WandaVision: What’s hidden in plain sight in Episode 3
By Mike McNulty
The twins (and not just Wanda and Vision’s)
Speaking of those twins, Marvel Comics fans may already be aware that Tommy and Billy are also the real names of the Young Avengers, Speed and Wiccan. If Wanda and Vision’s boys also age as rapidly outside the womb, we may be seeing the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s version of the teenage superhero group sooner than we think. Only you didn’t have to be a comics fan to know Wanda and Vision would be having twins; the episode itself told us as much.
From beginning to end, all sorts of references to twins kept popping up. A lamp belonging to Dottie (Emma Caulfield Ford) and Phil (David Lengel) is a sculpture of Gemini the Twins. The headline from Phil’s newspaper states “Two Fire Hydrants added on Main Street.” (And on a side note, notice the word “Hydra” in “Hydrants?”) The mom in the “Hydra Soak Soap” ad (which is itself a reference towards Hydra’s brainwashing techniques) has two daughters as opposed to Wanda having two boys. Even the name “Tommy,” short for Thomas, is Aramaic for “twin.”
But of course, the most notable twin reference is Wanda herself, as she’s the twin sister of Pietro Maximoff, a.k.a. Quicksilver. That, in of itself, may also refer to something a bit more unsettling about this episode…