Scarlet Witch Character Review
The Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) is a fictional comic book Character that appears in books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men (March 1964) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. She is the daughter of Magneto, the twin sister of Quicksilver, and the paternal half-sister of Polaris.
Debuting in the Silver Age of comic books, the Scarlet Witch has been featured in five decades of Marvel continuity, starring in two self-titled limited series with husband the Vision and as a regular team member in superhero title the Avengers. The character has also appeared in other Marvel-endorsed products such as animated films; arcade and video games; television series and merchandise such as action figures and trading cards.
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Powers and Abilities (Scarlet Witch)
The Scarlet Witch is a mutant
who had the ability to manipulate probability via her "hexes" (often
manifesting physically as "hex spheres" or "hex bolts"). These hexes are
relatively short range, and are limited to her line of sight. Casting a
hex requires a gesture and concentration on her part, though the
gestures are largely a focus for the concentration and despite this
precision, the hexes are not necessarily guaranteed to work,
particularly if Wanda is tired or using her powers excessively. If
overextended, Wanda's hexes can backfire, causing probability to work
against her wishes or to undo previous hexes. Early in her career, her
hexes were unconscious on her part, and would be automatically triggered
whenever she made a particular gesture, regardless of her intent. These
hexes would only manifest "bad luck" effects. She later gained enough
control over her powers that her powers only work when she wants them
to, and they are not limited to negative effects. She can use her hexes
to light flammable objects, contain or remove air from a particular
volume, deflect objects, stop the momentum of projectiles, open doors,
explode objects, create force fields and deflect magical attacks, etc.
The effects are varied but almost always detrimental to opponents, such
as causing the artifact the Evil Eye to work against inter-dimensional warlord Dormammu, the robot Ultron to short circuit, or a gas main underneath the Brotherhood of Mutants to explode. Wanda is an expert combatant having been trained by both Captain America and Hawkeye,
as well as being an adept tactician due to her years of experience
working as an Avenger and her experience in a variety of combat
situations. The Scarlet Witch also has the potential to wield magic and
later learned that she was destined to serve the role of Nexus Being, a
living focal point for the Earth dimension's mystical energy.
Writer Kurt Busiek
redefined the Scarlet Witch's powers, and maintained that it was in
fact an ability to manipulate chaos magic, activated when she was born.
Busiek's redefinition upgraded Wanda's powers substantially, and she is
shown as being capable of feats such as the resurrection of Wonder Man. She was here described as the "nexus being" of the Marvel Universe, capable of birthing children powerful enough to challenge avatars of Eternity.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis revamped Wanda's powers yet again, with Doctor Strange
stating that there was in fact no such thing as chaos magic, and that
Wanda had been altering reality all along. Her power was here depicted
as sufficient to rewrite her entire universe, and cause multiverse-threatening ripples.
When the Elder god and primeval demon Chthon was summoned to Earth Dimension by the power of the Darkhold
and took Quicksilver as his host, he revealed that there is in fact
Chaos Magic, a form of magic so dreaded and horrific that all of Earth's
sorcerers made a pact to end Chthon's reign with a lie, that there is
no God of Chaos and no Chaos Magic which is the basis for Chthon's
unholy might. Later on after Chthon was exorcised from Quicksilver, he
mentioned that he found in the Darkhold a leading text on Chaos Magic,
the power which he believes is the source for his sister's insanity.
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Wanda's power to alter reality was spawned from the combination of
her natural mutant abilities to affect probability and Chaos Magic.
Because of the nature of her powers, she does not possess certain
limitations like other reality warpers such as Mad Jim Jaspers
who needs existing reality to use his powers. Her powers which stemmed
out from the ability to manipulate probabilities suggest that she does
not need existing matter to warp reality, only possibilities which are
endless. It must also be noted that the Scarlet Witch is responsible for
the resurrection of Mad Jim Jaspers which happened when her powers
altered reality.
She also has a degree of resistance to the Phoenix Force and can also
cause pain to its hosts, such as Cyclops when he tried to stop Hope
from going with her. Although this becomes less effective as the Phoenix Force portions are divided among those who have not yet been defeated. A vs X
#12 confirmed that her powers involve chaos magic, and stated that she
has "Mutant Magic", and the "primal source of her chaos" magic is
cosmic.
In Other Media (Film/Movie)
In May 2013, Entertainment Weekly reported that the Scarlet Witch and her brother, Quicksilver, would appear in the 2015 Avengers sequel (the Avengers 2).
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