History Series / WandaVision

In October 2021, [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/wandavision-spinoff-kathryn-hahn-1235082445/ it was reported that a spinoff series was in development]], with Hahn and Schaeffer returning as lead actor and head writer/executive producer respectively; it was then confirmed by Disney the following month. The series, ''[[Series/AgathaDarkholdDiaries Agatha: Darkhold Diaries]]'', is planned for release in 2024.

The show made its debut on Disney+ on January 15, 2021, airing for nine episodes total through March 5. ''[=WandaVision=]'' is regarded as the first part of an ongoing {{myth arc}} about {{the multiverse}} that segues into ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'', ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' and ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', the latter of which features Wanda as a major character and continues her story from this series. ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'', which features Monica Rambeau in a co-leading role, will also touch on events of the series.

* SequelHook: There are three of them. First, [[spoiler: The White Vision leaves, with his memories restored; he is still out there somewhere.]] Secondly, [[spoiler: a Skrull sent by Nick Fury offers Monica a job in space.]] Thirdly, [[spoiler: Wanda has taken Agatha's copy of the Darkhold, and she hears her boys calling for help as she reads it.]] Two of these have since been [[Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness followed]] [[Film/TheMarvels2023 up]] on, while the third, [[spoiler:White Vision]], is still out there somewhere in the MCU.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: There are three of them. First, The White Vision leaves, with his memories restored; he is still out there somewhere. Secondly, a Skrull sent by Nick Fury offers Monica a job in space. Thirdly, Wanda has taken Agatha's copy of the Darkhold, and she hears her boys calling for help as she reads it.]]

* OutdatedOutfit: Wanda and Vision wear their classic, very campy-looking outfits in Episode 6 as their Halloween costumes. Wanda explains it away by saying she's dressed as a "Sokovian fortune teller"; Vision goes with "Mexican luchador". Billy wears his Wiccan costume with a red cape and headband. "Pietro" / Bohner also dresses himself and Tommy up in the old Quicksilver outfit, complete with lightning-bolt tunic and Flock of Seagulls hair

** When the Stark toaster gets turned on, it makes a faint sound resembling one of Tony's repulsors engaging.

* DemotedToExtra: [[spoiler:Darcy]] in the finale; she only appears to ram Hayward with a carnival truck, trapping him in the wreck and not showing up for the debriefing afterwards. This comes from her unavailability to shoot more scenes for the series finale, and the ones she did ended up on the cutting floor.

The show made its debut on Disney+ on January 15, 2021, airing for nine episodes total through March 5. Additionally, the series is being treated as the first part of a spiritual tetralogy with ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'', ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' and ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', the latter of which continues Wanda's story from this series. In October 2021, [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/wandavision-spinoff-kathryn-hahn-1235082445/ it was reported that a spinoff series was in development]], with Hahn set to reprise her role, and Schaeffer back as writer/executive producer. The series was then confirmed by Disney the following month. The series, ''[[Series/AgathaCovenOfChaos Agatha: Coven of Chaos]]'', is set to come out late 2023. The film ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'' will also touch on events of the series.

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'''''[=WandaVision=]''''' | ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' | ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' | ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' | ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'' | ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' | ''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' | ''Film/{{Werewolf by Night|2022}}'' | ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial''\\

'''''[=WandaVision=]''''' | ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' | '''Series/{{Loki|2021}}''' | ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' | ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' | ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'' | ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' | ''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' | ''Film/{{Werewolf by Night|2022}}'' | ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial''\\

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'''[=WandaVision=]''' | ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/Loki2021'' | ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' | ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'' | ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' | ''Series/MoonKnight2022'' | ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' | ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' | ''Film/WerewolfByNight2022'' | ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial''\\

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Zigzagged. Director Hayward can't seem to go five minutes before insecurely lashing out at Monica or Jimmy. However, he is correct that Wanda is a former terrorist (with a high body count) who is holding thousands of people hostage, depriving them of their free will and {{Mind Rap|e}}ing them into compliance. Furthermore, the brief moments of freedom the citizens experience have them saying just how horrifying it is being controlled. As such, he's completely justified in disregarding the fact she was an Avenger as well as Monica and Jimmy's friend, and treating her like a dangerous threat. Where it zags is his motivation isn't so much about saving people, but covering up his violations of the Sokovia Accords.]]

** Jimmy brings up that it's against the law under the Sokovia Accords to create artificial intelligences as a result of a blanket-ban on creating them, a clause mentioned in ''Agents of SHIELD'' as being drafted in response to the fracas with Ultron.

** Starting with the first episode, we get a hint that [[spoiler:Vision is a creation of Wanda's, and reflects her grief over his death in Infinity War and Pietro's death in Age of Ultron]], because he not only retains the powers he had in the movies, but also SuperSpeed, something he hadn't had there.

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Zigzagged. Director Hayward can't seem to go five minutes before insecurely lashing out at Monica or Jimmy. However, he is correct that Wanda is a former terrorist (with a high body count) who is holding thousands of people hostage, depriving them of their free will and {{Mind Rap|e}}ing them into compliance. Furthermore, the brief moments of freedom the citizens experience have them saying just how horrifying it is being controlled. As such, he's completely justified in disregarding the fact she was an Avenger as well as Monica and Jimmy's friend, and treating her like a dangerous threat. Where it zags is his motivation isn't so much about saving people, but covering up his violations of the Sokovian Accords.]]

** The fourth episode, breaking the sitcom pattern, didn't have one, but the fifth returned to form with Lagos paper towels, the most absorbant paper towel available, complete with a voiceover by Creator/GreyDeLisle. This alludes to the incident in Lagos where Wanda accidentally killed several people, including Wakandan humanitarian workers, in the course of trying to relocate an exploding Crossbones. The resulting backlash was the last straw which brought down the Sokovia Accords onto the Avengers, kicking off the eponymous conflict of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler: Hayward states that Wanda is responsible for the Westview Anomaly, which means that she has become a RealityWarper. This is on top of being a veteran of The Avengers. He decides to try cheap-shotting her with a drone from the 1980s. Which just ends with Wanda coming out of the Hex and possessing his men to point their guns at him, then strengthening the Hex barrier upon reentering. Even Hayward's White Vision is relying on Wanda's unwillingness to think of Vision as a threat.]]

** In Episode 8 [[spoiler:we get a flashback of the bombing that killed Wanda's parents, which was mentioned back in ''Avengers: Age of Ultron'' as the motivation for her hatred of [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]] (who designed the weapons used in the attack). It is also suggested that the reason the Stark missile that landed in their apartment failed to explode was that Wanda unknowingly cast a probability altering hex that kept it from detonating.]]

* EldritchLocation: The Hex turns Westview and all its inhabitants into a "missing town", a magical bubble to the point that people in the area are unable to recognize its existence -- even if someone is ''standing in front of a sign that says "Welcome to Westview"''. And it gets worse. If you somehow manage to find a way past the barrier, your mind will be rewritten into a fake personality and you will be forced to play a role in Wanda's fantasies while your real self is crushed under formless grief.

* FisherKingdom: Whenever something enters the Westview hex barrier, if it doesn't "fit" into the sitcom styling or time period currently underway, it is transformed into the nearest "appropriate" shape at the moment of entry. A modern drone is turned into a toy helicopter or a hazmat suit changes into a beekeeper's outfit. We learn that the raw material of the object is rewoven during the transformation as Monica's Kevlar vest becomes a bulletproof 1970s pantsuit. Once the town shifts into the 1980s, technology from that time period can enter the Hex without transformation. A first-generation drone manages to make it through unchanged.

** In Episode 7, Vision and Darcy are constantly delayed when trying to return to Westview in the funnel cake van. Subverted when Vision has a moment of clarity that allows him to throw off the effects of the Westview hex and remembers that ''he can fly''. He promptly takes off, phasing through the roof of the van leaving the contrived traffic problems behind. It can be viewed as a little subverted, however, since he might have been staying with Darcy to get back to date with "outside" world as much as possible.

** Wanda has suffered a tremendous amount of grief in her life. From her perspective, she has only had three weeks to deal with Vision's traumatic double-death in front of her. When standing on the home-site that Vision intended for them to "grow old together", she has a moment of emotional trauma and [[spoiler:unleashes a hex that creates a safe, supportive sit-com reality around her in which Vision is still alive. At first Wanda falls into its comforting embrace whole-heartedly, but as the story unfolds cracks in her "perfect world" begin to appear and there are hints of the unpleasant cost that the hex is placing on the inhabitants. However, Wanda, in grief's denial, becomes more authoritarian in imposing her happiness over the bits of unwanted reality she is being forced to encounter more and more frequently.]]
** Monica is trying to solve the mystery of the Westview hex and when it's revealed that Wanda is the prime cause, she genuinely wants to help her. Having found out her own mother Maria died while she was dusted, she can sympathize with Wanda's loss, but it's clear that Monica is becoming reckless and obsessive in her desire to save Wanda, to the point where she seems more focused on Wanda than the trapped citizens of Westview and how each day in the Hex adds to their pain. Unfortunately, despite Monica's noble intentions, by the end of the story none of her actions really end up helping Wanda.
** Tyler Hayward, as the director of S.W.O.R.D., is also trying to deal with the Westview hex. When it becomes apparent that Wanda is the cause, he connects it with her history of HYDRA affiliation, responds to the situation as a threat and is completely willing to take Wanda out if the opportunity presents itself. It doesn't help that he has a means to scan for Vision's vibranium decay which convinces him that she can reanimate The Vision despite her denials and sees her as a liar as well as a terrorist (the latter of which Monica and Woo state is not accurate). However, we also learn that Hayward has his own machinations underway to [[spoiler:try to reanimate the original Vision himself and is using the events surrounding Westview to enact his own plans and shift the blame onto Wanda.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Wanda finally has one in the final episode when Agatha breaks Wanda’s spell over the townspeople, and they all tell her how horrifying it has been living under her spell. She previously tried to delude herself into believing [[ForHappiness she had improved their lives beyond the sad town she first arrived in]]. But they make clear to her [[AndIMustScream how much worse she has made their lives]].]]

* MagicMisfire: Episode 8 shows the intense amount of grief Wanda is holding onto. In addition to the loss of her parents and brother, the events of ''Infinity War'' occurred just a month ago from her perspective where she had to kill Vision, then watch Thanos kill him again. [[spoiler:She tries to claim Vision's body from Hayward for burial, which is denied and her brief encounter with his corpse serves to drive home that he is gone. She then drives to Westview to stand in the abandoned house lot Vision had bought for them to grow old in. In this moment she suffers a breakdown where her grief explodes out to cast a Hex corrupted by her emotional pain that forges a happy sitcom world like she watched as a child, creates a simulacrum of Vision from her memories, and enslaves the people of Westview to become her supporting cast.]]

* NotMeThisTime: When Monica gets back into the Hex and tracks down Wanda, Wanda refuses to hear her out, blaming Hayward for the various drones that have been sent into the Hex, the missile in episode 5, and [[spoiler:Fake Pietro]]. Monica insists that [[spoiler:Fake Pietro]] wasn't Hayward's doing. It turns out he was actually [[spoiler:Agatha]]'s work.

** Episode 7 shows Monica forcing her way through the Hex barrier [[spoiler:and how that alters her cellular structure once again giving her powers and heralding the origin of Photon / Spectrum in the MCU.]]

* PsychoactivePowers: As Wanda's power set expands, the control she has over them seem to be heavily tied to her emotional state. [[spoiler:She created the Hex without conscious intent during an emotional breakdown after a long day of dealing with her grief over Vision's death. The final episode shows that when the townspeople press on her to release them, her panicked cry to "stop" acts on its own to choke the people around her. This could also tie back to the first episode when "Mr. Hart" began choking when he kept pressing Wanda and Vision with questions they couldn't answer.]]

** In the second episode, after Wanda and Vision hear a noise and go outside to see someone in a beekeeper costume come out of a manhole, Wanda says, "No" and then ''rewinds the tape" back to the previous scene where she reveals that she's pregnant. This time, instead of hearing the noise, they kiss, the audience goes "awww" as the music swells and the episode changes from black and white to color completely distracting from the previous encounter. It's never made clear if the beekeeper disappeared or if he emerged as before but wandered off into the night since Wanda and Vision never saw him.
** In the third episode. When Vision expresses his concern to Wanda about how something doesn't seem quite right about Westview, the scene suddenly blinks back to a few seconds ago, and Vision instead gushes about their future child. [[spoiler:This is the first big hint that he's not the real Vision]].
** [[spoiler: The eighth episode reveals that Wanda did indeed create the Hex over Westview in a fit of sadness and grief when she learned that Vision had bought them a property to settle down in before he died. Agatha remarks how it's several layers of spells overlapping one another, which is something that would require a ritual to do, only for Wanda to do it ''using willpower alone''.]]

** In episode 5, [[spoiler:when Wanda exits the Hex, she addresses Hayward as "Director" and sneers at him in doing so, because he refused to let her take Vision's body from him for burial. And when she says "I have what I want, and no one will ever take it from me ''again''", she's referring more to Hayward's use of the original Vision's body for Project Cataract than to the sitcom reality of the Hex.]]

** Agatha is a power-hungry matricide who brainwashes people to get what she wants, but she's right about how Wanda treats the people of Westview. She points out that heroes don't torture people. Wanda acknowledges that she has a point by dropping the Hex. Agatha also has a point in that Wanda's vast powers are far beyond her current control and she needs training in some form.

** Monica breaks through an interior wall, an exterior wall, and a fence before flying through the air to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break through the hex barrier]] and land in "real life".

** The seventh episode has [[spoiler:Monica gaining superpowers after passing into the Hex. Furthermore, Agnes is revealed to be Agatha Harkness, and is responsible for summoning "Pietro", among other manipulations]].

** At the end of Episode 8, we learn [[spoiler: Wanda constructed the Hex version of Vision entirely from her magic and didn't steal Vision's body....because Hayward has created a white copy of Vision to attack Westview.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: What starts as a goofy throwback to classic sitcoms of yesteryear featuring two superheroes in the starring roles, with occasional moments of SurpriseCreepy, slowly morphs into a somber and touching examination of how a lifetime of loss and crushing grief have affected Wanda.

* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: Parodied and lampshaded in the first episode. Vision is exceptionally good at his job even though he doesn't know what Computational Services, Inc. does and every question he asks of a coworker and of Mr. Hart is neatly brushed aside. We know they don't make, buy, or sell anything. Their productivity has gone up 300% since Vision started working for them. They produce "output", but what ''for'' is also unclear.

* SurpriseMultipleBirth: In Episode 3, [[spoiler:Wanda has just given birth and Vision leans in for a congratulatory kiss, only for Wanda to start screaming as contractions start up again for the second baby.]]

** In Episode 3, [[spoiler:When Vision tells Wanda that something's not right with Westview, the film seemingly "jumps" backward to the beginning of the conversation, which then occurs differently with Vision referencing the impending birth of their baby instead]].

'''Herb:''' ''[nervous]'' Oh, no. [[ADateWithRosiePalms I don't do that]]...

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: One thing that Monica, Darcy, and Jimmy have in common is that they each worked with an Avenger in the past and are now looking into two more.

** The movie theater in Westview is shown in episode 6 to be playing ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', which stars Creator/SamuelLJackson (Nick Fury) as Frozone.

** In Episode 6, Wanda [[spoiler:and Pietro]] walk by a theater that's playing ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' on the matinee. Bob and Helen Parr's son Dash has SuperSpeed. [[spoiler:Tommy is shown to have inherited his uncle's own super-speed seconds later.]]

** In Episode 6, ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' appears on the movie marquee in town and that nod continues in Episode 9, when Wanda, Vision and the children strike a battle ready pose very similar to one taken by the Parr family on Syndrome's island in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wv_as_incredibles.jpg as seen here]].

The show made its debut on Disney+ on January 15, 2021, airing for nine episodes total through March 5. Additionally, the series is being treated as the first part of a spiritual tetralogy with ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'', ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' and ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', the latter of which continues Wanda's story from this series. In October 2021, [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/wandavision-spinoff-kathryn-hahn-1235082445/ it was reported that a spinoff series was in development]], with Hahn set to reprise her role, and Schaeffer back as writer/executive producer. The series was then confirmed by Disney the following month. The series, ''[[Series/AgathaCovenOfChaos Agatha: Coven of Chaos]]'', is set to come out late 2023.

* SleepingSingle: Wanda and Vision are seen in separate beds in the cold open for Episode 2, fitting the period setting (as network censorship indicated that married couples could not sleep in the same bed). After Wanda uses her powers to pull their beds together and combine them, [[CoitusEnsues they decide they prefer it that way]].

** The ninth and final episode is titled "The Series Finale".