But we can presume that when she collapses the Hex entirely, Tommy and Billy disappear, just like their dad. Computer[1]Gem[1]Vision's Stone[2]Entity[2] In the penultimate episode, when Wanda and Agatha take a Christmas Carol-style trip down memory lane, we see Wanda obsess over sit-coms as a child. Users If she had the proper training, she likely would have learned how to wield her chaos magic properly at an earlier age. That made the HYDRA agents trust Rogers, and give him the Scepter, with the Mind Stone included. 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After gaining powers from Baron von Strucker, the Maximoff twins ally themselves with Ultron before fully understanding his villainous plans. All Rights Reserved. She realized she had to destroy the Hex and free the townspeople of Westview. 1 day ago, by Chanel Vargas Chaos magic is ancient and, according to the comics, Wanda was touched with that magic from birth. The Mind Stone appears to have been bonded to Vision's nervous system and likely to his very mind, because in Avengers: Infinity War Shuri referred to it being bonded to more than two trillion neurons. While in the possession of Loki, unbeknownst to him, the Mind Stone subtly influenced his actions and motivations from within the Scepter. The twins proved to be the only subjects to survive the process and were initially held in cells as they began getting used to their new powers. By the time of the Battle at the Triskelion, Strucker and his scientists realized that the Scepter's powers were far greater than they originally thought. After interacting with the Infinity Stone, Wanda sees a vision of the Scarlet Witch in Strucker's lab Escaping from his prison on the Helicarrier, Loki reclaimed the Scepter, which he later used his weapon to impale Agent Phil Coulson into his heart when Coulson attempted to confront him. Did the Mind Stone enhance Wanda's powers? The Mind Stone was originally portrayed as a power source for the Scepter. The commercial could indicate that Wanda is such a being. More:Why There's A Gap Between WandaVision And Falcon & Winter Soldier. [9], Corvus Glaive tries to remove the Mind Stone from Vision. Wanda dug deep and decided on the latter, unleashing her power on Ultrons sentries. Shes operated under the name Captain Marvel and Spectrum and Photon. It looks like the MCU is going in a happier direction with White Visions story. At its core, the Stone contains a highly advanced intelligence framework, akin to an incredibly powerful supercomputer operating similarly to a sentient mind. One of the few survivors of the experiments, along with her brother, Wanda found herself with a variety of abilities. The Darkhold stated that the Scarlet Witch is not born, but forged. Shuri noted that Hydra settled on using theSokovians for their Mind Stone experiments as they observed a number of genetic anomalies among Sokovians. "I have a theory, but I need more. Rose was a decent enough mind mage. Harkness explained that any witch Who placed those magic ruins could control anyone and so she explained and demanded to know how Wanda had so much power. Both Zola and Killmonger attempted to take the stones, leading to a stalemate. However, he still needed to go through the process of downloading his digital essence into the new body. During the Theft of the Mind Stone, Captain America was able to use the power of the Scepter to render his past self unconscious, just by tapping it against his chest. He tried to talk and reason with Rogers to convince him to surrender, noting while Rogers believed he was doing the right thing by going against the Sokovia Accords, he should surrender. When Captain America took on Ultron, the twins assisted him in the battle and then helped stop a runaway train, saving the passengers onboard. Agatha says that she senses powerful magic coming from Wanda, and thats why she enters the Hex. However, using all six Stones in this manner at such a weakened state caused the Stones' combined power to nearly overwhelm him, and the Gauntlet as well as his left arm were left scorched by the release of energy. Despite Vision trying to reason with her, Maximoff used her powers to slam Vision through the facility and deep underground, allowing Barton and Maximoff to then escape. While the relationship between her and Stark does not develop into friendship, they do become teammates as part of the Avengers. (For complicated reasons, Vision also loses his color and becomes all white.) You will receive a verification email shortly. In the MCU, characters tend to be wholly good or wholly evil. Warning: WandaVision Episode 8 SPOILERS Follow! 16 hours ago, by Njera Perkins Banner then recovered the Stone and handed it over to Parker. Episode eight of WandaVision, titled "Previously On," takes us all the way back to the beginning; not just of the show, but to Wanda's first interaction with the Stark Industries bomb that would change her life. Wanda was able to hold her own against Thanos, dismantling the Mad Titan's armor with her powers. Powerful women experiencing trauma and losing control of their emotions is a favorite of genre storytellers: when Wandas husband and children die, she goes crazy, mind-controls the entire world and kills off superheroes who oppose her; In Game of Thrones, Daenerys turns into the Mad Queen when first her dragon children and then her best friend are murdered; in the X-Men comics, Jean Grey transforms into the Dark Phoenix and terrorizes the X-Men after watching her partner, Cyclops, tortured. Only an extremely powerful energy source similar to that of its own, such as the incredible powers granted to Wanda Maximoff, is capable of potentially destabilizing its molecular integrity. Those comics hew toward rather sexist tropes about the hysterical woman. However, before she could finish, she was attacked by Corvus Glaive. The Wakanda Files, which are presented as Black Panther'sShuri'scollection of notes regarding the world of the Avengers. The devil rescinds on their agreement and makes them disappear for awhile, but then they reappear in the stories as teenagers. In 2018, Vision and Wanda Maximoff were living in Scotland when the Mind Stone alerted Vision as a warning of some kind. Notably powerful, Wanda Maximoff has fought both against and with the Avengers, attempting to hone her abilities and do what she believes is right to help the world. The finale episode will premiere on Friday, March 5th. Defensive mind magics had never really been her strong suit, but it was enough to protect her from most attackers. The commercial ends with a slogan: Hydra Soak: Find the Goddess Within. It is true that Wanda discovered her goddess-like powers while Hydra was experimenting on her. Add Tommy and Billy, and you have a full team of teen supers. What we learn from WandaVision episode 8 is that Wanda Maximoff wasn't some successful experiment in using the Mind Stone to give human beings powers - Wanda was a powerful being whose. That's because those powers came from the magic that lived within her as a witch. Wanda had always believed the bomb was defective and a cruel twist of fate was all that kept her and Pietro alive. It was taken by Ultron and its blue gem casing was shattered, releasing the stone inside it and placing it on the being that would become Vision. WandaVision was the MCUs first, official canonical TV series and released week-by-week over the course of nine episodes, leaving viewers plenty of time to wonder whether the X-Men might show up in Wandas Hex or whether Wanda was the hero or villain of the show. The Avengers (inside the Scepter)Captain America: The Winter Soldier (inside the Scepter)Guardians of the Galaxy (hologram)Avengers: Age of UltronCaptain America: Civil WarAvengers: Infinity WarAvengers: Endgame Spider-Man: Far From Home (photos)Thor: Love and Thunder (depiction) Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk and Ant-Man were sent back in time to 2012 during the Battle of New York to retrieve the Mind, Space and Time Stones, creating an alternate timeline. The evil guy who is the head of SWORD clearly wanted to get Vision back online and use him as a weapon and tried to trick Wanda into doing it for him. It will come eventually though. Kathryn Hahn is a wicked delight, and its likely well see more of Agatha in the future. A commercial for an anti-depressant to take when you feel everything is meaningless and works to anchor you back to reality corresponds to an episode where Wanda begins to realize the limit of her delusion. Captain America: The Winter Soldier's mid-credits scene introduced the MCU's Wanda and Pietro as the only survivors of Hydra's experiments with the Mind Stone.That was . Vision managed to escape, but Thanos, who got all the other Infinity Stones, came to Wakanda to get the Stone himself. Please do not make assumptions regarding confusing wording, other sites' speculation, and people's headcanon around the internet. After the group returned to the upstate New York Avengers compound and reunited with James Rhodes and Bruce Banner, Vision suggested Wanda use her powers to destroy the Mind Stone in order to keep it from Thanos, at the cost of his own life. In order to acquire the Scepter, Rogers, disguised as his past self, asked the agents for the weapon, claiming that the secretary asked him to secure it. It was an important scene in the latest episode of Marvels WandaVision, even if it was mysterious and open to interpretation. This is the first time Wanda has ever been referred to as the Scarlet Witch in the MCU. "You used a probability hex," Agatha says. In the penultimate episode, we see a young Wanda and Pietro in war-torn Sakovia. The MCU Pietro (Taylor Johnson) was killed by Ultron during Avengers: Age of Ultron. Press J to jump to the feed. After held captive and imprisoned on S.H.I.E.L.D. Well probably find out more about their connection in the next Doctor Strange movie, Multiverse of Madness, which starsyou guessed itElizabeth Olsen. [1], Ultron revealing the Mind Stone inside the Scepter, The Mind Stone was revealed to be inside Loki's Scepter by Ultron, who used its power to enthrall Helen Cho, in order to make him a new body with a combination of her expertise using the Regeneration Cradle and Ultron's supply of Vibranium. After not wanting to leave Maximoff and realizing that they needed the Stone, Vision took the Mind Stone out of his head, thus deactivating himself. Near the end of the battle, Black Widow picked up the Scepter and used it to activate a fail-safe that closed the portal being generated by the Tesseract. After a quick fight, the main Rogers won and left Stark Tower with the Scepter, giving it to Lang. Do you think thats Olsen playing the advanced version of her own character? When we pressed WandaVision director Matt Shakman about the significance, he once again reiterated: This is a show about looking at the past, but also a show about looking at the future. However, neither Banner nor Stark was capable to create the intelligence level of A.I. Despite her loss, Wanda becomes a full-fledged Avenger, on a team consisting of Captain America and Black Widow, along with fellow new recruits Falcon, War Machine, and Vision. The name of the drug could also be a hint of things to come. Sitwell asked for an explanation, and Rogers lied that there might be an attempt to steal the powerful weapon. The Avengers manage to get the parts back and rebuild Vision, but hes essentially reverted to his factory settings. A close examination of the episodes, the Marvel comic books and Marvel Studios future film plans can offer us some answers as to what, exactly, happened in this mind-bending show. While Rogers tried to console her, Wandas actions turned out to be the straw that broke the camels back when it came to fallout from Super Hero related incidents. The two discussed their abilities and how they viewed themselves, with Vision noting he did not fully understand the Mind Stone and how it gave him his power. The penultimate episode goes back and rewrites Wandas past , suggesting that she (and probably also Pietro) had special abilities when they were young, and those abilities were enhanced by the Infinity Stone. Using a flashback in the life of Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen), but showing us a moment tied to Avengers: Age of Ultron, WandaVision connected Wanda's origin to the Mind Stone, while also. In WandaVision, Agatha recasts Pietro with Peters playing the role instead of Johnson. Loki continued to wield the Scepter to plot the oncoming invasion on Earth, where he used the staff to establish a mental communication to interact with The Other, and used his weapon during several altercations against the Avengers. [1], Vision talks to Wanda Maximoff about the Mind Stone. While Strucker and his men were detained, Wanda escaped with Pietro. Tweet her your horror movie recommendations @brynneramella. She did excel in offensive mind magic and putting suggestions in other people's heads. As Cap went rogue, Wanda initially stayed with Stark. Ultron informed Wanda that she would be the key to tearing the group apart from the inside. Evangeline Lilly who stars as Hope Van Dyne, aka Wasp, joins us live from the premiere of Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, to discuss Hope's journey, and the evolution of the family dynamics in the film. With that in mind, and seemingly nothing else, Wanda unleashed on the time-traveling version she encountered on the battlefield. . Did the Mind Stone unlock Wanda's powers? Its also worth pointing out that Wanda did not, in fact, break into SWORD headquarters, steal Visions body and try to resurrect her dead android boyfriend. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wanda said that the missile was defective: she and Pietro sat next to it for two days waiting for it to go off. In the battle that followed in Berlin between Rogers and Starks factions, Wanda proved herself a valuable teammate for Captain Americas group, taking on everyone from Iron Man to Spider-Man to Black Widow, while chastising Hawkeye for holding back against his friends. Did Wanda always have her reality-warping powers, or were they awakened by the Mind Stone? However, the Stone disappeared when Maximoff removed the Hex. A few weeks later, Wanda Maximoff used her Chaos magic to create a new Mind Stone, embedded in the head of a recreated Vision. With Wanda gone, Thanos agents moved in on Vision, whose procedure was interrupted, as he joined the fight as well. That's because those powers came from the magic that lived within her as a witch. The best brand? Neither of the HYDRA doctors can explain what happens to her, and the events aren't captured on their security cameras. We find out in Episode 8 that, according to Agatha, Wanda was just a "baby witch" who wouldn't have become anything special before she touched the Mind Stone and her true powers were unlocked. Please select the topics you're interested in: Would you like to turn on POPSUGAR desktop notifications to get breaking news ASAP? . When Wanda destroys the Hex she destroys Vision with it. 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