MCU: What we learned from WandaVision, Loki and The Falcon & Winter Soldier’s Disney Plus teasers

Disney Plus unveiled teasers for The Falcon and The Winter Solider, WandaVision and Loki at the Super Bowl, and here’s what we learned from them.

It’s an era of wonders for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Aside from wrapping up the Infinity Saga with Avengers: Endgame and working on a variety of big screen properties, Marvel Studios is also heading to our TV screens this year via Disney Plus.

In 2020, the streaming service will release WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and in 2021, Loki. During this year’s Super Bowl, Marvel Studios and Disney released an exciting teaser trailer for what’s coming to Disney Plus, focused entirely on the three aforementioned shows.

The bits of MCU footage offered were brief, but because we’re hardcore nerds interested in knowing every little detail about upcoming superhero adaptations, let’s take a look at what the teaser told us about Marvel Studios’ series.

WandaVision

WandaVision‘s footage was arguably the most information-filled of the three sneak peeks. It’s been widely reported that WandaVision will have a big sitcom component to it. Even the first concept art piece for the show teased that approach. Up until now, it was tricky to imagine what that would be like, but we finally know.

The teaser offered brief glimpses of different versions of Wanda, showing her in black and white (I Love Lucy-style), in a ’60s-style wardrobe and modern attire, among others. At first glance, it may look like these are just different visual styles for Wanda, but look closely. You’ll notice that each version of her seems to be set in a different decade. This appears to reveal that the show will put Scarlet Witch and Vision through every sitcom era since the genre’s inception, starting in the ’50s and ’60s and going all the way up to modern times.

These quick cuts also featured fascinating reveals. The first one is Wanda sporting her comic book Scarlet Witch costume. Before getting excited, though, this appears to be a sort of Halloween costume. Having said that, the series’ concept art showed Wanda’s shadow sporting her original comic book attire.

The second reveal comes in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment that pays off in a big way. Pause at 0:16 second mark and you’ll see Wanda pregnant. As the teaser goes on, we see Vision and Wanda in front of two cribs and two pacifiers going up in the air, confirming the show will include some version of Wanda and Vision’s kids.

Finally, the teaser depicts Wanda seemingly snapping back into the real world, as everything around here turns black and white except for her. That could hint at the fact that she will have some moments of clarity throughout the show, in between living this sitcom-set reality.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

This MCU teaser opens with Sam Wilson practicing with his brand new Captain America shield by throwing it against trees. He may not have super soldier serum coursing through his veins, but he’s pretty handy with the weapon. Shortly after, we see briefs shots of Sam in his new Falcon costume going after villains in the air and Bucky confronting Zemo. What’s interesting about Sam’s bit is that the people he’s chasing have a similar color scheme to Hydra’s uniforms. Could this be telling us that Hydra is crawling back into the spotlight?

Perhaps the biggest moment of the footage comes when John Walker, a.k.a. U.S. Agent (played by Wyatt Russell) runs onto a football field in his superhero costume (an appropriate moment, considering the Super Bowl) high-fiving a person during what looks like a very showy presentation. This could indicate that John Walker is being used as propaganda material, as opposed to just a new version of Captain America.

Given his comic book background, it’s possible that Walker will end up a hero in the MCU. However, considering the showiness of his appearance, it doesn’t look like he’s fully committed to the selflessness of being a crime-fighter just yet.

Closing out the teaser, we see Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson having a friendly moment, which tells us their relationship got a whole lot better after Sam rudely refused to move his seat to accommodate for the Winter Soldier’s long limbs inside Steve Roger’s undercover car during Captain America: Civil War.

Loki

When it came to footage length, Loki was the shortest of the bunch, with only a seconds-long shot of Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief teasing a pretty cruel act of violence. But don’t you worry, my fellow comic book lovers, because the teaser’s briefness didn’t stop it from possibly dropping a huge reveal about the series.

Look closely, and Loki is wearing a type of uniform (perhaps a prisoner uniform?) with the letters “TVA” emblazoned on the left side of his chest. This acronym could stand for Time Variance Authority, an organization in the Marvel Comics world that’s in charge of keeping track of time travelers to stop them from messing up things in the timeline. Think of the Time Wraiths from The Flash but far less nightmare-inducing.

Why is this important, you ask? Well, in Avengers: Endgame, Loki escaped the clutches of the Avengers by using the Tesseract as a portal away from New York. It was confirmed during Marvel Studios’ Expanding the Universe documentary on Disney+ that Loki would feature time travel. Assuming the God of Mischief is indeed involved with the Time Variance Authority, the show could have huge ramifications for the entire MCU.

Putting all these revelations aside, this new teaser made one thing clear: the MCU is starting a new era. WandaVision does not have a specific release date, but it’s expected to drop on Disney Plus at some point in 2020. While not confirmed, during a director announcement for the show, Deadline stated that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier would arrive in August of 2020. Loki is expected to be released in 2021.