Warning! Spoilers for WandaVision and Generations Forged #1
Marvel’s WandaVision is one of the most unique MCU projects to date, but after the end of the show’s first season, many fans were left hungry for more. Fortunately, DC's Generations Forged bears some striking similarities to Marvel’s hit new show, and may help quench that thirst for more WandaVision.
Generations Forged #1 by Dan Jurgens, Andy Schmidt, and Robert Venditti features a team of superheroes taken from across different generations of DC comics. Superboy, Starfire, Green Lantern Sinestro, and Batman from 1939 are just a few of the heroes who get sent to different places and times. Eventually, the heroes discover that Dominus, an old enemy of Superman with the power to manipulate reality, is the culprit. However, Dominus’s motivation for wreaking havoc on the timeline isn’t as evil as one might expect.
The issue opens with Dominus in a quaint, 1950s-style house observing the time-displaced heroes on a series of monitors. Moments later, his son enters carrying a mug of coffee and is shocked at his father’s villainous appearance, as well as the images on the monitors. However, Dominus simply waves his hand and rewinds time to a few moments before, undoing his son’s confusion and making himself appear as an ordinary man. Indeed, everything about Dominus’s life in this place seems ordinary - which, as the heroes later deduce, is the whole point. Batman describes it as “a slice of a time he carved out for himself,” but in creating it, the villain almost broke time itself.
Overall, Dominus’s “slice of time” is not dissimilar to Scarlet Witch's Hex over Westview in WandaVision. Both are fabricated versions of reality made to look like bygone eras; just as Westview was depicted in black and white to imitate the TV style of the 1950s and '60s, so too is Dominus’s reality. Both Dominus and Wanda can also rewind time within their worlds to undo anything they dislike. In addition, both characters have children who seemingly inherited their powers - Dominus’s daughter nearly incinerates Batman, and Wanda’s twins, Billy and Tommy, have the same powers as her and her brother. However, neither of their imagined families can exist outside of the realities they created. In the end, both Dominus and Wanda’s families dissipate into nothing. The difference, of course, is that Wanda dispelled her’s willingly, whereas Dominus would have destroyed all of time just to keep his piece of it intact.
Both Dominus and Wanda acted selfishly in creating their own realities at the expense of innocent lives. Dominus killed trillions by rewriting time, and Wanda severely traumatized the residents of Westview. The difference is Wanda was at least able to realize her wrongdoing and let go of her own happiness to rectify it, giving her a chance of redemption. On the other hand Dominus in Generations Forged will likely never change.
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