From its introduction in WandaVision, I have not supported the director of SWORD, Tyler Hayward. Basically, because I don’t trust white men in the government especially in the Marvel world, and we knew he wasn’t as “innocent” as he said when he expelled Monica from his base for questioning his motives. He turned on Monica, Darcy and Jimmy for daring to speak against him and then why would anyone trust him? This week was just another testament to how far he is willing to go to achieve his final goal.
** Spoilers for WandaVisionin “Previously in” lie inside. **
When Monica Rambeau initially goes to SWORD to meet Tyler Hayward, he acts like an innocent man. He makes a point of saying that he is just an “acting” director and that he is happy to have Monica on board with him. Everything about his behavior shows him as a man just trying to do a job.
This obviously raised about 30 red flags for me, and he quickly showed who was under, but “Previously On” showed us exactly what Hayward was willing to go to to make Wanda Maximoff a villain in the eyes of his employees. When Monica goes to base, Hayward tells everyone that Wanda stole Vision’s body and revived it in the hexagon against Vision’s will. But this week, we saw that this was not true.
Wanda knows that Vision’s body is at the base of New Jersey for SWORD and she will meet Hayward. He shows her what they’re doing, tells her that she can’t bury him because of the vibranium and lets her say goodbye to Vision at a time that was absolutely painful for Wanda.
Wanda’s connection with Vision always originated from the Stone of the Mind. His powers existed because of this, and Vision used the Mindstone to exist. She could use her powers to connect with him, and when Wanda had to destroy the stone before Thanos reached it, Vision declared “I just feel you” for her.
So, the fact that Wanda can no longer feel the Vision leads her to leave the SWORD and go to a pile of land that the Vision left for her to “age”.
Then, all of Hayward’s lies he told his team are revealed, showing how much he was willing to throw Wanda under the bus to activate Vision’s body. The experiments they were doing on Vision were not meant to dismantle it. They were trying to get it back in place and online. So, Hayward lied for Wanda, his team and Monica Rambeau about what he was planning all along.
As Monica told Wanda last week, don’t let him turn Wanda into a villain. The “big bad” may seem like Agatha now, but I still think Hayward has something even bigger than the White Vision that we saw at the end of the episode up his sleeve, and I’m afraid to see what kind of strings he is going to pull against Wanda Maximoff.
I knew I couldn’t trust him.
(image: Marvel Entertainment)
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