The Maximoffs (And Friends and Family) vs The Multiverse! (And Sometimes With) is a WandaVision and X-Men Film Series crossover fanfic created by GlitterFairy_21225
The first work in this series, The Power Of Friendship (And Being Sort Of Siblings But Not Really But Also Kinda) can be found here.
Fueled by the grief of her brother, part of Wanda Maximoff's powers manifest earlier than it should, resulting in her opening a door between her universe and another where her brother is alive- Just not the brother she knows.
A friendship sparks, helping both heal from past heartaches, and altering the course of both their lives moving forward.
Peter and Wanda if they met much sooner.
Tropes found in this series:
- Abusive Parents: Lorna reveals that their stepfather was this in the XCU.
- Agent Scully: Primarily Erik, who is convinced his son was manipulated by an imposter pretending to be the alternate universe version of Wendy.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: .... Yeah.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Most characters have trouble believing the main characters about the multiverse despite both universes being full of superheroes, time travel, and gods. To be fair, most of the skeptics come from the X-Men Film Series where most of the oddities are explained away by science and genetics (though Dark Phoenix still occurs, but no mention is made of aliens). As the MCU characters aren't particularly focused on in the first half, they're reactions are left offscreen, but it is implied that Team Cap at least accepts this. Meanwhile Vision does have amnesia for his confusion, whereas the S.W.O.R.D. team has a mixed reaction. To be fair, Wanda and Peter are.... alarmingly casual about explaining the very strange situation. Though subverted in that every X-Men character who was familiar with Wendy before her death easily believes it.
- Artifact Title: The author's notes reveal this to be a great source of frustration for the author, as the original story's title becomes outdated with the main characters quickly getting to the point of considering themselves siblings with little hesitation.
- Break the Cutie: Both protagonists go through this before the series. And it keeps getting worse.
- Big Bad: Ralph.
- Big Brother Instinct: They are this to each other, as they both blame themselves for their original twin's deaths. Wanda is a more traditional case of this, growing to dislike the X-Men team after the events of Dark Phoenix take place while Peter is much more emotionally supportive.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Peter is comically quick to accept that Wanda is his sister from another universe, and later on her resurrection of her android husband and the creation of their now preteen children. His excuse is always that Wendy was really weird. Even his mother and little sister have no trouble believing him about Wanda, as others who haven't met Wendy do.
- Cassandra Truth: As mentioned above, most people find the multiverse twin story incredibly hard to believe.
- Downer Ending: Of course, with the first story ending much in the same way WandaVision did with Vision and the kids ceasing to exist. However it gets even worst with Wanda and Peter cutting contact, Peter getting stuck in the MCU (something he knows will cause great distress to his father), and a Sequel Hook that things are about to get much worse.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Not with alcohol, but with marijuana. Peter determines that Wanda needs to indulge in this after the events of Civil War. Played for Laughs in that instance, but becomes much darker when it's revealed to be Peter's coping mechanism for Wendy and Wanda's deaths.
- Driven to Suicide: Wendy.
- Foreshadowing: The door, and more importantly the portals. Specifically Wanda's habit of leaving it open the entire duration of her visits, one time staying a week, revealing that the portal becomes harder to pass through the longer it's open. This leads to the ending.
- For Want Of A Nail:
- The inclusion the multiverse leads to Doctor Strange confronting Wanda at the end of the series and putting her under arrest.
- Wanda's bond with Peter leads to her being a lot more kinder when Monica brings up Pietro's death, delaying the S.W.O.R.D. plot by a day and getting everyone captured together.
- With Wanda getting a Next Tier Power-Up way sooner than in canon, this results in her being able to kill Thanos herself, thus sparing Tony Stark.
- Heartbroken Badass: Literally everyone, but especially the twins.
- Heroic BSoD: Both Wanda and Peter go through this at different points in this series.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Peter reveals to Erik that he feels like this towards Wendy. This could also be a factor in Wanda's protectiveness over Peter.
- In Spite of a Nail: The growing bond doesn't actually do much to the canon of either film series, with both the plots of the films occurring with no change. Instead, their friendship effects the aftermath, with Peter comforting Wanda and Wanda sitting by his bedside after he is injured.
- One-Steve Limit: Giving that this story is so reliant on the multiverse, this was inevitable. Wanda and Peter are actually quite lucky that their versions of each other have alternative names. As the story goes on, the characters are forced to come up with new ways to differentiate between everyone.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Erik as with canon. Losing two daughters, finding out you have a third daughter who died before you could even meet her, and becoming the caretaker of your (seemingly) only remaining child who is severely depressed is horrific. Said remaining child disappearing after finally becoming himself again is devastating. No wonder he struggles to connect with Lorna.
- Papa Bear: Erik.
- The Power of Friendship: The first story's title.
- Replacement Goldfish: Subverted. They both pursue a friendship as a result of being different versions of each other's siblings, but they both make it clear that due to their vastly different personalities from their counterparts they see each other as different people. Later deconstructed in the epilogue where Arcanna is torn between loving the parts of the MCU's version of her deceased husband for his individuality and wishing that he could be more like the one she knew before.
- Sad Clown: Peter and to a lesser extent Wanda are both this in spades. Wanda obviously has her sitcom reality to cope with her overwhelming grief, while Peter at one point discusses this, claiming that he has little hope for himself or that he will make any meaningful relationships besides Wanda, but keeps a joking demeanor because there's little use in angsting about it. Slightly deconstructed during different points in the story where they both seem determined to make light of their awful situations to push away going full Heroic BSoD.
- The Stations of the Canon: The first story, though only the aftermaths of Avengers: Age of Ultron, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Captain America: Civil War while getting chapters set during Dark Phoenix, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame as well as follow up chapters to explore the repercussions of each. However, the latter half is primarily set in WandaVision.
- Wham Line:
- "But regardless, you need to cease any of this activity from here on out."
- "We're mutants?"
- "I want to tell my father we're related."
- What the Hell, Hero?: Wanda is on the receiving end of this at multiple times due to her questionable choices, especially The Hex.
