The recent release of Pietro’s WandaVision Funko Pop may reveal a huge secret about his character.
WARNING: The follow contains potentially major spoilers for Marvel’s WandaVision, streaming on Disney+.
Following WandaVision‘s Episode 6 release, and in conjunction with it’s Virtual Con Spring 2021 product reveals, Funko added some new Pops to their WandaVision collection, matching the earlier-announced figures of Vision and Wanda in their Halloween costumes. A two-pack featuring Billy and Tommy in their costumes is being sold as a virtual Emerald City Comic-Con exclusive, while one of Pietro in his costume will be released as a Funko.com exclusive.
However, there’s something strange about the description that accompanies the photo of the Pietro figure, on both Instagram and Twitter. Both captions read, “Coming in March: Pop! Marvel: Marvel Studios’ – WandaVision – “Pietro Maximoff” (Funko exclusive)!” Pietro’s name is presented in quotation marks. This isn’t consistent with the way characters are labeled in Funko product listings (which typically mirror what their boxes will say, though no pictures of the boxes have been released yet). The twins, for example, are labeled “Marvel: Marvel Studios’ WandaVision – Billy and Tommy.”
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This raises some questions. Is the figure labeled “Pietro Maximoff” because it represents the Evan Peters-played Pietro, who is known even to many of the other characters in WandaVision as the wrong Pietro? He’s not original to the MCU; the Pietro that Wanda grew up with, the Pietro in Age of Ultron, was played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, had a Sokovian accent, was markedly more serious and related to his sister in a much gentler, more intense way. The Evan Peters iteration of Quicksilver — Peter Maximoff — in the X-Men films, he is an American jokester, and his version of Pietro in WandaVision is depicted much more like that. The siblings even discuss this in the show.
Another possibility, though, is that the figure is labeled “Pietro Maximoff” because the character Evan Peters is playing isn’t actually Pietro at all. Between his odd mannerisms, inconsistent appearance and awareness of many (though not all) of the details of what has happened to Westview, fans have speculated that he’s actually another, possibly villainous character disguising himself as Pietro to get close to Wanda. He might be Loki, which would tie in with the upcoming Disney+ Loki series; he could be the comics villain Nightmare, who preys on sleeping victims; he could also be Mephisto, whose appearance has been predicted by fans since the beginning of WandaVision, considering his connection to Wanda and her sons in the comics.
Whatever the situation is, Funko’s use of the quotation marks around Pietro’s name is a spoiler of some kind. It could just speak to the illusory nature of WandaVision, but it could also reference a more sinister pretense.
Written by Jac Schaeffer and directed by Matt Shakman, WandaVision stars Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/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 as Agnes.
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