Wanda Smirnoff

**Wanda Smirnoff**, better known as **Shadow Witch**, is a Romanian superhuman who grew up with her fraternal twin brother, Stephen, after both of them were born with the latent mythical ability to harness psionics, she developed a hatred against Grant Matthews and rallied anti-American protests after the U.S./Romania bombings killed their mother in the process. Years later, Wanda and her brother joined the U.L.T.R.A. Industries and were assigned to join the Sinister Squad.

## Abilities

### Superhuman Abilities

**Psionics**: Similar to her brother, Wanda possesses an array of psionic powers. These powers manifest as a luminescent mist or vapor of purple hue emanating from her hands and body, resembling the natural magic she was born with. When using her telepathic abilities, Wanda's irises glow a dark purple color. Wanda's powers are reliant on focus, which means her enemies or opponents can stop her from using her powers by disrupting her concentration. However, under the training of Mega Man, she has since then learned how to master this ability, making her able to use her powers without total concentration. Thunderman was able to incapacitate her momentarily using his heat vision and her powers were restricted with a straitjacket and specialized collar during her time in the cell, however she later breaks free after unlocking her true potential. During her fight with Thunderman, Wanda was able to generate an energy blast strong enough to lauch him across a building. During the fight between Thunderman and Onyx, Wanda's powers had grown so strong that she was able to single-handedly overpower the two with her telekinesis, restricting them both from the fight. Much like her psionics, this power is magical in nature. Eventually, by her quest to seek Nina, she grew strong enough to destroy several bionic androids with her powerful blasts alone.

* **Psychic Energy Manipulation**: Wanda can project energy blasts, streams, waves and bolts of her own psionic and telekinetic energy, allowing her to strike, push, pull or blow away her targets, potentially exerting enough force to destroy them. This energy manifests in any shape or form, outlining her telekinetic spheres of influence, as the energy is visible in a purple-ish color. When her energy hits a target, she can use her telekinesis to inflict further damage. Significant emotional turmoil can both amplify Wanda's power and causes her to lose control over it, such as when she inadvertently unleashed a wave of purple psionic force that tore apart and disintegrated surrounding bionic androids when she sensed her mother's, letting out a scream of anguish. Wanda proved herself capable of destroying the bionics, due to her powers having a similar energy signature. She could also use her psionic energy streams to enhance the powers behind her attacks, such as when she first used her telekinesis to bring Vision to his knees and then use a dense stream of energy to force him through several floors and several feet into the ground. During the attack on Henry, Wanda utilized this power to knock back Midnight and Espeon using a bolt of psionic energy, and later used another blast to throw Espeon through the wall of a bell tower. She also showed the capability of multitasking while using her abilities, as she simultaneously held back Espeon with a stream from one hand while destroying the bionics with a stream of energy from her other hand. She was also able to use her telekinesis with one hand to stop Midnight's sword in midair while also using a powerful energy blast with her other hand to cleave it into two pieces. In her second encounter with Midnight, Wanda's energy blasts were powerful enough to force the psychic android to go on the defensive against her and were enough to knock him back and make him stumble backwards even when he blocked them with his sword. Wanda was also able to push Espeon out of her reality with a powerful energy blast that sent her through several walls, including the barrier that divides the agency from the outside world; while leaving Midnight completely physically unharmed and send a bionic android flying with a powerful blast. She accidentally used her powers to nearly suffocate the entire population of Brooklyn when she was overwhelmed by her emotions and later to throw away reanimated witches from her while she was trapped in Midnight's hallucination. She can also utilize her psionic energy in a neurological way to manipulate the thoughts and memories of others, akin to telepathy. Her psionic energy is capable of persisting even when she is no longer actively controlling it, such as when residual energy persisted and clung to the U.L.T.R.A. drone she destroyed. Midnight's runes were able to not only strip Wanda of her psionics, but her psionic energy as well. During her quest to seek Nina, Wanda grew powerful enough destroy the bionic androids with bolts alone, blast through metal doors, and repel Nina's **Souls of the Damned**.
	+ **Psychic Constructs**: Wanda is able to create, shape and manipulate psionic energy which she can use for a variety of effects, mostly creating weapons out of it or enhancing other weapons that she carries with her such as her katana.
		- **Force-Field Generation**: Wanda is able to create highly durable barriers of red energy that she can shape and manipulate as needed. She can use it to grab and break apart targets, protect others from enemy fire, contain a target or to cover and deflect attacks from enemies, such as bionic androids. Like any physical barriers, the barrier could be broken with extreme brute force, as the androids were able to eventually break it. During her time at the U.L.T.R.A. Industries, Wanda learned to project her energy around herself, constructing a close-to-the-body psionic armor to protect herself from extreme impacts, such as falls from great heights or blows from superhumanly strong combatants, increasing her durability to a significant degree. This allowed her to land safely whenever she crash lands, as well as defending her against the might of superhuman combatants, such as Midnight and Espeon who sent her and Thunderman crashing through a glass roof after being shot down by Midnight's spear. Wanda was also able to create a force field to protect her family from Nina's attack and later created a barrier to prevent Vision from intervening during her duel with Agatha. When she attacks Kamar-Taj, it appears that she has automatic magical force field that protects her from being blasted by cannon. While dueling Captain Marvel, she created a force-field to block the energy blasts and eventually pushed the enemy back into a wall.
		- **Psychic Blades**: Wanda can manifest a telekinetic sword composed of raw psi-energy at will, which at its lowest intensity functions to disrupt neural pathways, and at its highest level, her swords can slice an armored opponent and cut through their armor, but leave the attacker physically unharmed. Her telekinetic manifestations produce visible radiance in the physical world, which can be used as a makeshift light source in areas of darkness. Her telekinetic sword is strong enough to harm other beings more powerful than herself. After returning to her original body, she produced a sword more similar to a European knight's sword in its fashion.
		- **Psychic Shields**: Wanda could use her psionics' functions to create light purple hard-light shield, very similar to her force fields. She used this to protect himself and Blindspot when Emily launched a steel wall at them.
		- **Psychic Whips**: Wanda is able to conjure fiery lines she can use as whips or lassos for combat. She constantly emit sparks, evoking a serrated appearance, and generate more force than she normally can produce alone. This allows Wanda to effortlessly restrain and drag humans with the rope or strike someone with enough force to send them flying across a room.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Wanda has the ability to move, levitate and otherwise manipulate objects using her psionic energy in a remote manner without the need for her energy to first be projected from her hands. Wanda uses this energy to affect and control molecules and particles, allowing her to fully control matter and energy. Wanda started training this power by moving wooden blocks around while imprisoned in U.L.T.R.A.'s secret facility. Maximoff pulled them apart with her power, and suspended them in the air. She was even able to bring the immensely powerful Midnight to her knees while influencing the Mind Stone in her forehead and blast her vertically down through a building's many floors.
		- **Levitation**: Wanda is able to use this power to move through the air and simulate flight, in order to hover and safely float back to the ground. The use of this power manifests as a blast of psionic energy expelled from her hands onto the ground to propel herself up in the air, with a second blast used to slow her momentum as she approaches ground allowing her to land safely. It operates more like an enhanced leap similarly to Crusher, thanks to the force of gravity pushing her down. Wanda's power grew over time to the point where she could project herself, along with Blindspot, far higher into the air and for much longer than before. After her resurrection and empowerment, she was able to effortlessly levitate several feet into the air while simultaneously lifting two massive pieces of rubble, no longer needing to actively project energy from her hands to levitate herself, and later flew through the air to intercept a Leviathan before it could attack her.
	+ **Disintegration**:
* **Dream Manipulation**:
	+ **Dreamwalking**:
* **Empathy**:
	+ **Emotion Manipulation**:
		- **Sadness Inducement**:
		- **Anger Inducement**:
* **Reality Warping**:
	+ **Astral Projection**:
	+ **Conjuration**:
	+ **Transmutation**: