Look, we love a juicy and completely unsubstantiated rumour as much as any Marvel obsessive, but when a Redditor made the claim that Troye Sivan might be heading for a role in the MCU we went “really?”
And then we thought about it and… look, let’s speculate a bit here.
The specific claim made is that a Marvel screen test is coming, potentially for the role of Wiccan from the New Avengers comics.
The reason this seems plausible, aside from the fact that he’d be an excellent physical choice, is that Wiccan is the son of Scarlet Witch and Vision – the central characters of the coming WandaVision Disney+ series.
And sure, season one would be all but complete by now but presumably they’re assuming that interest in Marvel will continue in 2020, what with Endgame being the biggest film of all time and everything.
And it would make sense for an artist whose coming out video all but broke YouTube to play one of Marvel’s few openly gay characters. And from a purely Marvel-perspective, having a muta… I mean, “enhanced” character that’s not actually an X-man has licensing advantages while prepping the soil for a possible Disney-led reunification of the Fox-owned X-men and the MCU.
But there’s another reason why Mr Sivan seems like a decent bet, and it’s because he’s already an alumnus of the franchise.
Because in case you forgot, our Troye’s already been in the Marvelverse. Specifically, he was young version of the titular character in X-Men Origins Wolverine.
And if you’re thinking “pfft, he can’t be Scarlet Witch’s son since she’s about eight years older than him and Vision is dead” then rest assured that his origin story is as magical and weird and hand-wavy as any Marvel hero.
Of course, to emphasise, an MCU return for Troye Sivan is nothing but pure baseless conjecture at this point. But let’s be clear: we’re already on board