I fully flipped out at the Ultron reference! Chance and I are on record saying Avengers: Age of Ultron is better than it is often given credit for, and I've often wondered if the MCU was ever planning to bring him back.
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The first is that I love how much everyone's overgrown '70s haircuts look like, well, quarantine hairdos! Happy days are here again, indeed. The second is about everyone's favorite android supervillain. (ASIDE: Geraldine/Monica asking "He was killed by Ultron, wasn't he?" was hilarious because of how seriously Teyonah Parris delivered that bit of exposition and how the mere mention of Avengers: Age of Ultron resulted in her being kicked out this world because we do not talk about that interestingly flawed and sad movie.)Ĭhristian's Take: I just have two points I'd like to make on top of what Chance has already said. And in that moment, the show's emotional stakes - which were primarily conveyed and hinted at in interviews with the cast and producers instead of in the actual text of the show - locked into place and what we all presumed became clear: Wanda is using this world to escape her grief and sadness over losing Vision in Avengers: Infinity War, but also her brother. Quicksilver, who died in Avengers: Age of Ultron. As Wanda lovingly gazes at her newborns, she enters a sort of daze and reveals to Geraldine/Monica that she had a twin brother, Pietro, a.k.a.
(Even the Arrowverse's reliance on secret identities has decreased with each passing year to the point that it's a running joke on The Flash that Barry Allen sucks at keeping his side hustle a secret.)īecause of the accelerated timeline, Wanda obviously gives birth to twin boys in this episode: Tommy and Billy, which are the names of hers and Vision's kids in the comics. None of the MCU movies that followed have bothered with secret identities, save Tom Holland's Spider-Man films, but also barely because Peter Parker was outed in the final moments of Spider-Man: Far From Home.
After spending many years watching all of Smallville's supporting characters suffer multiple head injuries to explain why they never witnessed Clark Kent use his powers to save them, that scene felt revolutionary. But Tony declared, "I am Iron Man," blowing up one of the genre's enduring tropes: the secret identity. In a traditional story, he would've denied that, and that's what the S.H.I.E.L.D. After the big bad battle, Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark held a press conference where reporters asked if he was Iron Man. When Iron Man hit theatres in 2008, it sparked a major paradigm shift in the superhero genre with its final scene.