Whenever he needs to raise a little ruckus on Earth, he can reappear from its pages. The Darkhold also serves as a conduit for Chthon. The scrolls were translated onto several stone tablets and eventually reproduced as The Darkhold. Before he disappeared, Chthon transcribed his greatest hits. Its writer was Chthon, an Elder God banished from our dimension by Atum, the God-Eater. In the comics, The Darkhold originated as a set of scrolls rolled from human flesh. Something Stephen Strange would no doubt steal from Wong’s library while training under the Ancient One’s tutelage. It’s a sinister spellbook containing forbidden information. This version is a little more discreet and doesn’t have its name brandished so boldly on its cover. The Darkhold in WandaVision is not The Darkhold seen in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Scarlet Witch we see in the cabin is a person reaching her next evolution. That’s what Agatha ultimately taught Wanda: knowledge is a weapon. As she told Monica ( Teyonah Parris) before she bounced outta Westview, she doesn’t understand her power, but she will. In their final no-holds-barred witchy showdown, Agatha namechecked the text as The Darkhold, going so far as to say that it has an entire chapter devoted to “The Scarlet Witch.”ĭenied the television fantasy of her own making, Wanda seems determined to learn as much about her abilities as possible. In a cabin on a lake, tucked away in some unknown wilderness, Wanda pours herself some tea while her astral-self frantically skims through Agatha’s basement tome. Let’s start at the very end, and then we can work our way backward. Marvel’s planting seeds and WandaVision‘s final post-credit stinger continues its multiverse suggestion. Why cast the X-Men’s Quicksilver in the role of Wanda’s dead brother if you’re not going to pull the trigger on such rich story potential? The same reason you have Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio masquerading as a multiverse hero in Spider-Man: Far From Home. Of all the bubbles burst, the multiverse misdirection stings the most. Even Uncle Peter ( Evan Peters) proved to be little more than a ruse, living up to his “Fietro” moniker and revealing himself as just another brainwashed Westview citizen (equally impossibly named as Ralph Bohner-schwing!). Is that Ultron beneath a Director Hayward ( Josh Stamberg) mask? No such luck, Scooby. That was never the plan.įor the most part, WandaVision Episode 9 reached its finish line without any last-minute revelations. Agatha ( Kathryn Hahn), the wicked witch, remains shackled to her suburban role while her captor heads to the hills to understand her potential. The mind-slaves of Wanda Maximoff ( Elizabeth Olsen) are free. ![]() Yes, prepare for SPOILERS.Īnd there you have it. In this entry, we turn our channel to WandaVision Episode 9 (“The Series Finale”) and unpack its mid-credit and post-credit stingers. WandaVision Explained is our ongoing series that keeps tabs on Marvel Studios’ sitcom saga about TV’s happiest tragic couple.
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