Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Disney's Wish.

Wish celebrates Disney's 100th anniversary with overt, plot-related Easter eggs connecting Asha to Cinderella's fairy godmother. Despite the explicit Easter eggs in Wish, Disney has disproved the shared universe theory and asserts that the Easter eggs are simply a way to celebrate and remind audiences of the various Disney films. The obvious Easter eggs in Wish are meant to celebrate Disney, but without a shared universe, they result in making the film seem overly self-aware and meta.

Asha becomes a fairy godmother at the end of Wish, and this seems to further support the long-time theory that there is a shared Disney universe. Films from the House of Mouse have always contained several Easter eggs to other Disney characters and locations, and Wish has taken this to another level. Though Easter eggs are typically subtle and irrelevant to the central plot,...