"The MCU entered the world of streaming television with a splash thanks to WandaVision, a show about how TV can help us deal with - or escape from - the tragedies of our lives. But while the series changed the MCU, it didn't deliver everything that hardcore fans wanted. A popular theory speculated that Mephisto would appear, but that didn't happen until four years later. Others wanted Nightmare to emerge, but that didn't happen either."
"During a Los Angeles Comic-Con panel with Paul Bettany, who played her dead android/fantasy sitcom husband Vision, Olsen expressed her love for House of M and hoped the MCU would explore it in the future. "I don't know how to make it make sense, you guys, but maybe there's some fan pitches or theories out there, but I just think it would be so fun to deal with X-Men and Avengers and 'no mutants'.""
", written by Brian Michael Bendis, is a comic storyline about Wanda creating a false timeline where her two children are alive. That sounds a lot like the plot of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but with a twist: this reality-warping fantasy comes at the cost of basically every mutant's powers. When Olsen mentions "no mutants," it's a reference to the Scarlet Witch's devastating words that almost wipe out the X-Men forever: "no more mutants.""
WandaVision introduced the MCU to streaming television and used television formats to examine grief and escape. The series changed the MCU but left many Scarlet Witch comic arcs unadapted, including House of M and villains like Mephisto or Nightmare. Elizabeth Olsen voiced interest in a House of M adaptation and suggested exploring its conflict between X-Men and Avengers, centered on the Scarlet Witch's 'no mutants' reality-warping decree. House of M features Wanda creating a false timeline where her children live, at the cost of wiping out mutant powers. Recent MCU plans to integrate the X-Men make such an adaptation more feasible.
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