| “ | Wanda: You took everything from me! Thanos: I don't even know who you are. Wanda: You will. |
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| ~ Scarlet Witch to Thanos in Avengers: Endgame. |
| “ | In a given space, only the witch who cast them can use her magic.' Thanks for the lesson. But I don't need you to tell me who I am. | „ |
| ~ Scarlet Witch to Agatha Harkness. |
Wanda Maximoff, better known as the Scarlet Witch, is a major character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is a Sokovian native alongside her brother Pietro Maximoff, who became Scarlet Witch 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, however, she became corrupted by its 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 Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Admirable?[]
In General[]
- She genuinely cares for many people, such as Vision, her two children, Pietro, as well as the rest of the Avengers.
- While most of her admirable acts are shared with the Avengers, she ultimately stands out by sacrificing herself to destroy every version of the Darkhold in the multiverse, preventing anyone else from abusing its power and causing the same multiversal disaster she did.
Avengers: Age of Ultron[]
- She and her brother Pietro were unaware of Ultron's plan when they first joined him and betrayed him as soon as they found out, defecting to the Avengers in redemption.
- She and Pietro help Captain America stop a runaway train, saving the lives of everyone onboard.
- She was utterly broken when Pietro was killed by Ultron, even pulling out Ultron's core in a grieving rage.
Captain America: Civil War[]
- She protected civilians from Crossbones.
- She was remorseful when she accidentally blew up a building and killed 26 people trying to stop Crossbones' bomb, but Captain America comforts her blaming himself for hesitating when Crossbones mentioned Bucky.
- Although she crushed Vision sending him several floors below, it's only because he wouldn't let her leave Avengers HQ and she already tried settling things with him peacefully beforehand.
- She joined Captain America's Anti-Accords team and helps him and Bucky escape Tony Stark's Pro-Accords team, getting herself arrested for doing so. Notably, she prevents Bucky from being killed by a vengeful Black Panther, who would later realize his mistake.
Avengers: Infinity War[]
- She protected Vision from Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight.
- She refused to sacrifice Vision's life to destroy the Mind Stone to prevent Thanos from getting it, trying to find another way to safely remove the Mind Stone from Vision's forehead without killing him.
- She stayed in the lab with Vision to protect him during the extraction procedure, only leaving him behind to save Black Widow and Okoye from being killed by spinning blades.
- She killed Proxima Midnight by levitating her into her own spinning blades, saving Natasha's life.
- At Vision's urging, she hesitantly and tearfully killed him by destroying the Mind Stone in his forehead to keep Thanos from getting it while also holding back Thanos. When Thanos resurrected Vision with the Time Stone, she screamed "NO!" and tried to save Vision, only to be knocked aside by Thanos.
- While being turned to dust by Thanos's snap, she accepted her fate and smiled.
Avengers: Endgame[]
- After being resurrected by Hulk's snap, Wanda joined the final battle against Thanos to save the universe.
- She nearly killed Thanos in a vengeful rage over Vision's death, only being stopped when Thanos ordered an air strike on the battlefield.
- She mourned Tony's death and attended his funeral along with the other Avengers, despite her past misgivings.
- She comforts Hawkeye while he grieves Natasha's death, assuring him she and Vision know the Avengers ultimately won.
WandaVision[]
- She wanted to give Vision a proper burial and calls out Tyler Hayward for treating him as a weapon.
- While she did break in after Hayward refused to give her Vision's body, she didn't steal Vision's body like Hayward claimed nor harmed anyone; she just said goodbye to Vision and left tearfully.
- She created The Hex around Westview unconsciously out of grief of losing Vision and for a while, she wasn't even fully aware of it or how it came to be.
- She defended her family from Agatha and S.W.O.R.D.
- She saved the S.W.O.R.D agents when Agatha nearly killed them, even though the agents were trying to kill her and her family under Hayward's orders.
- She defeated Agatha by stealing her powers and trapping her in Westview as "Agnes", the character she pretended to be while spying on Wanda.
- After realizing what her grief had caused, she freed the people of Westview from The Hex despite knowing that removing The Hex would cause her family to disappear.
- She exiled herself out of shame for the disaster she caused.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness[]
- She wanted to find her children Billy and Tommy in another universe, kickstarting her hunt on America Chavez to steal her dimension-travelling powers.
- Even after becoming his enemy, she tried to reason with Doctor Strange into giving her America and gave him a chance to surrender showing she didn't want to kill him.
- She redeemed herself after seeing the terror on Billy and Tommy's faces, finally realizing what her actions had done and sacrificed herself to destroy every copy of the Darkhold in the multiverse.
- Her overall actions were driven by the Darkhold's influence meaning she had moral agency issues. However, this was caused by her own accord since she chose to study the Darkhold despite knowing it's dark magic.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- During Hawkeye's fight with Black Widow, she forcibly threw the latter into a nearby machine, coldly remarking his reservations on fighting his best friend as pulling his punches.
- She constantly acts hostile to a lot of people if they push her buttons, which even includes her husband, Vision.
- Her vengeance against 2014 Thanos shows she can be lethal even while being a heroine.
- After Thanos' defeat, she infamously fell back into villainy because of her losses and grief, showing she is on and off to an extent.
- She enslaved all of Westview by turning it into a sitcom out of grief of losing Vision. While this was an accident, she initially didn't care how the sitcom began.
- In Multiverse of Madness, she gave into the Darkhold's influence and caused lots of deaths and destruction in an attempt to get her kids back.
- In the aforementioned movie, moments before killing Mr. Fantastic, she asks him if the mother of his children is still alive. When he confirms she is, Wanda says "Good, there will be someone left to raise them.", basically using this an excuse to kill him and saying that his life doesn't matter as long as the children aren't raised alone. This makes her a hypocrite since she already experienced the pain of losing her lover, even creating The Hex because of it, and now likely causes another woman to have to go through a similar heartbreak.
Trivia[]
- Scarlet Witch is, alongside Strange Supreme and Deadpool, one of the three MCU Inconsistently Admirable heroes to also be Inconsistently Heinous.
External Links[]
- Scarlet Witch on the Heroes Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Villains Wiki
- Scarlet Witch on the Inconsistently Heinous 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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