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|Character Name = Wanda Maximoff
  
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|movie = ''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]''<br>''[[Avengers: Age of Ultron]]''<br>''[[Captain America: Civil War]]''<br>''[[Avengers: Infinity War]]''<br>''[[Avengers: Endgame]]''<br>''[[WandaVision]]''<br>''[[Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness]]''
 
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==Powers and Abilities==
  
==Powers and Abilities==
 
===Powers===
  
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*'''Superhuman Physiology:''' Wanda and her brother Pietro are classified as "Enhanced" by the [[Avengers (team)|Avengers]], as a result of them exposure to the cosmic energies from the [[Loki]]'s scepter, which contained the [[Mind Stone]]. Due this, Wanda Maximoff acquired an array of psionic powers which manifest themselves as reddish, glowing energy currents and mist-like shapes from her hands.
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*'''Superhuman Physiology:''' Wanda and her brother Pietro are classified as "Enhanced" by the Avengers. The twins were experimented on by Strucker using Loki's scepter. The ending results gave the twins different and unique power sets as a result. Some of Wanda's abilities are a form of raw, untrained magic.
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**'''[[Telekinesis]]:''' Wanda can telekinetically move objects or other individuals without physically touching them; she can affect and control molecules and particles, as well as physical forces such as kinetic energy, friction, pressure, density, state of matter, gravity pressure, vectors, etc. Wanda's telekinetically energy is a visible red color.
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**'''[[Ergokinesis|Psionic Energy Manipulation]]:''' Maximoff can project energy blasts, streams, waves and bolts of her own psionic and telekinetic energy, allowing her to hit, push/pull or blow away her targets, potentially exerting enough force to destroy them. 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. Sometimes, Maximoff will lose control of her powers due to emotional turmoil, such as when she 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 proved herself capable of destroying the [[Mind Stone]], due to her powers having a similar energy signature. Maximoff could also use her psionic energy streams to enhance the powers behind her attacks, such as when she first used her telekinesis to bring [[Vision]] to his knees and then use a dense stream of energy to force him through several floors and several feet into the ground. Maximoff also utilized this power to knock back [[Proxima Midnight]] and [[Corvus Glaive]], and later used another blast to throw Corvus Glaive through the wall of a bell tower. She also showed the capability of multitasking while using her abilities, as she simultaneously held back [[Thanos]] with a stream from one hand while simultaneously destroying the Mind Stone with a stream of energy from her other hand. She was also able to use her telekinesis with one hand to stop [[Thanos (Time Heist 2014)|Thanos]]' sword in midair while also using a powerful energy blast with her other hand to cleave it into two pieces. In her second encounter with Thanos, Maximoff's energy blasts were powerful enough to force Thanos to go on the defensive against her and were enough to knock him back and make him stumble backwards even when he blocked them with his sword. She can also utilize her psionic energy in a neurological way to manipulate the thoughts and memories of others, akin to telepathy.
  
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**'''[[Flight|Levitation]]:''' Due to Wanda's telekinesis; she is able to move herself through the air and simulate flight, in order to hover and safely float back to the ground.
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***'''[[Telekinesis]]:''' Maximoff has the ability to move, levitate and otherwise manipulate objects using her psionic energy. Maximoff uses this energy to affect and control molecules and particles, allowing her to fully control matter. Maximoff started training this power by moving wooden blocks around while imprisoned in [[Wolfgang von Strucker]]'s secret facility. Maximoff pulled them apart with her power, and suspended them in the air. Maximoff used this power to stop an off-rail train in Seoul, tear apart [[Ultron Sentries]] and rip out the central processor of [[Ultron]]'s primary body, which was made of [[Vibranium]]. Maximoff's telekinesis can control a soldier's gunfire and throw him away, lift [[Steven Rogers|Captain America]] into the air to enter a building, hurl aside [[Natalia Romanoff|Black Widow]] and [[T'Challa|Black Panther]], hurl cars at [[Anthony Stark|Iron Man]] and [[Peter Parker|Spider-Man]], extract and dissipate an enormous amount of gas, and even hold up a collapsed watchtower for several minutes to allow Captain America and [[James Barnes|Bucky]] to escape. Maximoff was also capable of using her energy to slow the chemical reaction within [[Brock Rumlow|Crossbone]]'s explosive vest by reducing the particles' kinetic energy on a molecular level, although it caused her great strain due to the massive energy the reaction induced once it had started. She was even able to bring the immensely powerful [[Vision]] to his knees and blast him vertically down through a building's many floors. Her 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]]. She was also able to stop a massive line of Threshers and redirect them at [[Thanos]]' [[Outriders]], as well as hold back a [[Leviathans|Chitauri Leviathan]]. During her second fight with [[Thanos (Time Heist 2014)|Thanos]], she lifted and flung large portions of debris at him. She then was able to use her telekinesis to hold back Thanos' sword even with the Titan using both of his arms in an attempt to overpower her, and was able to weaken its structural integrity, causing cracks to appear in it, before finally using an energy blast to cleave it in two. She then incapacitated him by lifting him into the air and began to crush his body, snapping off significant portions of his armor. She displayed great degrees of precision with her telekinesis, such as when she used it to heal Vision by telekinetically repairing his body on a molecular level, and remove a copious volume of poisonous gas by spreading her energy throughout every molecule of gas and making it dissipate into the atmosphere.
  
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**'''[[Telepathy]]:''' Wanda can telepathically read minds or communicate and experience memories and thoughts of other individuals or project her own thoughts through a neuro-electric interface. Whenever Wanda utilizes her telepathic powers; both of her eyes sometimes glow dark red, especially when she concentrate it on certain targets.
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***'''[[Psychic Shield|Force-Field Generation]]:''' Maximoff is able to create a highly durable barrier of energy that she can shape and conform as needed. She used it to grab and break apart targets, protect others from enemy fire, contain a target or to cover and deflect attacks from enemies, such as [[Ultron Sentries]]. Like any physical barriers, the barrier could be broken with extreme brute force, as the Sentries were able to eventually break it. Later, Wanda learned to project her energy around herself, constructing a close-to-the-body psionic armor to protect herself from extreme impacts, such as falls from great heights or blows from superhumanly strong combatants, increasing her durability to a significant degree. This allowed her to land safely whenever she crash lands, as well as defending her against the might of superhuman combatants.
  
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**'''[[Mind Control]]:''' Wanda is able to deploy a form of mental manipulation, often as a type of illusory hypnosis, using the same neuro-electric interface that allows her telepathy.
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***'''[[Flight|Levitation]]:''' Maximoff is able to use this power to move through the air and simulate flight, in order to hover and safely float back to the ground. The use of this power manifests as a blast of psionic energy expelled from her hands onto the ground to propel herself up in the air, with a second blast used to slow her momentum as she approaches ground allowing her to land safely. Maximoff's power grew over time to the point where she could project herself, along with [[Vision]], far higher into the air and for much longer than before. After her resurrection and empowerment, she was able to effortlessly levitate several feet into the air while simultaneously lifting two massive pieces of rubble, no longer needing to actively project energy from her hands to levitate herself, and later flew through the air to intercept a [[Leviathans|Leviathan]] before it could attack [[Brunnhilde|Valkyrie]].
  
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**'''[[Phobikinesis]]:''' Wanda can elicit fear or emotional pain in an individual in the form of nightmarish hallucinations; that could stun and weaken even an individual as powerful as [[Thor Odinson|Thor]].
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***'''[[Mind Control|Mind Manipulation]]:''' Maximoff was able to deploy a form of mental manipulation, often as a type of illusory hypnosis, using the same neuro-electric interface that is the basis of her telepathic powers. When using her power, her irises sometimes glow a dark reddish color, especially when she concentrates it on specific targets. She was able to use this ability to cripple the [[Avengers (team)|Avengers]], forcing them each to recall the darker events of their pasts and placing them inside daydream-like visions that rendered them nearly helpless. 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 iris coloration, causing them to shine a dark reddish color. This also allows her to control other people's actions, as she did with a considerable number of civilians in [[Sokovia]] to aid in their evacuation, causing them to experience a form of sleepwalking and making them all get up and leave the city. Maximoff's mental power is even strong enough to reverse the effects of the [[Mind Stone]], one of the most powerful objects in existence, as shown when she freed [[Helen Cho]] from the stone's control. She can also manipulate the memory, thoughts, actions, emotions, and senses of others at will, as well as to induce sleep or pain and create illusions without any difficulty. Maximoff could use her telepathy to affect the [[Mind Stone]], such as when she forced used her power to make Vision phase through [[Clint Barton|Hawkeye]] to release him.
 
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**'''[[Psychic Shield|Psionic Force-Field Generation]]:''' Wanda can create a highly durable barrier of energy that she can shape and deform as she needed to.
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***'''[[Phobikinesis|Fear Manipulation]]:''' Wanda can elicit fear or emotional pain in an individual in the form of nightmarish hallucinations; that could stun and weaken even an individual as powerful as [[Thor Odinson|Thor]]. These visions can depict things that a person fears, regrets, or general disturbances, though the nature of it is not up to Maximoff. She does seem to be able to know what her victim is seeing and be inside the vision with them without them being aware of her presence.
  
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**'''[[Energy Blast]]s:''' Wanda can generate bright red energy from both her hands, and can harness it to create energy blasts. Wanda can also project energy blasts, orbs, waves and bolts, by projecting her own psionic and kinetic energy, or gathering particles, molecules and physical forces into a contained space, allowing her to either blow, destroy, push/pull or direct her hits at her opponents.
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***'''[[Telepathy]]:''' Maximoff can read minds, communicate telepathically, and experience the memories and thoughts of others. She also used this ability to temporarily merge her consciousness with [[Ultron]]'s, and it was thanks to this that she was able to discover his genocidal intentions and rebel against him. Maximoff can also sense the minds and emotions of those around her as she could see [[Anthony Stark|Stark]]'s fear in their first encounter and sensed [[Pietro Maximoff|Quicksilver]]'s death, knowing exactly what happened to him as if she had been there in person. aximoff can also use her psionic energy to read the [[Mind Stone]] and state that she felt [[Vision]]'s consciousness.
  
   
 
===Abilities===
  
===Abilities===
 
*'''Bilingualism:''' As a native Sokovian, Wanda speaks that language fluently, in addition to English (albeit initially with a thick Sokovian accent which faded).
  
*'''Bilingualism:''' As a native Sokovian, Wanda speaks that language fluently, in addition to English (albeit initially with a thick Sokovian accent which faded).
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*'''Skilled Hand-To-Hand Combatant:''' Wanda initially had poor combat skills, as she had no combat skills or training, after becoming a member of the [[Avengers (team)|Avengers]], Wanda received extensive training in hand-to-hand combat from [[Steven Rogers|Captain America]] and [[Natalia Romanoff|Black Widow]] so became a skilled hand-to-hand combatant. Maximoff had become skilled enough that she was able to engage [[Proxima Midnight]], a combatant deadly enough to overpower [[Okoye]] and [[Natalia Romanoff|Black Widow]], in close-quarters combat and defend herself adequately, although she was nearly killed several times. After being resurrected, Maximoff, now more powerful than ever and fueled by rage over Vision's death, was able to face [[Thanos (Time Heist 2014)|Thanos]] directly in close range combat, managing to subdue and almost defeat him, had it not been for his air strike that knocked her back.
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*'''Skilled Hand-To-Hand Combatant:''' Wanda initially had poor combat skills, as she had no combat skills or training, after becoming a member of the [[Avengers (team)|Avengers]], Wanda received extensive training in hand-to-hand combat from [[Steven Rogers|Captain America]] and [[Natalia Romanoff|Black Widow]] so became a skilled hand-to-hand combatant.
 
*'''Skilled Spy:''' Wanda received extensive training in espionage from Black Widow, as she taught how to hide in plain sight; such as masking her thick Sokovian accent with an American one.
  
*'''Skilled Spy:''' Wanda received extensive training in espionage from Black Widow, as she taught how to hide in plain sight; such as masking her thick Sokovian accent with an American one.
   
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Elizabeth Olsen Explains The Origins Of The Scarlet Witch Allure
  
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Wanda Maximoff Throughout the MCU (Including Wandavision!)
 
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Revision as of 21:00, 18 January 2021

"Everyone's afraid of something."
―Wanda Maximoff[src]

Wanda Maximoff, also known as Scarlet Witch, is a superhuman who possesses hypnotic and telekinetic powers. She is the younger twin sister of the late Pietro Maximoff. Wanda was a native of the Eastern European country of Sokovia who grew up with her twin brother, Pietro. In an effort to help their country, the twins agreed to undergo experiments with the Scepter containing the Mind Stone under the supervision of Wolfgang von Strucker's HYDRA cell, and received powers as a result, with Wanda attaining various abilities including telekinesis, telepathy, and energy manipulation. When HYDRA fell, the twins allied with Ultron to get their revenge on Tony Stark, but eventually switched sides and joined the Avengers when they discovered Ultron's true intentions. Although Pietro was killed during the fight, Wanda survived and became a member of the Avengers. During the Avengers Civil War, she sided with Steve Rogers and was briefly imprisoned in the Raft before Rogers freed her along with his teammates.

Over the next few years, Wanda started a romantic relationship with Vision and together the two started living off the grid in Europe. However, the two soon came under threat from Thanos and the Black Order, who sought the Infinity Stone in Vision's head. After coming under attack by the Order, the two Avengers reunited with their teammates and sought refuge in Wakanda. Wanda partook in the city's defense when the Black Order launched a major assault against it, and during the battle, she managed to destroy the Mind Stone in attempt to stop Thanos, killing Vision in the process. However, the Mad Titan completely overpowered Wanda and used the Time Stone to reverse Vision's destruction. He then took the stone from Vision destroying him in the process and completed the Infinity Gauntlet. After he snapped his fingers, Wanda disintegrated into ashes alongside Sam Wilson, T'Challa, Bucky Barnes and Groot when Thanos wiped out half of every civilization in the universe with the completed Infinity Gauntlet.

Biography

Avengers: Age of Ultron Prelude - This Scepter'd Isle

As HYDRA was harnessing the power of the scepter for a variety of effects, such as powering paraphernalia ranging from their own technology to Chitauri tech recovered from New York, Strucker approaches a group of Sokovian rioters, offering them the power needed to save their country. Among the rioters are twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff. The Sokovians agree, and each undergo a number of tests where they are exposed to the scepter's energy; out of all of the test subjects, only the Maximoffs survive.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Wolfgang von Strucker led a HYDRA scientist to "the twins", and declared it was the "age of miracles". Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were held in separate cells in a HYDRQ outpost in Sokovia.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Scarlet Witch and her brother are seen in the building in Sokovia that the Avengers are attacking in order to take back Loki's Scepter. The twins, against Strucker's wishes, help out HYDRA against the Avengers. While Quicksilver went into the field, Scarlet Witch stayed behind and manipulated the mind of Iron Man when he infiltrated the building. She made him see a dark setting set in space where the rest of his teammates were either deceased or dying, with Captain America pointing out that Stark could have saved them. Scarlet Witch then allows Iron Man to steal the Scepter with the hopes that his inner thoughts would consume him.

Upon arrival to Avengers Tower, Maria Hill debriefs Captain America on the twins they encountered and the powers they used. Stark and Bruce Banner analyze the Scepter and deem it an appropriate mechanism to jumpstart their global peacekeeping program, Ultron. Ultron eventually goes rogue and the artificial intelligence escapes, bringing the Scepter with him.

At an abandoned building in Sokovia, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are summoned by Ultron, who is now in a rudimentary body made up of resources found in Strucker's former base. The twins, having opened up about their hatred for Iron Man, join Ultron's crusade. They travel to Wakanda and apprehend Ulysses Klaue for access to his vibranium stockpile. The Avengers arrive and a short battle ensues. The team is rendered unable to fight due to Scarlet Witch's mind manipulations and the Ultron escapes with the vibranium. Captain America sees a vision of what his life could have been if he was not frozen, with Peggy Carter asking him to dance. Thor is startled by an aggravated Heimdall who yells at Thor for not saving Asgard. Black Widow envisions her former life at the KGB and recalls the extreme tactics that were employed to make her the perfect assassin. Having been subdued by Hawkeye, she leaves the shipyard with her brother, and she then decides to manipulate Banner. Banner's vision is unseen but it causes him to turn into a hyper-aggressive Hulk that destroys the neighboring city.

Ultron and the twins travel to Seoul and force Avengers ally Dr. Helen Cho to use her technology to generate a new body for Ultron made of the stolen vibranium and organic matter. As Ultron uploads his programming into the new matter, Scarlet Witch is able to read the mind of his new body - being made out of synthetic tissue instead of pure inorganic matter - and discovers his scheme to bring about human extinction. Horrified by this revelation, she and her brother turn on Ultron and decide to join the Avengers who have arrived in Korea to save Cho, take back the Scepter, and claim the organic-metal body. After the Avengers fight amongst themselves in Avengers Tower, the team, now joined by the twins and the newly-formed Vision, travels to Sokovia to stop Ultron.

In Sokovia, Ultron has built an anti-gravity machine that would allow the city to rise above the Earth and then impact the Earth, satisfying his goal. The Avengers fight Ultron's army and help the Sokovian citizens get to safety. Quicksilver is killed by Ultron and this causes a vengeful Scarlet Witch to abandon her post and attack Ultron. This allows a drone to activate the machine and the city quickly plummets. Scarlet Witch destroys Ultron's body, rendering the robot obsolete. The city is destroyed by Iron Man and Thor, and the Vision destroys the last drone.

At the new Avengers base in upstate New York, Scarlet Witch is seen as one of the new recruits to the team after the roster shifts.

Captain America: Civil War

"We can't control their fear, only my own!"
―Wanda Maximoff[src]

With her powers of mental manipulation and telekinesis, Wanda brings a new dimension to the newly formed Avengers team. Just as Wanda begins to feel like she is no longer an outsider, she is unwillingly at the center of the controversy over government regulation of the Avengers. Following Hawkeye, the one Avenger that she knows will always have her back, Wanda joins Cap's team.

Avengers: Infinity War

In the two years since the Avengers Civil War, Wanda and Vision became lovers and moved to Scotland together to explore their relationship. The other Avengers lost contact with them, as Vision turned off his transponder. They were concerned that Vision was in danger from Thanos, who wanted the Mind Stone that powered him. When he and Wanda were attacked by Thanos' forces, Captain America, Black Widow and the Falcon came to help them beat Thanos' people back.

They returned to the New Avengers Facility to confer with War Machine, who inexplicably refused to arrest them as ordered. He joined them in protecting the Vision from further Thanos attacks. Captain America took them to Wakanda in hopes that Black Panther's sister Shuri could remove the Mind Stone from Vision while preserving his personality. Wanda would then destroy it to keep it from Thanos.

While Shuri worked frantically to accomplish her goal, Thanos sent his forces to attack Wakanda. Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian led a horde of Outriders to overpower Wakanda's warriors and take the Vision for Thanos. The Avengers joined Wakanda's warriors (the Dora Milaje, the War Dogs and the Jabari) to repel the attack. Scarlet Witch stayed behind to protect Shuri and the Vision and to destroy the stone when it was time.

When the battle turned against Wakanda, Wanda left her post and saved the lives of General Okoye and a host of Wakanda's finest warriors. They were overrun by the Outriders when Wanda scattered them with one powerful blast, causing Okoye to quip "Why was she in there all this time?"

With Wanda gone, Corvus Glaive broke into the lab and tried to kill Shuri to get the Vision. Vision got up from the lab table and attacked Glaive to save her. During the fighting, Wanda destroyed the Mind Stone while it was still in Vision's head to keep it from Thanos. He promptly used the Time Stone to bring Vision back to full function with the Mind Stone intact- and then ripped it out of Vision's head, seemingly killing him again.

With all six stones in his possession, Thanos accomplished his goal – he killed half the universe with a snap of his fingers. Wanda was among that half and crumbled into dust.

Avengers: Endgame

When Bruce Banner used the Infinity Stones retrieved from the past to restore everyone that Thanos had disintegrated, Wanda was resurrected and arrived through one of Stephen Strange's portals to help. Enraged by the loss of Vision, Wanda took on Thanos, but was eventually defeated before Thanos was destroyed by Tony Stark using the Stones at the cost of his own life.

Wanda later attended Tony's funeral, still devastated by the loss of Vision who was not restored. Clint Barton, grieving the loss of Natasha Romanoff, spoke with Wanda about those that they had lost.

WandaVision

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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Character traits

Wanda and her brother Pietro have Eastern European accents.

Having dealt with tragedy and turmoil at such a young age, Wanda desired to free her country from the terrors of war. This desire grew to such a point that she volunteered to be experimented on by HYDRA, eventually gaining the formidable powers she now possesses. Compared to her brother, Pietro, Wanda is quieter and less aggressive. Despite that, she appears to have full control of her power and would not hesitate to use it on her enemies to achieve her goals. She was not the type to face a foe in direct combat, opting to disable her foes with her powers when their guard is down.

Despite her desire to destroy the Avengers, she ultimately chose to betray Ultron after learning his true intentions and sided with the very people she tried to take down. This shows that Wanda is willing to set aside her personal grudges for the common good, as she ultimately joined the Avengers in evacuating Sokovia and opposing Ultron.

Her hatred for Tony Stark's role in the destruction her country endured and the death of her parents motivated her to implant visions of a bleak future into his mind, thus setting up the events that led to the eventual destruction of Sokovia. Wanda acknowledges this to Clint Barton, sordidly blaming herself for the carnage and questioning why she let such chaos happen.

However, after being encouraged by Clint, Wanda displayed great courage and selflessness, aiding him in fighting off the Sentries and protecting and escorting civilians to safety before standing alongside the Avengers in wiping out most of Ultron's forces. This is paramounted by how she chose to stay behind and guard the key, reiterating that it was her job, and making Pietro promise to come back for her only when everyone else is safe.

Wanda and Pietro share a deep, emotional bond, though they would occasionally bicker like normal siblings. Wanda was looked after by Pietro and she would always rely on him for support. Pietro's death by Ultron's hands unleashed a fury within Wanda that pushed her to leave her post and rip out Ultron's central processor to make him feel the pain he inflicted, avenging her beloved brother by ripping out the robot's heart.

Despite the pain of losing her brother and the loss of her home, Wanda still chose to join the second incarnation of the Avengers, led by Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff.

After committing a grave error in a mission in Lagos, Wanda has experienced yet another emotional blow as her actions inadvertently lead to the creation of the Sokovia Accords. She has spent a great amount of time in the Avengers headquarters as she feels that she has caused enough trouble. Fortunately, after being convinced yet again by Clint (who came out of retirement to join Steve's cause) she mustered up the courage to join the battle.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

  • Superhuman Physiology: Wanda and her brother Pietro are classified as "Enhanced" by the Avengers. The twins were experimented on by Strucker using Loki's scepter. The ending results gave the twins different and unique power sets as a result. Some of Wanda's abilities are a form of raw, untrained magic.
    • Telekinesis: Wanda can telekinetically move objects or other individuals without physically touching them; she can affect and control molecules and particles, as well as physical forces such as kinetic energy, friction, pressure, density, state of matter, gravity pressure, vectors, etc. Wanda's telekinetically energy is a visible red color.
    • Levitation: Due to Wanda's telekinesis; she is able to move herself through the air and simulate flight, in order to hover and safely float back to the ground.
    • Telepathy: Wanda can telepathically read minds or communicate and experience memories and thoughts of other individuals or project her own thoughts through a neuro-electric interface. Whenever Wanda utilizes her telepathic powers; both of her eyes sometimes glow dark red, especially when she concentrate it on certain targets.
    • Mind Control: Wanda is able to deploy a form of mental manipulation, often as a type of illusory hypnosis, using the same neuro-electric interface that allows her telepathy.
    • Phobikinesis: Wanda can elicit fear or emotional pain in an individual in the form of nightmarish hallucinations; that could stun and weaken even an individual as powerful as Thor.
    • Psionic Force-Field Generation: Wanda can create a highly durable barrier of energy that she can shape and deform as she needed to.
    • Energy Blasts: Wanda can generate bright red energy from both her hands, and can harness it to create energy blasts. Wanda can also project energy blasts, orbs, waves and bolts, by projecting her own psionic and kinetic energy, or gathering particles, molecules and physical forces into a contained space, allowing her to either blow, destroy, push/pull or direct her hits at her opponents.

Abilities

  • Bilingualism: As a native Sokovian, Wanda speaks that language fluently, in addition to English (albeit initially with a thick Sokovian accent which faded).
  • Skilled Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Wanda initially had poor combat skills, as she had no combat skills or training, after becoming a member of the Avengers, Wanda received extensive training in hand-to-hand combat from Captain America and Black Widow so became a skilled hand-to-hand combatant.
  • Skilled Spy: Wanda received extensive training in espionage from Black Widow, as she taught how to hide in plain sight; such as masking her thick Sokovian accent with an American one.

Relationships

Appearances/Actresses

Behind the scenes

  • The film's character is based off of the Ultimate Marvel version.
  • Due to 20th Century Fox's ownership of the X-Men and all associated film rights, Wanda Maximoff was only available to Marvel Studios as an enhanced human, not a mutant. Following the Fox/Disney merger this could be modified.
    • In the Marvel Visual Dictionary, it was implied that Wanda's powers could be the result of Strucker's experiments triggering "something latent" inside of her, which may have been done to open up the possibility of her possessing a latent mutant gene.

Trivia

  • Elizabeth Olsen took the role after Saoirse Ronan passed on the offer.
  • Lindsay Lohan auditioned for the role.
  • Elizabeth Olsen's role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was uncredited.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn revealed that the both the twins were originally going to appear in the film's post end credit scene.
  • Wanda is the first female character to be introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a movie to have superpowers.
  • Wanda's screen time in Avengers: Age of Ultron is 20:59.

Gallery

Avengers: Age of Ultron Prelude - This Scepter'd Isle

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Filming and Concept Art

Captain America: Civil War

Promotion, Filming, and Concept Art

Avengers: Infinity War

Promotion, Concept art, and Filming

Avengers: Endgame

Promotion, Concept art, and Filming

WandaVision

Videos

Promotion

See Also

References

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