History Comicbook / ScarletWitch

** ''[=WandaVision=]'' (TBA)

->''My mutant ability is to create [[OrderVersusChaos chaos]]. To [[WindsOfDestinyChange make the improbable a certainty]]. Sometimes all of this negative energy sends my head spinning too. Sometimes I feel as if I can [[BlessedWithSuck do nothing but perpetuate the unnatural]]. But [[ThePowerOfFriendship the Avengers are there]] to keep me grounded. To bring {{order|VersusChaos}} into my life.''

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->''My mutant ability is to create [[OrderVersusChaos chaos]]. To [[WindsOfDestinyChange make the improbable a certainty]]. Sometimes all of this negative energy sends my head spinning too. Sometimes I feel as if I can [[BlessedWithSuck do nothing but perpetuate the unnatural]]. But [[ThePowerOfFriendship the Avengers are there]] to keep me grounded. To bring [[OrderVersusChaos order]] into my life.''

* MsFanservice: Scarlet Witch has been this since her first appearance in the comics. She's a very beautiful brunette who usually wears {{Stripperific}} outfits (particularly a red bathing suit or other costumes like the ones that she wore at the end of the ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers and ComicBook/ForceWorks team and during the run of Kurt Busiek and George Perez) that are more seductive then her contemporaries Jean Grey, Sue Storm, or Janet van Dyne and highlight her very buxom breasts, ripped broad shoulders, voluptuous yet toned body, and long toned yet shapely legs.
* MostCommonSuperPower: As with many of the super heroines of the Marvel Universe, Scarlet Witch has some very buxom breasts.

Scarlet Witch is a Creator/MarvelComics character, known as a longtime member of ComicBook/TheAvengers and as the instigator for several {{arc}}s like ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'' and ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''. She first appeared in ''X-Men'' vol. 1 #4 (March, 1964), created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. Wanda Maximoff, daughter of Erik Lehnsherr/Max Eisenhardt (a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Magneto}}), was born with magic-like mutant powers. With her twin brother Pietro (a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}), she was raised in the Wundagore Mountains by UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}. [[ComicBook/TheYesterdayQuest As it turned out]], Wundagore served as a [[SealedEvilInACan prison]] for the [[GodOfEvil Elder God Chthon]] who imparted a fraction of his power to Wanda so that she might one day [[GrandTheftMe serve as his vessel]]. Eventually, she and Pietro were unwillingly recruited into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants by their father (though neither he nor they were aware of their relationship at the time) through the life debt they owed him after Magneto saved Wanda's life. For a while they were both enemies of the ComicBook/XMen, but eventually Magneto was imprisoned and, having nowhere else to go, Wanda and Pietro applied for membership in ComicBook/TheAvengers along with another ex-villain (ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}/Clint Barton). ComicBook/CaptainAmerica accepted them, as the roster was then empty (except for himself).

** ''Wanda Vision'' (TBA)

** ''The Vision And Scarlet Witch'' (TBA)

** ''Series/TheVisionAndScarletWitch'' (TBA)

** ''Untitled Scarlet Witch series'' (TBA)

** ''Film/Avengers4'' (2019)

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' (post-credits cameo)
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' (2014)

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' (post-credits cameo)
* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''
* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''

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* LadyOfBlackMagic: Wanda is generally depicted as beautiful, demure, reserved, and a powerful user of [[WindsOfDestinyChange Chaos Magic]].

* MsFanservice: Scarlet Witch has been this since her first appearance in the comics. She's a very beautiful brunette who usually wears {{Stripperific}} outfits (particularly a red bathing suit or other costumes like the ones that she wore at the end of the ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers and ComicBook/ForceWorks team and during the run of Kurt Busiek and George Perez.) that are more seductive then her contemporaries Jean Grey, Sue Storm, or Janet van Dyne and highlight her very buxom breasts, ripped broad shoulders, voluptuous yet toned body, and long toned yet shapely legs.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Her powers are among the most flexible in all of Marvel comics, being able to do whatever, DependingOnTheWriter.

* SilkHidingSteel: Despite having strained family relationships and often uncontrollable powers, Wanda carries herself with an air of composure and elegance whenever she has to save the day. The fact that she often wore beautiful red dresses to battle probably helped to cement the image as well.

* LadyOfBlackMagic: Wanda is generally depicted as beautiful, demure, reserved, and of course, powerful, especially in recent years.

* ''[[VideoGame/XMenLegends X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse]]''

* SquishyWizard: She has fairly low defense for an Avenger without her powers--but it can't be forgotten that Captain America has trained her in hand-to-hand, as evidenced when in "Nights of Wundagore" she is up against an opponent whose magic is stronger than hers, and she punches him in the face and [[DisneyVillainDeath knocks him off a cliff]].

Scarlet Witch entered the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' portrayed by Creator/ElizabethOlsen. This version powers are more simply displayed as telekinesis and some type of telepathy instead of the abilities of probability manipulation, reality warping, and chaos magic that she has in the comics and other versions. Details can be found [[Characters/MCUNewAvengers here]]. The [[Film/XMenFilmSeries the X-Men movies]] haven't formally introduced Wanda; at most her name is on the files Mystique sees in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', and in the [[ReCut Rogue Cut]] of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Quicksilver's mom asks his younger sister -- who does appear in the regular cut -- to "go upstairs and bug your sister", implying there is a third Maximoff.

Scarlet Witch entered the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' portrayed by Creator/ElizabethOlsen. This version has several departures from her comic book adaptation. There, Wanda's powers are more simply displayed as telekinesis and some type of telepathy instead of the abilities of probability manipulation, reality warping, and chaos magic that she has in the comics and other versions. She also isn't a natural mutant, but is instead a result of HYDRA human enhancement experiments. Details can be found [[Characters/MCUNewAvengers here]]. The [[Film/XMenFilmSeries the X-Men movies]] haven't formally introduced Wanda; at most her name is on the files Mystique sees in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', and in the [[ReCut Rogue Cut]] of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Quicksilver's mom asks his younger sister -- who does appear in the regular cut -- to "go upstairs and bug your sister", implying there is a third Maximoff.

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''

* LeotardOfPower: The red bathing suit, 'nuff said. Also impossible to wear in RealLife unless you're an experienced cosplayer.

* AManIsAlwaysEager: The Enchantress put a spell on the Vision so that he lover her, and steal for her. When he was under the spell, he kissed her, and ''[[WorthIt enjoyed]]'' it. Wanda was very angry with him about that. This was primarily to demonstrate how human Vision had become.

** And, now that Magneto is no longer her father (and Magda not her mother), he find out that she is a LegacyCharacter: her mother was into witchcraft, was visually similar, used a similar suit, and called herself "the Scarlet Witch".

Following the ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]]'' event in 2015, Wanda headlined [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch2015 her first ongoing title]] as part of the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' initiative. Although this title was cancelled after 12 issues, in it Wanda learned that she was the descendant of a long line of Scarlet Witches, making her a LegacyCharacter. After her series finished, she appears to rejoin the Avengers.

* UnwantedHarem: As was the norm for female characters in Marvel's Silver Age, to demonstrate how beautiful and wonderful they are, unattached men fall in love with them right and left. Wanda herself had at least a little bit of attraction from: Cyclops, Angel, Mastermind, Arkon the Barbarian, and Hawkeye until she finally ends up with Vision for many years.