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| “ | While I live... and until I die... I am an Avenger! | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch. |
| “ | He's underselling the danger! Avengers assemble! | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Wtich assembles the Avengers. |
| “ | Listen closely, young ones, for it's time to begin the tale of how the Pretender became the redeemer. | „ |
| ~ Exodus to the kids telling the story of how Wanda redeem herself. |
| “ | All we'll ever need is each other. Absolutely, that's true, my dear brother. But if you'd stop being so cynical for one second and take this chance with me...we might finally find ourselves a place where we belong. With the Avengers. | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch to her brother. |
| “ | Healing has no shortcuts -- I've tried them all. | „ |
| ~ Wanda to Vivian, Vision daughter with his other decrease robot wife Virginia. |
Wanda Marya Maximoff, also known as Scarlet Witch, is a major character in the Marvel Universe and has been a regular member of the X-Men and the Avengers.
She is a mutant who has the ability to use chaos magic, and is the younger twin sister to Pietro Maximoff, a fellow mutant who can move at fast speeds. Originally a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Wanda and Pietro would redeem themselves and become members of the Avengers, a superhero team that stopped threats. Scarlet Witch became the love-interest to the Vision, an android created by Ultron, and the two would later marry.
Along with starring in two self-titled limited series of her own, the character appears in animated films, television series, arcade and video games as well as other Marvel-related merchandise. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she is portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen.
She was created by the late Stan Lee and the late Jack Kirby, and first appeared in X-Men #4 in March of 1964.
History[]
Pre-Retcon[]
Wanda is the daughter of the mutant super villain Magneto and originally put her powers to use helping the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Eventually Wanda realized her father could not live up to his own standards and quit the team, trying to make up for her time as his pawn. Wanda would join Charles Xavier's X-Men and later The Avengers. Wanda is a mutant witch he power to manipulate probability, however even she is not always fully in control of the outcome of her powers. Wanda was trained by the witch Agatha Harkness in the art of Witchcraft as her developing powers were easily governed by the same disciplines. As a result of her training Wanda is not only a powerful mutant but also a practicing witch.
Post-Retcon[]
Wanda is daughter of Natalya Maximoff and unknown father. Wanda and Pietro power is magic in nature. She gave the kids to her brother Django and his wife Marya. The kids later being kidnap by High-Evolutionary, he make some genetic editing to them which make them appear as mutants on Cerebro. While in High-Evolutionary and Bova care, Wanda was imbued by Chaos magic wish granted by Chthon, hoping that in one day he can used her as vessel to return to earth dimension. High-Evolutionary plan to give babies to Whizzer and Miss America, however the former runs away and the latter died from miscarriage, so he give the kids back to Django and Marya. One day Django and Pietro steal food from village, cause them to ben angry and burn their caravan their family live in. Wanda and Pietro run away believing their parents were killed. They been rescues by Magneto, mistakenly think their abilities are result of X-genes they join Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Story[]
When Magneto was abducted by the alien known as The Stranger, The Brotherhood became effectively disbanded, leaving Wanda and Pietro on their own again. With no more reason to stay on their father's evil path the two took other paths. Wanda left with Namor the Sub-Mariner and joined the Avengers, Pietro went to work for The X-Men trying to make-up for his time with Magneto. Though heroism became an ill fit for Pietro Wanda felt right at home and frequently lent a hand to the X-Men as well. Wanda would eventually become intimately in-love with her team-mate The Vision and the two became a couple.
As part of the Avengers, The Scarlet Witch has fought numerous evils, from aliens, to sorcerers to robots, to mutants. When Magneto eventually returned Wanda faced a conflicting wish to continue to be the good influence in her father's life but knew it would bring her into confrontations with her team-mates. Pietro joined Magneto on Wanda's behalf and Scarlet Witch remained a covert contact for the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
At the events of House of M, where Wanda created a tear in reality to ressurect Billy and Tommy and give every heroes a perfect life, she saw her father was unwilling to live peacefully with humanity even after all his desires were handed to him, Wanda gave up on trying to pacify Magneto's hatred of humanity and restored reality, fully withdrawing from any loyalties she had to Magneto. Cast one last spell "No More Mutants". Turn reality back to normal but stripped 98 percent Mutants population of their powers.
At Hellfire Gala events, Wanda reconciled with Magneto and view him as her father. She was later appear to be murder by someone shortly after as a revenge for M-day. However, it was in fact a plan make by Wanda and Magneto so she can be revived by Resurrection Protocols so she can understand and upgrade it. The plan succeed and she created mutants heaven that Cerebro can used to revive dead mutants since the beginning of the universe, redeemed herself to mutantkind.
She currently live at Emporium, offering services relate to magics and also work as problem solver when someone has a problem that can't be solve by natural mean.
Ultimate Marvel[]
Early Life[]
The story of Wanda begins with the woman, Magda, lover of the mutant Magneto. Magneto and Magda were quite in love, but when Magneto used his powers in front of Magda, revealing that he was a mutant, she decided to leave Magneto and ran away, terrified of mutants. When Magda found out she was pregnant by Magneto, she became even more terrified that Magneto would find out and come for her child. As it turned out Magda was pregnant with twins -- a boy and a girl. Magneto found Magda just shortly after she gave birth to her twins, Wanda and Pietro.
Magda still quite terrified of Magneto's powers and ran off into a blizzard rather than face him. It is presumed she died in the blizzard, as she was is an extremely weakened state already from the birth. Magneto did not claim the children initially and left with his heart broken. The children had numerous foster families, including a cow-like mutant named Bova, the superhero The Whizzer, and a couple named Django and Marya Maximoff. Dhjango and Marya were gypsies and traveled Europe with Wanda and Pietro as their adoptive children, teaching them the way of their clan. When their foster parents died, the two believed they were the only family either had and became very protective of each other.
Magneto would eventually find his children alive and well while searching for recruits for his Brotherhood of Mutants and revealed to them he was their true father. With a few well placed words, Magneto was able to convince Wanda and Pietro to be completely loyal to him, and the two took on the code names "Scarlet Witch" and "Quicksilver" as part of The Brotherhood. Though the full scope of Magneto's involvement would become known to them eventually and Pietro was deeply resentful of his father, Wanda decided to stay on trying to be the good influence in her father's life and continuing to hold him to the messianic standard he built himself up to be to his followers.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
| “ | But strength is no use against me hex power. | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch on her hex powers being able to stand against the Hulk's strength. |
Chaos Magic Reality Warping: Wanda's main power is the superhuman ability to manipulate Chaos Magic, granted to her by the High Evolutionary's experimentations and further amplified by the demon Chthon (imprisoned within Wundagore Mountain) when she was born. Her hexes were, by extension, simple, indirect manifestations of this magic, destabilizing probabilities by affecting energy fields and matter, ultimately inducing chaos. When she acted as a conduit for the planet's life force, her powers were further amplified and not always under her conscious control, and their effects persisted even after Dr. Strange's Eye of Agamotto shut down her mind. Even the combined efforts of the Sorcerer Supreme and Earth's most formidable psychic mind were unable to fully inhibit such effects for long.
While Wanda is stable and healthy, she wields her powers with proficiency and is capable of triggering and controlling multiple occurrences at once; one of her most famous feats was reviving Wonder Man seemingly from another plane of existence. While she served as a conduit for the Earth's life force, her power was so great that she was able to generate armies from nowhere and has also altered the entire Earth-616 reality at will, and permanently shifted the nature of all possible futures without realizing what she had done (although some of her victims have claimed to be able to discern the difference between reality and her spells).
Wanda was also shown to easily wipe any in her own illusory reality from existence with but a thought. In the HoM reality that she created, her chaos wave was so powerful that even Meggan, who absorbed the power of beyonders, only could stop it for a few seconds. Wanda even casted one spell that caused the loss of most of the mutant population (around three hundred powered mutants left) through the deletion of the Mutant Genome created by the near-omnipotent Celestials on a multiversal scale. It was revealed by Doctor Strange to Beast that this lasting spell was of such complexity and strength that it had woven itself into reality and the world of magic itself, and that if he were to even to try to reverse it, all of reality would implode. Wanda was even able of heal the severely damaged legs of Charles Xavier while all his Earth and alien friends, allies and colleagues' efforts (including even giving Xavier a new body) apparently failed for countless years.
She is actually considered the very "nexus-being" of the central universe of Earth-616, serving as the entity that personifies the realm's character and serves as the focal point or anchor of that reality. (Uatu described a nexus-being as one of the "rare individual entities with the power to affect probabilities-and thus the future"), making her along the scales of class and power as the other known nexus-beings, such as Merlin, Sise-Neg, Kang the Conqueror and Leonard Tippit; Franklin Richards, Vision, Jean Grey/Phoenix, Odin (those last four from alternate Earths), and Eleyn.
The nature of Wanda's ability to channel and wield magical energy has been altered many times by different writers. It was initially brought about by the demonic sorcerer Chthon. On the day that Wanda was born, the ghostly specter of Chthon visited the newborn Wanda and "blessed" Wanda so that Wanda could channel the dangerous Chaos Magic that was the basis for Chthon's unholy might. Chthon's intentions were to create a vessel that he could possess one day, when Wanda was a full-grown adult, though his schemes to do so were foiled by the Avengers.
As such, due to Chthon's "blessing", Wanda is also vulnerable to having all of her powers disabled if Chthon is ever disrupted. During the period in which pages from Chthon's sacred tome, the Darkhold, were scattered across the globe, Wanda's powers were periodically disabled—with her being left powerless in several dangerous battles against various super-villains—until several of the missing pages were restored to the book. Although this particular plot thread was stated by Agatha Harkness who was reanimated by Wanda. How much of it is true and how much of it is more unconscious manifestations of the Scarlet Witch's reality manipulation is debatable.
Wanda's power to alter reality itself was spawned from the combination of her abilities to affect probability and Chaos Magic. It must also be noted that the Scarlet Witch is responsible for the resurrection of Mad Jim Jaspers which happened when her powers altered reality. Because of her ability to warp reality, Wanda is one of the most powerful Marvel beings.
- Hex Bolts: Initially, Wanda had the ability to manipulate probability via her "hexes" (often manifesting physically as "hex spheres" or "hex bolts") which manipulated energy fields and matter to varying degrees. These hexes were initially short range, and are limited to her line of sight. Casting a hex would initially require a gesture and concentration on her part, though the gestures are largely a focus for the concentration. Early in her career, her hexes were unconscious, and would be automatically triggered whenever she made a particular gesture, regardless of her intent. These hexes would only manifest as "bad luck", triggering negative effects. She later gained enough control over her powers that they only work when she wants them to, and they are not limited to negative effects. Wanda can use her hexes to cause a wide variety of phenomena such as spontaneous combustion, rapid decay, molecular destabilization, energy transference/disruption/amplification/transmutation as well as inertia redirection/amplification/disruption/transference. These effects have lit flammable objects, contained and removed air from a particular volume, deflected objects, stopped the momentum of projectiles, opened doors, exploded objects, created force fields, deflected magical attacks, negated or distorted physical laws, altered the molecular composition and physical state of physical objects, and caused various forms of energy to spontaneously appear or disappear to list only a few feats. Her powers, while beginning to unveil a higher potential appeared capable of prevailing against the mastered mystical ones of Dormammu in his own Dark Dimension when she and the Avengers fought against him for Avalon's Evil Eye power-object, albeit indirectly by disrupting the energies of Dormammu and the Eye. She has an affinity with natural elements and phenomena, stemming largely from her magical training under Agatha Harkness, and has trained often at using her hexes to deflect projectiles or to cause enemies to stumble or otherwise suffer the effects of "bad luck". This makes her one of the few Avengers that Ultron fears; his adamantium shell cannot repel magic. She has also displayed the ability to cancel Longshot and Domino's powers of probability and has also once turned Longshot into a cat.
- Teleportation: Wanda has portrayed the ability to teleport her and others over long distances. The full extent to this ability is unknown.
- Telekinesis: Wanda has portrayed the ability to manipulate and levitate things using her mind. The full extent to this ability is unknown.
- Force Fields: Wanda showed the ability to create magical force fields that deflect incoming projectiles or energy blasts.
- Hex Blasts: Wanda can project very powerful blasts, orbs, waves and beams of hex energy. This can destroy or hit objects or people with a great force.
- Flight: Wanda has recently portrayed the ability to fly, though even prior to her mental collapse she has inexplicably demonstrated such an ability. The full extent to this ability is unknown.
Portrayals[]
Films[]
- In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she is portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen, who also played Elle Brody in Godzilla and Jane Banner in Wind River.
- Olsen also voiced the character in Lego Marvel Avengers.
Television[]
- In The Marvel Super Heroes, she was voiced by the late Peg Dixon, who voiced many of the female superheroes in the series.
- In the 1994 Iron Man animated series, she was voiced by Katherine Moffat in the first season and Jennifer Darling in the second season. Darling also voiced Ayeka in Tenchi Muyo!
- In the X-Men animated series, she was voiced by Susan Roman, who also voiced Sailor Jupiter in Sailor Moon, Funshine Bear in The Care Bears Nutcracker Suite, Anne Lewis in the Robocop animated series, Tika in Barbie as The Island Princess, and Fifi in Rolie Polie Olie, and Snowy in The Adventures of Tintin.
- In The Avengers: United They Stand, she was voiced by Stavroula Logothettis.
- In X-Men: Evolution, she was voiced by Kelly Sheridan, who also voiced Sango in Inuyasha, Starlight Glimmer in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Barbie Roberts, Clara Drosselmayer, Rapunzel, Princess Odette, Princess Anneliese, Queen Erika, Elina, Princess Annika, Princess Genevieve, Mariposa, Princess Rosella, Princess Liana, Corinne D'Artagnan, Merliah Summers, Princess Tori, Princess Lumina, Princess Alexa, Princess Kara, Kristyn Farraday, and Princess Courtney in the Barbie series.
- In The Super Hero Squad Show, she was voiced by Tara Strong, who voices Harley Quinn in numerous media, and voiced Timmy Turner and Poof in The Fairly OddParents, Ben Tennyson in the Ben 10 series, and Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
- Strong reprised her voice for the character in Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet and Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat.
- In Wolverine and the X-Men, she was voiced by Kate Higgins, who also voiced Mimi Tachikawa in Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution, Sakura Haruno in Naruto Manga Chapter 3, Retsu Unohana in Bleach, and Pauline in Donkey King.
- Higgins reprised her voice for the character in Marvel Heroes and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order.
Video Games[]
- In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, she was voiced by Jennifer Hale, who also voiced Sam in Totally Spies!, Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect series, Bastila Shan in Star Wars: The Old Republic, Satele Shan in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and many others.
- In Marvel Midnight Suns, she was voiced by Emily O'Brien, who also voiced Jade in Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms.
Quotes[]
| “ | You were right, Billy. I am the Scarlet Witch...and I remember everything. | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch |
| “ | Don't be so quick to judge witches. | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch |
| “ | Don't look back -- the past is exactly where it belongs. | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch |
| “ | No more mutants. | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch's infamous words before causing "M-Day". |
| “ | You made a big "whoops!" | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch to Nick Fury in the Ultimates comics. |
Trivia[]
- She is a vegetarian and doesn't drink alcohol.
- Ranked 12th on IGN's list of "The Top 50 Avengers".
- The birth order of Wanda and Pietro has varied in the comics. Pietro is typically the older twin, but in some versions, Wanda was portrayed as the older one. Recently, Pietro was reaffirmed as the older twin.
- Ranked 14th on Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Woman in Comics".
- Ranked 97th in Wizard's "200 Greatest Comic Book Characters of All Time".
- In the Ultimates comics, she was in an incestuous relationship with Pietro.
- She has been a romantic relationship with Vision, Captain America, Doctor Voodoo and Angel.
- She was also briefly engaged to Doctor Doom during the Avengers: The Children's Crusade storyline.
External Links[]
- Scarlet Witch on the Villains Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
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