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Scarlet Witch

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Background[]

To say Wanda Maximoff had a complicated childhood would be an understatement. Wanda and her brother Pietro led difficult lives, barely surviving many dangerous and nearly fatal incidents. Eventually, the two would be forced to fend for themselves after the destruction of their home village, until they were eventually found by the mutant Magneto, who saved them from a mob of angry villagers and recruited them into his forces. It was then that the world would truly begin to know the power of Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch.

Wanda and Pietro would serve Magneto for a while, using their unique powers to accomplish their goals. Pietro, now known as the mutant Quicksilver, proved to be gifted with incredible speed. Scarlet Witch, on the other hand, proved to be a master of magic, specifically hexes capable of manipulating probability. Soon enough, however, the duo would depart from Magneto’s brotherhood and join the Avengers.

Being a part of this new group would lead to many new adventures for the witch, many of which would bring her great difficulty and grief. Though she eventually retired, marrying the android Vision and having children, those children were destroyed by Mephisto. This led to a convoluted sequence of events and a degradation of Wanda’s sanity, ultimately culminating in her rewriting reality for the worse.

Wanda removed nearly all of mutantkind from existence on M-Day, totally reshaping reality, completely changing it from what it was before. However, despite these difficulties and trials, she would ultimately succeed in overcoming her struggles. Reality was restored, she had new children, and she eventually conquered her archenemy Chthon once and for all. Wanda Maximoff now stands stronger than she ever was before, and ready to face any enemy who challenges her and the world she protects. It matters not how much magic her enemies have; the odds are never too low for the Scarlet Witch to overcome.

Powers & Abilities[]

  • 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:
    • Micro-Cellular Manipulation: Maximoff has the ability to mentally manipulate and levitate matter by means of psionic energy. She started training this power by moving wooden blocks around while imprisoned in Wolfgang von Strucker's secret facility. She pulled them apart with her power, and suspended them in the air, removing all motion and gravity from the pieces. Wanda's telekinesis is powerful enough to bend vibranium, as she managed to rip open the chest of Ultron's damaged primary body to summon his central processor to her hand, and was even strong enough to shatter the Mind Stone.
      • Psionic Energy Manipulation: Maximoff can project her own psionic and telekinetic energy as blasts, streams, waves and bolts. This energy manifests in any shape or form, outlining her telekinetic spheres of influence, as the energy is visible in a reddish color. When her energy hits a target, she can use her telekinesis to inflict further damage. Maximoff unleashed a wave of red psionic force that tore apart and disintegrated surrounding Ultron Sentries when she sensed her brother Pietro Maximoff's death, letting out a scream of anguish. She may have telekinetic healing capabilities, as she was shown beginning to mend Vision's wound from Corvus Glaive before being interrupted, however, she may have simply been repairing the damage at a molecular level since Vision is made from non-biological material. She proved herself capable of destroying the Mind Stone, due to her powers having a similar energy signature. She also showed the capability of multitasking while using her abilities, as she simultaneously held back Thanos with a second stream of psionic energy while destroying the Stone.
    • Neuro-Electric Sensitivity: Through a neuro-electric interface, Maximoff can manipulate the minds of others, and telepathically experience their memories and thoughts. In conjunction with using her hypnotic powers against the Avengers, she also viewed their member's memories. Maximoff can also sense the minds and emotions of those around her as she could see Stark's fear in an earlier encounter with her and sensed Pietro's death.
      • Hypnosis: Maximoff was able to deploy a form of mental inertness upon others through a sort of hypnosis. She was able to use this ability to cripple the Avengers, forcing them each to recall the darker events of their pasts and were put inside daydream-like visions of them, allowing them to be subdued by Ultron. When this ability is in use, Maximoff's reddish energy takes a more mist-like form, floating into the head of the victim in the form of neurons. The effects also distort the victim's irises, turning them red. This also allows her to control other people's actions, as she did with a considerable number of civilians. She can also manipulate the memory and sense of others at will, induce sleep or pain and create illusions.
        • Illusion Casting: 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
      • Magic Absorption: Wanda displayed the ability to absorb Agatha Harkness's Dark Magic and transform it into Chaos Magic, amplifying her own magic to an even greater extent.
    • 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.
    • 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 witch 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.
    • Gravity Manipulation: In a rare occasion, the Scarlet Witch has proven to be able to alter and control gravity. She has diminished the effect of gravity itself.
    • 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.
        • Aerokinesis: Able to magically manipulate air and oxygen.
        • Chlorokinesis: Able to magically manipulate plants.
        • Cryokinesis: Able to magically manipulate ice.
        • Electrokinesis: Able to magically manipulate electricity.
        • Ferrokinesis: Able to magically manipulate metal.
        • Geokinesis: Able to magically manipulate earth and rocks.
        • Geo-Thermokinesis: Able to magically manipulate lava.
        • Hydrokinesis: Able to magically manipulate water.
        • Photokinesis: Able to magically manipulate light.
        • Pyrokinesis: Able to magically manipulate fire.
        • Typhokinesis: Able to magically manipulate smoke.
        • Umbrakinesis: Able to magically manipulate darkness.
      • Organic Manipulation: Wanda can manipulate and control all things organic. She has manipulated wood and cotton thread against Moondragon.
      • Thermokinesis: Wanda can control and manipulate temperature. She has used her power to cool the lava which Dormammu needed for his regeneration.
      • Weather Control: 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.
    • 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.
    • 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).
    • 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.
    • Reality Manipulation: 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.
    • Replication: 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.
    • 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 align with good or evil.
    • Superpower Manipulation: Wanda Maximoff has demonstrated the power to manipulate superpowers of others by various means. Her magic allows her to control, absorb or steal, and boost or enhance any kind of superpowers that her targets have. Her magic also allows her to cancel, block, or negate the effect of her enemies' powers and reflect or redirect any power that is projected against Wanda herself.
    • 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.
      • Emotion Manipulation: Wanda has demonstrated the ability to affect and control the emotion of others. She is capable to feel the pain and anger of the Slorenian dead. She is also capable to induce fear of others.
    • Teleportation: Maximoff can teleport herself and others to any place she/they want across large distances. She was able to travel interdimensionally. 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.
    • 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. She was able to stop and slow down time. 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 change her clothes in an instant. She also has transmuted ice and snow into steam as well as transmuted Thor's lightning into butterflies.
    • 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.
    • Life Force & Telepathy Resistance: While acting as a conduit for the planet's Life Force, Wanda's powers were further amplified and not always under her conscious control; their effects persisted even after Dr. Strange's Eye of Agamotto shut down her mind. Even the combined efforts of the Sorcerer Supreme and Earth's most formidable psychic mind were unable to fully inhibit such effects for long. 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 nowhere and had also altered the entire Earth-616 reality at will, and permanently shifted the nature of all possible futures without realizing what she had done. Wanda was also shown to easily bring and wipe any in her own illusory reality from existence with but a thought. In the "House of M" reality that she created, her chaos wave was so powerful that even Meggan, who absorbed the power of the Beyonders, could only stop it for a few seconds. Wanda even cast one "spell" that caused the loss of most of the mutant population their powers, leaving only around three hundred powered mutants left, through the deletion of the Mutant Genome created by the near-omnipotent Celestials on a planetary scale. It was revealed by Doctor Strange to Beast that this lasting spell was of such complexity and strength that it had woven itself into reality and the world of magic itself, and that if he were to even to try to reverse it, all of reality would implode. Wanda was even able of heal the severely damaged legs of Charles Xavier while all his Earth and alien friends, allies, and colleagues efforts (including even giving Xavier a new body) apparently failed for countless years. Wanda was also able to resurrect and reanimate the dead (as she did with Wonder Man, Jack of Hearts, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Agatha Harkness, and Mad Jim Jaspers).
  • Hexes: 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 purpose, such as to destroy or hit objects or people with a great force, illuminate an area, etc, as well as, generate energy constructions such as force fields or screens of hex energy.
  • 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.

Equipment[]

  • Crystal Ball: Wanda has used the crystal ball in order to communicate with Agatha.
  • Falcon: Early in her career, Maximoff has shown to have a trained Falcon. But now, it is still unclear, whether if she still has it or not.
  • Darkhold: Wanda has the true Darkhold inside her, bound to her body and soul.

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  • Emotionally Fragile: Wanda was very close to her brother Pietro, making her emotionally vulnerable once he died.
  • Lack of Field Experience: Wanda lack of tactical training can hinder her reactions in a crisis situation, despite receiving lessons from Steve and Natasha.
  • Mental Illness: Although she appears to be currently sane, her mental stability is still questionable. Wanda has undergone mental breakdowns, episodes of mental illness, and severe suicidal depression relating to her powers and personal traumas. Even so, Wanda has admitted that her mental health is better.
  • Overextension: Despite this enhanced precision, her hexes were not necessarily guaranteed to work, particularly if she had been straining herself or using her powers excessively. If overextended, her hexes could backfire, causing probability to work against her wishes or to undo previous hexes.
    • Perception Range: Her range of hex-casting was limited by her line of sight. (She couldn't watch a live television broadcast and cause a hex-phenomenon to occur at its point of origin.)
    • Physical Condition: Hexes had a degree of unreliability, which was further affected by her physical condition: when well rested, in good health, and mentally and emotionally alert, Scarlet Witch could cast numerous hex-spheres in rapid succession and attain desirable results for almost an hour.
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