Scarlet Witch (616)

The Queen of Chaos

## History

**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

## Personality

Personality. Wanda is a **serious and introverted individual with emotional fragility** due to her upbringing. At her core, however, Wanda has a caring personality devoted to protecting innocents, and a willingness to fight for what she feels is right

## Powers and Abilities

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## Trivia

* Wanda Maximoff is a vegetarian and doesn't drink alcohol.
* In the first flashback to Transia, Wanda receives her codename when an unnamed villager claims that she is "a Scarlet Witch." It is left unclear at the time if she is the only Scarlet Witch, or even the first one which the villagers have encountered (it was later revealed that her birth mother was also known as the Scarlet Witch).
* While Wanda Maximoff agreed to help Magneto in his plans of conquest, she protested against murdering their opponents. She pointed to Magneto that he had never told her that the Brotherhood would ever descend to murder.
* According to Wanda Maximoff herself, there are two other women that happen to share her name living in Manhattan. They sometimes get calls meant for each other.
* Charles Xavier has claimed that Wanda is unable to have children.
* In Tarot #3 the two halves of Scarlet Witch merged with the halves of Doctor Strange and Namor the Sub-Mariner to create Scarlet Strange and Imperius Hex.
* According to Peter Parker, Wanda is lactose intolerant.
* Scarlet Witch is no longer considered a mutant, but in the Age of X-Man (an alternate plane created by X-Man where everyone is a mutant), she is remembered as one. There, all mutants are born in hatcheries. When Magneto and Jean Grey suggested that the X-Tracts might have an immensely powerful reality warping mutant like Wanda Maximoff, Nature Girl replied that the hatcheries do not make "***Omega Mutants***" anymore, implying she is considered an Omega-Level Mutant (in a world where she is seen as a mutant).