It seems we have our first official look at what the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Scarlet Witch has been up to following the events of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and it comes from a bit of an odd source.
The Scarlet Witch just popped up in the third issue of the Marvel comic book series TVA. No build up, no fanfare - just a picture of her casually chilling in a big glass coffin.
However, there is a bit of a issue here - and that issue has to do with the canonical nature of the series itself.
Marvel haven’t exactly been shy about tying direct references from the MCU into the TVA comic series.
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Characters featured in the comic, like Miss Minutes and Mobius, appear to be the same characters from the MCU - and there’s even one scene in the first issue where Spider-Gwen directly references the events of Loki’s second season.
To make matters even more confusing, one of the TVA’s artists, Pere Perez, just directly confirmed that the Wanda Maximoff featured in the latest issue is indeed Elizabeth Olsen’s character.
Marvel seems to be really pushing for this series to be connected to the MCU, but fans still aren’t convinced - as a few comments from a thread over on the r/MCUTheories subreddit confirm.
“not canon, most people are not into comics + marvel loves to put easter eggs and picks something funny or famous mcu things for comics,” commented user Shadow_Senpai17.
“It will be canon until the filmmakers don’t read this and do something else,” replied user Vengeance_20.
Now to be completely fair… the commenters are kind of right.
As much as Marvel seems to be pushing the TVA series as a canonical follow-up to the MCU series Loki, they have also introduced “canon” events into the comics only to disregard them later on in the movies.
So, whether or not this stays canon seems to be up to the big man Kevin Feige. Perhaps we’ll learn some more about this one the next time the TVA pops up in the MCU films (oh, like for instance in the upcoming multiversal saga film Avengers: Doomsday).