© Marvel StudiosWandaVision includes a huge number of hidden Easter eggs, including Marvel references tucked away in the adverts.
WandaVision spoilers for episodes one and two follow.
On the glossy surface of it all, Wanda's suburban dreamscape is far removed from Marvel's wider universe. And that's a deliberate choice! While all the puzzle pieces don't fit together just yet, it appears that WandaVision takes place in a new reality created by Wanda herself, presumably in a bid to work through the trauma of Vision's apparent death in Infinity War.
That doesn't mean WandaVision takes place solely in a bubble. Sure, the town of Westview may be trapped in a literal bubble of Wanda's making, but look closer beyond the old-school stylings and you'll notice some suitably bizarre connections to Marvel's wider universe.
© Chuck Zlotnick - Marvel StudiosMarvel's Wandavision - Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda and Paul Bettany as Vision
Plenty of Easter eggs have already been uncovered in earlier trailers, including Wanda's superhero children, that House of M wine bottle, and the beekeeper's connection to SWORD. But now that WandaVision's warped reality has become a reality for Disney Plus subscribers, plenty more references have floated to the surface, including a bizarre deep cut that really milks Marvel's back catalogue.
After a fun bedroom escapade, WandaVision's second episode opens with a Bewitched-style animated sequence where Vision flies through Westview on his way to work. The old-school visuals are mesmerising (like every single frame in this gorgeous show), but the scene flies by super fast, making it hard to keep track of everything that happens.
But even so, diehard comic book fans might have noticed a very brief but significant Easter egg that pops up at one point. Did you see those two strange adverts in the background of the supermarket?
One is called 'Auntie A's cat litter', which is almost certainly a reference to Kathryn Hahn's character, Agatha Harkness (notice the cat, often used by witches as a 'familiar'?). From what we've seen so far, she clearly knows more about this reality than she's letting on, and in the comics, Agatha was extremely close to Wanda, acting as her mentor and confidante when it came to all things magic.
Casual Marvel fans might have picked up on that, but it's the other ad which really moo-ved us to dive back into the comics and figure out what this all means. So the label, 'Bova's milk' actually refers to a Marvel character called Bova, an evolved intelligent cow who walks on two legs. Oh, and did we mention that she's also a midwife who once helped raise Wanda and Pietro, her twin brother?
We never thought we'd see the day when Bova Ayrshire would pop up in the MCU, but given how wacky WandaVision is as a whole, don't be surprised if Wanda's cow mum pops up for real at some point before the end of season one.
© DisneyWandaVision, Bova
More Easter eggs are also hidden away in the old-school adverts that punctuate each episode around the midway point. In the WandaVision premiere, a product called Toastmate 2000 takes centre stage, and that's made by none other than Stark Industries, the tech company once ran by Wanda's fellow Avenger, Tony Star AKA Iron Man.
Most of us probably spotted that, but did you realise that the advert's voiceover also contained some clues? "Forget the past, this is your future," absolutely hints at Wanda's desperate need to forget Vision's death. And does this also suggest there's a higher power at work here? Rumours point to Mephisto or Baron Von Strucker as potential villains who may be pulling all the strings at Westview, including Wanda's.
The advert featured in episode two substantially adds to that theory because it promotes a product referred to as the 'Strucker watch'. MCU fans will remember that Baron Von Strucker was a key member of Hydra who experimented on the Maximoff twins and helped activate Wanda's powers in the first place. The advert says, "He'll make time for you" at one point, further suggesting that Strucker is somehow involved with everything going on in the show. (Sure, he's supposed to be dead, but then again, so is Vision!)
Think we're reading too much into things? Before the WandaVision premiere, Marvel's head honcho, Kevin Feige explained that the ads are more important than people might think.
"Other truths of the show begin to leak out, and commercials was an early idea for that," Feige explained, via Variety's report. "And if this is the very first Marvel MCU thing you're watching, it's just a strange version of a '50s commercial or a '60s commercial that you'll have to keep watching the series to understand. If you have been watching the movies, you might be able to start connecting what those things mean to the past."
But what about connections to the future? That mystery beekeeper at the end of episode two certainly has ties to a Marvel organisation called SWORD (who you can read more about here).
© Marvel StudiosWandaVision, trailer still
And then there's also the question of Teyonah Parris too. We already know that she's playing a new Marvel hero called Monica Rambeau, and her role here connects WandaVision to Captain Marvel 2. How exactly remains to be seen, but we had a go at analysing this more back when she made her Marvel debut in an earlier trailer right here.
In the coming weeks, expect Wanda's reality to unravel further, bringing us more Easter egg goodies, connections to the wider MCU, and maybe, just maybe, a starring turn from everyone's favourite mutant cow, Bova.
WandaVision airs weekly every Friday on Disney+.
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