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She’s a magical gal in a small-town locale, he’s part machine, and they share a love like you’ve never seen. That’s the jaunty intro to WandaVision on Disney Plus, but what Easter eggs and Marvel references can be spotted in the first two episodes of the new series?

WandaVision episode 1 and episode 2 are streaming now, with new installments of the nine-part Disney Plus show to follow every Friday, starting with episode 3 on Jan. 22. We’ll recap each episode as it arrives, peeling back the layers of suspense about how Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and her robotic beau Vision (Paul Bettany) arrived in this surreal suburban sitcom… 

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Here are the Easter eggs we’ve spotted so far, and we’ll add more as we see them. But be warned: Spoilers for both episodes below!

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The door number

On their picture-perfect suburban street, Wanda and Vision live at number 2800. In an acclaimed 2015 comic series by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta, the Vision took up residence on a suburban street, but while that highly recommended comic was very different, it’s fun to note Viz lived at No. 616. That was a reference to Earth-616, the version of reality in which most Marvel comics stories take place. 

Other parallel dimensions — like the different worlds seen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse — have their own numbers. So the significance of 2800 is unclear, but with WandaVision reported to be tied into forthcoming film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness it could have some kind of multiversal meaning.

The ads

WandaVision’s pastiche of ’50s and ’60s sitcoms like Bewitched and I Love Lucy includes a laugh track, stylized sets and farcical situations. It also extends to the fake ads in the middle of each installment. Episode 1 tries to sell us a newfangled toaster from Stark Industries — a softball of an Easter egg, as most viewers will spot a reference to the company run by Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) and his father, Howard Stark, before him.

However, the seemingly innocuous Toast Mate 2000 takes a creepy turn when it beeps ominously just before the bread pops up — a bit like a bomb. We know from 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron that Wanda’s parents were killed by an explosive device, leaving her and her twin brother, Pietro, trapped under rubble. For two days, the Maximoffs stared at an unexploded Stark Industries shell, expecting it to detonate before they were rescued. So beeping Stark tech isn’t likely to sit well with Wanda.

I love Wanda.

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The commercial break takes a darker turn in episode 2, however. This second ad advertises a watch branded with the names Strucker and Hydra. Hydra is, of course, the sinister terrorist organization threatening Marvel’s world, and Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is the evil scientist who developed Wanda’s powers and set her against the Avengers in Age of Ultron.

The ad’s tagline “He’ll make time for you” implies a continued role for Strucker despite his death at Ultron’s hands, and it might tie into the show’s televisual themes if he was seen again on a TV screen like fellow Hydra scientist Arnim Zola in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

If these are references to Wanda’s origins, then the ads may represent Wanda’s memories, even though the toaster ad warns, “Forget your past, this is your future.” In which case, it may mean something that the same woman and man show up in both ads. Could they be Wanda’s parents? 

The supermarket signs

Speaking of ads, look out for the supermarket signs in episode 2’s animated opening credits. The store advertises Bova Milk, a reference to the super-evolved cow who served as midwife at Wanda’s birth (comics!). Another sign mentions Aunty A’s Kitty Litter, which is surely a reference to another member of the comic’s supporting cast, the ancient witch Agatha Harkness and her cat-like familiar named Ebony. Which might make you wonder about Kathryn Hahn’s fabulous neighbor who happens to be named Agnes…

The songs

By singing catchy 1958 rock ‘n’ roll song Yakety Yak, Vision takes on the role of both parent and child, giving and receiving orders in an enclosing or imprisoning suburban world. (“Don’t talk back.”) Interestingly, this view of suburban teen life is in its own way a construction: Yakety Yak was written, produced and arranged by Jewish songwriters Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller for Black performers The Coasters as a parody of white middle-class society.

This is a reach, but there’s another possible significance. In the 1988 comedy Twins, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a naive outsider arriving in America and sings the song. Wanda has/had a twin, her brother Pietro (aka Quicksilver) who in the MCU was shot dead by Vision’s creator in Avengers: Age of Ultron. She also magically gave birth to twins in the comics in the 1980s.

Guess who’s coming to dinner…

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And the significance of Old McDonald? With his moo moos and baa baas, Vision again plays the role of characters who are enclosed against their will. Or it’s just funny.

By episode 2 the song we hear in a crucial moment is 1965 hit Help Me, Rhonda by the Beach Boys. Along with hairstyle and costume changes it’s one of the subtle signs the show has advanced from the 1950s in episode 1 to a pastiche of the ’60s in episode 2. And of course, Rhonda is easily misheard for Wanda. But why is someone asking, “Who’s doing this to you, Wanda?”

Oh, and does the line “Get her out of my heart” tie in with the presence of the Harts in episode 1? 

Big red

The brand of gum that gums up Vision’s works is Big Red, which was also the working title of the show when it was filmed in Atlanta in 2019. Whether that’s merely a goofy code name or something more important is something for you to chew over.

Speaking of the magic show disrupted by Vision’s gum, the couple adopt the names “Glamor and Illusion.” In the comics, Vision and Scarlet Witch were friends with a married magic act called Glamor and Illusion who also secretly used superpowers to pull off their tricks.

The wine

When Wanda magically saves dinner, the wine she pours is a fine drop of Maison du Mépris. That means  house of contempt or scorn, but more importantly harks back to the pivotal House of M comics storyline in which a traumatized Wanda reshaped the whole of reality into a new world ruled by her family.

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House of M wine.

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The Grim Reaper

Blink and you might miss the moment Vision phases through the floor in the opening credits of episode 2. Among the pipes and cobwebs are a couple of bones and a dark shape that looks suspiciously like the helmet worn by Marvel villain Grim Reaper. In the comics, he’s the brother of Wonder Man, whose brainwaves were used in Vision’s creation. In the 2015 series where Vision lives a suburban life, Grim Reaper showed up at his home and met a sticky end.

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That four-pronged shape in the middle may be a reference to a comics villain.

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The beekeeper

At the climax of episode 2, Wanda and Vision are startled by a manhole cover sliding back and a shadowy beekeeper climbing out. Comics fans may see a similarity to the helmeted uniforms worn by underlings of the evil Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM), a cabal of rogue scientists and offshoot of Hydra. On screen, AIM was the main threat in Iron Man 3. Or maybe it’s not so literal — the beekeeper could be another reference to being enclosed and observed in a constructed space.

The sword

Whatever’s happening to Wanda and the Vision, the people observing use a logo depicting a sword in a circle. There’s an organization called SWORD in the comics that complements SHIELD’s Earthbound activities by taking care of extraterrestrial threats. Given the presence of Geraldine, reported to be a grown-up version of the young Monica Rambeau seen encountering aliens in Captain Marvel, WandaVision could take a turn for the extraterrestrial. Or as Vision puts it, “My wife and her flying saucers!”

However, it’s unclear why the downed helicopter in episode 2 is painted in Iron Man’s signature red and yellow.

The bump

By the end of episode 2, Wanda is suddenly and noticeably pregnant. That echoes a storyline in The Vision and the Scarlet Witch, the ’80s run of comics in which she magically gave birth to twins. The kids were sadly revealed to be fragments of the demon Mephisto (comics!). Distraught at the loss of her children, Wanda later remodeled reality in the 2005 House of M comics storyline.

The MCU hasn’t seen a lot of supernatural stuff so far. Thor is an alien rather than a god, while Wanda is a super-powered mutant, not technically a witch. But it’s possible Mephisto could be involved in the weirdness enclosing Wanda and Viz. The neighborhood queen bee Dottie is Emma Caulfield, who previously played a demon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And what about Agnes and her unseen husband? The devil is in the details, but that isn’t the only place he is…

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