Wanda Maximoff as known as The Scarlet witch.


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Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch, is a Romani Transian sorceress and twin sister of the speedster Quicksilver. Once believed to have been mutant children of Magneto, the twins are in truth orphans enhanced by the High Evolutionary at Mount Wundagore. The Scarlet Witch became a conduit of chaos Magic, allowing her to shift probabilities and Warp Reality Itself in the form of "hexes". After being saved from an angry mob by Magneto, the Scarlet Witch and her brother joined the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to fight for Magneto's mutant supremacy cause. Disagreeing with Magneto's ruthless approach, the twins left him and joined the super-heroic Avengers instead.



The Scarlet Witch was trained by Agatha Harkness in order to explore her naturally powerful magical abilities. She also had in the demon lord of chaos Chthon an archnemesis. As an Avenger, Maximoff fell in love with and married her synthezoid teammate, the Vision. In order to form a family with her artificial husband, she used her abilities to create two twin boys, but the spell was later broken, erasing the boys from existence, a tragedy that was accompanied by her husband being dismantled. The trauma of losing her family made her mentally vulnerable. After she attacked the Avengers twice, the group disassembled. Subsequently, in a major display of her powers, the Scarlet Witch reshaped reality, making mutants the dominant lifeform on Earth ruling as the House of M, based on Magneto's wishes. As the Avengers and the X-Men battled to restore reality, she uttered the words "No More Mutants", wiping out the super-abilities of most mutants in retaliation of Magneto's extremism. This action became known as the mutant decimation.


For years, after a long recovery by rejoining the Avengers, the Scarlet Witch has been haunted by her actions in a journey for redemption. More recently, she found herself dealing with the threat of Chthon once again by getting into contact with his book, the Darkhold. Moreover, when secretly attending the Hellfire Gala, a mutant fashion event, the Scarlet Witch was mysteriously assassinated, which led to an even more puzzling investigation.


History

Early Life

Wanda Maximoff was kidnapped from Serbia and brought to Wundagore Mountain, base of the High Evolutionary. For years, she and her twin brother, Pietro, believed that they were the children of Romany couple, Django and Marya Maximoff, later revealed to be the twins' maternal uncle and aunt. The High Evolutionary supposedly abducted the twins when they were babies, experimented on them, and after becoming disgusted with the results, he returned them to Wundagore, disguised as regular mutants.
When Wanda was still young, her magical power was detected by a coven of powerful Eastern European witches; Margali Szardos, Maria Russoff, and Lilia Calderu. Lilia was also known as the "Gypsy Queen" and was able to get Marya Maximoff to bring Wanda to her, at which point Lilia took her to Castle Russoff to meet with the others. They hoped to bring Wanda into their coven as an apprentice but a servant of Chthon, Taboo, interfered with Wanda's initiation, hoping to recover the the Serpent Crown from Lilia and to seize Wanda for Chthon, who wanted Wanda under his power, and not that of Set who was connected to the crown. Taboo, and another servant known as Damballah, arrived to interrupt the ceremony and fight the witches. This attack only ended once Wanda was able to manifest her hex powers for the first time, accidentally allowing Chthon to reach out and make it known that Wanda was not allowed to join any coven. The witches then allowed Wanda to return to her family.
As adolescents, Wanda and Pietro discovered that they had unusual superhuman abilities. When Django began to steal food to feed his starving family, enraged villagers attacked the Romani camp. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister. The circumstances of their separation from their family were so traumatic that not until well into adulthood could they remember anything but the barest details of their childhood. For the next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered central Europe, living off the land.

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants



Wanda accidentally set fire to an unnamed village with her powers, and was attacked by villagers. One of them proclaimed her to be "a Scarlet Witch," which would later become her codename. Magneto arrived at the scene, and rescued Wanda from the villagers. Due to this rescue, Wanda felt indebted to Magneto. She was willing to serve him until her debt was repaid.
Wanda and Pietro were later recruited into Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and, as the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, fought the X-Men on several occasions. Throughout her tenure, Wanda fended off romantic advances from fellow member Mastermind. She proclaimed that she would rather die, than become his wife.
In their initial battle with the X-Men in Santo Marco, the Scarlet Witch knocked out Angel, who had incapacitated her brother, in retaliation and brought the captured X-Man to Magneto. But the X-Men forced them to abandon their prisoner and even the entire country. At their next scheme, Scarlet Witch disagreed with Magneto's plan to kill the X-Men. During his attempt to kill every X-Man except the captive Angel, Scarlet Witch used one of her hexes to short-circuit Magneto's control panel. She injured one of Magneto's hands in the process. Before Magneto could "teach her a lesson," Wanda hid behind her protective brother Quicksilver. Subsequently, Wanda was nearly injured by debris created by one of Cyclops' blasts.
At their next conflict with the X-Men, Quicksilver was easily captured by Marvel Girl. Wanda was worried about her brother's safety, and asked Magneto to save him. She instead learned that Magneto was about to fire a deadly weapon against the entire group pof X-Men, willing to sacrifice Quicksilver's life to gain victory. Wanda tried to stop him, but Magneto threatened to kill her for defying his decisions. Namor intervened on Wanda's behalf, and destroyed the equipment before it could be used.
When Magneto, Mastermind, and Toad fled from X-Men's attacks, Wanda chose to stay behind. All by herself, she demanded that the X-Men release her brother immediately, but she was in no position to impose demands. Namor, however, came to her aid and started to fight the X-Men. He easily defeated the Beast and the Angel, but was immobilized by Cyclops' blasts. Before their fight could escalate further, Professor X intervened, revealing to Wanda that he had placed Quicksilver under mind-control. He was willing to release him to Wanda's custody, as he didn't consider the twins anything more than Magneto's pawns.
To have her brother returned to her, Wanda convinced an angry Namor to back down. Upon leaving the scene, Namor remarked upon his attraction to the Scarlet Witch. But her beauty reminded him of Susan Storm, and he feared that this potential relationship would be similarly doomed and he would end up being rejected, so he departed.

POWERS AND ABILITIES.

Powers:

Wanda Maximoff is an immensely powerful being, capable of altering reality, probability, and magic within the cosmos to her very whim. She has been stated to be the most dangerous Avenger on various occasions, as well as being stated to have the power of a God. During the Avengers vs. X-Men event, she was the enemy that the almost omnipotent Phoenix Five most feared.

1. Nexus Being

Wanda Maximoff is a Nexus Being, one of the very rare entities that can influence the universe in a way that changes probability and alters time flow. 

Even when she was a young girl, Wanda unknowingly shifted probabilities to her advantage. However, sometimes her actions led to a domino effect of unwanted consequences.

Everything she does can have a huge impact on time and space, meaning that Scarlet Witch constantly reshapes the future, knowingly or incidentally. That’s why she has to be constantly supervised by Omni-powerful entities such as the Watchers and the Time-Keepers – they observe what Scarlet Witch does and act accordingly.

It is believed that there is only one Nexus being in each universe within the multiverse – a being responsible for the time flow and the entirety of events happening within the said universe. 

2. Alternate Reality Creation

 Scarlet Witch can also create, control, and manipulate entirely new, alternate realities.

The first such alternate reality that pops to mind has to be the House of M event, where Wanda reshuffled the entire world, making mutants the dominant race and Magneto the ruler of the world. Even after she abandoned that reality and switched everything back to how it was originally, it had major repercussions.

One could argue that we saw another alternate reality created by Scarlet Witch in the WandaVision TV show. The MCU version of the alternate reality spanned over a small town in the US, creating a small pocket-reality with visible borders that separated it from the main reality.

3. Reality-Warping

At last, we arrive at the one power that most of Wanda’s other powers stem from – her reality-warping abilities. Apart from what we’ve already mentioned – such as healing, flight, hexes, etc. – Wanda’s reality-warping spirals into endless possibilities. I’ll try to concise them into sections.

First, Scarlet Witch can transmute any matter into anything she imagines. Her biological manipulation skills go right down to the cellular level, meaning any organic or inorganic matter is susceptible to this ability.

Then, Wanda has elemental manipulation, allowing her to completely control all elements, including pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, umbrakinesis, aerokinesis, geokinesis, etc. The list of Wanda’s reality-warping abilities is endless, as she can change everything into anything she can think of.

Still, that’s not Scarlet Witch’s most powerful ability.

4. Necromancy

There’s a dark side of Scarlet Witch’s powers, and it wasn’t that rare seeing her fall off the deep end and use the powers malevolently. However, even Wanda’s necromancy skills and knowledge have been proven useful for great purposes.

Scarlet Witch can access other plains of existence, allowing her to resurrect others who died, as she did with Wonder Man in Avengers Vol. 3 #11. However, using this level of necromancy takes a toll on Wanda and her psyche, so we don’t see it often. Plus, it would be a too powerful plot device – she could just resurrect everybody after they die.

Maximoff also has something called the Witch Sight – she can see entities that normal humans and other superheroes cannot see. For instance, she saw Agatha Harkness’ spirit in Scarlet Witch Vol. 2 #3.

5. Chaos Magic

Since she was born, Wanda Maximoff was a mutant, having some of her powers from the beginning. However, she only became Scarlet Witch after Chthon, the lord of Chaos Magic, bestowed his powers upon her.

Tapping into Chaos Magic allows Wanda to do extraordinary magical features. Casting spells is a joke for her. She can cast a protection spell on her teammate just as easily as she can turn herself invisible. To make herself even more powerful, Wanda can channel energy from beings other than Chthon, such as Morrigan or Cyttorak in Uncanny X-Men #191.

6. Telepathy

Wanda can manipulate other people’s minds to a significant extent. She can make anybody do anything she wants, as long as she can get close enough to cast the spell.

Apart from mind control, Wanda’s telepathy skills allow her to know everything about a person without ever meeting them, cast vivid illusions into one’s mind, and much more.

7. Healing Abilities

Although Scarlet Witch’s healing powers stem from her reality-warping and biological manipulation powers, it’s still a power that is incredibly useful for her and her teammates. It’s so powerful that it can fix disabilities not even the greatest minds in the Marvel universe could fix.

In the House of M storyline, where Wanda created a completely new, alternate reality, Professor X got his legs back – he could walk just like any other healthy human. Not even Beast and Hank Pym were able to heal Charles Xavier’s legs. Wanda didn’t heal them, per se, but rather altered the reality to make them perfectly healthy.

8. Hexes

Scarlet Witch’s hexes are a name for all her reality-warping tools that manifest physically. She can create powerful magical beams, shoot energy bolts, create defensive force fields, etc.

The power is incredibly powerful, even in the MCU. The cinematic version of Scarlet Witch used her hexes to protect herself from Thanos’ blade – the one that was powerful enough to crush Captain America’s vibranium shield, coming from a guy that knocked out the Hulk in a fistfight.

Yeah, Scarlet Witch is powerful.

9. Telekinesis

Scarlet Witch also has very powerful telekinesis. She can move incredibly heavy objects using her powerful magic abilities.

The skill is incredibly potent, granting Wanda technology manipulation, including mechanical components, high-tech gadgets, etc. For instance, she once made Ultron short-circuit in the comics.

10. Teleportation

Scarlet Witch doesn’t need to fly that much because she can easily teleport instead. In Scarlet Witch Vol.2 #1, you can see Wanda teleport seamlessly across large distances.

If she doesn’t need to teleport physically, Wanda can also astral project, going anywhere she wants in her astral form. Finally, she can also teleport others and open portals to travel inter-dimensionally (Scarlet Witch Vol.2 #3).

11. Flight

One of Wanda’s most classic powers is flight. Scarlet Witch uses her magic to warp and manipulate matter around herself, allowing her to fly particularly fast and effectively.

While flying is incredibly useful and certainly an asset, it’s not that rare among comic book characters. Also, other abilities Maximoff has made flying less useful to her.


Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch, is one of the most powerful characters ever created in the Marvel Comics universe, especially among Earthlings. Even the MCU version that hadn’t reached her full potential and didn’t tap into half of the powers Scarlet Witch has in the comics, Wanda is still the most powerful superhero, albeit she doesn’t know it yet.

With such an immense repertoire of skills, abilities, and superpowers, it’s no wonder that every action she does ends up having a huge impact on time, space, and the multiverse generally.


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