WandaVision: Why Wanda’s Magical Bubble Is A Hexagon

While episode 4 of Disney+’s WandaVision entitled “We Interrupt This Program” begins to answer some of the show’s burning questions, it also raises new ones: like why Wanda’s fake reality Westview is shaped like a hexagon. The small town is broadcasting a mysterious sitcom starring Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany). FBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) raises insightful questions after a model is rendered of Wanda’s magic bubble: why is the energy field around Westview shaped like a hexagon? From Geraldine’s hexagonal hoop earrings in episode 3 to the hexagon-shaped fade-out at the end of each episode, the consistent presence of hexagons throughout WandaVision has led Marvel fans to theorize that the six-sided shape actually hints at the secret identity of the series’ true villain.

Instead of viewing the sitcom reality from Wanda’s perspective, episode 4 is the first in the series to break away from WandaVision’s original format by following the perspective of Woo and his SWORD colleagues Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) as they begin investigating the missing persons’ case for the entire population of Westview, New Jersey. After Rambeau disappears behind the town’s energy field, Lewis detects CMBR wavelengths that lead her to discover Wanda’s sitcom, which they binge watch for answers. Among the questions that Woo lists on a whiteboard, he wonders if Wanda’s sitcom is happening in the same time and space as their own reality: is it an alternate reality or the result of time travel? While these topics are all possibilities within the MCU, Wanda’s fictitious world taking the shape of a hexagon may signify something a little closer to home for the agents of SWORD: space travel.

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One theory suggests that the entrance to the town of Westview is actually a Jump Point within the Universal Neural Teleportation Network, which is first introduced within Guardians of the Galaxy 2. The UNTN is established within the MCU as a manufactured network of wormholes generated within the spacetime continuum (also referred to as Jump Points) that allow spaceships to travel great distances across the universe by jumping from one planetary system to the next. The hexagonal shape of SWORD’s model of Westview looks almost identical to the Jump Points. When the SWORD agent crawls into the perimeter through the sewer system below Westview, the visual of the energy field also has the same grid-like appearance as the UNTN wormholes.

If the perimeter of Westview is part of the network of wormholes, this suggests that anyone entering the energy field, including Monica Rambeau and the SWORD agent turned beekeeper, are transported to the sitcom reality somewhere else in the universe. With this in mind, the theory would then debunk the idea that Wanda created this reality herself since the UNTN is alien technology. The UNTN is similar to Stargates from Marvel Comics: a network of devices that generate wormholes either on a planet or in space built by the Shi’ar Empire, a hostile expansionist civilization whose religion requires its citizens to marry into other cultures by any means necessary. Since Wandavision is centrally focused on the marriage between Wanda and Vision, whose presence is already mysterious given his death in Avengers: Infinity War, it’s possible a Shi’ar villain, such as the magician Magique, is involved and plans to add Earth to the empire’s list of conquered worlds.

While the hexagonal shape of the energy field may be alluding to the UNTN, it could also contribute to the multiple hexagon references throughout WandaVision, which support some of the more popular theories regarding Westview’s architect. Since a hexagon has six equilateral sides, the hexagon references could be alluding to Mephisto, the Marvel Comics equivalent to the devil, since the number 6 (or 666) is associated with the figures Satan and the anti-christ in popular culture. Given that the prefix of the term hexagon is “hex,” a word that means “to practice witchcraft,” another theory suggests that the hexagons are alluding to the Marvel Comics witch Agatha Harkness believed to be Wanda’s neighbor Agnes (Kathryn Hahn). While episode 4 of WandaVision indicates that Wanda is behind the fake sitcom, the hexagon theory may be Marvel’s way of subtly hinting there’s more to the mystery of Westview.

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