Recap / WandaVision Episode 7 "Breaking the Fourth Wall"

Wanda: I don't understand what's happening, why it's all falling apart, and why I can't fix it.
Interviewer: Do you think maybe this is what you deserve?
Wanda: What? You're not supposed to talk.

As Wanda wakes up in the Late 2000s without Vision by her side, she decides to try to spend the day relaxing. Unfortunately, her sitcom world is unraveling as the things in her house start glitching back and forth between the time periods she's been through. Meanwhile, Vision learns from Darcy — now in the expanded Hex herself — who he was before ending up in Westview, and Monica re-enters the Hex to try and talk down Wanda before things get worse.

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Tropes:

• Adaptational Villainy: Agatha Harkness is portrayed as antagonistic to Wanda and Vision. In the comics, she was portrayed from the beginning as an ally to superheroes.
• Alone with the Psycho: At the end of the episode, Agatha traps Wanda in her cellar with her. Monica tries to go after them but is interrupted by "Pietro".
• Ambiguous Situation: Billy and Tommy's fates at the end of this episode are unknown, with Agnes only saying that she last heard them playing in the basement. Given The Reveal of who Agnes actually is, however, the chances of them being safe are doubtful.
• Amusing Injuries: As Vision and Darcy try to leave the circus to get back to Wanda, the Strongman tries to get them to stay and perform; when he grabs Darcy's arm, she responds with a roundabout punch to his nose, complete with a comical "Boi-oi-oi-ng".
• Anachronism Stew: In-universe, the apparent breakdown of Wanda's powers causes the furniture and appliances inside her house to randomly shift between the different eras of WandaVision.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Played retroactively. At the end of her Villain Song describing and showing how she was responsible for everything evil in the show, Agatha taunts Wanda with the fact that she killed her dog, followed by an Evil Laugh.
• Armor-Piercing Question: The interviewer (later revealed to be Agatha) gives Wanda one of these.
  Interviewer: Do you think maybe this is what you deserve?
  Wanda: What? You're not supposed to talk.
• Armor-Piercing Response: Monica answers Wanda's enraged accusations:
  Wanda: All you do is lie!
  Monica: The only lies I've told you were the ones you put in my mouth.
• Ascended Fanboy: Darcy admits that she secretly wanted a part on the show she's been watching, although the experience itself was far from pleasant.
• Aside Glance:
  • When a utility vehicle comes out of nowhere to block the path of his truck, Vision gives a Jim Halpert-style exasperated look right at the camera.
  • Agnes also gives one with an uncomfortable, grimaced grin when she sees that Wanda is clearly losing her mind in Vision's absence.
• Aspect Ratio Switch: The interior of the Hex now appears as Full Screen, with the exterior being in cinematic 2.35:1. Besides the usual changes between these two when the perspective shifts, the ratio changes to 2.35:1 as Wanda enters the creepy door in Agatha's basement, indicating that it is outside her influence on the Hex.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Darcy, who was absorbed into the Hex while handcuffed to a truck, is now the "Escape Artist" of the circus that the S.W.O.R.D. camp has become, chained completely to one of the circus trucks.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Darcy admits to Vision that she secretly wanted to be part of the show, but realizes that it was a bad idea after getting to experience the mind control firsthand.
• Behind the Black: The Once More, with Clarity sequence reveals Agnes manipulating events. She is not always subtle about it, but the audience never sees it, so Wanda and Vision don't see it either.
• Berserk Button: Monica makes the mistake of hitting one of Wanda's when trying to warn her about what Hayward is doing.
  Monica: Listen to me. This whole thing, it's about Vision—
  Wanda: Get out of my house!
  Monica: Hayward was trying to bring him b— [Wanda grabs Monica and flings her out of the house, levitating her over the sidewalk]
  Wanda: DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT! THE DRONES! THE MISSILES! PIETRO! [laughs darkly]
  Monica: What, Pietro? No-no-no-no, that wasn't us!
  Wanda: ALL YOU DO IS LIE!! [shoves Monica into the sidewalk; Monica lands on the concrete, her eyes crackling with energy as she gets back on her feet]
  Monica: The only lies I've told are the ones you put in my mouth!
  Wanda: [conjures energy in her hands] Careful what you say to me.
• Bilingual Bonus: The "antidepressant" in the commercial contains 10.3% "Nexulpromocide". The Latin suffix "-cide" describes something that kills. Interpreted in its entirety, the name of the drug could mean "Nexus promotes killing".
• Blatant Lies: Wanda is fine! She's fine. She's fine. She's fine! She's fine. [laughing] She's fine. She's fine. She's fine.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: The episode's Double-Meaning Title with the multiple characters talking directly to the audience during the interview bits, Monica breaking through the wall of the Hex, and Agatha addressing the viewer directly in the Once More, with Clarity montage at the end after constantly looking at the camera in every shot of the montage.
• Brick Joke: Sharp-eyed viewers may notice that the strongman that Darcy punched out was the same S.W.O.R.D. agent who handcuffed her to the truck and then ran off when the Hex started expanding, as well as being the same agent who was rude to her and wouldn't get her a cup of coffee in Episode 4, making it even more satisfying when Darcy decks him.
• Broken Bird: Monica reveals that she's a more stable version of this. She's already suffered the worst thing she could even think of in losing her mom. But, unlike Wanda, she accepts it and isn't interested in trying to undo or ignore it.
• Bugs Herald Evil: When Wanda is in Agatha's house and realizes that her children aren't around, she also notices several big cicadas crawling around the living room.
• Call-Back:
  • Darcy recounts some of the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Avengers: Infinity War so Vision can understand his origins.
  • When Monica is pushing through the Hex boundary, we hear the conversation from Captain Marvel about Monica wanting to go on the final mission with her mother, as well as Nick Fury’s statement about Monica learning to glow like her Aunt Carol. The moment ends with Carol's statement about Maria getting "the toughest" kid in Monica.
  • Agatha's Wham Line to Wanda, revealing her magic, calls back to the first episode's theme song:
    She's a magical gal
    In a small-town locale.
    Agatha: You didn't think you were the only magical girl in town, did you?
• Canon Character All Along: This episode reveals that Agnes is Agatha Harkness, an older witch from the comics who served as something of a mentor to Wanda. The song revealing as much even has the chorus "It was Agatha all along!"
• Cape Snag: Vision's cape gets briefly stuck on his actor's chair when he gets up to talk to Wanda.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Agatha's Villain Song boasts about her "insidious, perfidious" nature and how she's been "pulling every evil string" behind Wanda and Vision's backs.
• Censored Title: In a cross with Spoiler Title, the credits have the ending song as "It Was ______ All Along". On YouTube and music services, it goes by "Agatha All Along".
• Color-Coded Wizardry: Monica's powers glow blue and Agatha's glow purple in contrast to Wanda's red.
• Confession Cam: Parodied. Wanda, Vision, Agnes, and even Darcy end up being interviewed in a Modern Family-style way to give their introspective thoughts on their current situations. Lampshaded by Vision at one point, who wonders what the purpose of this trope is, and promptly leaves the interview stand. Similarly, Wanda is shocked that the person interviewing her actually asks her a question, stating that they shouldn't be able to respond.
  Vision: What am I doing here? Sitting, talking to you!? When I should— [stammers] This is absurd! I need to get to my wife.
• Continuity Nod:
  • When Wanda's house starts to go haywire, the stork from Episode 3 makes a reappearance.
  • Vision recalls hearing Darcy's name from the email that his office intercepted in Episode 5.
• Credits Gag: During the opening credits, all of them read just "Wanda", until the very last one, in which "Vision" finally appears on the screen. Up until this episode, the credits always read "WandaVision".
• Creepy Basement: Wanda descends to Agatha's basement in search of her sons. It's dark and musty by itself, and that's before she enters a tunnel that leads into an even creepier and more Gothic area.
• Dark Reprise: The instrumentals of "It Was ______ All Along" are very similar to the '60s intro and the beginning of "Let's Keep It Going".
• Determinator: When her rover fails to penetrate the Hex, Monica decides to risk it all and personally push through, retaining her mind even after she crosses over.
• "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Kathryn Hahn is the female singer in the ending montage, literally titled "It Was ______ All Along" in the credits.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Wanda panicking and expanding the boundaries of the Hex in order to save Vision are treated like a night of binge drinking, and now she's experiencing the hangover the morning after. She even went to bed still wearing her costume.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Having gone through the barrier twice, Monica is able to force her way through a third time while also resisting the barrier's attempt to rewrite her as a member of the cast (shown in the show as multiple period appropriate versions of her appearing around her and trying to overlap with her). Then, on emerging from the barrier she can see energy, and appears to have been powered up again to become her comic counterpart, Photon.
• End-of-Episode Silliness: Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez didn't just write the opening theme song. They also wrote the "It Was ______ All Along" ending song, which, although ominous, is played in a comedic tone.
• Evil All Along: Agnes was really Agatha Harkness and has been manipulating Wanda this entire time.
• Evil Gloating: "It Was ______ All Along" is essentially Agatha Harkness gleefully gloating about how she's been pulling the strings the entire time and has essentially already won.
• Evil Laugh: The "It Was ______ All Along" montage ends with Agatha letting out a witchy cackle after admitting that she killed Sparky.
• Face on a Milk Carton: Wanda's bottle of almond milk that she gets from the fridge suddenly transforms into a carton of whole milk with an old black-and-white picture of a missing child on it. This foreshadows Tommy and Billy's disappearance at the end of the episode.
• Feet-First Introduction: When the montage starts, Agatha is introduced by showing her boots and dress, colored purple to show her powers. That fades to black-and-white as the camera pans up to show "Agnes" walking to the house in the first episode, carrying the potted plant that she gives Wanda in the first episode.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing:
  • During Agatha's Villain Song montage at the end of the episode, it's revealed that she's controlling Pietro... and shortly afterward, Pietro catches Monica trying to break into Agatha's basement.
  • We see Agnes stepping in to stop Wanda's standoff with Monica after watching from her window while everyone else is frozen in place and watching. Then inside the house, Wanda asks where Tommy and Billy are, and Agatha blithely responds that they must be "playing in the basement." Cue Wanda's descent into the Creepy Basement and Agatha's subsequent reveal as Agatha Harkness.
  • Billy (who inherited Wanda's telepathic powers) tells Agnes that she's "quiet on the inside." As Vision demonstrated with Norm, someone under Wanda's control would likely be screaming and terrified in their thoughts. The fact that Billy can't pick up any of Agnes' thoughts implies that not only is she not under Wanda's control, but she can actively shield her mind against magical intrusion.
  • Evan Peters is credited during the main credits cast roll, despite him not appearing in the episode proper. Sure enough, he instead appears in The Stinger less than a minute later.
• Foreshadowing: Halfway through the episode, Billy notes that Agatha isn't like the others, that she's "quiet inside", letting us know that she's the only resident of Westview Immune to Mind Control.
• Forgot About His Powers: Played for Laughs. When Darcy and Vision's truck gets stuck at an intersection, he spends quite a long time sitting there waiting for various delays to pass. During a Confession Cam moment, he finally realizes how ridiculous the whole situation is. When it cuts back, he phases through the truck and immediately starts flying back toward Wanda. (Also justified; while Vision is now aware that he's being affected by sitcom narrative conventions and can push back, he's not immune.)
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • One of the shots of Wanda's name in the opening credits zooms out to briefly show "I know what u are doing Wanda" spelled in individual letters cut from magazines.
  • During Agatha's Villain Song montage, you briefly get a glimpse of her in a voluminous period outfit akin to the Sanderson Sisters ^note  which may also double as a Company Cross Reference as it is also a Disney production before it changes into something more appropriate for the 1950s setting.
  • Pausing to read Darcy's email sent to Jimmy's phone reveals that the communique e-mail sent to Vision's office two episodes ago is a decoy sent by Hayward.
• Freak Out: Wanda is having a really bad day, so everything is glitching out until she focuses on making it right for this episode's decade.
  Wanda: I'm fine. I'm fine. Seriously, I'm fine. I'm fine.
• Fun with Acronyms: The S.W.O.R.D. acronym seen on one of the newly transformed clown cars now stands for Spectacular World Of Rapturous Diversions.
• Hating on Monday: Mentioned by Wanda during one of the interviews as an answer to what is bothering her:
  Wanda: Yeah, I'm not sure what that's about. It's probably just a case of the Mondays, am I right?
• Heel Realization: This is part of Wanda's breakdown, realizing that what she's doing in Westview is pretty goddamn awful.
  Monica: [Hayward]'s gonna burn Westview to the ground just to get what he wants. Don't let him make you the villain!
  Wanda: Maybe I already am.
• Heroic Willpower: Monica pushing her way through the Hex has her being gradually divided into the various personas she's been forced to assume as Geraldine. Remembering that Carol called her "the toughest kid" steels her resolve to remain who she is and make the final push through.
• Hope Spot: During Monica's confrontation with Wanda, for a moment it almost looks like Wanda is gonna listen and come around, only for Agnes to intervene at the worst possible time and take Wanda away, causing Wanda to start digging in her heels again.
• Hostile Show Takeover: Agatha's revealing her true identity and that she's been behind everything all along is accompanied by her getting her own opening for a show called "Agatha All Along" with her as the Villain Protagonist.
• If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: When Wanda refuses to listen to Monica and tries to kick her out again, Monica dares Wanda to kill her. Wanda looks horrified at the idea.
  Monica: It's easy. That's where you and Hayward differ. He's gonna burn Westview to the ground just to get what he wants. Don't let him make you the villain!
  Wanda: Maybe I already am.
• Immune to Mind Control:
  • Agatha is not under Wanda's control, nor was she ever. Every aspect of her sitcom character was her rolling with the plots of Wanda's sitcom to stay under Wanda's radar while she worked whatever Evil Plan she's been working on all this time.
  • Monica, with a great deal of effort, retains her mental faculties when she enters Hex again. Her eyes glow blue afterward, implying that she has gained some sort of power from the experience.
• Internal Reveal: Once awakened, Darcy catches up Vision on what is going on and his life story up to the events of Infinity War.
• Kick the Dog: Just in case the viewer doesn't believe that Agatha is as "insidious" as she claims to be, at the end of the "It Was ______ All Along" montage, she brags about killing Sparky.
• Large Ham: During Agatha's villain song, she completely hams it up. Mugging, making kissy lips, and laughing directly to the camera in a very over-the-top way; Kathryn Hahn looks like she's having the time of her life.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Obviously, the show was doing this a lot with its Show Within a Show premise, but they ramp it up in this episode, taking advantage of the mockumentary style of this week's episode to let all the characters look at the camera and talk directly to the audience.
• Look Behind You: Done by Vision to Darcy to distract her so that he can bring back her true personality:
  Vision: Oh no. Look, that mime... His tray's getting too heavy.
• Louis Cypher: With the reveal that Agnes is actually Agatha Harkness, an evil witch, Señor Scratchy becomes one of these, as Old Scratch or Mr. Scratch are nicknames for the devil.
• Meat Moss: Agatha's powers manifest as sickly purple roots along the walls of her basement, as well as a Tainted Veins variant when she reveals herself to Wanda.
• Mistaken for Clown: Vision, waking up nearby S.W.O.R.D.'s newly transformed circus, is mistaken by one of the agents-turned-performers as a member of the gang of clowns due to his bright red-and-green color scheme and overall appearance.
• Mistaken for Romance: Vision attempts to get through to "Escape Artist" Darcy that they met outside the Hex and seemed to understand each other. Not remembering this at the time, Darcy mistakes it for a lame attempt to pick her up.
• Mockumentary: Parts of this episode are filmed like a fake documentary, with zoom-ins and Confession Cams about the goings-on. It takes a turn for the sinister when the interviewer — later revealed to be Agatha with a pitch-shifted deep voice — starts talking back at Wanda about her mental state.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The advertisement is about an anti-depressant called "Nexus" that will supposedly stop one from thinking It's All About Me. In the comics, a Nexus Being is someone who is the focal point of parallel timelines in the multiverse, as well as a font of mystical energy — and the Scarlet Witch is one. It also alludes to the Nexus of All Realities, the interdimensional gateway guarded by Man-Thing in the comics.
  • Monica's uniform is reminiscent of her superhero costume when she was Photon in the comics. Her glowing eyes, resistance to damage, and ability to perceive electromagnetic waves are also based on her comics' powerset.
  • When Monica goes through the barrier again, the warping effect distorts the image of one of her sleeves to look like it trails around. This harkens to another one of her costumes in the comics.
  • Tommy wears a green tracksuit with white/silver stripes down his sides, recalling his comic book counterpart's costume.
• Never Trust a Trailer:
  • In the Mid-Season trailer, when Agnes says "Hiya, kiddos" in what would be taking place during this episode, it just shows Wanda on the couch. In the episode proper, Billy and Tommy are on the couch as well. On a lesser note, in the episode itself, Agnes doesn't say anything when she initially enters the house; the "Hiya, kiddos" from the trailer is taken from when she brought over Sparky's doghouse in Episode 5.
  • Multiple trailers show Wanda sitting on the couch working her magic while the furniture around her changes shape, implying that she has complete control over the setting and can change everything on a whim. But when we actually get to that scene in this episode, the furniture is rapidly shifting because Wanda is losing control.
• The New '10s: Despite being set in the late 2000s, the episode arguably feels more like the early 2010s. This could be attributed to the episode parodying the sitcom Modern Family which aired primarily in the 2010s.
• Noodle Incident: During a confession cam scene, Agnes admits to the camera that she has bitten a child once, without any other additional context.
• Obviously Not Fine: Wanda insists to the camera that she's fine. She isn't. In the words of Agnes, she is "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs".
• Occult Blue Eyes: Monica's eyes become unnaturally blue when her powers are activated.
• Off the Rails: The Show Within a Show is coming apart more and more at the seams. Wanda wants to sit around and eat or sleep all day, doesn't even bother to set up a plot for the episode, and can't even make the contents of her home stay consistent as the walls, furniture, and even objects within it keep shifting and transforming. Meanwhile, both Hayward and Monica up the ante in their efforts to get inside the Hex, which doesn't help Wanda focus on the illusion she's trying to maintain. Finally, at the climax, Agnes reveals herself to be Agatha Harkness and the true manipulator of this entire scenario.
• Oh, Crap!: Quite a few moments of this.
  • Monica, Jimmy, and the military panic when they realize that the rover is unable to penetrate the barrier of the Hex. Then Jimmy has another moment when he realizes that Monica has decided to go in on foot.
  • Wanda has one during an interview segment when the interviewer asks her if she thinks this (the Hex de-stabilizing) is what she deserves. Wanda is shocked and insists the interviewer isn't supposed to be talking back.
  • Wanda also has one when her attempt to hurt Monica fails, because she lands and absorbs the force of her descent. Then she has a slow-burn one as she realizes that Agnes is not what she seems, and Billy and Tommy have apparently disappeared while under her care.
  • Monica has another one when "Pietro" catches her trying to enter Agatha's basement.
• Ominous Visual Glitch: Reflecting the fact that Wanda is falling apart emotionally, the artificial world she's built is continuously glitching through the various eras they've lived through.
• Once More, with Clarity: Played for Laughs in the montage showing scenes from the previous episodes from Agatha's point of view, with her hamming it up for the camera the entire time. Now we know that it really was Agatha all along.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Elizabeth Olsen's "Previously on WandaVision" voiceover, which kicks off the recap, has been getting progressively less chipper for a while, but now it's a flat deadpan.
• Power Incontinence:
  • After expanding the Hex, Wanda is having trouble maintaining control over Westview, with random objects in her home shifting between different eras depicted across the previous episodes.
  • One of Billy's newly realized powers include telepathy, and he complains to Wanda that he's hearing lots of distressed voices in his head, and that it hurts.
• Partial Transformation: The S.W.O.R.D. rover gets partially "rewritten" into a minivan before getting ejected from the barrier.
• Pretend to Be Brainwashed: Agatha had been pretending to be another brainwashed resident of Westview when she was, in fact, manipulating situations behind the scenes. She finally reveals herself to Wanda in this episode.
• Purple Is Powerful: Agatha's magic is purple, and it's shown that not only is she immune to the Hex's mind control, but she also seemingly controlled Pietro directly (as opposed to just "brainwashing" him into another life). She's also able to (temporarily, at least) get into Wanda's head, showing her the "It Was ______ All Along" montage.
• The Reveal: This episode hits us with some doozies.
  • Agnes is actually a witch named Agatha Harkness. She has magical powers that resemble Wanda's powers, but they're purple-colored.
  • Agnes was never under Wanda's control. Also, she's been subtly manipulating the plots of each sitcom episode, right down to inserting herself into Wanda's home life as her Best Friend and Honorary Aunt to Wanda's sons. Also, she killed Sparky in Episode 5.
  • "Pietro" was actually sent to Wanda's house under Agatha's control, although it remains to be seen if he's still under her control when he catches Monica snooping in the mid-credits scene.
  • Jimmy and Monica learn about Project "Cataract" and that Hayward was trying to revive Vision for his own purposes. Monica realizes that Hayward's been tracking Vision because "he wants his sentient weapon back".
• Rewatch Bonus: Every scene of Agnes throughout the series now takes on a new meaning with the revelation that she's been pulling Wanda's strings.
• Right-Hand Cat: Agnes is holding her pet rabbit Señor Scratchy while revealing her true identity to Wanda. The rabbit somehow makes her appear insidious, given the atmosphere.
• Safe Under Blankets: We first see Wanda lying in bed, recovering from Halloween, and then hiding under the comforter as the boys come charging in.
• Secret Identity Vocal Shift: In a somewhat meta example, Agatha's voice is at a much lower pitch when she asks Wanda in the interview if her pain "was what she deserved", making it sound as if the voice came from a man. The lowered pitch serves to disguise her identity from both Wanda and the viewer. If you transpose the voice up by two notches using editing software, it's a dead ringer for Kathryn Hahn's voice, which confirms that it was her that asked the question.
• Shipper on Deck: Darcy tells Vision that he and Wanda belong together.
• Shout-Out:
  • The title card in this episode is very similar to Modern Family's, and the design of Wanda's kitchen is incredibly similar to that of the Dunphys.
  • The opening credits' visuals are inspired by the opening credits for the sitcom Happy Endings.
  • The theme song itself, titled "W-V 2000", is done in the style of The Office (US).
  • Vision and Darcy's predicament in the stolen truck is filmed and scored reminiscently of the "stair car" Running Gag from Arrested Development.
  • The ending song "It Was ______ All Along" is done in the style of The Munsters.
  • At one point, Yo Gabba Gabba! appears on "Agnes's" television.
  • The twins are seen playing with a couple of Wii remotes, which glitch and regress into Nintendo GameCube controllers, and then to Atari 2600 controllers, and then a pack of Uno cards.
  • The number on the "Wanda" license plate in the intro says "122822". Stan Lee was born on December 28th, 1922.
  • "Agnes" lives in the same house where the Stephens family lived in Bewitched.
  • "I killed Sparky, too" seems like a reference to the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz: "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
• Side Effects Include...: For this episode's Parody Commercial, side effects for the antidepressant Nexus include "feeling your feelings, confronting your truth, seizing your destiny, and possibly more depression".
• Soundtrack Dissonance: In an inversion from the previous episode, whimsical music plays while Wanda is sitting at home and trying to keep herself (and her house) from falling apart.
• Special Edition Title: A subtle version in the In-Universe show title sequence, which this time says just "Wanda" almost all the way through (when previous ones had "WandaVision"), fitting the two being separated throughout the episode.
• Spell Book: Wanda finds a tome with an aura of golden mystical energy in "Agnes's" basement, but Agatha confronts her before she can get a better look at it.
• Splash of Color: Agatha's magic is colored purple, even during the black and white segments of "Agatha All Along".
• Stepford Smiler: Notable to mention because, at this point, Wanda can barely keep up the façade any longer. She smiles as she tells the boys that she doesn't have all the answers to life and doesn't really care about anything anymore.
• The Stinger: For the first time in the series, there's a mid-credits scene. It shows Monica arriving at Agatha's house and opening the outside door to the basement before "Pietro" appears next to her.
  "Pietro": Snoopers gonna snoop.
• Strong and Skilled: Agatha reveals that she's incredibly skilled at magic, skilled enough that she can pretend to be under Wanda's control and subvert her control over others without Wanda noticing. Then the episode ends with the implication (thanks to the purple lights in Wanda's eyes) that "It Was Agatha All Along" is something she planted in Wanda's mind.
• Suddenly Always Knew That: Darcy reveals to Vision she is intimately aware of the circumstances of both of his deaths, including that Wanda killed him before Thanos rewound time and tore the Mind Stone out of his skull. This is despite the fact that only Wanda witnessed this and was promptly dusted before she could tell anyone. The Avengers only came upon Vision's body during the dusting. Justified by the fact that someone with her connections would probably learn the details second-hand eventually. Given that she's a friend of Thor, it's entirely possible she heard a lot of it directly from him.
• Super-Empowering: Passing through the barrier of the Hex for the third time seems to finalize the alteration that Darcy warned Monica about in the previous episode, causing her to gain superpowers. Her exact powerset is a mystery at the moment, but she seems to see electromagnetic energy, and easily absorbs the kinetic energy of a forceful landing on concrete.
• Tempting Fate: When Jimmy asks if Monica will get through the barrier, the agent he's talking to says, "It's our most heavily armored rover. She's gonna sail right through, unharmed."
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Wanda suffers from growing depression after expanding the Hex, which leads her to push further back against any intervention:
  Monica: Don't let [Hayward] make you the villain.
  Wanda: Maybe I already am.
• Three-Point Landing: Monica lands on her knee and hand in a crackle of blue energy when Wanda tries telekinetically throwing her to the ground, revealing that she's gained powers of her own. It is, after all, a superhero landing.
• Turn of the Millennium: This episode parodies modern sitcoms of the late 2000s and the 2010s like Modern Family and The Office, with the sitcom scenes made in a mockumentary style (complete with cutaway interviews), Cringe Comedy, and more realistic diction.
• The Unishment: Wanda decides to punish herself for her outrage the night before by putting herself on a "quarantined self-staycation".
  Wanda: A whole day, just to myself. That'll show me.
• The Unreveal: Despite being teased at the end of the last episode, the identity of Monica's aerospace engineer contact is not revealed, as her S.W.O.R.D. rover is delivered by some Air Force personnel instead.
• Villain Song: The episode-ending montage is set to a song about how Agnes/Agatha has been manipulating things all along. It is basically her gloating about her evil deeds.
• Villainous Breakdown: Given all her behavior, it's incredibly easy to read Wanda's Freak Out as this. Her confrontation with Monica is entirely violent and self-serving on her end.
• Visible Boom Mic: A boom mic is visible when Vision leaves the interview after realizing that he should confront Wanda right now, which he bangs his head on and then promptly swats away.
• Wham Line:
  • During Wanda's Confession Cam.
    Interviewer: Do you think maybe this is what you deserve?
    [beat]
    Wanda: What? You're not supposed to talk.
  • At the end of the episode, when Agnes makes it clear who she really is to Wanda:
    Agatha: The name's Agatha Harkness. Lovely to finally meet you, dear.
• Wham Shot:
  • When Monica pushes through the barrier, she has glowing blue eyes and nothing else about her has changed — she resisted being assimilated into the sitcom reality, and has superpowers.
  • For those familiar with the lore, the appearance of the Darkhold in Agatha's basement serves as this. It's the Necronomicon of Marvel.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: As revealed during the closing montage, Agatha's moment of desperation last episode when Vision "freed" her was fake. As she's been outside of Wanda's control all along, she was pretending to be affected by Vision's efforts and scared of the situation, presumably to fuel Vision's suspicions that Wanda was the one responsible for everything.
• WPUN: Early in the episode, the radio station Wanda is listening to identifies itself as W.N.D.A. (Wanda).
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Monica dares Wanda to kill her; Wanda looks horrified at the idea, prompting Monica to tell her that Wanda is better than Hayward and shouldn't let him make her the villain. It doesn't quite work, as Wanda responds with a resigned "Maybe I already am."
• You Are Too Late: Agatha's Villain Song boasts that this is the case:
  It Was ______ All Along: And the pity is (the pity is, the pity, pity, pity, pity)
  it's too late to fix anything, now that everything has gone wrong!
• You Wouldn't Shoot Me: When Wanda threatens Monica with her powers, Monica dares Wanda to kill her. When Wanda hesitates, Monica uses this to argue that she's not the evil villain Hayward says she is because she's not willing to kill. It partially works; Monica seems to be getting through to Wanda, but Agnes/Agatha intervenes.

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