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So, Wandavision?

ART!

Deluxe Unhuman
It has always seemed to me that Wanda was socially isolated. Most of the Avengers are, in fact. Their teamwork did not seem to extend to a shared emotional support network. And the one time we saw them gather socially... Ultron crashed the party.

That was part of the point of her relationship with Vision - he actively cared and sought her out. When he was killed, she lost meaningful connection with others in the world... and that spells trouble for grief.
Reading this made me suddenly realize that the most pure-of-heart MCU hero with the most ordered mind was attracted to the MCU hero with the most chaotic, troubled mind - and vice versa. That's pretty awesome.
 

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Umbran

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I’m guessing that SWORD is that organisation (all superheroes are essentially sentient weapons) but as stated its only 3 weeks since the Blip, the worlds chaotic

Think about that. One day, half the world population vanishes. The remainder go on.

Years later, they come back. Think, for a moment, about basic things. Like... food supply. The world population doubles in an instant - how do you feed everybody?
 

ART!

Deluxe Unhuman
Think about that. One day, half the world population vanishes. The remainder go on.

Years later, they come back. Think, for a moment, about basic things. Like... food supply. The world population doubles in an instant - how do you feed everybody?
The movies will probably touch on this in the next couple years, but being movies that need to tell big sweeping stories won't be able to dwell on it. I suspect (and hope) that the D+ shows will dig into this at least a bit more. It seems like there's a lot you can explore there without making the show all about that. F&WS and Hawkeye seem well-positioned to do so, but we'll see soon enough.
 

MarkB

Legend
Think about that. One day, half the world population vanishes. The remainder go on.

Years later, they come back. Think, for a moment, about basic things. Like... food supply. The world population doubles in an instant - how do you feed everybody?
Not just disappeared, but mostly known to have died. Everything they had - possessions, jobs, houses - now belong to other people. It's only a courtesy to a PG rating that they even have the clothes on their backs.

Just IDing everyone would be a nightmare, and that's once you've established that they're not all impostors in the first place.
 

Umbran

Mod Squad
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Just IDing everyone would be a nightmare, and that's once you've established that they're not all impostors in the first place.

People disappeared, largely along with the things on their person. I don't expect the snap left a bunch of wallets lying around on the ground. Those with driver's licenses would have come back with them, at least.

And, if someone can manage to put, what, three and a half billion imposters in place, all at the same moment, and loads of them are infants and children (so, of no value as impostors for years)? Like you could stop them from taking over the planet anyway?
 

Marc_C

Solitary Role Playing
Watched 1.5 episodes. I couldn't continue. I'll get back to it later only because I saw the coloured helicopter toy. Intriguing.
 


The movies will probably touch on this in the next couple years, but being movies that need to tell big sweeping stories won't be able to dwell on it. I suspect (and hope) that the D+ shows will dig into this at least a bit more. It seems like there's a lot you can explore there without making the show all about that. F&WS and Hawkeye seem well-positioned to do so, but we'll see soon enough.

I need to look up a list of all the heroes who were Snapped besides Wanda, to see where other shows may deal with this. Obviously, Black Panther 2 and the Wakanda series both should, but beyond that, I am not sure.
 


Also, I was looking at the MCU timeline a bit and it is definitely screwy as they account for the time jump after the Snap and return Snap. I did not even realize that the 2nd Spiderman film takes place several months after everyone returned, making is Summer of 2024 for that school trip. That means the events in the 3rd Spiderman film will still be at least a year or two in the future, when compared to the real world year.

One other thing I did see was the official date of Tony Stark's funeral, on Oct 29, 2023, and Wanda was there. The return Snap happened on Oct 17, 2023. Episode 3 of Wandavision is about three weeks after the return, when Monica reports back to SWORD, around Nov 7. Wanda entered the SWORD labs about 9 days before that, so either the same day as the funeral or a day or two later, meaning someone there probably told her where Vision's body was being kept. Now, the website I am looking at has as much official dating as possible and their entries for 2023 have Wanda visiting SWORD on Oct 31 and then creating the Hex on Nov 4, so anywhere between Oct 29 and Nov 4 is when Westview was taken over by Wanda.

 

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