WANDAVISION: Newly Revealed Set Photos Feature A S.W.O.R.D. Base, Vehicles, And More

@Origame - Perhaps, but some outside threat like Chthon (an Elder God with reality warping powers who has been trying to return to Earth’s dimension and figures heavily into Wanda’s comic origins) does a far better job of tying things together.

The classic Avengers tale from 1979 began the reveal of Magneto being her father (showing how she came to be adopted by the Maximoffs), explained how Chthon imbued her with a deep gift for sorcery at birth and pushed her to receive training from Agatha Harkness, and now was possessing her as a vessel to enter our dimension. (Also how he was last defeated by the High Evolutionary and his Knights of Wundegore before they left for space. The High Evolutionary is rumored to be in GoTG 3 as the creator of Rocket Raccoon.)

People keep leaning towards “Avengers Dissassembled” as the inspiration for this series, but the original tale of an all-powerful Wanda threatening reality offers a lot more material to build upon.

@KillerCroc357 - There was nothing reality-warping about those powers... she physically was crushing him with telekinesis.

As I said, people keep looking at this as an adaptation of “Avengers Disassembled”, where Wanda went mad with grief and changed reality with her powers. None of that fits in the MCU... Her powers aren’t chaos magic and reality warping, they’re telekinesis and (not seen since Age of Ultron) mental manipulation. She’s not mad with grief, from what we’ve seen. It would be weird for Agatha Harkness and witches to suddenly get involved in her life, and the extra-terrestrial defense agency SWORD has to be just general super-police instead. Thematically, nothing ties together.

But, if they use the classic Wanda Chthon storyline as inspiration, they can give Wanda reality warping powers (if needed... Chthon gave them to the comic character in the first place), have an extra-dimensional threat (which allows a thematic tie-in to Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness), introduce Agatha Harkness (as Chthon has been opposed by mystics throughout history), have a non-terrestrial threat for SWORD, and, I suspect, have the Vision be a lingering defense in Wanda’s mind helping her fight off the possession.

@soberchimera - Hell, I could easily see them using Dormammu just to cut down on the number of extra-dimensional godlike beings that want to take over the Earth.

Regardless, I really suspect that there’s a villain behind this series that hasn’t been revealed yet.

@soberchimera - Yeah... nothing gets adapted exactly.

One other possible mark against Chthon is that the Darkhold (his version of the necronomicon, and a big part of the lore of the character) appeared in Agents of Shield, and my impression was always that AoS was free to use concepts and characters that Feige expressly had no interest in adapting in the films.

Now, maybe that’s changed as the MCU looks to add Blade and some other horror/monster concepts and the Darkhold was often involved in those.

@Origame - I don’t follow what you’re saying... What am I claiming, other than there’s a villain or something more behind things and not just Wanda going mad from grief as in ‘Disassembled’? And which story are you saying they’re inspired by?

@BlackBeltJones -
Ya Think?

@Origame - No

@Tonic24k - It just feels they're going way off script with the S.W.O.R.D. stuff. I just don't want this to be a Iron Man 2 situation where the focus shifts away from the main story and more on setting up future movies.