The funny nod to 'The Wizard of Oz' at the end of 'WandaVision'

In the planned confrontation of the episode 'The Series Finale' (1x09) of “WandaVision” there is a new Easter egg about “The Wizard of Oz”.

That we can come across a couple of Easter eggs in the WandaVision miniseries (Jac Schaeffer, 2021) about New Yorker Stan Lee, the most famous writer of Marvel comics, should not surprise us. After all, he is the fundamental progenitor of the narratives of the Cinematographic Universe and has already made cameos in almost all his films. That those same Easter eggs are found, however, in identical elements, each license plate of a car, constitutes a guideline. As if we find two nods to adaptations of the book The Wizard of Oz (Lyman Frank Baum, 1900) in different episodes.

We had already seen the specific image in one of the WandaVision trailers, the one that corresponds to the parodic titles of seventies comedies from the chapter "Now in Color" (1x03): Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) ride a bike through the streets of Westview, and in the marquee of the Coronet cinema, whose interior we are not shown until a post-credit scene from "The Series Finale" (1x09), the film Oz: A world of fantasy ( Oz the Great and Powerful, Sam Raimi, 2013). From which it was proposed that perhaps the villain of the series was the witch Agatha Harkness: ding, ding, ding!

Ruby Boots and shoes

And, to insist on this reference, precisely in the final confrontation between Wanda Maximoff and the veteran sorceress there is another nod to what was imagined by Lyman Frank Baum, Stan Lee's compatriot. Upon realizing that her colleague absorbs the magic thrown at her without taking damage, the protagonist, who does not suck her thumb and already has considerable experience in fighting like this since Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon, 2015) at least, throws a car at him, which appears to crash along with Agatha Harkness into the front window of a nearby house, going through it. What a mess.

But the witch of Sokovia is approaching there and there is no sign of the imperfect. Or almost: the only thing he has left behind are his boots, spread parallel under the car. And this is not by chance. They have not fallen off his feet after the unexpected impact, but he has decided to place them there, lined up, to make fun of Wanda Maximoff with this funny nod from WandaVision to the film The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming and others, 1939). Because the house of Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) falls on the Wicked Witch of the East, killing her, and her feet stick out from under the building, with the striking ruby ​​shoes that the deceased was wearing.