Scarlet Witch (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

## Scarlet Witch

Help her teammates to stop Thanos from using the Infinity Stones and protect Vision (failed).
Help her teammates defeat 2014 Thanos (succeeded)

## Relationships

### Relatives

Irina Maximoff † (mother)
Oleg Maximoff † (father)<be>Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver † (older twin brother)
Vision † (husband)
Tommy Maximoff (son)
Billy Maximoff (son)

### Friends / Allies

Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America, Bruce Banner/Hulk, Thor, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Sam Wilson/Falcon, Vision, James Rhodes/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, Kraglin Obfonteri, Ravagers, Agnes, Arthur and Mrs. Hart, Beverly, Dottie and Philis Jones, Herb, Monica Rambeau/Geraldine (formerly), Senor Scratchy

### **Enemies**

Tony Stark/Iron Man (formerly), Steve Rogers/Captain America (formerly), Bruce Banner/Hulk (formerly), Thor (formerly), Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (formerly), Clint Barton/Hawkeye (formerly), Thanos, Outriders, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, HYDRA, Baron Strucker, Doctor List, Ultron, Ulysses Klaue, Crossbones, Thaddeus Ross

## Personal Information

### Affiliations

Good
Avengers (formerly, team disbanded)

### Powers/Abilities

Magic
Telekinesis
Multilingual
Telepath
Levitation
Mental Manipulation

### Likes

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

### Dislikes

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

## Character Information

### **Inspiration**

Scarlet Witch from the original comics

**Wanda Maximoff** is a major protagonist of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is the secondary antagonist-turned-major protagonist of *Avengers: Age of Ultron*, one of the tritagonists of *Captain America: Civil War*, one of the main protagonists of *Avengers: Infinity War* and *Avengers: Endgame* and the one of the two main characters of *WandaVision* (alongside Vision).

She is the sister of Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver and a member of the Avengers who is native to the fictional country of Sokovia and close friends with Clint Barton/Hawkeye. She is a former ally of Ultron who isinitially against the team she became a part of but officialy joined them in the fight against her former ally. After losing her brother, Wanda formed a bond with the Android Vision and sequentially became his lover. However, they faced obstacles such as the Avengers Civil War, where Wanda joined Captain America's side and Vision joined Tony Stark, and later the Infinity War with Thanos. She was a victim of the Snap but was resurrected by the Hulk in 2023. After winning the war with Thanos, but at the cost of Tony Stark's life, Wanda was left without Vision, who Thanos previously killed when obtaining the Mind Stone from him. Now apparently living in an alternate reality where she lives with a newly Resurrected Vision, Wanda created a sitcom-like reality, imprisoning Westview citizens and forcing them to play along in her fantasy. However, things may not be what they seem.

## 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

* **Psionic Energy Manipulation -**The ability to project energy blasts, streams, waves, and bolts of the user's own psionic and telekinetic energy. Alllows the user to hit, push/pull or blow away her targets.
	+ **Telekinesis**- Ability to move/levitate/manipulate any object or individual via the mind.
	+ **Telepathy -**The ability to read minds, communicate telepathically, and experience the memories and thoughts of others.
	+ **Mental Manipulation** - The power to manipulate thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions of others.
	+ **Fear Manipulation**- To manipulate fear and emotional pain in the form of nightmarish hallucinations. It was able to weaken powerful beings, even Thor.

## 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 Snap that is resurrected by the Hulk with the use of all the Infinity Stones in the Stark Gauntlet.

During the Battle of 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.

Nine days prior to the miniseries, Wanda used her powers and broke into S.W.O.R.D.'s research facilities that was experimenting on Vision's corpse shortly after the Battle of Earth.

## Trivia

* *Captain America: The Winter Soldier* marked her first ever theatrical live-action appearance after fifty years of appearing only in comics.
* Her Superhero moniker never appeared in the whole Infinity Saga. Reportedly, it would appear in WandaVision.