Yeah, I noticed that as well. Hex-shaped space portals were also used in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and Infinity War and Endgame.
But, I’m not sure what the direct connection would be. Westview still seems to be on Earth, just caught within a reality distortion field. And people and objects entering and exiting it don’t do so through a hex-shaped aperture.
My guess is the barrier of the distortion field is made up of glowing hexes because, well, Scarlet Witch. Hex. It’s a visual pun.
I’m with MaxTheVool on Captain Marvel. Middle of the pack, and kind of meh. Of course, that’s largely because I’ve been spoiled by over a decade of MCU movies. If Captain Marvel had come out around 2000, I’m sure I would have thought it was amazing. But, after Iron Man, Captain America: The First Avenger, Avengers, and so on…it wasn’t bad, but just not great, and I’ve gotten used to at least the potential for great.
Hexagonal is also a cool shape (just like nexus is cool word). 
Maybe there IS an implied universal field that connects magic to space travel? After all as long as it follows rules magic is just science by another name. Some famous quote about that, isn’t there?
I understand this perspective and largely agree with what you’ve said. But I think that a female character can still have agency working for or with a male “Big Bad” if she’s doing so for her own ends and she’s shown to be consciously working to achieve them.
Plus, I don’t want Agnes/Agatha to be the Big Bad because Marvel main villains are almost uniformly terrible. They’re pretty much all interchangeable, MacGuffin-powered, evil-for-the-sake-of-evil mustache-twirlers with no comprehensible motivation or character development. Tom Hiddleston at least made Loki fun to watch. But Kathryn Hahn would be wasted as the latest world-threatening ball-of-evil that the heroes need to punch into submission.
Indeed!
If we’re gonna do Identity Politics and box ticking then lets form The Ultimates as soon as possible. A fantastic line-up that in-universe just happens to not have any white males and avoids all the bullshit the singular characters books (Captain Marvel, America) love to wade in.
Edit: In case any mods arn’t aware, this is relevant cause Monica is a crucial part of The Ultimates.
Somewhere near Cherry Hill, but to Kat Dennings, I’m sure it’s just some new town.
I don’t think box ticking is required. But when you have a movie that features women as the characters of most agency, and highlight the progress of women’s place in our society in media by starting off with the world of '50s sitcoms, undermining that at the end would be a shame, sort of Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, returning to the real power being in the hands of the men.
There’s still the “float way” commercial which mentioned awakening the goddess within, so the ultimate Big Bad might still wind up being an evil goddess.
There’s honestly not much to choose from, there. Hela, who was already killed in Ragnarok, is the only female god or god-level entity I can think of, off-hand.
There are a couple of Lovecraftian entities like Shuma-Gorath for whom “gender” would be a meaningless concept. Blackheart and Chthon are coded as male and male pronouns are used to refer to them, but they’re only vaguely humanoid. They could just as well be genderless, or vaguely female. Mephisto is pretty solidly coded as male, and I don’t think a gender-flipped version of him would work very well. But while Nightmare is depicted with a male form in the comics, I don’t think male-ness is really an important element of its character - the “male” form is really more of a human projection onto a quasi-cosmic entity. And, for that matter, the way “he” is usually depicted could easily be seen as gender-fluid or non-binary.
That was an interesting read. I haven’t seen it in a while so I can’t comment on whether it showed that as a clear arc or just dropped some scenes in at the beginning and the end to look like change had occurred without showing the change process. I thought it was a good, but not great, film. I didn’t think there was much of a character arc but a lot of superhero/action films are flat character arcs - the whole point is that they withstand whatever pressure the plot throws at them and maintain their strength and integrity. So I wasn’t looking too deeply.
There’s Oshtur, a goddess who shows up in a lot of Doctor Strange stories. Her bag is the creation of magical relics and traveling between dimensions (multiverses).
Maybe she’s met Luis?
Theres also Gaia…theres Umar…Snowbird…
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of her before. But, looks like she’s been around since 1972, so she’s got a bit of a pedigree. Still, she seems awfully obscure for the Big Bad.
Gaia is the Earth goddess, definitely not a villain. Snowbird is only a demigod, and superhero.
However, I did forget about Umar. Like Oshtur, she still seems a bit obscure. Plus side, she’s Dormammu’s sister, and he was already introduced in Doctor Strange, so…maybe.
Thinking about it some more, there’s also Karnilla the Norn Queen. But, I don’t think they’re going to want to use yet another Norse villain, outside of the Thor movies.
There’s also Morgan Le Fay. Plus side, she’s fairly well-known to the general public from the Arthurian mythos, so she’d be recognizable even to viewers who aren’t Marvel comics super-fans. She’s also traditionally a witch and/or patron of witches, so she makes sense as Agatha’s patron. But I don’t think she’s really tied into the Marvel Universe tightly enough. That very familiarity to non-comics readers makes it hard to use her without making it seem like a direct reference to the Arthurian mythos, which I don’t think is a road they want to go down.
Agatha wasn’t particularly a villain either…Gaia isnt one true, but a lot of her relatives are.
And Snowbirds mission transcends good and evil.
There’s Saturnyne in that Captain Britain mess. Morgan Le Fay can fit there. Black Knight* can fit in there.
*Just trying to figure out an interesting cast in a Captain Britain/Arthurian Legend/MCU pic
I actually thought of Ghost from Ant-Man and the Wasp before anyone else.
The Karnilla ref jusy made me realize we haven’t even seen Balder yet.
Apparently, they’ve cast Kit Harrington as Black Knight, I think for the Eternals movie. So, Arthurian mythos seems like it’s going to make its way into the MCU one way or the other, but I agree it would be a weird curveball for the resolution to WandaVision.
Gut says we will see but a shadow of the real ‘big bad’ that is pulling Agnes’ strings (assuming that is the case) - much like we only saw a hint of Thanos at the end of The Avengers.
On the “hex” theme, the Facebook ads now popping up in my feed show Woo/Lewis in Mulder/Scully-style poses with the inevitable tagline “The Hex Files”. Not sure if that’s indicative of things to come, or just the show’s little joke.