WandaVision Explained: All the Easter Eggs in Episode 7

We’re so close we can practically smell it. The end is near. All the answers we seek are almost within our grasp. Episode 7 of WandaVision, “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” has three major reveals. Two of which we kinda saw coming, and a third that could potentially open up the MCU in truly geeky ways.

Let’s break them all down…

Season 1 | Episode 7: “Breaking the Fourth Wall”	38 minutes
Director | Matt Shankman	Writers | Cameron Squires
Monica plots her return, Wanda navigates unsettling complications, and Vision forms a new alliance.

Reveal #1: Agatha All Along

1. We called it! (And so did everyone else on the Internet!) Anges was indeed AGatha HarkNESs after all. And it turns out that she was also the force that was controlling/manipulating Wanda this whole time. A fact that was revealed to us in the most delightful manner, by way of a sizzle reel with a catchy little ditty.

2. With this reveal, it seems like Marvel is officially going all in on magic and mysticism for its cinematic universe. Even though it was first introduced in 2016’s Doctor Strange, “magic” in the MCU has pretty much remained on the sidelines, as Phases 1 thru 3 have taken a more sci-fi direction with regards to their overarching plot lines. But with Agatha seemingly the villain of the piece, and WandaVision tying directly into the next Doctor Strange movie, it would appear that Marvel is opening up the narrative in new ways.

3. Which isn’t to say that Marvel hasn’t dabbled in this area before. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., their long neglected series which kinda did its own thing for seven seasons, wasn’t afraid to dabble in all sorts of genres. They did Inhumans, Life-Model Decoys, time travel, era-specific TV homages (see: Season 7), and even dabbled in the supernatural by reintroducing Ghost Rider in a non-manic, non-Nicolas Cage way.

4. So the question that now remains is whether or not Agatha is working on her own or serving a greater power? Is there a connection between Agatha and Hayward? Is he just an overzealous government stooge, or was he working with Agatha and lost control of the situation?

5. And because we have to ask this question in every recap…

6. Agatha All Along is also the name of a series that we’d totally watch. Give Kathryn Hahn her own show already. Go on Feige, you know you want to.

Reveal #2: Monica Rambeau is Photon! (Or Spectrum!)

7. We knew it was just a matter of time before she became super-powered, and this week’s episode gave us a fitting origin story as a wilful Monica throws caution to the wind and pushes her way into “the hex.” The cosmic radiation rewires her insides and gives her “WandaVision?” (Heh. Jokes.) It looks like she’s gained her comic book powers of being able to channel any form of energy within the electromagnetic spectrum. 

8. While Monica is stepping through “the hex” forcefield, we hear the following dialogue:

Maria: No, I can’t. I can’t leave Monica.
Young Monica: Mommy, it’s okay. I can stay with Grandma and Pop-Pop.
Maria: There’s no way I’m going, baby. It’s too dangerous.
Young Monica: Mom, maybe I could fly up and meet you halfway?
Fury: Only if you learn to glow like your Aunt Carol.
Maria: And you were the most powerful person I knew.
Dr. Harley: Your mom, she died, honey.
Woo: She was truly an inspiration.
Carol: Your mom’s lucky. When they were handing out kids, they gave her the toughest one.

9. In a nice homage to the comics, Monica seems to be wearing her Photon colours underneath her SWORD spacesuit.

Reveal #3: Step Into the Nexus

10. Before we get into that third reveal, we’d like to take this moment to remind you that we totally nailed the meaning of last week’s Yo Magic ad. Someone was leeching Wanda’s magic. It was Agnes! Okay. Moving on.

Ask your doctor about Nexus. A unique anti-depressant that works to anchor you back to your reality. Or the reality of your choice. Nexus, because the world doesn’t revolve around you. Or does it?

11. This week’s fake commercial (modelled after any number of American drug ads) is for a prescription antidepressant called Nexus. This could be a comic book callback to one of two things.

12. It could be a reference to the Nexus of All Realities, a cross-dimensional gateway which provides a pathway to any and all possible realities, that was first seen in Thor: The Dark World. It was an Easter Egg on Erik Selvig’s chalkboard explanation of the multiverse. (Don’t worry, we don’t blame you for not remembering that movie either.)

13. It could also be a reference to Nexus Beings who are rare powerful entities with the ability to affect probability and the future. In the comics, Wanda is one such being.

14. But what does this all mean? If it is a reference to the former, then it could just be more of a set-up for what is likely coming our way in Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness and Spider-Man 3 (Home Away From Home?). As for the Nexus Beings, we think a much bolder choice by Marvel would be to use this to set Wanda up as the all powerful big bad for this next phase. Don’t you think WandaVision is a great villain origin story?

Other Easter Eggs and Wild Speculations

15. This week’s episode was inspired by the mockumentary style of The Office and Modern Family. It is also the first time in the series that Wanda addresses the audience directly.

16. Having Wanda speak directly to us was an incredibly clever way at shedding the pretence of the series so far. We’re seven episodes in, the mystery is beginning to unravel, and the show too feels like it doesn’t need to maintain the illusion. When Wanda slips off the covers, we see that she’s gone to bed in her Halloween costume, a tacit acknowledgment of the chaos and confusion of everything that happened last week.

17. As Wanda loses control of her reality, the boys’ video game controllers begin to warp into different things. From a Nintendo Wii controller, to a GameCube controller, to an Atari Joystick, to Uno cards. (Which is a nice homage to Nintendo’s early years as a playing card manufacturer.)

18. Tommy and Billy are also wearing their comic book colours. Speed is always in green, and Wiccan’s suit is red and blue.

My head feels weird. It’s, like, really noisy. I don’t like it.

Billy Maximoff

19. Billy makes a reference to his ability to his latent telepathic powers.

20. This week’s opening sequence is an homage to three sitcoms. The music is from The Office, the visuals are from Happy Endings, and the title font is from Modern Family.

21. Also in the credits, who did this? (Was it a message from Vision?)

22. Anyone know why Friday, the 10th, has a heart around it? Hit us up with your theories.

23. Wanda and Vision’s home in this episode has also been made to look like the Dunphy’s from Modern Family.

24. When Wanda is pouring herself a bowl of cereal, the milk container begins to glitch. Each transformation is also era specific. The modern one being a bottle of almond milk, the next carton referencing the period when milk companies decided to market their product as being rich in Vitamin D, and the final one being an old school glass bottle.

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25. “Sugar Snaps?” As in Thanos? Or are we just grasping now?

26. Darcy was handcuffed when she got sucked into “the hex” so it’s quite fitting that she shows up as an escape artist.

27. So the aerospace engineer wasn’t Reed Richards after all. Boo.

28. Vision removing his clip on microphone, and homage to moments in faux-reality shows like The Office, was a moment of genius.

29. Again…

30. And… again…

31. What was that magical tome in Agatha’s creepy basement? Was it the  Darkhold, that legendary tome full of dark magic from Marvel lore? (Which also showed up in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Seriously, that show went places!) We’re not too sure. That book traditionally has a lower case “d” on its cover, which this one didn’t.

32. The Agatha All Along sequence seems to take its inspiration from the opening theme of The Munsters.

33. Where are Billy and Tommy? Did Agatha conjure them up too? Because that would truly break Wanda. In the comics, Agatha Harkness uses her magic to erase the memory of Billy and Tommy from Wanda’s mind. Why? Here, have a read…

34. Why are Monica’s eyes glowing purple in that mid-credits tag? Has Agatha’s magic taken possession of her?

35. So they’ve made their way into the 2000s, they’ve taken on all of the most recent sitcom tropes, where does WandaVision go next? I guess Episode 8 could borrow from the most popular, and most annoying, sitcom trope of all time and do a WandaVision clip show.

36. And finally…

Thanos: I’m going to kill half the population of the universe.
Agatha: Hold. My. Beer.

You can check out all of our explainers for WandaVision here.

WandaVision is now streaming on Disney+.