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Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

"You break the rules and become the hero. I do it, I become the enemy. That doesn't seem fair."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: Stateless, formerly Sokovian; American

Affiliation(s): HYDRA (formerly), Ultron (formerly), Avengers (formerly)

Portrayed By: Elizabeth Olsen, Sophia Gaidarova (young, WandaVision Episode 6), Michaela Russell (young, WandaVision Episode 8)^{Foreign voice actors}Irina Índigo (Latin-American Spanish dub), Cristina Yuste (European Spanish dub), Toa Yukinari (Japanese dub), Charlotte Corréa (European French dub), Émilie Gilbert (Canadian French dub), Mariana Torres (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Anna Kiseleva (Russian dub)

Appearances: Captain America: The Winter Soldier^note In The Stinger | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Captain America: Civil War | Avengers: Infinity War | Avengers: Endgame | WandaVision | Spider-Man: No Way Home^note Archive footage from Multiverse of Madness in The Stinger | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

"I used to think of myself one way. But after this... I am something else. I'm still me, I think, but... that's not what everyone else sees."

Wanda Maximoff is a young woman whose parents were killed in an explosion in her homeland of Sokovia. She herself would have perished if not for the fact that the second shell which hit her home did not go off. Forced to stare at the unexploded shell for two days, the words written on it burnt in her mind who would be held responsible for her tragedy: Stark Industries and the man behind it, Tony Stark.

Years later, she and her brother Pietro subjected themselves to the experiments of HYDRA leader Wolfgang von Strucker who, through the power contained within Loki's staff, enhanced the twins and gave Wanda her magical powers of telekinesis and mental manipulation. After Pietro's death at the hands of Ultron, who the twins briefly joined forces with to fight the Avengers, she ended up joining the Avengers and falling in love with the synthezoid known as Vision, powered by the Mind Stone that gave Wanda her abilities.

After a few tragedies resulting from the Infinity War and her own grief, Wanda unleashed her chaos magic and embraced a new persona, the Scarlet Witch.

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• 11th-Hour Costume Change: Combined with Good Costume Switch, for the final battle in Sokovia, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff change into outfits more reminiscent of their comic book counterparts. Wanda dons a red leather jacket while Pietro puts on a silver shirt with blue accents.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: After serving as antagonists for the majority of the film, Wanda and her brother Pietro join forces with the Avengers right before the final battle against Ultron.
• Accent Slip-Up: By the start of WandaVision, she's speaking with a generic American accent instead of the Sokovian accent she had before... until she mentions her dead brother Pietro, then the accent comes back. This becomes even more apparent when she temporarily reenters the real world to angrily confront S.W.O.R.D. and their director.
  "Agnes" ^note (actually Agatha Harkness): Oof. That accent really comes and goes, doesn't it?
• Achievements in Ignorance: Taken to an extreme level — the creation of the Hex only comes into existence because of Wanda's emotional outburst right outside her would-be home in Westview. When Agatha Harkness questions how she managed to create something so big and intricate without any training, Wanda flat-out admits that she doesn't know how she did it.
• Action Girl: As one of the most powerful members of the Avengers, she qualifies as this.
• Action Mom: She is the superpowered mother of Tommy and Billy.
• Adaptational Modesty: She lacks the generally Stripperiffic costumes from the comics, though she still wears clothes that show cleavage (enhanced by a corset) once she joins the Avengers. Downplayed with her Scarlet Witch outfit, which is form-fitting but shows a lot less cleavage than her previous costumes. In WandaVision, she wears a "Halloween mom" version of her costume (explained as a Sokovian fortune teller), with her "M"-shaped headdress, a cape, a red swimsuit and pink opaque tights.
• Adaptational Nationality: From the fictional setting of Transia to the equally fictional Sokovia.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, she is a Reality Warper who utilizes hexes and chaos magic. In her first few movie appearances, her magical powers were simplified to telepathy and telekinesis. In WandaVision, it's revealed that she always had the potential to be a witch and the Mind Stone just supercharged it, she simply hasn't had the knowledge or training to use her powers at their full strength.
• Adaptational Villainy: While unlike the Ultimate Marvel, X-Men: Evolution, and Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) incarnations, though in Wanda's case, much like her The Super Hero Squad Show counterpart, she and Pietro do make a Heel–Face Turn^note their Ultimate counterparts joining the Ultimates was for protection against Magneto, much like those incarnations with Magneto, they were willing allies of HYDRA (though they thought they were being recruited for SHIELD) and Ultron here, as opposed to the originals being forced to work for Magneto.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Her magical powers are derived from the Mind Stone that was sealed inside Loki's staff (though WandaVision reveals that she was already potentially a powerful witch to begin with, and the Mind Stone just amplified her powers). In the comics, she's a mutant who can warp reality through "hex manipulation" and learned magic to further control her powers.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Due to Agatha Harkness being a villain in the MCU, their traditional relationship as mentor and disciple can't play out the same. Instead, Agatha is a False Friend and briefly acts as an Evil Mentor for Wanda.
• Adaptation Species Change: Zig-zagged. In the comics she was introduced as a mutant, which was retconned to match the MCU-version of the character after the movie came out, making her a human experiment like she was introduced in Avengers: Age Of Ultron; however, WandaVision revealed that Wanda was a witch born with magical powers, once again diverging comic and movie version in term of species.
• Adapted Out:
  • In the comics, her father was revealed to be Magneto, and her powers come from mutation. Because Fox owned the rights to the X-Men franchise prior to 2019, as far as the films are concerned, it is presumed to not be true of the Maximoffs in this universe.^note Conveniently, it was revealed in the Marvel Comics Universe that neither Maximoff twin is related to Magneto a while before the film was released. This itself is a return to a status quo in Marvel Comics, as the two were originally introduced as twins with no relation to Magneto. She and her brother are also not mutants in this universe, rather, since their powers come from experiments with the Chitauri Scepter, they're Enhanced, or empowered humans.
  • Her mentor-student relationship with Agatha Harkness is likewise adapted out to allow Agatha to later antagonize Wanda as the villain of WandaVision - though she does serve as something of an Evil Mentor in Episode 8.
• Aesop Amnesia: WandaVision ends with Wanda sacrificing her magically created family to free the residents of Westview. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, she again endangers the security of many people and even reality itself to get a family, namely her sons. Justified as it's stated in the movie that Wanda was corrupted by the Darkhold, which explains why she forgot a lesson she already learned.
  • Even before that, WandaVision has her forget that letting her selfish grief direct her actions led to Tony Stark creating Ultron and nearly allowing the latter to destroy the world.
• Aesop Collateral Damage:
  • Her character arc in Age of Ultron is to learn a lesson about revenge and who the real bad guys are. The only problem is that she learns this lesson after unleashing a Person of Mass Destruction on Johannesburg and being partially responsible for creating the Big Bad. She learned her lesson by the film's end, but a lot of innocent people either died or had everything taken from them. If you consider Pietro's death to be part of her punishment, that counts as well.
  • In a more literal sense, she goes through it again in Civil War, given her attempt to neutralize an exploding Crossbones ends up taking innocent lives. This time, the Aesop is shared with the other Avengers. As of WandaVision, she's still haunted by it.
• Afraid of Their Own Strength: After accidentally launching an exploding Crossbones into a building, she spends most of Civil War unsure of whether her powers make her a danger to humanity. It takes the heroic example of Hawkeye, fighting the good fight without any powers, to get her to overcome her fear and renew her role as an Avenger.
• Affirmative Action Girl: The second female Avenger after Black Widow.
• Age Lift: A minor example, but Pietro mentions being older than Wanda by twelve minutes at one point. In the comics, Wanda is traditionally the older twin.
• All for Nothing:
  • In Avengers: Infinity War, she kills Vision, her lover, to destroy the Mind Stone so that Thanos doesn't get it. However Thanos, who already had the Time Stone, simply rewinds time, kills Vision himself, and gets the Mind Stone anyway.
  • In Multiverse Of Madness, she plots to murder America Chavez in order to steal her powers so she can find a world where her sons are real and live with them. She also pulls a Grand Theft Me on her own variant in order to spend time with them. During the film, Wanda does this again, using her variant to hunt down America and kill most of the superhero team the Illuminati in the process. America gives her what she wants, to enter the Earth where her boys are real, only for them to fear her as the witch who hurt their mother and used her body to commit murder. All her schemes were to live in a world with them, only to realize she will never truly be their mother.
• Alternate Self: Wanda has numerous variants, but only two are given focus. The first became a zombie and the second lives in a universe where the Illuminati reside, where she has biological children.
• Always Save The Guy: Subverted. After spending all of Infinity War looking for an option that might destroy the Mind Stone while keeping Vision alive, while outright refusing the possibility of having to kill him, Wanda still does it when they run out of options.
• Ambiguously Evil: In WandaVision. What exactly is happening to Westview is initially left unknown, but it's made explicitly clear that Wanda has some degree of control over it, best showcased when she banishes Geraldine for bringing up Pietro's death or directly confronts the agents of S.W.O.R.D. to tell them to leave her alone in her own warped reality sitcom fantasy world. She eventually reveals she doesn't know how she created the Hex, and that it essentially just appeared when her powers went wild out of grief. At the end of the series, Wanda goes into Self-Imposed Exile with the Darkhold in her possession. It eventually corrupts her and makes her outright villainous in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, although she comes to her senses in the end after seeing alternate versions of her sons in absolute terror of her.
• And Show It to You: She performs this on Ultron Prime by ripping out his core and crushing it in front of him, to show him what her grief following her brother's death feels like.
• Angst Nuke:
  • After she feels her brother die, she lets out a powerful burst of magic that vaporizes all the Ultron drones currently attacking her.
  • This is also how she creates the Hex in WandaVision.
• Angsty Surviving Twin: Her twin brother Pietro dies in Age of Ultron saving a child from bullets, leaving Wanda emotionally scarred for life.
• Anti-Villain:
  • At first, Wanda and Pietro antagonize the Avengers because Tony Stark created the missiles that bombed their home. Later, after they realize Ultron's true motives, they join up with the Avengers.
  • She falls into this role again in WandaVision, where she unintentionally brainwashes an entire town into being part of her sitcom fantasy and, after finding out, is reluctant to end the spell because it will mean losing Vision again.
  • In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda reverts back into an antagonistic role as it's quickly revealed that she is the one chasing after America Chavez and thus is the enemy of Doctor Strange. She's now willing to kill innocent people to fulfill her goal, but her motivation to reunite with her children one way or another is genuinely sympathetic, and she initially shows a lot of restraint in negotiating with Strange.
• The Antichrist: The Scarlet Witch is essentially the MCU's answer to this, as a being of unfathomable power that all magic-users fear, and as foreshadowed by Agatha and proven in Multiverse of Madness, is destined to either rule or destroy the Multiverse. It really says something when the Darkhold, an Artifact of Doom famed for turning anyone who reads it evil and can literally summon souls from Hell, was transcribed from the walls of a temple built by a demon in her honor.
• Apocalypse Maiden: If Agatha Harkness is to be believed, the Scarlet Witch is destined to end the world. Agatha supports her claim with the Darkhold, stating that a whole chapter is dedicated to the Scarlet Witch and predicts her role in the apocalypse. Multiverse of Madness confirms Agatha's theory - the guardians of the Tomb of the Damned bow to Wanda when she arrives, and the chamber is a combination temple and throne room from which she is to rule the Multiverse.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • She used to see Tony Stark as this, but time and Character Development changed her views on him significantly as shown in Endgame.
  • Although she initially supported Ultron's goals due to her hatred of the Avengers, Wanda eventually comes to resent the android after finding out about his true goals, and for accidentally killing her brother Pietro.
  • Though it's only for a brief moment, Endgame shows that Wanda feels nothing but hatred towards Thanos for his role in destroying Vision. Upon being resurrected to participate in the final battle, she interrupts the Mad Titan from pursuing Black Panther to tell him just how much pain he caused her, before unleashing enough magic to nearly kill him on the spot.
• Ascended Fangirl: Growing up, she would watch American television — specifically sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched — with her family, something she would do whenever she would suffer spells of depression later in life as a form of Escapism. This is why her time in Westview in WandaVision acted as a sitcom, her Reality Warper abilities instinctively changing the town into a sitcom where she is the starring role when her grief overwhelms her.
• The Atoner:
  • She agrees to stay behind and defend the core in Age of Ultron because, as she tells Hawkeye, "It's my job".
  • Comes up again in Civil War, where she leaves the Compound to stop Zemo and try to make up for the Lagos explosion.
    Clint: You gotta help me, Wanda. Look, you wanna mope, you can go to high school. You wanna make amends, you get off your ass.
  • After taking down the Hex in WandaVision, she goes into self-imposed exile in order to never harm anyone again as she unintentionally did with the people of Westview. She also takes to studying the Darkhold, as while it is undeniably extremely dangerous, it is also the only known book that has information on the nature of her powers and how to master them.
  • In the climax of Multiverse of Madness, after realizing the terrible influence the Darkhold had brought to her, Wanda chooses to destroy its source in Mount Wundagore so that nobody will be tempted to use its magic again. And she shows no intention of escaping the mountain's collapse.
• Attacking Through Yourself: During the tense fight between the Avengers before the birth of Vision, Bruce Banner gets Wanda in a chokehold, but she fires a hex bolt through her own body to immobilize him.
• Ax-Crazy: By the time of Multiverse of Madness, her Sanity Slippage has hit a boiling point and she kills the forces of Kamar-Taj and the Illuminati in a quite brutal and violent fashion when they stand in her way.
• Baby Be Mine: In Multiverse of Madness, it's revealed that following the events of Wandavision, Wanda became so fixated with having a family again that she wants to capture America and use her ability to traverse The Multiverse to raise the Billy and Tommy of Wanda from Earth-838 as if they were her own sons.
• The Baby of the Bunch: She's not that young, as she was around 26 years old in Age of Ultron and 27 in Captain America: Civil War, but this made her the only surviving human Avenger in either film to be in her twenties. Until teenaged Spider-Man was officially recruited, Wanda was the youngest Avenger and often treated as such. She is frustrated when she believes that her teammates are sheltering her from Cap's rebellion in Captain America: Civil War, but their motivation was more to keep her out of the public eye after the explosion in Lagos, and out of fear of her power. Steve even outright calls her a kid at one point during one of his arguments with Tony.
• Back from the Dead: In Avengers: Endgame, she is one of many characters who are brought back from being dusted by Hulk reversing Thanos' deadly fingersnap from Avengers: Infinity War.
• Badass Boast: When Thanos remarks in Avengers: Endgame that he doesn't even know who she is (and is hence bemused at her rage), she snarls, "You will", before delivering a Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Badass Longcoat: Wanda is one of the strongest heroes of MCU and wears a stylish long coat as part of the Avenger outfit she gets at the end of Age of Ultron.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Her powers involve Mind Rape, telekinesis, and become flat-out reality warping as of WandaVision, and are creepy and red looking. After Age of Ultron, Wanda is on the side of good. Even after her villainous rampage in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, she eventually comes to her senses and attempts to redeem herself by destroying every copy of the Darkhold in the Multiverse and bringing down her temple at Mt. Wundagore (the source of the Darkhold's spells) while still inside.
• Bash Siblings: With the rest of the Avengers, especially Black Widow and Hawkeye.
• Battle Couple: With Vision, until his death in Infinity War.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted in WandaVision when she's up against Power Parasite Agatha Harkness, whose dark magic drains Wanda's life force, causing her skin to shrivel and blacken until she looks almost zombified. She gets better, though.
  • Also averted in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Constant use of forbidden magic from the Darkhold has turned her fingertips black and rotten.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: She was of course against Thanos's highly destructive plan, to say nothing of her personal vendetta against him for murdering Vision in pursuit of what he viewed as a greater cause. Come Multiverse of Madness and she's been brought to the point where she's willing to cause just as much, if not more destruction and death if it means getting to see her children again.
• Berserk Button: Never mention Ultron in her presence. In Multiverse of Madness, her facial expression after destroying all the Earth-838 Ultron Sentries makes clear that she was feeling insulted by their existence. She can even be heard making screams of anger when she's destroying them.
• Big Bad: Becomes the main villain of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness due to the Darkhold's influence causing her desire to see her children again to turn to darker depths and trying to use America Chavez as a living ingredient in her plot to do so.
• Big Bad Friend: As an Avenger, she and Doctor Strange fought on the same side against Thanos. Doctor Strange even comes to her for help in protecting America Chavez before it's revealed that Wanda is the very demon he's protecting her against.
• Big Bad Slippage: After being a Heel–Face Revolving Door for several past entries in the MCU (being a co-conspirator with Ultron before joining the Avengers in Avengers: Age of Ultron, then doing some very shady things in Wandavision by brainwashing an entire town before trying to undo her mistakes at the end), she firmly cements herself as a villain in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, having finally given in to her grief entirely and become the movie's Big Bad.
• Big "NO!": Before Thanos rips the Mind Stone from Vision's forehead.
• Blatant Lies: In Multiverse of Madness, she tells the Earth-838 variants of her kids that she isn't a monster and would never hurt anyone. Not only is Earth-838 Wanda (their mother) lying on the ground injured mere feet away (courtesy of 616-Wanda, who was willing to murder her to replace her as their mother), but she was seconds earlier tying to kill America, another child, right in front of them.
• Body Horror: In Multiverse of Madness, Strange tries to trap her in a pocket Mirror Dimension to keep her away from America Chavez. Wanda simply reaches out of reflective surfaces and crawls out of a gong. That would be horrifying enough, but her body contorts in ways no human limbs could to get out and then she graphically realigns herself.
• Body Surf: In Multiverse of Madness, Wanda uses a special, but dangerous spell from the Darkhold to Dreamwalk, which consists of projecting her consciousness into another version of herself in another universe and then take them over.
• Boring, but Practical: Wanda reality-warping abilities that appear to be unlimited. However, she tends to prefer direct energy blasts or summoning demons to do her work for her, rather than using her powers more creatively, like Stephen Strange. At the end of the day, she's so strong that she doesn't need anything more than a few direct hits to overwhelm most opponents, so creative thinking isn't even necessary.
• Breakout Character: A popular character who became a full-on Avenger, Scarlet Witch went on to star in her own streaming series, WandaVision, and is the (Villain) Deuteragonist of Multiverse of Madness.
• Break the Cutie: One night, little Wanda Maximoff and her family were happily watching old American sitcoms together when suddenly, their neighbourhood was caught in the crossfire of a civil war, the Maximoff apartment receiving a direct hit which immediately kills the parents, and leaves Wanda and her brother stuck under the rubble staring at the second missile that hit the house, which is still active, for two days. It got worse since then.
• Break the Haughty: She starts out in Avengers: Age of Ultron as a confident HYDRA agent, telling Pietro to follow her lead as she mind-rapes Tony. This results in Ultron wanting to drop Sokovia out of the sky and kill everyone on it. When Wanda tries to convince Tony and Bruce to not activate the android Ultron wanted, they understandably dismiss her and Bruce threatens to snap her neck as payback for the mind-rape, nearly following through on his threat. She finds herself way out of her depth in the fighting, until Hawkeye gives her a Heroic Second Wind. Then her brother dies, thanks to Ultron, whom Wanda helped create. By the time of Civil War, she's lost all of her confidence when it sinks in that her actions led to dozens of innocents being killed and her brother no longer in her life.
• Broken Bird: Her life is defined by tragedy and loss. She was almost killed during a violent war as a child, her parents dying in the destruction, and then her brother was killed when they turned against Ultron after finding out about his insane plan. She joins the Avengers and manages to form a deep relationship with Vision but ends up severing ties with her surrogate family when the Sokovia Accords tear apart the Avengers. She and Vision continue to maintain their relationship while she's on the run only to have to kill him herself in the final moments of Infinity War to try and prevent Thanos from claiming the Mind Stone in his head. That ends up being All for Nothing when Thanos reverses time and revives Vision only so he can kill him himself to take the Infinity Stone, rendering Wanda dust in the aftermath. She finally lets out all her rage in the final battle of Endgame after being revived, but WandaVision shows that she is still in a great deal of grief and pain that she is struggling to work through. Then, after she accepts Vision's death, the Darkhold fuels her loneliness and makes her obsessed with recovering the sons she created in the Hex. By the time she realizes this isn't possible, she is so broken that she apparently kills herself.
• Brother–Sister Team: She and Pietro have been the primary person in each others' lives since the death of their parents, and this shows in their dynamic on and off the battlefield.
• Butt-Monkey: The poor woman seems to be the universe's punching bag. Fate appears to be determined in ruining her life in the worst ways possible.
• Car Fu: During the airport battle in Civil War, Wanda uses her powers to telekinetically throw several cars and baggage trucks at Iron Man, Spider Man and War Machine.
• The Cassandra: She warns Captain America that Tony Stark will do anything, no matter how dangerous it is, to make the world a better place. While Vision turns out benevolent, she wasn't wrong that Tony would do anything, especially when he later went on to create EDITH, which isn't all that different from Project: Insight.
• Catch and Return: In Multiverse of Madness, she kills Captain Carter by telekinetically catching her shield in mid-air and tossing it back at her with enough force to cut her in half.
• Celebrity Paradox: Godzilla was referenced in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Wanda's actress, Elizabeth Olsen, played Elle Brody in the 2014 reboot.
• Character Development: In Endgame, she attends Tony's funeral after spending most of her life hating him and everything he and his company stood for after one of his missiles killed her parents. Due to the Avengers being responsible for bringing her back after the Snap and Tony sacrificing his life to save the universe, he proved he wasn't as selfish as Wanda originally thought, earning her respect.
• Character Tic:
  • She has a tendency to slowly tilt her head slightly to the side while contemplating/in the process of unleashing her vast powers against someone. In WandaVision, she does this while letting Agatha drain her power as a hint that Wanda only pretends to do so, and Agatha is about to get wrecked.
  • She also tends to scrunch her nose when she's feeling happy or affectionate.
• The Chosen One: In the WandaVision episode "Previously On", Agatha reveals that Wanda is the Scarlet Witch, a fabled witch with the power of "spontaneous creation." In the final episode, Agatha further reveals that according to prophecy, the Scarlet Witch is destined to destroy the world.
• Closet Shuffle: Played for Drama. When their apartment building was hit by mortar shells during their childhood, a young Wanda and her twin brother hid under a bed. They were trapped under debris for two days before being rescued.
• Co-Dragons: She and her brother serve as co-conspirators for Ultron until they decide to join the Avengers.
• Color Character: The Scarlet Witch.
• Color Motif: Her preferred outfits both in and out of battle are mostly red, and her powers manifest as red psionic mystical energy. She even dyes her hair red in Infinity War and keeps it like that in all her appearances afterward.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: She is never referred to as the "Scarlet Witch" in the films prior to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; the closest being Tony calling her "that little witch." Her lack of a codename is discussed in WandaVision and she finally receives the title of "the Scarlet Witch" from Agatha Harkness in the penultimate episode. In the Multiverse of Madness, the name Scarlet Witch is treated as a villainous persona to separate the Darkhold's corrupted Wanda from regular Wanda.
• Composite Character:
  • Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are introduced as a pair of superpowered twins working for Baron von Strucker. This is much like the Fenris twins, Strucker's own mutant children from the comics.
  • This iteration of Wanda combines comic book Scarlet Witch with elements of Jean Grey's powers of telepathy and telekinesis. Even her Avengers outfit resembles that of the Phoenix in X-Men: The Last Stand.
  • She takes on the role of Vision's suburban wife who lies to Vision about how much involvement she has in the main storyline which he eventually found out about in WandaVision, similar to the role of Virginia in The Vision (2015).
  • Her threatening an alternate self in Multiverse of Madness aligns her with Lore, an evil Wanda Maximoff that traveled the Multiverse to kill and steal the powers of her counterparts in her first solo comic series.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
  • In Multiverse of Madness, she serves as one to Kaecilius as the villain of a Doctor Strange film. Both are magic-wielding Fallen Heroes who's turn to villainy was caused by a combination of the loss of loved ones and being corrupted by dark magic. However, while Kaecilius has other former Kamar-Taj pupils under his command, Wanda is a One-Woman Army who works alone. Additionally, while Kaecilius remains a villain and is trapped by Dormammu in the Dark Dimension forever, Wanda has a Heel Realization and ambiguously sacrifices herself to destroy the Darkhold so it won't corrupt anybody else.
  • For Phase 4 films in general, she's also one to the Green Goblin. Norman Osborn was a man from from another universe whose split personality wanted to remain in this new universe to make his new playground despite Norman's desire to return home to his son. Wanda is a resident of the MCU who wishes to escape into another universe where her sons are not only alive but flesh and blood. Both characters are clearly under the influence of something that drives them to evil, the performance enhancer that created the Goblin personality for Norman (a creation of science), the power of the Darkhold for Wanda (a creation of magic). Even how the heroes interact with them are different: Peter grew to hate the Green Goblin for killing his Aunt May and becoming his Arch-Enemy while Strange tries his best to reason with Wanda since the two once helped save the universe from Thanos.
• Control Freak: In Multiverse of Madness, when it is brought up that she could just ask America to send her to a world with her kids, Wanda explains she wants to steal the girl's powers so that she can keep going from world to world in order to eliminate anything that could bring Billy and Tommy harm, deliberately mentioning the idea of illnesses that may be cured in one world but not in another. This showing of her instability emphasizes her need to have her sons forever with her, demonstrating an unhealthy obsession with control.
• Conveniently an Orphan: When Wanda was ten years old, her parents were killed when their apartment building was caught in a bombing, leaving her and Pietro the only survivors.
• Cope by Creating: In WandaVision, Wanda copes with her intense grief and heartbreak over losing Vision by subconsciously using her magic not only to recreate a version of him, create their twin kids and a house for her new family to live in, but also to turn the entire town of Westview into a Happy Place. Too bad it involves mind-raping all of Westview's citizens. When she realizes what she's done, Wanda ultimately destroys all she's created and releases the people from her control.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Wanda looks healthy at the beginning of Multiverse of Madness, but as she becomes more unhinged through the course of the movie, she develops dark shadows under her eyes.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Wanda beats Thanos so badly that he has to call in an aerial bombardment of the battlefield, killing his own troops in the process, just to stop her. In WandaVision, Monica Rambeau even notes that Wanda could have killed Thanos then and there if he hadn't called for the artillery strike.
  • In Multiverse of Madness, Wanda easily killed five of the six members of the Illuminati with barely any effort; out of all of them, Maria Rambeau was the only one who forced her to get serious, though her decision to kill Black Bolt first suggests that she was at least somewhat worried about his potential to be a threat.
• Dark Action Girl: Zig-Zagged. Age of Ultron and Multiverse of Madness have Wanda being an antagonistic character before she realizes the errors of her ways.
• Dark and Troubled Past: While the Maximoffs were having a TV night, Wanda's parents were killed by a mortar shell, orphaning her and Pietro. They then spent two days trapped under the rubble, mere feet away from another shell, until they were rescued. This ordeal left the twins with a burning hatred for Tony Stark, as his family's company had developed the mortar shells. They grew up in an orphanage while their home became embroiled in further war and spent their youth protesting against foreign military occupation in Sokovia, especially the United States and the Avengers, which led to them being recruited into HYDRA, which in turn led to Wanda's inherent powers being awakened.
• Dating Catwoman: Infinity War reveals that she has secretly been meeting up with Vision for romantic holidays since the events of Civil War, even though Scarlet Witch is a fugitive and a member of the Secret Avengers, while Vision is a member of the New Avengers and part of his duties are trying to apprehend rogue superheroes.
• De-power: By the time she fully becomes the Scarlet Witch, very few beings can reasonably match her power... And for at least some of those, she can simply take their powers away as shown with the Captain Marvel of Universe 838.
• Deadpan Snarker: Wanda has some moments of sarcasm and cynical humor here and there.
• Death Glare: Combined with Glowing Eyes of Doom and Red Eyes, Take Warning for a triple threat. After returning with the rest of the Vanished during the final act of Endgame, Wanda makes a beeline to intercept Thanos himself. We've seen Wanda's eyes glow red before, but calling it murder in her gaze when she meets Thanos again would undersell it.
• Deconstruction: Of The Atoner, Heroine With Bad Publicity, and Person of Mass Destruction. While no one outside of the Avengers knows that she mind-raped them with the intent for Tony destroying himself, leading to the creation of Ultron — that would have given Thaddeus Ross more than enough grounds to lock her up for war crimes — she doesn't exactly endear autographs and cosplay imitations the way Captain America or Iron Man do. The incident in Lagos shows the world that she can lose control of her powers and make a bad situation worse. Just as she achieves The Pardon after the Blip, she suffers a breakdown and accidentally forces innocent people to be side characters in her sitcom. This turns the freed citizens of Westview against her. Wanda never has bad intentions, but her raw power, along with her lack of impulse control and awareness of her flaws, means that when she does slip up, she causes a lot of harm.
• Demonic Possession: Multiverse of Madness has Wanda using the Darkhold to "Dreamwalk", which is possessing the body of her alternate self in Earth-838 to capture America Chavez and slaughter anyone who stands in her way.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • She assumes that Ultron, the robot that tracked her and her brother down, after slicing off Ulysses Klaue's left arm for an innocuous comment, would sincerely destroy the Avengers. Wanda for a very long time ignores her own part in hurting innocents to help Ultron. Then he wants to destroy Sokovia to hurt the Avengers, and she gets a Heel Realization.
  • In WandaVision, Agatha points out the irony and short-sightedness of Wanda joining the Obviously Evil terrorist group HYDRA for the purposes of doing good.
• Dies Wide Open: She has her eyes open while fading to dust in Avengers: Infinity War.
• Distracted by the Sexy: She's quick to begin thirsting when she first sees Vision, to the point that Pietro has to roughly toss a jacket at her to make her knock it off.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Like everyone else, she believes her powers were only telepathic and telekinetic. When Hayward suggests that she might have the power to revive Vision, she insists that she can't do anything like that. Then her repressed grief unintentionally triggers a whole host of powers she never knew she possessed, and the events of WandaVision begin.
• The Dog Bites Back: In Endgame, she puts Thanos in a world of hurt for killing Vision, not realizing or caring that this Thanos is from an alternate timeline where he never quite got to doing this. It gets so bad that Thanos has to call in an aerial bombardment of the battlefield in order to get her to stop.
• Doing in the Scientist: Her powers were originally explained as telepathic and telekinetic abilities derived from the Mind Stone. WandaVision reveals that she is actually a literal witch and the Mind Stone merely enhanced her latent magical abilities.
• Dragon-in-Chief: At least, Ultron seemed to feel this way about her, going by the extent of her abilities.
  Ultron: [to Pietro] You and I can hurt them... [to Wanda] but you will tear them apart... from the inside.
• The Dreaded: Vision and Agatha Harkness lampshade that everyone will fear Wanda due to the volatility of her immense powers and due to her destiny to rule or to destroy the Multiverse as the Scarlet Witch. Even Wong, who generally acts as The Stoic when fighting against the Abomination, Dormammu, and Thanos, reacts with fear when he realizes that Wanda is the Scarlet Witch, for he believes that her unfathomable witchcraft can trump any form of sorcery. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, they are proven absolutely right when Wanda slaughters many Masters of the Mystic Arts and most of the Illuminati while barely even straining herself and, in the latter case, mind-controling a weaker version of herself.
• Driven to Suicide: Possibly. At the end of Multiverse Of Madness, she topples the entirety of Mount Wundagore with her in it, seemingly destroying both her and the Darkhold.
• Dual Wielding: An unconventional example, but she can conjure energy from both hands and use them independently or combine them for more power. As both Thanos and Captain Rambeau discover, that means that if she's holding off an attack with one hand, the other is free to wind up for a counterattack.
• Dye or Die: Sports red hair in Infinity War in order to better hide from the authorities, and keeps it that way going forward.

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• Early-Bird Cameo: She first appears in The Stinger of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but doesn't play an important role until Age of Ultron.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • In Age of Ultron, Tony and Banner leave the team in guilt, while Wanda, an ex-HYDRA agent who mind-raped Tony and Banner into building Ultron and Hulking out, isn't really blamed by anyone, for anything, to any degree. Instead, she gets enlisted into the Avengers.
  • Averted in WandaVision. She is fully aware that removing the Hex from Westview and sacrificing her family will not be enough for the people she unintentionally mind-controlled to forgive her, so she leaves the town behind and goes into self-imposed exile to learn how to fully control her abilities.
  • In Multiverse of Madness, her Earth-838 counterpart never gave Wanda any harsh words despite the latter's multiple attempts to ruin her life (hijacking her body, then committing several murders and planning to Kill and Replace her to steal her children, to be specific).
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Amped up particularly in the beginning, before she's humanized a bit. She spends a lot of time in dark areas that exaggerate her pale skin and dark hair and make her movements and actions creepier. She's a great deal healthier-looking once she formally joins up with the Avengers in Civil War, and thus no longer fits this trope (or at least not again until Multiverse of Madness).
• Entropy and Chaos Magic: WandaVision reveals that she is using chaos magic. When Agatha Harkness, a more traditional witch who initially assumed that Wanda created the Hex with complicated, multilayered spells, realizes that Wanda created it through sheer force of will with chaos magic, she is equal parts impressed with Wanda's achievement (to the point of bestowing upon her the title of "the Scarlet Witch") and disappointed that she used it to do something as mundane as create a perfect sitcom life for herself.
• Even the Girls Want Her: After Wanda creates her new outfit and forcibly transforms Agatha into her Agnes persona, the latter has this to say about her:
  "Agnes": Hiya, hon! Say, that's some kinda getup you're wearing. Did I leave the oven on, or is that just you, hot stuff?
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • What causes her Heel–Face Turn in Age of Ultron. While Wanda was vengeful enough to side with the likes of Ultron for a shot at revenge against the likes of the Avengers, she's absolutely horrified to learn that Ultron planned to destroy the entire Earth in order to do so.
  • Even though she's a villain at this point, Wanda looks pretty shocked when she sees Ultron lose his temper and slice off Ulysses Klaue's arm.
• Evil All Along: At first, it seems like she's willing to help Strange defend America Chavez from the monsters pursuing her for her powers, but it's quickly revealed that she was the one sending those monsters to claim America's powers for herself.
• Eviler than Thou: As the Big Bad of Multiverse of Madness due to the corrupting influence of the Darkhold, Scarlet Witch proves not only as and more dangerous and unstable than most of the other MCU villains, but also frighteningly more ruthless. Probably only Ultron, Hela, and Thanos can match her in this sense.
• Evil Redhead: She becomes a murderous psychopath in Multiverse of Madness and she has auburn hair to match.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In her darkest moments, her voice becomes much huskier. Compare her voice during the stand-off against Hayward in Episode 5 of WandaVision where she is Ambiguously Evil, and the way she normally talks to Vision.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: She overuses the eyeliner in Age of Ultron and Multiverse of Madness when she was a creepy, mind-whammying "witch".
• Expository Hairstyle Change: From Infinity War onwards, Wanda's hair is dyed red, which represents her completion from HYDRA superweapon to a proper Avenger.
• Fading Away: She fades from existence alongside billions of other lives after Thanos' Badass Fingersnap in Avengers: Infinity War. This is undone in Avengers: Endgame.
• Failure Gambit: In Avengers: Age of Ultron, after Scarlet Witch uses her powers on Tony when the Avengers break into Strucker's fort, she deliberately allows him to take possession of Loki's scepter, knowing that Tony couldn't resist the temptation of using it. She just didn't predict Ultron, but she was right on it.
• Fallen Heroine:
  • What she did to the Westview residents and her shunning by them in the finale of WandaVision confirms her fall from grace. Wanda even acknowledges to Monica that she might be the villain Hayward makes her out to be.
  • Between the end of WandaVision and beginning of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda is this, having allowed herself to be corrupted by the Black Magic of the Darkhold relying on the loss of her sons, which leads her to hunt down America Chavez with intent to steal her power to travel the Multiverse, even knowing full well that doing so would kill her, and murdering everyone else in her way. Not that different from what Agatha Harkness tried to do with her in turn. Unlike Agatha, she eventually realises this and destroys the Darkhold across the Multiverse, along with Mount Wundagore, being implied to have committed suicide in the process.
• Fictional Accent: Wanda and her brother, who are from the fictional country of Sokovia, speak with an accent that resembles a blend of Russian, Ukrainian, and a couple other existing accents.
• Fiery Redhead: Wanda dyes her hair red as of Infinity War and her temper has grown as fiery as its color, as Agatha Harkness lampshades in the final episode of WandaVision.
• Fisher King: The vast green valley she settled in at the end of WandaVision is now another hex hiding a desolate wasteland, mirroring her dark corruption from the Darkhold.
• Foil: To Thor. Both of them are two of the most powerful members of the Avengers who have gone through emotional breakdowns of losing loved ones. However, Thor is able to move on, stay positive, and try to find new purposes in life, while Wanda starts to grow more desperate in reuniting with the people she cared about.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: This is the Maximoff twins' dynamic, with Pietro being the Foolish Sibling and Wanda the Responsible Sibling. A deleted scene shows Pietro handing out stolen supplies to fellow countrymen, and Wanda chides him for stealing, saying he's going to get shot one day. It's most apparent in fight scenes, as Pietro is quick to rush off into a fight while Wanda lingers behind until it comes to a confrontation that she cannot avoid.
• Force Field: One of the ways she can apply her powers, which she uses after her Heel–Face Turn to protect civilians from Ultron drones. After taking over Westview, she sets up a massive one around the town that warps the reality within into a classic American sitcom setting.
• Forgot About Her Powers: She exclusively uses telekinesis in Civil War and Infinity War, rather than her telepathy. They return in force in WandaVision. Perhaps she didn't want to use them before.
• Freudian Excuse: She was orphaned when a Stark Industries missile took out her parents, leaving her and Pietro stuck waiting for two days for a second one to go off and take them, not realizing that it wouldn't because Wanda had unknowingly cast a probability hex on it. Living in poverty for years afterwards, she and Pietro signed up for HYDRA to experiment on them and give them powers (or amplify pre-existing ones) in order for the twins to protect Sokovia and exact revenge.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: In Multiverse of Madness, she's repeatedly called out on her actions to find a version of her children again and finally get to live a happy life after all of her trauma, largely because they vary from merely unethical to murderously insane. Eventually, she realises it herself.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She was a poor orphan from an obscure country who volunteered for a lab experiment by a terrorist organization, and unexpectedly survived to become one of the most powerful people in the world. In WandaVision, Agatha Harkness theorizes that Wanda was born with some magical potential that ordinarily would have faded away without training, but being subjected to HYDRA's experiments with the Mind Stone turned her into the legendary Scarlet Witch, a being of immense power with the capacity to destroy the world - or even the Multiverse, as she demonstrates in Multiverse of Madness.
• Generation Xerox: Just like her mother, Wanda gives birth to superpowered twins. Although in her case, her children were superpowered from the get-go as opposed to gaining their abilities through fascistic experimentation.
• Genre Savvy: WandaVision reveals her to be a massive sitcom fan. She watched classic American sitcoms with her family in Sokovia, and more modern ones in the time after Age of Ultron. The same episode then reveals that Wanda has unconsciously been invoking sitcom plots through the spell she's cast on Westview.
• Glass Cannon:
  • One of the most powerful Avengers offensively (rivaling Thor in Infinity War and Captain Marvel), but also the weakest defensively (not including her power to shield herself). This is established right from her first fight scene, where she incapacitates Thor but then gets taken down with ease by Hawkeye tasing her.
  • In Civil War, she does most of Team Cap's heavy lifting during the airport fight, but Rhodey disables her from behind using a sonic cannon when she is distracted clearing debris for Steve and Bucky after Vision cuts down a control tower.
  • Her durability is much improved in Infinity War, as she learns how to use her magic shields to protect herself, and holds her own against superpowered melee fighters. However, she still gets taken out by a sneak attack to the head from Proxima Midnight, and nearly killed afterwards.
  • In Endgame, Wanda opts to take on Thanos by herself. She easily thrashes him, slamming him into the ground and nearly kills him by prying him apart from the inside out. He only gets away by exploiting her Squishy Wizard tendencies — he calls for an aerial barrage to save himself.
  • Averted in Multiverse of Madness, where almost nothing can harm her anymore.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her eyes glow red when she uses her power. Notably, the glow is focused more on when she's a bad guy than when she's good. It's re-emphasized during Endgame after she is resurrected; her eyes are glowing throughout her Curb-Stomp Battle against Thanos.
• Good Feels Good: After their Heel–Face Turn, Wanda and her brother discover that helping save people feels pretty nice.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: Her look in Age of Ultron plays this up. She's a pale-skinned, dark-haired girl who wears dark-colored dresses, ripped stockings, ornamental rings, and paints her nails black. Her eerie Psychic Powers derived from the Mind Stone are, according to Word of God, magical in nature. After joining the Avengers, her appearances in Civil War and Infinity War tone it down a bit. She still wears the dark dresses and jewelry, but it doesn't have quite the same edge.
• Good Costume Switch: At the end of Age of Ultron, she switches into her new Avengers uniform and is sporting a sleek red and black outfit with her hair styled in a lighter shade with curls. That look is toned down a bit for Civil War, but still a bit more kempt.
• Grand Theft Me: The Darkhold allows her to perform the spell of Dreamwalking: a Dangerous Forbidden Technique that allows a magic user to find and control a Variant of oneself directly to interact with that alternate universe. The limit of this power is a bit more reasonable than usual, in that it requires the Variant to be at least potentially capable of the same feats as the version conducting Dreamwalking. Notably, despite the Scarlet Witch being fully in command of her powers, 838-Wanda's own stamina and battle experience seem lower than the original Sacred Timeline version. Elizabeth Olsen compares what the Scarlet Witch is doing to 838-Wanda to an experienced driver operating a beat-down car: in that while they know everything they need to do with their powers, they remain limited by the fact that the car is not built for what they're doing. Even then, 838-Wanda's limited showing still allows her to massacre the Illuminati.
• Guilt by Association: She and Pietro were orphaned when a Stark Industries missile took out her parents, so they hate Iron Man/Tony Stark, and as he is one of the Avengers, the twins go after them. Both eventually grow out of it, though.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Her telekinetic and telepathic powers don't require her to get close to anyone, while her brother runs into the melee with nothing but his Good Old Fisticuffs.
• Hair-Contrast Duo: The Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette to the light-haired, Hot-Blooded Pietro.
• Hand Blast: Wanda can project waves and bolts of her red telekinetic energy to use as attacks.
• Harmful to Minors: At the age of 10, Wanda and her brother had to witness their parents being crushed to death when their apartment was struck by mortar shells.
• Heartbroken Badass: So much, being a Tragic Heroine.
  • In Age of Ultron, when her brother was shot and killed, she destroyed the Ultron Sentries around her with a psychic energy wave, empowered by her grief. Then she decided to track down Ultron in revenge, telekinetically ripping his core processor out of his body.
  • In Infinity War, though she destroyed the Mind Stone and Vision as well, this was immediately undone by Thanos and she was forced to watch as he killed Vision for the second time.
  • In Endgame, after her resurrection, she overwhelms Thanos by hurling enormous amounts of debris at him like giant boulders, and shooting powerful energy blasts. Her power is escalated by her grief at losing Vision, and out of all the Avengers, she comes the closest to killing him single-handedly.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door:
  • She starts as an enemy of the Avengers in Age of Ultron, but after reading Ultron's thoughts through the Vision's body while Ultron is Brain Uploading himself into it, she finds out his plan to annihilate mankind, and quickly changes sides, as does Pietro.
  • In WandaVision, she mind-rapes the population of Westview to enact her fantasies about a normal life with her lover. However, this eventually turns out to be the result of her Power Incontinence while she didn't mean any harm, and the Big Bad Ensemble have been pushing Wanda into the emotional breakdown, each for their own ends. Also, once she becomes fully aware of the suffering she's causing, she ends the spell, even though it means erasing her lover and children from existence.
  • In Multiverse of Madness, months of exposure to the Darkhold have driven her mad and made her willing to massacre her way across the Multiverse to get the power to have a version of her family back again, even if she has to kill another version of herself to do it. She eventually realizes, when faced with 838 Billy and Tommy's horror, what she's become and returns to her own reality, wiping out Mount Wundagore and the Darkhold across the Multiverse, implicitly killing herself in the process.
• Heel Realization:
  • In the last episode of WandaVision, when finally confronted with how Westview's citizens actually feel, and that she's been unconsciously using them as receptacles for her grief and despair. Wanda panics, nearly kills all of them with a psychic chokehold, and immediately resolves to dispel the Hex once she calms down, knowing full well she'll have to erase her family from existence. After she discovers that Westview has No Sympathy for her, Wanda admits that she doesn't deserve any and doesn't hold a grudge at all.
  • In Multiverse of Madness, she's quite willing to massacre her way across the Multiverse, variants of herself included, to get back her family after long exposure to the Darkhold. When the 838 versions of her sons are horrified by her, Wanda collapses, realising that her insistence of "I'm not a monster, I'm a mother" is absolutely untrue. She returns to the Sacred Timeline and destroys Mount Wundagore with herself inside it, also erasing every version of the Darkhold from the Multiverse to remove the temptation to do something like that again.
• Heroes Love Dogs: She has grown quite fond of Sparky, even though his life with her family is short-lived.
• Heroine With Bad Publicity:
  • In Civil War, she becomes a target for hostile media coverage and public fear due to her actions in Lagos, even though she was trying to save lives.
  • Her bad publicity becomes a plot point in WandaVision, as Tyler Hayward uses her past as a terrorist and a fugitive to paint her as an unambiguous villain so he can justify killing her and cover up his revival of Vision in violation of the law. By the end of the series, she's publicly revealed as the person who accidentally kidnapped and mind-controlled an entire town.
• Heroic BSoD: Suffers quite a few throughout her appearances in the MCU.
  • After Pietro is killed, she abandons any chance of saving her own life to seek out Ultron for revenge, requiring Vision to save her as Sokovia starts plummeting to the ground like an asteroid.
  • In Infinity War, being forced to destroy Vision is devastating to Wanda, and it only gets worse when Thanos uses the Time Stone to reverse her efforts and kill Vision all over again to claim the Mind Stone. Afterward, when Thanos does the Snap and she begins to fade from existence, Wanda just kneels, utterly broken, over Vision's dead body, barely seeming to notice or even care as she crumbles herself from Thanos wiping out half the universe.
  • In WandaVision, when she sees S.W.O.R.D cutting up Vision's body like he's just a robot and is not allowed to bury him, it hurts her a lot but she says her goodbyes and leaves. It's finding out that he bought them a plot of land in Westview and knowing they'll never get to have that future that makes her fall to her knees weeping, and lets out a power surge that creates the sitcom world and fake Vision.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Years of being stigmatized by people because of her powers, as well as losing her family, the love of her life, and her imaginary children have taken its toll on Wanda's sanity, and by Multiverse of Madness, under the corruption of the Darkhold, she's willing to kill anyone in her way and even destroy an entire universe just so she can get some degree of happiness in her life.
• Hero Killer: Kills Defender Strange via a demon henchman, personally slaughters almost everyone in Kamar-Taj, personally attempts to kill Wong, and then, in her own variant's body, she mercilessly massacres almost all of the Illuminati of Earth-838 in her attempt to capture America Chavez.
• Hidden Depths: One of the most prominent items in her bedroom at the Avengers Compound is an acoustic guitar.
• Holding Hands: In the first scene of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wanda and her twin brother Pietro hold each other's hand upon hearing that their HYDRA base is being attacked by the Avengers.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Putting her faith in the wrong people is the main reason she started as a villain in the first place. She trusts both HYDRA and Ultron before switching sides.
• Hot Witch: WandaVision confirms Wanda uses magic closer to traditional witchcraft ^note as opposed to using energy from other dimensions like the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj , and is a beautiful young woman portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen.
• Housewife: The role Wanda assumes in her Westview sitcom is as Vision's wife, who stays at home while he works to raise their children and socialize with the other housewives in the neighborhood. It reflects her longing for a normal life and family.
• Humanoid Abomination: The Scarlet Witch is revealed to be a prophesized one of these: a mage of unfathomable and horrific power who can casually rewrite reality, create life from nothing, and destroy whole universes. By the time of Multiverse of Madness, her usage of the Darkhold has turned her less like a human and more like a demon wearing a human guise.
• Humble Goal: Her destiny as The Scarlet Witch is to conquer or destroy the multiverse. In Multiverse of Madness, all she cares about is getting her sons back. Of course, her methods and intentions could very well destroy various universes with Incursions, so it's likely she could have fulfilled her destiny whether she meant to or not.
• Hypno Ray: Wanda afflicts mental manipulations when her red energy bolts hit their target.
• Hypocrite: Wanda and Pietro Maximoff have an Irrational Hatred of Tony Stark, whom they blame for the death of their parents because a mortar shell from Stark Industries killed them. So they reply by joining HYDRA, the Nebulous Evil Organisation on Earth which has inflicted ten times the damage of Stark Industries. It gets even worse as when HYDRA fails to stop the Avengers, the twins join Ultron and only switch sides when they learn he means to destroy the entire world and kill every single person (including them). Not to mention, they had no problem brainwashing The Hulk and unleashing him on a defenseless town; one wonders how many people were killed by the green artillery shell with the Maximoffs' names written on it that they themselves fired, and the irony of this is completely lost on them.
  • Then she plans to kill the teenaged America Chavez and steal her powers so she can live with and protect her own children.
• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Over her first four MCU films, Wanda generally wore Civvie Spandex outfits rather than a superhero costume, and was never actually called by her comic codename, with everyone just calling her Wanda instead. The final episode of WandaVision sees her adopt both the Scarlet Witch name and her iconic costume and tiara from the comics during her battle with Agatha.
• Ignored Epiphany: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has Wanda ignore some of her realizations in WandaVision. Although that might be partially justified by the corruption of the Darkhold.
  • After accidentally mind-controlling the civilians of Westview, she let them go after realising how much harm she was causing them. In Multiverse of Madness, she willingly controls her Earth-838 counterpart and kills most of the Illuminati using her, ignoring any trauma and trouble she might have caused her Variant.
  • Her whole arc in WandaVision is to let go of her grief for her loved ones. Her rampage in Multiverse of Madness is fueled by the desire to find alternate universe versions of her sons who were erased with the Hex, unable to let go of her artificially created children.
  • Letting her selfish grief direct her actions is a bad thing was even something she learned in Age of Ultron, yet WandaVision has her go through the exact same lesson again.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: In the idyllic sitcom world she created for herself in WandaVision, she isn't an Avenger anymore; she is a housewife with a loving husband and two kids. She still has her powers but uses them for Mundane Utility.
• I Know What You Fear: In Age of Ultron, she is able to induce visions in her victims that reveal their greatest fears and read those visions. She knows what Agatha Harkness fears as well.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: The Scarlet Witch is capable of spontaneous creation. Essentially, this means Wanda can do whatever she wants, and she first uses these powers to create an entire sitcom-based Pocket Dimension in the town of Westview, which she has absolute control over.
• Implacable Woman: Nothing stopped Wanda in her chase of America, be the Illuminati, Strange or the Masters of the Mystics Arts. Strange and America going to another universe? Doesn't matter, Wanda possessed one of her variants and the persecution resumed.
• Impossibly-Low Neckline:
  • Many scenes showing close-ups of her, where she's using her powers to hold something back, inadvertently showcase her chest straining against her costume.
  • Averted with her manifested Scarlet Witch costume, which covers up the entirety of her chest. The only skin she shows is on her arms before her Costume Evolution added sleeves.
• Instant Costume Change: WandaVision shows that she can magically switch between clothing styles within the sitcom reality and when crossing through the Hex barrier (going from a hoodie to a 1950s dress when first creating the Hex, 80s' blowout and mom-jeans to 21st century hair and her Avengers outfit when confronting Hayward, and from civilian clothes to her original hoodie outfit, then Scarlet Witch costume in the finale).
• Interspecies Romance: With the android Vision. They were a couple during the time between Civil War's end up until Vision's death in Infinity War.
• Invincible Villain: Fittingly for arguably the strongest magic-user in the entire MCU, nothing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness comes close to defeating her, from the entirety of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, to the Illuminati (including powerhouses such as Mr. Fantastic, Professor X, and Captain Marvel), to a zombified Doctor Strange empowered by the Darkhold and the souls of the damned, to even a powered-up America Chavez at the film's climax. Her defeat is ultimately a self-inflicted one, as Chavez manages to make her have a Heel Realization after she sees how scared shitless the children she's been after the entire time actually are of her.
• It's All About Me:
  • Age Of Ultron has her brainwash Hulk into killing more innocents than Tony Stark's weapons ever did, not to mention Ultron and Hydra being worse than Stark in every possible way. Wanda doesn't even care until she realizes her life is in danger.
  • In Avengers: Infinity War, she is desperate to save Vision, even though the lives of half the universe hang in the balance, as well as (in a more immediate sense) the Wakandan soldiers who fought and died to Thanos's forces in order to give Shuri more time to save Vision. She finally makes the sacrifice play, but by then it's too late.
  • In WandaVision, it's unclear when she became aware that she created her sitcom paradise, but once she is aware, she will seemingly do anything to preserve it, even if it means endangering S.W.O.R.D. agents, brainwashing innocent people to play along, and manipulating Vision. Lampshaded in the last Parody Commercial from the Show Within a Show, which tells Wanda to take an antidepressant "because the world doesn't revolve around you... or does it?"
  • In Multiverse of Madness, thanks to exposure to the Darkhold, she's quite willing to slaughter her way across the Multiverse to get to a version of her children. When they are understandably horrified by her, she has a Heel Realization.
• It's All My Fault:
  • Age of Ultron: After realizing the destruction her actions have caused up to that point, she says this verbatim to Clint and nearly has a Heroic BSoD. Clint tells her that whatever she did in the past, the best way to make amends is to get up and do something about it, which she does, officially becoming an Avenger.
  • Civil War: She considers the death of the Wakandans in Lagos to be her fault, since it was a result of her using her powers to shield Cap from Rumlow's bomb vest. In contrast, Cap says it was his, since he got distracted by Rumlow's mention of Bucky and failed to notice the vest until it was too late.
  • WandaVision: She discovers that she has been unwittingly subjecting all the residents of Westview to Mind Rape. By the end, she lets them go and goes into self-imposed exile.
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Wanda realizes how far she's fallen under the Darkhold's influence and tries to atone by destroying every copy of the spellbook in the Multiverse and collapsing Mount Wundagore (the source of the Darkhold's spells) on top of herself.
• The Juggernaut: As soon as Wanda reveals herself as the antagonist of Multiverse of Madness, she proves to be practically unstoppable as she relentlessly pursues America Chavez. She decimates Kamar-Taj while the whole order is mobilized, each of the heroes' spells and traps only delay her for a moment, and even fleeing into another universe simply forces Wanda to mentally comb through the universes until she finds America and a way to pursue her again. Even Doctor Strange, the certified ace of the mystic arts who manhandled Thanos and manipulated an Eldritch Abomination into leaving Earth forever, absolutely refuses to face her directly.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In WandaVision, her villainy is due more to Power Incontinence, and she willingly frees the people of Westview once she's come to terms with it. Come Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, she's willing to murder anyone and everyone who comes in her way, often in very brutal ways, and she's not above Cold-Blooded Torture, either.
• Just a Kid: In Civil War, Steve insists that Wanda is "a kid" to Tony when the two are discussing her bad press.
  • Used against her in Multiverse of Madness, as her plan to abduct America and absorb her power would mean killing her, which Strange, Wong and even America herself angrily call her out on, stating this word-for-word regarding the young dimension-leaper.
• Karma Houdini:
  • For her role in the plot of Age of Ultron, she has very little punishment. While she does understand that hexing Hulk was wrong, she never has to face any direct retribution for the deaths she caused by brainwashing Hulk, nor is it really brought up, not even during Ross's The Reason You Suck lecture in Civil War. Her inadvertent role in the creation of Ultron through her hexing of Tony also isn't addressed (though Tony himself doesn't seem to face significant consequences either). What she gets is the Aesop Collateral Damage of losing her brother.
  • When her refusal to sacrifice Vision directly results in the deaths of dozens of Wakandan soldiers - who are later not revived by the Blip since they weren't killed by the Snap in the first place - as well as contributes to half the universe getting Snapped, no one blames Wanda. Though to be fair, she had been dusted too at that point.
  • She also flies away at the end of WandaVision without surrendering herself to the authorities, though this is Justified by the fact that she doesn't know how to keep her new powers from causing damage without conscious intent, and she is going into Self-Imposed Exile until she can learn to prevent this.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • She's labelled a menace in Civil War after accidentally killing some Wakandan citizens while trying to contain Crossbones' suicide bomb. This makes the Wakandan government hate her guts and Tony fears she'll be arrested as a fugitive for lacking a visa. Plus, the United Nations are using Sokovia as an excuse to control the Avengers, which she had a part in by initially helping Ultron and indirectly influencing Tony to complete Ultron with the Mind Stone.
  • Then in WandaVision, she is chased off by the Westview civilians for her grief-induced actions against them, further turning her into a pariah.
  • In Multiverse of Madness, she's implied to commit suicide after her Heel Realization, also destroying Mount Wundagore and every counterpart of the Darkhold across the Multiverse to remove the temptation.
• Kick the Dog: She finally jumps off the slippery slope and goes on a dog-kicking rampage in Multiverse of Madness.
  • She slaughters many Kamar-Taj sorcerers in her pursuit of America Chavez, when she could have easily just moved past them.
  • When Wong refuses to divulge information about the Darkhold, she tortures his nearby apprentices until he complies. It should be noted that this is no different from what Thanos did with Loki and Gamora in his search for the Infinity Stones.
  • When 838-Reed Richards tries to stop her from going after America Chavez, even trying to empathize with her by mentioning his own children, she casually asks him if he has a wife. When he says he does, she states it's fortunate that his children will have someone to look after them before viciously murdering him.
• Kill the Ones You Love: In Infinity War, Wanda does it to Vision to prevent Thanos from obtaining the Mind Stone, though this is immediately undone by Thanos with the Time Stone. She references this bitterly in Multiverse of Madness, making clear that the fact it was All for Nothing only made it worse.
• Knight Templar: Her grief and not thinking clearly aside, she drives through a Dying Town for five minutes and has genuinely convinced herself that making everyone shiny and happy is better for them. She's called out hard in the last episode.
• Lack of Empathy: She doesn't even care that the brainwashed Hulk is causing more damage and deaths than what she and her brother suffered, caring only about seeing the Avengers, especially Stark, suffer.
• Lady of Black Magic: Her magical powers manifest as eerie dark red energy, with hugely destructive effects both physically and psychically. Her combat outfits are also more feminine in appearance compared to fellow Avenger Black Widow's, with a fondness for dresses and fashionable jackets, and she usually carries herself with a calm, contemplative demeanor.
• Large Ham: Elizabeth Olsen truly chewed some of her scenes when Wanda gets into the action in Multiverse of Madness.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Bruce chokes her when she tries to stop him and Tony from putting JARVIS into Vision's body. Subverted, when she easily breaks free from his grip and pushes him back without a struggle.
• Leave Me Alone!: She makes very clear after creating the Hex that she just wants to be left alone, even saying as much when she leaves it to confront Hayward for trying to fire a missile at her. If they leave her alone, then she won't mind-control them into shooting their leader.
• Leitmotif: Has her own theme as of WandaVision.
• Let's Get Dangerous!:
  • After Hawkeye delivers a "No More Holding Back" Speech to her in Age of Ultron, she comes out of her hideout with all spells blazing to smash robots.
  • Wanda is content playing the part of a normal housewife while in her Hex, but when her children are threatened by an armed drone, Wanda comes out and shows she is very capable of wiping the S.W.O.R.D agents watching the anomaly off the map should she choose to.
• Longing For Fiction Land: She accidentally creates the Hex so she can live in the classic sitcom worlds she grew up loving. Played for Horror as the other residents of Westview did not want to be part of that fantasy.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: In Age of Ultron, Wanda's powerset is limited to mind control and telekinesis, further offset by her status as a Glass Cannon. But starting from Infinity War, she becomes one of the most powerful heroes in the MCU, capable of laying the smackdown on Thanos himself. Then WandaVision happens, showing her capable of rewriting the fabric of reality itself. And it's implied that she's capable of even more with proper training.
• Long-Range Fighter: She possesses powerful Telekinetic abilities, but is a Glass Cannon that can be shut down in melee range. Downplayed in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where she's able to tank several hits from Captain Carter and Maria Rambeau, but still relies on her ranged magic powers in combat.
• Love Makes You Evil:
  • In Age of Ultron, she attacks the Avengers because she deems Tony Stark responsible for her parents' deaths and wants revenge.
  • In WandaVision, she is married to Vision and has two sons; she loves them dearly. Too bad they only exist in the town Wanda has isolated from the outside world, mind-raping its citizens to play along.
  • By Multiverse of Madness, she's willing to kill America Chavez to steal her powers to cross dimensions and take the place of another Wanda, then usurp the variant's life so she can be with her boys again. In fairness, it's implied to be partly the Darkhold's influence, but as the previous entries make clear, the potential was already there. It's something that parallels her with Strange, who has the same potential, which some of his variants acted upon.

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• Magic Must Defeat Magic: While Wanda outclasses everyone in terms of raw power, the only people who ever get a leg-up on her after her Face–Heel Turn are other magic users. Agatha Harkness manages to bind her when S.W.O.R.D.'s attempts at pacifying her fail, and Doctor Strange manages to evade her at various points in Multiverse of Madness where every other Enhanced that antagonized her are unceremoniously massacred.
• Magical Gesture: In the comic books, Scarlet Witch most often uses the classic "hand horns" gesture for her powers. Here, it's mixed up with what the screenwriters called her "wiggly woos", various rolling motions with her fingers and hands. Elizabeth Olsen actually studied how Scarlet Witch's hands were drawn in the comics when using her powers to create the right "body language" for Wanda.
• Makeup Is Evil: She has Excessive Evil Eyeshadow in Age of Ultron, where she starts as a villain, and wears significantly less make-up after her Heel–Face Turn. Returns in Multiverse of Madness.
• Mama Bear:
  • Let's just say that pointing an unmanned and armed drone at her twin sons is bound to piss her right off. Ditto Agatha using them as hostages. Wanda subjected her to a Fate Worse than Death.
  • Becomes an extremely dark variation on this in Multiverse of Madness - she will find a way to get to her sons, and she doesn't particularly care how many people, including variants of herself, she has to kill, torture, or possess to do it.
• Manipulative Editing: An actual power she possesses, albeit mostly an unconscious one. Not only does the Show Within a Show in WandaVision automatically edit out almost all intrusions from the real world, but when HYDRA scientists view the video footage of their experiments on her, the tape mysteriously cuts out everything that happened after the experiment began.
• Mass Hypnosis: In Age of Ultron, she uses it to evacuate civilians en masse. Later does it on a massive scale to residents of Westview to make them play along in her sitcom paradise.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: Her villainy in Multiverse of Madness is because she wanted real variants of her children. She only realizes too late that this doesn't make her their mother, it makes her their kidnapper, and the boys are terrified of the monster trying to kill their actual mother.
• Mind over Matter: The ability she first demonstrates in Strucker's prison during The Stinger of Captain America: The Winter Soldier is telekinesis. It also turns out to be the one thing that vibranium as armor can't protect against, as she could tear open Ultron's vibranium shell to show Ultron what it felt like when she felt her brother die, and she could also immobilize Vision and densify him enough to make him crash several stories down a building.
• Mind Rape:
  • In Age of Ultron, she hexes the Avengers and causes them to freak out involuntarily. Her power forces them to experience different visions: Natasha sees her past, Tony the future, and Cap and Thor alternate realities. It leads Tony to build Ultron and Thor to investigate his hallucinations and help create Vision. Although we don't see what she showed Bruce, it's enough for him to Hulk out uncontrollably in South Africa.
  • In WandaVision, she has all of Westview under her control. In Episode 5, Vision temporarily frees "Norm", one of the victims from it. Norm is unaware how much time has passed and horrified that Wanda is "in [his] head" and "it hurts." Other characters explain that the mind control feels like Wanda's unresolved grief getting into their heads and forcing them to feel what she feels.
  • In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, she enters the mind of one of the junior sorcerers helping to project a shield around Kamar-Taj and orders him to start barreling through the crowd of defenders, disrupting the shield and allowing her to attack with her magic.
• Mirror Character:
  • At the time of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda has become this towards Agatha Harkness. Both are powerful witches who let themselves be tempted by the Black Magic of the Darkhold, which then increasingly influenced them to commit a series of amoral crimes with the promise that by doing so, they would be able to fully satisfy their ambitions and goals. Both are also prone to haunt and torment another super-powered female character with the express purpose of stealing their powers (Agatha craves Wanda's chaos magic to become the most powerful witch who ever lived, just as Wanda herself craves America Chavez's power to travel between alternate universes because it would allow her to steal alternate versions of her children from her own variants). Unlike Agatha, Wanda ultimately had a Heel Realization.
  • There are also parallels with Strange Supreme. Both of them lost their loved ones and turned to dark magic to obtain the god-like powers needed to bring them back, committing horrible acts in the process despite multiple warnings from their former allies. Eventually, both of them have a Heel Realization when the loved ones they went to such lengths to bring back are horrified at the monsters they've become, but by then it was too late to fix things.
• Misplaced Retribution: When she and Pietro were kids, a shell smashed into their apartment block, killing their parents and staring them in the face for two days. It hampered efforts to rescue them as they waited to see if it would explode. Wanda then blamed Tony Stark, whose company made the shell, rather than the people who actually fired it. She also hates the Avengers merely because they're associated with Tony, and instead of getting her revenge on him as an individual, she goes after the Avengers as a whole. She eventually realizes that she is wrong.
• Mook Carryover: Wanda and her brother Pietro started off their villainous career as henchmen for HYDRA. However, a few days after the downfall of Baron Strucker, they are both recruited by Ultron, the new major enemy of the Avengers.
• Moral Myopia:
  • The events of WandaVision could have been averted if not for Wanda's desire for her own idealistic paradise with Vision. When her actions caused the suffering of thousands, she tried to justify it as them being "happy".
  • Wanda is so obsessed in reuniting with her children that she does little to spare others from the same kind of pain. When Reed Richards tries to reason with her by saying he has children as well, Wanda scoffs at his compassion and states that they at least still have their mother before she kills him.
• Most Common Superpower: Her Scarlet Witch costume is very form-fitting and emphasizes Elizabeth Olsen's chest.
• Motive Misidentification: The Maximoff twins misidentify Ultron's motives, as well as his plan, in Avengers: Age of Ultron at first, much to their regret.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Her Scarlet Witch outfit, while still red, is much darker than it is in the comics. It could be mistaken for black in certain lighting.
• Ms. Fanservice: Impossibly-Low Neckline in her combat outfit aside, she wears a corset and fishnets during her and Vision's magical act in episode 2 of WandaVision, and the classic Scarlet Witch costume from the comics as a Halloween costume in episode 6. While her upgraded Scarlet Witch outfit lacks the cleavage of her Avengers costume, it's considerably more form-fitting and shows her figure.
• Mundane Utility: In WandaVision, she uses her magical abilities for all sorts of mundane tasks, from dishwashing and cleaning, to assembling a cradle, to conjuring a dog collar out of thin air. Agatha is disappointed that she's using her magic to do such mundane things.
• Mutilation Conga: In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the possessed body of Earth-838 Wanda is shown limping, bloodied, and overall having a bad day after running the violent gauntlet of that Earth’s Illuminati, but still doggedly set on the relentless pursuit of America
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Wanda has a mini-freakout after being surrounded by Ultron Sentries during the final battle in Sokovia when she realises the serious implications of her earlier actions. It takes a pep talk from Clint to snap her out of it.
  • She gets another such moment in Civil War after she unsuccessfully tries to prevent a self-detonating Crossbones from killing civilians by sending him flying upwards into the sky, but the bomb explodes when he's still only a few stories above the ground, killing many people on the relevant floors of an adjacent building.
  • In episode 4 of WandaVision, she is visibly ashamed after brutally forcing Monica out of Westview with her magic, nearly tearing up on the spot. Monica later says to her that she knew Wanda didn't truly want to hurt her, and believes that Wanda in fact protected her from any real damage using her magic.
  • For WandaVision's episode 9, she panics when she realises that she has accidentally mind-controlled all the citizens of Westview, and quickly takes steps to release them from the Hex (after almost choking them to death in distress).
  • By the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda breaks down when the 838 counterparts of her children flee from her in terror and she realizes exactly how monstrous her actions have been.
• Mystical Pregnancy: In the second episode of WandaVision, Wanda miraculously becomes pregnant with Vision's child, despite the latter being 1: an android with no physical way to conceive children and 2: dead. Even crazier is that the two don't realize she's due to bear children until they both notice that Wanda somehow has managed to become at least three months pregnant in the span of a few seconds. The following episode shows it progressing even more rapidly - as Vision puts it, the twins are "approximately nine months early".
• Naïve Newcomer: During the Lagos mission at the start of Civil War, the situation is explained to Wanda as she observes what she sees and Natasha and Steve decipher what it means.
• Never My Fault: Has this attitude in full force in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. She constantly criticizes the actions Strange and Wong take to try to stop her from killing America Chavez and taking her powers, such as risking the lives of Kamar-Taj's other Masters of the Mystic Arts. Even when it's pointed out to her that the only reason they were killed was because of her actions, she refuses to accept any blame.
• Next Tier Power-Up: At the end of Age of Ultron, she has learned how to manipulate her abilities to fly. As of WandaVision, her powers have upgraded into full-on reality warping, called "re-writing".
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Her magical powers originally seemed to derive from the Mind Stone and were limited to telepathy and telekinesis. Later additions to her power set added energy manipulation, density manipulation and as of WandaVision, outright reality manipulation. Ultimately, according to Agatha's theory, the Mind Stone simply unlocked her full potential and her magic is more reminiscent of the Reality Stone.
  • Like her comic book counterpart, she has a habit of suddenly developing new abilities without any warning: For most of Avengers: Age of Ultron she needs to get up close to people to control their minds, but after her Heel–Face Turn, she's shown using her powers from a distance to compel Sokovians to leave their homes.
  • WandaVision also shows that she innately had the one power of comics Wanda, probability change, which was used to ensure the second bomb that landed in her house didn't explode.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: For most of Age of Ultron. She is an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette with Glowing Eyes of Doom, she sneaks up on the heroes a lot, and induces terrible visions. Post her Heel–Face Turn, she no longer fits this trope, except in the scene in Endgame where she lays a Curb-Stomp Battle on Thanos himself. She relapses into this at times in WandaVision where she unintentionally mind-controls an entire town and then very purposefully does it to the Big Bad. And then in Multiverse of Madness, she spends the entire film as this, slaughtering the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj, body-jacking her 838 counterpart, massacring the Illuminati in extraordinarily brutal fashion, and featuring as a villainous Implacable Woman. Everyone is terrified of her, and with good reason - which sparks her Heel Realization, because 'everyone' includes 838 Billy and Tommy.
• No Body Left Behind: She is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet. She and the rest of the deceased are restored by Professor Hulk performing the snap shortly before Thanos' army arrives.
• Nominal Villain: The only reason Wanda and her brother join Ultron is their desire to get revenge on Tony Stark and because they're sincerely convinced Ultron is a legitimate alternative to the Avengers in protecting the world. When Wanda manages to read Ultron's mind and see his plan for destroying mankind and Earth, they decide to turn against him.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent:
  • Starting with Infinity War, Elizabeth Olsen heavily downplays Wanda's distinctive Eastern European accent that she had in her first two speaking appearances. In-Universe, this change is justified by her trying to speak closer to an American accent to avoid being caught by the authorities.
  • For most of WandaVision, Wanda speaks in an incredibly loud and exaggerated version of Olsen's normal accent, fitting in with the American sitcom throwback weirdness of Westview. However, her accent returns when her real personality begins to slip in, which happens when Wanda directly controls the reality around her, such as when she tells Vision to help Mr. Hart, rewinds time after she and Vision encounter the beekeeper, recalls her real past to Monica, and expels Monica from the Hex. When Wanda leaves the bubble to confront Hayward, her accent returns, even stronger than it had been in Infinity War and Endgame. She also has a slight accent when speaking with Agatha Harkness, whose house is immune to the influence of the Hex. Lampshaded by Agatha:
    Agatha: That accent really comes and goes, doesn't it?
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood:
  • In Age of Ultron, she and Pietro seem to be evil at first, until it's dug deeper that they just lost their parents to a weapon of Stark Industries when they were kids and want revenge. When Wanda looks into Ultron's mind and sees what he desires, she and her brother join the Avengers' side.
  • In WandaVision, although Hayward tries his best to paint Wanda as a monstrous victimizer of the Westview anomaly, Monica, Jimmy, and Darcy are the only ones to give her the benefit of the doubt, admitting that she's just a woman grieving over losing her parents, twin brother, and the love of her life; all she ever wants is a loving family and a home. Wanda admits that she herself barely understands the power she possesses and everything she did was not intentional, just purely out of grief.
  • Doctor Strange takes this attitude when he meets up with her in Multiverse of Madness, expressing sympathy for what she went through and absolving her of the events of WandaVision, pointing out that she made it right. Unfortunately, thanks to long exposure to the Darkhold and an obsessive desire to find her children, he's wrong.
• Not Quite Flight: She can use her telekinetic abilities to make herself fly.
• "Not So Different" Remark: As Cap remarks when he learns of their origins, she and Pietro are just like him, in that they volunteered to be experimented on so that they could gain superpowers with which to protect their country. In both cases, the scientists (Erskine and Strucker, respectively) were German too.
  Steve Rogers: What kind of monster would let a German scientist experiment on them to protect their country?
  Maria Hill: We're not at war, Captain.
  Steve Rogers: They are.
• Not Wearing Tights:
  • She eschews a costume in favor of street clothes. She finally gets a real superhero costume in the final few seconds of Age of Ultron, although we never see her wearing it in any action sequence.
  • In Civil War, she only wears her promotional costume during the airport fight. She is either in undercover gear (Lagos), casual attire (Avengers Compound), or a prison straightjacket (The Raft) for the rest of the movie. The costume designer also wanted to choose something deliberately less costume-y, feeling Wanda has yet to come into her own. Infinity War starts with her undercover and thus back in street clothes, but once the Avengers rescue her and Vision, she takes back the Civil War costume.
  • Averted entirely by the end of WandaVision, where she has gained a comics-accurate costume.
• Not What I Signed on For: She happily joins Ultron's side when he tells her and her brother he wants to destroy the Avengers, since it was a Stark Industries bomb that destroyed their home and killed their parents. Both pull a Heel–Face Turn when they find out that Ultron is also plotting The End of the World as We Know It.
  Wanda: You said we would destroy the Avengers. Make a better world.
  Ultron: It will be better.
  Wanda: When everyone is dead?!
• Obliviously Evil: In WandaVision, once she becomes consciously aware of what she had done, Wanda believes that the citizens of Westview are better off living in the sitcom world of the Hex rather than having to deal with the harshness of reality. Within the Hex, she can keep them safe and iron out any problems they have in a 30-minute episode. It's only when the citizens are freed from her control and they tell her how horrifying the Mind Rape experience was, as well as the effect it has had on their families, that she realizes the damage she did.
• Odd Friendship: During a good portion of Age of Ultron, Wanda and Hawkeye are enemies at each other's throats with completely different ideals, power sets, and motivations. Come Civil War, she ironically treats Hawkeye with probably the most respect out of all the Avengers (barring Cap and maybe Vision), and looks up to him as a sort-of cool big-brother/mentor figure after the death of her original sibling (who died protecting Hawkeye from gunfire), anyway.
• Of Corsets Sexy: She wears a red one when performing a magical act (as "Glamour") along with Vision (as "Illusion"). And in a lesser case, the one in her Avengers outfit, which Elizabeth Olsen even complained made her the only heroine with cleavage.
• Official Couple: Vision and Wanda have become a couple during the time between Civil War and Infinity War, meeting up with each other for romantic holidays.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Meeting Ultron for the first time, a creature completely immune to her telepathic tricks, and again after she catches a glimpse of his real goal through the mind of the Vision.
  • When she sees Thanos use the Time Stone to rewind Vision's death and the Mind Stone's destruction.
  • When Stephen Strange finds her, she initially believes he is there to chastise her for the Westview incident. However, when Strange mentions the Multiverse, her eyes grow wide in horror... except that she's acting. She knows all about it, as she's been conjuring demons like Gargantos to try and capture America Chavez and steal her multiverse-jumping powers.
• Older Than They Look: Played Straight in Age of Ultron and Civil War, where she's treated like someone in their late teens, and Clint even tells her that if she wants to mope around, she can go to high school. Olsen was aged 24 and 25, respectively, when she filmed those movies, but looked like she could still pass as an older teen. Retroactively Averted in WandaVision, which retcons Wanda's birth year as 1989, the same as Olsen.
• One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce: As Agatha Harkness explains, witches typically need a coven to teach them magic and then they need to use incantations to work that magic. The fabled "Scarlet Witch" doesn't need either of them, and thus she can wield her power more freely than any normal witch.
• One-Woman Army: In Avengers: Infinity War, Wanda is able to stop a massive line of Thanos's threshers (giant bladed wheel-shaped machines) and redirect them at many Outriders. She becomes this again in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness when she overpowers every sorcerer in Kamar-Taj, destroys every Ultron Sentry attacking her, and takes out most of the Illuminati single-handedly and quite effortlessly.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Both of her sons are essentially erased from existence at the end of WandaVision.
• Parental Abandonment: Her parents were killed by a mortar shell developed by Stark Industries, leaving her and Pietro as orphans, which is the root of their enmity with Tony Stark.
• Parental Hypocrisy: In Episode 5 of WandaVision, Wanda teaches Tommy and Billy that there is a natural order of things one should not interfere with, and cites aging and death as examples. This is after she wished a new version of Vision and her children into existence - though both have been entirely subconscious.
• Parents as People: When her depression gets really bad and she starts mentally breaking down, she is unable to pay much attention to her own son pleading for help when he can't control his own powers. She isn't maliciously neglecting them, but she can barely keep her own sanity in one piece.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In WandaVision, she uses her magic to protect Monica from harm as she ejects her from Westview, which is what convinces Monica that Wanda isn't intentionally trying to hurt people.
  • In episode 6, Ralph Bohner commends her for doing her best to handle the ethical implications of the Hex by keeping families together, giving people personalities that aren't too far from their real ones, and giving everyone better jobs than they had in real life. However, it's unclear how much of this is Wanda's conscious choice, and the finale shows that pretty much everyone in Westview was actually miserable even when she thought they were at peace.
  • Before she killed him in Multiverse of Madness, Wanda made sure that Reed Richards' children had a caretaker that could raise them.
• Person of Mass Construction: Her grief over losing everyone she's ever cared about causes her powers to go haywire in WandaVision, where she instinctively creates a barrier around a small town in New Jersey, a house on the plot Vision bought for them, and even fully sentient simulacra of Vision and two children. Agatha outright calls her a "being of spontaneous creation".
• Person of Mass Destruction: She's one of the most powerful individuals in the universe. Her arc in Civil War is all about how people are afraid of her almost as much as she's afraid of herself. When Cap performs an illegal mission that has nothing to do with Wanda, Tony immediately asks Vision to keep her at the Avengers compound solely to placate the United Nations. In Infinity War, she can, albeit with a great deal of effort, destroy an Infinity Stone, the same one that gave Wanda her powers, and upon her resurrection she is the one who comes the closest to killing Thanos before Tony is able to snap him out of existence.
• Physical God: She can change reality, create things (even living beings) out of nothing, give people superpowers and take them away. In Multiverse of Madness, she demolishes every opponent that confronts her. She's also prophesized to either rule or destroy the Multiverse. By the end of the film, the only beings that surpass Wanda in power are Dormammu, the Celestials, Chthon, the Ennead and the Living Tribunal.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Wanda dresses in Red while her twin brother Pietro dresses in Blue. Wanda's magical energy is also dark red, while Pietro leaves behind blue energy when he runs. Their taste in clothing follows gender lines too, with Pietro wearing athletic gear while Wanda wears dresses and loves to accessorize.
• Power Glows: Using her powers produces a bright red glow. Even the more subtle uses of her power cause her irises to glow red.
• Power Incontinence: In WandaVision, her desperate desire to live a happy life like in her childhood sitcoms has led her to accidentally create the Hex during a Heroic BSoD. She does not fully control it after its creation either. It starts off mildly silly when she keeps turning dinner into the wrong things. By episode 7, Wanda's having a mental breakdown, causing many portions of her home to switch between time periods or warp into other forms.
• The Power of Creation: According to WandaVision, chaos magic is "the power of spontaneous creation," which explains how Wanda was able to re-create Vision from nothing but her memories of him. However, as yet, the things she creates can't exist outside of a limited space. By Multiverse of Madness, she has at least partially overcome this limitation.
• The Power of Hate: Whenever she is sufficiently angry at somebody, her powers become much stronger than usual, as evident of her defeating Ultron and Thanos.
• Power Parasite: In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, she uses a spell from the Darkhold to try stealing America Chavez's Multiverse portal-generating power for herself.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: Wanda's magic manifests as Psychic Powers gained from the Mind Stone, whereas in the comics, she can change probability to the point where she can alter reality on a large scale due to being chosen by the demon Chthon. In WandaVision, however, it turns out she is indeed using chaos magic and Multiverse of Madness confirms the connection to Chthon.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Despite showing up as an antagonist for most of Age of Ultron, she redeems herself for her deeds in that film by the end and decides to firmly join the heroes' side. Then, practically everything that happens the moment after she joined the Avengers, from the end of Ultron onwards, serves as more and more motivation to lead her to the dark side. In very short succession (especially from her perspective), she loses her brother, actually feeling when he dies, loses the love of her life twice, once having to kill him herself and the other helplessly watching as he was brutally butchered, basically blinks and has to "come back" to 5 years gone and to see her love's body being desecrated and "disassembled," leaving her without so much as a proper burial. Learning about the plot of land Vision had purchased for them to live together was the last straw and she fell into being Obliviously Evil at first, in her emotional agony unwittingly trapping herself and an entire town within a dome of fantasy where she could finally be happy, living out her favourite old TV shows and raising the children she always wanted, unknown to her, at the cost of the entirety of Westview's freedom and sanity. While she felt immensely guilty for the unintentional torture she had subjected the town to, her brief taste of the life she truly wants left her vulnerable to the Darkhold's influence and upon learning that she actually has a way to reunite with her kids, her grief and desperation finally make her snap and she fully becomes the Big Bad of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, going on a killing spree and brutally terrorising Strange and co., even murdering the entire Illuminati.
• Psychic Powers: After being experimented on by HYDRA with Loki's scepter, Wanda gained both core psychic powers: Telepathy (in Age of Ultron, she induces hallucinations in the Avengers to reveal their worst fears, reads Ultron's mind, instantly feels when her brother dies and mentally influences the civilians en masse to make them leave a war zone) and very strong Telekinesis, including the ability to lift and rapidly move heavy objects, propel herself into flight, create protective shields (in Age of Ultron) and emit destructive blasts, bursts (after Quicksilver's death in Age of Ultron) and beams (in Infinity War) of energy. All her spells are colored red.
• Psychoactive Powers: When she begins to panic, her powers reach out on their own and begin hurting the people who caused her distress, even though she didn't intend it. Upon feeling Pietro's death, her magic vaporizes the Ultron Sentries surrounding her in the church. In Westview, characters who depart from her "scripts" get violently punished while Wanda seems confused about why it's happening.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: She goes from a Womanchild to this in Multiverse of Madness, being childishly irrational and deranged while thinking she's being reasonable. When anyone so much as tries to talk her down from her desire to get her children back, she automatically designates them as her enemy and lashes out, callously killing them.
• Quizzical Tilt: Wanda reacts in this manner when Ulysses Klaue makes a comment about being being afraid of cuttlefish during their conversation in Age of Ultron.
• Race Lift: The Maximoff twins have usually been portrayed as Romani in the comics (either as the children of Magneto and his Romani wife Magda, children of the Romani Django and Marya Maximoff, or children of the Romani Natalya Maximoff), and of Jewish ancestry during the period when they were considered Magneto's children - though sometimes they've been neither, such as when they were believed to be the children of two WWII white American superheroes. In the MCU, they are portrayed as white Eastern Europeans.
• Randomly Gifted: Wanda is a powerful witch, who is destined to be the Scarlet Witch, but is the daughter of people without any importance.
• Reality Warper:
  • In a behind-the-scenes feature from Civil War, Vision states that Wanda can manipulate molecular polarity, allowing her to alter reality. It seems to be a minor form of this, however, to prevent her from having a full-on Story-Breaker Power.
  • WandaVision eventually reveals that this is exactly Wanda's power, as a chaos magic wielder... she's just not entirely in control of it. By Multiverse of Madness, she is in full control of it.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: In Age of Ultron, she is a dark-haired girl in a black dress and a red jacket, her magic glows red, and she works for the bad guys for most of the movie. Her Scarlet Witch outfit is red and black, and the people of Westview certainly don't think she's a nice person after what she did to them. And then, thanks to Darkhold-induced Sanity Slippage, nor does anyone else in Multiverse of Madness.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her corneas turn red whenever she's about to use her power, and outright glow when she's angry. Her victims also undergo this when subdued to her Mind Rape or possession.
• Red Is Heroic: Still retains the aforementioned colors after pulling a Heel–Face Turn.
• Red Is Violent: When she is out for Thanos's blood in Endgame, she is wreathed in the sinister red glow of her power, complete with a glowing red Death Glare.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: With her brother, Pietro, back when he was still alive. Although easily swayed by her emotions, to the point that the strength of her powers are actively influenced by them, Wanda was the more mature of the two and tended to keep her brother's impulsive tendencies in line.
• Redemption Demotion: In Age of Ultron, she is able to take down every member of the Avengers (except Hawkeye) by using her telepathic abilities to induce fear and visions of longing or foreboding. Once she joins the team and is fighting alongside Team Cap in Civil War, she never once uses this power and instead restrains herself to using telekinesis. Justified given that she's horrified when she realizes that the conflict in Age of Ultron was indirectly her fault. Her capabilities caused cracks on the team and lead Tony to create Ultron out of fear and paranoia. Using them again on the heroes would be highly immoral, and using them on the villains could lead to unpredictable results. That said, when facing off against the centuries-old, more skilled Agatha Harkness, Wanda decides all bets are off and uses this creatively once again.
• Reduced to Dust: She's among the billions who were splintered into ashes by Thanos' Badass Fingersnap in Avengers: Infinity War.
• Reflective Teleportation: After being trapped in the Mirror Dimension, Wanda breaks out by using her magic to teleport out into the reflections of Kamar-Taj. She pops in hands first, dragging some sorcerers into the reflection and forcing her other foes to try to cover up every puddle and reflective surface to keep her from getting into the room. Unfortunately for them, she's too quick.
• Refreshingly Normal Life-Choice: Played for Drama and Horror. Before the events of Captain America: Civil War, Wanda and Vision started a kinship that develops into a romantic relationship, Vision secretly buying them a suburban house in New Jersey as a gift so that they could spend their life together. After his death in Avengers: Infinity War, Wanda reaches the Despair Event Horizon in WandaVision, unlocking her Reality Warper abilities and trapping everyone in Westview in what can only be described as a Pocket Dimension where the world is like a sitcom, everyone in it acting as bit characters while Wanda plays out a domestic fantasy with a recreation of Vision. Unfortunately, everyone under her control is suffering under the weight of her grief as her unwilling slaves, and her lack of control over this new power causes it to behave unpredictably, leaving her less able to ignore the reality of what's happening as time goes on. While she brings down the Hex in the end and frees everyone, this leads to her becoming a full-fledged supervillain in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to regain some semblance of her desired life.
• Retcon: In Age of Ultron and Civil War, she was explicitly stated to be high school-aged, and acted much like a teenaged girl. However, in WandaVision, her birth year is revealed to be 1989. While this was most likely done to match Olsen's actual age, it's also possible that Wanda is experiencing a form of age regression, which is often used as a defense mechanism to protect against trauma or stress.
• Revenge Before Reason:
  • This is her motivation in Age of Ultron. She wanted revenge on Tony Stark over her parents' deaths to the point that anyone with him was, in her eyes, either just as bad as he was or simply Collateral Damage. She abandons her position of guarding the anti-gravity device to destroy Ultron Prime when he kills Pietro, even though he can barely move at this point. This almost causes her own death and the planned extinction event as one of his Sentries manages to activate the device's reverse switch.
  • As Agatha Harkness points out in WandaVision, the Maximoffs joining the likes of HYDRA in order to avenge their parents' deaths doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense from a "changing the world" perspective.
• Revenge Myopia: Pietro and Wanda want revenge on Tony Stark because a Stark missile killed their parents...except that while Tony's company did make the missile, it wasn't him who aimed or fired it. Hell, it likely wasn't even him that sold it, given this happened during the time Obadiah Stane was selling under the table.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Wanda has a tendency to hold back in fights because she's afraid of hurting others. Kill someone she loves, though, and there is very little that will stop her wrath.
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron sees her unleash a wave of energy in anguish when she feels Quicksilver's death, which destroys all the Ultron bots nearby. She even manages to rip Ultron Prime's heart out of his (albeit heavily weakened) vibranium body.
  • Avengers: Endgame sees her unleash her full power against Thanos, as she finally has a chance to avenge Vision after returning from the Snap. She effortlessly ragdolls him until he calls in an aerial strike, and is the only Avenger who came close to defeating him in a fight.
• Robosexual: Falls in love with, and later dates Vision, an android created by the Avengers. In WandaVision, they or rather, her and a copy of Vision created by Wanda's subconscious end up eloping to Westview together and (somehow) engage in coitus in the series' second episode that results in Wanda's Mystical Pregnancy.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Scarlet Witch in the comics was originally an enemy of the X-Men. In Age Of Ultron, she's an adversary of the Avengers prior to her Heel–Face Turn, and she's the Big Bad of the second Doctor Strange movie, though she does briefly come into contact with a Professor X from an alternate universe.

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• Sadistic Choice:
  • In Avengers: Infinity War, she has to choose between killing her loved one, Vision, to destroy the Mind Stone or allowing Thanos to get the stone and wipe out half the universe. She ultimately chooses to kill Vision, but Thanos uses the Time Stone to undo this choice and rips the Mind Stone from Vision's forehead, killing him anyway. And then he performs his Badass Fingersnap.
  • WandaVision presents her with another one, as she discovers that she can't end her spell and free the people of Westview without wiping Vision and her children from existence. Once she finds out how miserable the Westview residents are under her spell, she recognizes that there is no other choice but to end it.
• Sanity Slippage: Let's just say that reading the pages of the Darkhold in solitude for months, after watching the love of your life die three times in a subjective month, when you yourself had to kill them for the greater good two of those times, not to mention being forced to kill your children for the same reason, can do this to your mental health.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After finding out that Ultron's true plan is to wipe out humanity, Pietro and Wanda both decide to leave his side and get away from him as fast as possible.
• Self-Imposed Exile: By the end of WandaVision, Wanda ends up exiling herself after all the harm she caused Westview. The post-credits show her living in a small, isolated cabin near a mountainous lake area, studying the Darkhold intently.
• Ship Tease: With Vision. In Age of Ultron, deliberate scenes are shown with Wanda being the first thing Vision sees, her subsequently ogling his naked body while he speaks to Thor (to the point that Pietro has to make her knock it off). Near the end, Vision is the one who finds her and rescues her from the falling city where they stare into each other's eyes for a moment, and she keeps staring as they fly off. In Civil War, Vision is helping Wanda out with her esteem issues and tries to lift her spirits by cooking a meal he knows she'd like, and becomes very protective over her. By Infinity War, the two have hooked up properly, despite the fact that Vision is technically supposed to be hunting her, and go on romantic holidays whenever they get the chance.
• Shrouded in Myth: According to Agatha, the Scarlet Witch is "supposed to be a myth". It's the name ancient witches gave to one who is capable of spontaneous creation through chaos magic, and can wield this magic without any need for training or incantations.
• Siblings in Crime: Wanda and her brother Pietro have joined the terrorist organization HYDRA together and they spend the majority of Avengers: Age of Ultron as a duo of villainous henchmen bent on killing the Avengers until they have a change of heart.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Pietro. In contrast to him, Wanda's more serious, cautious, and less impulsive.
• Signature Move: First, there's the unusual way she holds her fingers and waves her arms while casting spells. Second, there's the way she tilts her head, often just before doing the former.
• Simplified Spellcasting: According to Agatha, as the Scarlet Witch she needs no incantations to cast spells and can do it instantly, unlike other witches.
• Skyward Scream: She collapses to her knees tearfully screaming when she senses that Pietro has been killed. Years later, Wanda screams in anguish in the foundations of the home Vision bought for them, grieving for the life she'll never have with him, and inadvertently creates the Hex around Westview in the process.
• Slasher Smile: In the opening scene of Age of Ultron, Wanda gives one as she and Pietro watch Tony Stark leave Strucker's lab with Loki's Scepter in hand.
• Sole Survivor: Age of Ultron and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. mention that she and Pietro were the only test subjects of Strucker who survived his experiments.
• Spree Killer: Essentially becomes this in her rampage across the Illuminati headquarters in Earth-838, murdering nearly all of the Illuminati in succession.
• Squishy Wizard: Aside from her powers, she is just an ordinary human with little to no combat experience, which becomes apparent in the final battle against Ultron. Even after training, Wanda will stop any psionic action she's performing upon being attacked. Downplayed by Infinity War, where she's still the most physically fragile of the Avengers, but has improved to the point that she can hold her own (and eventually win) in a close-quarters brawl with Proxima Midnight. Taken even further in Endgame, where her telekinesis enables her to win a contest of brute strength against Thanos, something neither Hulk nor Thor could accomplish before, to the point of breaking his sword (that had shrugged off hits from Mjolnir and Stormbreaker, and had been used to destroy Cap's shield). By Multiverse of Madness, Wanda has pretty much stopped being squishy, able to tank every attack launched against her.
• Status Quo Is God: She enforces this in Westview. Using her reality-altering powers to either make people forget things that don't fit into her vision of the world, or violently eject anyone that tries to break the immersion on purpose.
• Stepford Smiler: In WandaVision, she plays the part of a happy, smiley, and relatively-carefree housewife and mother. However, as the series goes on, cracks begin to show in the façade: occasionally, she gets reminded of the events of past movies, or something just isn't quite right with her perfect world, and she responds violently or by forcing it back into place. Later, she is revealed to rewrite reality around her to create and keep that perfect world going; to some degree, she is aware that it's not real but pretends it is. Monica describes being under Wanda's mind control as being crushed under terrible grief. Episode 8 makes it clear this has been going all the way back to when she first joined the Avengers, feeling crushed under grief and misery over losing her family, but not doing anything about it until after the Blip, when all the repressed grief finally causes her to snap.
• Story-Breaker Power: Wanda is the most powerful Avenger. Her telekinesis and Hex Blasts can turn the tides of any battle.
  • Wanda is able to destroy several Ultron Sentries, hold her own against Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight, and wipe out many Outriders by dropping a giant bladed tank on them. She can even immobilize Thanos while destroying the Mind Stone within Vision's head.
    Okoye: Why was she up there all this time?
  • In the final battle against Thanos and his army, Wanda tears the Mad Titan's armor to shreds in mere seconds and comes extremely close to killing him all by herself, something that not even Thor or Captain Marvel (the other two most powerful heroes) were able to do in that fight.
  • Her reality-warping powers have evolved to the point that she can hijack a town and turn it into a real-life sitcom, and do so completely subconsciously. Agatha outright states that her power is mythic.
  • Ultimately, it's mentioned and shown that she could rule the entire multiverse if she so chose. In fact, in Multiverse of Madness, she's only defeated by being made to realize that her actions were wrong and pointless. Overpowering her was simply not an option anymore, and probably never was.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Her powers vary depending on the moment. At her best, she is able to wipe the floor with enemies as powerful as Thanos, Doctor Strange, and Wong. But in other cases, she has trouble beating the members of the Black Order or Captain Carter.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: Goes from an Anti-Villain in WandaVision to the Big Bad of Multiverse of Madness.
• Super-Empowering: Her Hex, and so, herself, gives very powerful energy-based abilities to Monica Rambeau. Wanda never even realizes she did this.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: Instead of simply having the power to move objects and read minds, she's shown doing things like disintegration and moving gaseous material, giving people targeted nightmares, or visions of the future. This is most likely due to the magical and reality altering aspects of her powers.
• Takes One to Kill One: Vision realizes that since Wanda gained her powers after being experimented on by HYDRA with Loki's scepter, she is the only one who can destroy the Mind Stone since her powers were a byproduct of it. Indeed, Wanda's powers seem to be the only thing capable of destroying one of the Infinity Stones, aside from the stones themselves.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: While Wanda Maximoff has been affiliated with a few villainous organizations in the comics, she was never a member of HYDRA unlike her MCU counterpart.
• Telepathy: Besides giving her enemies visions, she can also see and feel what they are experiencing. This allows her to understand that the Avengers are not inherently evil, whereas Ultron... is more than a bit nuts.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Wanda is portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen as an adult, while Sophia Gaidarova and Michaela Russel both played her as a child during flashback scenes of WandaVision.
• Token Competent Minion:
  • Wanda and her brother serve as this for Baron Strucker. While all of his other soldiers get slaughtered with ridiculous ease by the Avengers during the opening battle, the Maximoff twins are the only ones who are able to give them some trouble.
  • To a lesser extent, they are this to Ultron as well. While the Ultron Sentries are clearly more dangerous than the HYDRA goons, they are still dispatched in large numbers by the Avengers without too much effort. The twins, on the other hand, pose an actual threat to them.
• Token Super: Being the only two subjects of HYDRA's experiments on the Mind Stone to have been successful, Wanda and her twin brother were the only superpowered individuals to be part of Baron Strucker’s HYDRA Cell.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She is the girly girl to Natasha Romanoff's tomboy. While Wanda is more emotional, fights long-range, and wears a dress, jewelry, and long hair into battle, Natasha is a calm but aggressive hand-to-hand fighter who has a tendency to dress in all black and is One of the Guys. This seems to fade as the movies move forward, where more female Avengers join the team. As of WandaVision, Wanda is ready to play the role of a happy, feminine housewife, an icon of old pastiche American sitcoms, whose interests rely in the protection and nurturing of her husband and children. Subverted at the end where her fantasy world shatters, and she's forced to play the solitary, independent witch role once again.
• Took a Level in Badass: Wanda shows massive growth spurts and developments in the scope and nature of her powers.
  • By Civil War, after a year of training, she's honed her telekinetic skills and can move massive or multiple objects without a problem... unless she's panicked and said object is a madman about to detonate a bomb vest. Then, there's a problem.
  • By Infinity War, she can hold her own in close combat against Proxima Midnight, stop and move several giant bladed tanks, and simultaneously hold back Thanos, who had been curb-stomping the other heroes and had five of the Infinity Stones, while destroying the Mind Stone.
  • In Endgame, after her resurrection, she proceeds to hand Thanos his behind on a silver platter, tearing his sword and armor apart like it's tissue paper, and comes very close to killing him all by herself.
  • In WandaVision, she develops very potent Reality Warping abilities.
  • In Multiverse of Madness, having fully come into her own as the Scarlet Witch, she's virtually unstoppable.
• Tragic Heroine: The universe seems to be conspiring to ruin her life whenever possible. It started with her parents being killed by a missile from Stark Industries, then she and her brother were stuck in the ruins of their home for two days waiting for a second missile to go off, and it all snowballed from there.
• Tragic Villain: Starts off as one in Age of Ultron, being motivated by a desire to protect Sokovia and avenge her parents' deaths, before graduating to Tragic Heroine by the end of it. Becomes one again in Multiverse of Madness, thanks to the Darkhold's corruption twisting her love for her children into a willingness to kill literally everyone in her way to get to them - even another version of herself.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • When she confronts Ultron in Age of Ultron, she calmly asks if he knows how she felt when her brother died, and then rips his metal heart from his chest. While her face is streaked with tears, her facial expression is that of fury.
  • When confronting Thanos from 2014 in Endgame, she's relatively calm. Her voice quavering is the only indication of how absolutely livid she is.
  • When Monica offhandedly mentions Pietro's death at Ultron's hands in Episode 3 of WandaVision, Wanda coldly asks her what she said, before expelling Monica from the Hex.
  • Wanda is eerily calm when she confronts Tyler Hayward in Episode 5 of WandaVision, but her voice is seething rage. She tells him to leave, then possesses his men and has them turn their guns on him before she returns to Westview.
• Trauma Button: Don't mention Pietro around her. It's not healthy. Don't mention Vision dying either.
• Trauma Conga Line: Her entire life has been one, as highlighted in Episode 8 of Wandavision:
  • She loses her parents at a young age by a bomb destroying their home, leaving Wanda and her twin brother Pietro trapped in the rubble for two days. After this, she ends up a volunteer for Strucker as a young adult, who use her as a guinea pig for experiments with the Mind Stone.
  • Shortly after she and Pietro are released from the HYDRA facility, Pietro is killed by Ultron, an event that Wanda senses psychically.
  • She joins the Avengers, but her first onscreen mission ends in disaster, with Wanda attempting to save innocent civilians from a suicide bomber, only to lose control of her powers and accidentally cause dozens of deaths. She is then used as a scapegoat by Thaddeus Ross to crack down on the Avengers with the Sokovia Accords, and becomes a worldwide pariah.
  • During her time with the Avengers, Wanda and Vision fall in love. At the end of Infinity War, Wanda is forced into the Sadistic Choice of killing her lover to destroy the Mind Stone in Vision's head and thus save half the universe from Thanos. With encouragement from Vision, she manages to do so but moments later, Thanos uses the Time Stone to bring Vision back, then unceremoniously crushes his skull. Wanda has to watch him die twice while her efforts are completely wasted, and then she's dusted herself. By Multiverse of Madness, she's still bitter about how pointless Vision's sacrifice was.
  • When Wanda gets undusted five years later, as many families are reunited, she still has to cope with Vision's death in a world that has moved on. She doesn't even get the chance to bury him, as Tyler Hayward has seized Vision's body and is using his remains for research, refusing to turn the body over to her for a funeral. Finding out that Vision bought a lot in Westview with the intention of the two of them living together is the final straw that drives her to create the Hex.
  • While she gets a chance of closure and acceptance of Vision's death, Wanda finds herself back at square one after releasing Westview from the hex, justifiably shunned and feared by the town's inhabitants, only worsening her guilt and pariah status.
  • Her guilt and grief open her up to corruption by the Darkhold. Under its evil influence, Wanda sends demons to kidnap America Chavez so she can extract her multiverse travel powers in order to find and take variants of her sons. She does this despite knowing that the process will kill the teenager and she'll have to possess and eventually kill the boys' mother, an alternate version of herself. When Kamar-Taj and the Illuminati try to stop her, she tortures and kills them without a second thought. It's only when Wanda sees the terrified reactions of 838 Billy and Tommy to her presence that she realizes what she's done and breaks down in grief and horror at her actions, which was enough to drive her to bring down a mountain on herself.
• Troubled Abuser: In WandaVision, she gaslights Vision and to some extent keeps him under her control, but not out of active malice. The Hex started out as her powers going haywire with grief and everything was originally subconscious. However, when Wanda began to realize what was going on, she couldn't bring herself to end it because she was finally happy. She convinced herself that she was making things better for the townspeople (fixing a marriage, helping a guy shine as a pianist) and keeping them safe. But once she's confronted with the truth of how much pain she's caused, Wanda finally ends it, despite it costing her her husband and children. Plus, when she believed that Vision had left her and their sons, Wanda said that if he didn't want her anymore, she couldn't force him to return.
• Twins Are Special: Subverted. Wanda and Pietro are classified as "enhanced individuals" because of their powers, but their powers are not a product of their twinness, nor are their abilities particularly complementary. When Pietro dies, Wanda does instantly sense it from far away, but a reciprocal psychic link between the two hadn't been established before this point, so it's likely this has more to do with Wanda's individual telepathy than anything else.
• Twin Telepathy: She and Pietro are extremely close and seem to move perfectly in tandem. It's justified as Wanda is a telepath and even felt her brother die.
• Uncertain Doom: She appears to give her life to destroy the Darkhold in every universe, but while we see rubble fall on her, we don't see a corpse. We also see a large flash of red magic after she appears to get crushed.
• Unknown Rival: 2014 Thanos is baffled by how personal she makes her fight with him, since she thinks he's the version of Thanos who (from her standpoint) just killed Vision about an hour ago. He quickly learns.
  Wanda: You took everything from me!
  2014 Thanos: I don't even know who you are!
  Wanda: You will.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Like the Masters of the Mystic Arts, Wanda can draw and harness magical energy from other dimensions. Unlike them, however, she doesn't have any formal training, so her powers are more chaotic and volatile than theirs, just like her personality. Anytime she uses them at their strongest, she's either acting on impulse, being reckless, or lacking the finesse to do exactly what she wants with them; expect a large amount of casualties/collateral damage to happen. Yet she is so strong that she can destroy an Infinity Stone in Infinity War, snap Thanos' Uru metal sword in half in Endgame and overwrite an entire town with her sitcom fantasy reality in WandaVision. Agatha Harkness, a witch with centuries of experience, is flummoxed that Wanda can alter reality so easily when it takes most witches years of training to do far less, yet falls victim to power-dampening runes that any magic practitioner should know about. By Multiverse of Madness, she becomes much more skilled in different methods of the Reality Warpering applications of her abilities, and even then her strategy when it comes to facing off against more experienced magic-users is to bulldoze her way through whatever spells they put in her way.
• Unstable Powered Woman: Wanda is a young woman gifted with magic she was never formally taught, does not understand and cannot fully control. Even after her Heel–Face Turn, she is still one of the most dangerous and unstable members of the Avengers. Her botching a mission in Lagos sets off the events of Civil War. Come WandaVision, her lifetime of grief, loss, and sorrow has caused her to snap, retreating into a fantasy world of her own creation and sucking countless innocent bystanders in with her. And it only gets worse in Multiverse of Madness (though that time, it's pretty clear that it's mostly the Darkhold's fault).
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • She's indirectly responsible for the creation of Ultron, the near-annihilation of mankind, and the death of her brother, all because she wanted to get revenge on Tony. Realizing this makes her undergo a Heroic BSoD twice and is likely the driver behind her joining the Avengers formally. Ultron's actions also become a catalyst for the Sokovia Accords, meaning Wanda's desire for revenge played a part in the dissolution of the Avengers.
  • Inverted in one instance; her instigations also cause Vision to be created, and alert the Avengers to a cosmic scheme involving the Infinity Stones which Thor goes off to investigate.
• Unwitting Pawn: Both Wanda and her brother volunteered to be experimented upon by what they thought was S.H.I.E.L.D., so they could protect Sokovia from a military invasion, unaware that HYDRA were the ones responsible for the invasion in the first place.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Flashbacks in WandaVision show her as an innocent, cheerful, imaginative girl before the tragedy that struck her family, pushing her onto a path of revenge and radicalism that led her straight to HYDRA and Ultron.
• Villain Protagonist: Zig-Zagged in WandaVision that has her starring in her self-titled sitcom alongside Vision, where they try to live together as a standard couple in a small New Jersey town. She also painfully mind-controls the townsfolk to play along, and her enslavement of the town attracts the attention of S.W.O.R.D and the FBI. However, the creation of the Hex turns out to have been a grief-fueled accident Wanda has no recollection of, and she believed she was giving the townsfolk peace. Once she becomes aware that she has subjected everyone in Westview to Mind Rape, she ends the spell even knowing that it will erase her Vision and her children from existence.
• Villain Has a Point: Defied immensely in Multiverse of Madness. Her constant string of humiliation and loss and overuse of the Darkhold causes her to undergo a Sanity Slippage so severe it threatens the multiverse. She attempts to "reason" with Doctor Strange by claiming that they're Not So Different because they both broke the rules to achieve their goals (never mind that Strange did so to save the universe while Wanda caused the suffering of thousands at Westview for her own purposes) when he rightfully condemns her merciless hunt of America. Across the movie, she proceeds to do horrible things like slaughtering the defenses of Kamar-Taj, cruelly killing off the heroes of Earth-838, and possessing another Wanda from that dimension. Multiple times, she tries to justify her actions and condemn Strange as a Hypocrite over the lengths he's forced to go to stop her, which just makes her insanity more clear. It is only when she is sent to Earth-838 and horrifies "her" own children from there that she realizes what she's done has no excuse.
  Wanda: You break the rules and become a hero. I do it and I become the enemy. That doesn't seem fair.
• Villain Killer: Wanda is the one who ends up killing Ultron Prime's body at the end of Age of Ultron by ripping out his heart, she contributes to Brock Rumlow's death in the opening scene of Civil War, she kills Proxima Midnight by pushing her into the path of a tunnelling machine during the final battle of Infinity War, and she almost manages to kill Thanos himself at the end of Endgame, though she gets interrupted.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Wanda is highly protective of her boyfriend Vision and of the Vision she created who became her husband in Westview.
  • When they're attacked by Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive in Avengers: Infinity War, Wanda repeatedly blasts them away from Vision when they try to take the Mind Stone from him, refuses to leave when he asks her (for her own safety) to do so, and prepares to take them both on by herself until Cap and his team show up. This just makes it all the more tragic when she's forced to kill him by destroying the Mind Stone despite all her efforts to protect him. And when she sees Thanos about to kill Vision again, she furiously lunges at him, only to be blown back.
  • This even extends to non-combat situations; in WandaVision, when Dottie is making her suspicions of Wanda clear, Wanda doesn't seem too affected... but after Dottie casts aspersions on Vision, Wanda, without even meaning to, makes a glass explode in Dottie's hand. Later on, when Ralph Bohner makes fun of Vision for being dead, she doesn't hesitate to toss him aside.
• Visions of Another Self: Multiverse of Madness reveals that dreams are simply visions of your variants in other universes, and Wanda keeps dreaming of realities where she's living happily with the sons she had in Westview (implying she had created those children based on her dreams). Because of the Darkhold's influence, she's driven to steal one of her variants' lives so she can be with Tommy and Billy.
• Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: Wanda and Pietro Maximoff both serve as the Strong Underlings to Baron Strucker's Weak Boss, as they are both enhanced individuals capable of taking on the Avengers, while Strucker is an old man with no combat skills who doesn't even try to defend himself when Captain America comes to capture him.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Although their anger towards the Avengers is misplaced, the reason Wanda and Pietro volunteer to undergo experimentation with Loki's scepter is because they believe that their new powers will allow them to crush their oppressors and resist external interference in Sokovia.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: She has a very noticeable Eastern European one in her earlier appearances. It becomes heavily downplayed come Infinity War, and flat-out disappears in WandaVision. Her loss of the accent is justified, however, as time spent away from her native Sokovia could have allowed her to pick up her more-Americanized accent from her fellow Avengers over time. Word of God says that this was because once Wanda went into hiding, her accent was one of the most recognizable things about her, hence the reason why she had to change it. Meanwhile, Wanda's loss of the accent in WandaVision is justified as she's attempting to replicate the stereotypical housewife of classic American sitcoms. Her accent returns when her real personality begins to slip in, which happens when she directly controls the reality around her.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: Wanda guiding Tony into creating Ultron leads to the destruction of her city when Ultron turns it into a makeshift meteor. Ironically, the reason she and Pietro volunteered for HYDRA's experiments was to become strong enough to defend their country.
• Wicked Witch: Her role in Multiverse of Madness, though it's downplayed by the fact that she desperately wants to reunite with alternate versions of the children she lost in WandaVision and ultimately subverted by her Heel Realization.
• Womanchild: Despite being in her late twenties/early thirties, Wanda acts much like a teenage girl in most of her appearances. She's often seen brooding or is otherwise antisocial in most situations, and she watches old sitcoms like she did as a child to comfort herself in her lowest moments. Justified, given how Wanda hasn't exactly lived what one would call a normal or happy life.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Nearly her entire life has been one massive Trauma Conga Line, so it's easy to understand why she'd do anything to have a happy family, like controlling an entire town with her powers as a Reality Warper so that she, her re-created husband and their children can all live peacefully, or, after long term exposure to the Darkhold, sending demons to hunt down the Multiverse's only known multiversal traveller, America Chavez, to steal her powers (killing her in the process) and jump to a world with her children in it... or straight-up killing and torturing everyone in her way to get to America, even if she has to possess an alternate counterpart to do it.
• Would Hurt a Child: Upon discovering America Chavez's ability to move across universes, Wanda attempts to steal her powers despite knowing that she will die in the process. To Wanda, so long as she can be reunited with her children, that's a line she is willing to cross.
• World's Strongest Woman: Ever since her introduction and throughout Phase 3, it was implied multiple times that she had the potential to become one of the most powerful beings in existence. We see this potential being fulfilled in Phase 4: By the time of Multiverse of Madness, with no more Infinity Stones and her having fully grown into her powers without being scared of them, she's unstoppable. Even when she finds an opponent she can't outright out-muscle in a Beam-O-War, she instead uses another one of her vast array of powers, like simply depowering such opponent through her reality warping. She's never actually defeated and only Maria Rambeau and Zombie Strange were able to cause her to break a sweat (though it's clear that she was wary enough of Black Bolt's powers to kill him first), and the only thing that stopped her was her own realization of how much of a monster she had become.
• Worf Had the Flu: According to Elizabeth Olsen, Wanda is much weaker while she has an alternate body, which justifies Peggy Carter and Maria Rambeau being able to give her trouble.
• Worthy Opponent: 2018 Thanos comes to view her as one after the fight she gives him while trying to keep him away from the Mind Stone, even likening her sacrifice of Vision to his sacrifice of Gamora to get the Soul Stone.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: After losing her parents and her brother and being overwhelmed by guilt over the events of Civil War, she finds some happiness in her relationship with Vision in Infinity War, only for Vision to get badly wounded and ask her to destroy the Mind Stone, killing him in the process. She spends the majority of the movie trying to find another way, but after an intense battle in Wakanda, as Thanos approaches the couple, Wanda finally decides to destroy the Stone, killing Vision in a particularly painful manner. While she succeeds, Thanos reverses time to restore Vision and his Mind Stone only to rip it off of Vision and kill him again. Wanda is helpless to stop him, and is dusted after the Badass Fingersnap a few moments later. This is later discussed in WandaVision by Agatha, who notes that Wanda keeps on ending up alone and suffering, and again in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Wanda tosses Wong off Mount Wundagore when he has completed his purpose as her guide. Fortunately, Wong is able to use his magic to survive the fall.
• You Killed My Father: The only reason she and Pietro join HYDRA, and later, Ultron, is because they lost their parents to an explosion caused by a weapon of Stark Industries. Even after their Heel–Face Turn, she does precious little to hide her animosity towards Tony.
• Younger Villain Vs Older Hero: Before their Heel–Face Turn, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff were the Younger Villains opposing the Older Heroes, as they are in their mid-20s while the Avengers members range in age from early 30s (in the case of Natasha Romanoff) to over a thousand years old (in the case of Thor).
  • In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda becomes once again the Younger Villain to the Older Heroes Doctor Strange and Wong, as she's in her early 30s at this point while they are in their mid-40s and early 50s, respectively. That said, she also antagonizes the teenager America Chavez in this film.
• You're Insane!: Wanda tells Ultron, "You're a madman" after learning what his true plan is.
• Your Worst Memory: In WandaVision, Agatha casts a spell that makes Wanda relive key moments of her life, including some of her worst memories — the death of her parents from a bomb and becoming Strucker's test subject. Agatha follows Wanda into these "re-runs" because she wants to find out the origin of her powers.

Variants

Zombie Apocalypse Wanda Maximoff

Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

Species: Zombified enhanced human

Citizenship: Stateless, formerly Sokovian; American

Voiced By: N/A

Appearances: What If...? | Marvel Zombies

On Earth-89521, Wanda was infected with a zombie virus.

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• Ambiguous Situation: How Wanda became a zombie and ended up in Camp Lehigh with Vision is a complete mystery to the audience.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: As an undead zombie, she's this to her other variants.
• Death by Adaptation: She died and was turned into a zombie before what could have been the events of Avengers: Infinity War in this timeline.
• Death Glare: Her default expression after being turned appears to be a menacing scowl.
• Elite Zombie: Of all the zombified heroes our Ragtag Bunch of Misfits face, Wanda is by far the most powerful threat faced, exclusively because of her game-breaking Mind over Matter powers. The only zombie who's implicitly confirmed to be more powerful than her is Thanos.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being an undead fleshcrawler who cares about nothing but her own sustenance, Wanda briefly takes the time to inspect and whimper over Vision's corpse, indicating she still loved him even in undeath.
• Face–Monster Turn: Like most of the world, Wanda has become a Flesh-Eating Zombie, whose traces of humanity are mostly gone after she turns.
• Hero Killer: While we never actually see what she does with them, Zombie Wanda goes on to murder, or in the very least incapacitate, Kurt, Okoye, and Bucky upon being revealed to the surviving heroes. She's only stopped from picking off the rest of them thanks to the Hulk's Big Damn Heroes moment, and there's no indication that he survived their one-on-one fight either.
• It Can Think: She still knows how to use her magic and has some memories left of her love for Vision, seen when she cradles his corpse.
• No-Sell: Vision mentions that because of the nature of her powers, the cure is useless to her. She seems to be also able to overpower the effects that the Mind Stone had on the rest of the zombies. In Episode 9, she finds herself on the receiving end, when Infinity Ultron shrugs off her powers with only momentary discomfort and irritation.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Whatever caused Wanda to be infected by the horde isn't explained.
  • In the Season 2 finale, it's implied that Kahhori met her before and the encounter wasn't pretty.
• Oh, Crap!: When Infinity Ultron proves immune to her powers, Zombie Wanda deflates in confusion and fear — even her hair suddenly drops back down around her shoulders.
• Omnicidal Maniac: After discovering Vision's dead corpse, Wanda goes from being a mindless Flesh-Eating Zombie to a vengeful undead monster who attacks everyone living that she comes across.
• Our Liches Are Different: She's a zombie who still has her magical powers in undeath.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Strange Supreme captures her along with many other zombies and seals them away as one of the universe killers he intends to feed to The Forge so he can restore Earth-91233. Captain Carter later breaks her out and Kahhori sends her and the other zombies back to Earth-89521.
• Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: This aspect of Wanda is even more prevalent as a zombie.
• Supernatural Floating Hair: Her hair floats when she uses her full power.
• Supporting the Monster Loved One: Is the "monster" of the arrangement, as Vision keeps her in captivity and occasionally feeds survivors to her, such as T'Challa.
• The Undead: She's a ravenous zombie.
• Undeathly Pallor: Like the majority of the zombies seen in the episode, she has very pale skin.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Played with. While Wanda doesn't exactly support Vision as a zombie due to...well, being a zombie, she still cares enough about her android lover to go on a vengeful killing spree upon discovering his corpse.
• The Worf Effect: While her powers are capable of matching the Infinity Stones and even destroying them, and she's presented as the most powerful zombie by far, Infinity Ultron simply shrugs off her opening attack before annihilating the planet they both stand on.

Wanda Maximoff (Earth-838)

Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

"Know that they'll be loved."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: Sokovian, American

Affiliation(s): Avengers (formerly)

Portrayed By: Elizabeth Olsen

Appearances: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

The Wanda Maximoff of Earth-838, who lived in Westview with her sons Billy and Tommy. Not being able to physically reach her universe, Sacred Timeline Wanda magically possesses this variant's body to go after America Chavez.

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• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: She's a happier and more well-adjusted person than her Sacred Timeline counterpart. While it's unclear how similar or different her life was to Sacred Timeline Wanda's life prior to joining the Avengers, since the Ultron sentries worked as intended it would imply that Sokovia was never destroyed.
• Agony of the Feet: While in the Illuminati headquarters, she's forced to walk across broken glass while barefoot. This leaves her with a noticeable limp which slows her down enough for Doctor Strange, America Chavez and 838-Christine to stay ahead of her.
• All-Loving Heroine: Not only does she not express any hostility towards her Sacred Timeline counterpart despite having every reason to be, she expresses empathy for her, even reassuring her unstable counterpart that Billy and Tommy will be loved.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • How her Billy and Tommy are still alive and where her Vision is is unclear. According to Elizabeth Olsen, 838-Wanda and Vision are divorced, as she is not seen wearing a wedding ring.
  • According to Word of God, she retired from the Avengers around the same time Age of Ultron would have occurred in the Sacred Timeline, which leaves it unknown how or why she joined the team.
• Babies Ever After: Somehow, the children who were conjured by Sacred Timeline Wanda in Westview and disappeared when she lifted the reality-warping spell over that town have variants who survived (or were born from other ways) in some universes, including Earth-838, making this variant of Wanda overall happier.
• Blood-Splattered Innocents: She seems to be a well-adjusted individual, especially compared to the main Wanda. Nonetheless, this Wanda is obviously troubled after seeing herself covered with blood once she regains control of herself.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: During the battle at the Illuminati HQ, she gets a nasty looking stain of oil from Ultron bots that resembles blood on her face. She eventually does get actual blood on her face after her fight with the Illuminati.
• Expendable Alternate Universe: The Sacred Timeline Wanda's plan involves taking the children of any of her counterparts away from their mother and if that counterpart fights back, she'll kill them without any remorse. This is nearly the fate of Earth-838 Wanda had the other Wanda not realized the error of her ways.
• Fighting from the Inside: During the battle at the Illuminati HQ, Charles Xavier attempts a Battle in the Center of the Mind by entering that Wanda's mind and trying to help her overcome the Dreamwalking spell of Sacred Timeline Wanda. It's all for naught, as Sacred Timeline Wanda overwhelms Xavier with a psychic red cloud, snaps his neck and reasserts control on her variant.
• Glamorous Single Mother: She's clearly having a fun time raising her twin sons by herself.
• Good Counterpart: To her Sacred Timeline self, being firmly heroic. This is less due to moral alignment and more due to the fact that she doesn't have as much of a Trauma Conga Line behind her.
• Good Parents: She's a caring and protective mother to her twin sons.
• Grand Theft Me: Not being able to go to her universe, Sacred Timeline Wanda uses the Darkhold spell of Dreamwalking to take over her variant's body to go after America Chavez.
• Hero Killer: When possessed by Sacred Timeline Wanda, she kills all of the Illuminati of Earth-838 except Mordo, with relative ease.
• In Spite of a Nail: Wanda was still an Avenger in this universe despite the events of Age of Ultron not happening as they did in the Sacred Timeline, though she gets to retire from superheroics and raise her children as a single mother after the Ultron program proves successful.
• Magical Barefooter: Raids the Illuminati compound without bothering to put on shoes first. This actually hampers her, as she's forced to walk across broken glass.
• Mama Bear: This Wanda is just as loving and protective of her sons as her Sacred Timeline counterpart.
• Never Trust a Trailer: Promotional materials made her out to be Wanda's Westview self from WandaVision, but they're two separate people from different universes.
• Nice Girl: She's shown to be a genuine hero who retired to be a loving mother and is a compassionate woman who feels and understands the plight her Sacred Timeline counterpart has endured.
• Not Wearing Tights: When possessing her alternate self's body, Sacred Timeline Wanda doesn't bother conjuring a Scarlet Witch costume on her and thus goes fighting the Illuminati in that universe's Wanda's casual home clothes.
• Retired Badass: According to the producer of Multiverse of Madness, she retired from being an Avenger after Tony Stark created the Ultron Sentries.
• Sympathy for the Devil: In the end, she shows silent compassion for Sacred Timeline Wanda, despite all she's done, after realizing how she's suffering, and assures her that Billy and Tommy will still be loved.
• Visions of Another Self: There's a heavy implication that the reason she expresses empathy to her 616 counterpart is because while Wanda-616 dreams of Wanda-838's comparably happier life with her sons, Wanda-838 has nightmares of Wanda-616's life of complete sorrow having lost the same boys.

Wanda-Merlin

Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

"I'm sorry, my king. But we're out of time."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: English

Affiliation(s): Odinson Royal Family

Voiced By: Elizabeth Olsen

Appearances: What If...?

A variant of Wanda who is court sorcerer to the Odinson royal family in 1602.

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Wanda's Sacred Timeline counterpart saw Captain Carter as an enemy due to her standing in the way of trying to take America Chavez, going so far as to kill her for standing in her way. By contrast, her 1602 variant is the one who takes Peggy from her own universe to help her, believing she is the one who can save her reality. Though they don't interact much, Wanda frequently vouches for Peggy to King Thor, even when he believes her to be a failure who couldn't stop Hela from being sucked into a vortex.
• Adaptational Job Change: Wanda was a nun in the original 1602 comic book, rather than a sorcerer.
• All in the Manual: The name Wanda-Merlin is only used in the credits, while in the actual episode she's called the Scarlet Witch.
• Composite Character: She takes the place of the court mage occupied by Doctor Strange in the original 1602 comics.
• Court Mage: Serves as this to the Odinson Royal Family.

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"I'm not a monster."