WandaVision episode 6 features the show’s scariest commercial – but what does Yo-Magic reveal about what’s really going on in Westview?
WandaVision Episode 6 features the scariest commercial on the show, in which a child dies of hunger while trying and unable to open a jar of “Yo-Magic” yogurt. While the previous commercials were direct references to the repressed trauma of Wand’s past, the Yo-Magic commercial also seems to include some hints about his present life in Westview – and what the future may hold.
“All-new Halloween Spooktacular!” brings WandaVisionThe aesthetics of the sitcom advanced until the 2000s, when there were many strange commercials out there. The chatty skeletal child certainly agrees with the episode’s scary Halloween theme. But while the meaning of the Yo-Magic commercial may be more difficult to analyze than WandaVisionprevious commercial breaks, may also be the most enlightening so far.
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As WandaVisionthe scenario is advancing in time, so are commercials advancing in Wanda’s past – from Stark ToastMate 2000 in the first episode (a reference to the Stark Industries bomb that killed his parents) through references to Hydra and Von Strucker. In episode 5, there was a dark nod to Scarlet Witch accidentally blowing up the side of a building in Lagos, which started the main conflict of Captain America Civil War. Although she knows she is in control of her new reality, Wanda has suppressed memories of her life before Westview and cannot remember how Hex was first created. If the Yo-Magic commercial is a manifestation of more recent memories, it may be a hint of what same going.
Yo-Magic tips on the origin of the scarlet witch mutant gene
Following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the rights to the X-Men movie are back with Marvel Studios and the mutants are expected to be incorporated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver made their MCU debut (first in Captain America: The Winter Soldierpost-credit scene of, and then on Avengers: Age of Ultron), rights issues prevented them from being called “mutants” or connected to the father of the Magneto comics. The twins’ powers were explained by their offering for Hydra and Baron von Strucker’s experiments with the Mental Stone.
In addition to casting Evan Peters (who played Quicksilver in Fox’s X-Men films) for the role of Pietro in Wanda’s “makeover”, WandaVision he also started laying the groundwork for a recovery of Wanda’s powers. The Hydra Soak commercial for episode 3 featured the slogan “Find the goddess inside!“- a suggestion that Hydra’s experiments did not give Wanda her powers, but simply unlocked the potential that was already within her. The child in the Yo-Magic commercial getting a pot of” Yo-Magic “and struggling to break the seal it also fits this theme. If the malevolent-looking shark represents Von Strucker, then the name of the product indicates that what Hydra gave Wanda was actually his own latent magic.
References Yo-Magic Traumatic deaths from Wanda’s past
The dark end of WandaVisionThe Yo-Magic commercial is also related to the trauma of Wanda’s past and the death of loved ones. When Wanda and Pietro’s childhood home was destroyed by a Stark Industries bomb, the twins were trapped under the rubble for two days, facing death (in the form of a second unexploded bomb) in the face. Although Wanda survived, she experienced the trauma of being trapped and helpless, without food or water. And even when she obtained her magical powers, which she hoped would guarantee that she would never be so helpless again, she was unable to prevent Pietro’s death at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Perhaps the most obvious parallel between the child trying and failing to open the yogurt seal and dying as a result is Vision’s death in Avengers: Infinity War. This would be a natural place for WandaVision to progress, after the last commercial referenced Captain America Civil War. The climate battle of Infinite War saw Wanda using all his strength to destroy the Mental Stone on Vision’s head, while also holding Thanos, to prevent the Mad Titan from completing the Infinity Gauntlet. Vision finally died twice: first when Wanda destroyed the Stone (and he along with it), and again when Thanos rewound time and forcibly yanked the Mental Stone from Vision’s head. Despite being arguably the most powerful MCU hero, Wanda’s magic was unable to save the people she loved most.
Yo-Magic shows Wanda’s mental (and magical) instability
If Wanda building a fantasy world populated by people with enslaved minds was not enough to signal her current instability, the commercial Yo-Magic indicates that she is not entirely in control of her mind or magic. She is unable to fully control Vision’s mind, which in episode 6 led him to take a break for freedom. And while “Pietro” ‘s origins and motives are still unclear, he is also aware that Westview is under Wanda’ s control and that Vision is really dead. If the child in the commercial represents Wanda, then the character trapped alone on the desert island, dying slowly and unable to save herself, says sinister things about her current mood.
The Yo-Magic shark may represent Mephisto
WandaVision has missed many hints that Mephisto, a demonic supervillain from Marvel Comics who played an important role in the story arc that WandaVision is loosely based on, he could secretly be the puppet master behind Westview. “All-new Halloween Spooktacular!” fold down on these tips, with Pietro calling the twins a joke “demon generation“(in the comics they were created from pieces of Mephisto’s soul) and commenting that Westview is”charming as hell. “Wanda herself has a gap in her memory regarding the birth of her version of Westview – as if that information had been deliberately blocked.
The decidedly scary-looking shark in the Yo-Magic commercial tells the hungry child that she survived by “nipping at Yo-Magic.“This, combined with the disturbing image of the child wilting on a skeleton, suggests that something is attracting Wanda’s magic. The Hex may actually be a kind of giant magic battery, designed for Mephisto to suck up Wanda’s powers while holding it If the other commercials are manifestations of Wanda’s pent-up memories, the shark in the Yo-Magic commercial could be your mind’s way of remembering the role Mephisto played in. With only three episodes left of WandaVision, the show is getting closer and closer to revealing what is really going on in Westview – and perhaps revealing the real villain behind it all.
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