If Brandt had appeared in any of the last three movies—or all three—how would you have liked his character to develop? 🤔
WHO'S LATE I'M LATE NO ONE EXPECTS ANYTHING LESS FROM ME!
Hi Nonnie! What an interesting question!
I'm really sorry for the delay- I've been in exile/on study abroad at another store for my job and it has erased my capabilities to engage with life, fandom, or anything other than "go to work/survive/come home." I've been gone from Will, and I miss him.
LIKE I MISSED HIM IN THE LAST THREE MOVIES, I MEAN DAMN
The easy answer to this question is, I would have liked him to develop into Ethan's boyfriend and for them to furiously make-out onscreen for at least 45 minutes of each film.
To be fair, I didn't come into the fandom until several years after "Fallout." But the moment I realized he wasn't going to be in it, I was so disappointed, and that feeling never left me.
At the end of the "Rogue Nation," it seems like Will is going to be Hunley's right hand man, and I would l have loved to see him step further into that role - or at least, to see it more than we glimpsed with the previous Secretary in "Ghost Protocol." He starts to project a little more confidence in himself and his abilities, and I wanted to see that grow, I wanted to see Will both lean into his anxious, sarcastic self and his strengths as an analyst and as an agent. And I wanted to see that acknowledged.
I would have liked him to become fully "of the team." I know he technically is that in both GP and RN, but he's the only team member ever to not be called by his first name. While I get that some people think it's a distance he creates and prefers, I wish we'd seen him become part of the "family," as it were, for him to be called "Will." I think Benji would have enjoyed calling him "Willy" or "Bill" and Will would have hated it.
Especially because Ethan is so lousy to and unappreciative of him in RN, I would have liked to see how they came to better understand/trust each other. Or, well, Will already trusts Ethan implicitly, and Ethan obviously trusts him enough to rely on him in moments of emergency and in bigger plans. But I would have liked him to be able to step in, handle a crisis, provide insight into a villain. I think he and Ethan would always bicker, but in an increasingly friendly and horny way that would have continued to provide the fun and important contrast between the rest of the team that always "yes ands" their way behind Ethan. I don't think Ethan sees anyone as an equal (you can argue with me on that, for sure), but it would have been neat to see him accept that Will is his foil and use their contrast to further their goals.
What I had really hoped for "Final Reckoning" was that Will would have been working behind the scenes in the IMF/with Sloane. If everything had to go analog because of the entity, wouldn't Will, who has already been shown to have excellent recall for information be ideal in that situation? He showed incredible resourcefulness protecting Ethan in the pre-RN comic, I'm sure he could have an excellent inside man. It would have been interesting to see him make the argument for Sloane and the others to trust Ethan "one last time" not only from a "believe me because I'm sad puppy eyes in a navy blue sweater" viewpoint, but from a "I can tell give you solid evidence of why he is the right person, and do it while also making it clear that I care so very, very much."
Will has been protective of Ethan before either of them understood it, and I would've like to see him develop into a real, solid, and visibly important member of the team, whose talents, fears, and hopes are put to the test with everyone else.
...I say, this, though, knowing full well my own post-Fallout fic has Will struggling with all of these things in various ways, and leaning into his worse impulses more heavily. I think that would have been amazing too, but unfortunately the last three movies were not character studies of my favorite member of the Useless Bitch Dumpster Collective IMF, so I'm left to my own decidedly sinister devices.
Thank you so much for asking and for your patience!
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