WandaVision cut scene: Señor Scratchy was meant to be a demon

WandaVision's finale originally had a sequence in which Agatha's rabbit, Señor Scratchy, transformed into a demon and chased a group of heroes out of her house. Director Matt Shakman described the cut scene in an interview with Kevin Smith on Fat Man Beyond. He compared the moment to an American Werewolf in London style transformation, saying "the rabbit turns into this big demon."

WandaVision (2021), starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, ended with several questions still open even after the finale. Those included the aerospace engineer, Señor Scratchy, and the secret tenth episode many people talked about for a very long time. In the same interview, Shakman offered more clarity on what was originally supposed to happen, including a change to the finale and some scenes that were cut.

WandaVision was planned as 10 episodes, with three released at once

There was no secret tenth episode. The ninth episode was the finale. However, WandaVision was originally supposed to run 10 episodes, and the first three were supposed to be released all at once. I think that would have helped people get on board with the show much earlier.

With three episodes out together, viewers would have gotten the weird stuff out of the way and realized that everything is not as it seems. Wanda and Vision have the twins, and Monica gets kicked out of the reality. I think that would have gotten people on board a lot quicker. Apparently, through nobody's fault, COVID forced a change. The show dropped to nine episodes, so the premiere only had two, and some scenes, specifically in the finale, were taken out.

The aerospace engineer was never meant to be Reed Richards

Many fans had guessed that the aerospace engineer would turn out to be someone big, such as Reed Richards or Hank McCoy. According to Shakman, that was never the plan. The character was not supposed to be an introduction to the Fantastic Four or the X-Men.

Instead, Shakman said he was building toward the big convoy scene, where Monica drives the convoy into the Hex. That was the plan the entire time, never a big reveal.

Why Darcy vanished from the WandaVision finale

Some Darcy scenes had to be taken out or could not be filmed. She appears for about 30 seconds of the finale, if even that, when she rams into Hayward as he tries to escape. Next, Hayward is being put in handcuffs, and Darcy is nowhere to be found.

At the end, Jimmy Woo asks where Darcy went, and Monica answers that she bailed. As it turns out, the pandemic and scheduling problems meant she could not be there to film some final scenes. That is why she appears so briefly.

Evan Peters's Ralph Bohner was part of a cut Darkhold heist

Many fans were disappointed that Evan Peters was not playing Quicksilver from the Fox universe. They wondered why Marvel would bring him back to play a nobody and make a joke about his name. It does seem like a big missed opportunity, and there is no answer on that yet.

But there was a planned finale scene involving Ralph Bohner, the twins, and Monica Rambeau. Shakman described a big sequence in which Darcy, Monica, and Ralph met up with the kids and went into Agatha's house. They planned to steal the Darkhold from the basement, because the kids had seen it there while they were held hostage.

Señor Scratchy was going to transform into Agatha's demon familiar

The scene was apparently meant to tease more monstrous things, which makes sense in the basement of an evil, ancient, powerful witch. It was specifically going to tease a demon, and that demon was Señor Scratchy. This would have been a very different tone for the finale.

As Shakman told it, the group goes down, looks for the book, and finds it on a table next to Señor Scratchy. They say, "Oh, look, it's Señor Scratchy," and reach to pet him. He hisses, then transforms into a big demon and chases the twins, Monica, Darcy, and Ralph out of the house. Shakman also called him Agatha's familiar.

Since he called the rabbit her familiar, this could have been Agatha's cat Ebony, or a play on her. In the comics, Ebony could turn into a giant panther. Señor Scratchy was not a little black cat, so he was not going to become a panther, but he was clearly somebody: a type of demon.

Why Shakman cut the scene from the finale

Shakman said they shot the entire scene and it was going to be in the finale. However, there was so much involved in the finale that it had to be cut. In the interview he described it as something "we ultimately couldn't do" because of how many pieces were in play.

Shakman said the story always had to be about Wanda and Vision, as the title suggests. That meant Wanda fighting Agatha and Vision fighting White Vision at the end.

White Vision, Monica Rambeau and the future for Wanda

The finale left open what would happen to White Vision. Shakman did not say he would return, but he talked about how everything in Marvel is connected and has a reason. He said he was in charge of Monica Rambeau getting her powers through the Hex, and that things pick up where they left off. At the time, Monica was set to appear in Captain Marvel 2, which was going to explore her powers further.

Since everything is connected, I assumed White Vision would come back in some form. He is now essentially the West Coast Avengers Vision, but he has the old Vision's memories, unlocked by Vision. He left immediately, probably because that is a lot of information at once. I thought that once he gathered his thoughts, he and Wanda would probably reconnect, especially since she can hear her kids and knows they are alive, in our realm or another dimension or universe.

It would be "insanely great" if everything came full circle for Wanda: White Vision returns with the previous Vision's memories intact, since he has the same body and memories, Wanda finds her kids, and she finally gets her real family. Shakman said there were no plans for a second season of WandaVision, and that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was pretty much the season two for Wanda. As Agatha said at the end of the finale, "You have no idea what you've unleashed."