What the show doesn't have, however, is much context.
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WandaVision, the first Marvel TV show to hit the Disney+ streaming service, has dropped its first two episodes, introducing us to the inexplicably screwball, completely bizarre, undeniably retro world of, well, Wanda and Vision.
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And it's about time that a Marvel series like WandaVision show that the events of Endgame weren't just a victory for Earth's mightiest heroes but a loss for everyone else.After a full year of vacation from the MCU, Phase 4 is finally here-and it's really weird. Much of The Mandalorian reveals that the fall of the Empire wasn't good for everyone in the galaxy. Of the many things the Marvel and Star Wars universes share in common, it's that the Disney+ shows are revealing the unanticipated ramifications of huge, influential events. But a show like WandaVision highlights the urgency of such a widespread phenomenon, and future MCU shows and movies are inevitably going to keep wrestling with this idea in unforeseen and maybe even darker territory. Spider-Man: Far From Home eased us into the idea of how the Blip/un-Blip worked: people were gone and now they're not.
The Blip was a pivotal moment for the MCU, one that is sure to have lasting effects for years to come. Who else rose to power when the opportunity presented itself? Remember Hawkeye's stint as Ronin in Endgame? Crime never stopped after the Blip. The Blip didn't just take away people it created power vacuums. There's a good reason why we're about to see an influx of new superheroes like Ms.
Crime lords still owed a debt, abusers were absent from their victims, and any other possible supervillain origins that happen because of the Blip. Doctors minutes away from surgery, pilots flying commercial air, prisoners forced to serve five more years than they were sentenced, and who knows what else a writer's room could think of.Īnd it's not all peachy just because the missing returned. It includes organ donors who are suddenly gone. That includes parents of very young children, who leave behind orphans forced to fend for themselves. ("Fair," in his words.) It was a scenario where anyone is erased regardless if they were a superhero or not. Marvel/Disney/Kobal/ShutterstockĪs Thanos himself wanted it, the erasure was non-discriminatory. Now, the MCU must wrestle with the sudden return of the missing half after WandaVision. Thanos succeeded in Avengers: Infinity War leaving behind a half-empty world in Avengers: Endgame. And there are countless more stories like it to tell. Monica Rambeau, who left behind someone terminally ill, is just one example of the "Blip" and the "un-Blip" going wrong. In a world of superpowers, nothing makes you feel more powerless than being alone. That's now the story of Monica Rambeau, and it's likely the same story for millions, maybe billions more in the MCU who aren't blessed with abilities or superhero friends. That's not only devastating but also traumatizing for anyone to theoretically experience. And she wasn't there when she was needed. She took the briefest of cat naps only to wake up years later to find out the person she loved most is gone. When she "Blipped" back (after what she thought was just a 20-minute nap), it was five years later, and three years since her mother's cancer returned and killed her.
When Monica vanished, her mother's cancer was in remission. Through Monica, we get a glimpse at how bad something as violent and sudden as "the Blip" - and most importantly, its undoing - can be.
Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) awakens in WandaVision from the Blip only to learn she lost her mother to cancer in her absence.
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