Wanda Maximoff (Earth-1010)

{{Character Template Red Lucy Keough (paternal ancestor); Quentin Keough (paternal ancestor); Lenore Keough (paternal ancestor); Jakob Eisenhardt (paternal grandfather, deceased); Edie Eisenhardt (paternal grandmother, deceased); Erich Eisenhardt (paternal great-uncle, deceased); Ruth Eisenhardt (paternal aunt, deceased); Anya (maternal grandmother, deceased); Magda Lehnsherr (mother, presumed deceased); Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto) (father); Django Maximoff (foster father, deceased); Marya Maximoff (foster mother, deceased); Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) (brother); Lorna Dane (Polaris) (paternal half-sister);
 * Image                  = Scarlet Witch.png
 * RealName               = Wanda Maximoff
 * CurrentAlias           = Scarlet Witch
 * Aliases                = Wanda Frank, Wanda Magnus, Ana Maximoff, Gypsy Witch, Witch
 * Identity               = Secret
 * Alignment              = Good
 * Affiliation            = Avengers, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
 * Relatives              =


 * Universe               = Earth-1010
 * BaseOfOperations       =


 * Gender                 = Female
 * Height                 = 5'7"
 * Weight                 = 132 lbs
 * Eyes                   = Blue
 * Hair                   = Auburn
 * UnusualFeatures        =


 * Citizenship            = American
 * Citizenship2           = Transian
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Adventurer, formerly witchcraft tutor, housewife, mutant terrorist
 * Education              =


 * Origin                 = Mutant
 * PlaceOfBirth           = Wundagore Mountain, Transia
 * Creators               = Stan Lee; Jack Kirby
 * First                  = The Call
 * Death                  =


 * HistoryText            =

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
Born at the Wundagore base of the High Evolutionary, Wanda and her twin brother Pietro are the children of Magneto and were eventually placed in the care of a Gypsy couple named Django and Marya Maximoff, from whom they were separated as teens when their encampment was attacked. They were later recruited into Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and, as the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, fought the X-Men on several occasions. At the time, none of the three were aware of the siblings' paternity.

Avengers
They soon abandoned their terrorist activities and joined the Avengers.

Chaos Magic Reality Warping: Scarlet Witch's main power is the superhuman ability to manipulate chaos magic, given to her by the demon Chthon (imprisoned within Wundagore Mountain) when she was born. Her hexes were, by extension, simple, indirect manifestations of this magic, destabilizing probabilities by inducing chaos. The Scarlet Witch's powers are not fully under her conscious control.
 * Powers                 =

Wanda was able to generate armies from nowhere. She can also alter the entire reality at will, and permanently shift the nature of all possible futures. Wanda was also shown to easily wipe any in her own illusory reality from existence with but a thought.

Wanda Maximoff is actually considered the very "nexus-being" of the central universe of Earth-1010, serving as the entity that personifies the realm's character and serves as the focal point or anchor of that reality. (Uatu described a nexus-being as one of the "rare individual entities with the power to affect probabilities-and thus the future"), making her along the scales of class and power as the other known nexus-beings, such as Merlin, Sise-Neg, Kang the Conqueror, Leonard Tippit, Jean Grey/Phoenix and Odin.

As the spell causing the Decimation only affected mutant-based powers, Wanda is still perfectly capable of wielding magic.

Wanda's ability to channel and wield magical energy was brought about by the demonic sorcerer Chthon. On the day that Wanda was born, the ghostly specter of Chthon visited the newborn Wanda and "blessed" Wanda so that Wanda could channel the dangerous Chaos Magic that was the basis for Chthon's unholy might. Chthon's intentions were to create a vessel that he could possess one day, when Wanda was a full-grown adult, though his schemes to do so were foiled by the Avengers.

As such, due to Chthon's "blessing", Wanda is also vulnerable to having all of her powers disabled if Chthon is ever disrupted. During the period in which pages from Chthon's sacred tome, the Darkhold, were scattered across the globe, Wanda's powers were periodically disabled -- with her being left powerless in several dangerous battles against various super-villains -- until several of the missing pages were restored to the book. Although this particular plot thread was stated by Agatha Harkness who was reanimated by Wanda. How much of it is true and how much of it is more unconscious manifestations of the Scarlet Witch's reality manipulation is debatable.

Wanda's power to alter reality itself 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. Still, because of her "certain" advantages in her form of reality warping, Wanda might be one of the most powerful mutants that ever existed.


 * Hex Bolts: Initially, the Scarlet Witch 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. 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. Her powers while beginning to unveil a higher potential appeared capable of prevailing against the mastered mystical ones of Dormammu in his own Dark Dimension when she and the Avengers fought against him for Avalon's Evil Eye power-object, albeit indirectly by disrupting the energies of Dormammu and the Eye.

They have been known to alter the molecular composition and physical state of physical objects, negate or distort physical laws, and to cause various forms of energy to spontaneously appear or disappear. She has an affinity with natural elements and phenomena, stemming largely from her magical training under Agatha Harkness, and has trained often at using her hexes to deflect projectiles or to cause enemies to stumble or otherwise suffer the effects of "bad luck". Ultimately, the hexes are not under the Witch's direct control, although she can influence the nature of their effects with great concentration and effort.


 * Flight: Wanda has recently portrayed the ability to fly, though even prior to her mental collapse she has inexplicably demonstrated such an ability. The full extent to this ability is unknown.


 * Abilities              =

Expert Knowledge of Sorcery: Wanda was trained by Agatha Harkness in witchcraft. Her sorceress training has not given her a set of powers separate from her mutant abilities, but only honed her control over her existing abilities. She has, however, a special affinity for the natural elements and materials that witches utilize in their spells: the four alchemical elements, wood, organic substances, etc.

Expert Combatant: Wanda has also been trained in hand-to-hand combat by both Captain America and Hawkeye.

Expert Tactician: When sane, the experience and leadership skills that come from years of active duty as an Avenger.
 * Strength               = The Scarlet Witch possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise.


 * Weaknesses             = Mental Illness: Although Wanda appears to be currently sane, her mental stability is still questionable. And it is unknown of whether or not she truly has any physical weaknesses as of now.

Perception Range: Her range of hex-casting was limited by her line of sight. (She couldn't watch a live television broadcast and cause a hex-phenomenon to occur at its point of origin.)

Physical Condition: Hexes had a degree of unreliability, which was further affected by her physical condition: when well rested, in good health, and mentally and emotionally alert, Scarlet Witch could cast numerous hex-spheres in rapid succession and attain desirable results for almost an hour.

Overextension: Despite this enhanced precision, her hexes were not necessarily guaranteed to work, particularly if she had been straining herself or using her powers excessively. If overextended, her hexes could backfire, causing probability to work against her wishes or to undo previous hexes.


 * Equipment              = Avengers Identicard
 * Transportation         = Avengers Quinjet
 * Weapons                =


 * Notes                  =
 * Wanda, along with her siblings, appears to have inherited her father's propensity for mental illness and depression. Wanda has suffered mental breakdowns, undergone episodes of mental illness and suffered deep depression.

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