Marvel Preview: Scarlet Witch Returns In TVA #5, Complicating Her MCU Status [Exclusive] – SlashFilm

Scarlet Witch’s future within the MCU appears to be in limbo proper now. Her loss of life is ambiguous sufficient to undo, however for now, the flicks and TV present tie-ins have been going ahead as if she is actually useless.

On one hand, Olsen has mentioned she’d play Wanda once more if she thought the story was proper. “Agatha All Alongside” additionally teed up the reunion of Billy and Tommy Maximoff, aka Wiccan (Joe Locke) and Pace, with their mom. However Olsen/Wanda additionally wasn’t included within the solid record for the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday.”

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“TVA” is likely to be the final Wanda look followers can get for some time. However is that this truly the MCU Wanda? The comedian positively desires you to assume it’s. Once more, her costume is equivalent to “Multiverse of Insanity.” In the preview pages beneath, Nightmare instantly references Wanda’s “loss of life” at Mount Wundagore, then claims the TVA saved and imprisoned her. 

When Gwen confronts Wanda, imploring her to decide on goodness, Wanda says Gwen sounds just like the final individuals who tried to make her change. That may be Physician Stephen Unusual (Benedict Cumberbatch), America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), Reed Richards (John Krasinski), and Professor X (Patrick Stewart) from Earth-838, and so on.

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Shortly after the discharge of “TVA” #3, Pérez claimed in a since-deleted Instagram submit that the Wanda glimpsed within the comedian was the MCU model. “The opposite query, if it implies that this comedian is MCU continuity or every other points about how this ties in with the flicks or different comics, please ask the editor Jordan White, the author Katharyn Blair, or, I do not know … Kevin Feige?” he added.

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However he then backtracked in a comply with-up submit, saying the precise reverse:

“Okay, I believe I need to make clear this: the Scarlet Witch that seems in our ‘TVA’ e book is NOT the MCU Wanda. That is a really related variant, please try the subsequent problems with the e book for additional data. I am sorry if I introduced any confusion with my earlier submit (which I’ve taken right down to keep away from extra confusion). So, that was me placing my foot on my mouth, as I do more often than not. MCU and Marvel Comics are usually not the identical factor.”

Here is how I learn this. Katharyn Blair (who wrote for “Loki” season 2) is writing “TVA” as if it is canon to the MCU. The comedian makes use of the aesthetic and ensemble from the MCU’s TVA, together with black-and-orange uniforms and authentic characters like Miss Minutes. However the comedian is not formally sanctioned MCU “canon,” as a result of if the flicks do ever convey Wanda again, they will not bind themselves attempting to accommodate this comedian. Therefore, the “very related variant” cop-out Pérez used.

The Wanda Maximoff in “TVA” might not have the identical future because the “true” MCU one, but it surely looks like she has the identical previous! At a sure level, arbitrary labels about “canon” turn into pedantic. If she appears and acts just like the Wanda Maximoff who Elizabeth Olsen performed, she would possibly as effectively be.

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“TVA” #5 is scheduled for print and digital launch on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.