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Who's Luring Scarlet Witch in the WandaVision Finale? (VIDEO SCRIPT)
🕑 Added 2021-03-08 21:01:00 +0000 UTCWell then. I guess I know which comic VISION’S follow-up solo series is gonna be based on...
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Readers, Marvel Studios' first Disney+ series WandaVision is officially over. And with it, a lot of some things fans have been wanting to see from her since her introduction in Age of Ultron.
/She's finally being referred to by her superhero name Scarlet Witch, she's in a more comic accurate costume than the ones she wore before, and everything we thought the show might've told us about the Multiverse has once again been a complete lie./
On the other hand, if you're anything like me, you can't be disappointed in the red herrings the show dropped your way if you never believed them to begin with (points at head).
However, that's not to say Marvel head Kevin Fridge lied about how the show’s gonna tie in to the greater MCU, or even Wanda's involvement in the upcoming sequel film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; the only movie in Phase 4 that I'm convinced actually WILL involve experimenting with the Multiverse.
And it's two scenes in the WandaVision finale in particular that have me convinced
/The first being after Wanda fully accepts her role as the Scarlet Witch and we both hear AND see Agatha Harkness do her "what have you done" line./
Now while this line is a bit cryptid, those of us who have any experience with storytelling when it comes to either someone accepting a certain mantle, or awakening an extraordinary amount of power, probably translated this as "Now that Wanda is officially a Scarlet Witch, she has attracted the attention of something bigger out there." Which is always a safe bet.
And considering that the next time we see Scarlet Witch on screen IS in the Doctor Strange sequel, the second scene in question kinda plays into that trope of you really pay attention.
/I'm of course talking about the after credit scene of the series finale, where in the midst of her studying from Agatha's grimoire, she hears her twins Billy and Tommy somewhere in dimensions unknown, crying out to her for help./
Now I personally found this choice in after credit scenes very interesting, considering the previous fact of Multiverse of Madness.
/While it's obvious that with aging up Scott Lang's daughter in Endgame, introducing Billy and Tommy pre Wiccan and Speed in WandaVision, possibly introducing Teddy Altman in the upcoming Secret Invasion series, using Multiverse of Madness to introduce America Chavez and even introducing Kate Bishop in the upcoming Hawkeye series, part of the current agenda at Marvel Studios is that they want to introduce the Young Avengers./
But because of how WandaVision ended, there needs to be an event set in place that will allow the two characters to not only return, but to be living, breathing, physical human beings within the physical plane without relying on Wanda's magic to keep them existing.
And it's looking like we're going to see that play out in Multiverse of Madness -- not with Wanda being the villain of the movie like everyone assumed she was going to be -- but with Wanda going to Stephen to not only train, but to ask for his help in finding her children.
/The thing is, Agatha's concern at the end of WandaVision claiming the mantle of Scarlet Witch was DEFINITELY genuine./
And her claiming it, alerting a greater magical evil of her presence -- like the darkness awakening when the Traveler did at the end of the vanilla Destiny 2 campaign -- is also something I can definitely see happening.
So while Billy and Tommy crying out for Wanda may be real, what if the ACTUAL villain of Multiverse of Madness -- this greater evil now aware that a Scarlet Witch once more walks the earth -- found the twins and is using them as bait?
Well Readers. Not only do I think that's the case, but considering everyone current cast in it, and even how the title of the movie was initially inspired, not only do i think I know who the big bad of Multiverse of Madness is, but I think I ALSO know what the PLOT of the movie is.
Now before I start, I first have to address the girls and the gays:
Hey, there my fellow queers. It is I, the most...pragmatic Bi
Now...as much as we love Wanda, and how far she’s come in dealing with her trauma -- you know, outside of torturing an entire town against their will in order to do it -- we have to accept that this is, first and foremost, a Doctor Strange movie
And that it’s being directed, first and foremost, by a Doctor Strange fan
That means, while the motivation to save Wiccan and Speed from whatever magical reality they’re trapped in is DEFINITELY enough for her to seek out Strange’s help in retrieving them, the villain responsible is more than likely associated with Doctor Strange than with Scarlet Witch
With that being said, as much as I love Chiwetel Ejiofor, I don’t think it’s Baron Mordo.
He’s definitely in it, and he’s definitely going to be a bad guy in it. He said so himself that he’s excited to see what Sam Raimi has up his sleeve for the film.
But I don’t think he’s gonna be the one responsible for all of the string-pulling in the movie. I ACTUALLY think he’s going to be one of the strings.
Because Readers... (giddily chuckles). Readers, I think it’s Shuma-Gorath
Now believe me, at first I was just on board the Nightmare train as everyone else!
He rules the Dream Dimension, and since Wiccan and Speed only exist in her mind as far as Wanda knows by the time WandaVision is over, he wants to use the memory of her children to lure her to his realm and siphon her Chaos Magic to free himself or something similar.
But then in order to get a better understanding of how the movie is gonna operate -- especially after knowing that WandaVision ends with Wanda fully embracing her title of Scarlet Witch -- I did... a little digging.
I decided to check the cast list on IMDB to see if anyone who was already announced for Multiverse of Madness fit the bill of any of Stephen’s villains that would want to utilize Wanda’s abilities.
And what I found...was a very useful bit of trivia about how the sequel was named.
It reads -- and I quote:
/The film’s title is a play on the title of the John Carpenter film In The Mouth of Madness (1994), which itself is a play on the title of H.P. Lovecraft’s novella At The Mountains of Madness, published in 1936/
And while Lovecraft didn’t create Shuma-Gorath SPECIFICALLY, his actual creator Robert E. Howard -- creator of Conan the Barbarian -- initially wrote him to be part of Lovecraft’s Great Old One pantheon in the expanded Cthulhu mythos story “The Curse of the Golden Skull,” before being fully developed into a character for Marvel Comics as a member of the Great Old Ones -- The Many-Angled Ones if ya nasty -- and one of the Lords of Chaos.
(Rapidly Blinks at the camera)
Now if I’m right about my Marvel vs Capcom 3 main being the villain here, this could go one of many ways. Especially if we take into consideration the stories that the movie is named after; John Carpenter's “The Mouth of Madness,” and Lovecraft’s “At the Mountain of Madness.”
/1994’s In The Mouth of Madness stars Sam Neil -- aka Dr. Alan Grant from Jurassic Park. And in it, his character John Trent is investigating the disappearance of a famous horror writer hired by his publishing company to find him and turn in his last novel “In The Mouth of Madness.” Over the course of the movie, he discovers that the author’s book series acts as a gateway to free a cosmic race of monsters that not only drives its readers insane, but that publishing the final installment will basically bring an end to humanity./
And while the Lovecraft novella it’s named after isn’t an adaptation of it, “At the Mountain of Madness'' is a recollection tale of a few explorers in Antarctica, warning people to stay away from the ruins of an ancient civilization of extraterrestrial lifeforms in the Cthulhu mythos they stumbled upon called The Elder Things, and their blob-like servants the Shoggoths.
It even hints at a greater evil entity called Yog-Sothoth within a larger mountain than the one they initially explored. And THAT entity, according to the Cthulhu mythos, shares boundaries with all time and space, but is simultaneously locked out of our understanding of the universe.
Sounds very familiar to my boy Shuma, if you ask me.
So not only do I think the main villain of the movie is Shuma-Gorath, but considering what the end credit scene of WandaVision teased about it, who all is IN it, and the properties that provided the inspiration for its name, I think I know what’s actually gonna happen in the movie.
Shuma-Gorath is gonna be in the place of Yog-Sothoth -- the greater evil entity hinted at near the end of “At the Mountain of Madness” in this case; an ancient Lord of Chaos that’s locked outside of our universe, that -- thanks to releasing such a strong amount of Chaos Magic from the WandaVision finale -- has been made aware of the existence of a Scarlet Witch strong enough to let him in.
Baron Mordo is going to act as the living conduit for Gorath -- the author from “In The Mouth of Madness,” if you will -- with the intention of freeing Shuma-Gorath, by either suffering from the being’s mind control or going insane enough to believe that releasing him will help him achieve his goal of ridding the world of Sorcerers.
And then you have our heroes; Stephen Strange taking the form of the usual investigative protagonist of any Lovecraftian-themed story trying to stop the threat
Wanda as the one being manipulated into doing exactly what the cosmic entity wants thanks to her otherworldly abilities and emotional connections to her children
And America Chavez as their way of transporting outside of the known universe -- and risking their sanity in the process -- while also unknowingly, at the end of the adventure when they reach their destination, hand-delivering Shuma-Gorath’s prize that is Wanda to him PERSONALLY.
Now unfortunately, I have the bad luck of all of my favorite Marvel superheroes and their associated characters not being depicted the way I would like them to be in the MCU, and Doctor Strange is no exception.
So even if Shuma-Gorath IS the villain in Multiverse of Madness, I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to disrespect him like Taita Waititi disrespected Surtr in Thor Ragnarok, or even make it so that HE is the lackey for someone like Cthon -- one of Scarlet Witch’s villains and basically the closest thing to Teen Titans’ Trigon in Marvel Comics -- because Marvel Studios constantly gets its rocks off from making me upset.
They’re like that one cousin your mom makes you visit that you only really tolerate because they had an N64 with Mario Kart and more than one controller, but they always do something to piss you off EVERY TIME YOU VISIT THEM.
So am I expected to be wrong? Yes. Am I expected to be disappointed? Oh, ABSOLUTELY
As much as I’d like to believe that Sam Raimi directing the movie is going to help fix the changes they made to the first movie’s narrative in order to make it fit the Infinity Saga, I doubt they’re gonna give him the creative freedom to make this as good as Spider-Man 2.
But that won’t stop me from hoping. I just won’t be surprised if it turns out any differently.
