#mcu magic

[daisymintt]

I know Dr. Strange’s magic is very different from witchcraft magic in AAA but I wonder if the spell he cast at the end of No Way Home left its own form of sigil on Peter like Billy had, that’d be kind of interesting to explore. I wonder what it would look like?

[musclesandhammering]

How do we feel about the theory that Loki’s magic is green because celestial magic (yellow) + witch magic (blue) = green?

[doctorstrangeaskblog]

i present to you…purple ramen! my dad always made it with cabbage, but he used purple cabbage one time and it turned everything purple. it stuck in my brain so much, i always have to make it with purple cabbage now. i can’t not.

(it’s actually a bit lighter in shade than this. but i didn’t take a picture last time i made it.)

as for the third eye and related abilities, i know you’ve seen your more-than fair share of horrors of horrors. but have you seen anything unexpectedly beautiful lately? do you find your perception changes as you know someone more?

sometimes it’s easier for me to read people when we don’t have a personal relationship because i know my perception isn’t being informed by my involvement with them. but other times it actually helps because i get pretty familiar with their energy and the spirits who like to orbit them.

i usually don’t have anyone else to talk to about this since i’m generally the go-to psychic weirdo amongst my friends. so you’ll have to excuse my overzealousness. call me eternally curious about the way you experience energy, but i should probably let you, y’know, eat before i bombard you with fifty million 20 questions about the mystic. 🙈

Look at that ramen- Oh wow, if I told Wong they are mystic worms from another dimension he probably would believe it. *he joins you to eat the meal*

So you really are interested in the mystic skills I got over time. Fair. Your question is quite...unusual, that's good. Yeah, I do get to see amazing things, such as people's auras and mystic beings flying at night, glowing in the sky. It takes some time to learn how to focus and see such things...and to...not see them when you want some peace. I don't mind you bombarding me with tons of questions. Actually, I enjoy that. I like your company. And I guess I am the crazy paranormal guy when compared to other heroes so...

[arkhangelmos]

MCU Masters of the Mystic Arts: Abilities & Techniques (Part 1)

[marvelvsmarvel]

WandaVision Ep7 Speculation #2

Episode 7: Breaking the Fourth Wall left a lot to be digested and honestly too much for a single post so I’ll be doing a few topical breakdowns.

Wrong: So before the series premiere contrary to popular opinion I predicted that Agnes wasn’t Agatha Harkness and while I still have reason to hold out that she’s hasn’t been manipulating everything let’s just run with it. Not afraid to say I’m wrong and again I don’t go against the grain to be edgy I’m honestly glad to see she is a comic book character in Agatha but I just like to predict and fancast outside of the box so no need for I told you so’s.

Agnes: Was Agatha all along... I saw someone say that they don’t remember Agatha Harkness being a straight up villain to which I agree. So I’m gonna go with the many who believe she’s just a pond for a greater threat which would explain the scary mystical book. We saw another example of this with Kaecilius working on behalf of Dormammu in Doctor Strange where seemingly his dark dimension is where Kaecilius drew his magic from and used a page in a similar book to summon him to Earth. However we have reason to believe that she is not working for Dormammu because when anyone did use his magic their eye line would be burned or some type of physical indication would show on their face. Before jumping into guesses of who she’s serving there’s also the why Agatha would want to partake in any of this? Many would assume its “for the children” but she really doesn’t seem all that interested in them for herself but perhaps her magic backer does.

Prediction: I imagine it has something to do with Wanda’s ability to as Tommy said “fix the dead” to which she seemed *gasp* “You can do that?!” In MCU fashion I believe she’s a Wanda parallel where she lost her husband “Ralph” which explains why we haven’t seen him yet and is doing whatever it takes to get him back including serving a greater more evil master and meddling with the likes of Wanda aka Strongest Avenger.

Not Pietro: I would say not to hold your breath that Evan Peters still might be the Fox X-Men Quicksilver Peter Maximoff just brainwashed by Agatha. I also don’t believe he’s Agnes’s husband Ralph either but of course I’ve been “wrong” before. So naturally I don’t believe he’s the bigger bad of Dormammu or Nightmare or Mephisto. For the sake of being boring a wanting a more self contained Wanda and Vision storyline I believe he was just there for a mid season finale type thriller and he’s just a small time pond of Agatha’s.

Prediction: If you recognize the sweaty face above that would be Robert Coleman aka The Whizzer from Marvel Netflix Jessica Jones. Who dat? The “other” lesser known Marvel speedster who actually debuted in the comics in a Scarlet Witch title - the Whizzer Robert Frank that is. That would explain his super speed ability and would be a nice nod to the forgotten man PLUS apparently there was an Easter Egg for him in the Ep2 intro - blink and you might miss it. To be clear I believe Evan Peters is the actual Whizzer Robert Frank. Why he is doing any of this is beyond me but if anyone knows that comic reference of him or how it ended for poor Robby Coleman up there... Well it doesn’t end pretty.

Magic: I love just bringing this up because I’m sure it’ll come up later. Ant-Man established that energy can be pulled from another dimension (come to think of it the way Vision awakens people in the Hex is exactly the same way Janet Van Dyne manipulates Quantum Energy). Doctor Strange established that magic too is pulled from another dimension and manifested in our world. Then Thor way back when said that where he comes from science and magic are on in the same. We know that Wanda isn’t actually a witch doing magic and that her powers derive from the Mind Stone but for Agatha that book and wherever it came from is the source of her powers. For those wondering both Agents of SHIELD and Hulu’s The Runaways depicted the Darkhold to literally have it spelled out on the cover. So the book in the basement is not it unless Kevin Feige was just like “pfft Marvel tv” like he does. Others have predicted that it could be the Book of (insert villain). The library at Kamar Taj showed many books not explaining that any one of them were Books of Somebody. So take it that Agatha really is an old school witch with a book of spells and a cauldron but however she came to have that book means she seemingly could be messing with the multiverse more than she knows.

[secret-thirteen]

Has AoS hinted that they where going into the multiverse theory/alternative dimension in previous seasons?

Hi Anon!

Yes, they have, rather subtly in fact. Back in Season 4 with Aida’s Framework and the various things in it. The Framework was created using the Darkhold, a magic book that was stated to have infinite knowledge presumable of alternative dimension, a fundamental part of magic. Magic in the MCU is all about harnessing dimensional energies to manipulate aspects of reality.

When the Framework was augmented by the Darkhold, outside of specification by Aida, mostly regarding Fitz, the rest, possibly even Hydra, was work of the Darkhold. It’s extremely likely that the book drew information from the other earth’s in the multiverse to account for everyone’s role such as Ward being a good guy, Skye being a Hydra Agent, and even Jemma being dead. In my opinion, the Framework is an Amalgam of a variety of different universes merged into one that fitted into Aida’s master plan.

As you may know, the whole basis of the multiverse theory is that, anything that can happen, has happened in some universe or another. It’s a vast, every expanding thing that grows with every decision that a character makes. Anything that even has a 1% chance of happening has happened in multiple parallel earth’s.

[hiddeninhuman]

Next season I feel pretty confident that magic is coming to Agents of Shield. We know the MCU as a whole is getting magic with Dr. Strange...so I'm guessing next season will tie to that with magic!

[niobiumao3]

Unpopular opinion time: I don't think MCU!Mjölnir functions via the whole worthiness thing. My main reason for thinking this comes from how Odin doesn't really apply that enchantment until Thor's banishment. The runes on it don't mention worthiness at all, they just indicate the wielder 'commands the lightning and the storm'. So I guess that leads to another question: once Thor was 'worthy' again in the first movie, was the enchantment over? I think this is the case. And what that means is that unless you know how to wield Mjölnir, you can't. It's not that Loki or anyone else isn't worthy, they just don't know how to make it move. For Loki and other Jotun/Aesir/etc., this could just be about different aspects and specializations of magic. It's not a kind of magic he's familiar/comfortable with, just like Thor pretty much can't deal with a glamour to save his life, so until he figures out how to--which might not be possible--he won't be able to lift it. I saw a really good post talking about how Mjölnir won't move for others not because it's heavy, but because it's stubborn. I like this as a concept; i.e., the density and enchantments on it are what makes it powerful, but magic also prevents it from being a gravitational problem, and magic is what allows Thor and Odin and Algrim (when he bats it aside in The Dark World) to move it. They're the only ones who ever do, and I think this makes a case not for worthiness--Odin is a pretty big jerk, IMO, if not the most horriblest person ever, and Algrim killed Frigga for the high crime of protecting Jane, not exactly a sign of worth, and Thor smacking Tony around is not exactly worth incarnate--but simply for knowledge of how to work with it. Worthiness is also subjective and what Odin thinks is worthy may not track with anyone else in the universe. So until we've got something more concrete in the films to countermand it, that's what I'm rolling with.