Marvel's Super Bowl ad offered glimpses of several upcoming Disney+ series, and the WandaVision seemingly confirmed that the children of Scarlet Witch and Vision will have a role in the series. While much of the promo cycles through a quick flash of imagery, a distinct moment sees those two Avengers standing over twin cribs as pacifiers pop out and surprise them. In all likelihood, this means that Wiccan and Speed will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe very soon.
While the MCU is likely to streamline those two Young Avengers. they have a complex, head-spinning history that makes them one of the most confusing duos in the comic book Marvel Universe.
Fittingly enough, the origin for the Scarlet Witch and Vision's children goes back to an extremely odd explanation from their parents' '80s solo series, Vision and Scarlet Witch. After a romance that revolved around Vision's autonomy as a machine that brought up the idea of whether or not an artificial being could feel love, Scarlet Witch used her reality-warping powers to make a way for them to have children.
Much to everyone's shock, Wanda's magic allowed her and Vision to conceive children. The couple decided to parlay their leave of absence from the Avengers into joining the West Coast Avengers. Unfortunately, California would be home to some of the darkest times the couples went through. After being dismantled, Vision's memory and emotions completely reset. While still reeling from functionally losing the love of her life, Wanda's grief is only intensified when her children are absorbed into the villain Master Pandemonium.
Since she was inconsolable with grief, Wanda's mentor, Agatha Harkness, erases Wanda's memory of ever having children, and the time-conquering Immortus weaves various schemes together in order to draw power from Wanda. While the Avengers manage to defeat Immortus and Wanda regains her memories and eventually Vision's love, the whole experience proves deeply traumatic and would not finish haunting Wanda in the coming years.
Eventually, all of the buried grief and trauma only pushed Wanda toward such an intense desire to win her children back that she would even seek the help of Doctor Doom to overcome death. Doom's influence did Wanda no great deeds, however, and while under the influence of an otherworldly cosmic entity, Wanda's chaos magic went out of control. In Avengers Disassembled, Wanda was the acts that broke the team apart, killing Vision, Jack of Hearts, and Scott Lang. And in the following events, House of M and Decimation, Wanda's powers wreaked further chaos.
As those events saw her write and rewrite reality, Wanda's hopes ultimately came true in the forms of Speed and Wiccan. The two were Young Avengers, a group of teenaged heroes eager to use their powers to emulate the then-disassembled super team. Speed was super fast and had silver hair, eerily similar to Wanda's brother Quicksilver, and Wiccan's own aptitude for magic made him quite similar to his mother.
In actuality, Speed and Wiccan were not exactly Wanda's children, but they were the reincarnated souls of her children. While Wanda lived in seclusion at the time, her children tracked her down and brought her the truth. While the three have not exactly lived as some happy family, their presence did seem to help stabilize Wanda's overall mental health. Ultimately, Speed and Wiccan both grew into their own as heroes as Wanda herself has experienced a renewal after joining the Avengers once again.
Obviously, it would be difficult and probably inadvisable for the MCU to adapt so many intricate elements from 30 years of Marvel history in WandaVision. However, it wouldn't be too surprising if the broad strokes of Wanda's mental instability and unlikely pregnancy made it into the MCU. Since Wiccan and Speed would also add to the growing number of potential Young Avengers in the MCU, there's no telling how important Wanda's children could end up being.
WandaVision stars Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, Paul Bettany as Vision, Randall Park as Agent Jimmy Woo, Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau and Kathryn Hahn. The limited series will premiere on Disney+ at some point in 2020.