Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for WandaVision.WandaVision kicked off Marvel Studios' journey into Disney+ with a deeply moving story about love and loss, filled to the brim with callbacks to the classic sitcoms that marked different generations. Of course, as part of the MCU, WandaVision is also chock-full of Easter eggs and nods to other heroes, movies, and even the multiverse madness caused by the Disney and Fox merger. So, as expected, fans were scouring each frame of the show looking for secrets hiding in plain sight. The most heartbreaking Easter egg of WandaVision, however, brings the series' exploration of love and loss full circle. That's because the mysterious heart drawn in a calendar in Episode 1 is connected to that big Episode 8 reveal.

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What Is 'WandaVision' About?

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Set in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision takes MCU's fans to Westview, a charming New Jersey town where Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and the Vision (Paul Bettany) are living a perfect sitcom life. It doesn't take long for the series to reveal there's something weird going on in Westview, as the Vision should be dead after Thanos' (Josh Brolin) attack in Avengers: Infinity War. So, right from the first episode, it's clear Westview has become its own pocket dimension, different from the rest of the world.

As the episodes go by, we learn that the magic holding Westview's citizens hostage comes from Wanda herself. Consumed by grief and unwilling to accept that she lost everyone she has ever loved, Wanda creates an alternate dimension where everything works well at the end of the day. In this new reality, Vision is alive, married to Wanda, and the two even have a couple of children. Unfortunately, life in Westview is nothing but an illusion, a mirage conjured by Wanda's innate powers. That's because, as the series tells us, Wanda didn't get her powers due to Hydra's experiments. Instead, she was born a magic wielder since she's the all-powerful Scarlet Witch, capable of using Chaos Magic to change reality itself. Even so, since Wanda changed Westview subconsciously, her mind used multiple real-life elements to build the Scarlet Witch's fantasy life. That's the case of the heart we see in a calendar.

Why Is There a Heart on the Calendar?

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In Episode 8 of WandaVision, we are taken back in time to the exact moment Wanda loses grip of reality and creates the Westview paradise. We follow Wanda as she's forced to see the dismembered body of Vision before she goes to Westview to check on the parcel where she and her husband were supposed to build a home. As the series tells us, the Vision bought a parcel in Westview so he and Wanda could "grow old" together. He even wrote these sweet words on the deed, drawing a heart around it. The deed's heart is the same heart we find in the calendar. As director Matt Shakman has revealed in an interview for Marvel.com, "This show is about love. It is also about loss, and it's about both of those [things]. It's about the dance between love and loss. So the heart on the calendar is the heart on the deed."

The heart Vision drew on the Westview deed symbolizes the love he nurtured for Wanda. It also represented the two outcasts' chance of living a normal life together. (Although Vision chose a New Jersey destination, so they could remain close to the Avengers Compound.) With the Vision dead, Wanda lost all hope she had for that life. So, when her fractured mind creates the sitcom version of Westview, the heart symbol remains a constant reminder of the dream life she wanted to share with Vision. And when the illusion is undone, the heart on the deed will serve as a grim reminder the Vision is lost forever. Or at least until Vision Quest reveals what happened to him.