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  1. fantastic_four
    Sounds possible. I mostly hate the idea of having to keep tracking of multiple universes so I'm hoping not, but since Feige appears to see it as his solution to actors leaving the MCU and bringing back the characters from parallel universes I'm braced to have to swallow the idea that yep, we're about to get barraged with the multiverse.
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    Coincidentally they've announced the introduction of Rama-Tut--better known as Kang after FF #19--into the next Ant-Man movie.
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    They can't fix what Thanos did in yanking out the stone in any easily-explainable way. Shuri explicitly described how delicate the operation was and how incredibly complex Vision's mind was in Infinity War, so we have to assume Thanos pretty much killed Vision when he dug into his head. Somehow fixing the trillions of neural connections Thanos destroyed is pure magic, the creatively easy way to have to come up with rational explanations.
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    Most people mis-use the word "theory" for unproven ideas when they actually mean "hypothesis." I mention that here because it also applies to the word "sentience." Most people think sentience means intelligent life forms, but it doesn't--it means life forms that can sense things, i.e. see, hear, smell, taste, or otherwise chemically identify things in their environment. Pretty much any life form big enough for us to see with our eyes is sentient, but very little of it is sapient. The Latin word "sapient" means wise, which is why the human species is named homosapiens. The line between sentience and sapience is not well-defined and highly debatable, but what's not debatable is that sentience is the wrong word for describing highly intelligent life forms.
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    They've already indicated that's exactly what they're doing, but what "existing powers" they already had could be either mutant powers or sorcery, so they could go either way with that. There's an MCU canon book released in 2019 I haven't read called "The Wakanda Files" where supposedly Shuri notes that Strucker was experimenting on Sakovians with the Mind stone because of genetic anomalies they observed. All of the test subjects died besides Pietro and Wanda. I've heard that bit referenced in a few Wanda-related articles I've read over the last week trying to understand what her powers are. I haven't verified that Shuri did describe what Hydra identified in Sakovians as "genetic anomalies," but if she did that suggests mutation.
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    Sounds like magic. But Wanda is a sorceress in her post-Perlmutter incarnation, so maybe magic is what it'll end up being. I never fully liked Doctor Strange because I didn't like the mixing of magic in with the other science-fantasy based heroes, so turning Wanda into a magic user gives me a bit of heartburn. I'm hoping that's not the direction they go, but it absolutely could be. I felt the same way about Thor even back when I was a pre-teen...you're mixing Norse gods into science-fantasy? Ultimately it's all fantasy, so I'm over a decade past disliking Thor and Strange now, but I'd still prefer Wanda stay a mutant.
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    Partially answering my own question here--she somehow impregnated herself in both media. But that's not the same as creating a fully-developed adult human or android.
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    When have they shown her creating a sapient life form in the comics or films? Given what we're seeing it's easy to assume she's near-omniscient, but I'm guessing that's not the case and she has limits. Creating a new Vision isn't within the realm of anything about what she can do I've seen so far.
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    I thought she was re-routing his android brain to not include the Mind stone, but she didn't come anywhere close to finishing. If she saved his mind somewhere externally it wasn't explicitly stated. All I remember them showing of what she did is definitely in that one-minute video you posted. At the end when Corvus is breaking in she starts doing something on her screen at the last second, but I can't tell that we have any idea what it was. But they could easily state that she did what you're suggesting off-screen, or that whatever she's doing at the last second achieved what you're suggesting.
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    If Vision with life is all in her mind then so are the actions of the other characters who interact with Vision when he talks. She saw Vision's corpse right after Monica commented on Pietro being killed by Ultron, so I'm guessing that was a flashback to the reality of Vision's current state, not that everything else we're seeing is in her mind. But the hole in the "everything is a new reality Wanda has created" idea is that I don't know of ANY power she has to create sapient life, particularly an android. I don't think her powers extend to creating Stark-level tech at will. Those seemingly-contradictory ideas suggest someone besides Wanda is manipulating events. Won't be long until we know who.
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    One of the things I forgot when I hypothesized they would reveal that Wanda is a mutant in this series is the devastation that Ike Perlmutter wrought on the comics stories in 2014 in an attempt to squeeze value out of Fox's ownership of the X-Men and Fantastic Four. That's the year they killed Wolverine, authors were told to create NO new mutant characters, Fantastic Four was cancelled, and they ret-conned Wanda and Pietro into not being Magneto's kids and not being mutants. So it's anybody's guess as to whether or not Feige will go with pre-Ike or post-Ike lore in the MCU. Certainly Feige didn't like Ike's decision-making with VERY good reason, so if this were 2018 and I had to bet I'd bet he'd revert them to being mutants. But since I live in 2021 and realize that Feige has been Chief Creative Officer of Marvel's print content since 2019 and hasn't re-ret-conned Wanda and Pietro back into mutants I suppose I should bet he won't make them mutants. Like Ike or not, he gave fans whiplash in 2014, and Feige changing it back would be another case of story continuity whiplash to fans. At least in the comics. Feige is pretty free to do what he wants in the MCU, so I give a slight edge to them being revealed as mutants, but I won't be at all surprised at either outcome.
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    Those previews suggest there's lots more television dream sequences to come from later decades. Did I get some Married With Children vibes in there? DEFINITELY saw some Office-type camera testimonials.
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    Olsen said it in the video I just posted in this thread a few hours ago.
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    I know how she supposedly got her powers--Loki's scepter had the Mind stone in it that later went into Vision--but I don't really understand how they work, or what their limits are. I can tell her flight is limited in that she sort of pushes herself around, but other than that she seems to have a larger array of powers than anyone else currently in the MCU and can do almost anything. As you stated she seems to have similar abilities granted to anyone who had the reality and time stones...yet she never had access to those, Strucker exposed her to the Mind stone. I'm guessing we'll eventually discover that the Mind stone unlocked her mutant powers, but I just want to know how they work, and what "manipulating molecular polarity" means if that indeed is supposed to be an explanation for how she does what she does.
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    I think they're all one-offs. I forget Feige's exact words but that was his implication...something about them being like the films but just shown in an episodic format. Which doesn't rule out future series, but does imply they won't be released indefinitely like television show seasons.
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    Speaking of Wanda costumes...none will ever eclipse this cosplayer. I can't imagine how she could possibly breathe or even walk in that corset. https://www.heavymetal.com/news/the-best-scarlet-witch-ever-and-nobody-knows-her-name/
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    In retrospect I didn't mind the sitcom dreams for one reason--there was just enough dark mystery that kept bubbling through to keep me figuring out what was happening. Episode four eliminates virtually all of that mystery, and we were able to guess most of it anyway by analyzing it and/or googling it or talking it out here. There's still the question of who are Dottie and Agnes, and did Wanda do this all on her own or has someone manipulated her into it, but most of the big questions were just very explicitly answered. I'm still guessing that this series will set up mutants in the modern MCU as a reverse version of House of M, and that Eternals will fill in their back story. The Fox deal was all lined up before Eternals or Wandavision started shooting, and the deal was in the works during the screenplay stage of both titles. The story as we know it so far in the MCU is that Wanda and Pietro had their powers granted to them by the Mind stone, but it would be extremely easy to ret-con that by suggesting the stone just awakened those powers and they were there all along. Disney wasn't allowed to call Wanda and Pietro mutants at the time because Fox had rights to ALL mutants in their contract, even new ones created by Marvel after the contract was originally created, and that Wanda and Pietro were negotiated as non-mutant members of the Avengers. We know for sure this series leads directly to Multiverse of Madness, so if she does end up triggering mutants worldwide my main question is will that be in the main MCU universe from whatever the "now" of Wandavision is (what is it, 2022? 2023?), or will the main MCU universe split into a new one where she retroactively triggers mutants in the past as well?
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    The classic sitcom episodes were meh. I liked episode 4 the best because the entire thing is explaining what's been going on so far. Looks like episode 5 is going to be the first one that's not just back-filling the first three where we're not caught up in Wanda's dream reality. Or who knows, maybe we re-enter the dream in episode 5. If we do it won't be for a full episode because the cast listings suggest it's full of the characters who weren't in her altered reality. Either way it looks like you could probably skip straight to episode 4 or 5 for anyone who bailed because they found the sitcom dreams boring.
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    There's a deleted scene from Civil War where Vision explains her powers as "manipulating molecular polarity, allowing her to alter reality." Supposedly all of her powers stem from that source, but I feel like I need a Neil deGrasse-Tyson-style layman's explanation to understand what that's supposed to mean. I also don't get why they deleted that from the final cut...maybe it's to give them room to change her powers later? Either way I'm going to feel ripped off if they don't clarify her powers in this series. I expect they'll do that. That deleted scene from Civil War is at the 49 second mark in the video below.
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    Does anyone have a good feel for the nature of Wanda's powers? In the comics they've changed dramatically over time, but I can't tell if there's a unifying fundamental nature to her MCU powers that explains them. She seems virtually omniscient in what they've shown her doing in this series if we're to believe what we're seeing.
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    My significant other doesn't care at all about superheroes but had a mild interest in this show based upon reviews due to the classic television allusions, so there's definitely a small audience outside of the usual superhero fans.
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    Yea I missed it too, what else was happening in the scene where we hear Brie?
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    I saw that too, but Infinity War seems FAR more important to this story to know Vision is dead, plus Endgame to know about the blip and why people were materializing from nothing at the start of this episode.
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    Background covered so I guess the main story starts next episode. I'm not seeing evidence of anyone in control besides Wanda.
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    Any complaints about bad accents in Star Wars have to start with Jar Jar's goofy Jamaican accent or Nute Gunray's cringeworthy Thai accent.