WandaVision: Marvel Easter Eggs Breakdown
A Thorough Breakdown of All the Marvel Easter Eggs on WandaVision
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WandaVision Episode 7 Easter Eggs
- The episode opens the morning after Wanda has expanded the border of the Hex, finding the Avenger hiding from the world under her comforter. The comforter in question has a hexagon pattern, which is both a nod to the overall theme of the show as well as a metaphor for how Wanda is literally hiding away under a hex.
- Billy and Tommy run into the room to reveal that their video game console has been messing up. Everything in the house is glitching, trying to transform back to earlier versions of themselves.
- Billy also tells his mother that his head hurts and things are "noisy." Since the twin inherited his mother's ability to read minds, it seems he's able to hear the thoughts of everyone in the bubble (and near it on the outside, since he was able to hear his father when he was dying). It's a sign that Billy's powers are growing, which means we could see the little boy reach his Wiccan potential before the end of the season.
- Wanda wanders into the kitchen as the news drones on in the background. The news station is called W.N.D.A. or Wanda. The newscaster makes pointed comments, noting that there's "not a thing weighing heavily on your conscience," and that they "hope your little ghosts arrived home safe last night. It's always such a treat to see those creepy kiddos out and about once a year." The comments refer to Wanda's building guilt at her actions in the previous episode and the rare appearance of children during the Halloween episode.
- As Wanda makes her breakfast of "Sugar Snaps," a nod to the big Snap of the universe, her milk carton reverts from its modern design to the old school glass bottle and back. The carton has a missing person's ad on the back with a picture of a little boy on the back. This could be a reference to the oft-mentioned absence of children of Westview, and what could have happened to them.
- Wanda and the twins "break the fourth wall" frequently to talk to the camera in the same vein as Modern Family.
- This week's theme song sounds similar to The Office's, which also usings talking head segments like Modern Family. The opening credits are similar to the show Happy Endings and allude to the show's focus on Wanda, even attributing the creation of WandaVision to her with the title image. Vision is notably completely absent from the opening credits, but there's a clue that someone else is watching in a message that reads, "I know what u are doing Wanda."
- Despite hopes that Darcy would appear as a waitress in a nod to her 2 Broke Girls character, the doctor appears to have been turned into the escape artist of the circus! It takes Vision pulling a mind trick to snap her back to reality, and after that, they escape in a funnel cake truck.
- Back at the Vision residence, Billy and Tommy reveal they're hip to their parents' conflict. Billy asks Wanda if she'd like them to go find Vision, but she tells them that if their father doesn't want to be there, she "can't make him." When they ask about "Uncle Pietro," Wanda lashes out, warning the twins that the man in question isn't part of their family.
- Wanda admits to the twins that she doesn't know anything anymore, having landed on the conclusion that everything is "meaningless." This could allude to the fact that Wanda is not the true mastermind behind Westview and has finally realized that everything is wrong.
- On the other side of the Hex, Monica and Jimmy travel to meet with the previously mentioned aerospace engineer. Jimmy finds the files Darcy sent over before the Hex expanded, revealing that S.W.O.R.D. had been experimenting on Vision's body as part of Project CATARACT, trying to bring him back online as a sentient weapon. That explains why Hayward was able to track Vision within the Hex. This is a clear violation of Vision's will — mentioned in the earlier episodes — which stipulated that he would never be remade in the event of his death. The two meet up with the mysterious engineer, who turns out to be Major Goodner, a person we've never seen in the MCU. Sorry, Reed!
- Agnes stops by to take the boys off of Wanda's hands, which the exhausted mother is exceedingly grateful for. The twins are visibly uncomfortable with the idea, with Tommy asking Wanda if they have to and Billy telling his mother that someone has to stay to take care of her. It seems like they can sense that something is off with their "kindly" neighbor.
- Wanda sends them off with Agnes, but once they're gone, her magic goes incredibly haywire. All the furniture begins glitching again, with the stork from the painting in episode three making a reappearance. "I don't understand what's happening," Wanda laments during a talking head segment. "Why it's all falling apart and why I can't fix it." The off-screen interviewer responds, "Do you think maybe it's what you deserve?" which visibly unnerves Wanda, who notes that they aren't supposed to speak. It's another sign that Wanda does not have as much control as she's been led to believe.
- Cue the sixth commercial, and it's even more pointed than any of the others have been. It's an ad for the antidepressant Nexus, for "when the world doesn't revolve around you. Or does it?" The drug allows people to anchor themselves to the reality of their choice with side effects that include "feeling your feelings, confronting your truth, seizing your destiny, and possibly more depression." Whew, the pointed commentary is even making me sweat. Nexus is a nod to two things: Wanda's crippling inability to deal with the trauma she's been through and her depression that's pushed her into the creation of Westview, and two Marvel comics concepts. The first is the Nexus of All Realities is a kind of gateway point between dimensions from which all universes in the multiverse can be accessed. (Remember, Wanda's next reported appearance is in Multiverse of Madness.) The second concept is the existence of Nexus beings, people who have powers that can alter reality, probability, and the Universal Time Stream. Guess which two Westview residents are considered Nexus beings? That's right, Wanda and Vision! The commercial can either be just a cheeky nod to the couple's seemingly infinite power or an allusion to the bigger picture that WandaVision is leading to.
- While Darcy and Vision are attempting to make their way to the house, the doctor gives the synthezoid a brief rundown of his origin story, explaining how he died twice in an attempt to save the world. Vision points out that it seems like someone is trying to keep him from getting home, which spurs him to fly off, leaving Darcy behind in the blocked truck.
- Billy and Tommy are watching Yo Gabba Gabba in Agnes's lowkey creepy home. (It tickles me that Yo Gabba Gabba is more canon in the MCU than the X-Men or Fantastic Four right now.) While Billy pets Agnes's bunny Señor Scratchy, he notes that he likes being around the older woman because he's unable to hear any of her thoughts. "You're quiet inside," he says, an allusion to the idea that Agnes can hide her thoughts from him because she has magic.
- Back outside the Hex, after the super-rover isn't able to penetrate the field, Monica decides to run through it again. As she struggles through the barrier and we watch her, a montage of dialogue from Captain Marvel plays. The voices of Maria, Nick Fury, and Carol play over Monica getting through, and as Captain Marvel says "when they were handing out little kids, your mom got the toughest one," Monica she pushes through to the other side. She lands in the stereotypical three-point-stance of all Marvel heroes, and her eyes glow, showing that she can see energy. We just witnessed the rise of Photon, folks! (Or Spectrum or Pulsar.)
- Monica confronts Wanda in her home, and as their fight spills onto the lawn, the residents of Westview watch from their own homes. The delivery man is wearing a "Presto Delivery" uniform, a reference to the magic words said by magicians before they pull a magic trick.
- In the first blatant show of Agnes's ulterior motives, the older woman stops the fight when she realizes Monica is getting through to Wanda and pulls the young mother into her home. But when Wanda gets there, she notices the green bug and rabbit in the living room and the lack of her sons' presence. When she asks Agnes where the boys are, she's told to head to the basement, where the big showdown occurs. The scene hints at the eventual disappearance of Billy and Tommy.
- Wanda notices a book on an altar, which could be the Darkhold, also known as The Book of Sins, The Shiatra Book Of The Damned. Originally a collection of papers known as the Chthon Scrolls, the book contains all the spells and ideas of the evil Elder God known as Chthon. The book is a conduit for Chthon's power and can open a doorway from Earth to Chthon's dimension. If that book is in Agnes's basement, it stands to logic that she may be working with the evil god. The Darkhold emits an orange glow, which is a distinctly different color than the purple of Agatha's magic.
- Speaking of magic, Agnes finally reveals herself as the witch we've known her to be. Although the show tells us that "it's been Agatha all along," it still doesn't ring completely true. There's definitely more at work than just Agatha's magic.
- In the mid-credits sequence, Monica is caught snooping in Agnes's backyard by Pietro. Her eyes seem to glow purple, the same color that signals Agatha's magic. Does this mean she's now under the witch's spell?
