The latest episode of Wandavision, A Very Special Episode, synthesizes last week's total break from the decade-by-decade climb through sitcom history with its previously-established conventions. So Wanda, Vision, and their rapidly maturing boys are now in a Reagan-era 1980s sitcom, full of teachable moments and "that one wacky character" who always busts in and gets applause from the audience.
But things are starting to break down. Not only have Billy and Tommy aged themselves up first to 5 and then to 10 (the latter to be old enough for a new puppy) but also some of Wanda's control over the sitcom reality is breaking down as well - the day changes from Saturday to a weekday, which justifies Vision's presence at work.
Meanwhile, on the outside, the SWORD team is trying to figure out how to reach Wanda. Monica, realizing that her own bullet-proof vest was simply transformed into her 1970s pants, sends a drone made of 1980s technology so that it won't be changed by the hexagonal energy field. She uses this drone to talk to Wanda, but unbeknownst to her, Hayward has armed the drone and tries to use it to take Wanda out.
It's then that Wanda emerges from Westview, all-powerful Scarlet Witch that she is, and tells them to back the hell away. Monica tries to appeal to her, to try to help her, but Wanda isn't having it and returns.
However, Vision is starting to grow suspicious - after an earlier scene in which Agnes wants to take a scene over because Vision's skepticism is against the "script" they're meant to follow. After accessing e-mail through the rudimentary 1980s internet, he unlocks his co-worker's mind, who seems to be in a state of horrified pain at what has been done to make him comply with this reality.
The boys go after their dog, who Agnes finds, apparently dead from eating the leaves of her azalea bush. Now, Agnes has been... weird this whole episode. Not only did she suggest a new run at the early scene, but she also seems unfazed by the boys' age-changing.
It is also in this scene in which Wanda tells the boys she can't simply un-do death, despite it looking like that's exactly what she did with Vision.
The episode ends with Vision confronting Wanda over the weirdness of Westview - Vision has no memories that extend prior to it, and when she literally has the credits roll to try to get out of the argument, he persists. Eventually, she confesses that she doesn't know exactly what's going on: like why there are no children in the town apart from theirs, and even how this weird reality began.
And then, the doorbell rings. And Wanda claims it's not her doing it. She goes to answer the door, and we see who's there, starting with the back of his head, and it's clear that Pietro, Wanda's dead brother, is standing there.
And then, the most batshit crazy thing happens when we see his face:
This is not Quicksilver as we knew him in Age of Ultron. This is Evan Peters' Quicksilver, from the X-Men movies.
Now, we know that once Disney bought 20th Century Fox, the rights to the X-Men came under the same umbrella as the MCU, so the longstanding "no mutants" issue ceased to be one.
Now, Quicksilver in the X-Men movies was A: only introduced in Days of Future Past (which I think is even set in the 80s... like this episode) and "Peter" Maximoff appears to be an American. He was also, actually, a much more popular character than his MCU counterpart.
While one might have expected the X-Men movies to simply be swept under the rug with a big reboot, they've been fairly popular.
So basically, is Evan Peters' Quicksilver truly now part of the MCU? Or is this a bit of stunt casting?
Notably, the next Doctor Strange movie has the subtitle "The Multiverse of Madness," and we know that Wanda will be a major character within that one. Perhaps the entire X-Men universe will be canonized within the MCU, but just as a different universe.
This is some crazy bullshit, and I'm here for it.
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