This post is about the WandaVision characters, adapted from the comic characters of the same name. This post is also hypothetical, since we don’t have a confirmation of what will happen to these two. Take everything here with a grain of salt.
As a quick refresher, Billy is a sorcerer and his brother is a speedster.
After Secret Wars, Feige will probably found the Young Avengers. They already have have Kate Bishop, Ms. Marvel, Iron Heart and the Maximoff twins.
I know that Billy will get a major power upgrade in the future, I just know it. He will be trained by either Agatha (very likely), Wanda or Dr. Strange or any combination of these three, unlocking the Demiurge, a powerful 616 magical entity (basically his own Void) who will rewrite the rules of magic.
I KNOW that Tommy will just zoom around the battlefield and do nothing of value. Outside of Eternals, Marvel is notoriously bad at balancing anyone who can outpace an F1 car.
Plus, Jean Grey, Eleven and Wanda have shown us that unstable psionic powers make for good story telling.
A training (no pun intended) speedster is deemed less cinematic.
In my previous post, I already ranted about how siblings in superhero fiction are usually balanced horribly (Quicksilver/Wanda) and I don’t want a repeat of that here.
I guarantee you that Billy will get his own Scarlet Wizard arc and Speed will get nothing.
He will hover at Mach 1 and get tripped up by a non-speedster out of nowhere, as is so common in superhero fiction.
Here’s the thing.
If Billy gets to be a reality warping magic beast, Tommy should get his own A-Train training track montage where he eventually learns how to be MHS+.
I'm not convinced this is a pervasive sibling thing, but Speed has struggled with the lack of a niche for a long time. I don't think he's even in the Gillen Young Avengers book, he doesn't have a role in any of the big magic stories, there are no big speed stories to balance it out, Wiccan's relationship draws him naturally into space stories while Speed lacks an equivalent.
Isn't Hailee Steinfeld 30? This is the problem with trying to set up a youth team piecemeal in a live action movie franchise.
Off topic: Ms. Marvel shouldn’t be in the Young Avengers.
Her and the Champion’s whole thing is that they don’t want to be legacy characters.
Sure, but they are all legacy characters. The only reason that they aren't Young Avengers is because that name was already used.
If you want young non-mutant heroes that actually aren't legacy characters, read Runaways or Avengers Academy.
The comics did kinda do this. Billy gets new storylines once in a while and Tommy barely gets a cameo here and there. I don't know if MHS is actually much of a plot utility but it'd be nice to see him played around with more
Okay, sure, but what should Tommy's character arc be in the MCU and how would his control of his powers facilitate that?
It’s hard because they have given a lot to Billy already. Billy got the relationship with Agatha (the only real person in the hex outside the nuclear family), he has got the supportive adoptive family in the Kaplans, he has got the mental and emotional trauma from escaping the hex and stealing a second life, he’s got the powers that have gotten away from him and accidentally killed people.
I think that Tommy doesn’t want to retred what Billy is already doing less he look like an inferior copy. I would make him vision and Wanda’s pet project and lean into the juvenile delinquent storyline. Mesh all that with his powers.
... Okay.
Tommy was a secondary character in someone else's storyline. So, I suppose, Tommy would be secondary in Wanda and Vision's story of reconciliation and you'd be interested in him having a downturnt arc so that Wanda and Vision worked through their differences by helping him?
Billy just had a story where Agatha worked through the trauma of losing Nicky and then found new meaning in life through mentoring and mothering him. So I don’t see it as Tommy getting some sort of unfair treatment by comparison.