Maximov, Wanda

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.

## Wanda Django Maximoff

### Aliases

The Scarlet Witch, Ana Maximoff, Emperor of Magic, Fine Sorceress, Little Witch, Queen of Chaos, Redeemer, Wanda Frank, Wanda the Witch, Wendy, Witch

### Relatives

Erick Magnus (adoptive father), Unknown father, Mother, Pietro Maximov (twin brother), Giovanni Zatara, Sindella, Zatanna Zatara (cousin)

### Affiliation

Roma (formerly), Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (formerly), The Avengers

## History

### Early Years

Wanda Maximoff and her twin brother, Pietro, were born to a nomadic Romani witch named Natalya near Novi Pazar, in Serbia. Afraid of harming her children due to her perilous lifestyle, Natalya Maximoff placed the babies under the care of her brother, the ventriloquist Django, and his wife, the gentle Marya. When the High Evolutionary and his Knights ravaged the region where the Maximoffs lived in search of babies for his experiments, the twins were kidnapped by a catholic priest and brought to the Evolutionary's citadel on the Wundagore Mountain, in Transia. The High Evolutionary made alterations to the twins' genomes, disguising them as regular mutants. The babies were nursed by one of the Evolutionary's servants, the humanoid cow and midwife Bova. While under the Evolutionary's care, the newborn Wanda Maximoff was imbued with the mystic energies of the Wundagore Mountain, which was in fact a prison for the demon-lord of chaos known as Chthon. From that moment on, she acquired a natural latent talent for the practice of magic. Bova and the Evolutionary attempted to have the twins to be adopted by World War II heroes Whizzer and Miss America. However, the former fled in desperation while the latter perished after a miscarriage. Instead, a disappointed Evolutionary returned the babies to Django and Marya Maximoff.

Wanda and Pietro lived a happy childhood, constantly travelling alongside their foster parents' tribe in Central and Eastern Europe. Wanda's potential for magic eventually attracted the attention of a powerful coven formed by Margali Szardos, Maria Russoff, and Lilia Calderu. Calderu approached Marya Maximoff and had her bring Wanda to Castle Russoff. They hoped to recruit Wanda into their coven as an apprentice, being able to predict her future as a relevant magic wielder. However, servants of Chthon, Taboo and Damballah, interfered with Wanda's initiation. The battle only ended once Wanda was able to manifest her hex powers for the first time, accidentally allowing Chthon to reach out to her soul and make it known that Wanda was not allowed to join any coven. The witches then returned Wanda to her family.

Under their family's protection, Wanda explored her mystic potential freely while Pietro manifested an unusual superspeed power. Afflicted by poverty and the lack of opportunities to provide for his family, Django began to steal food for his starving family and enraged villagers attacked their caravan. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister. The circumstances of their separation from their clan were so traumatic that not until well into adulthood could they remember anything but the barest details of their childhood. For the next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered central Europe, living off the land.

### Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I

Wanda accidentally set fire to an unnamed village with her powers and was attacked by villagers. One of them proclaimed her to be "a Scarlet Witch," which would later become her codename. Magneto arrived at the scene, and rescued Wanda from the villagers. Due to this rescue, Wanda felt indebted to Magneto. She was willing to serve him until her debt was repaid.

Wanda and Pietro were later recruited into Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and, as the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, fought the X-Men on several occasions. Throughout her tenure, Wanda fended off romantic advances from fellow member Mastermind. She proclaimed that she would rather die, than become his wife.

In their initial battle with the X-Men in Santo Marco, the Scarlet Witch knocked out Angel, who had incapacitated her brother, in retaliation and brought the captured X-Man to Magneto. But the X-Men forced them to abandon their prisoner and even the entire country. At their next scheme, Scarlet Witch disagreed with Magneto's plan to kill the X-Men. During his attempt to kill every X-Man except the captive Angel, Scarlet Witch used one of her hexes to short-circuit Magneto's control panel. She injured one of Magneto's hands in the process. Before Magneto could "teach her a lesson," Wanda hid behind her protective brother Quicksilver. Subsequently, Wanda was nearly injured by debris created by one of Cyclops' blasts.

At their next conflict with the X-Men, Quicksilver was easily captured by Marvel Girl. Wanda was worried about her brother's safety, and asked Magneto to save him. She instead learned that Magneto was about to fire a deadly weapon against the entire group of X-Men, willing to sacrifice Quicksilver's life to gain victory. Wanda tried to stop him, but Magneto threatened to kill her for defying his decisions. Namor intervened on Wanda's behalf and destroyed the equipment before it could be used.

When Magneto, Mastermind, and Toad fled from X-Men's attacks, Wanda chose to stay behind. All by herself, she demanded that the X-Men release her brother immediately, but she was in no position to impose demands. Namor, however, came to her aid and started to fight the X-Men. He easily defeated the Beast and the Angel but was immobilized by Cyclops' blasts. Before their fight could escalate further, Professor X intervened, revealing to Wanda that he had placed Quicksilver under mind-control. He was willing to release him to Wanda's custody, as he didn't consider the twins anything more than Magneto's pawns.

To have her brother returned to her, Wanda convinced an angry Namor to back down. Upon leaving the scene, Namor remarked upon his attraction to the Scarlet Witch. But her beauty reminded him of Susan Storm, and he feared that this potential relationship would be similarly doomed, and he would end up being rejected, so he departed.

### Avengers

They soon abandoned their terrorist activities, while Magneto was imprisoned by the Stranger, and joined the Avengers. The remaining founding members had all gone on a leave of absence, leaving Captain America to lead an all-new lineup including Wanda, Pietro, and the archer known as Hawkeye. By then, the Scarlet Witch would have rather become an actress, but she never had a chance to pursue such a career. They left the Avengers after the Scarlet Witch lost her powers and Quicksilver was shortly influenced by Magneto again.

The Scarlet Witch then began a quest to recover her powers by studying grimoires, with Quicksilver and the Toad supporting her. Her studies accidentally summoned extra-dimensional caudillo Arkon, who kidnapped the Witch to make her his bride, the Toad when he opposed, and then a number of Earth-born scientists in an attempt to use atomic power to save his own world, Polemachus, even by destroying Earth. Quicksilver gained the help of the Avengers, the Avengers managed to save Polemachus without damaging Earth, Arkon ceased any further violence against Earth and renounced to the Scarlet Witch because she had convinced him of the importance of small things. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch then resumed their membership with the Avengers. The Toad chose to remain at Polemachus.

## Attributes

### Powers

Wanda Maximoff is a powerful witch, capable of altering reality and probability by using chaos magic.

* **Witchcraft:** Maximoff is a human of magical birthright which means she possesses the ability to manipulate magic since the very beginning. She was born a human with the affinity to control magic, allowing her to use the witchcraft she was born with and that her powers were never gave to her by the High Evolutionary as it was believed rather, he had altered her so Wanda is more receptive to magical energy. She was chosen to be one of the candidates as the next Sorcerer Supreme.
* **Chaos Magic:** Wanda's main power is the superhuman ability to manipulate the powerful magic known as Chaos magic, a dark magic, which allows her to alter reality and control various forms of mystical energy. Wanda received the "blessing/curse" of the old God of chaos, Chthon, who came to her, the day she was born, which would allow her to use his chaos magic as her own and this would increase Wanda's natural ability to magic.
* **Divine Sources:** Wanda Maximoff can tap and channel energies from other dimensions as well as mystical and non-mystical entities other than Chthon, such as Cyttorak and Morrigan. She is actually considered the very Nexus Being of the central universe of Earth-616. Since Wanda is a nexus being, she acts a living focal point for earth's and her universe's mystical energies, making her much more capable to harness and use various kinds of magic as she desires.
	+ **Spells and Phrases:** 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:
		- **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 do this even while unconscious.
		- **Binding:** Wanda has the power to bind and stop someone from moving with her magic and she has used this to stop someone as strong as Colossus.
		- **Biological Manipulation:** Her sorcery allows her to manipulate life on cellular level as well as control all aspects of living creature's biological make-up. For an instance, she can heal different kinds of injures and wounds She once tries to age Jennifer's gamma radioactivity until it's inert. She also has linked the Hulk and a bunch of other Hulks, allowing Banner to merge with them. After the upgrade in her powers, Wanda now can heal every injury in her body with ease.
		- **Bond Manipulation:** Can manipulate and induce bond of others. She is able to strengthen the bond between the Bloodwraith and the Slorenia itself, to its boundaries as well as its people, trapping the Bloodwraith within the country.
		- **Chaos Manipulation:** Maximoff has the ability to control chaos and manipulate chaotic forces, like she did against the In-Betweener, restoring him to a whole being, after he tapped her powers.
		- **Clairvoyance:** Wanda Maximoff has the ability to receive information about a person or an object even though she has never directly seen them before. She also has the ability to predict the future. She has used a divination spell to search Hope Summers' location and she has had a dream about Black Knight's fate when he was in another dimension.
		- **Duplication:** The Scarlet Witch is capable of replicating and multiplying herself and others. She has used this power to multiply germs in the Wrecking Crew’s bodies, incapacitating them with sickness.
		- **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 a shield, sword, knife, sharp whip and other projectiles, weapons and constructions of mystical energy.
		- **Energy Manipulation:** Wanda is capable to manipulate various forms of energy.
			* **Energy Absorption:** Wanda was capable to absorb and channel energy. Wanda once absorbed Wonder Man's ionic powers as a power source and used it to teleport all of mutantkind into a spaceship.
			* **Energy Projection:** Wanda was capable to release and project powerful energy blasts of various shapes and/or intensities, such as bolts, beams, bursts and waves, that can knock, destroy, slice, and annihilate her targets. Wanda has shown that her energy blasts can knock out god-like beings. This ability becomes the most frequently she uses in almost every fight.
			* **Energy Transferal:** Wanda was capable to take energies from one target and put or transfer it into another several targets or beings. Wanda once returned so many energies Rogue has borrowed back to their previous owners.
		- **Flight:** Maximoff has also proven to be able to fly at will. She can also give others the ability to do so. The full extent of this ability is unknown, but she was capable of fighting an enemy while flying. She has also shown the ability to levitate, as she has done while meditating in the lotus position.
		- **Force Field:** As one of the most powerful witches on the planet, Wanda Maximoff has shown to be capable of projecting powerful fields and shields of mystical energy that she can use for many different purposes. She was capable to protect herself and her allies against many destructive attacks such as bullets, blasts, or explosions. She was also capable to use her force field to contain many items, as well as to prevent someone from teleporting, like she did to Voyager. Not only that, she was also capable to defend herself automatically, meaning her powers can defend her against attacks without her conscious will. She created a force-field around the town of Lotkill.
		- **Gravity Decrease:** She can decrease the effect of gravity.
		- **Illusions:** Wanda has demonstrated the power to generate and cast realistic illusion. With this power, she was able to fool her enemies like she did to Emerald Warlock. Wanda has also demonstrated the power to create and shape holograms to entertain or to help her explain about any event or incident better.
		- **Invisibility:** Maximoff possesses the ability to make objects or people unseen, casting an invisibility spell on Wonder Man.
		- **Location Tracking:** Can find, probe, and track the location of anyone she desires at the moment over any distance or conditions. She once manages to find someone who previously inhabited Mjolnir, and guide Thor to him.
		- **Magical Awareness:** Scarlet Witch has displayed the ability to be aware of almost anything that affects her and her surroundings.
		- **Mechanical Manipulation:** Can control and manipulate machine as well as mechanical objects. As seen for example, she is able to freeze up, control, and damage Alkhema's internal molecular rearranger.
		- **Nature Manipulation:** Wanda has shown to be capable to manipulate and command nature at her will. She also has an affinity with nature due to her witch training.
			* **Elemental Manipulation:** Wanda can control and generate the elements. She stated that power over natural or classic elements comes more easily to her.
			* **Weather Manipulation:** Wanda can manipulate and influence the weather, creating rain in a certain area.
		- **Necromancy:** Maximoff can contact and communicate with the deceased. She has done it to make contact with the Slorenian dead.
		- **Non-Physical Interaction:** Wanda Maximoff has the power that allows her to affect and harm intangible beings, such as ghosts, intangible demons, spirits, and Vision.
		- **Physical Augmentation:** Wanda can channel her magic through her body to enhance her physical abilities to superhuman levels, as shown during her fight with the Class-100 Scythia.
		- **Protection Spell:** Wanda can cast the spell of protection so that she and her teammates can be protected against certain danger. She has casted protection hex to herself, Thor, and Odin to keep them safe from knee-deep acid. She also has maintained protective aura around the Avengers and the civilians, keep them safe from the ruins.
		- **Purification:** During her time as a mystic, Maximoff has demonstrated the ability to purify any kind of objects. She has magically purified a lake and thrown a demon, who at the time possessed 2 people, in it to protect the victims. She used spell in this case.
		- **Power Manipulation:** Her magic allows her to control superpowers that her targets have, as well as reflect and redirect any power that is projected against Wanda herself.
			* **Power Bestowal**
			* **Power Absorption**
			* **Power Amplification**
			* **Power Negation:** Her magic also allows her to cancel, block, or negate the effect of her enemies' powers.
			* **Power Resistance:** She has resistance to certain attacks, abilities, and powers that can affect and harm her. She is resistant to various types of magic and energy. She also has resistance against reality warping, probability manipulation, elemental forces, and even the Phoenix Force (to a limited degree).
		- **Reality Warping:** One of the most well-known powers that Wanda Maximoff has is her ability to shape, warp, defy and bend reality itself. She has been stated as one of the world's greatest and most dangerous reality warpers. She can use this ability to create anything and everything from nothing and can disintegrate as well as erase person or object from existence. She can also combine her physical combat with her reality warping power, as she did against Hope Summers. Wanda trapped Doctor Hydro in a bubble reality woven from New Jersey DMV. Wanda beated Dreamqueen in a reality-warp fight, and later traped the villain in her own dimension. Wanda was able to make herself and Polaris microscopically small to get into the Tinyverse, and with the help of her sister, she made the Sword in the Star, a myth, in reality. Wanda also made the people which lived in a building in Lotkill gain the lottery, after the building was destroyed by Scythia. Later, it was revealed that Wanda trap the demons she fight in pocket dimensions that she keep in jars.
		- **Scanning:** She was capable to invoke Thoth's Gaze to examine an area within the Savage Land and see what non-native beings had been there. Also, while using this spell, she could see that she and her teammates were in the middle of an ambush.
		- **Scrying:** Wanda can hear, view, and observe people's location and condition by making projection image that shows event that is happening in faraway place.
		- **Soul Manipulation:** Maximoff has proven to be capable to manipulate soul. She can use her magic to summon spirits from the afterlife and can resurrect the dead and bring them back to life. She was also capable to practice exorcism as well as read other people's aura so that she could determine if they are aligned with good or evil.
		- **Telekinesis:** Scarlet Witch possesses the power to move, stop, and manipulate objects. She has reacted and stopped Sabretooth who tried to catch her as well as thrown a truck at Thor.
		- **Telepathy:** Wanda has demonstrated the ability to enter, manipulate, and alter people's mindscape with or without the targets' agreement. She was able to take herself and Ka-Zar into Shanna's mind in order to free her from mind control. She was also able to induce other people to sleep, control the minds of others, and create realistic illusions in the minds of others to trick her opponents, like she did to Maynard Tiboldt. And not only that, she was even able to communicate and torture other people mentally, as well as read the mind of other beings.
			* **Empathy:** Wanda has demonstrated the ability to affect and control the emotions of others. She is capable of feeling the pain and anger of the Slorenian dead.
			* **Fear Inducement:**She is also capable of inducing fear into others.
		- **Teleportation:** Maximoff can teleport herself and others to any place she/they want across large distances.
			* **Interdimensional Teleportation:** She was able to travel interdimensionally.
			* **Remote Teleportation:** Also, she can summon/teleport persons or objects to her or any other people's location and can banish/teleport away person or objects from her location. Wanda transported Caeceleon to Monster Isle.
			* **Portal Creation:** The Scarlet Witch is able to open magical portals and gates to another location, gaining the ability to visit or banish anyone/anything in tremendous distances instantaneously.
		- **Time Manipulation:** Wanda Maximoff has proven to be capable of manipulating and controlling time. As a nexus being, Wanda also has the ability to alter the probabilities of cosmic timelines.
			* **Time Stopping:** She was able to stop and slow down time.
			* **Time Acceleration:** She once conjured a spell that causes a person’s body to rapidly break down as if it has endured five thousand years of "wear and tear" over a period of a mere five seconds.
		- **Transmutation:** The Scarlet Witch can transform or transmute anything into anything else, such as when she changed her clothes in an instant. She also has transmuted ice and snow into steam as well as transmuted Thor's lightning into butterflies. Wanda turned a truck into water and Corruptor into a stone statue.
		- **Witch Sight:** Wanda can see things beyond what normal humans can. For example, she was able to see an enhanced and invisible Man-Bull. She was also able to see Agatha Harkness's spirit and Moondragon's psychic assault which had been stated that no human eye could.
		- **Probability Manipulation:** Wanda has been stated as a probability manipulator of the highest order. Initially, Wanda had the ability to manipulate probability via her "hexes" (often manifesting physically as "hex spheres" or "hex bolts") which manipulated energy fields and matter to varying degrees and could disrupt time. These hexes were initially 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 the concentration. Early in her career, her hexes were unconscious, and would be automatically triggered whenever she made a particular gesture, regardless of her intent. These hexes would only manifest as "bad luck," triggering negative effects. She later gained enough control over her powers that they only worked when she wanted them to, and they were not limited to negative effects. Wanda can use her hexes to cause a wide variety of phenomena, including, but not limited to:
			* Spontaneous combustion or melting.
			* Rapid or spontaneous decaying, breaking, healing, or fixing.
			* Molecular destabilization.
			* Energy control, transference, disruption, amplification, transmutation, and absorption.
			* Inertia redirection, amplification, disruption, and transference.
			* Lighting flammable objects.
			* Containing or removing air from a particular volume.
			* Cancelling others powers and abilities.
			* Stopping the momentum of projectiles.
			* Blocking, unlocking, closing and opening doors, objects and technological devices.
			* Exploding and summoning objects.
			* Creating force fields.
			* Deflecting normal, physical and magical attacks.
			* Negating or distorting physical laws and manipulating physical forces.
			* Altering, affecting, and controlling matter, the molecular composition and physical state/form of physical objects.
			* Causing various forms of energy to spontaneously appear or disappear.
			* Altering size and gravity, as well as manipulating weather and technology.
			* Animating things and sustaining the atmosphere. Her powers, while beginning to unveil a higher potential, appeared capable of prevailing against the mastered mystical power of Dormammu in his own Dark Dimension when she and the Avengers fought against him for Avalon's Evil Eye, albeit indirectly by disrupting the energies of Dormammu and the Eye. She has trained often at using her hexes to deflect projectiles or to cause enemies to stumble or otherwise suffer the effects of "bad luck." This makes her one of the few Avengers that Ultron fears as his adamantium shell cannot repel magic. Wanda can also project very powerful blasts, orbs, waves, and beams of hex energy for a different purposes.

### Abilities

* **Aviation Intuition:** Wanda has great and proficient skill in piloting aircraft.
* **Dancing:** Maximoff has proven herself capable of doing one of the traditional dances of her childhood in front of many people.
* **Expert Combatant:** The Scarlet Witch has been trained in hand-to-hand combat by Captain America, Hawkeye, and Mockingbird. She was able to combine her physical combat with her magic.
* **Expert Tactician & Leadership:** Wanda is skilled in the planning and execution of tactics, when sane, with this coming from the experience and leadership skills gained through years of active duty as an Avenger.
* **Horse Riders Aptitude:** Wanda Maximoff has great amount of knowledge in horse riding. She once rides alongside with Wonder Man, impressing him.
* **Meditation and Yoga:** Maximoff has shown capable of meditating. By doing this, she can develop and train her abilities as well as practice her magic. Through meditation, she is also able to be more focused to cast spell better. The Scarlet Witch also has the ability to utilize Yoga. She can use yoga to help relax herself as well as rein in her darker thoughts.
* **Multilingual:** Scarlet Witch is fluent in several languages include English, French, and German, with at least some knowledge of Greek, and Slorenian however, in the case of the latter, she admits to being more comfortable speaking English. It is possible that she knows other language as well: for example, since she was born and raised in Serbia, it is likely that she knows Serbian and, since her foster parents were members of the Romani community, she may know one or more dialects of Romani as well. Her brother speaks fluent Russian and seems surprised that the other Avengers don't, suggesting that Wanda may also speak it. She has also been shown to converse in fluent Cantonese through magical aid.
* **Occultism & Magical Knowledge:** Due to her mystic lore, Wanda is taught magic and witchcraft by Agatha Harkness and Doctor Strange. She also recently learns with her mother. Because of her power, knowledge, and experience, she is often the Avengers' go-to person for all things involving magic or the supernatural. Wanda taught Pixie a sleeping spell and taught the students of Strange Academy about the Elements of Chaos. She is considered to be one of Marvel's most prominent mystics.
* **Swimming:** Maximoff has displayed the ability to swim and fight in the water.

### Weaknesses

* **Unknown Anti-Magic Stone:** While Wanda's magic can alter the fabric of reality itself, there is an unknown stone that is immune to her power. Further investigation revealed that it is similar to mysterium, another anti-magic material, but not the same and it is of a lesser quality. As this rock is dubbed "low mysterium," presumably real mysterium is also impervious to Wanda's magic.
* **Metamorphis Curse Vulnerability:** Curses like those of the nosferatu and Red Curse affect this species exceptionally more than their relatives, the Homo sapiens.
	+ **Vampirism:** While the mystical enzymes in the saliva of the nosferatu made from H. sapiens will change them with into nosferatu within 36 hours, said same enzymes will complete the change in less time.
	+ **The Curse of the Red:** Because this curse originated from the Darkhold or Necrocomicon, the H. magi will fall to this curse in less than time than H. sapiens.
		- **Lycanthrope**

* **Human Inclination:** Pure Homo Magi fall in love with Homo Sapiens at the slightest sight.