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I have no idea how many of you are watching WandaVision on Disney+. But if you do watch it, and haven't watched the latest episode (Ep5), and don't want to be spoiled, TURN AROUND. GO AWAY. . . . . . . Still here? Ok. Holy shit. Can we talk about that ending for a second, and the implications it represents? Now, things might not be what they seem, and what we see, is all a trick...However, if we take the ending at face value, the MCU just got MASSIVELY bigger, with the utterance of a single question... She recast Pietro? The answer to that question, just changed the entire MCU. Pietro, as you may recall, is Wanda's brother, Pietro Maximoff. You may also remember that as Quicksilver, Pietro was killed in Avengers: Age of Ultron. You may also remember that over at 20th Century Fox, the X-Men franchise had their own Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver. Because of licensing rights at the time, Marvel could use the character as long as they never mentioned he was a mutant, and Fox could use the character as long as they specifically never mentioned his alignment with the Avengers. Then that licensing problem went away, when Disney purchased Fox Studios, giving Disney and the MCU the movie rights to all of Fox's Marvel characters. The question was though, how would Disney do it? Could Disney even do it? Was there a way to somehow incorporate the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the other properties owned by Fox into the MCU, and have it make sense? And then we got a clue as to how they might do it, when Spider-Man:Into the Spider-Verse was released, when they introduced the concept of the multiverse. While the main alter-ego of Spider-Man was the Miles Morales version, it also featured Peter Parker and other Spider-Man variations...This is important, as it establishes that the MCU exists as one of a series of alternate universes. That is, if we were to follow that theme and apply to the live action Marvel Universe, it means that Disney's MCU, Fox's X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises, and Sony's version of Spider-Man all exist in alternate universes from each other, but that they are CONNECTED. Tom Holland's Spider-Man connected Disney's MCU with Sony's universe, even on an "loaned character" basis...but with Disney now owning Fox, they can do so much more than that. And they did. Going back to the character of Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff...who should show up at Wanda's doorstep, than her dear brother? Only it wasn't THAT one. It was this one: It was the Pietro Maximoff...from the X-Men franchise. The one we all liked way better...
The entire plot of WandaVision is based on Scarlet Witch's ability to reshape reality...and Wanda did reshape reality. Not only did she necessarily resurrect Vision (who died in End Game) complete with Infinity Stone on his head, but she just subconsciously brought her brother back...only it was the Pietro from the Fox alternate/multiverse. The X-Men have officially joined Disney's MCU. The next Doctor Strange film is titled Doctor Strange:The Multiverse of Madness. The multiverse. Again. WandaVision was the start, but how much do you want to bet that by the end of Doctor Strange II, the 20th Century Fox Marvel universe will be fully blended in with the Disney MCU? It wouldn't even be hard to explain: When Thanos destroyed the Infinity Gauntlet and the Infinity Stones in End Game, he unknowingly opened up a rift in the space-time continuum that allowed the Fox Marvel universe and the Disney MCU to spill together...Could that be the central plot to the Doctor Strange sequel? That Doctor Strange was able to sense the changes as the MCU and Fox Marvel universe become one? Long story short: Now that Stan Lee is dead, don't be surprised to see his cameos in every Marvel movie replaced by Deadpool...
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