WandaVision: Marvel Easter Eggs Breakdown

A Thorough Breakdown of All the Marvel Easter Eggs on WandaVision

March 5, 2021 by Mekishana Pierre First Published: January 15, 2021

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The episode opens with the usual Marvel logo turning the same purple as Agatha's magic as if solidifying that she has taken over the show.
The comic explains Agatha's backstory as a witch that betrayed her coven by using dark magic during the Salem Witch Trials of 1693. Although Agatha isn't as old as she is in the comics, that may be a side effect of the life energy she can seemingly drain from other witches — which also seems to draw magic into herself.
The MCU's version of the Salem Witch Trials differs from the comic book iteration in which Agatha was the persecutor, not a victim. She even put up witches from her coven because she thought it was necessary to weed out the weak. In WandaVision, Agatha's dark magic experimentation leads to her coven turning against her, but she kills them instead of the other way around.
When Agatha and her mother battle during the Witch Trial scene, the latter manifests a magical crown similar to a witch's headdress in the comics. The design looks very much like one of the ancient sorceress Zhered-Na's. It could mean that the coven studied Atlantean magic or it could be a reference to her mother's position as head of the coven.
We've always known that the MCU's version of Wanda is different from the comics, and episode eight finally establishes her place in MCU lore. Instead of being a mutant (or mutate as the comics retcon), Wanda is a born witch whose power amplified when she was exposed to the Mind Stone.
As Agatha unveils Wanda's past, it's shown that the younger witch first used magic when she and Pietro were trapped by a Stark Industries shell in the rubble of their apartment. Similar to how her magic first manifested in her comic book origins, Wanda used a probability hex on the bomb, disrupting its mechanisms and keeping it from going off for the two days she and Pietro were trapped.
Said Stark Industries shell has been mentioned a few times in WandaVision before. Episode one's commercial featured a Stark Industries toaster with the same flashing light as the bomb, and in episode five, Monica sends an '80s style Stark Industries drone into the Hex that looks almost exactly like the shell.
During the flashback to Wanda's exposure to the Mind Stone, she gets a vision of herself wearing the Scarlet Witch costume from the comic books, although even the silhouette of it looks like an upgrade from the classic design.
Although we now know the Mind Stone amplified Wanda's magical abilities, it's not shown how Pietro got his superspeed abilities. The Wakanda Files, an in-universe guide book, explained that Hydra went to Sokovia because they noticed some genetic anomalies among the residents, which they thought made them perfect test subjects. Since it seems like the stone is more of a power boost than a power giver, Pietro could have already been a speedster, just like Wanda was already a witch. It also explains why Wanda's children would inherit both of those abilities — they're genetically predisposed to.
In a supersweet shoutout to Marvel Comics cocreator Stan Lee, Wanda's license plate reads "Excelsior," Lee's catchphrase.
It's shown that not only did Wanda not steal Vision's body from S.W.O.R.D., but the Vision in Westview is a magical construct that she created. That explains why he was coming apart when he tried to leave the Hex.
Agatha reveals that Wanda wields the thought-to-be-mythical force that is Chaos Magic, which allows her to rewrite creation itself. Since Chaos Magic is associated with the Elder God Chthon in the comics, it seems more likely that he will be making an appearance in the future.
For the first time in MCU history, someone uses the phrase Scarlet Witch! Agatha explains to Wanda that she's a Scarlet Witch, which isn't an inherited title but a rare type of magic-user capable of spontaneous creation.
Welcome to the White Vision. The episode's midcredits scene reveals that S.W.O.R.D. has finished their assembly of "the greatest sentient weapon ever made." Using the drone that Wanda zapped with her magic, the agents "reboot" Vision, a direct callback to John Byrne's Vision Quest. In the comics, Vision was disassembled and restored as a colorless, emotionless synthezoid who considered human life irrelevant.

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