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    All of the Sony majors are showing up in the next Spider-Man movie, not the Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness movie. I guess they're both multiverse-related films to varying degrees.
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    Actually it's just the actor's tattoo, he's apparently had it for a while.
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    Looks like "MOM" to me.
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    In re-watching Age of Ultron, I completely missed and/or forgot that Ultron killed Baron Strucker in the film. That appears to rule him out as anyone actively involved in Wandavision.
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    Nightmare's powers are barely defined, and they range from powerful to entirely omniscient. If it's him, all bets are off--which is why I HIGHLY doubt it's him. Omniscience as an idea in superhero fiction has been something writers have known to avoid since Superman, i.e. well over half a century now.
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    Agreed. Except... (toy spoiler below)
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    That's what he eventually became defined as in the comics, so that's why any expectations we have for him from what we know of Satan/The Devil shouldn't limit our conception of what he will be in the MCU.
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    By making him an evil/bad guy. Disney depicts evil in MOST of their works. We defeat our instantly-dismissed tropes of Satan as a form of evil by not making him look anything like the historical or stereotypical incarnations of evil we're all familiar with. From there we can ALL use our own imaginations...but what we see in the episode will be interesting.
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    Pietro being Mephisto explains all of this if they planned it together, but then he erased enough of her memory (which we've seen well over half a dozen hints of) to prevent her from regretting what she had done, coming to a place of moral clarity, and reversing everything they did together. Or put more simply--he tricked her with the hope of being reunited with Vision, then erased enough of her memory to prevent her from realizing she had been tricked.
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    Haven't heard anyone in this or any other thread suggesting otherwise. But I still lean towards Herb being High Evolutionary, just not behind anything going on in Westview, but instead just watching Wanda as someone he helped evolve into what we're seeing.
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    Dunno either. But someone explicitly point this out in the episode, didn't they? I identified it as important, but didn't figure out why.
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    That's a thread I don't fully get either. At first I thought it meant you either couldn't go back inside, or that if you do, you might be altered into something unpredictably bizarre. Not quite sure what they were going for there, but if someone has an idea, please do share. I'm re-watching Age of Ultron today. I now know why they recommended that one instead of Vision's death in Infinity War...there's a LOT of content in there not explained at the time, and I can't piece it together even knowing what I do now without jumping to some conclusions I'm not comfortable jumping to (FAR less so than jumping to the idea that Pietro is Mephisto). Feige (or a writer he hired) obviously had some ideas with Pietro and Wanda in that one he planned to either reveal to fruition (or not, since they were so subtle he could choose to abandon them if he wanted to) that I get now why that's the recommended next-watch at the end of Wandavision.
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    You mean episode 6 that aired today, or episode 7? In today's episode a bunch of SWORD agents turned into clowns as they got sucked into Westview after Wanda expanded the hex.
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    Wow, that does fit my existing idea that EVERY commercial is Mephisto taunting Wanda with their pact, but I had no idea what that commercial meant after watching it in the moment. That explanation fits though.
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    Oh, wait, is that Aaron Taylor-Johnson on the left in that Kick-Azz pic? I just realized BOTH Quicksilvers starred in that movie. Didn't recognize him with the curly hair and glasses.
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    Do you recall where you saw Bettany say these things? The major actor is probably Benedict Cumberbatch, I don't recall Vision and Strange being in any scenes together in any MCU films to date. And if the last episodes convert to full superhero action there are only three left, so one would assume that episode 7 will be the last one where we're mostly in the Wandavision world. Here's my prediction for episode 7, and it references the minor, unconfirmed spoiler I mentioned a few days ago, so I'll hide it below. ALL of it is informed guessing, so any of it, all of it, or NONE of it could be true, but it's solid info so I'll be surprised if most or all of it doesn't end up happening.
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    This could be Mephisto wiping the memories of Westview from everyone who ever knew about the town or anyone currently in it. But that wouldn't remove the town from written records, so I don't fully get what's going on there.
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    Haven't seen that movie since it was in theaters and didn't remember Peters was in it so I had no idea why she said that, thanks for tying that together!
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    The altered reality to whatever sitcom she's in is her, as is the mind control of the residents. She's not broadcasting Wandavision, and some of the more isolated things we've seen (such as time reversal which is one of Mephisto's powers) aren't her unless they granted her even more insane powers than the comics or films ever have--which is possible but not likely. Felt like we didn't get many new reveals in this episode. The ones I can recall off-hand are: Vision reverts to a dead synthezoid if he leaves Westview, so whatever is keeping him together is tied to the town. The Westview sign was OUTSIDE the town, but when Wanda expanded the hex it went inside the town and changed appearance. I thought before it was inside the town and that it might have been converted from an Eastview sign to a Westview sign. So what is up with Eastview? The kids now have their powers from the comics. Usually mutant powers emerge after puberty, but these kids look pre-pubescent and now have their powers. Mutant powers don't always emerge after puberty though so it's not exceptional if their powers emerged early. We now know Wanda doesn't know who Pietro is, but she thinks it's not her brother. Which she obviously shouldn't since he doesn't look like Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Everything I saw in the episode still suggests he's Mephisto, but Wanda seeming not to know that is interesting and implies that if she did make a pact with him she's not consciously aware of it. She explicitly said she doesn't know how she created Westview yet we saw her expand the size and boundaries of the hex, so Mephisto may be manipulating her memories which is very much one of his powers. Agnes for the first time appeared to be under some degree of mind control when Vision walked up to her car. I found this confusing given that on multiple occasions she seemed aware of the charade, particularly when she asked Wanda if she wanted to do another take on a Wandavision scene. If anyone noticed other reveals of note please share. I really hated the whole idea of Rambeau, Woo, and Darcy attacking SWORD agents and going off on their own mission to save the town without killing Wanda. I didn't need and don't enjoy that conflict layered on the Westview mystery.
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    Jennifer Connelly 10+ years ago is one of my all-time crushes. Over the last five years or so she looks to be suffering from anorexia.
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    Avengers 186 was destined to go up after Gamestop stock buyers ran out of things to spend money on.
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    Warner Brothers was hoping Geoff Johns would be their Kevin Feige, and they tried their parallel MCU Avengers multi-film lead-in with Justice League. Johns fizzled out, and the Justice League build-up was a pale imitation of what Feige did.
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    I really liked that first hour of Hulk, but only once or twice. All I re-watch are the Hulk Smash scenes, just as I'm sure what I'll be re-watching (if anything) from this series is all of the Wanda/Vision/Strange/Mephisto action that's incoming.
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    It's harder to figure out what's going on jumping in at any random episode of General Hospital than into the start of Wandavision, but with either of them you can pretty much figure it out--drama drama drama drama. Everything Beige was complaining about will be explicitly revealed, and I don't need my grandma to explain to me how Laura is cheating or Sonny just finished his business venture in South America to get drama from what I'm watching without knowing what preceded it.