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  1. fantastic_four
    I certainly can't see how anything with keeping Westview going meshes with his goals. He usually wants to push the bounds of evolution, but I don't see how keeping Wanda or the others in a cage achieves anything High Evolutionary would want to achieve. One hypothesis I heard this week is that Westview could be a prison for sorcerers being run by Baron Mordo and that's why Agatha Harkness, Arcanna, and Wanda are there, and some of the other residents may also be sorcerers.
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    Finally read about High Evolutionary. He's a geneticist inspired by the big X-Men villain Mr Sinister. Usually evolution happens over the course of countless generations during thousands or millions of years, but he created a way to "evolve" the genes of one individual organism. I put that in quotes because it's unclear that evolution necessarily leads to improvements without natural selection culling regressions, but hey, it's fiction, so I'm ok with assuming he figured out a way to guide the genetic change in a direction of improvement. Apocalypse does a similar or perhaps the same thing and did that to Sinister. I don't get the distinction between a mutant or someone who has been genetically manipulated to have powers. Either way you've mutated into a new type of life, so it seems the only distinction is that mutants are born that way whereas Sinister, High Evolutionary, and post-2014 Wanda and Pietro were made into essentially the same result. Seems like splitting hairs...they're all functionally the same thing, humans with powers stemming from unique DNA. I read Thor 134 from 1966 featuring High Evolutionary's first appearance. Wanda and Pietro are in it, and it's directly implied in the page below that they were experimented on by High Evolutionary at birth. The twins being Magneto's kids was itself a ret-con in Avengers 184 from 1979, and really the 2014 change just reversed the ret-con back to Stan Lee's original idea. So while I've been trying to guess if Wanda is a mutant or not in the MCU, now I realize the distinction barely matters. You can easily merge all of the possibilities by saying she's a mutant born to Magneto and experimented on by High Evolutionary to be far MORE powerful, and that works perfectly to merge the 1979 Magneto ret-con in with the original and post-2014 intent.
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    Re-watched the meeting scene between Woo and Monica again looking for clues for why he would be looking for a witness with bogus background information, i.e. one that lives in a fictional town with fictional acquaintances that don't know him. I have to assume this witness's info was falsified by one of the covert ops organizations like HYDRA, SHIELD, or SWORD, but I guess we'll find out eventually. The cop car does say "Eastview Sheriff" on the side, and it has a car number of 1966. Knowing that Marvel loves their easter eggs--what happened in 1966 in Marvel Comics that might tie to the series? This page lists all the comics from that year: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Marvel_Comics_1966 I briefly browsed the comics from that year and could only identify one tie--the High Evolutionary first appeared in Thor 133 and 134 in that year. Mephisto first appeared in Silver Surfer #3 in 1968. I know pretty much nothing about High Evolutionary so I have no opinion whatsover.
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    They had a driver's license for Herb, didn't they? That may end up being an easter egg in the name. Or he replaced/offed the real guy as you implied.
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    I'll quote myself here. The more I read the more I believe these things could really happen. Bosco posted similar ideas earlier about High Evolutionary, including the idea that he's already in the show as Herb. IMDB only shows Herb in two episodes, so if that's true we won't see him again. But he could show up as CGI or someone in a suit if he pops up again in full High Evolutionary garb. Sometimes IMDB doesn't know how many episodes characters are in, but for Wandavision it appears that they do. They show Darcy and Woo in 6 total episodes, but we've only seen them so far in the one.
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    It seems counterintuitive that comic books printed on cheap wood pulp paper are LONG outlasting action figures sculpted on far-tougher plastics. Perhaps it's just that paper production is far more refined. Printing has been around for many millennia, but plastics are under a century old. I suppose plastics that last the test of time is a brand new art relative to paper.
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    Well...that one didn't completely come out of left field. They set it up in episode 6 of 8 by having Grogu send some kind of Jedi call signal out into the universe, and Luke responded two episodes later. So it wasn't totally out of left field, but it was set up relatively late in the story. We've still got five episodes for the mystery reveal, or if setting it up at least two episodes in advance is best, we've got three more to fit a teaser in that gets filled towards the end. The potential existence of a big bad has already been implied multiple times in numerous ways, so having a co-creator of Westview show up isn't out of left field. Not sure what the current count is of dropped hints, but I bet it's well over a dozen. There's just no way Wanda is editing that Wandavision broadcast on the fly like we saw in episode 4; someone else is doing that.
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    The rules you're alluding to apply to standalone fiction, but do they apply to serial fiction with a universe as large as the ones Marvel and DC have created? There's plenty of precedent to large, ongoing universes in the history of literature, and I don't see why having Nancy Drew show up at the end of a novel to save the Hardy Boys is below board. The scene from Mandalorian Olsen was referring to where Luke shows up at the end is exactly what you're referring to, and that was by FAR the finest moment in Star Wars cinema in at LEAST four years, and I'm sure plenty of fans think it's the best moment in almost 40 years.
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    Your hypothetical Doctor Strange confrontation with Mephisto and entrance line sounds AWESOME! Why don't you want that?
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    So we assume. Which would make the idea that they HAVE casted their Magneto or Xavier already a real jaw-dropper if they were to show up in this series before they even announced the casting.
  11. fantastic_four
    I remember Wasp kicking his butt in a restaurant and almost nothing else about this guy played by Walter Goggins. Would he be a witness or a criminal? I remember him committing crimes in Ant-Man and the Wasp, but I don't remember much else, such as whether or not cops ever knew about those crimes. If he's a witness, whose crimes is he a witness against?
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    I went back and watched the Raft scene from Civil War again where Tony went there to visit Ross and saw his teammates in cells. Heroes in the Raft for violating the Sokovia accords include Wanda, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, and Falcon. I believe it's Ant-Man and Falcon who cut the deals. But these aren't witnesses, these are criminals who cut deals, so it's unlikely any of those four are who he was looking for in Westview. I can't think of anyone we've seen in prior films who would qualify simply as a witness, but if anyone else can, please share. Until then I'm going to assume this is a new character. Side note on the Raft scene that relates to Wandavision--they were able to keep her imprisoned because she has to use her hands to use her powers, so they had her in a straightjacket in the cell. No use of hands, no powers--unless she's learned new ways to use them since then. I then re-watched the Wandavision scene where we first see Woo and Monica meeting, and I'm confused as hell now. He says he's looking for a witness he has set up in Westview. The cops there with him say Westview doesn't exist, but the town of Eastview does exist. Woo also says that he contacted his witness' friends, family, and known acquaintances, and all of them said that his witness doesn't exist. WTF? What's real and what's manipulated--Westview, Eastview, Woo's witness, Woo himself for setting up a witness who may or may not exist in a town that may or may not exist, or that witness' close ties? So many permutations there for what's possible my brain is bending.
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    Any speculation on who that would be? We know Ant-Man was in his charge previously, so it may be another superhero. What were the clues in the episode? I think I need to go listen to the exact words he used, but my memory is telling me he had gone there looking for that person. Monica asked if the person was in witness protection, and I don't recall his response--was it "something like that"? Did he give ANY useful information to identify the person? Which known character would be in "something" like witness protection? Ant-Man had cut a deal for violating the Sokovia accords. Didn't some other heroes also cut that deal? I forget who else was in that same situation.
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    Wasn't that already spoiled? I had definitely already heard that before, but I don't know the source. I spent a few minutes Googling this and could find no specific source, so perhaps people have just been speculating it based upon available information. We know for sure Wanda is in Multiverse of Madness, and we know that the end of Wandavision leads to that film, so the idea of Doctor Strange appearing in Wandavision seems entirely logical--even if it's just in one of those post-credits scenes at the end of the last episode. So I wouldn't liken any appearance of Doctor Strange to Luke showing up in Mandalorian. There was NO hint he would show up from Lucasfilm or from anything shown in the series. We knew some Jedi was coming, but had I been betting I would have put my money on Ezra Bridger being the one who showed up even though Luke made far more sense since we already knew from Force Awakens that Luke was starting a school for Jedi around the timeframe of the show. Either Ezra or Luke is FAR more of a surprise reveal than Strange would be given the link we already know between Wandavision and Multiverse of Madness. I'm guessing she means someone else, most likely one of the characters we've been hypothesizing.
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    Wasn't that already spoiled? I had definitely already heard that before, but I don't know the source.
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    I've hated multiverses since 1985 when DC did Crisis on Infinite Earths. I heard over a decade later about Marvel also hatching Earth-616 in the mid-80s, but I wasn't reading anything they referenced it in so I had no idea at the time. Does anyone like the idea of keeping track of multiverses, i.e. different versions of the same characters? Scientifically it irritates the hell out of me...in most of the infinite iterations of any Earth the same life forms, i.e. Kal-El, Wanda, Xavier, or whoever, wouldn't even exist. So this idea of hopping universes where they're EXTREMELY similar to each other makes narrative sense but virtually no logical sense, or at best, highly-contrived sense. It usually seems extremely lazy, and it felt that way to me even as a young teenager in the mid-80s. I've experienced exactly one multiverse I've enjoyed--the Age of Apocalypse. Seeing David Haller go back and accidentally wipe himself out of existence was fun, as was the ripple of changes to mutants after he did it. Back to the topic at hand...let's say they do introduce the Fox mutantverse as a part of an MCU multiverse. How do you do that without it seeming EXTREMELY contrived and cheesy?
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    Yep, Ultron DEFINITELY fits her description as a massive reveal. What happens if it's him, though? That sounds like a TON of CGI that would take a TON of firepower to subdue. I don't see any films in the current Marvel phase slate to deal with that large of a threat.
  18. fantastic_four
    It's because they took the look from the Hush storyline. Poison Ivy charmed Clark into killing Batman, so yea, he was looking pissed and determined in that story. Mafex goes for acuity to their reference for all of their figures. They take a ton of flak from people who don't recognize the reference, but I'm OK with it. But I agree, I'd like an additional calm or amused head. I'm guessing this one will be so popular I get one from a third-party sculptor, but I haven't found one yet.
  19. fantastic_four
    If she's implying similarity in the reveals beyond it just being surprising, i.e. a character fans are very familiar with, there are really only three candidates--Quicksilver, Magneto, or Xavier. Either of the second two would make me absolutely lose my sheet just like I did when that X-Wing showed up.
  20. fantastic_four
    Based upon your apparent preferences might I recommend another would-be soothsayer?
  21. fantastic_four
    Feige now has direct control of the comics stories so if he wanted to re-ret-con them to mutants, he could. But he hasn't...yet. I think you're right about the fans...I forgot myself they weren't mutants since 2014 from the time the show started until a few days ago. Hasbro released a set of action figures last year based upon the fact that they're related, too, a "Family Matters" three-pack of Magneto, Pietro, and Wanda. Fans have either ignored or rejected what Perlmutter forced the creators to do, so Feige should just fix it formally in the lore.
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    Could be--I posted the same idea a few days ago (link below). But I also posted the comics history where Ike Perlmutter ret-conned her from a mutant to a pure sorceress where Magneto wasn't her father in a "meh, screw the fans" grand design to throttle the value of mutants so that Fox would be motivated to sell them back to Marvel, so who knows which version Feige and the gang decides to go with. They could say she was a mutant all along, or they could say she's not one. I lean slightly towards her being revealed as a mutant, but it could go either way.
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    Not in theory, just in execution. I enjoyed it for a few minutes, but the tropes I've seen a thousand times before wore thin quickly. The episodes weren't barren of things to like--mostly all the clues about what might be happening between the sitcom stuff--but most of the episodes were too much sitcom, not enough story.
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    Have you seen others? I haven't, but I loved every minute of her summarizing comic stories.
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    This video is WELL worth a watch to anyone trying to predict what's going on. It's from 2016 when Civil War came out, and it looks completely scripted by Marvel Studios employees, not just something off the cuff from Olsen. In it she summarizes comic storylines most of which we already know play out in Wandavision, and a few more that haven't--yet--but many of us are hypothesizing ultimately will occur in the series. I find this video to be compelling evidence that the Wandavision story points were mapped out before this video was created in 2016, so they've probably had the broad strokes of this series figured out for quite a while.