WandaVision: 10 Little-Known Comic Book Facts About Twins Billy and Tommy


WandaVision started with a comical footprint, transporting the audience to a funny and strange narrative that emulates American sitcoms over the decades. And, although much of the fans' curiosity revolves around the couple that gives the name to the Disney + attraction title, the couple's twin sons, Billy and Tommy, are the ones who have most intrigued the audience in recent episodes. After all, kids have shown themselves to be powerful since they were kids and there are a lot of people with an eye on these skills.

The stories of both are a bit complicated in the comics and involve all the funky past of Vision and Scarlet Witch. We have already clarified several points right here, such as who is Agatha Harkness, what is the Nexus of Realities and how the book Darkhold works - just click on the links separated by subject, just above.

And, to facilitate the understanding of the story of the twins, below are 10 important points of the trajectories of these characters. These are things that even the most applied readers may not know because the plots involving the couple Wanda and Visão and their children are really quite complicated.

It is worth mentioning here that the content below addresses information from Marvel Comics magazines and the WandaVision series itself, which can be considered a spoiler. So, go at your own risk!

10. Unusual birth

In the comics of the limited miniseries The Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol.2, written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Richard Howell and published in 1985, Wanda and Vision try to touch normal life in the suburbs. In the course of the plot, we see her powers growing exponentially, to the point where she manages to turn her desire to have children into reality. Subsequently, we see that there is much more behind this event.

In WandaVision, there is a clear inspiration in this story, since, in the series, Wanda and Visão move to the fictional WestView to live a daily life, say, more traditional. And children are also conceived in an unusual way.

9. Pandemonium Master

The villain is a former actor who made a pact with Marvel's devil, Mephisto, and ended up becoming a demon. He has no arms or legs, as his limbs are replaced by mystical creatures, which can be used at his command. In addition to teleportation, he can summon entities and command armies of minions.

In a bizarre comic scene, we see Master Pandemonium using Billy and Tommy as his arms, as he claims the soul fragments used to conceive both of them for himself. We later learned that this was all part of a plan for Mephisto.

There are no clues that Marvel Studios will use Master Pandemonium in WandaVision, but it is possible that the same narrative involving fragments of souls will also be used to explain how Wanda created life "out of nothing".

8. Fragments of Mephisto

Well, as stated above, the plot involving Master Pandemonium gets even darker when he reveals that the fragments used to raise his children are not actually the villain's, but the devil's own, Mephisto.

The Lord of Hell used Master Pandemonium to search for lost soul fragments, instead of having to do it alone - at the time, Mephisto was recovering after being wounded by Franklin Richards, the mutant son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, of the Fantastic Four. Like Wanda, Franklin can change reality.

For now, although there are several mentions and easter eggs that might give hints about Mephisto's presence in the WandaVision plot, so far it looks like Agatha Harkness is the one who is architecting something in search of the possible soul fragments in Billy and Tommy - perhaps sending her. of Dormammu. But it is possible that the bad guy Nightmare is also involved and everyone, in the end, is working for or together with Mephisto.

7. Wanda forgets her children

Even in the 1980s, we see the plot in which Wanda's children are taken from her forever. Subsequently, Visão is captured and completely dismantled in the VisionQuest saga. When assembled again, he looks much more like a robot than a symptom and he no longer shows feelings similar to those of a human.

The trauma is so great that Wanda is completely shaken, on the verge of insanity. Agatha Harkness, who was her mentor at the time, uses her witchcraft, coupled with that of the Scarlet Witch herself, to make her forget about her children. It was a way for screenwriters, at the time, to “correct” the fact that the heroine conceived life with Visão, something that generated many questions among fans.

In WandaVision, we have already seen that Harkness has some control over Wanda, so it may be that this will also happen on the small screens.

6. Wanda remembers her children

Back in the 2000s, Marvel found a more inventive way to explore that past and explain the “loose ends” involving Billy and Tommy. After a slip of the Wasp, Wanda activates a mental trigger that makes her recover the children's memory. Although behind the scenes, she was being manipulated by Doctor Doom, the memories make her furious.

And that's the main reason she betrayed the Avengers and destroyed the group from the inside in Avengers: The Fall, which took the Marvel Universe directly into the M Dynasty, a reality created by Wanda in which the mutants were the ones who dealt the world. At the end, when that world and its manufactured children crumble, the Scarlet Witch utters the famous words "enough of mutants", which determines a decrease in the mutant community and the end of the birth of new Children of the Atom for years.

The creation of a parallel reality has been used in the plot of WandaVision since the beginning. And it is quite possible that if she also forgets and remembers her children, she becomes insane enough to be a village in the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. After all, she will have a big part in the sequence of the Supreme Wizard.

5. Young Avengers

In 2005, Marvel launched a new series called Young Avengers, which featured analogues of the main team on heroes with previously unknown or mysterious identities. Two of the characters drew attention: William “Billy” Kaplan-Altman, the Wiccan; and Thomas “Tommy” Shepherd, the Célere.

And, at the very first impression, it was possible to find even stronger connections with the Scarlet Witch, as Wiccan had magical powers similar to Wanda's and Célere was fast and had the look of his brother, Pietro, Mercury.

The Young Avengers are formed by Wiccan, Célere, Hawkeye Kate Bishop, Iron Boy, Hulkling, Patriot, America Chavez, Cassie Lang (Stature), among others. Of these, Estatura, Kate Bishop and America Chavez are already confirmed in the next films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and the group's arrival is a matter of time at Marvel Studios. So, it's quite possible that we see Billy and Tommy also joining the team on the small screens and big screens.

4. The search for the Scarlet Witch

The saga The Children's Crusade, published in the pages of Avengers, begins with the search for the Scarlet Witch, who is missing. During the story, they meet Master Pandemonium, who does not reveal exactly what happened to Billy and Tommy in the past but advises both of them not to open this chest.

It is clear that the Young Avengers, who were already fleeing the collision course against the Avengers, decide to go deep, to find out more about the sinister past involving the conception of both. With that, the writers also took the opportunity to "fix" some inconsistencies in Wanda's and Vision's own past.

You still don't know exactly if Billy and Tommy are going to disappear at the end of WandaVision. But an eventual return of the twins could also happen when their mother disappears in the MCU.

3. The Children's Crusade

As you can see, this arc, published in 2011 in the monthly magazine Avengers, was important not only to introduce the Young Avengers group but also to put an end to speculations about Billy and Tommy's past. At the end of the plot, they meet Wanda in Latvéria, as the fiancé of Doctor Destino, who reveals that he manipulated events to get closer to the Scarlet Witch - and his incredible powers of altering reality.

However, the Destiny plan does not work because Magneto and Mercury help Wanda to remember her children. There, she has the revelation that Wiccan and Célere have the souls of their twins Tommy and Billy, possibly reincarnated in real people, Thomas Shepherd and William Kaplan. Still, it is not clear whether their spiritual essences have been displaced or whether they have always been these boys. And it is the story that still prevails today.

It is difficult to know if the MCU will also follow this plot, which requires a little more of the canonical past of comics. So, there may be some adaptation to make it more credible with the current times and the universe created on the big screen.

2. Wiccano is married to Hulking

The twins continued to build their own story in the Young Avengers and Wiccano has become an important ally in the publisher's cosmic corner, especially because of her husband, Hulking.

Both were married recently, during the Empyre saga, published last year. For those who don't remember, it was Wiccan and Hulkling who starred in the kiss that became controversial in Rio de Janeiro, when Mayor Marcelo Crivella banned the circulation of the Children's Crusade at the Bienal do Livro, in 2019.

Since Marvel boss Kevin Feige has already said that the future of the MCU should be much more diverse, both in terms of gender and ethnicity, it is quite possible that Wiccano will keep that aspect in its off-paper version - just like Hulkling, in an eventual introduction of the character.

1. Celeste also dates a LGBTQI + character

Like her brother, Célere also has greater freedom when it comes to sexuality. He flirts with Kate Bishop and, lately, also has had a romance with the mutant Prodigium, in the current pages of X-Factor magazine, linked to the corner of Jonathan Hickman's X-Men.

Both Célere, who is also a mutant, and Prodígio are part of the team that investigates crimes on the living island Krakoa, where currently most of the Children of the Atom live in a nation recognized by the United Nations.

As in the case of Wiccan, it is quite possible that Célere also reveals to be bisexual in the MCU, since, as said, Feige intends to present greater diversity in the next phases of Marvel Studios.

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