4 Awesome Links To The MCU Found In The First 3 āWandavisionā Episodes
Usually, all of us are always looking forward to Fridays, the start of the weekend, and now, with Wandavision airing once a week on that day, it simply doesnāt come fast enough. The first three episodes of Wandavision, which started airing on Disney+ on January 15th, take a look at Wandaās life after the events of Avengers: Endgame. We donāt know much, but fans all over the globe have been speculating, and what we all think is that Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) is trying to keep Vision (Paul Bettany) alive in any way possible, which has driven her to create an alternate reality for her and Vision to live in, out of grief. Fans also say sheās even got real people trapped in it to make it more realistic.Ā
Even if youāve already seen the first three episodes of Marvelās newest show, there are a lot of amazing links to the Marvel Cinematic Universe you might have missed. Letās take a deep look at the coolest ones Iāve found.
1. Vision is āA walking computer.ā
In the first episode, we see Vision going off to work at an office. He isnāt quite sure of what his job is about, and his coworker, Norm (Asif Ali), is happy to tell him they produce computational forms, and then goes on to tell him that their productivity has risen above the roof since Vision started working for them. Then, Norm tells him this:
Wandavision, courtesy of Disney+.Ā
The quote āYouāre like a walking computerā is obviously a nod towards the fact that Vision was, at some point, J.A.R.V.I.S. (Just A Rather Very Intelligent Computer System), Tony Starkās (Robert Downey Jr.) computer system. Vision was created when J.A.R.V.I.S.ās protocols were uploaded onto Ultronās vibranium body and combined with the Mind Stone. Vision is obviously alarmed by Normās statement, since he is, in fact, a walking computer.
2. The Stark Industries Toaster
Wandavision, courtesy of Disney+.
Later on, we can also see a commercial promoting the new āToastMate 2000ā, a product created by Howard Stark for Stark Industries. Sound familiar? Of course, it does, Stark Industries is Tony Starkās company, and it has a very deep connection with Wandaās past. Wanda is Slovakian, and when she was just a little girl, her, and her twin brother Pietro (Aaron Taylor Johnson) were having dinner with their parents when a mortar shell hit their building and killed both of their parents. Wanda and Pietro were both stuck beneath the rubble and a second mortar shell fell close to them but didnāt go off. On the side, the mortar had the written inscription āStark Industriesā. The twins resented Stark for a long time, because a Stark Industries product killed their parents and put them through a lot of trauma. The toasterās beeping is clearly an allusion to that mortar shell, because it sounds a lot like a bomb.
Wandavision, courtesy of Disney+.
In the second episode, we can see a commercial about a watch, āStrĆ¼ckerā. We can also see that the brand is āHYDRAā. These two names both have a deeper meaning. HYDRA was the organization founded by Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving) during World War II, that was focused on world domination and infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., corrupting it. On the other hand, Wolfgang von StrĆ¼cker (Thomas Kretschmann) was an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division), and secretly a HYDRA member. He was the one who experimented with energy from the Infinity Stone in Lokiās (Tom Hiddleston) scepter on Wanda and Pietro, which led to them gaining powers that they wanted to use to end the war in Slovakia.
Wandavision, courtesy of Disney+.
In the latest Wandavision episode, which, unlike the last two episodes, is full of color, we can see a third commercial, this time for āHydra Soakā. As Iāve mentioned before, HYDRA infiltrated and corrupted S.H.I.E.L.D. In the fourth season ofĀ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) tells Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet) about HYDRA making a blue āmind control soapā to mess with peopleās heads.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., courtesy of Disney+.
Hydra Soak could definitely be it, and it could be an allusion to everyone around Wanda and Vision being controlled into playing along in Wandaās fake world.
The commercial is also an allusion to the Mind Stone in Lokiās Scepter āgivingā Wanda and Pietro powers (the scepter emits a blue light). According to the Marvel Studios Visual Dictionary, the scepter unlocked these powers, that were rooted deep inside of Wanda, āFinding the goddess withinā.
Wandavision is still very new, and all of these links may have a deeper meaning than we think. Weāve got to keep our eyes open, in case Wandavision decides to bless us with more nostalgic links to the past.
