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| “ | Sending those creatures after her instead of myself was mercy. And in spite of your hypocrisies and insults, I have begged you to safely get out of my way. You have exhausted my patience, but I do hope you understand that even now, what's about to happen... this is me being reasonable. | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch to Doctor Strange, before her assault on Kamar-Taj. |
Wanda Maximoff, better known as the Scarlet Witch, is a major character, as well as an on and off antagonist, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is a Sokovian native alongside her brother Pietro Maximoff, who became driven by revenge against Tony Stark after his weapons were used in a bombing which accidentally killed her parents. However, Wanda and Pietro abandon their grudge to stop Ultron's destruction of humanity. Upon these events, she becomes a kind-hearted, yet sometimes ruthless, Avenger.
However, after Vision's death and after the defeat of Thanos, Wanda takes control of the town of Westview to create her own perfect reality, as a way of coping with her past traumas and depression, but in doing so, also inadvertently traps the town's inhabitants, not letting them escape her idea of a perfect world. Realizing the harm and damage she had done to others, she decided to let her simulacrum family go and put herself in exile.
When she began to study the Darkhold to refine her powers, she instead became corrupted by it's dark magic and fell under the delusion that she would find her children in another universe. Learning of America Chavez and her ability to travel across the multiverse, she started a rampage in pursuit of power, in order to find her children and the idyllic life she once had, leading her to coming in conflict with her former friend, Doctor Strange, as well as the Masters of the Mystic Arts.
Wanda ultimately realized she had been driven insane by the Darkhold and had been twisted by her own grief and longing for family. In repentance, she destroyed Mount Wundagore, along with every Darkhold in the multiverse, seemingly taking her own life in the process.
She is portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Heinous?[]
In General[]
- Despite the high Heinous Standards of the MCU, her crimes of trapping a town with thousands of innocents for a full month with them in mental anguish (while this was an accident, she initially didn't care and kept it going anyway), killing hundreds of people, delivering the most graphic deaths in the MCU, and her willingness to use her own alternate versions, risking the destruction of multiple universes in the process, makes her stand out.
- While she does have many comedic moments in WandaVision and in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, they don't distract from her heinous actions and she's still taken serious in-universe.
Avengers: Age of Ultron[]
- She and Pietro initially ally themselves with Ultron, believing he can help them take revenge on Tony Stark and the Avengers.
- She attacked several of the Avengers, such as knocking Captain America away from Strucker.
- She helped Ultron with his plans, including doing nothing when he severed Klaue's arm and tried to kill the Avengers.
- Uses her powers to infiltrate the Avengers' minds, exploiting their fears and vulnerabilities.
- She influences Tony Stark's mind, causing him to see a vision of a future where the Avengers are dead and Earth is destroyed, in hopes he would self-destruct and destroy himself, smiling wickedly at this prospect. This would lead him to create Ultron.
- Manipulates Bruce Banner's mind, causing the Hulk to go on a rampage in Johannesburg, resulting in significant destruction and civilian deaths. Bruce and the Hulk would both be horrified at this, causing the latter to flee the planet in self-exile and wound up on Sakaar.
- Makes Black Widow relive traumatic memories from her past, particularly her training in the Red Room.
- Makes Captain America experience a vision of a life he could have had with Peggy Carter, filled with regret and longing.
- Causes Thor to see apocalyptic visions related to Asgard, contributing to his fears about the impending Ragnarok.
- Attempted to mind control Hawkeye, only for the latter to resist her.
- She and Pietro work to thwart the Avengers' efforts to support Ultron, including during the theft of Vibranium from Ulysses Klaue.
Between Avengers: Age of Ultron and WandaVision[]
- Even after redeeming herself, she still retains several negative qualities such as her lethality towards Hawkeye during Civil War, her hostility towards people who push her buttons (including Vision) and her giving into revenge over Vision’s death when fighting 2014 Thanos.
WandaVision[]
- Creates a hexagonal-shaped reality around Westview, New Jersey, where she constructs a sitcom-like existence with Vision and her children. This reality-warping act unintentionally traps thousands of residents within her created world, altering their lives and memories to fit into her idealized sitcom setting.
- Within the Hex, Wanda exerted mind control over the residents of Westview, stripping them of their free will and forcing them to play roles in her sitcom-like world.
- Each resident was assigned a specific role in her sitcom, stripping them of their free will and personal identity.
- She caused Vision's boss to nearly choke to death on food due to asking too many questions.
- The residents of Westview experienced immense psychological distress due to Wanda's control, with some even expressing the torment they felt while being aware of their situation but unable to act against it.
- Wanda’s actions indirectly put the children of Westview in danger, including creating her own children within the Hex who were affected by the instability of the reality she created.
- When Monica (as Geraldine) attempted to reason with Wanda, she responded with hostility and expelled her from the Hex.
- When Vision questioned the nature of their reality, Wanda rewound and altered events to maintain her fabricated world.
- She makes the S.W.O.R.D. soldiers point their guns at their own director, Tyler Hayward, threatening violence if they continue to challenge her control over the hex.
- When Vision attempted to leave the Hex to get help, Wanda expanded the boundaries of her reality, trapping even more people inside.
- She levitated Monica and nearly dropped her to her death, but Monica survived thanks to her new powers.
- She refused to revoke the hex despite Vision begging her to do it as he realized civilians were in mental anguish,
- Despite Vision's pleas and the evident mental anguish of the residents, Wanda initially refuses to revoke the hex and release the trapped individuals. Keeping the hex until Agatha Harkness' defeat.
- While she released everyone (except Agatha Harkness), she did nothing to help console them after what she did to them, though she may not have approached them because they didn't want anything to do with her.
- Additionally, when talking to Monica, she was more concerned about what the Westview residents thought of her without acknowledging anything she did to them.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness[]
- Used the Darkhold, a book of dark magic known to corrupt its users, to enhance her powers.
- She sent several monsters to kill America Chavez, a child, one of which killed Defender Strange.
- She sent a demon, Gargantos, after America in a city, endangering several civilians and possibly killing others.
- In spite of being warned by the Doctor Strange of Earth-199999 multiple times that her actions could destroy the multiverse, Wanda refused to listen and continued her crusade to reunite with her children.
- Attacks Kamar-Taj, the stronghold of the sorcerers, causing massive destruction and killing hundreds of sorcerers in her pursuit of America Chavez.
- She tried to kill America and take her powers to reunite with her fake children.
- She forced Wong to help under the threat of her killing his other sorcerers after torturing them in front of him.
- She planned to possess her Earth-838 counterpart and kill her to replace her and take her children.
- It's stated by Doctor Strange that Wanda will tear Earth-838 apart to the last atom to get her kids due to the strain on the universe's barriers caused by the dreamwalk, which would risk the presence of an incursion that would annihilate said universe, which she would do to any universe she has to in order to get her kids back.
- She nearly killed Wong by throwing him over a cliff when she no longer had use for him and when he irritated her with his comments.
- Attacked the Illuminati headquarters on Earth-838, destroying Ultron Sentries and causing fires.
- Although the majority were thoroughly unsympathetic, she brutally murdered the Illuminati by:
- Killing Black Bolt by removing his mouth, causing him to panic and omit a sonic scream that exploded inside his head.
- Killing Reed Richards by tearing his body apart, turning him into spaghetti and popping his head, despite knowing he has children. This makes her a hypocrite since she caused his wife to suffer a heartbreak similar to hers.
- Killing Captain Carter by throwing her shield right at her, sending it through her torso and cutting her in half.
- Killing Captain Marvel (Maria Rambeau) by depowering and dropping a statue on top of her.
- Killing Charles Xavier in her head by breaking his neck while he was in her Earth-838 counterpart’s mind.
- What's worse, she possessed her Earth-838 counterpart while killing the Illuminati, forcing her counterpart to bear guilt for their deaths and likely any punishment that she would be given.
- Without the Illuminati, Earth-838 is much more vulnerable to attack from future threats, meaning she jeopardized the safety of this Earth for her own selfish desires.
- Threatens an alternate version of Christine Palmer during her pursuit of Doctor Strange and America Chavez.
- She tried to kill Doctor Strange (while possessing Defender Strange's dead body) and America Chavez again.
- She attacked her Earth-838 counterpart and screamed at her children when they defended her, coming right on the edge of being an abusive mother.
Agatha all Along[]
- Westview's citizens were so traumatised by what happened that they avoided speaking her name even three years later. In fact, half of the population moved out of the town.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- Once she and her brother learn Ultron's true intentions, they redeem themselves by uniting with The Avengers to defeat Ultron; she also acknowledged her fault in Ultron's threat.
- Wanda later becomes a full-on hero by joining The Avengers and defeating Thanos and saving half of Earth.
- She's tragic due to the following reasons:
- From a young age, Wanda has endured profound loss and trauma. She and her twin brother Pietro were orphaned at a young age due to a Stark Industries bomb that killed their parents during a conflict in Sokovia. This event fueled their resentment towards Stark Industries and the Avengers, whom they blamed for their suffering.
- Her brother Pietro got killed after shielding Hawkeye from bullets fired by Quinjet, which led to her sorrow.
- In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos killed Vision to obtain the Mind Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones needed for his plan to erase half of all life in the universe. This was particularly traumatic for Wanda because she was forced to destroy the Mind Stone—and Vision along with it—to prevent Thanos from getting it, only for Thanos to reverse time and kill Vision again to retrieve the stone. Due to this, she is played for sympathy multiple times.
- She cares about many people:
- Wanda's relationship with Vision is one of the most central and profound connections in her life. Their bond evolves from teammates in the Avengers to lovers who share a unique understanding due to their extraordinary abilities and experiences. Wanda's grief over Vision's death drives much of her actions in WandaVision, where she attempts to create a reality where they can be together.
- Her brother Pietro was her closest family member before his death in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
- Wanda manifests her twin sons, Billy and Tommy, within her constructed reality. Despite their origin as fictional constructs, Wanda develops a genuine maternal bond with them. And furthermore, she risked the destruction of multiverse only to find them.
- She created the hex around Westview unconsciously out of grief of losing Vision and for a while was not fully aware of it or how it came to be. After becoming aware of it, she still didn't know how much the citizens were been psychologically harmed by it until the very end, when she was confronted by Agatha and then by the citizens themselves.
- In WandaVision, Wanda releases Westview from the hex upon realizing the extent of the mental torture it was causing to the residents, which shows that her growth in morality, as she prioritizes the well-being of others over her personal gains to keep her family (Vision and their children) alive within the hex.
- Due to the Darkhold influencing her, she has clear moral agency issues in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, although granted, she became influenced on her own accord since she chose to study the Darkhold despite knowing it was dark magic, so this is a fairly minor prevention.
- Spares Agatha's life after the latter became powerless and defeated. Saying she might return and free her from the spell if she need her help which sadly nerver happened.
- She showed mercy by letting Strange go, proving she didn't want to kill him.
- She has standards as she while did kill Mr. Fantastic after being told if his children has an mother alive, it means she likely has standards against orphaning children even if she was hypocritical in this situation.
- After realizing how atrocious her actions had become after seeing her children terrified of her deeds, she redeems herself by sacrificing her life to destroy Wundagore Mountain and all the Darkholds.
Trivia[]
- She, her What If? counterpart and her comic counterpart are the only versions of Scarlet Witch to be Inconsistently Heinous.
- According to Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline book, Wanda indeed died from the rocks that crushed her on Mount Wundagore. This makes sense because she believed she needed to die to take the knowledge of the Darkhold with her and she has no will to live after she failed to achieve her dream of having a family.
- This is not necessarily the end of her character story, as she might be revived by some means, most likely in Avengers: Doomsday.
- Along with Deadpool and Strange Supreme, they are the only MCU characters to be Inconsistently Heinous and Inconsistently Admirable.
External Links[]
- Scarlet Witch on the Villains Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Heroes Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Marvel Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Marvel Movies Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Disney Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the VS Battles Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Wikipedia
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