The Marvel Cinematic Universe at large has pulled some incredible cameos over the years, like Jeff Goldblum’s memorable appearance inThor: Ragnarokand Sylvester Stallone inGuardians of the Galaxy 2. The new Disney Plus show,WandaVision,has recentlyfeatured its share of unexpected actor cameosas well, not to mention a plethora of era-specific technology “cameos” as the show revisits sitcom worlds from different decades.
In previous episodes of the unique MCU series, fans have seen radios and television sets that would have been right at home in an episode of the 1960s sitcomThe Dick Van Dyke Showor the early 2000’sMalcom in the Middle, depending on which episode ofWandaVisionthey were watching. As each new episode moves the sitcom premise of the show up by roughly a decade, it’s no surprise the most recent episode featured a new kind of cameo, this time in the form of Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii controllers.
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WandaVisionepisode seven, “Breaking the Fourth Wall”, is a take off of mid-to-late 2000s shows likeThe Office,Parks and Rec, and most prominently,Modern Family, so it makes sense thatWanda’s children, whatever their ultimate fate, find themselves using GameCube and Wii controllers throughout the episode. In the same way viewers might expect Claire Dunphy to interrupt Alex’s Wii gaming on an episode ofModern Family, the newest episode of the Disney Plus MCU show sees Wanda changing the channel on her boys' Nintendo game in order to see the weather forecast.
WandaVision’s easter egg filled runhas, of course, been chalk full of nice nods to era-specific tech and aesthetics already. Among other things, the drone sent into the Hex by SWORD turned into a pre-drone spy helicopter, and the Maximoff house layout as it is first introduced is incredibly similar to the house inThe Dick Van Dyke show.
Unfortunately, the chance for a glorious Sega Saturn or Nintendo 64 cameo seems to have passed, though it’s possible the next episode ofWandaVisionwill show the Maximoff twins holding PlayStation 4 controllers to mark the passage of time into the next sitcom era. Of course, there’s no telling what will happen in the series next. Even afterintroducing an officialX-Mencharacter into the MCU,WandaVisionhas been very coy about how, exactly, that is going to play out.
The first season of the show has two episodes left to go, and considering episode seven was made in the style of shows from the last decade, many fans are left to wonder what new avenues the last two episodes could explore stylistically.Modern Family, a big source of episode seven’s style, only ended its run last year, so it will be interesting to see what, if anything,WandaVisionepisodes eight and nine draw their inspiration from. Regardless, the fans seem to be on board, having already created tons ofuniqueWandaVisionfan art.
