WandaVision episode 5 ending and surprise cameo explained - digitalspy.com

WandaVision episode 5 spoilers follow.

In one of WandaVision's most heartbreaking moments, Wanda tells her twin boys that, "We can't reverse death, no matter how sad it makes us." That's not great news for all the Sparky stans out there, whether you're a fan of cute dogs or the Tom King 'Vision' comics this little critter was inspired by.

However, what Wanda says isn't entirely true. Sure, the mechanics of Vision's resurrection are yet to be determined, but we do know that Maximoff is somehow responsible for his return, reanimating his robot corpse like a creepy puppeteer.

And then of course, there's that ending. We've suspected for a while that Pietro would return to life in the MCU, because if Wanda's husband can come back, why not her dead brother too?

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What we didn't necessarily expect — internet leaks aside — was that this version of Pietro wouldn't be the one that Wanda fought alongside in the Avengers. In fact, this Quicksilver hasn't even appeared in the MCU until now, something which was only made possible very recently thanks to the Disney/Fox merger.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. First of all, who is this "long-lost brother" and why does he look like Evan Peters? Wanda sure did look confused, and plenty of viewers probably shared that sentiment too.

As Marvel fans will remember, Aaron Taylor-Johnson played Pietro Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but the speedster's time on screen went by pretty quickly because Ultron killed him before the credits rolled.

The Pietro who shows up here in WandaVision instantly claims to be Wanda's brother, and he seems to recognise her too, so why hasn't Aaron Taylor-Johnson been recast in the role? A year before Marvel brought the silver-haired speedster to life on screen, Fox's X-Men introduced their own version played by American Horror Story's Evan Peters.

For years, the MCU and Fox's X-Men universe were unable to cross over with each other for boring legal reasons, keeping apart characters who regularly hang out together in the comics.

Things were mostly kept separate on screen because of this, but Quicksilver was an unusual case, because in the source material, he's both a mutant and an Avenger. As this complicated things, these blurry lines enabled Marvel and Fox to both create their own unique versions of the same character.

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However, that all changed a couple of years ago when Disney and Fox merged, allowing Marvel to finally integrate long-lost characters like the X-Men into their world. Fans have been speculating about this for quite some time, but finally, WandaVision has now confirmed that mutants are officially part of the MCU. Or has it?

More on that later, but for now. the question remains: why would Wanda resurrect a different version of her brother? Did she just "recast him", as Darcy suggests? Was Aaron Taylor-Johnson just busy that day?

Right now, there are two prevailing theories, both more bewitching than even Wanda herself. The first possibility is that this isn't actually Pietro and Marvel are just messing with us by casting someone who once played this character for a different studio. And if that's the case, we don't imagine that this "Pietro's" intentions are good.

WandaVision's latest episode does a lot of heavy lifting to suggest that Wanda is the MCU's new Big Bad, and yes, the way she manipulates innocent people is unforgivable, but it still feels like someone else is also manipulating her in the same way. After all, Agnes clearly knows more than she's letting on, and although Vision thinks Wanda is fully in control, even she was surprised by Pietro's arrival.

This suggests that Evan Peters is playing someone else external to all this who isn't under Wanda's spell. When she brought Vision back to life, this was an intentional move on her part, but that's not the case here, and wouldn't she need to focus in order to bring Pietro back? Sure, he could just be another manifestation of her subconscious, but if that were true, wouldn't he look like Aaron Taylor-Johnson?

For some time now, fans have suspected that someone else is pulling the strings here, and an obvious choice from the comics is Mephisto, Marvel's version of Satan. This demonic entity has manipulated comic book Wanda before in a bid to harness her power, and the story of her children is inextricably tied up with his. Then there's also Master Pandemonium, a former Hollywood star who now does Mephisto's bidding using demons for limbs. Yep, really.

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Both characters have caused Wanda untold suffering in the comics, destroying her hopes for a happy ending to call her own, so it's entirely possible that Evan Peters is actually playing one of these villains in disguise. And the actual devil's arrival in the MCU would be a big game-changer, right?

But then, that still doesn't explain why Evan Peters appears instead of Aaron. If this isn't just stunt casting, it seems the most likely explanation for all this is that he really is playing Pietro, but the one we first met in the X-Men films.

DC's Flash can use his super-speed to race between alternate realities, but Quicksilver hasn't been known to his use his powers this way, whether you're talking Marvel's Pietro, Fox's Pietro, or even comic book Pietro. With that in mind, what seems more likely is that Wanda has actually pulled this version of her brother directly out of the X-Men universe and into the MCU.

This episode goes out of its way to confirm that Wanda can rewrite reality, so it's possible that she may have subconsciously dragged a different version of Pietro into Westview. Wanda can only bring Vision back to life because he's synthetic and they both share a connection to the Mind Stone. Resurrecting an actual human could exist outside the realms of even Wanda's power set, so instead of bringing her Pietro back to life, she may have (subconsciously) scoured the multiverse for a different Pietro who survived.

Multiverse shenanigans have been on the cards for a while. Not only do we know for certain that Deapool 3 will bring Ryan Reynolds into the MCU, but it's also been confirmed that previous Spider-Men from the Sony universe will meet Tom Holland's Spidey too. And it's no coincidence that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will arrive before then...

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Knowing that Wanda has been confirmed to appear in that film too, it stands to reason that all of Wanda's meddling with reality could disrupt the fabric of reality at large, forcing Doctor Strange to step in and help fix the multiverse before it's too late.

With multiple Spider-Men and a confirmed Fantastic Four film heading our way, the X-Men are definitely going to start rubbing shoulders with the Avengers sooner rather than later, and it looks like WandaVision is the key to unlocking all that.

If that's true, it's too early to tell if Evan Peters will stick around for long as a "new" Pietro. And honestly, we're a bit worried about Vision's future beyond this show too. After Sparky's death, Billy and Tommy tell their mother that "Family is forever," but we're not so sure that Wanda will get the happy ending she deserves...

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