Headscratchers / WandaVision

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Two Wanda’s at the same time

• The emergency system of S.W.O.R.D. mentioned that Wanda was coming out of the Hex, seeing her as an intruder. But the emergency went off exactly when she was looking at the drone directly at the same time. How is is possible? Were there two Wanda’s at the same time?

Why are Wanda's powers red and involve reality warping?

• It's an old question, but it bears asking again. Previously, Wanda's powers were limited to telepathy (consistent with the Mind Stone) and telekinetic blasts, but here she's able to instantly rewrite the molecular structure of physical objects. Wanda's powered by the yellow colored Mind Stone, and there's literally a red Reality Stone, so either there's a massive plot hole, or there's something we're not really seeing here.
  • She could always do those things. She practiced. As for why her powers are red, maybe it's just her favourite colour.
  • As it turns out, she didn't get her powers from the Mind Stone. She's been a witch/potential mutant her whole life, but the Mind Stone just amplified them. Possibly a bit of a retcon, but hey. So that explains the seeming disconnect.
  • Also also as it turns out, because she's the Scarlet Witch, her powers are, well, scarlet in colour.

What's Agatha really thinking?

• She acknowledges Wanda as the Scarlet Witch, a being of myth, of unfathomable reality-warping power, and she thinks...she's going to face off head-to-head against such an individual? Her plan seems destined to failure from the start but it also seems like she should know that better than anyone. It's like a bodybuilder facing off against The Hulk. Does she really think she stands a chance against an opponent like that just because she can absorb magic?
  • Basically, in short, Agatha didn't know Wanda is the Scarlet Witch when she came into town and planned to "take the power" from whoever had made the Hex. She only knew that after digging though Wanda's past, and even then, she still had doubts about it. Also, Agatha may have too much ego due to her own powers so she stuck to her plan even after learning the truth.
  • And to be fair, her ability to absorb magic from others was working just fine on Wanda, until she turned Agatha's own runes against her. So yeah, Agatha did have a fairly strong chance of success. It's less like a regular bodybuilder going against Hulk and more like, say, Black Panther going against Hulk, with Panther's vibranium suit likely making it nearly impossible for Hulk to actually hurt him.

What's there to hide?

• Am I the only one who doesn't understand why Wanda is trying to hide her pregnancy from Monica and the rest of Westview? Pregnancies happen all the time, and nobody knows Vision is an android, so what's the problem?
  • In-Universe, their show seems to be based on the prompt of keeping their powers a secret. The speed that her pregnancy grows is clearly abnormal so they probably relate it to their powers.
  • This is exactly it. The show is jumping from decade to decade with each passing episode, but Wanda and Vision are acting as if each is happening over consecutive days. A few "days" ago, Wanda was performing magic in the town square in a form-fitting body suit and now she has an advanced pregnancy.
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, the Hays Code forbid women from being shown to be pregnant, or displaying any sort of intimacy (hence why Wanda and Vision have separate beds in episode 2)
  • It's keeping with the tropes of wacky sitcom hijinks that Wanda's "bubble" is trying to replicate.
  • Ironically, their efforts to hide it are quite amusing after they spent the opening theme song parading around town with Wanda's oversized belly on full display, conspicuously shopping for baby supplies. Clearly she missed a step there.

Lobster

• How did the lobster that Wanda threw out the window end up on the door? I know it's a small detail, but I don't understand.
  • Honestly, that's just the dumb kind of recall joke sitcoms liked to do.
  • She threw it so hard that it flew all the way around the earth and ended up back at their house.
  • Rule of Funny
  • Fridge Brilliance: Agatha said she tried the back door. Wanda threw the lobster out the window in the kitchen. Agatha wasn't allowed to enter through the front so she circled around the back and found the lobster. She placed the lobster on the front of the door so that they'd notice. Considering that Agatha is the one that's been pulling strings behind the background, she either did this to keep up appearances or was just pulling a little prank.
  • Obviously, the lobster climbed up there himself. He was trying to get back into the house.

The People of Westview

• Do the people in Westview actually know what's going on? Some moments they seem to know entirely what's going on and are hiding it due to fear of Wanda. And other times they seem completely absorbed in their character and only get flashes of insight and remembering when something weird happens. If they truely remember them there's no way Geraldine would have brought up Wanda's brother considering he didn't "exist" in this world and she shouldn't even know about him or Ultron.
  • Maybe being around Wanda makes them less self-aware or something? There are quite a few Westview residents that she would have to keep tabs on subconsciously or not, and it seems that they seem to "break character" whenever Wanda's not in control of the situation (Episode 2) or if she's elsewhere (Episode 3). Geraldine being capable of resisting this might have to do with the fact that she didn't technically live in Westview, though I'm not sure on that front.
  • Confirmed as of episode 5. It's explicitly stated that she's mind-controlling them.
  • And her control is shown to be slipping as early as the very first episode. Recall that for most of the series, she honestly has no idea what she's done, let along the metaphysical mechanics as to how, so little flaws in the illusion, little "glitches in the Matrix," happen with increasing frequency. And then there's Agatha's interference to consider.

Knowledge of the Skrulls

• While trying to figure out what could be happening inside of Westview, Jimmy Woo writes down the Skrulls as a possible reason for what's going on. One question though: how would Jimmy know about them? The Skrulls only briefly appeared on Earth in the mid-90s, their existence was only known to a handful of people who were active during the events of Captain Marvel (2019), and the only person who could've informed Jimmy about them was trapped inside Westview at that moment. So how did he find out about them?
  • Jimmy is working together with SWORD and they probably know about the Skrulls, since it was founded by Maria Rambeau and tasked with keeping an eye on space.
  • Not to mention how Captain Marvel was almost 30 years ago, a lot of stuff is bound to have happened since then concerning interstellar relations.
  • Considering that SWORD works with the Skrulls (as seen in the stinger of Spider-Man: Far From Home), it's possible that the Skrulls shared information about alien races with SWORD, and the organization later give that info to the Earth's governments after the Chitauri Invasion in 2012.

Knowledge of Vision's Death

• How do they know that Vision died? Especially a civilian like Darcy? He died in the Battle of Wakanda and none of these people were there. And I doubt the Avengers or the US government put out a press release stating that the super synthoid Vision has died.
  • Except they clearly did. Cap's support group in Endgame knows full well who Thanos is and what he did, Hawkeye, who had seen the Avengers since they broke out of the Raft in Civil War, mentioned Thanos by name to the Yakuza he killed, and at the beginning of Spider-Man: Far From Home Vision is listed among the other fallen Avengers in the Stylistic Suck tribute. The Avengers obviously told the world that Thanos made half the population of the universe disappear, and that the Avenger Vision was killed trying to stop him. It's really not that hard to accept that they told people about it, and everything we have seen chronologically since Infinity War says that they 100% did.
  • Even if they did decide to keep Vision's death a secret for whatever reason, what do you mean by 'civilian like Darcy'. She has a doctorate and she works for S.W.O.R.D., not to mention being a known associate of Thor, so even if they weren't expecting Wanda and Vision to be involved, she'd still be privy to info like that.
  • Some things seem to be common knowledge, or at least, known in some circles. When Jimmy Woo, Monica and Darcy discussed how Wanda mopped the floor with Thanos, Darcy mention that Captain Marvel is powered by the Space Stone.

The Blip

• How come the resurrected are shown reforming from dust here, when Spider-Man: Far From Home shows everyone returning in a flash of light (or a blip)?
  • That scene still had them coming back with dust reforming into people. It is possible that the editor sped up the footage. The light is harder to explain, though could be conceivably another added special effect via editing for flare or whatever reason.
  • The Blip in Far From Home was video footage, while the Blip in WandaVision was happening live. Perhaps the "ash effect" of the Snap/Blip cannot be recorded by media and it appears as a flash in video playback.

HYDRA Logos

• How did S.W.O.R.D. miss the HYDRA logos in the commercials? You'd think that with all the analysis, they would have some questions about that.
  • There's no way they missed the logos. We probably just haven't seen them notice said logos yet... Or maybe S.W.O.R.D. isn't aware of HYDRA.
  • It is probable that S.W.O.R.D. is aware of the commercials and maybe even connect them with Wanda's past but are more concerned with the other parts of the episodes and so we haven't seen them react to that yet. However, I'm pretty sure HYDRA is public knowledge given Steve and Nat releasing the info about S.H.I.E.L.D. being corrupted in Winter Soldier. Even then, S.W.O.R.D. not knowing about HYDRA even if it isn't public knowledge doesn't make much sense.
  • Maybe the two people that are generally in charge of watching the sitcom universe just aren't aware of HYDRA themselves. Had anyone else saw their "products" (speaking of which, why is HYDRA selling products? Does Wanda want people to know that HYDRA is behind this? Either way I think it's pretty obvious that she's HYDRA as well at this point.), that would've tipped the bar off for them. Double alternatively: most of them are HYDRA.
  • Um... The commercials aren't real. They're just another part of Wanda's illusion. HYDRA isn't actually selling anything. Also, nothing suggests Wanda has turned to HYDRA besides the obvious villain role she seems to have. S.W.O.R.D. being corrupted might have some weight to it, but they likely wouldn't go that angle with Darcy and Woo and it's still hard to believe that two high-ish ranking agents wouldn't know about something as big as HYDRA.
  • Dang. So I can't get my HYDRA brand soap? Such false-advertising. Jokes aside, those commercials have to mean something. If Wanda didn't want the commercials to advertise HYDRA, she wouldn't advertise them, and episode 5 further implies that she's with or working with them. To me, it would make sense if Wanda's original plan was to encase the entire universe into a Sitcom, but HYDRA, doing one good thing for once, decided to contain it. The commercials wouldn't make sense if HYDRA had nothing to do with her world, unless she just had an odd fondness for them.
  • Really nothing is suggesting HYDRA is involved at all. The commercials are all based around Wanda's trauma, including trauma involving being used by HYDRA Pretty much the opposite of fondness. There's no evidence that HYDRA is in anyway actually involved with Westview.
  • The most damaging thing is that Jimmy Woo asked, "Has that happened before? A reference to our reality?" when Monica made her slip about Ultron. Considering the commercials are all references to their reality, it's more probable that the commercials are edited so that S.W.O.R.D. doesn't see the parts related to her trauma the way all other breaks in the illusion are shown to be edited. Just like how Wanda edited out Dottie injuring her hand on the broken glass when Jimmy was trying to contact Wanda through the radio.
  • If so, she's doing a pretty bad job of it. Every commercial thus far alludes pretty blatantly to Wanda's trauma, especially the Lagos one, which makes it seem more like the commercial breaks are subconscious "breaks" in Wanda's facade.
  • That's why they would be heavily edited to the outside. Because of how close to home they hit to Wanda's trauma that her subconscious edits out the blatant references. So they don't see the HYDRA logo, and don't hear the names of the products that are being advertised, even though we do.

Mr. Hart choking

• This is more of a meta Headscratcher but was the scene of Mr. Hart choking in Episode 1 also filmed in front of a live studio audience or was it filmed separately? Because it seems too dark (Someone may think it was real) and too special effects heavy (Vision getting the strawberry out of Mr. Hart’s throat as well as the more camera intensive shots) to be filmed in real time in front of a live audience.
  • According to the Trivia tab, only the first episode was recorded that way. There's no way people would genuinely laugh at that scene.
  • That was part of the first episode.
  • There's no way they could have dubbed in more laughter for that scene, as any and all audience laughter must be genuine.
  • The studio audience may have had a general sense of what they were in for (ie. they knew it was going to be strange and surreal.)
  • And if the audience was told ahead of time that the choking was part of the scene, it's likely that they even had cue cards indicating when to laugh.

You doing okay, teammate?

• So. The Doylist explanation is probably that they didn't want to add any more (expensive) cameos, and the Watsonian explanation is probably that Nat and Tony are dead, Steve's retired, Thor's off-world, Clint's off teaching Kate Bishop, and Wanda's not super-close with the rest of the Avengers. But still: Wanda's teammates are aware that she basically was forced to kill Vision, then watched him get killed again by Thanos, then was Blipped and un-Blipped... and nobody wants to check in on her and see how she's doing? Even putting aside simple concern, it's been a running theme with her starting from Age of Ultron that Wanda is prone to losing her shit and bad things happen. If it comes to that, shouldn't everyone's favorite Master of the Mystic Arts be doing something?
  • I think Clint did actually check in on Wanda during the events of Endgame, if their short scene together after Tony's funeral is anything to go on. And in that particular scene, Wanda seems to have made peace with Vision's death, even if we now know that it's not actually the case. So it's entirely possible that people did check in on Wanda and believed she was okay, then left to do their own thing. As for Doctor Strange...you would think something like Westview would show up on his radar at some point, even if he doesn't know Wanda personally at this point. But hey, we're only four episodes into a nine-episode miniseries. Anything could happen...
  • To add to the point about Clint, he may have believed after the initial check-in that she needed space, as many grieving people do, and may have wanted to focus on his own recently-returned family. Also, in general, now that we've gotten a glimpse at the chaos of the Blip, the remaining Avengers may have their hands full dealing with the sudden resurgence of half the population on Earth.
  • It's probably that, before finding what S.W.O.R.D. had done to Vision's remains, part of Wanda was still in denial mode. It's likely that if S.W.O.R.D. didn't go against Vision's wishes and never experimented with his corpse, Wanda's depression could've just healed with time or, at least, wouldn't become worse.
  • Alternatively, she was/thought she was doing okay... Until she found out what Hayward had done to Vision's body, and saw how it was being treated.
  • This raises some weird timeline questions too. Wanda going off the rails immediately after the fight with Thanos would be reasonable, she seemed angry enough during it. But she didn't, she stuck around for Tony's funeral, despite the fact that she probably wasn't a huge fan of Tony (especially after he interned her at the Avengers compound against her will). The world was in utter chaos, we have to assume that funeral took at least several days to set up and get Fury and Maria there, have Clint go home and come back, etc. And...she seemed fine then. So how did she end up recreating him in the Hex presumably less than a week later? Did it have something to do with her realizing they were returning the infinity stones and Vision wouldn't be restored?
  • Her snapping could possibly be related to her finding out Hayward was having Vision's body dissected, presumably to make "sentient weapons", something she knew that Vision was openly against. Add to that a dash of Agatha worsening her condition behind the scenes, and we have the formula for a huge relapse in her grieving process.
  • The fact that Wanda has a major role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a pretty good indication that he's going to get involved. He'd specifically tagged Loki (as seen in Thor: Ragnarok) and is probably on the lookout for extra-dimensional threats that cross into his reality, but Wanda is a known Avenger and he might not have flagged her power use as a threat. However, if she pulled in Pietro from another dimension (the X-Men one), it's possible that set off a multiverse tripwire that got his attention. If watched in chronological order, it's possible it's a big hint that during Spider-Man: Far From Home, Mysterio and those elemental monsters were tech-based performances and not cross-dimensional threats because it was off his radar (or, even if it was, he still is responsible for a dimension. Besides, it looked like Peter and Mysterio were handling it, and he seemed to have a healthy respect for Peter's skill set).
  • Doctor Strange and the rest of Earth's sorcerers probably have their hands full at the moment. In Endgame, the Ancient One made it pretty clear that they would be in big trouble without the Time Stone. You know, the one that Thanos "reduced to atoms" five years ago?
  • The incident isn't necessarily mystical in nature, Agatha's recent reveal notwithstanding. Even if it is, the show is clearly focused on any solution to the Westview problem being centered on Wanda overcoming her grief and letting go of Vision. That's why her thematic counterpart is Monica, another woman who suddenly lost the person closest to her. A stranger with an entirely different set of baggage popping in and resolving the issue with magic is antithetical to the nature of the story and Wanda's arc.
  • As of episode 8, it appears Wanda was actually doing fine to all outward appearances. She was calm and reasonable when she walked into SWORD (outside of using her magic to open doors). Her visit with Vision's remains looked like she realized he was really gone. It was only in Westview at the property she allowed her bottled up grief to manifest.
  • Wanda seemed to be repressing the trauma of Vision's death. Remember, for her and everyone else who got dusted in the Battle of Wakanda, they were brought back and immediately dropped right back into a second battle (which for them was for all intents and purposes a continuation of the first battle, just on a different battlefield thanks to the Sling Ring portals moving them from Wakanda to upstate New York), with Wanda getting no time to grieve or process in the immediate aftermath. Furthermore, since Wanda has an entire lifetime of repeated traumatic events that informed her creation of the Hex, it seems that simply seeing the empty lot in Westview and Vision's note to her was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Clint and her other colleagues likely had no way of knowing just how much baggage Wanda was really holding onto from a lifetime's worth of accumulated trauma because of how much she was bottling it up.
  • Hell, going to SWORD to see Vision's body may have been Clint's, or someone else's, idea. Seeing that Wanda was in pain and not really processing it, someone suggested to Wanda that Vision's body be reclaimed, pointed her at SWORD, and said that she could go and ask for him to be returned for a proper funeral. The assumption was probably that, if asking nicely didn't work, she'd come back to the Avengers and together they'd work out a more firm way to submit the request. Instead, Wanda followed something that Vision had left for her, found the lot where he'd apparently planned to build them a house "to grow old in," and all the grief, rage, shock, and loss just came pouring out. From the perspective of everyone else, Wanda was coping as well as could be expected... right up until she wasn't.
  • Regarding Strange's absence, remember that up until this incident, nobody thought that Wanda's powers were magical in nature (not even Wanda herself), at least no more than anything else Infinity Stone-related is magical. So he wouldn't have been considered a relevant expert. Obviously, we know they appear together in an upcoming film so now that it is clear that her powers are magical, that will plainly change.

Vision's power set

• Was Vision ever capable of using Super-Speed before his "death"? Wanda mentions it in the first episode, and he demonstrates it frequently in the third, but I don't recall Vision moving all that quickly in his previous outings. Am I forgetting something, or is this part of Westview's weirdness?
  • Superspeed was not one of his powers, no. It was, however, Pietro's power. Maybe Wanda is, subsconsciously or not, attributing some of her brother's qualities onto the way she sees Vision, both having been the main source of emotional support on different parts of her life. Plus, it works to explain if her children end up having the same powers as Wanda and Pietro (as they do in the comics), since a genetic connection wouldn't necessarily explain it in the MCU, their powers being artificially generated and all.
  • Although he appears to be self-aware, he is still just a corpse and is likely an illusion. Vision's powers are either a manifestation of the Sitcom universe since it follows Rule of Funny (Vision is a high-tech cyborg, cyborg goes nyoom), or Wanda is just giving him new powers since he no longer runs on the Mind Stone. It's probably the latter, but Wanda's magic is likely just animating the corpse, though.
  • Alternatively, it could've been a power he didn't have much use for in other situations because...well, he could fly.
  • White Vision is able to fight evenly with him in the finale (which obviously wouldn't be possible if Hex!Vision was stronger), which heavily implies that it was always part of his powerset and he simply never used it before for whatever reason.

Reacquirement of Vision

• How did S.W.O.R.D even manage to obtain Vision's corpse in the first place, much less get the go-ahead on dissecting him? We last saw his corpse in the midst of the Wakandan jungles, and considering how possessive the country is of Vibranium, I highly doubt they would've just turned over a being that was made of their most important metal for a foreign government agency to conduct experiments on.
  • They had a 5 year Time Skip while civilization went to hell to figure it out.
  • Presumably, the Avengers took Vision's body home with them. What with SHIELD not really existing anymore, SWORD was probably the next most qualified organization to take custody.
• Why isn't Vision's body in Wakanda? He was made from stolen Wakandan vibranium. He died on Wakandan soil. Why would the Wakandans hand something so dangerous over to SWORD?
  • They didn't. You forgot that Vision left Wakanda.
  • Vision was created by the Avengers in New York City, lived most of his "life" in the U.S as an Avenger, and never even went to Wakanda until the events of Infinity War, where he subsequently died. Sure he might be made of Vibranium, but Wakanda doesn't have any more ownership of Vision than they do Captain America's shield.
  • Most likely, the surviving Avengers brought his body back to America (where, as noted above, he was born and spent most of his life), and SWORD moved in afterwards.
  • In fact, it's possible that SWORD's acquisition of Vision's body is tied to the Sokovia Accords. It would not be unreasonable to expect legislation that regulates super powered individuals to have set protocols around what to do with the remains of a fallen superhero, especially one as powerful as Vision. Doubly so if you consider that Vision is both a self-aware AI and a piece of technology with superpower capabilities, both things known to be regulated by the Sokovia Accords.
    • That might be dependent on whether or not Wakanda signed the Accords. If they didn't sign (it's unlikely they did if T'Challa was offering refuge to the Secret Avengers, not to mention he did break them when he left Wakanda to capture Klaue), SWORD must've used the power vacuum to obtain the body.
  • It was probably not Hayward that obtained Vision's body, but Maria Rambeau. Remember that Maria was SWORD Director at the time of Vision's death. Since Maria was a friend of Fury's (and Carol could also vouch for her integrity), the Avengers turned Vision's body over to her. So SWORD now had possession of Vision's body, but Maria had no intention of doing anything to it. Hayward says in his first scene with Monica that Maria had protocols in place for if the Snapped were brought back. So it stands to reason that Maria, knowing that Wanda was Vision's next of kin and was also among the Snapped, decided that SWORD would only keep possession of Vision's body until the Snap was undone and Wanda was brought back. They would then turn the body over to Wanda, and that would be the last of it. Unfortunately, Maria's cancer came back two years after the Snap, and she died. Subsequently, Hayward took over as acting director and began his experiments on Vision's body without any of the Avengers knowing.

Wanda is a God now?

• Why does Wanda have God-like powers in a world and universe where the Infinity Stones were destroyed?
  • Because her powers came from the Mind Stone, presumably. Nothing ever said that the destruction of them would affect her powers.
  • Also, Wanda had god-like powers in the comics (from a very different source, but still), we had to remember the whole "House of M" and "No more mutants" thing.
  • As of Episode 5, it's not actually confirmed Wanda has godlike powers; in fact she dismisses the idea that she can control everything in Westview when talking with Vision at the end of the episode. It's perfectly possible someone else (possibly Agnes) created the Westview simulation and gave Wanda partial control over it, which makes it look like she has gained the reality-warping powers her comic book counterpart has, when in fact she hasn't. When she goes outside the simulation and faces S.W.O.R.D., she only seems to have her regular telekinesis and telepathy.
  • As of episode 8, it's implied that Wanda always had innate magic, and the Mind Stone gave those powers a huge bump in both power. However, it also implies there is a big trade off in power and control. Direct use of her ability sacrifice power for control. What she's up to in Westview is high power stuff she's only subconsciously controlling.
  • Also, remember that while Thanos "reduced [the Infinity Stones] to atoms," they aren't destroyed. They've just been transmuted to a form that most beings cannot manipulate. The Infinity Stones are part of the fundamental building blocks of the universe, and completely destroying them would be akin to destroying the laws of physics.
  • Episodes 8 and 9 downplay Wanda's god status, if not the extent of her powers and potential. She accidentally created the Hex when she lost control of her powers, and it's an incomplete reality where her control over the townspeople is faulty at times (enough for Agatha to snap random people out). Furthermore, Wanda is power-balanced in combat by Agatha, a much less powerful but more experienced witch. Despite Wanda's enormous power, she is helpless in Agatha's basement due to her use of runes. Despite this, these episodes also confirm Wanda as a sort of prophesied, legendary being, and she starts learning how to control her powers, potentially even learning new powers from the Darkhold. Essentially, Wanda is not a god yet, but she seems likely to become one sooner or later.

Reawakening Powers

• What exactly is it that allows Vision to undo Wanda's brainwashing on Abilash? I get that his current existence is partially based on Wanda's reality warping, but I don't see how that allows him to "undo" the effects of Wanda's Mind Rape.
  • It seems to be a variation of the power he used to prevent Ultron from escaping via the internet. Presumably, it's a function of the Mind Stone that created him.
  • His powers run off of the same powers that Wanda has. Note how he said "You can't control me the way you do them." She can't do so because of Wanda's Mind Stone powers powering Vision. In fact, the reason why he may not remember anything before his coming to Westview is because he has no memories prior to his revival.
  • Kinda unrelated to the Headscratcher, but I'm pretty sure Wanda could control Vision if she really wanted to. We see her pretty much hijacking the Mind Stone and activating Vision's powers without his consent in Civil War, when Wanda was still pretty much just a telepath, if anything the Mind Stone makes him weaker to her influence. Wanda's lack of control over Vision in this series is probably just caused by her love for him, bringing him back to life just to make him a slave with no mind of his own would kinda defeat the purpose of the whole thing.
  • Well, for whatever reason Wanda just can't. I know, I'm kind of confused by it as well as Vision appears to be running off of Wanda's Mind Stone powers specifically but perhaps Wanda's powers gave Vision a new soul? And since it runs off of the Mind Stone it gives him a type of immunity to other Mind Stone powers. It's sorta like trying to fight water with water. It just doesn't work. Alternatively, Vision's illusionary Mind Stone is as real as the actual stone, despite it being an illusion, since there can be only one Infinity Stone in each reality and it just works since it was created by the power of the Mind Stone.
  • Since he's entirely a product of her powers it's not a huge leap that he would be able to manipulate the effects of those powers to a limited degree as well, whether or not he even realized that's what he was actually doing. Essentially it's Wanda modifying the reality within the hex using the part of powers that she formed into Vision.

Was The Quantum Tunnel Not An Option?

• All Wanda wanted to do was reanimate Vision's corpse. Since she's not powerful enough to do a proper resurrection, what was stopping Wanda from using Bruce's Quantum Time Machine to go back to the Battle of Wakanda and grab Vision before Thanos killed him?
  • She would still need some Pym particles, and no doubt Hank would want to know just why she wanted them.
  • So she saved her loved ones and creates a timeline where the Snap never happened. Oh the horror!
  • Scott probably told Hank about how the Avengers used the Pym particles to their time travels. Considering that Hank was already very angry when S.H.I.E.L.D. tried to replicate the Particles (and that's back when they're only used to change sizes), you can bet that Hank become extremely paranoid now with the implication that the misuse of the Particles can mess with the concept of Time and probably break the Universe apart.
  • Wanda probably wouldn't care about getting Hank's permission, given her quite forceful taking of Vision's body. But she might care about not alerting her fellow Avengers to what she's doing. If she messes with the Ant Man crew, others might want to get involved, but with S.W.O.R.D. it's like, okay nobody cares. Alternatively, it was likely learning that Vision's body was in S.W.O.R.D.'s possession that made Wanda snap and then steal it back. So the show was more a result of snap judgement and not really pre-meditated, which going back in time would probably be.
  • Considering she was resurrected in the middle of a massive battle against Thanos with little context to what's going on, it's entirely possible that Wanda doesn't even know the tunnel exists or who created it.
  • It has also been pretty firmly established mucking with the timeline is a last-resort thing that can have disastrous consequences, something Wanda may be aware of. Wanda seems to be trying (at least in her head) to get her "happy life" with the "minimum" amount of collateral damage (as Monica has pointed out, she could have done a lot more harm with the Hexagon if she wanted to, and even just threw Monica out of the hex rather than killing her). She probably thought this was the path of least resistance rather than triggering the unraveling of the fabric of time itself.
  • I guess someone didn't watch Endgame to see how time travel works.
  • Yup. Vision Prime is dead and not coming back. Wanda could go back in time and grab Vision B from a previous point in the timeline, but even if we assume that removing the Mind Stone from a point in the timeline has no ill effects (or that Shuri can get it out of Vision's head), the world/team is still down one Avenger and Wanda B is left on her own with no source of emotional, mental or physical support.
  • The Ancient One was pretty clear in saying that removing an Infinity Stone from a point in the timeline would cause disastrous consequences in the long term, and only allowed the Time Stone to be taken when she knew it was part of Strange's plans, so he must have planned for their eventual return (which turns out did happen). Removing Vision from the past would inevitably mean removing the Mind Stone from the past permanently. Wanda is probably not willing to go that far for her plans, specially if she seemingly has another option. Plus, the time machine is such a dangerous machine that the Avengers probably have a lot of safety measures around it, assuming they didn't just destroy it after Cap's return trip to avoid anyone from misusing it again.
  • I think the Ancient One only meant that removing the Time Stone permanently from the timeline would be disastrous, because she could see the future and knew that Doctor Strange would need that particular Stone to defeat Dormammu, otherwise Earth would be lost. As for the Mind Stone, after Thanos acquired it he only used it once, to wipe out half of the life in the universe, after which it was rendered useless. Which means that nothing else (good or bad) could've been done with it the Mind Stone in that timeline. So going back to time and saving Vision shouldn't have any other consequences than stopping Thanos's fingersnap of doom.
  • I'm not sure about that: if only the Time Stone needed to be its proper place, then it seems unlikely we would have the scene of Cap returning all the Infinity Stones (plus Thor's hammer) post-Battle of Earth.
  • All of the above discussion aside: the Battle of Wakanda is way too late in the timeline to be rescuing Vision from anything. Shuri's working as quickly as possible to get the Mind Stone safely out of Vision's head, and they're still overwhelmed by Thanos' forces (not helped by the fact that the Black Order sent those giant threshers in as bait to lure Wanda onto the battlefield so she wouldn't be protecting Shuri and Vision). And once Thanos himself shows up with all the other Infinity Stones (and most importantly, the Time Stone), it's over. He can just rewind/teleport/alter reality and boom, cranial stone-ectomy. Wanda would have to go back to before the start of Infinity War and convince her past self and Vision to go to Wakanda (and convince T'Challa and Shuri to help them out).
  • She knows how wrecked she is by the loss of Vision, she doesn't want to do that to another version of herself.
  • Anyway, Episode 8 shows what really happened. Wanda DIDN'T want to revive Vision at all (despite Hayward's not-so-subtle attempts to nudge her towards doing so). She just wanted to bury him, and only when she was denied that and reached the foundation of the home Vision had bought for the two, did she break down and create the sitcom reality out of uncontrollable grief. There was no particular plan to it.

Red pixels aren't in black and white?

• So as we see in the monitors, the color red is the only color in which "black and white screens" can see. Why is that? I'm convinced that the outro exists to show that the Sitcom universe is built out of physical representations of RGB pixels, as you can see everything being literally built out of said pixels, with the all-red objects obviously showing that Scarlet's magic is at work. So why are red pixels the only exception? Is it to help Wanda find blood? Only objects from the outside world can be in colour as well, as they weren't made with Wanda's "Pixel magic".
  • I think, barring future information, that answer is the simple one- Wanda's magic is red. So it can easily make red-colored things.
  • The answer could be even simpler, the world inside the hex was literally black and white. We're not just seeing an artificial filter over reality due to old technology, we're seeing what reality itself has been transformed into by her powers. Things in other colors are just things in other colors then, for whatever psychological reasons she might have subconsciously made them that way.

Endgame battle surveillance

• I noticed that Jimmy, Darcy, and Monica seemed to have pretty detailed knowledge of how both Wanda and Carol did against Thanos. How exactly would they get that information? Everything in the area had already been blown to hell, so the Avengers Compound's security systems weren't likely to be intact. Sure, maybe some of their armors and/or helmets had cameras in them that were recording the battle, but everyone was pretty busy doing their own thing while Wanda was taking on Thanos.
  • If you remember, the final battle took place in the middle of the ruins of the Avengers Compound in a very public area. I would assume that a huge spaceship blowing up the Avengers' headquarters followed by a massive all out brawl in the middle of Upstate New York would attract more than a few news helicopters who were able to capture that footage. Maybe some locals flew drones and got some footage of their own.
  • Satellites orbiting Earth can give footage of the surface of the planet. And considering all the tech upgrades that the Chitauri technology left during the Battle of New York can provide, such satellites can give a very good info about what happened during the battle.
  • The Avengers and their allies were probably debriefed. Nobody would think it was a coincidence the missing 50% of the population reappeared and a spaceship attacked the Avengers compound a few minutes later. It does appear that the details of the snap and subsequent reversal was withheld from the public. Knowing Wanda was involved, Jimmy, Darcy, and Monica all probably got the official reports on her, including her fight with Thanos. The real fool is Hayward, who seems to seriously underestimate her power level, but he doesn't have known personal experiences with Avengers. Jimmy probably doesn't underestimate what an enraged Ant-Man can do, and he's a lightweight compared to Thor or Captain Marvel.

Vision's breath.

• When Vision is wandering through Westview in his crappy Halloween costume... his breath fogs up. When he transforms back into his original form, the fogging stops. Does this mean that he stopped breathing? And why did he have foggy breath to begin with?
  • For verisimilitude. When he's pretending to be organic, not having foggy breath would be a clear sign that something's wrong, so he has it. But when he stops pretending, there's no point to it. Remember, the overarching theme in Westview is a desire for normalcy.
  • So wait...does this mean Vision doesn't need to breathe, ever?
  • He may be able to look human but Vision is really a super advanced robot, he doesn't need to do anything humans do.
  • It was shown in Episode 2 that Vision, as a synthezoid, doesn't need to—-or, in some cases, is not able to—-perform some of the reflexive functions required of human beings to live. When he swallowed the gum, it threw him into a drunken state because it gummed up the works. It stands to reason that breathing isn't something he HAS to do. He simply fakes it for the sake of the Westview reality's "storyline". Remember that by this point, he's playing into the storylines to get his own way.
  • Or maybe it's nothing to do with faking being human, and everything to do with how Vision's internal systems vent moisture that might otherwise condense on his circuitry and short him out. He doesn't have to respire for gas to seep into his body crevices, after all, and his interior is probably warm enough due to its working parts to create a similar temperature differential between external air and "exhaled" gases as with a human's breath.

What does Darcy expect S.W.O.R.D. to do?

• Darcy is calling out those agents for not helping Vision? What could they possibly do anyway? They don’t have any superpowers that could possibly help with whatever is happening to him.
  • Her reaction was probably just pure desperation. All she saw was Vision literally dying and the S.W.O.R.D. agents standing around and refusing to take any kind of action. They don't seem particularly concerned, they're just standing there and watching.
  • It definitely was pure desperation because she was watching someone being ripped to pieces in front of her while everyone stood by and did nothing. Literally any person would do this.
  • I think she realized what must be done and happens afterwards... That pushing him back into the Hex would make it stop.

Are Wanda and Vision even officially married?

• Is it even legal when the reality they are currently in is fake?
  • If what Wanda and Vision are living in isn't reality, then what's stopping them from being married, legally or not?
  • In the real world, probably not. They've known each other for about ten months at the start of Civil War (roughly August 2015 to roughly June 2016), which seems like a short timeframe to get married in, and after that they're on the run from the law until Infinity War—and of course, we never see them wearing wedding bands at any point before the Snap. In the Hex? Most likely, fitting with all the sitcom tropes. Is their marriage from the Hex legal in the real world? ...well, let's just say Wanda and Vision both have slightly bigger problems at the moment.
  • Considering Wanda did not have a wedding ring before she created the Hex, no. The marriage itself was just a part of the fantasy. She does keep the ring even after she ends the Hex, so she still considers Vision her husband in spirit. But legally, neither the state of New Jersey or any other state is going to recognize a human-synthezoid union.
  • Wanda does describe herself as Vision's "next of kin" when Hayward shows her his remains. However, since Vision canonically left behind a will, it's likely that he specifically named her as the person with power of attorney over his affairs such without necessarily having a legally recognized marriage or partnership.

Do Monica and co. seem less concerned with the town being held captive?

• Hayward is too aggressive and has ulterior motives, sure, but he's in the right that the population of Westview is being forced into a horrific situation. Monica, Woo, and Darcy meanwhile seem to be chiefly sympathetic to Wanda, with little acknowledgement of Hayward's position. Monica even goes as far as saying Wanda protected her (debatable) and could have taken more people hostage.
  • It's not exactly a huge secret that neither of the three really like Hayward and his methods, since his cunning plan of "kill Wanda at all costs" hasn't really worked out for S.W.O.R.D so far. And to their point, nobody knows if killing Wanda will even free the citizens from the Hex. So showing concern for Wanda's wellbeing isn't too crazy, given that she might be the only one who can undo what's happened.
  • The show's also pretty clear that the only way to get through to Wanda is to get her to acknowledge her trauma while also acknowledging that what she's doing is wrong, which is what Monica and Vision have been doing. Going in guns blazing and calling a woman who desperately needs therapy a terrorist isn't the way to do it.
  • Wanda's actions, horrible as they may be, are not putting the hostages at risk of physical damage. Killing Wanda in this situation could have huge unknown consequences (would the Hex just disappear? If she's inside everyone's minds, killing her might be enough to also kill all the hostages). So the best course of action right now is in fact leaving the situation alone, and trying to defuse Wanda with words. Hayward's continued attempts at escalating the situation (or stopping Monica and co from trying to de-escalate it) is clearly not helping anyone in Westview.
  • The show makes clear that being in the anomaly rewrites your DNA, which could very well be physical damage for anyone not lucky enough to become a superhero. Plenty of risk of psychological damage, too.
  • Hayward's true goal seems to be acquiring a reanimated Vision, hopefully in a blank slate. He's seen Vision working again, so his next goal might be freeing him of Wanda's control by any means necessary. He got rid of Darcy, Jimmy, and Monica because they threatened that plan. The fool doesn't seem to grasp the extent of Wanda's powers, or realize he's risking making a new Ultron with the Vision. Unless his name is Ralph and he's working in tandem with Agatha.
  • I think it's just a matter of pragmatism. Monica spells out the situation as she sees it. Westview is at the mercy of Wanda's breakdown. The only way to save the hostages is to go through Wanda, who is too powerful to be beaten with force. So their priority has to be addressing Wanda's trauma and having her let the hostages go willingly.
  • Both War Machine and Hawkeye managed to neutralize Wanda with tech. She isn't a physical god.
  • Thor's a physical god and managed to be neutralized by Valkyrie's obedience disk. That's not the point. The point is that Wanda can mind control anyone she can see and has enough telekinetic power to put Thanos on the ropes. The only way to take someone like that down is through surprise, which is rendered moot by the fact that she is surrounded by a miles-wide anomaly that instantly mind controls and transforms anyone and anything that passes through it. SWORD's one best bet, prior to Vision, was with the armed drone, which failed.
  • Monica, largely because she can relate to Wanda's grief (due to her mother dying while Monica was dusted), views Wanda as someone who can potentially be reasoned with, and believes talking her down is a much safer option to defuse the situation than attempting further violent escalation. It's entirely possible that she could have gotten somewhere in simply talking Wanda down herself in Episode 7, if not for Agatha's intervention. In any case, Hayward couldn't care less about what happened to those in Westview. He wanted Wanda killed to make sure his lie about her stealing Vision never got picked apart. In all likelihood, he was willing to risk everyone in Westview - if he successfully killed Wanda and that caused her powers to destroy the town, the blame would likely fall on her anyway due to existing prejudices against her (Sokovia, Lagos, etc.).
  • Monica, Darcy, and Jimmy are also pointing out that none of this makes any goddamned sense. Yes, you can easily imagine someone of Wanda's power doing something to bring her dead lover back to life... but why in a sitcom? Why take a whole town hostage in the process? Why does the sitcom advance a decade every episode? Why is it being broadcast? Why and how are Wanda's hostages going along with all this? None of this adds up, and Monica, Darcy, and Woo are the only ones who notice (or care) that their picture of what's happening is very incomplete. With such an incomplete picture, any action you can't take back (like killing the person most obviously responsible) risks making the situation disastrously worse. To solve the problem, they first need to understand the problem, and the only thing that's clear for most of the series is that Wanda, in some way, is key to understanding the problem, and thus solving it. Killing her might be the best way to stop it. But if it isn't, then they've permanently blown any other chance they have to fix it, and could even make it worse. What if, say, Wanda's death throes expand the Hex to encompass the whole planet? And then her actual death causes any reality altered by her to collapse into nonexistence instead of returning to normal? Congratulations, you've just RetGoned the entirety of planet Earth.

Is Agnes under Wanda's spell, or not?

• In Episode 3, Agnes is talking to Herb about Wanda's influence, and the mystery surrounding Geraldine's character within Westview, and forcefully tells Herb to drop the subject in front of an inquiring Vision. But in Episode 6, Agnes isn't able to say or do anything "out of character" until Vision reawakens her. So...what's going on?
  • Episode 7 reveals that no, Agatha was never under Wanda's spell.

Not very special episodes

• Given that Wanda and Vision have been in Westview for several weeks and that events in the 'real world' take place over longer than 30-40 minutes, are there sitcom episodes other than the ones we see? Do we only see the ones that are plot relevant? Or is each episode much longer than the standard half hour format and they only end when the time period changes?
  • Has it been weeks? I think each episode, occurs over a single day (except episode 4 which occurred simultaneously with episodes 1-3)
  • Judging by the timeline in episode 4 (Monica meets Jimmy late afternoon, Darcy discovers Episode 1 after dark), 1-3 take place in quick succession late in the evening for some reason. The next morning, during the airing of Episode 5, Jimmy has found the time to bring coffee. Its looks like the episodes are airing as fast as Wanda can think of them, so it's possible she had been broadcasting for days before they found the signal.
  • Episode 4 has the audience watching an episode with Wanda, Agatha, and Monica in the same scene and Darcy mentions Wanda does the dishes once an episode during the '60s arc; it's safe to say that there are other episodes of the in-universe show that do air, but for convenience the real-life show only airs the episodes that push its plot forward or involve S.W.O.R.D's involvement.
  • The whole show takes place over the span of a week. With everything after the drone strike in episode 5 taking place within 24 non-hex hours (so over half the show takes place during one day). The drone strike, Wanda exiting the Hex to threaten Hayward, fake "Pietro" getting sent over by Agatha, Hayward kicking Jimmy, Monica and Darcy off the base, Halloween in the Hex, and Wanda expanding the Hex to save Vision when he tries to escape, all took place over one night. Monica re-entering the Hex, Agatha forcing Wanda to re-live her traumatic life experiences, the duels of Wanda and Hex Vision vs. Agatha and White Vision, and Wanda taking down the Hex to go into exile, happen over the span of the following day. We know exactly when Wanda was at SWORD HQ, because Hayward literally says "9 days ago" when showing the surveillance footage of her visit. Assuming it took Wanda a day or two to get up to Westview from SWORD headquarters, the Hex was up for about a week by the time she took it down. It can get confusing simply because the time of day in the Hex is completely detached from the outside world on a few occasions. The Halloween episode saw it be daytime in the Hex while it's nighttime outside, and the opposite when Wanda takes the Hex down.

Were Jimmy and Darcy Blipped or not?

• Kat Dennings and Randall Park both claim that they believe that Darcy and Jimmy were not Blipped. However during the argument with Hayward, he claims that those who Blipped are too naive because they didn't experience the 5 years between Thanos' snap and Bruce's. Now he's obviously talking about Monica, but what is the story with Jimmy and Darcy, were they Blipped, they wouldn't be the only MCU cast member to claim they survived the Blip, only for later sources to reveal they didn't, or did they live through the 5 years and will eventually call Hayward that they didn't end up as cynical as him.
  • Jimmy being assigned to a missing-persons case just three weeks post-Blip implies he escaped the dusting, and he also refers to softball season ending recently. If he got Blipped, he would be tied up in things like firearms-recertification.
  • Darcy, on the other hand, has gotten a doctorate in astrophysics since we last saw her in 2013. If she had been blipped, that would have given her roughly five years to finish grad school. It's not an impossible time frame, so it's a bit of a toss-up.
  • Hayward's the kind of jerk who would just lump those who he has a distaste for into one group, or disregard their struggles during the Blip years if they correct him on his assumptions. Heck, Monica daring to contradict him was enough to have him go for an utterly detestable low blow about her dead mother, y'know, the person who used be his boss.

Why skip the 90s?

• Episode 6 clearly is set in the Turn of the Millennium, despite the episode before it taking place in The '80s. Why is it now that the show is starting to skip decades?
  • As a few notes have mentioned, the 1990s were more sitcoms about a circle of friends. Wanda needs the family sitcoms.
  • The TV ages don't necessarily correspond directly to decades starting an ending on the zeroes, but to cultural periods. Culturally, the American 80s spilled over into the early 90s until the fall of the Soviet Union, while the optimism of the 90s ended with the events of 9/11 in 2001. It can be more helpful to think of Episodes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 as taking place in the periods roughly starting in 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, and 1993, respectively, with the last one including anything up to 2002 (Malcolm in the Middle's second season). And you can give or take a couple of years for any of those.
  • It's purely speculation, but there is a possibility that they skipped the 90s since the most logical choice was Full House, and since that show featured Elizabeth Olsen's sisters, it may have hit just a bit too close to home.
  • A major point in the series is that Wanda loses control of the situation as things go on- part of this might be that the sitcoms' time periods get more and more vague with more anachronisms slipping in (It gets pretty noticeable in episode 5 which is shown in full widescreen and has people talking about e-mail and "surfing the Internet"), to the point where an episode that's supposed to be the 90s is really more evocative of the 2000s.

Is Agnes really Agatha?

• I got the impression that she was a fake villain given powers for the sake of the Wandavision universe/story, and didn't actually have those powers in the real world, because Wanda needed a villain/Sitcom Arch-Nemesis to distract her or something. Sort of like a retcon. The scenes made it seem like it was all part of the show rather than a legitimate threat.
  • That theory has a slim chance of being true. Plus Wanda was shown not to be fully grasped on everything going on. So if she isn’t the one really behind it all, then it’s Agatha.
  • I wouldn't say slim. And it's less of a theory and more of something that I'm just confused about, since the show gave Agatha her own theme song and everything which, again, made me feel as though she was not supposed to be a legitimate threat and is still just a mind-controlled actor. Although we have only seen a few minutes of Agatha in action, she doesn't appear to have the same level of awareness that Quicksilver and Vision share.
  • I think that's more mockery- "If you want a sitcom world, here's my sitcom world" kind of thing. On a more meta level, two episodes left would be a very bad time to do a fake reveal of a fake villain just before the climax- either the real villain appears at the start of episode 8, making this reveal pointless, or we spend an episode doing effectively nothing before having some out of left field villain for episode 9. I think we can safely say she's the big bad of this show at least.
  • If she’s the one pulling the strings, then she made the sitcom reality. So it’s likely she gains some kind of amusement from it, so she’d likely make her own theme for the fun of it.
  • It's entirely possible that Agatha is herself being puppeted by someone more powerful. The as-of-writing fan theory is Mephisto. So it's possible for her to both have real powers and still be built up as a sitcom villain.
  • My theory is that Wanda set up the Hex and Agatha came to investigate (thus why she referenced being out of town in the first episode) before getting trapped herself. In much the same way Wanda’s mind is warped, I suspect Agatha is also affected by the Hex and they’re effectively trapping each other. Both have a degree of awareness of and control over the narrative but they’re also both stuck in their characters. Agatha is a witch meddling in their business and thus, her character is cartoonishly evil, both in aesthetic, and in pettiness.
  • This is mostly confirmed by episode 8: Wanda created the Hex out of pure grief and despair, and Agatha sensed the massive amount of power it involved and came to check it out. She realized that Wanda was tremendously powerful to create such a massive controlled reality, and it's implied that she wanted to figure out how Wanda did it and then drain Wanda's powers like she did to her mother and the other witches back in 1693. But she claims that she's not controlled by the Hex at all, and has just been playing along with whatever Wanda's world looks like at any given time.
  • As of episode 8, we can say with certainty that Agatha is who she says she is. There's a flashback to 1693 showing her.

Why not free the whole circus?

• Why did Vision limit his reawakening powers to Darcy in Episode 7, when he could've reawakened everyone in the circus (including the Strongman who's trying to hinder them from escaping)? From a story standpoint, it makes sense since they probably would start trying to track and kill Wanda after their reawakening, but from Vision's POV, wouldn't he want as many people as possible to help him, especially a group of government agents who are trying to figure out what's happening?
  • Considering it took him half the episode to remember he can fly, as well as going along with the whole interview gimmick, I can imagine his brain is still at least a little scrambled from the Hex's power on him. If anything, he maybe brought it up with Darcy during the off-screen backstory breakdown and she explained what they were trying to do. Heck, if he was clear enough on the fact that Darcy and him connected on a different level (beyond the joke of it), then he probably also noticed that the agents cuffed her in place, so he might've already had the idea that they're not to be trusted.
  • Adding to this, if Wanda found out, good times may be had by none.
  • Vision is being careful and sensible. (Remember he signed onto the Sokovia Accords because he believes in order, accountability, and good judgment. It's who he is. Of course, he also went rogue and became lovers with Wanda, someone he was supposed to be bringing in) Who knows what might happen if he awakened a large group of people? They might turn violent and fight against Wanda, perhaps out of their own fear and anger at being controlled (no need for them to even be secret government "bad guys") and Wanda to hurt them in self-defense. They might do something else stupid and counterproductive. There are few things as dangerous as frightened people in large groups. There's no reason to create such a volatile situation. Vision's best strategy is to awaken one person at a time and gather information about what's happening from them. Once he does that with Darcy and learns that: (a) Wanda is the key to everything; and (b) the rest of the circus wouldn't exactly help him anyway; then his next move is clear. He needs to confront Wanda and waking anyone else up would accomplish nothing.
  • Vision likely remembered the different reactions to his escape attempt. Darcy made herself a clear ally of Vision by begging Hayward to help him, but everyone else stood by apathetically and didn't even try to communicate with him. In terms of allies, Vision was picking quality over quantity. He needed an explanation at this point, not a posse, so waking up a potentially friendly figure like Darcy was the best way to get that. Vision knew the best way to fix the situation was to first gather all the information he could about his and Wanda's circumstances, then reason with her. Waking as many people as he could with the Hex still up would only escalate the situation and cause more harm, mostly to the townspeople themselves. Even if he considered these government agents potential allies, there's simply nothing they could do. There was no plan for Vision to coordinate beyond getting the information he needed and returning to Wanda.

Agatha pulling the strings?

• Beside inserting herself into Wanda's life, and conjuring Pietro, what strings has Agatha been pulling? They show her using her powers during the magic show but the trouble there was caused by a stick of gum literally gumming up the works inside Vision. And pretty much every other conflict was caused by SWORD interference or Vision naturally becoming suspicious.
  • The one controlling things behind the scenes is likely the doings of Agatha, as Wanda's world is sometimes out of her control. Quicksilver's revival is almost definitely her doing.
  • She's also been steering Wanda and Vision away from Monica when she appears. In Episode 7 we see her staging that conversation with Herb, immediately after the birth of the twins, so that she can strongly hint to Vision that Monica is up to something. She also swoops in and whisks Wanda away when Monica tries to talk her down in Episode 7; there's no magic involved there, but it's clear that she doesn't want Monica talking to Wanda or Vision and maybe persuading them to question their reality.
  • Plus, she killed Sparky too!
  • Among the first things she does upon The Reveal is to mess with Wanda's mind to insert a Munsters intro sequence. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that she's been pulling strings in the sense of making Wanda's mental state worse, or amplifying negative emotions to manipulate her.
  • Agatha may have been responsible for Mr. Hart choking in episode 1, to try and shock Wanda out of her delusion. She may have made Vision "drunk" in episode 2 to try and stress Wanda into snapping out of it. Basically, she's been trying to subtly nudge Wanda out of the happy housewife sitcom narrative she built (and I believe Agatha says exactly that, or words to that effect). When that doesn't work, but she sees Wanda's at a tipping point thanks to expanding the Hex, the arrival of Pietro, and Monica trying to talk her down, she decides to just yank back the curtain and explain it all.

How does Darcy know about the specifics of Vision's death?

• It's understandable that she'd know Vision died (see above) but how did she know that Vision died twice? Wanda was the only one to witness Vision's first death and Thanos rewinding time and killing him the second time; the other Avengers only came across Vision's corpse after Wanda had already been Snapped, so they would have no idea about what had happened. And would Wanda really have told S.W.O.R.D. the details after she was brought back in the Blip?
  • Steve was there when Wanda was killing Vision, that was when he blocked Thanos from using the infinity gauntlet to go after them. Then he got tossed aside, so he wouldn't have seen Thanos use the Time Stone bring Vision back to life, but he still could have put it together. It would make sense for him to tell the other Avengers how Vision died, and word could have traveled to S.W.O.R.D. from one of them.
  • Wanda (and the rest of the Avengers) were probably tied up in debriefings for several days after Endgame. Once Darcy outed Wanda and Vision being inside the Hex, they were probably given their dossier, including Wanda's account of what happened in both battles. It accounts for how they knew Wanda made a strong one-woman stand against Thanos and how Vision died... twice.
  • There were several heroes who witnessed Vision's first death. They were knocked aside by Thanos, but none of them very far. A few of them could have still seen the time reversal and second death, or enough of it to piece together what happened. And even if they were all unconscious, one of them was Rhodey, wearing the War Machine armor, which was almost certainly recording everything happening in sight, with Bruce's Hulkbuster armor likely doing the same. There's a probably a video record of what went down.

Monica's Powers.

• What happened to Monica when she went through the Hex? Did she get her powers sort of like Captain Marvel?
  • In the comics she's also known as Spectrum or Photon. This could be an explanation.
  • In the comics, Monica receives her powers in an explosion (Hulk style). Also, Darcy tell Monica that the Hex is rewriting her DNA. Basically, Monica suffer a mutation that give her the powers she now had.

Project Cataract.

• Project Cataract is revealed to be a program to create living weapons based in Vision. Is this the origin of the MCU version of the Sentinels?
  • Introducing the Sentinels before seeing the MCU equivalent of the X-Men seems like a really big leap ahead, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
  • I never said that Cataract is going to become the Sentinels now, but is more than likely that Hayward's plans are stopped, and someone take the project later and upgrade it into the Sentinels we know. Also, considering that Hayward seem to despise super-powered people (and he's not the only one), the MCU Sentinels can be a variation that hunt, not just mutants, but also people with super-powers like Wanda, Captain Marvel, Skye/Quake, Kamala Khan or the Gamma Family (Hulk, She-Hulk, The Abomination, The Leader).
  • It's possible. But the MCU has already had a "Heroes vs. AI" plot (Age of Ultron) and a "Heroes made illegal" plot (Civil War), so it would tread on pretty familiar ground.
  • Very unlikely. Cataract wasn't about building weapons based on Vision, but it was an attempt to resurrect Vision as a weapon, and it succeeded when they got a sample of Wanda's power.

The Aerospace Engineer

• I saw a lot of people thinking Monica’s “guy over the ridge” and the previously mentioned Aerospace engineer is Major Goodner and being upset over the underwhelming reveal and I’m wondering if it was ever confirmed that Major Goodner was the actual Aerospace engineer and if the engineer and person over the ridge are even connected statements? I don’t recall anything to suggest that the person Monica was meeting was the Aerospace engineer besides assumption? Major Goodner was definitely the person over the edge but was she the actual engineer? I feel like people are just making assumptions and the true engineer will be revealed in the next episode or finale.
  • I can't remember who it was that said it, but I'm fairly certain that someone on the show said that Goodner isn't the engineer. Don't take my word for it though.

House purchasing confusion

• How did Vision, an android created by the Avengers who was still trying to figure out how to live like a human, manage to purchase a plot of land in his name? Even if he managed to lift some money from an Avengers bank account or something, is he allowed to do that as a machine-like being?
  • If Vision is an entity that is legally bound to follow the Sokovia Accords, he can probably sign a lease. At least that's how I imagine a room full of Avenger/Stark Industries lawyers arguing it.
  • He asked Tony or Pepper to pull strings for him. If whatever AI Tony was using in Johannesburg was able to buy a skyscraper under construction within a few seconds, a house in New Jersey would be trivial.
  • Even if Vision was never formally granted the rights and legal status of a human, he's certainly closer to being a human than, say, a corporation would be. Corporations buy real estate all the time. Plus, considering how SHIELD sorely wanted to prosecute Loki, a non-human, as a war criminal after the Battle of New York - something you do to human offenders, not dangerous animals or whatever - it's likely that the legal system of the MCU has adapted a standard of "If it talks, acts, and makes decisions like a person, we'll treat it like one", with regards to other forms of intelligence.

Defective bomb

• How and why would you send in a defective bomb? Is it some sort of plan by Stark Industries to pretend that they're participating in the war by trying to lower deaths and causalities as much as possible?
  • It was directly implied by Agatha that it was Wanda who made it defective with her latent witchcraft. Also bombs turning out to be defective is just a thing that happens, especially when deployed by a third world militia instead of highly trained military personnel.
  • Ah. Not sure how I missed the implication part.
  • Also, a plan like that is highly unlikely considering this was the era where Obadiah Stane was in charge and selling weapons to terrorists and war criminals with no qualms about it whatsoever.
  • Ok, the history of Stark Industries eludes me in the sense that I don't know much about it beyond most of the MCU movies, so I'm gonna ask maybe dumb questions: 1) Before Tony, was Stark Industries perfectly fine with selling weapons for war? 2) Considering how advanced the company was at the time it seems somewhat unlikely that their bombs would be defective. How ok where they with selling weapons for war? I'm aware that they make weapons in the modern day but I'm fairly sure that Iron Man is highly-against selling them for war.
  • 1) Yes, it's the basis of the plot for the first Iron Man movie. 2) Like the episode said, the bomb wasn't defective, Wanda subconsciously used her probability hex to disarm it. Additionally, Stark Industries doesn't manufacture weapons anymore, Tony saw to that as soon as he got home from Afghanistan where he saw the horrible things people did with those weapons.
  • Nobody's saying the bomb was defective intentionally. No manufacturing process is perfect, and any mass-produced items will have some which aren't built properly. Or which break in transit. Wanda thinks she was just lucky enough that the one which hit her house was broken and hence didn’t detonate. Agatha implies it wasn't and Wanda's powers kept it from exploding, but nobody is saying that NONE of Stark Industries’ products ever malfunction.
  • A crappy manufacturing process might make one item in ten defective. A top-of-the-line, insanely-high-quality-controlled process might have one item in a million be defective. But that's still one in one million that doesn't work right. Even if you double-check after manufacturing, there's still the probability (and thus, eventual certainty) that one item will be shipped which does not work as it's intended, or has been mishandled between shipping and use in such a way that it is rendered inoperable. Thus, it is totally possible that the second bomb that hit the Maximoff residence was defective. And if there's a probability, no matter how small, that it is defective, a probability hex will turn that into a certainty.

The Commercial Couple

• Just who are/were they? Their frequent appearance and references to Wanda's past makes you think they were important people like her parents or the HYDRA scientists who experimented on her, but Episode 8 josses both possibilities. So who are they?
  • The blinking red light of the Stark bomb was referenced in one of the Strucker watch commercial, meaning that they're likely real. Considering that the rooms appear to be a Weirdness Censor-based set (although their awareness of the set is rather vague) the commercials were likely just done on a set. Her trauma manifests as In-Universe commercials.
  • For all we know, they might not even be real people. We haven't seen any of the other commercial people within Westview, so it could just be a construct of Wanda's within her own mind. And given that she's created another Vision and her own children, it doesn't seem too out there.

What about Pietro's powers, then?

• Episode 8 reveals that Wanda did not get her powers from the Mind Stone, but that she actually already had chaos magic that was merely enhanced by the Stone. So how did Pietro get his powers then? Are the powers genetic, and he already had them, just like Wanda? Then why did he get super-speed instead of magical powers like Wanda?
  • Could bring up the possibility that they are actually mutants and are Magneto's children. And they actually were adopted by a Sokovian couple when they were babies.
  • Wanda is shown to have natural magic, with Agatha specifically suggesting a probability hex kept the second bomb from going off. It's not a leap to suggest Wanda used that to give Pietro abilities instead of death when Strucker experimented on him. If Wanda went first, she had a massive power upgrade to her inborn abilities, making it even more likely.
  • Maybe Pietro is using his mind somehow in order to use his Super-Speed, which could've been because of Mind Stone exposure. It's also worth noting that Carol Danvers, a regular human, got powers from the Tesseract that weren't entirely based on manipulating the space around her, so Pietro having non-magical abilities after being exposed to an Infinity Stone doesn't seem too farfetched.
  • Could it be possible that Pietro's Super-Speed is of a magical nature?
  • I think the implication is either that Pietro and Wanda are both mutants, and the Mind Stone only unlocked/enhanced what was already there, or Wanda specifically was already magical, and after she unlocked her powers with the stone, she probably unconsciously made sure Pietro also survived the process, and gave him his powers while at it. The HYDRA officials specifically mention that no one survived contact with the stone before Wanda, so Pietro came later, making this possible.
  • Wouldn't that mean that Ralph has been given Super-Speed instead? I wonder if it's permanent.
  • In the original final draft of the Episode 8 script, it is revealed that Pietro survived the experiments because Wanda protected him.
  Agatha: Little orphan Wanda got up close and personal with an Infinity Stone that amplified what would otherwise have died on the vine. You got lucky, kid.
  Wanda: Lucky? I had no idea what I would become.
  [HYDRA Wanda’s head turns sharply to listen]
  HYDRA Scientist: I want to get the brother in immediately. If the stone kills him, well, that’s why twins come in a set.
  Agatha: I do like him. [Agatha moves to Present Day Wanda, her eyes glittering] I bet Pietro survived because of you. You protected him. Not for long though, am I right? But long enough to get some powers out of the deal. Thanks, sis!

Meta-awareness of the set

• Do the sets In-Universe follow a sort of logic to them? Agatha made it seem as though the sets were concealed from the eyes of everyone, but doesn't their existence imply that they've been moving around sets while being constantly unaware of their movement? This is a real Mind Fuck for me.
  • If you mean the set at the end of the episode, I'm pretty sure that was just a trolling illusion by Agatha and not actually real. Everyone is just existing in the actual town.
  • I was more-so talking about the actual houses themselves, but what you said makes sense.
  • There is a certain logic in treating the main locations (the house and Vision's workplace) as sets. The interior doesn't match the exterior. Almost everybody is mind controlled to behave as their were on a sitcom, so it's not a leap for them to treat the sets as if they were actual interiors. Plus, we've seen what happens when Wanda realizes somebody has gone off-script.

What exactly IS a synthezoid?

• In Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Vision is specifically created by Dr. Cho with a machine that makes artificial ORGANIC TISSUE, yet in episode 8 we see that Vision's remains are clearly full of metal parts and wires. So, how does that work? (EDIT: And yes, he obviously had wires in Infinity War as well, but the Fridge Logic just hadn't hit me until this)
  • Vision is a Biomechanical lifeform. He is made of living tissue with the benefits there of such as a brain capable of forming new connections with a high degree of neuroplasticity like a human. However his cells are designed rather then evolved and contain vibranium allowing them to do things no normal organic creature could. His wires and metallic parts are likely an equivalent to a nervous system using plastic coated vibranium neuron bundles. Additionally it's quite likely all these seemingly solid parts would have been flexible like ribbon cables when he was alive and the stiffness now is a result of something akin to rigimortis effecting his vibranium organic tissues.
  • He had wires in Infinity War, too, so... maybe the wires were generated as a nervous system by the cradle? Or Ultron had an endoskeleton with wiring already made that he had Dr. Cho work over?
  • It's not actual skin. It's replicating skin. Like the sentinels from the X-Men movies.
  • It's a holdover from the comics. In the older comics, I always interpreted it as meaning that he was sort of biological, but with plastic cells. Kind of like Bladerunner replicants, who are biological, but can stick their hands with incredibly cold liquid without injury because they are chemically artificial. But they kept the word once they established him as having wires and such, even though it no longer made sense.
  • This is further complicated in the final episode, where Hex Vision refers to his monochromatic counterpart as "a carbon-based synthezoid".
  • Think of him as a cyborg, a combination of organic and mechanical parts, though coming from the mechanical direction rather than the organic. He does have flesh and blood, they're all just heavily impregnated with vibranium circuitry.
  • A synthezoid is an artificial human. What sets them apart from androids or robots in that they're not just a mechanical skeleton with an outer skin that's designed to make them look human, they have fully functioning synthetic organs too.

When were Wanda's parents killed?

• We're told that Wanda was born in 1989 and that she was ten when her parents died, implying that the flashback to them takes place in 1999. But they have a DVD of Malcolm in the Middle (premiered 2000, so presumably not out on DVD for some time afterwards). Also, while DVDs did exist then (the first players were marketed in 1996), would a poor family in Not Yugoslavia really have been able to afford them?
  • If Wanda was born in late 1989, then it's not impossible to say that they were still ten in 2000 (before their birthday) and that the DVD was one of the earliest copies sold. As for how they bought them, I think I heard that her dad was searching/stealing DVDs to sell for money and to teach the twins English.
  • It could be the Mandela Effect. If not recorded, a person's memories of a traumatic experience are not going to be 100% accurate to the actual events, so it's possible that Wanda's mind simply added Malcolm in the Middle in place of whatever show it actually was, even though she didn't start watching it until much later in life.
  • In Episode 5, we see a newspaper article that describes the air raid that killed Wanda's parents. The date is March 31, 1999.
  • Writers Cannot Do Math.
  • For the record, the Malcolm in the Middle DVD released in 2002 in our world.
  • Maybe the Malcolm DVD set that Wanda's father had was a bootleg. Perhaps an Eastern European TV pirate recorded live episodes, burned them to DVD-Rs, tossed them into some pretty cases, and then sold them on the black market to people who couldn't get the actual broadcast.
    • It sure would be talented to bootleg episodes that aired in 2000 in 1999.
  • The simplest Hand Wave is that in the MCU, which is not exactly like our universe, Malcolm just premiered a year or two earlier.

Billy and Tommy's surname

• Why is Billy and Tommy's surname Maximoff and not Vision? Does it have to do with Wanda and Vision not being legally married or just the fact that the Vision technically doesn't have a last name?
  • I'd guess the latter. The property rights Vision has lists his name as "The Vision." Vision is his name, not his surname.
  • It's also possible that Vision just adopted the Maximoff surname, resulting in his kids following suit. A husband changing their last name instead of the wife is uncommon but entirely possible within families, and it seems like it would have to be enforced here, given that Vision has no last name.
  • Also seeing that Wanda is the last of her family it makes sense that the twins were given her surname so it wouldn't died with her eventually.
  • The Vision doesn't exactly have a name. His name is just that: "The Vision" on the property deed.

What was Monica's Plan?

• Monica knows how the anomaly works at this point, even if she doesn't know it's magic. It controls anyone who enters it and transforms materials at a molecular level to best match Wanda's current view of reality. And yet Monica thinks she can overcome it with an armored car and a space suit? That's equivalent to thinking you can walk across lava by wearing a SCUBA suit; that round peg isn't going to fit in a square hole.
  • I believe the idea behind Monica's determination to go through the Hex at all costs isn't supposed to be rational, hence why she receives pushback from Jimmy and Darcy. Like Wanda, Monica is also going through a grief-filled spell in her life, only she's using it to do reckless and poorly-thought plans instead of warping all of reality.
  • I get that, but that more explains her leaping into the barrier after her plan fails. The car and space rover were both pre-meditated, and she had to call in for both. She can be suicidally desperate to get back into the Hex while understanding her preparations and precautions make no difference. And even if she's so far gone she can't make that call, she's surrounded by people who could point it out to her.
  • Her kevlar body armor retained its physical properties even after transforming into period-appropriate clothes. Monica's assumption probably was that, even if the rover got externally changed into something else, it would retain its physical properties, which includes impermeability to many forms of radiation. So, assuming the boundaries of the Hex uses some sort of radiation to change stuff, and that the rover was perfectly able to keep that radiation out, the inside of the rover would still be shielded, even as the outside changed. And she might even have been right, if Wanda hadn't turned the Hex up to eleven before she could try that. For all we know, it might have even worked with the beekeeper's hazmat suit, we never got to see if the person inside the suit was affected by the Hex or not before Wanda did... whatever she did with him.
  • The beekeeper became part of the cast, like Darcy and the SWORD agents turned circus performers. He's seen selling ice cream in the next episode.

Vision Showering

• Okay I get that it’s a meme on Twitter right now, but would Vision actually be capable of using a shower like the Bewitched animations demonstrated? How do we know it wouldn’t fry his entire system like any other machine?
  • Maybe Vision has an IP 68 rating for water resistance.
  • Vision was made by Wakanda, making it more than likely that he's completely waterproof. Phasing through water is also an option for him.
  • He was not made by Wakanda, he was made from Vibranium, which comes from Wakanda, mixed with some biotechnology created by a Korean doctor specializing in synthetic skin, years before Wakanda revealed its technology to the world.
  • If The Vision wasn't waterproof he's be the lamest superhero of all time.
  • All the electronics and wires seen in Vision's body appear to be contained inside him beneath his "flesh", so as long as he doesn't swallow water he'd probably be fine.
  • Vision is not a robot in the sense that we think of one, with computer circuitry and servos. He's more of an actual organism made of vaguely defined electronic components. Just like we don't short our nervous systems when we shower, even though there's electricity going through them, his body is probably build in such a way that contains every electric signal from being easily messed up with.

"Accidentally Correct Writing"

• I don't know if this is the correct place to put this here, but are we really aware if the writers really didn't know that there was a Westview in New Jersey? It seems sort of like a stretch to assume that they didn't base it off of the real Westview, despite the location in the show being different.
  • Kevin Feige was raised in Westview, NJ. There's no possible way they were unaware.
  • Westview, or Westfield?
    • West View for the IRL neighborhood in Ridgefield Park, which is within eyesight of Manhattan. Westfield for "where Kevin Feige was from".

"The Witches being Idiots?"

• So, you try your flashy execution technique and it backfires, and you just, keep doing it? You'd think after the first people straight withered into corpses the rest would stop, it's not like there was a power struggle, they could've just stabbed her or something as she was handcuffed. Even if we buy that the rest of the witches were locked into the action, why didn't the coven leader intervene?
  • I was under the impression that 1) Once the spell started they couldn't break it. And 2) They swore an oath to stop Agatha.
  • As for 1), the coven leader hadn't started yet and had ample time to do something about it though. With Agatha still tied to the stake she could've done anything except for the magic beams and easily offed her.
  • To be fair this would probably be the only way they could stop her. You'd think they'd pick another option, but no. She had enough power to override them all so at that point she was stronger than them. The one thing that kept her in place was the binding spell, and even she learned how to overpower that. Basically, nothing they tried would've actually worked against her.
  • Also to be fair, this was in the 1600s. People back then weren't exactly the smartest or most rational human beings back then.
  • While this is true, in this case I don't think this is necessarily the answer. Even if it would kill them, they did everything in their power to stop her.
  • Going by their reactions and the way they were being physically dragged toward her, it seemed like they couldn’t stop once she started draining their energy.
  • This, and it seemed as though none of them wanted out in the first place. They could've bailed at any time, but chose not to.
  • This gets way worse when, just a while later, Agatha shows off some "basic runes" that are able to completely shut down magic done by other people, no matter how powerful. You'd imagine such a basic spell would be really useful when you're trying to execute someone with amazing magical powers. Her coven really was Too Dumb to Live.
    • It's not clear the others were aware of those runes or their powers. Agatha could have discovered them after that incident, in response to that incident, or perhaps from studying the kinds of forbidden arts that they were punishing her for in the first place.
    • It's possible Agatha WAS nullified by (unseen) runes, and that she's not so much casting a spell as bending the coven's spells back at them. That actually matches what we see pretty well.
    • Which still begs the question as to why, seeing her coven-sisters' magic being "bent", Evanora didn't just say to heck with spellcasting and shoot Agatha with a flintlock or whatever.
  • This is probably a nasty case of Squishy Wizard at play. The coven was trying to stop her the only way they knew how. Unlike sorcerers, witches don't seem to rely on weaponry or relics to channel their energy, so they wouldn't be accustomed to resort to arcane objects for defense when usually their magic should do.
  • The coven started out trying to kill Agatha, but once she found she could drain their power through the same connection, she took over. The coven witches were no longer in control of the spell and couldn't break off. As for Agatha's mother trying to blast her after the rest had failed- maybe she thought she could do the same trick on Agatha and drain her, or possibly trying to cause Phlebotinum Overload.

Are the coven related to the Doctor Strange wizards?

• So the magic special effects used by the coven are basically the same effects used by the wizards from the Doctor Strange side of the MCU. I'm guessing they're related to each other in some form?
  • Maybe? There isn't really a clear taxonomy of magic in the MCU, so to speak. Until there's more evidence either way, this feels more like fuel for a Wild Mass Guessing entry than a Headscratcher.
  • They're probably not part of the same sect of magicians associated with the Ancient One, if that's what you're asking.

What happened to characters?

• So, the finale left a lot of open questions about some characters. What the heck happened to Ralph/Fietro after the Hex was gone? Did he keep his powers? And can a powerful enough witch really just willy-nilly grant superpowers to people? For that matter, what happened to Agatha after the Hex was undone? Wanda brainwashed her into her sitcom self, but then the sitcom reality collapsed, so is she now wandering around Westview acting like a nosy neighbour with no house to go back to (since the one she was living in was Ralph's)? And what happened to white Vision after he left? His realisation about his existence and recovery of his memory seemed like it would lead to some conclusion between him and Wanda, but then he just flew out of the plot altogether. I get it that they're possibly setting up stuff for future movies and maybe even a second season, but they could have given us some closure for those guys after everything was over, no need to leave those threads completely unattended.
  • Seems pretty straightforward. Wanda would have accounted for the sitcom collapsing, so Agatha is certainly still transformed. We simply don't know where White Vision is.
  • Regarding Fietro: episode 8 established that Agatha did not have anywhere close to the amount of power Wanda did; she was just well-studied. Ralph was the only person she transformed, and it's highly unlikely she had enough power to give him, or indeed anyone, superpowers. Combine that with the fact Jimmy's Witsec missing person is unaccounted for, and it seems likely that Ralph is in fact Quicksilver.

The lot in Westview

• So, Wanda undoes the Hex and sacrifices her own happiness and her artificial family to save everyone in Westview. That's a very touching moment and all, but it seems like she could easily have given Westview back to its denizens and kept her family safe, by just restricting the Hex to her own house. Sure, that's far from perfect, since now Vision and the kids can never leave their house, but it seems better than just giving them up entirely, specially since they have minds of their own, and therefore can be considered alive in a certain way. That would allow her to do whatever she's doing at the post-credits stinger, while still having her family by her side.
  • Do you really think the people of Westview would be okay with that?
  • The lot is hers, they have no say in what she does with it whatsoever. I doubt any of them would try anything crazy knowing first-hand what happens when you step into the Hex. It's by no means a permanent solution, but it would allow her time to work on one, without "killing" her family before she can find it.
  • Considering that we next see her isolating herself away from everyone, she may have felt it was too dangerous for her to stay in proximity to other people until she has a better handle on her powers, in case something like the Hex happens again.
  • Her husband, children, and home aren't real. Living an imaginary life to avoid coping with loss isn't healthy.
  • Wanda has already caused the people of Westview enough grief. It would be borderline cruel to plant herself in the middle of town in a house-sized Hex bubble, acting as a constant glowing reminder that their tormentor is still there and could brainwash them all again at a moment's notice. Meanwhile, Vision and the kids would be under house arrest for who knows how long- maybe forever- and at some point, someone would pick up where Hayward left off and start trying to bring Wanda to justice by besieging their home.
  • At best, this would result in Wanda keeping her husband and children permanently isolated in a single house they could never leave.
  • Most importantly, by the time she has to make that choice, Wanda's seen so much that she can no longer sustain the pretense for herself, play-acting that her life is a sitcom or her family is real. Even if she could keep them bottled up in a mini-Hex, Wanda would always be aware that Hex Vision and her twins are constructs - that, in effect, she's just talking to imaginary friends in there - making them more like a haunting than company.

Are the people in Westview in the wrong?

• I kind of have a problem with the show presenting the people of Westview as the bad guys for being upset at Wanda. Wanda's certainly no villain, but I feel as though the people of Westview aren't unjustified in being angry with her. The show seems to treat them like villains for being angry at her, but she's been torturing them for days. Even if it was an accident, and even if she had to sacrifice her family to save them, some bitter feelings should be justified. Yet Monica seems to be angry at them for daring to be upset with Wanda. The entire show Monica seemed more focus on helping Wanda, and not helping the citizens. Her scenes read like a very bad case of Stockholm Syndrome for her captor. I don't get it, are we supposed to sympathize with the townspeople or are they as bad as Hayward?
  • The show doesn't exactly treat them like villains, but since Wanda is the protagonist it's hard not to sympathize with her even if the people who hate her are in the right. Wanda never claims she wasn't in the wrong, at least not after she's forced to snap out of her denial of what her spell is actually doing to people. But due to Protagonist-Centered Morality they inevitably come off as unlikable even though they're not actually wrong.
  • "They'll never know what you sacrificed for them". That's one line I had a problem with. Wanda sacrificed her fantasy with Vision and her kids to free the Westview citizens, but Wanda was the one that put the people of Westview in that situation in the first place. Obviously telling the townspeople that you gave up your fantasy family to free them from mental torture isn't going to make them feel any better about you did to them.
  • They're certainly not as bad as Hayward, even suggesting such a thing is silly. Their reactions are understandable, but it's still uncomfortable to see them acting that way. Both views can be held at the same time.
  • I don't think the show presented them as bad at all. Their reaction is entirely understandable, and Monica was probably just trying to be nice to Wanda, and not really demonise them.
  • Why do people infantalize Monica by saying she's stockholming? She has empathized with Wanda and called her out in equal measure, and I thought it was pretty obvious that she's Wanda's foil in better handling her grief.
  • These people were brainwashed, had their kids stuffed inside a magical cupboard for weeks and were mentally tortured to the point where they quite literally started begging for death. You have to admit, in those circumstances, Monica's comment comes across as shockingly tactless at best, and sociopathic at worst.
  • To be fair to Monica, at that moment Wanda was the most powerful and most dangerous person in Westview by far. Pissing her off with Brutal Honesty would probably not have been a good idea then.
  • Monica is more likely just "putting herself in Wanda's shoes" (she understands how Wanda was feeling) and trying to be nice to her. Also in a way, let her know that someone is still on her side. And for the people of Westview, they are not presented as the bad guy, but as people, ordinary normal people, not sitcom characters, but the general public. Anyone who went though what they had, will understandably hold that kind of anger towards Wanda. They may slowly cool down and let it go, but it will take time, a lot of time. You can't expect people to forgive that soon, that will be a sitcom-ish situation, and those people are not meant to be written as sitcom characters, just common people.
  • While Monica's line is certainly tone deaf, it doesn't mean she's excusing what Wanda did. She is just showing some sympathy since she also lost her mother recently, and knows it must have been hard for Wanda to willingly give up her perfect world after losing literally everyone. One could be generous and assume Monica could be referring to Wanda's sacrifice of Vision in an attempt to stop Thanos in Infinity War.
  • That is actually correct, as it is the weight of that sacrifice (and the horror of seeing it undone) that kickstarts the series, even if Monica's ambiguous wording makes it seem like they are discussing the immediate fallout of the episode instead. The townspeople are probably aware that Wanda gave up her artificial family life for their sake, as they surely witnessed Vision and the twins screaming in pain when Wanda lifted the Hex to release everyone. However, they remain oblivious to the fact that Wanda just came off of sacrificing her soulmate to protect one half of existence (oftentimes they don't even seem to recognize her beyond her current role as their tormentor). Sadly, as Wanda herself admits, having intimate knowledge of one of her most selfless acts in the franchise would make her grief more understandable to outsiders, but it wouldn't wash away the abuse and suffering the citizens endured in her hands; and it certainly doesn't excuse her denial and reticence to end the spell once its effects on the residents became more apparent.

Hayward's motives

• So that’s off the table the theory that he was actually Ultron in disguise. So what the hell was his reason for being such a psychotic manipulative asshole, wanting to kill Wanda? Was it just purely for the evulz?
  • To me it just seems like he was Only in It for the Money and also for recognition. Whenever he talked about Vision he was usually talking about money and how "ethical" his acts were. He's basically like a corrupt evil businessman.
  • Probably he had the same reason as Bolivar Trask: racism against super-powered people.
  • Ehh, I don't think there's any evidence that he's racist against super-powered people. It's very clear that he's only after Vision for the money and recognition, but I never really got the impression that he had a thing against them. He is oppressive, yes, but maybe not racist against them. Then again, he could be lying.
    • He talked about Monica having too much sympathy for Superhumans.
  • When Hayward's giving his briefing, he downplays her service as an Avenger while putting more emphasis on her time as a radicalist, a HYDRA weapon, an agent of Ultron, and a traitor who helped Captain America during Civil War. He probably never fully bought that she reformed, and saw the Westview incident as an extension of her previous crimes. In his defense, her record is terrible.

Does Monica keep her powers?

• Now that the barrier is gone, did her powers remain? Even outside of the barrier, it's safe to assume that she can still do all of that Neo stuff.
  • As shown by her X-ray, Darcy's examination, and ultimately her soaking up Hayward's bullets, Monica's body was altered on an atomic level. So she's keeping her powers because her body has been transformed by passing through the Hex multiple times. In the comics she's basically no longer flesh and blood, but a being of energy projecting a hard light human body, so MCU Monica is somewhere along the same area.
    • Ah okay, that makes sense. Thanks.

If everyone is fast, no one is...

• The last episode seems to demonstrate that, including Wanda, everyone in her family has Super-Speed. What gives?
  • Did it? Wanda appeared to teleport with her magic.
  • Although Camera Tricks were used, it definitely looked as though she sped herself up during the scene when she put Agatha's mind in the illusional world.
  • In Age of Ultron, Wanda appeared to move unnaturally quick when messing with Steve's mind in Strucker's base, so it may be a similar perception-based illusion here.

Why didn’t Vision try looking for Wanda?

• So as it turns out that White Vision is actually the original one brought back to life, and when he got his memories back, why wasn’t the first thing he thought about was Wanda? Surely it would make sense that that his first concern would be finding the woman he loves. Instead he just took off.
  • A Fridge Horror entry explains it pretty well: "Why did White Vision immediately fly off once he regained his memories? Because he now remembers Wanda, the woman he tried to brutally kill barely five minutes before; even if he has no emotional attachment to her, that's not the sort of thing you can just shake off."
  • He has his old memories but not the emotional attachments to them.
  • Even without the emotional attachment, white Vision's reaction is strange, like the showrunners didn't know how to wrap up his presence in the show, and just decided to throw that forward to his next appearance. Before he developed complex emotions, Vision was always a very inquisitive being (and white Vision certainly retains that characteristic, or else he wouldn't have agreed to be talked down by hex Vision), and unlocking his old memories would logically raise a lot of questions, that either Wanda or Hayward would be perfectly equipped to answer.
  • He may have thought it was too risky to approach Wanda right away, lest she think he was trying to pull a trick and defend herself — better to go away for a while, think things through on his own, and try to contact her after things calmed down.
  • He also doesn't know how the situation with Hex!Vision is going to be resolved. Until it has been, having two Visions around would just cause problems; he presumably trusted the Hex version of himself to find a resolution.
  • Also white Vision has a lot of his own problems to deal with right now. His entire worldview has been shattered by the realization that he is in fact the person he was dispatched to kill, he has to process another lifes worth of memories that are both his and foreign to him at the same time, hes probably on the run from at least one government being an illegally created AI, and he has to deal with the existential matters of his existence as a reanimated synthezoid corpse. Even if he had full emotional connection to his memories of Wanda and he wanted to go back to her there is a lot he needs to sort out first.

Anti-magic runes

• So when Wanda used the runes that prevent all spells by any witches in the area except herself, why did Agatha keep floating instead of plummeting out of the sky?
  • Wanda has the power to levitate people. As they floated to the ground, note how level they are with each other. Like a puppet, Agatha goes limp as she falls to the ground.
  • But before she took all her power back, Wanda was very frail and withered. How did she have the power to levitate two people? And why would she levitate Agatha instead of just dropping her or grounding her?
  • Uhhhh, did you not pay attention? Wanda absorbed Agatha's magic/energy. Also, that last question should be very easy to answer if you just think about it.
  • The runes keep spells from being cast, but they never say it stops spells that had already been cast (notice how Wanda's power also doesn't immediately come back to her, she has to actively reabsorb it). Agatha was flying under her own power until Wanda sucked out all of her magic, at which point the levitation spell probably got dispelled, and Wanda gently levitated Agatha down herself.
  • As others said she was probably just levitating them both, but it's also worth pointing out that Wanda may not have even been drained by Agatha (or at least not as much as she appeared to be). Her plan was to distract Agatha while appearing to be losing so she could have just been faking the effects of draining the same way she was faking all those missed shots, if she can recolor the entire area in black and white why can't she make her skin a little ashy?

Is it the same Darkhold?

• The Darkhold previously showed up in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Runaways (2017). If this is the same Darkhold, then this is the biggest connection to Marvel TV shows in a Marvel Studios work. However, the Darkhold looks different, and it seems kind of surprising that Feige would pick now to acknowledge the old shows. What's going on with the Darkhold?
  • Two possibilities: 1) It's a copy, and 2) the book can change it's own appearance.
  • Third Possibility: The TV shows aren't canon or are a lower tier of canon, therefore this is the first "real" appearance of the Darkhold.
  • Fourth possibility: Someone replaced the cover and/or rebound the Darkhold.
  • There's a picture in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s archives of the Darkhold with a different appearance. This would indicate that it can simply change the way it looks, depending on the era and owner.
  • Even without that picture, it'd be highly unlikely that the cover would have used english when it was first created. Which is said to be from an alternate dimension in the ancient times.
  • The Darkhold has always had the ability in the MCU to change its appearance to be legible to a reader.

Issues with Project Cataract

• So this whole time I keep coming up with a question I can't answer. What exactly was Hayward's plan had Project Cataract (as we know, reactivation Vision) had he actually succeeded prior to the show? Through Jimmy Woo and Hayward's own quote, we know that any attempt at reactivating Vision is in direct violation of both the Sokovia Accords and Vision's will. We can get that he would kill off Wanda and "construct" Vision within the Hex and would essentially blame Wanda for Vision's revival. "Hey, we didn't do it, it was Wanda but since Vision is back we might as well make use of it." But he makes note during the Episode 8 Stinger that S.W.O.R.D. had been making attempts over the last 5 years to reactivate Vision. If they had gotten the job done... how the hell was he expecting to avoid any sort of jail time? He certainly wouldn't have Wanda to blame prior to the Blip as she was dusted, and none of the surviving Avengers would've taken too kindly to Vision getting used like that.
  • Presumably, he would keep white Vision under wraps, until he could find a way to believably introduce it and blame someone else. Or a crisis so big that people would overlook his crimes because white Vision saved the day.
  • Hell, it's only been a few weeks since Wanda visited SWORD and White Vision already looks different. He clearly has the same shape-shifting powers as the original as seen in his fight with Hex Vision. It wouldn't be too hard to reintroduce him as a new superhero entirely who acts out Hayward's agenda under the guise of his own missions.
  • Just assume Hayward is a shortsighted bully with no vision.

How did White Vision enter the Hex?

• We never see him enter the Hex, he just shows up, despite anything and anyone beyond Agatha and Wanda being altered by it.
  • By flying in.
  • Things entering the Hex are altered to fit. The 80's drone got in without changes because it fit the era. The Hex has always had a Vision, so White Vision didn't need to be altered to fit.
  • We see Monica subconsciously using/unlocking her new powers to avoid the effects of the Hex altogether when she enters a second time. Vision can turn completely intangible, so presumably he would be able to do exactly the same thing.

How was S.W.O.R.D. tracking the sitcom version of Vision?

• We now know that the whole "Wanda stole Vision's corpse" lie was a misdirect by Hayward to hide the twist that S.W.O.R.D. still had the real Vision all along. Which begs the question, how were they able to track Wanda's new Vision then? When Darcy discovered that they're tracking Vision within the hex, this was also a misdirect to get us to believe that Wanda had the real Vision. However, after it's revealed that S.W.O.R.D. had him, it's never explained how they were able to precisely track the new, fake Vision's every move if they had no way of getting into the hex.
  • They were tracking Vision's vibranium signature. That version of Vision might be a magical construct that can't exist outside the Hex, but while inside he is physically identical to the original Vision, and thus can be tracked like him.

What was Hayward expecting of White Vision?

• White Vision doesn't seem to be any stronger than the regular version. Was Hayward expecting his killbot would just fly in there and easily take down a) a being of equal strength and abilities and b) Wanda, who's *stronger* than Vision? He also knew nothing about Agnes, so to his knowledge, husband and wife would be taking on the intruder together, at full strength.
  • We see White Vision attack Wanda when she’s alone. The plan was probably for him to stake out the area until she and Hex Vision were separated, and then quickly kill Wanda like he almost does by taking advantage of her emotional reaction. Since Hayward thinks killing Wanda will end the Hex, he probably thought that would eliminate Hex Vision as well.
  • He was counting on the element of surprise. It almost worked. Real fights are often determined by who can land that first hit, not who's "stronger" on some arbitrary scale. (See: How Vision got nerfed in Infinity War by Corvus Glaive weakening him earlier to make things easier when Thanos came to collect the Mind Stone.) The idea was for White Vision to take the first best opportunity against either Wanda or Vision, who wouldn't be expecting him and would probably be confused at the sight of him.

Fake Pietro's face

• Fake Pietro was, in the end, just Ralph Bohner. So why did Wanda recognise him as her brother, even though they look nothing alike? He's being mind controlled, but there's no magical glamour; Wanda openly asks why he has a different face, making it really unclear why she immediately identifies him as Pietro.
  • Presumably Wanda knew that he was supposed to be her brother due to magic (either Agatha's or her own telepathy). However, despite knowing that he was supposed to be her brother, she was clearly suspicious of him from the word go, testing him with questions about their past and such. She wanted him back, and she really needed to talk to someone, so she was willing to let it go on longer than she should have, but she wasn't really fooled.
  • Essentially, Agatha was taking advantage of Wanda's own ignorance about her powers. Wanda didn't know the full extent of what she could do, or what her powers could do on her behalf. Since Wanda didn't fully understand her own "rules", she couldn't tell whether this Pietro's appearance adhered to them or not.
  • He does KIND OF look like Pietro, and Jac Schaeffer has talked about how grief can make it hard to remember faces of lost loved ones.

So where does Agnes live now?

• Now that Agatha is locked in her "Agnes" character, is she still living in the same house as Ralph Bohner? Does Ralph just have this random woman in his house who thinks she's his wife?
  • Potentially. Wanda claimed that "no one will bother [Agatha] ever again". Since we have yet to see Agatha's aftermath, whatever she meant by that is anyone's guess, really.
  • Maybe she just became some kind of town-bond NPC(or ghost).(everyone's nosy neighbor , that just pop out once in a while , and nobody really have a close relationship(just familiar and friendly enough , but not too much) with her.) Or she can live at that foundation of 2800 Sherwood Drive.(Wanda's house address in Westview.)
  • She probably meant that Agatha's new sitcom role is the type of character that gets Put on a Bus.
  • Post-Snap Westview was clearly a dying town, deserted even by most of the people whom Thanos didn't dust, and it's way too soon after Endgame for the un-dusted to have fully reintegrated into the town. Agatha can probably set up house in any of the dozens of vacant homes in the area, whose surviving inhabitants moved away in the interim; should the original un-Blipped owners return, she'll claim (and may quite possibly believe!) she's been living there for a year or more. With millions of homeowners reappearing simultaneously, nobody's going to notice yet another Snap-squatter who's taken up residence in a place somebody else used to own and objects to being evicted.

Legal consequences for Hayward

• Just to clarify: I don't want to argue about whether or not his action where justified. I'm simply curious about the possible criminal charges he could face. The only obvious crime that comes to my mind was lying about Wanda stealing Vision’s body. Her children aren't real – at least as far as the law is concerned – so it would be hard to convict him for that. Wanda also took a whole town hostage and tortured the inhabitants, using deadly force against her is probably within the law.
  • Depending on Vision's legal status and whether the Sokovia Accords are still in effect, Hayward would be potentially guilty of
    • Illegally creating an AI in violation of the Sokovia Accords,
    • Desecrating a corpse,
    • Misappropriation of government resources,
    • Conspiracy
    • Abuse of his power and legal jurisdiction in regards to the use of Sentient Weapons. Lying to the United States government by fabricating evidence against Wanda Maximoff is a criminal conspiracy and using that evidence to get government support as well as equipment would be misappropriation regardless.
  • Real or not, Hayward shot at children. You can bet that the law wanted to avoid the chances of him shooting real kids. Also, Hayward recreated Vision, and Jimmy made it clear that creating an A.I. is against the Sokovia Accords.
  • Jimmy also mentions Hayward is overstepping his authority by the time he threw Monica, Jimmy, and Darcy out. "Overstepping authority" and abuse of power for the head of a major government organization is a huge deal, given that Hayward's whole scheme to revive Vision involves misappropriation of quite a lot of money and manpower. And there's probably a strong case to be made for Hayward recklessly endangering everyone in the Hex by antagonizing Wanda (which also involved shooting a missile at her while her children were standing next to her). Goading Wanda into trying to revive Vision might technically be a crime, but it's doubtful there's any evidence of that and no one except Wanda knows about it, so it probably won't come up.
  • Even if White Vision is AWOL, there is almost certainly evidence and records left in the SWORD base of the technology and research involved in reanimating the Vision's remains - explicitly a violation of both the Vision's own will and the Sokovia Accords. Many of Hayward's underlings seem to be in the loop about his plan as well, and it's likely that when it falls apart at least one of them would spill the beans. Jimmy Woo can also testify that Hayward laid out his entire plan to him, complete with that groan-worthy "lack of vision" pun. All the underlings who were involved, you know they'll probably cut deals in an attempt to minimize their own jail time.
  • Even going by the logic that the twins were not real children, and simply extensions of the threat posed by Wanda, Hayward continued emptying his magazine directly into Monica when she stepped in front of them.
  • Shooting at apparent children would still constitute attempted murder of said children, same as shooting at a mannequin in the belief that it's a person would. Plus, how was Hayward to know that Wanda hadn't cast a couple of genuine Westview kids as her sons, same as she'd seemingly cast a neighbor as her brother?

Where did fake Pietro get his powers from?

• So Fake Pietro is revealed to be a Westview resident named Ralph Bohner who was caught by Wanda's spell and then mind-controlled by Agatha. But where did he get his super-speed powers from? Wanda didn't give them to him, since she just wanted her domestic fantasy, not a reunion with her deceased brother. And as far as we know there's no evidence that Agnes gave him his super-speed either. So why would Ralph be able to run any faster than a typical Westview resident?
  • A couple theories: 1: Wanda subconsciously gave Ralph powers after being convinced he was Pietro. Most of the Hex was subconscious after all. 2: Wanda didn't want a domestic fantasy, she wanted a fantastical but quiet life. Why else keep herself as a witch with a robot husband and give her kids superpowers? 3: There's no evidence that Agatha couldn't give someone super-speed. We don't know the full extent of the controlling necklace she made. If she really wanted to convince Wanda, that's an easy way to do it.
  • Notably, Pietro does not display any of his superpowers when he first appears at the end of A Very Special Episode. By the time he's zipping around the house in the Halloween Spooktacular, Wanda seems to have accepted his presence. This would imply that Wanda's powers subconsciously granted him super-speed only once she decided to accept him as Pietro.

Why did Mrs. Hart want to save Mr. Hart in Episode 1 if it wasn't her husband?

• In episode 1, Mrs. Hart was so moved by Mr. Hart's choking that she almost snapped out of the spell. However, episode 4 revealed that the town's residents were artificially given roles so Mrs. Hart was probably not married to Mr. Hart.
  • It is specifically said by Fietro in the Halloween Spooktacular that Wanda kept the couples together, so chances are they are married or in a relationship. Also it is a natural and normal human reaction to not want to see another human being die right in front of you, especially if it is a completely preventable death. It would be more worrying if she wasn't fighting against Wanda's mental control to try and get her to save him.
  • In episode 4, Darcy identifies the Harts specifically as "Todd and Sharon Davis", so they were married.
  • Also, even if Mr. Hart wasn't her real husband, it might be possible that the sight of somebody choking to death in front of her was shocking enough to briefly snap her out of it.
  • 1.) It's a natural human reaction to not want people to choke to death in front of you. 2.) Even if "Mr. Hart" were someone "Mrs. Hart" hated or if she were just a sociopath who didn't care if strangers live or die, he's in the same boat as her. She could just as easily be the one accidentally choking to death while the woman forcing her to live out a bizarre fantasy looks on without helping. It's a visceral, up close realization that getting trapped in this fantasy world can be deadly and no one is going to help you.

The personhood of Fake Vision and Wanda's children

• Are we supposed to see the Vision duplicate Wanda created and her twins as being "real"? Are they actually living beings, with consciousness/self awareness/actual souls? Or are they just complex magical constructs, appearing alive but no more "real" than NPCs in a computer game? The show certainly treats them as real characters; if they were just magical NPCs then there would be no real peril for the audience to see them taken hostage by Agatha or being shot at by Hayward, or very much meaning in Wanda's tearful goodbye to them. But if they are truly living beings then doesn't the end have some additional moral baggage? They can only live inside the Hex, so ending the magic will result in their "deaths". Don't they have a right to live and exist too? Wanda certainly didn't have the right to put an entire town under her magic, or to claim ownership of said town indefinitely, even if she let all the residents out of the Hex, but is undoing the Hex justified if it causes the death of three people, even to give it back to the residents?
  • Yes, Vision and the twins are definitely alive, even if they can't live outside the Hex. It was demonstrated at several times that Wanda couldn't control them like puppets or NPCs; they had their own lives and wills. Where they came from is a little more complicated, since as far as we know Wanda can't just conjure up a soul willy-nilly. Vision's soul was the piece of the Mind Stone remaining in Wanda, and presumably it returned to her when the Hex went down (or it just vanished into the ether). Nothing solid on where the twins came from, but Wanda's line "thank you for choosing me to be your mom" and the fact that she hears them calling for her at the end implies they were existing souls that she summoned—apparently with their consent, even if they didn't remember it—and they went back to wherever they came from when the Hex fell.
  • As for whether it was moral to kill three people in order to free the town... that's a whole can of worms. The very short version is that Vision consented to the Hex being taken down, and the twins will likely be saved in the future. So that helps dodge some of the worst moral baggage of the decision.

Wanda's clothes outside the Hex

• When Wanda ends the Hex at the end of Episode 9, she returns to the same hoodie and outfit she was wearing on the day that she inadvertently created the Hex in the first place, meaning those were always her real clothes underneath the illusion (and same for her hairstyle). So why in Episode 5, when she briefly leaves the Hex to confront Hayward, is she wearing her Avengers uniform? She isn't seen "conjuring" it up like what she does with her Scarlet Witch outfit (which in itself seems to be something she only just learned how to do), she just appears already wearing it the second she marches out of the Hex.
  • Basically, just because Wanda CAN create illusions and learn new magic from Agatha, that doesn't mean that's ALL she can do. She's consistently been a reality-warper and her powers aren't limited to the Hex. She didn't have any idea she was casting spells until Agatha told her, because she's got some Chosen One level powers. The Hex itself isn't something she learned how to do or even understood, she just got very upset and did it. This would be the same way she 'hexed' the bomb, if Agatha is right about it. Monica's 'Geraldine' outfit was made from the clothing she was wearing when she entered the Hex, and when she leaves it retains the look - AND the bulletproof properties of the clothing Wanda warped. If Wanda didn't want to confront the people trying to harm her in a Hoodie of Despair, she could have constructed her Avengers outfit at any point and kept it as long as she wanted. At the end, she's consciously trying to put everything back the way it was, so she either reconstructs (probably, as it's already demonstrated she was warping the clothing) the hoodie or dispels any illusion in play. The townspeople all get their original outfits back too.
  • Since Wanda left the Hex to confront the person who was trying to take Vision away from her, she thought the most suitable get-up for intimidating Hayward to say "You want Wanda? I'll give you Wanda" is to give him the Wanda he's expecting and drive home her point of "stay out of my home," which in this case, would be her Avengers outfit. She just reshaped her attire at a molecular level to make it what she wanted (just like has been established to have happened to Monica's clothes).
  • This seems to be the only time when the rules of the Hex are reversed. Rather than something entering/being assimilated by the Hex and becoming old-timey, Wanda exits and briefly returns to normal (unlike Monica). Probably because the Hex is a product of her mind, and in the moment, Wanda knows she's not in her fantasy world when confronting the outsiders.

Agatha getting involved in the Hex

• Did Agatha somehow know that Wanda was in Westview and that she would (accidentally) create a reality-warping Hex, so she prepared to insert herself into this sitcom world? Or was she just lucky to be in the right place at the right time, and improvised as soon as the Hex was created, since she realized it was the Scarlet Witch's doing?
  • She says she detected a massive burst of magic. Presumably she was at least somewhere nearby (she has an American accent, so we can assume she was in the country), but she definitely didn't know it was the Scarlet Witch. She found the disturbance, studied it for long enough that she was confident she could enter without being mentally affected, and then went inside to gather more data.
  • Agatha's car in the Halloween episode has Connecticut license plates on it, so she was probably living there and just hotfooted it down to New Jersey pretty quickly.

80's Aspect Ratio

• The creators decided to have the aspect ratio of each in-universe WandaVision episode be accurate to what the aspect ratio of a sit-com that said episode is representing. So the episodes that are supposed to be 60's sitcom use the 4:3 aspect ratio since that's how sitcom's at the time looked. So why did they switch to 16:9 during the episode that's supposed to resemble an 80's sitcom when 16:9 definitely wasn't the standard by then. Considering how they didn't seem to commit to having the video quality regress to what was normal back then, it also having a modern aspect ratio just makes it even harder for it to pass off as an 80's sitcom. Even the next episode that's supposed to be late 90s early 2000s using 16:9 is kind of weird, since of one it's bigger inspirations is Malcolm in the Middle, and while that show was technically filmed in 16:9, it clearly wasn't supposed to be shown that way going by obvious errors that the creators would rely on being cropped out. I wouldn't say that widescreen was the standard going by the era that the episode is supposed to represent.
  • Things are definitely breaking down by the time they get to the 80's, and by the time they're spoofing Malcolm, the gosh darn theme song is about how hard it is to keep things together, but they're going to keep going anyway. Wanda's spiraling into depression, her reality is falling apart, and she's Not Even Bothering With the Aspect Ratio.
    • I have my doubts about the aspect ratio being an in-universe thing that Wanda is applying considering how when Monica makes it in the second time, the aspect ratio slowly transitions from a movie aspect ratio to a 16:9 aspect ratio, when it should be instant. This is especially because if the idea is that she's not bothering with the aspect ratio, then it should be the same aspect ratio as "real life" which is 2.35:1, the same one used in scenes that take place outside of the hex, or in the last two episodes once the Hex has already fallen apart. The thing is the show is still changing the aspect ratio between real life and the sitcom, but it's the wrong ratio.
    • It could've been a consistency thing, so that there's three straight episodes with 16:9 just like there were three straight episodes with 4:3.

The Missing Person Case

• The original reason that Jimmy was there was because he was investigating a Missing Person Case, specifically that of a person in Witness Protection. While it makes sort of sense that everybody forgot about it during the course of the show due to the more pressing matter of an entire town being enveloped in a magical field that turns everyone inside into sitcom characters, why did nobody remember it afterwards? TL;DR, who is the original missing person?
  • We don't know yet. This is intentional on the writers' part, and there's a theory that the missing person is Ralph Bohner, who turns out to actually be Quicksilver after all.

Why is the Hex blue?

• Wanda's powers are red. Originally one could have assumed that the Hex was created by someone or something else and merely hijacked by Wanda (which would explain why it became red-tinted after Wanda threatened SWORD and then reentered it; and completely red after she expanded it), but in episode 8 we saw she created it by accident, in her grief. So why is it blue and not red?
  • Probably blue for sadness, and red for anger. (In short, maybe the color is depend on the emotion or mental state of Wanda.)
  • Why not? Wanda's powers tend to manifest red, but it's not a limitation—otherwise Vision, the kids etc would all be solid red. So her powers can clearly take on different properties, red is just the colour of her raw power.

Couldn't Wanda have just shrunk the Hex down to just the house?

• Only potential issue would be that the family would be cooped up, and that's no fun.
  • The whole point of the ending is Wanda learning that fabricating reality to ease her grief is not emotionally healthy and that she has to accept Vision's death and move on. If she tried to keep Hex Vision and the twins alive then that would fly in the face of what the writers were going for.

Why just Monica?

• After Monica was booted out of the Hex, it's shown that the Chaos Magic rewrote her cells and gave her superpowers. If that's the case, then why didn't that happen to Darcy and all those S.W.O.R.D. agents as well? They were enveloped by the Hex too.
  • The difference between Monica and the rest is that she needed to pass through the barrier three times to gain superpowers, unlike the rest who were enveloped one time.
  • It is likely that a more detailed explanation will be given eventually if her own movies take off, much like how this movie established that Wanda's powers were merely enhanced by the Infinity Stone rather than being granted by it. This is necessary for Disposable Superhero Maker reasons - it causes problems if Wanda can just empower anyone she wants like Monica any time she pleases, so if Monica gets enough focus for people to start to think about that, she'll be given a unique origin. But since that's more her story than Wanda's (in fact it'd be specifically a step to separate her story from Wanda's), it's waiting on her film rather than being explored here.
  • In addition, Monica going back through the barrier to Westview, with her own mind in tact, took a tremendous amount of willpower on her part — an armored vehicle was unable to get through! It's unlikely that just anyone would have been able to just go through at the point that Monica got her powers.
  • The principle behind her getting powers is similar to surviving an ordinary infection. As far as we know, Monica is the only person whose exposure to the Hex was interrupted, whereas most civilians were under it continuously since the anomaly started (and that may have its own set of ramifications for them, presumably). During the time she was out, her DNA could've been rearranging itself in response to the energy field, and when she goes back in, her body had already adapted to interface with this energy again. There's also the fact that the Hex barrier was reinforced when she re-entered, which may have put her immune system in overdrive to fight the influence just as her consciousness was fighting against the brainwashing.

Getting a vintage TV

• Would it really be all that possible for someone, even a government agency, to quickly get their hands on a working vintage TV in 2024? It probably would've been easier to get an antenna and hook it up to a modern TV, though I don't know if that would've worked
  • Short answer is : Totally YES. As movie prop rental (real working electric stuff from old days....like the ones IRL producers rent to film this show) is a thing for decades , and as for government agency like S.W.O.R.D , they can also get they hands on those vintage stock from government warehouse (the retired old tech that gov. agencies just somehow didn't dumped (yet) and were pilling dust in the storage) and museum collections. (Like the ones that IRL Smithsonian Institution's collections) ASAP.
  • Yes, easily. As mentioned, they probably have it in stock already (the government stocks up on a ton of old tech for a variety of reasons.) But even if they didn't, a quick search on eBay or Amazon turns up tons of results, and a government agency would be able to expedite the process of acquiring one in all sorts of ways. And even beyond that, there are antique shops in any major city that often have them available.

Agnes/Agatha Harkness locked-in - equivalent to "locked-in syndrome"??

• Is this a case of being close to a Fantasy Counterpart of Real Life locked-in syndrome, but in this case locked in to a specific persona and what sort of things could piss off Wanda to lock someone else into a persona without it being too much of a Story-Breaker Power? Is this a case of New Powers as the Plot Demands or is this a power she's always had?
  • That's the thing about Chaos Magic. It is the epitome of an adaptable Story-Breaker Power. It is legitimately as powerful as it seems, capable of pretty much anything with a willing and knowledgeable user. The only thing that's ever held Wanda back was her lack of knowledge on the subject (she didn't even know she was using magic prior to this show). Knowledge that she started to gain when clashing with Agatha herself, and understanding that her own imagination is the limit for her power.
  • TL;DR Yes, technically Wanda has always had this power (or at least the potential of it) and yes it's as powerful as it seems. However she only "learned" of it within that timeframe, ironically enough thanks to Agatha's own teachings.

Doesn't Hayward's plan lack vision?

• The way Hayward spoke to Wanda, he was clearly trying to influence her into attempting to revive Vision, and was even hoping it would happen right then and there. Now let's say, in the moment, Wanda was able to revive-er, bring him back online, with her magic. Did Hayward really think two of the most powerful Avengers would let him have his way? If Vision revived with his memories intact, what exact action would Hayward take to secure him? Even if Vision woke up soulless, what was Hayward's plan to stop Wanda from straight up just taking Vision with her? Especially since Hayward would be without his weapon and Wanda would be in a position to expose him for operating on Vision with the intent to revive him, in violation of the law. It's almost like he is the one who lacks vision.
  • Pretty much yeah. At the very least, everything the show told us is that Hayward really had no actual thought process beyond "The Vision is a weapon. I want to turn on said weapon". Really the only reason Hayward was allowed to get away with his abuses of power as long he had was due to an extreme amount of luck going his way. First, Maria Rambeau died, so he could take command of SWORD. The Snap benefited him in several ways, as he was able to take advantage of the power vacuum left in Wakanda by T'Challa's dusting to seize Vision's remains (which was helped out by the fact that Wanda, who would've put up a fight and sought out a restraining order against Hayward, also got dusted), and the final fight with Thanos left the Avengers completely decimated.

Where did Wanda live prior to Westview?

• Where was Wanda staying between the end of Endgame and the start of WandaVision? The Westview house wasn’t built so she wasn’t living there, and Thanos carpet-bombed the Avengers Compound.
  • Maybe she temporarily stayed with a fellow Avenger (most likely Clint) as she was looking for a new place to move into.
  • Possibly she was living out of her car. She clearly wasn't in the best place overall.

Why didn't Hex Vision tell Wanda about White Vision regaining his memories?

• Hex!Vision helps White Vision regain his memories; White Vision proceeds to leave. Then Hex Vision... doesn't mention this to Wanda? At all? Even though she would probably want to know, one way or the other, that there's another Vision out there with all the memories of their relationship?
  • Vision just wants for the whole Westview situation to be solved, even if he vanishes afterwards. He probably felt saying "Vision is whole again" would not give Wanda the closure necessary for the illusion to end.

Sitcom playing on TV

• How does the sitcom plays on Darcy's vintage TV? Does it happen while the events are taking place or afterwards?
  • Seemingly simultaneously, though how much time passes is very unclear - the sitcom episodes last one hour, but the events last more than a day.
  • There are episodes that we, the audience, don't get to see. Darcy references several scenes and Once an Episode events that we never see. By all indications, it's running 24/7 or close to it, and we're only shown the episodes where cracks form in Wanda's fake reality.

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