Marvel Comics/Scarlet Witch

**Scarlet Witch** (Wanda Django Maximoff) is a Romani Transian sorceress and twin sister to the speedster Quicksilver. Once believed to have been the 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 in the form of "hexes".

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Magic:** Scarlet Witch's main power is the superhuman ability to manipulate the powerful magic known as chaos magic, a dark form of magic, allowing her to alter reality and control various forms of mystical energy. She received this ability from the old god of chaos, Chthon, who came to her the day she was born.

* **Witchcraft:** The Scarlet Witch is a human of magical birthright, meaning she has possessed the ability to manipulate magic since her birth.
* **Spell Casting:** Scarlet Witch has a vast knowledge of mystical spells and incantations invoking names and aspects of various extra-dimensional objects, beings, and sources of power. Although she has shown the ability to cast spells by only saying or focusing on what she wants to happen, this could be related to the nature of her powers. She was trained by Agatha Harkness, who taught her how to control and utilize her magic for many mystical purposes, such as:
	+ **Telekinesis:** Scarlet Witch possesses the power to move and manipulate objects. She has reacted and stopped Sabretooth when he tried to catch her, as well as thrown a truck at Thor. She can use her telekinetic powers to bind and stop someone from moving with her magic. She has used this to stop someone as strong as Colossus.
		- **Biological Manipulation:** Her sorcery allows her to manipulate life on a cellular level as well as control all aspects of a living creature's biological make-up.
			* **Healing:** For instance, she can heal different kinds of injuries and wounds.
		- **Technology Manipulation:** Scarlet Witch can control and manipulate machines and mechanical objects. She was able to freeze and damage Alkhema's internal molecular rearranger.
		- **Thermal Manipulation:** Scarlet Witch can control and manipulate temperature. She has used this power to cool the lava which Dormammu needed for his regeneration.
		- **Elemental Manipulation:** Scarlet Witch can control and generate the elements. She has stated that her power over natural or classical elements comes more easily to her.
			* **Air Manipulation:** She can manipulate air and oxygen.
			* **Plant Manipulation:** She can manipulate plants. She can use this to control plant byproducts, such as wood and cotton threads.
			* **Ice Manipulation:** She can manipulate ice.
			* **Electricity Manipulation:** She can manipulate electricity.
			* **Metal Manipulation:** She can manipulate metal.
			* **Earth Manipulation:** She can manipulate earth and rocks.
			* **Geothermal Manipulation:** She can manipulate lava.
			* **Water Manipulation:** She can manipulate water.
			* **Light Manipulation:** She can manipulate light.
			* **Fire Manipulation:** She can manipulate fire.
			* **Smoke Manipulation:** She can manipulate smoke.
			* **Darkness Manipulation:** She can manipulate darkness.
			* **Weather Manipulation:** She can manipulate and influence the weather.
		- **Matter Transmutation:** Scarlet Witch can transmute or transform anything into anything else, such as when she changes her clothes in an instant. She has also used this to transmute ice and snow into a scream and Thor's lightning into butterflies.
	+ **Telepathy:** Scarlet Witch has demonstrated the ability to enter, manipulate, and alter people's mindscape with or without the target's agreement. She was able to take herself and Ka-Zar into Shanna's mind in order to free her from mind control.
		- **Sleep Inducement:** She was able to induce other people to sleep.
		- **Mind Manipulation:** She can control the minds of others.
		- **Astral Projection:** She is able to project her spirit or astral form out of her physical body in order to travel into the spirit world or the astral plane. She still can use her powers in her astral form and can even do this while unconscious.
		- **Illusion Manipulation:** She has demonstrated the power to generate and cast realistic illusions. With this power, she was able to fool her enemies.
	+ **Empathic Manipulation:** She has demonstrated the ability to affect and control the emotions of others. She was able to feel the pain and anger of the Slorenian dead.
		- **Fear Inducement:** She can induce fear in others.
		- **Relationship Manipulation:** Scarlet Witch can manipulate and influence the bonds of others. She was able to strengthen the bond between the Bloodwraith and Slorenia itself.
	+ **Chaos Manipulation:** She has the ability to control chaos and manipulate chaotic forces, such as when she restored the In-Betweener to a whole being after he tapped her powers.
	+ **Clairvoyance:** Scarlet Witch has the ability to receive information about a person or object even if she has never directly seen them before. She can cast a projection image of another person to hear, view, and observe their location and condition.
	+ **Precognition:** She has the ability to predict the future. She has used a divination spell to search for Hope Summers' locatio, and she once had a dream about Black Knight's fate while he was in another dimension.
	+ **Energy Manipulation:** Scarlet Witch is able to manipulate various forms of energy to varying effects, including:
		- **Energy Absorption:** She is capable of absorbing and channeling energy. She once absorbed Wonder Man's ionic powers as a power source and used it to teleport all of mutantkind into a spaceship.
		- **Energy Blasts:** She can release and project powerful energy blasts of various shapes and intensities, including bolts, beams, bursts, and waves. These blasts can knock, destroy, slice, and annihilate her targets. She has shown that her energy blasts can knock out god-like beings. This ability is her most frequently used power in almost every fight.
		- **Energy Transferal:** Scarlet Witch is able to take energies from one target and transfer it into another or several targets.
		- **Energy Constructs:** As an experienced magic user, Scarlet Witch has performed the ability to turn her magical energy into tools, objects, weapons, and other items to suit her needs. She has created shields, swords, knives, sharp whips, and other projectiles, weapons, and constructions of mystical energy.
	+ **Flight:** Scarlet Witch has proven able to fly at will. She can also grant others the ability to do so. The full extent of this ability si unknown, but she was capable of fighting an enemy while flying.
		- **Levitation:** She has shown the ability to levitate, as she has done so while meditating in the lotus position.
	+ **Force Field Generation:** She has shown to be capable of projecting powerful fields and shields of mystical energy that she can use for a variety of purposes. She was able to protect herself and her allies against many destructive attacks, such as bullets, energy blasts, and explosions. Her force fields can defend her automatically, meaning she does not need to consciously activate her fields in order for them to protect her.
	+ **Gravity Manipulation:** On the rare occasion, Scarlet Witch has proven to be able to alter and control gravity.
	+ **Hologram Generation:** She has also demonstrated the power to create and shape holograms to entertain.
	+ **Projective Invisibility:** She possesses the ability to make objects or people unseen, such as when she cast an invisibility spell on Wonder Man.
	+ **Enhanced Tracking:** She can probe, find, and track the location of anyone she desires at the moment over any distance or conditions. She once managed to find someone who previously inhabited Mjolnir and guided Thor to him.
	+ **Magical Detection:** She has displayed the ability to be aware of almost anything that affects her and her surroundings.
	+ **Portal Generation:** Scarlet Witch is able to open magical portals and gateways to other locations.
	+ **Power Resistance:** She has resistance to certain attacks, abilities, and powers that can affect and harm her.
	+ **Magical Resistance:** She is resistant to various types of magic.
	+ **Energy Resistance:** She is resistant to various types of energy.
	+ **Reality Warp Resistance:** She also has resistance against reality warping and probability manipulation.
	+ **Elemental Resistance:** She has resistance against the elemental forces of nature.
	+ **Reality Manipulation:** One of the most well known powers that Scarlet Witch possesses is her power to shape, warp, and bend reality itself. She has been stated to be one of the world's greatest and most dangerous reality warpers.
		- **Conjuration:** She can create anything and everything from nothing.
		- **Probability Manipulation:** Scarlet Witch has been stated to be a probability manipulator of the highest order. Initially, she had the power to manipulate probability through her "hexes" which manipulated energy fields and matter to varying degrees. These hexes were originally short range and were limited to her line of sight. Casting a hex would initially require a gesture and concentration on her part, though the gestures were largely a focus for her concentration. These hexes would only manifest as "bad luck", triggering negative effects. She later gained more control over this power so that the hexes only worked when she wanted them to, and they were not limited to negative effects. She has utilized her hexes to cause spontaneous combustion and melting; rapid decay; healing; molecular destabilization; energy control, transferal, disruption, amplifying, transmuting, and absorption; inertia redirection; removing air; power negation; stopping momentum; blocking doors or technological devices; exploding objects; deflecting attacks; altering size and gravity; and animating objects.
	+ **Replication:** Scarlet Witch is capable of replicating and multiplying herself.
		- **Projective Replication:** She can also replicate others and objects. She used this power to multiply germs in the Wrecking Crew's bodies, incapacitating them with sickness.
	+ **Necromancy:** Scarlet Witch has proven to be capable of manipulating souls and spirits. She can use her magic to summon spirits from the afterlife.
		- **Resurrection:** She can resurrect the dead and bring them back to life.
		- **Exorcism:** She can perform exorcisms.
		- **Mediumship:** Scarlet Witch can contact and communicate with the deceased. She has done this to make contact with the Slorenian dead.
	+ **Aura Perception:** She can read another person's aura so as to determine if they align with good or evil.
	+ **Power Manipulation:** Scarlet Witch has demonstrated the power to manipulate the superpowers of others by various means. She can use this to reflect or redirect any power that is projected against herself.
		- **Power Absorption:** She can absorb or steal the powers of others.
		- **Power Augmentation:** She can also boost or enhance any superhuman powers that her targets have.
		- **Power Negation:** Her magic also allows her to cancel, block, or negate the effect of her enemies' powers.
	+ **Teleportation:** She can teleport herself and others to any place that they want, even if they are over great distances.
		- **Interdimensional Teleportation:** She is able to travel interdimensionally.
		- **Projective Teleportation:** She can teleport other beings or objects from her current location.
	+ **Time Manipulation:** Scarlet Witch has proven to be capable of manipulating and controlling time.
		- **Temporal Stasis:** She has demonstrated using this ability to stop time.
		- **Temporal Deceleration:** She can also slow down time.
		- **Temporal Acceleration:** She once utilized a spell that caused a person's body to rapidly break down as if it had endured 5,000 years of "wear and tear" over a period of a mere five seconds.

**Energy Channeling:** She can tap and channel energies from other dimensions as well as mystical and non-mystical entities, such as Chthon, Cyttorak, and Morrigan. She is actually considered the nexus being of the central Earth-616 universe. Due to her status as a nexus being, she acts as a living focal point for the universe's mystical energies, making her much more capable of harnessing various kinds of magic as she desires.

#### Former Powers

While acting as a conduit for the planet's life force, Scarlet Witch's powers were further amplified and were not always under her conscious control. Even the combined efforts of the Sorcerer Supreme and the Earth's most formidable psychic mind were unable to fully inhibit her for long.

**Reality Manipulation:** 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 nothing and had also altered the entire Earth-616 reality at will; she permanently shifted the nature of all possible futures without realizing what she had done. She even cast one spell that caused the majority of the mutant population to lose their powers, leaving only around 300 mutants left.

**Resurrection:** Scarlet Witch was able to resurrect and reanimate the dead, such as she did with Wonder Man, Jack of Hearts, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Agatha Harkness, and Mad Jim Jaspers.

### Abilities

* **Aviation:** Scarlet Witch has great and proficient skill in piloting aircraft.
* **Dancing:** She has proven herself capable of doing one of the traditional dances of her childhood in front of many people.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Scarlet Witch has been trained in hand-to-hand combat by Captain America, Hawkeye, and Mockingbird. She was able to combine her physical combat skills with her magical powers.
* **Strategy and Tactics:** She is skilled in the planning and execution of plans while sane.
* **Leadership:** She has gained experience as a leader through years of being an Avenger.
* **Equestrianism:** Scarlet Witch has a great deal of knowledge in horse riding.
* **Multilingualism:** Scarlet Witch is fluent in several languages, including English, French, and German. She has some knowledge of Greek and Slorenian, however in the case of the latter, she admits to being more comfortable speaking in English.
* **Occultism:** Due to her mystic history, Scarlet Witch has been taught magic and witchcraft by Agatha Harkness and Doctor Strange. Because of her knowledge and experience in this field, she is often the Avengers' go-to person for all things involving magic or the supernatural. She once taught Pixie a sleep spell and taught the students of Strange Academy about the elements of chaos.
* **Swimming:** She has displayed the ability to swim.

### Weaknesses

#### Former Weaknesses

* **Mental Illness:** Scarlet Witch's mental stability has long been questionable. She has undergone mental breakdowns and severe suicidal depression that relate to her powers and personal traumas. Recently, she has admitted that her mental health is better and that she is sane.