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**PhoenixRising** · 02-06-2021, 07:12 PM

That's cool.

And if the multiverse is a thing, can we please get young Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne in the MCU and get rid of the old ones, along with the Langs?

**wickedrum** · 02-06-2021, 07:20 PM

awesomesauce!

dragonfire · 02-06-2021, 10:59 PM

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That's cool.

And if the multiverse is a thing, can we please get young Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne in the MCU and get rid of the old ones, along with the Langs?

Maybe? Though I think for now they'll probably use the Multiverse to bring in the non MCU verses to make the Multiverse a marketable success.

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awesomesauce!

Yep, and let's hope it will happen.

I didn't know if this article should be spoiler tag or not but to be on the same side I spoiler tag it anyway.

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WandaVision Hides a Very Clever Reference to Magneto, Is He Coming Soon?
While we had been busy mulling over that surprising cameo in Episode 5, MCU might just have set the stage for Magneto's arrival.

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Warning: SPOILERS! ahead. With rumors of Evan Peters being approached by Marvel Studios for a WandaVision appearance, and the fact that Wanda's brother, Pietro Maximoff, was being mentioned again so long after his death, it all made Quicksilver's return at the end of Episode 5 not all that surprising. What is truly surprising is the unexpected nod to another mutant from the X-Men universe the episode makes early on. Magneto was subtly referred and we didn't even notice!

Halfway into the episode, we see Monica Rambeau discover that whenever an object crosses Westview's energy shield, it's appearance changes to match whatever decade it is inside. So, she sends an 80's style drone in, knowing that it already fits the timeline inside the town, to try and talk to Wanda. But Tyler Hayward, the S.W.O.R.D. director, had hidden a missile on the drone without telling anyone and tries to subdue Wanda, only for the angered Avenger to come out of Westview herself to confront the S.W.O.R.D. agents.

She tosses the drone at Hayward's feet and proceeds to warn them all to back off, refusing to listen to reason. And then, she mind controls the S.W.O.R.D. Agents who had been pointing their guns at her to turn them on Hayward. Now, this moment mirrors a scene from 2000's X-Men where Magneto (Ian McKellen} used his powers to control metal to turn the guns of the police squad on them.

But the most iconic part about this WandaVision scene, which we totally missed but Twitter user Shruti Rao correctly identified is the part where Wanda uses her powers to hypnotize the agents, raises her right hand, and flicks her wrist to make them train their guns on Hayward instead. This is exactly similar to the action Michael Fassbender's version of Magneto did in X-Men: Dark Phoenix while fighting a horde of aliens.

In one of her recent interviews, Elizabeth Olsen had shared that we should expect a Luke Skywalker-like moment from The Mandalorian Season 2 finale in WandaVision as well. But even though Marvel hadn't officially confirmed casting Evan Peters, the rumours were enough of a solid stamp, making X-Men's Peter Maximoff's appearance rather anti-climatic. Even Paul Bettany has talked about getting the golden opportunity to work with an actor he had "wanting to work with forever."

Maybe we are yet to witness that major moment and maybe, WandaVision's Luke Skywalker moment will be Magneto entering Westview either after the gateway between the different universes is ripped wide open by whatever finally goes down in Westview or maybe, whoever brought X-Men's Peter when Wanda remembered her dead brother, will also snatch Magneto from his reality if Wanda starts remembering her parents too.

After all, just like her real brother, her parents are dead as well which means someone will have to bring a substitute for the real ones. So, if this subtle Easter Egg was indeed a nod to Magneto's arrival, the question is which version will we get- McKellen, Fassbender, or an entirely new daddy dearest? The latest episode of WandaVision is currently streaming on the official Disney+ app.

https://movieweb.com/wandavision-magneto/

sum1 · 02-07-2021, 10:49 AM

Curious.

**PhoenixRising** · 02-07-2021, 05:28 PM

Thanks, dragonfire.

They still owe it to Hank and Janet.

dragonfire · 02-07-2021, 06:46 PM

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Thanks, dragonfire.

They still owe it to Hank and Janet.

No problem, and here's another thing from WandaVision.

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I know.

sum1 · 02-08-2021, 07:24 AM

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They still owe it to Hank and Janet.

Oh go stuff Hank and Janet where the sun don't shine.

**PhoenixRising** · 02-08-2021, 07:05 PM

I know, sum1.

Interesting stuff about Wanda's backstory, dragonfire. They're still omitting a big part of Wanda's backstory, though. The High Evolutionary.

Wanda and Pietro were still born at his home at Wundagore Mountain.

dragonfire · 02-08-2021, 11:40 PM

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Interesting stuff about Wanda's backstory, dragonfire. They're still omitting a big part of Wanda's backstory, though. The High Evolutionary.

Wanda and Pietro were still born at his home at Wundagore Mountain.

Are you trying to say High Evolutionary is a bigger part to Wanda's backstory than Magneto?

Anyway, seems just like WandaVision, Falcon and Winter Soldier show has

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X-Men stuff too with the city of Madripoor.

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Latest The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Footage Confirms X-Men Are Coming to the MCU?
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier trailer that debuted during the Super Bowl gives off some major X-Men vibes.

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It arrived last night. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier full trailer is finally here and unlike WandaVision, it appears to be a head-on action-thriller fiesta with less room for head-scratching mysteries. In fact, its trailer has even put the stamp of confirmation on the much-anticipated arrival of the X-Men in the wide world of the MCU and maybe, just maybe, set the stage for Wolverine as well.

Much of the action-packed trailer focuses on the aftermath of the Avenger: Endgame scene which saw an elderly Steve Rogers pass on the shield to Sam Wilson. We get to see Falcon using the shield for the first time, though in another scene both Sam and Bucky Barnes are seen practicing with the shield. As we already know, Daniel Bruhl's Baron Zemo is back along with his comic book accurate mask. But looks like he is not going to be the only villain in the story as Bucky is seen having a particularly life-threatening tussle with a group of masked guerrillas. While Wyatt Russell's debut as John Walker, an US Agent assigned to take Captain America's place, is yet to be seen, the trailer does hint at his presence.

But what we zeroed on is the brief glimpse of a mysterious city on a sea's shore, a place that before 2019 Marvel Studios couldn't integrate in the MCU- the city of Madripoor, which shares deep ties to the X-Men. Now, long before the trailer had even released, there had been many set photos leaks, wherein popular locations from Madripoor, like the Brass Monkey Saloon as well as the flag of the city (from Wolverine #6) were seen.

Thus, it is pretty clear The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is going to give us more than the answer to the burning question of who will wield Captain America's shield and step in his place now. Its recently released trailer at the Super Bowl confirms that the fictional, lawless city of Madripoor is going to play a significant role in the upcoming Disney+ series. For Marvel Studios to merely pick such a crucial location that has a long history with mutants and also the X-Men as well, just for the sake of including it, doesn't sound right.

What is Madripoor?
Marvel's Madripoor is the capital city of an island nation Southeast Asia located in the Strait of Malacca and is a bubbling hot spot for criminals as it doesn't allow other nations to extradite criminals for crimes they committed within their respective borders. The city, which first appeared in New Mutants #32 (October 1985), is divided into two areas- there is the Hightown teeming with the rich and is the home for the most notorious criminal empires. Then there is the Lowtown, which is plagued by extreme poverty and drugs. But this section of the city too is crawling with unchecked criminal activities.

The Hightown was often visited by the X-Men and they even used it as their headquarters but the prominent member of the team who mostly frequented the seedy underbelly i.e., Lowtown of the city was Wolverine. He has a special fondness for the city in the comics and has spent a long time there, mostly as his other alter-ego, Patch. He also cleaned up Madripoor of its villainous elements, at least for a little while, and went up against many criminal overlords to protect the city. He even co-owns a bar in Lowtown, the Princess Bar. Most recently, the X-Men were in Madripoor when Wolverine's body mysteriously disappeared and they suspected Magneto of stealing the same.

A member of the X-Men is already here...
We already have a mutant from the world of the X-Men films- Peter Maximoff who recently had a surprising debut in WandaVision as a replacement for Wanda's real brother, Pietro who is dead. Though there has been much speculation about whether it was really Quicksilver or instead someone else in disguise, all these theories can be put to rest if you just turn on the audio description of the episode and listen as the shocking arrival is described.

"Seen from behind, a man with bleached blond hair stands on the front step... Wanda stares at the version of Pietro from the X-Men films," says the description. Now, if the showrunners wanted us to grab at straws and obsessively speculate about Peter/Pietro's arrival, the audio description wouldn't have been so explicit. For eg., we still don't know why that drone helicopter/toy helicopter remained in color after crossing into Westview, while the S.W.O.R.D. agent turned black-and-white.

And there is still the chance that more characters from the X-Men films will be landing in the MCU through WandaVision after Wanda (or some either evil entity) brings about the possibility for multiple universes to bleed into one another. If that's indeed the case, the confirmation of the city of Madripoor's existence in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier widens the already open gates for the arrival of more mutants and hopefully, the MCU debut of the one with some particularly sharp adamantium claws.

https://movieweb.com/falcon-winter-s...-x-men-reveal/

sum1 · 02-09-2021, 09:08 AM

Curious.

**PhoenixRising** · 02-09-2021, 07:28 PM

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Are you trying to say High Evolutionary is a bigger part to Wanda's backstory than Magneto?

Well, he was part of their backstory before it was revealed that Magneto was their father, if I'm not mistaken.

Not interested in Falcon & Winter Soldier. It seems like Marvel/Disney is trying to tell me what I should and shouldn't like or think is important.

dragonfire · 02-09-2021, 11:39 PM

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Well, he was part of their backstory before it was revealed that Magneto was their father, if I'm not mistaken.

Not interested in Falcon & Winter Soldier. It seems like Marvel/Disney is trying to tell me what I should and shouldn't like or think is important.

I see.

Ok, but I wouldn't be posting it here if it wasn't for

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sum1 · 02-10-2021, 09:24 AM

Yep, they're introducing X-Men stuff in Falcon and Winter Soldier.

**PhoenixRising** · 02-10-2021, 05:46 PM

Okay.

Thanks, dragonfire.

In that case, please continue.

I get it, sum1, but that still seems a bit incongruous. Mutants in Falcon and Winter Soldier? That's like Skrulls in Spider-Man.

dragonfire · 02-10-2021, 10:17 PM

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Okay.

Thanks, dragonfire.

In that case, please continue.

I get it, sum1, but that still seems a bit incongruous. Mutants in Falcon and Winter Soldier? That's like Skrulls in Spider-Man.

No problem.

Will do.

Not when it's stuff like

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