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Marvel nexus6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() The Stark Industries Toaster, for example, with its eerie slow-blinking red light, is reminiscent of the story that Wanda tells in Avengers: Age of Ultron about the Stark Industries missile that landed in the Maximoff house when she was a child and kept her and Pietro frozen while waiting for an explosion. The reason I’m so confident that the WandaVision commercial is tied to the 2015 film is because it fits with a larger pattern that has emerged from the collection: they all seem to be about trauma. ![]() the artificial intelligence platform that is eventually used to bring Vision to life. Working his special brand of digital magic, the hero known as Iron Man successfully figures it out, and realizes that the mysterious ally is none other than JARVIS a.k.a. ![]() In the middle of the movie, Tony Stark learns from Nick Fury that all of Ultron’s attempts at getting access to missile launch codes are being thwarted by an unknown party, and so Tony takes a trip to the NEXUS Internet Hub in Oslo, Norway to try and figure out who the potential friend is. However, in that blockbuster it was not a happy pill, but instead a place. Nexus is actually a key term that has been previously used in the superhero franchise, namely during the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron (the film that formerly introduced both Scarlet Witch and Vision to the canon). Meant to be a commercial from the 2000s to match with the mockumentary era of sitcom television, the ad is for an anti-depressant called Nexus, a drug that promises to “anchor you back to your reality.” It’s possible that this is a reference to potentially something huge from the comics, as Marvel magazines have previously introduced readers to powerful entities known as Nexus Beings – but I would personally wager that it’s not an allusion to something major on its way to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but instead a callback to something important from the past. The latest example in Episode 7, titled “Breaking The Fourth Wall,” is a perfect example. ![]()
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