Someone has found something interesting in the last scene of Wanda Vision. This small and strange visual quirk has spurred the Internet as usual: speculating on the many meanings and what it might mean for Wanda's future adventures.
The obvious change in scene features a cloaked specter-like figure floating toward Wanda's hut, and fans have suggested it may be trying to set up "Doctor Strange 2."
If you have Disney Plus, you can check it out right now: open WandaVision episode 9, fast forward to about 45 minutes into the episode, and look to the upper left as the camera zooms in on Wanda sitting outside the cabin. You will then see ...... You should notice what looks like an invisibility cloak.
We checked an earlier version of this scene and can confirm that the "figure" is not there. The original version of this scene is also noteworthy in that there are fewer trees present. In other words, someone, like George Lucas, retroactively altered this scene for some reason.
But is this figure a preview of something yet to come, or something else entirely? My guess is that Marvel fans are looking too much for a connection to Doctor Strange in the "crazy multiverse," where Wanda's role has been confirmed, to see something that is not there.
On closer inspection, this "figure" appears to be a camera glitch or scratch. This is because it remains perfectly still and does not move or change size. It only appears to be moving because the camera is moving. See for yourself. Cover the "figure" with your finger and see if it actually moves from underneath it. You will see that it does not move.
The saga of Doctor Strange in Wander Vision is a strange one, and the sorcerer Supreme was originally supposed to appear in the series in the form of a cameo. However, it was later cut for various reasons, including Marvel not wanting to move away from the fact that this is Wanda's story.
"Some might say, 'It would have been cool to have Doctor Strange in it,'" Marvel's Kevin Feige told Rolling Stone magazine. 'But that would have taken away from Wanda. We didn't want the end of the show to be so commoditized that it would lead into the next movie.
Obviously, people want to see Strange and are grasping at straws trying to imagine a cameo in the series. Fortunately, not everyone feels that way, with some pointing out that it looks like a drop of water wrapped around the screen.
The only question is why Marvel changed the scene at all. It was perfectly fine before, and adding the tree makes no sense at all. It's like adding Boba Fett to the first "Star Wars" movie. Without an answer here, it is hard to water down this fan theory definitively.
So while I don't think Doctor Strange is there, this still looks pretty odd. Or perhaps it will be as the plot was revealed in the Castilian credits of "Loki."
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