Talk:Wanda Maximoff/@comment-28376163-20171001035702/@comment-5536445-20171001190157

Oh boy...

You know how Spider-Man has his saying, "with great power, comes great responsibility"? Well, if Spidey keeps himself in check and line with that motto, then so does Scarlet Witch, only it's much harder for her. See, she started out as a supervillain, forced by a guy claiming to be her dad to become a member of a mutant terrorist group with her much more willing brother, then she leaves this group and the guy she genuinely believed to be her dad. She then joined the Avengers, and fell in love with a robot. They got married, and since the robot was "real" enough, they wanted to have kids, only they couldn't actually have any. So she fabricated some as a result. It nearly caused the undoing of reality and she nearly drove herself insane doing so, killing her husband, her former teammates, and nearly devastating the world. Then, when she tries to fix everything in a controlled state, the X-Men show up and ruin everything. She rewrites reality again, and causes the near annihilation of a species. Then she gets her final chance to redeem herself, but screws up when she entrusts that chance to Doctor Doom, who accidentally wastes the power to make everything okay, and instead uses it to destroy all his enemies.

It really sucks to be Wanda Maximoff.

Because of all of these elements of her backstory, her desire to be a superhero is much more developed, but since her hex bolting and reality-warping powers have nearly caused the end of the world...thrice, she fears herself as a result. As a (presumed) mutant, she is ostricized by society, and the mutant community fears her just as much. And while the Avengers are the only ones to genuinely try to help her, she has to push them away as a result of her powers possibly getting out of hand.

As I said, it really sucks to be Wanda Maximoff.

So obviously, her character has received a lot of love from fans and critics alike. So of course, when she is finally eligible for an entrance to the big-screen, fans, newcomers, and critics all do their research to get a full understanding of her, and so far, the movies have it right, bar a few parts due to film rights between Fox and Disney.

Also, she's probably best known as the Avenger's first mutant member.