Scarlet Witch (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

## Scarlet Witch

### **Friends:**

Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, Falcon, Vision, War Machine, Rocket Raccoon, Nick Fury, Helen Cho, Maria Hill, Bucky Barnes, Ant-Man, Star-Lord, Nebula, Gamora, Groot, Wasp, Spider-Man, Valkyrie, Korg, Miek, Black Panther, Okoye, Shuri, M'Baku, Ultron (formerly), Dr. List (formerly), Baron Strucker, Ultimo, Kraglin Obfonteri, Ravagers

### **Enemies:**

Iron Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Captain America, [ Black Widow, Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, Falcon, Vision, War Machine (all formerly), Thanos, Outriders, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, HYDRA, Baron Strucker, Doctor List, Ultron, Ulysses Klaue, Crossbones, Thaddeus Ross (formerly), Everett Ross (formerly)

## Character Information

### **Interests:**

Vision, cooking, drinks, missions, her powers, her friends

### Dislike(s):

Anyone harming her friends, Thanos, villains, lies, being locked in a room, her twin brother's death

### **Affiliation:**

H.Y.D.R.A. (formerly)
Avengers

### Power(s) & Abilities

Magic
Telekinesis
Multilingual
Telepath
Levitation
Mental Manipulation

## Series Information

### Portrayed by:

Elizabeth Olsen

**Scarlet Witch** (real name **Wanda Maximoff**) is a minor character in *Captain America: The Winter Soldier*, one of the main protagonists of *Avengers: Age of Ultron*, *Captain America: Civil War*, and *Avengers: Infinity War*. She is the sister of Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver and a member of the Avengers.

## Background

Wanda was born in Sokovia to unnamed parents and had a twin brother named Pietro Maximoff. However, they were orphaned and immediately blamed Tony Stark because they were his weapons. They began rebelling the Starks by joining rallies started by HYDRA. The duo of siblings decided to be experimented on, where they were the only survivors of the experiments and became known as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.

### Physical appearance

Wanda is a beautiful woman of Sokovian descent with long brown hair, green eyes and and fair skin. Her eyes glows red whenever she uses her powers.

She also sported a thick European accent but had to don on an American one when she and Vision went into hiding.

### Personality

Before joining the Avengers, Wanda was aggressive, angry, passionate, guilty, self-doubt, serious, manipulative, hot-tempered. She did not like them, or the United States of America.
However, after learning what Ultron planned to do to the world, Scarlet Witch joined the Avengers in order to save her hometown and the world that she and her brother were raised in. She is also remorseful of her actions, as shown when she blamed herself for inadvertantly causing deaths of several civillians in *Civil War*.
It is shown that Wanda is very protective of her teammates, when she throws Proxima Midnight into a Wakandan machine to protect Natasha and Okoye. She has also fallen in love with Vision, despite him being an android.

### Powers and abilities

"*Wanda manipulates people's perceptions, makes them hallucinate."*

*"Yeah, that's her whole bag. If all the sets and props and wardrobe were solid matter, that would mean she's wielding an insane amount of power."*

― Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis
* **Psionic:** Due to her volunteer experiences at HYDRA with the Mind Stone, Wanda has obtained psionic abilities which she manifests in red colored energy. Initially, when using her powers, her irises glowed a soft shade of red, but as time passed and her powers grew, both her irises and pupil began to glow red intensely when manifesting her psionics a lot. Upon having her past revealed by Agatha Harkness, Wanda discovered that in fact, the Mind Stone granted her only her mental powers, since her Chaos Magic powers were awakened by the stone's energy, thus, it was revealed that Wanda is the Scarlet Witch.
* **Psionic Energy Manipulation:** Wanda is able to generate and manipulate psionic energy derived from her psionic abilities. Its energy manifests in the form of glowing red mist-like trails. Through this energy she can fire beams, blasts and energy spheres capable of triggering explosions at her targets. Her manipulation of psionic energy also serves to aid Wanda with her other psionic powers such as telekinesis and telepathy. To defend herself, Wanda can use her psionic energy to form force fields, which over time, became resistant to the point of stopping the Vision. Before learning to fly on her own, Wanda would take off by firing a blast of energy into the ground to press her into the sky, using another blast of energy for her landing.
* **Telekinesis:** Wanda is able to move matter and manipulate its movement with her mind, enveloping it with her psionic energy. Wanda is able to levitate, press, contain, expand and bend matter without coming into physical contact with it. In combat alongside her fellow Avengers, she has already saved them, as she did with Black Widow, holding her foot and flinging her away, thus protecting Hawkeye. Her telekinetic abilities have evolved to the point where she can levitate very heavy objects, such as in the battle in Wakanda when she saved Okoye and Black Widow, lifting several Threshers into the air and then hurling them at enemy troops. By accessing her mystical powers, Wanda became more powerful, so much so that in her battle against the mages of Kamar Taj, she was able to dismantle an entire attack tower and hurl its rubble at its targets, paralyzed several arrows in mid-air and redirected them to their target. the archers and lifted a group of sorcerers into the air to blast them away. In her final act, the sorceress telekinetically destroyed the Temple of the Darkhold, splitting it in half and holding it in the air, releasing it on top of herself shortly thereafter.
* **Telepathy:** Maria Hill said that Wanda has a form of neuro-electrical interface, so Wanda can get in touch with the minds of others, being able to read their thoughts and even converse telepathically with others. She demonstrates that she can read the consciousness of even "non-living" beings, that is, inorganic beings, as she did with Ultron to discover their real goals. When Pietro Maximoff was killed, Wanda was not present, but could sense the nullification of her brother's telepathic signature. Apparently, she can also feel what others are feeling, as she was able to feel Tony Stark's fear while he was hallucinating, felt the pain that would be caused to her by the fall of Ultron's meteor and especially the pain of her brother's death. . By creating the Hex in Westview, Wanda ended up connecting with all the residents telepathically to leave them at the mercy of her mind manipulation, except for Harkness, who had limited psychic defenses against her telepathy.
* **Mental Manipulation:** With her psionic energy, Wanda can implant a form of manipulation and control in the minds of individuals. Initially, she used this power more in the form of hallucinations and nightmares to trap her targets in a trance-like state of fear, needing to get close to her target and release psionic energy from her hands under the subject's head, leaving energy trails. in the form of red nerve roots. Her mental abilities have developed to the point where Wanda can control more than one mind at once and over long distances, as she did when overpowering the residents of Westview by covering the city with her Hex and when she forced SWORD soldiers to move. the crosshairs for Tyler Hayword. Even though she had difficulty reading Harkness's thoughts, Wanda still managed to invade the witch's mind in their confrontation, approaching from behind the villain and invading her mind with hallucinations.
* **Flight/Levitation:** With the evolution of her powers, Wanda learned to fly, rising in the air while generating her magic in her hands, preparing herself in case she needed to attack. Her flight was getting faster as seen when she left Westview at full speed. Having already assumed herself as the Scarlet Witch, she began to levitate in mid-air frequently while meditating.
* **Chaos Magic:** According to what Harkness said is written in the book Darkhold, Wanda is the Scarlet Witch, thus, she possesses the powerful and rare chaos magic, granting her great magical and chaotic power. His chaos magic is created as dark red smoke with red glowing streaks. Harkness describes Wanda as "A being capable of spontaneous creation", due to her power to rewrite reality, creating, destroying and altering whatever she wants and casting multiple spells at the same time without needing enchantment. Harkness also stated that Wanda's Hexs work like "magic on autopilot", as reality often adjusts to suit her without her even realizing it.
* **Hex Creation:** Being the Scarlet Witch, Wanda can use her chaos magic for various purposes, one of them being the incredible ability to create Hexes, which consist of energy fields, where from within, Wanda can warp reality to suit all needs. their whims, controlling time, matter, natural elements, climate and so on. She was even able to create life out of thin air, as she did to create her copy of the Vision and when she "pregnated" her "children", Billy and Tommy Maximoff. The first time Wanda made a Hex was in the city of Westview, and she ended up creating a Hex in the city inadvertently because of a meltdown that had resulted from her grief. Wanda ended up creating her entire house out of nothing, rapidly expanding her reality throughout the city, altering the era the city was in, removing the color from reality, changing the designs of the city's clothing, automobiles, and buildings, and connecting with everyone inside Hex to assume Wanda's chosen personality. Upon leaving Westview, Wanda went to a cabin near the mountains, where Dr Strange ended up visiting her and when her intentions were discovered, Wanda ended up creating a Hex, transforming the entire beautiful landscape of flowering trees into a field of flowers. dead trees and the sky reddened, also changing her outfit to the Scarlet Witch attire.

## Appearances

### *Captain America:  The Winter Soldier*

Scarlet Witch appears in a post-credits scene, where it is revealed that she and her brother, Quicksilver, are the only survivors of HYDRA's experiments with Loki's scepter. She developed power from an Infinity Stone.

### *Avengers: Age of Ultron*

Initially, Wanda and Pietro allied themselves with Ultron due to their hatred of Tony Stark and the Avengers. When she encountered the Avengers Wanda sent them to live in their worst memories. However, Wanda and her brother learned that Ultron planned to destroy humanity after Wanda snuck a peak into Vision's head before he was broght to life. This resulted in the twins turned against him and joined the Avengers. She also witnessed the birth of Vision. However, Wanda watched in fear as the being initially attacked Thor before looking over the city of New York and calming down. The being introduced himself to them, calling itself Vision. The Maximoffs and the Avengersc ontinued to be wary of Vision, with Scarlet Witch noting that she had seen the destruction of the world in its head but he told her to look again. Eventually, Vision convinced the team that he was on their side and proved his worthiness by picking up Mjølnir and handing it to Thor

During the Battle at Sokovia, when Wanda was too scared, Clint inspired her to come out and fight to join the Avengers rather than wait for her brother. Wanda helped in evacuating the city and protect the key that could destroy Sokovia and the world. however, when Pietro was killed by Ultron, Wanda cried in pain, feeling a part of her died with her brother and set her off a beserk rage. When she approached Ultron, he told her to flee the city so she wouldn't for. However, Wanda still was not convinced as she was dead already as she proceeded in ripping out his robotic heart, replying that was what it was like when her brother died. After the city is evacuated, Vision saved Wanda and flew her to safety.

After her brother's death, Wanda joined the Avengers.

### *Captain America:  Civil War*

After becoming a member of the Avengers, Wanda sends Crossbones into a building but at the cost of many people's lives. Despite this, Steve comforts her that she was only doing her best. Because of the damage the heroes did, the Sokovia Accords were created. However, Wanda refuses to sign the Accords and sides with Captain America against Tony Stark. However, this puts her at odds with her lover, Vision, who is on Tony Stark's side. Despite this, they still love each other. After Civil War, Wanda and Vision resume their relationship and leave America and go into hiding.

### *Avengers: Endgame*

In *Avengers: Endgame*, Wanda is one of the Victims of the Decimation resurrected by the Hulk with the use of all the Infinity Stones in the Stark Gauntlet.

During the battle on Earth, Wanda approaches Thanos and proclaims angrily he will pay for what he did to Vision. Despite Thanos not knowing who she is, Wanda says he will no what she is talking about one day. However, Thanos subdues her.

Wanda later attends Stark's funeral and is comforted by Hawkeye and in return, Wanda does the same for Clint, saying Natasha would be proud of him.

## Trivia

* *Captain America: The Winter Soldier* marked her first ever theatrical live-action appearance after fifty years of appearing only in comics.