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Topic: WandaVision Tutorial
With the much anticipated return of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the next major collection of material for the universe is scheduled to be TV shows, primarily featuring the other Avengers, and not the main set. And having missed out on Black Widow, which has been very patiently waiting since the summer of 2020, the first new installment in the Phase 4 is a TV series about Wanda and Vision. So lets get mom up to speed.
Where did we leave off?
Last major production was Spiderman Far From Home, set a few weeks in theory after the end of Avengers: Endgame. At the end of Endgame, everyone originally blinked out of existence by Thanos, known as the ‘Blip’ or the ‘Snap’, returns and the world is going through the process of healing and getting back to normal as nearly half the population returns from a five year absence.
In the case of Wanda, she had only recently returned from being blinked out of existence, fighting with Thanos and memorializing Tony Stark after his death. Her exact whereabouts after the events of End Game are a mystery.
In the case of Vision, Vision is considered dead at the end of Avengers: Infinity Wars, having first been up in the devastation left behind when Wanda Destroyed the Mind Stone, only for Thanos to reverse time, bring vision back, and kill him a second time in front of Wanda when he ripping the Mind Stone out of his head. Its presumed that his pieces were picked up in Wakanda and transported to the Avenger’s facilities for safe keeping.
Mutants in MCU
To really walk about Wanda is also to talk about Mutants and the X-men in the MCU. During the late 90s, Marvel was actually in a fairly bad position, having filed for Bankruptcy protection in 1997. It was during this time, that marvel began selling the rights for their character to other movie studios, in an effort to infuse cash in to their holdings. This led to movies such as Blade (1998), X-men (2000), Spiderman (2002), and The Hulk (2003). As a part of the deal, X-men franchise’s TV and Film rights were sold to FOX, but not just the X-men, but the concept of Mutants as well. This meant that any character that was a Mutant was considered fair game for FOX to make movies out of.
Enter 2006, and Marvel Studios begins preproduction on Ironman (2008), their first solo Superhero flim, and the kick off what we know today as the MCU. During the this time, X-men movies were still coming out, but the juggernaut of what Ironman started in 2008 couldn’t be fully realized. Numerous film rights began returning to Marvel, however, mutants were not among them. By 2015, Avengers Age of Ultron (2015), there was an agreement that both Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were shared characters with Fox and could be in the MCU, denoting that they weren’t mutants, but were instead, individuals whose powers were given by the Mind Stone.
By 2009, Disney had purchased Marvel outright, the Film/Television side was put under different management from the Comic Book/Print side. For the next few years, the Comic Book side began to deemphasize the X-men and Mutants, focusing more on characters they owned out right. There was a push for ‘Inhumans’, a variation on mutants, for a while, along with most major stories only including a few major Mutant characters that were main stream. This culminated it a number of major storylines, including House of M, and even with the death of several major X-men, including Wolverine, Cyclops, and Professor X.
By 2015, the leadership of the Comic Book/Print side of the business was ousted and all major developments from all of Marvel were in the hands of Kevin Feige, who has been leading the Film/Television side of the business. And now as of 2019, with Disney now owning FOX media, the rights to the X-men and Mutants are owned once again by Marvel. Fan expectation is that either Marvel will make their own outright X-men movies, or potentially add them in to the MCU in some
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