoff and Vision living in their literal dream home full of zany hijinks reminiscent of famous sitcoms like Bewitched, Leave it Beaver, with a little dash of Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Every Friday, Wandavision had us glued to our TVs and computer screens to see exactly WTF was up with our favorite mutant witch and robot was going through as well as drumming up buzz are fan conspiracy theories, like your Q-anon uncle that thinks Hillary Clinton is stealing his mail under a secret pizza place.
One of the biggest theory Wandavision had was that the show would be used as a vehicle to bring mutants into the MCU, most importantly the X-Men. Wandavision has been compared and even been described as being the MCU’s version of House of M, which if you are a comic book fan is Wanda using her big mutan mojo to warp an entire universe. Fans hoped that what was going on with Marvel bringing up the multiverse, Wanda’s TV sitcom reality, and eventually the Fox X-Men Quicksilver cameo by Evan Peters, that this would finally bring the mutants into the mainstream. But alas, things weren’t meant as we hoped. The “alternate reality” was just a super hex turning a small town into a living sitcom studio backdrop and Quicksilver wasn’t really Quicksilver, they pulled an American Horror Story and Quicksilver resembled Fox’s version of Quicksilver. He was also Ralph but that’s another WTF moment. We didn’t get our mutant cameo, and long story short Marvel kinda avoided calling Wanda, and Quicksilver the m-word and you know what, that’s perfectly fine.
In true Marvel fashion a conclusion in one franchise always leads to another so it’s obvious for fans to expect WandaVision to lead to another big event in the MCU. For some fans we were hoping for X-Men, but it already does, Dr. Strange. WandaVision already plays as a set up to the long awaited Dr. Strange movie Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness where Wanda will not only be featured but no doubt will be a key part of the film (maybe as a villainess, but who knows). By adding mutants into the mix of having the show also set up the events going into Multiverse of Madness would seem like there's a bit too much going and sloppy, a contrast of Marvel usually taking years of planning phases of designing their superhero universe. Sometimes less is more. That being said Marvel is well aware that we are highly anticipating the arrival of mutants so it should be no surprise that Marvel is planning things delicately as well as building on the anticipation the X-Men finally appearing and they want to do things right. So we might have to wait to see a adamantium claw pop up in a post-credit scene, a phoenix raptor, or maybe a strategicly placed X but it'll will be more worth the wait and we will all be applauding when we finally see it. Also with the “Pietro” cameo that would mean that Fox’s X-Men would be in the MCU and no one wants that. What are your thoughts?
