One can imagine that the MCU and the Star Wars Universe exist in the same reality at different times. If so the magic and telekinesis would be the Force. Point being that I’m seeing Wanda as the parallel of being very strong in the Force and her grief, from her parents, then her brother, and now her great love, pushing her to the Dark side. And in the sitcom world they DO have cookies.
She’s now reanimating her great love’s corpse in a fantasy bubble. But without the Mind Stone it isn’t “real” … does she become a Darth Vader like path? Going full dark side, doing whatever it takes to find a time line that has a Mind Stone, making whatever deals with the devil, Dark Lord, whatever, it takes, screw anything else? Maybe eventually with a redemptive arc like Vader too?
Comic book fans? How would the comic lines get adapted to that?
What one would typically see in the books is that the character goes through a “villain” phase, maybe for a year or two, then when the story arc ends (and the creative team responsible for it moves off the book), things reset to “normal,” and the character returns to more-or-less the way they were.
Well, Wanda basically started as a villain so her going back to being one wouldn’t be out of character. Not sure if they are going to elevate her to a big bad, but having her as ambivalent or a wild card in certain plot threads makes sense.
If this show is setting up the next Dr Strange movie, then you could see a story where Dr Strange is called in to deal with Wanda going all Red Hulk.
And SWORD found the signal with the WandaVision TV show hidden in radiation generated during the Big Bang. If the stones are trying to reform somehow, maybe the one that was used to bring Vision to life is reforming Vision along with itself.
Also, bear in mind that Wanda’s powers (in the MCU, at least) were granted by a Hydra researcher using the Mind Stone. So, her powers may well share some of that same radiation signature.
Yeah, if you want to tell a cosmic Marvel tale, you don’t start with a character like the Scarlet Witch. SWORD notwithstanding, I think we’re getting into occult/magic Marvel territory centered around the Doctor Strange franchise. Mephisto, Son of Satan, Diablo, even Ghost Rider stories may be soon at hand.
Well, “The Stones still exist,” isn’t exactly the same thing as, “They’re sitting in a box in Avenger’s Tower.” The easy explanation there is nobody knows where the new Stones are, and they don’t have time to go find them to stop Dr. Doom, Galactus, Paste Pot Pete, or whoever the new Big bad of the MCU is going to be.
Except for the Mind Stone, which I’m presuming would still be a part of a resurrected Vision.
Ghost Rider already showed up in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., although the canonicity of that series in the MCU is…squishy. That story arc was apparently a back-door pilot for a Ghost Rider series, but that series never manifested [pun semi-intended].
I think that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is canonical, but the series also did change universes and timelines intentionally so that their actions could be ignored by the movies or even by the next season. (Though I would have liked to see Coulson in Endgame).
The mind stone might not be necessary to bring Vision back. Infinity War had the stuff with Shuri trying to separate him from the stone. Also in Vision’s Legends episode, they included Banner’s talk about the best parts of Vision still existing without the stone, so that could be the setup for Vision not requiring the stone to exist.
My understanding is that AoS was unidirectional quasi-canon. That is, everything that happened in an MCU movie was part of the AoS’s canon, but the reverse wasn’t true. In particular, Coulson was well and truly dead in the canon of the MCU movies, and would never show up in one of them.
The intent was that no one who went to see one of the movies would have to have any knowledge of AoS. At the same time, the intent was that nothing in the movies would directly contradict AoS, so fans of the series could watch it as if it were in direct continuity with the movies.
The result was a rather squishy continuity between the series and other parts of the MCU. For example, the short-lived Inhumans TV series was also supposed to be in the MCU continuity, but AoS had already had an entirely different group of Inhumans. If you squint hard enough, you can juuust about reconcile them, but, like I said, squishy.
Since the time jump or whatever that was (with the Kree and the blown up Earth), when I finally gave up on the series, AoS apparently has dropped any pretense of continuity with the rest of the MCU, so maybe we’ll still get an MCU version of Ghost Rider.