Episode 3 of Marvel’s WandaVision, streaming now, bursts into shade as the suburban sitcom surrealness hits the 1970s. From Quicksilver to SWORD, what Easter eggs and Marvel references does the third installment of the Disney Plus sequence point to? Let’s dive in to the mysterious fact of witchy Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and awkward android Vision (Paul Bettany).
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Welcome to Westview
All signs existing Wanda and Vision being trapped in some form of constructed fact. Like, real literal signs: The billboard welcoming company to the town of Westview hints at that synthetic nature with the tagline “Dwelling is the assign you invent it.”
For the younger folks
Vision wants to name the tiny one Billy, after William Shakespeare, and presents every other reference to the synthetic nature of the real fact (“The whole world’s a stage…”). Wanda prefers all-American title Tommy.
They’re in good fortune, as a result of it looks they’re having twins! Within the comics, Wanda’s desire for younger folks has resulted in a few dramatic (and tragic) storylines. Her twin boys had been published to be fragments of the demon Mephisto, who would maybe or would maybe no longer invent an look in the uncover. More lately, Wanda’s grown-up sons Billy and Tommy joined the Young Avengers team as heroes Wiccan and Velocity.
In episode 3, the irregular nature of Wanda’s being pregnant is obvious from its unnervingly accelerated growth, however there are also hints that the babies are in some way synthetic. For the length of episode 3, Wanda unconsciously brings existence to varied inanimate things, collectively with paper butterflies and a listing of a stork. She’s also in some way linked to the skills and infrastructure of the Brady Bunch-vogue environment, her contractions affecting family objects and blowing out the vitality.
The rewind
The 2nd Vision basically voices suspicions relating to the irregular fact whereby they are living, the uncover system defects. Vision is skipped help just a few seconds, however this time his suspicions are gone. Or no longer it’s no longer clear how that took location, however when the beekeeper emerged from the manhole in episode 2, we clearly seen it used to be Wanda who did the rewinding. The request stays whether any person else is to blame of fact and blocked Vision seeing the real fact, or whether Wanda herself is to blame — and she’ll even manipulate her beloved Vision to dam out harsh fact.
The commercials
In episode 1 we seen a Stark Industries toaster. In episode 2 it used to be a Hydra scrutinize. And in episode 3 the substandard Hydra designate returns with a commercial for Hydra Soak Luxury Bath Soap. The first two adverts perceived to be drawn from Wanda’s recollections, whereas this one looks linked to the stress of impending parenthood.
The suppose-over all over again hints at a man-made fact (“Atomize out to an global all of your hang…”). Meanwhile the advert’s tagline is “Find the goddess internal.” That would maybe well point out two things: Wanda would maybe well free goddess-esteem vitality internal herself, or it would maybe well point out that a goddess is in some way trapped internal one thing — in all likelihood relating to the constructed fact Wanda and Viz are living in.
All over all over again the actors in the commercials are Victoria Blade and Ithamar Enriquez. The recurring presence of the same man and girl in Wanda’s recollections suggests it could maybe even be her oldsters.
No home
Geraldine is described as having “no home.” Now we have not any thought the significance of her yarn about marshmallow moon-men and her hiccuping boss — the title “Haddox” doesn’t reach up in the comics that we are in a position to bring to mind. Geraldine is, on the opposite hand, the solely person in the uncover who recollects real-world events. Wanda remembers her twin brother Pietro (AKA Quicksilver) however it be Geraldine who reminds her he used to be killed in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Wanda coldly ejects Geraldine out of the sitcom fact, yeeting her previous some form of forcefield to land in a self-discipline the assign she’s swarmed by armed agents. It looks seemingly this legit-taking a gaze installation is one thing to end with SWORD, the organization that looks to be watching events and whose image Geraldine wears.
Played by Teyonah Parris, Geraldine is reported to be a grown-up model of Monica Rambeau, closing considered as a younger lady in the film Captain Marvel. If she’s now in the particular world, we are in a position to also web some answers in episode 4.
The songs
Each and a week a pop tune from the skills presents some form of deeper that manner. Though the uncover looks to possess skipped to the 1970s, this week it be 1967 hit Daydream Believer by The Monkees. Traces esteem “Cheer up, sleepy Jean” imply some form of enforced sleep or that the environment is some form of dream or imagined fact. Though the line “Oh, what can it point out?” would maybe well talk over with viewers searching for to figure out what is going on on.
The paint
Clearly, everytime you behold any object or textual screech material on masks it be price taking a more in-depth stumble on — that’s how eagle-eyed followers seen the pivotal comics reference on the wine bottle in episode 1. On this installment, the paint cans utilized by Wanda to brighten the nursery undergo the title “Simser.” One more reference to Marvel continuity? No, it be the title of the uncover’s storyboard artist Jeremy Simser. Now not all the pieces is a clue.