Theory: MCU's New Avenger Makes Scarlet Witch's Happy Ending Possible
The happy ending Scarlet Witch was denied in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness could be made possible by the MCU’s Wonder Man. Simon Williams a.k.a Wonder Man is one of only a handful of major Marvel Comics Avengers who haven’t been added to the MCU yet. However, Marvel’s plans for Phase 4 prove that Wonder Man’s long absence from the MCU is about to reach an end.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is reportedly developing a Wonder Man TV series for Disney+. Through his MCU show, Marvel Studios will have an opportunity to head in some interesting directions. In the comic books, Wonder Man is one of the Avengers’ most powerful weapons and a mainstay of the group who often has to juggle his superhero activities with his career as a Hollywood actor. Given that he’s been a part of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for decades, there’s a wealth of stories Marvel can tell with his character. Among them are his iconic friendship with the Beast from X-Men comics and his unique relationship with the Scarlet Witch.
Looking at certain events that have occurred in the MCU, it may seem like the time has passed for Marvel to adapt any version of the love triangle with Scarlet Witch, Vision, and Wonder Man from the Avengers and West Coast Avengers titles. Not only is Vision dead, but Doctor Strange 2’s ending suggested that Scarlet Witch is no longer among the living either. However, it’s not hard to imagine that a character as powerful as Scarlet Witch somehow survived the collapse of Chthon’s temple on Mount Wundagore. Assuming she survived, Marvel has a way of using Wonder Man to give Scarlet Witch the future she so desperately wanted for herself in Doctor Strange 2.
Vision is one of several Avengers to have pined for Scarlet Witch in Marvel Comics. Another was Wonder Man, a character who had an interesting connection to her husband. After Wonder Man died saving the Avengers in the early 1960s, Iron Man secretly copied his brain patterns, hoping that he could one day use them to bring Simon back to life. Unbeknownst to him, they were stolen by Ultron, who used them in conjunction with the original Human Torch’s android body to create Vision. Many interpreted this shocking revelation to mean that Vision was actually Wonder Man reborn.
The idea that Vision is basically an android copy of Wonder Man grew more complicated when the real Simon Williams was resurrected. Due to the fact that he and Vision shared the same brain patterns, it came as a surprise to no one when Simon found himself falling in love with Wanda too. In Wonder Man’s mind, the only reason she didn’t return his affections is that Vision had come into her life first. Simon believed that since Wanda loved his copy, it made sense that she’d be in love with Simon instead if circumstances were different. Years later, when Scarlet Witch moved on from Vision and developed a romance with Simon, it became apparent that the Avenger was right.
When Marvel brings Wonder Man into the MCU in Phase 4, his connection to Vision may very well be nonexistent since he was excluded from Avengers: Age of Ultron. But, it’s at least possible that are things about Vision’s origin that haven’t been uncovered yet. Similar to what Marvel did with Scarlet Witch and the Chaos Magic reveal in WandaVision, Marvel can retcon Vision’s origin by diving into it once more and explaining that Wonder Man really was a part of it all along. It could be that Simon Williams’ brain patterns were a secret component in Ultron’s plans for Vision’s creation. If that’s true, the MCU’s Vision could be a copy of Wonder Man in the same way that the comic book version was.
Wonder Man’s link to Scarlet Witch can properly explain how Wanda had children on Earth-838 and all the other realities in the MCU’s multiverse. It’s impossible for Scarlet Witch to have children with a synthezoid, but it does seem feasible for her to have kids with Wonder Man. And if Simon and Vision are in fact two different versions of the same person, it is plausible that the Wanda Maximoff from Earth-838 fell in love with Wonder Man, particularly if she knew him and not Vision in that universe. Together, they could have had a life that Scarlet Witch could never have had with Vision on Earth-616 (even if he wasn’t killed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War). Wonder Man being the father of Billy and Tommy could also be the real reason for why Vision wasn’t in Doctor Strange 2. Since Scarlet Witch said that her children exist in every universe but her own, it may be that Scarlet Witch married Wonder Man in all of them but Earth-616.
Scarlet Witch’s defeat in Doctor Strange 2 implies that even if she lives, she’ll have to accept the fact that the happy ending she desires is just never going to happen. That appears to be the sad reality she’ll have to face if she ever returns to the MCU. But thanks to Marvel’s decision to make Cretton’s Wonder Man show, the chance exists for Wanda to find the happiness she couldn’t get in the movie or in WandaVision. Whatever Scarlet Witch’s next story is, it could involve White Vision and perhaps more reveals about the original Vision’s origin.
If she teams up (or fights) Wonder Man in his show or some other Marvel project, this could lead to her discovering the truth about his link to her dead husband. Once figuring it all out, Wanda may start to see the person she loved in Wonder Man and begin to heal. Scarlet Witch simply moving on and finding romance with a completely separate character would risk ruining her MCU relationship with Vision, but giving this role to Wonder Man would allow Marvel to avoid this problem. And if he is the father of her children in the other universes, then it’s still possible for Billy and Tommy to be born naturally on Earth-616. Depending on how Marvel decides to approach its portrayal of Wonder Man, he could very well be the key to Scarlet Witch achieving her goal in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness without using magic at all.
Source: Screenrant
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