So, Wandavision?

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Only a small number of people have encountered the Hex. I don't think that is going to explain mutants, worldwide.

Alternatively, they could use the Snap/Blip as an explanation for mutants. They could say something like, "For reasons unknown to us, a small percentage of the population that was Blipped had their genome partially rewritten after they came back, mutating them and granting them strange and unique abilities."

Or, they could just use the Multiverse. Either could work, but would have different and interesting consequences.

 

[hawkeyefan]

I feel like they need to avoid some inciting event for mutants. Like, a person shouldn’t be a mutant because something happened to them. It messes with the allegory quite a lot, and I bet there’d be some serious backlash if they went that route.

Mutants should probably be born mutants.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I wonder whether we'll even have a framing 'show' next episode, or if that's all abandoned with this show's reveal. Then again, I'm no more familiar with 20teens family sitcoms than I was with this week's so it'll probably make little difference to me.

That is something the show makes apparent. As time moves on TV becomes more diverse, so it becomes increasingly difficult to find a TV show - never mind a family sit-com - that is iconic for that decade.

Maybe for the 2010s they will do Agents of SHIELD, and 2020s, Wandavision?

NB, 2000s episode: Monica Rambeau transformed into a superhero (complete with supersuit and ground punch). 2000 X-Men released. 2008 Iron Man released.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

When they stopped Monica from going back before, they said her cells had mutated. I'm wondering if the Hex passing over people (and perhaps expanding worldwide in a later episode) isn't the event that bring mutants into the MCU now that they have the rights to do so.

A worldwide Hex could alter reality so that mutants had been there all along.

It's basically a massive Retcon engine.

 

[cbwjm]

I feel like they need to avoid some inciting event for mutants. Like, a person shouldn’t be a mutant because something happened to them. It messes with the allegory quite a lot, and I bet there’d be some serious backlash if they went that route.

Mutants should probably be born mutants.

I think they were going to run with the inhumans as the mutant substitute but the show ended after one season.

 

[MarkB]

I feel like they need to avoid some inciting event for mutants. Like, a person shouldn’t be a mutant because something happened to them. It messes with the allegory quite a lot, and I bet there’d be some serious backlash if they went that route.

Mutants should probably be born mutants.

It would lose some of the narrative hooks of the original version, but it would explain why mutants haven't been around in the MCU until now.

Plus it ties in as a naming convention. It can be the mutant Hex-factor, leading to the superhero team of the Uncanny Hex-Men.

 

[BRayne]

Obviously at the end of the show Wanda will say "No, More Mutants"

 

[Umbran]

Mutants should probably be born mutants.

Yeah. I think if they just work with the Multiverse idea, they can get what they need in that regard.

 

[Umbran]

Perhaps next week will be framed from Agnes/Agatha perspective, giving more of the villain(s) motives and backstory before the resolution?

Yeah, I have to wonder if Agatha's been actually villainous here, or if she is just handling a situation in the best way she could manage.

 

[MarkB]

Yeah, I have to wonder if Agatha's been actually villainous here, or if she is just handling a situation in the best way she could manage.

She killed Sparky.