Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

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Wanda Maximoff
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch in the WandaVision episode "The Series Finale" (2021).
First appearanceCaptain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Last appearanceDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Based on
Scarlet Witch
by
Adapted byJoss Whedon
Portrayed by
Voiced byElizabeth Olsen (
Witch
Affiliation
Weapon
Family
  • Olek Maximoff (father)
  • Iryna Maximoff (mother)
  • Pietro Maximoff
    (brother)
Significant other
Sokovia
NationalitySokovian

Wanda Maximoff is a character primarily portrayed by

Ultron, becoming one of their most powerful members.[4]

She develops a romantic relationship with

Mount Wundagore
on herself and dies, destroying all copies of the Darkhold across the multiverse.

Wanda has become a central character within the MCU, having appeared in six films as of 2023. She also has a lead role in the miniseries

Fictional character biography

Childhood and origin

Wanda Maximoff was born in 1989

Stark Industries
missile flew in, it never went off as Wanda unknowingly cast a probability hex that turned it into a dud, though the twins lived in fear of it going off until they were rescued. The trauma of that experience found a focus in the prominence of the Stark Industries logo printed on the missile. This left the twins with the fervent belief that Stark himself was ultimately responsible for their parents' deaths as it occurred via sales of his company's weapons which he had intentionally profited from.

Years later, as young adults, Wanda and Pietro participated in political protests in their city, before eventually volunteering for

Mind Stone
, with Wanda and Pietro being the only survivors and the former gaining psychic abilities while her magic was greatly amplified. During the experiments, Wanda gained a glimpse of herself as the Scarlet Witch.

Becoming an Avenger

In 2015, Wanda is called by Strucker to assist in fighting

Avengers Compound, where she, along with Sam Wilson, James Rhodes, and Vision, join the Avengers
.

Sometime later, Wanda is watching sitcoms in her bedroom, when she is visited by Vision, who comforts her over Pietro's death, assuring her that the grief she feels over losing her family meant that she still loved them.

Avengers Civil War

In 2016, Wanda joins Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson in a mission to stop Brock Rumlow from stealing a biological weapon in a lab in

Raft
. Eventually, they are rescued when Rogers breaks them out.

Infinity War and resurrection

In 2018, Wanda and Vision have begun a romantic relationship and gone into hiding in

Infinity Gauntlet. Wanda, along with half of all life in the universe, disintegrates in an event that would later be called the Blip
.

Five years later, Wanda is resurrected and joins the Avengers and their allies' to fight an alternate Thanos and his army from a 2014 timeline. In the ensuing climactic battle, Wanda nearly defeats Thanos before she is blown away by his forces, with Stark later sacrificing himself to eliminate Thanos for good. A week later, Wanda attends Stark's funeral, where she reunites with Barton.

Life in Westview

The Hex and the WandaVision program

The next day, Wanda goes to

S.W.O.R.D.'s headquarters to retrieve Vision's body. However, after meeting with S.W.O.R.D.'s acting director Tyler Hayward, she witnesses Vision being dismantled and realizes she can no longer sense him. She leaves and drives to the suburban town of Westview, New Jersey, to view a vacant lot that Vision had purchased in 2018 for the two "to grow old in". Overcome with grief, Wanda accidentally unleashes waves of chaos magic
that transforms Westview into a sitcom-themed false reality and isolates it from the outside world via a hexagonal barrier, later known as the "Hex". She materializes a new version of Vision that lacks any prior memories and starts living with him in the Hex as a newly-married couple living their ideal suburban life.

While attempting to befriend her neighbors (painfully forced to role-play as

Billy
. However, Rambeau mentions Pietro and his death at Ultron's hands, inciting Wanda to telekinetically cast her out of Westview. When Vision returns moments later, he briefly appears as a corpse before Wanda resets him.

Hunted by S.W.O.R.D.

As Wanda's children age rapidly, S.W.O.R.D. sends an armed drone into Westview in an attempt to kill Wanda. Enraged, she exits the Hex, warns Hayward to leave her alone, and emphasizes her point by hypnotizing his agents into turning their guns on him. Rambeau, who empathizes with Wanda, tries to offer help, but is rebuffed. Back in Westview, Wanda gets into a heated argument with Vision when he finds out the truth after briefly freeing one of Wanda's victims and reading a S.W.O.R.D. communique at work. The argument is interrupted when a

Darcy Lewis
.

Battle of Westview

Following her expansion of the Hex, Wanda starts losing control of the altered reality and begins having a mental breakdown. Rambeau returns to Westview to warn Wanda of Hayward's plan to revive and weaponize Vision, but an enraged Wanda refuses to listen and attempts to cast her out once more. When Rambeau resists using her newly acquired powers, Wanda's neighbor "Agnes" interrupts and takes Wanda to her house, where she reveals her true identity as the sorceress

Darkhold
to learn more about her powers before hearing "her sons" cry out for help.

Corrupted by the Darkhold

Hunt for America Chavez and redemption

By late 2024, Wanda had gradually been corrupted by the Darkhold, learning about the

Kamar-Taj, killing the majority of its sorcerers, with the Sorcerer Supreme, Wong
, identifying the Scarlet Witch as a being "prophesied to either rule or destroy the multiverse".

During the attack, Chavez accidentally sends herself and Strange to an alternate universe called

Mount Wundagore
, the original source of the Darkhold's spells.

Using the temple's magic, Wanda re-establishes her dream-walk and successfully possesses her Earth-838's counterpart's body. She then breaks into the

Earth-616
.

At Mount Wundagore, Wanda begins to absorb Chavez's powers but is confronted by a dreamwalking Strange who encourages Chavez to believe in herself and use her powers to open a portal to Earth-838, through which Tommy and Billy, seeing Wanda choke Chavez, recoil in horror, running from her and crying out for their real mother to protect them from "the witch". As a result, Wanda collapses with grief, and on being assured by her 838-counterpart that "they will be loved", allows Chavez, Wong, and Strange to leave before using her powers to destroy Mount Wundagore along with all copies of the Darkhold across the multiverse, effectively killing herself in the process.[c]

Alternate versions

Other versions of Wanda are depicted in the alternate realities of the MCU multiverse, appearing in the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and the animated series What If...? (2021–present), also portrayed by Olsen.

Zombie Wanda

In an alternate 2018, Wanda is among the Avengers who became infected by a quantum virus, turning into a

Camp Lehigh
, where he attempts to cure her with the Mind Stone, though she proves immune. Sometime later, a group of survivors come to Vision for his cure, but Wanda breaks free and kills Kurt Goreshter and infects Okoye before engaging the Hulk in a fight.

Sometime later,

Infinity Ultron. Wanda stops, seeing him unmasked and thinking that he's Vision (whose body Ultron had been occupying in his own reality). She is the only survivor of Ultron's Infinity Stone
planetary explosion.

Afterwards, she is captured by Strange Supreme and held captive in his Sanctum Infinitum. She is released by

Hela
.

Wanda-Merlin

In an alternate medieval-themed universe, Wanda uses her Chaos Magic to transport Captain Peggy Carter from her universe to her own. Wanda and Nick Fury discuss Captain Carter being the one who can save both their queen and their world. Later, during the scuffle between King Thor's guards and Rogers Hood's crew of thieves, Wanda uses her powers to contain the next incursion. She also helps Carter and Rogers's crew obtain the Time Stone from King Thor's Scepter, and place on Tony Stark's machine, which identifies Rogers as the "foreranger" who has been inadvertently been causing the incursions. Wanda is then sent back to her timeline after Carter and Rogers undo the incursion.

Earth-838

In an alternate 2021, Wanda lives a peaceful suburban life with her children Tommy and Billy. She is possessed by her counterpart from Earth-616, who is hunting for America Chavez through the multiverse. The possessed Wanda then kills most of the Illuminati in cold blood, but is eventually freed from the spell. When 616-Wanda returns through a multiverse portal, Wanda attempts to protect her frightened children from 616-Wanda, causing the latter to acknowledge the suffering she has caused and end her deadly hunt for Chavez before she kills herself to destroy the Darkhold.

Background

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con International, for WandaVision

The Scarlet Witch debuted, alongside her twin brother,

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in X-Men #4 (March 1964).[11] They were depicted as reluctant villains, uninterested in Magneto
's ideologies. Scarlet Witch was depicted as introverted and disdainful of her teammates.

Stan Lee, author of the Avengers comic book, composed the team of Marvel's most prominent heroes. However, he eventually altered the team roster, removing all but Captain America, and added villains from other comics: the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver from the X-Men, and Hawkeye from Iron Man's adventures in Tales of Suspense. The team was known as "Cap's Kooky Quartet".[12] Although common in later years, such a change in the roster of a superhero group was completely unprecedented.[13] Scarlet Witch would now become a lasting member of the team.

Some years later, Avengers writer Roy Thomas started a long-running romantic relationship between the Scarlet Witch and the Vision, considering that it would help with the series' character development. He selected those characters because they were only published in the Avengers comic book, so it would not interfere with other publications.[14]

Adaptation and appearances

In the 1990s, Marvel licensed the filming rights of the X-Men and related concepts, such as

20th Century Fox. Fox created a film series based on the franchise. Years later, Marvel started its own film franchise, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, focused on the characters that they had not licensed to other studios, such as the Avengers. The main core of this franchise was the Avengers, both in standalone films and the successful The Avengers film. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were disputed by both studios. Fox would claim the rights over them because they were both mutants and children of Magneto, the villain of most of their films, and Marvel would claim those rights because the editorial history of the characters in comic books is more associated with the Avengers rather than the X-Men. The studios made an agreement so that both of them would use the characters. It was made on the condition that the plots do not make reference to the other studio's properties: the Fox films cannot mention them as members of the Avengers, and the Marvel films cannot mention them as mutants or children of Magneto.[15] Despite this deal, films in the Fox X-Men series did not feature Scarlet Witch.[16][17]

In May 2013,

Mind Stone
. Therefore, both she and her brother are described in the films as "enhanced humans", as opposed to the naturally-occurring mutants they are in the comics.

By September 2018, Marvel Studios began developing several limited series for Disney's streaming service, Disney+, to be centered on "second tier" characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe films who had not and were unlikely to star in their own films, such as Scarlet Witch, with Elizabeth Olsen expected to reprise her role.[27] The title of this show was later revealed to be WandaVision, co-starring Paul Bettany as the Vision.[28] It premiered in January 2021.[29] As the show is premised on Wanda and Vision appearing in a sitcom (apparently constructed by Wanda to escape her grief over Vision's real-world death), her appearance throughout the series reflects the clothing styles of sitcom characters across different decades of the genre. By the finale, having fully embraced her identity as the Scarlet Witch, Wanda gains a new costume reflecting a modernized version of her comic counterpart.

Characterization

Elizabeth Olsen at Comic-Con 2019, promoting Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Wanda is first fully introduced in

telekinesis.[30][31] Olsen felt Wanda was "overly stimulated" rather than "mentally insane" because "she has such a vast amount of knowledge that she's unable to learn how to control it. No one taught her how to control it properly... she can connect to this world and parallel worlds at the same time, and parallel times".[31] Describing her character's mind control powers, Olsen said that the character is able to do more than manipulating someone's mind, with Scarlet Witch able to "feel and see what they feel and see" by projecting visions that they have never seen. Olsen expanded upon this, saying, "What I love about her is that, in so many superhero films, emotions are kind of negated a bit, but for her everything that someone else could feel—like their weakest moments—she physically goes through that same experience with them, which is pretty cool".[32] Olsen drew on her relationship with her older brother and her sisters to prepare for the role,[31] as well as looking to the comics for inspiration.[33] Olsen revealed that Whedon was inspired by dancers as a way to visually represent how the character moves. As such, Olsen mostly trained with dancer Jennifer White in lieu of traditional stunt training.[34][35]

In

Sokovia Accords.[36][37] According to Olsen, the character is "coming into her own and starting to understand and have conflict with how she wants to use her abilities".[38] As such, Wanda's costume was "relatively casual" and "more clothes-based than superhero-based" according to Makovsky, since the Russo brothers believed Wanda was not a full-fledged Avenger yet.[39] When asked about the relationship between her character and the Vision compared to the comics, Olsen said, "You learn a little bit more about what connects [Scarlet and Vision] in this film. And I think there's some really sweet moments between Paul and I, and it's more about how they relate to one another and their similarities just based on their superpowers".[40]

In Avengers: Infinity War, Olsen explains that Wanda and Vision have maintained a romance while Wanda remains in hiding and are "trying to within that time find points of meeting in different places in order to try and forward our relationship". Paul Bettany described it as the most emotional arc for the characters.[41] In early drafts of Infinity War and Endgame, the screenwriters had Wanda survive the snap and participate more substantially in the events of Endgame, while still mourning Vision, but this angle was ultimately dropped because "she'd gotten so much mileage and story in the first movie that she didn't really have anything that equaled that in the second".[42]

In WandaVision, Olsen said the character is brought more in line with the comic book version, including depicting her mental illness,[43] while introducing the "Scarlet Witch" moniker that was not previously used in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) outside of promotional material.[44] Marvel Studios executive producer Kevin Feige said the series explores the extent and origin of Wanda's powers.[43] Olsen felt her "ownership" of Wanda was strengthened during development of the series,[45] which allowed her to explore new parts of the character's personality such as her humor and sassiness.[46] : 30  She was thrilled that WandaVision focuses on Wanda rather than making her a supporting character as in the films, and was sold on joining the series when Feige mentioned the specific Scarlet Witch comic storylines that inspired WandaVision.[47] Olsen was influenced by Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Lucille Ball for her performance.[48] Michaela Russell portrays a young Wanda.[49]

Sokovian heritage after some of the previous MCU films had moved to an Americanized version.[51] Olsen was largely unaware of the Multiverse of Madness story while filming WandaVision and tried to ensure Wanda's role in the film honored the events of the series rather than having the series be affected by the film.[52] Olsen also portrays the character's Earth-838 counterpart.[53][54]

Powers and abilities

The full extent of Wanda's powers has yet to be fully unlocked in the

Mind Stone.[57][58] Wanda's psionic abilities present in psychic energy manipulation, telekinesis, mental and emotional manipulation, telepathy and levitation. The combination of these powers and abilities make her one of the most powerful Avengers.[56]

Psionics

Wanda's psionic abilities are due to the exposure to

Throughout Wanda's onscreen appearances her abilities develop drastically. In Captain America: Civil War, Wanda's powers have advanced and her telekinesis is strong enough to let her hold up the debris of a falling building as well as fly for brief periods of time. Later, she is able to fly for greater lengths in battle in Avengers: Infinity War.[59]

Mental manipulation is one of Wanda's first shown powers after her exposure to the Mind Stone. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wanda uses this ability to create fear in Tony Stark.[55] Wanda later induces nightmarish-like images into the heads of four Avengers, inspiring nightmarish visions in Captain America, Thor and Black Widow, as well as provoking Bruce Banner to transform into a rampaging Hulk.[60] Mental manipulation is used against Vision, overriding the power of the Mind Stone.[59] Her powers allow her to forcibly manipulate his density by controlling the Mind Stone. Wanda is the only one capable of destroying the stone, singlehandedly holding Thanos at bay, who was already wielding five Infinity Stones, while simultaneously destroying the Mind Stone in Avengers: Infinity War. [59]

Wanda uses telepathy to read minds and communicate telepathically, which she does with her brother

before he is killed.

Magic

Wanda's magical abilities are first seen in the miniseries

Westview, New Jersey
.

Chaos magic gives the wielder the ability to warp time and reality, and works only if reality is altered by instability resulting in chaos.[65] In Westview Wanda is so stricken with grief, her emotional instability lets her dictate reality in "The Hex", altering the objects and people around her.[63]

Chaos magic is the most powerful form of magic. At the end of

America Chavez's powers and would have succeeded twice without Doctor Strange's interference. In the MCU, Wanda's chaos magic makes her the most powerful being in her universe.[65]

Darkhold Magic

The

Darkhold she is soon corrupted by its evil sending her on a search through the multiverse for her family. Consumed with finding them she stops at nothing causing chaos throughout the multiverse.[67]

In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda has learned to dreamwalk, which involves transferring her consciousness to her alternate-self from another universe. Wanda successfully takes control of her variant from Earth-838, using her to pursue Strange and Chavez, invade the Illuminati headquarters, destroy waves of Ultron drones, and kill most of the members of the Illuminati.[61]

Wanda eventually uses her powers to destroy the temple on Mount Wundagore and all copies of the Darkhold across the multiverse.[61]

Differences from the comics

In the comics

As of 2019, Magneto and other characters from the X-Men franchise have not been introduced into the MCU because Marvel Studios didn't own the rights for the X-Men until early 2019, and therefore no mention has been made of Wanda's traditional depiction as the daughter of Magneto.[68]

In addition, the Maximoff twins have been depicted as Romani characters in Marvel Comics since 1979. They were ethnically ambiguous for the first 15 years of their publication history, after which they were shown to have been adopted and raised by a Romani couple. It was later revealed that their biological father was Magneto and their mother was Magda Eisenhardt, a Romani woman he met in a concentration camp during World War II. A later retcon it is shown that Magneto was not their father after all, and they are not mutants. Their mother was actually Natalya Maximoff, the biological sister of the twins' adoptive father. She passed on the title "The Scarlet Witch" to her daughter, and the biological father is assumed to also be from the Romani community. This makes the twins fully Romani by blood.

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Wanda in the MCU initially "possesses a drastically different powerset to her comic book counterpart", having been described less as a wielder of actual magic and more as "a Jean Grey analogue, gifted with both telepathic and telekinetic powers", with her abilities in the MCU being derived at least in part from experiments in which she was exposed to the Mind Stone.[69]

In WandaVision, however, Wanda is revealed to be a powerful sorceress, the only being currently capable of wielding chaos magic. The series explores her ability to manipulate reality like her comic counterpart. While it is maintained that her abilities emerged from the Mind Stone, in the MCU she is retconned into having possessed the latent ability to wield chaos magic since birth, and the Mind Stone simply unlocked these dormant abilities, and her subsequent persistent use of basic telekinesis, telepathy and hypnosis were seemingly an unwitting result of the same unique magical source.

Reception

Following the release of Avengers: Endgame, Rachel Leishman of the feminist "geek site"

Vulture reviewed WandaVision positively, stating that "Olsen and Bettany's characters were often treated like benchwarmers on an all-star team in the Avengers movies. Here, they really shine".[71] Eric Deggans of NPR state of the character that "a confused and grief-stricken product of experimentation, saddled with powers she doesn't understand and struggles to control, becomes the Scarlet Witch - one of the most powerful figures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe".[72] IndieWire praised Elizabeth Olsen's performance as Wanda, stating, "her work on WandaVision which showcases her tremendous dramatic talent and, even more impressive, introduces her as a true comic delight".[73] The Ringer complimented the evolution of the character through all of her appearances, explaining, "She's gone from a mysterious figure that even Thanos treated as an afterthought to one of the MCU's most compelling characters".[74]

For her performance in

The Mary Sue wrote that Olsen managed to understand and portray the pain felt by her character through the movie, calling her a "powerhouse".[79] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the performance of Elizabeth Olsen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, even commenting that he believed the character of Wanda had the most compelling of the film's character arcs.[80] Chris E. Hayner of GameSpot ranked Wanda Maximoff 7th in their "38 Marvel Cinematic Universe Superheroes" list, stating, "Even before WandaVision, Wanda proved time and again how powerful she was and what she was willing to do for those she loved. She may have taken that too far in the latest Doctor Strange movie, but she made the right choice in the end, proving she's ultimately a hero".[81]

Accolades

Year Work Award Category Result Ref.
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Breakout Star Nominated [82]
2016 Captain America: Civil War Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Chemistry (with cast) Nominated [83]
2018 Avengers: Infinity War MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Fight (with cast) Nominated [84]
Teen Choice Awards Choice Action Movie Actress Nominated [85]
2021 WandaVision MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Performance in a Show Won [86]
Best Fight (with Kathryn Hahn) Won
Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television Movie Nominated [87]
Dorian Awards Best TV Performance Nominated [88]
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Nominated [89]
TCA Awards Individual Achievement in Drama Nominated [90]
Golden Issue Award Best TV Actress Won [91]
2022 Golden Globes Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated [6]
Critics' Choice Super Awards
Best Actress in a Superhero Series
Won [92]
Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Female TV Star (Family) Nominated [93]
Saturn Awards
Best Actress in a Streaming Television Series Nominated [94]
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness People's Choice Awards Female Movie Star of 2022 Won [95]
Action Movie Star of 2022 Won
2023 Kids Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actress Nominated [96]
Critics' Choice Super Awards Best Actress in a Superhero Movie Nominated [97]
Best Villain in a Movie Nominated
MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Villain Won [98]

Notes

  1. ^ Wanda marries herself to a Vision she magically constructs from her own memories in WandaVision.
  2. ^ Both are magically constructed by Wanda in WandaVision.
  3. ^ In the book Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline, it is confirmed that Wanda died in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness when she sacrificed herself to destroy the Darkhold.[8][9][10]

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