Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 by Ben Pearson
Yesterday, we wrote about how a plot detail for the next Marvel series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was apparently confirmed by a T-shirt. And now, it looks like a new piece of WandaVision the merchandise may suggest the future of one of the characters on that show.
Warning: potential spoilers forward.
On the pages of Marvel Comics, the character of Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) gained superpowers and operated under a number of different superhero identities over the years: for a long time she was known as Captain Marvel, and some other names include Pulsar, Spectrum and Photon (the last of which was her military call sign) mother, Captain Marvel character Maria Rambeau). Fans had long suspected that Monica would gain superpowers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe too, and in last week’s episode of WandaVision, we saw that Monica’s X-rays came back blank after she was tested after her ejection of Wanda’s “spell”. The show quickly moved to the next scene, but fans clung to this mysterious sequence as potential proof that Monica may have gained powers within Westview or when she was being ejected through the hexagonal external force field.
Well, a new one WandaVision a sweater for sale at the Disney store might suggest which character she could adopt. The sweater has a SWORD logo stamped on it, but it is the black and white color scheme that caught the attention of some fans. ScreenRant suggests that the black and white design may be suggesting Monica’s superhero identity, Spectrum, whose costume was also black and white. This sweater image looks a lot like what Monica is wearing it is WandaVision character poster; now that it is also a product, it looks less like a possible Marvel feint to fans and more like a real fantasy that will actually appear on the show.
In the comics, Spectrum is able to pass through solid matter and certain energy fields depending on its wavelength – a set of energy that has precedent in the MCU. Ghost’s character, as seen in Ant-man on wasp, was imbued with the same kind of skill and she finally learned to control and use that power as a weapon. Therefore, it would not be outside the realm of possibilities to see this skill set materialize for Monica.
In another part of the comics, Spectrum came “to the conclusion that she had transcended humanity with her power, becoming a being of immortal light”, and later sacrificed her powers to help save Vision, whose body was defective. This happened during a fight with Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night, a character I would be no appearing in WandaVision. But I was fascinated by this excerpt from the Spectrum wiki page:
The end of this adventure took the heroes to the entry point of the House of Ideas, a plan of existence and the center of all reality. Monica burned most of her power by helping Visão to get inside the House of Ideas, becoming the only heroine capable of following Nyx and stopping her. Due to this effort, Monica returned to her previous power levels, becoming human again.
It seems doubtful that WandaVision would introduce a version of Casa das Idéias in this program (which can be a little more difficult than a program can chew), but if the studio wanted to give Monica powers as a nod to the comics, but is not interested in her being a new one superheroine on the board in the long run, I can imagine a scenario where she gets powers briefly and then has to sacrifice them to save Wanda, Vision or both from what is really going on inside Westview. This could leave you as a normal human at the end of the series, probably assuming a superior leadership role at SWORD
It’s just a theory for now, but we’ll see if any of these things will turn out to be new episodes of WandaVision are released every Friday at Disney +.
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