The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs was Wanda Maximoff from Earth -9602 of the Unsacred Timeline. She is a lieutenant of Barbatos, and the leader of the Dark Knights during the first Dark Omniverse invasion. She convinced The One Above All, the original creator of the Multiverse, to choose her as his lieutenant over Thanos as his vision was too limited by his ego. The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs continued on with her own plans, eventually acquiring cosmic power and becoming a greater threat than The One Above All himself.
Wanda Maximoff
Thomas Wayne (foster father, deceased)
History
Heroic Origin
In Earth -9602, unlike its multiverse counterpart, Wanda Maximoff was merged with Bruce Wayne, instead of his childhood friend, Zatanna Zatara. This resulted in Wanda having Thomas and Martha Wayne as her foster parents, and becoming the caped crusader known as The Scarlet Witch. Wanda was a member of the Judgement League Avengers. When the Green Skull decided to become a hero and tried to convince the league to let him join, The Scarlet Witch was the only one to oppose his acceptance, as she knew Luthor didn’t really believe in being a hero and was only interested in himself.
Joker’s Attack
The Joker from an unknown universe went on a killing spree across Gotham City; the clown had discovered that he was dying from the same chemicals that had turned him into what he was and wanted to take everyone with him. He murdered all of Batman's enemies including the Penguin, Catwoman, Killer Croc and the Ventriloquist. The Joker also killed Batman's friend Commissioner Jim Gordon, who accidentally sprung an acid trap in his notebook and melted his face off. Wanda sensed the imbalance in the multiverse and travelled to that universe by dreamwalking. The Scarlet Witch was later drugged by Joker, temporarily paralyzing her body but not her mind, so she could witness the chaos he caused without being able to do anything about it. The Joker bombed a hospital in front of Wanda and, to make it personal, shot dead the parents of many young children in front of her before proceeding to inject the children with an incurable, irreversible strain of Joker Venom. According to the Joker, he did this in order to create a hybrid of both Scarlet Witch and the Joker.
The Scarlet Witch eventually regained movement and, so traumatized and angry over what she had witnessed, grabbed the Joker and broke his neck. Unbeknownst to the Scarlet Witch though, the Joker exhaled a toxin contained in his heart, which infected anyone close to him if he died. In this case, it was the Scarlet Witch.
Transformation
Two days after the murder of The Joker, The Scarlet Witch and Superman talked about what happened. Though she felt no guilt, she affirmed that she was not planning to make it a regular thing. Superman assured her that the S.T.A.R. Labs branch in Metropolis had agreed to take care of all the kids who had been infected by the Joker Venom. When Superman mentioned how one of the children bit one of the doctors, The Scarlet Witch let out a small laugh which surprised both of them and alarmed Superman.
Three days later, Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Red Robin were training in the Batcave and talked to Wanda (dreamwalking through Bruce)’s worsening condition. Though they all offered to help the Bat however they could, Batman rebutted that he didn't want any help and revealed that the real reason he called them was that he knew they would be the first to notice something was wrong with him and warn the other heroes, something he couldn't allow to happen. And then he surprised them by doing something they were unprepared for: pull out a pair of hidden machine guns and shoot them all dead.
Almost two weeks after the Joker's death, Batman slaughtered the rest of the Justice League by using the stockpile of various villains' weaponry they had built up over the years. He synthesized a strain of Black Kryptonite and used it against Supergirl, driving her insane and forcing her to kill her own family before killing her.
On the Justice League Watchtower, he cornered Superman by releasing a Kryptonite-infused gas into the air and stated that he didn't want to hold back anymore. Bruce then brought Clark's wife Lois and his son Jon before him, and told the Man of Steel to lie to his family that everything would be okay, which Clark refused. Bruce tossed a shard of Black Kryptonite at the Kryptonians and watched as father and son went crazy and ripped Lois apart before they killed each other. As such, Wanda’s transformation into "The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs" was finished.
Ruling the Universe
The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs, being an amalgamation of both Bruce Wayne and Wanda Maximoff, is able to dreamwalk to a universe where Wanda exists. She then uses her body and begins a rampage to destroy everyone in the universe. She utters the words “no more heroes”, and erases the meta gene from existence, wiping out the entire metahuman race.
As her world began to fade from existence, Barbatos arrived and revealed the rest of the Dark Multiverse to her and his plans to go after the true Multiverse as well. Believing her to be the next suitable Bat to help him, Barbatos made Wanda the spearhead for his plans to drag all of creation into darkness.
Invading the Multiverse
The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs began another Dark Multiverse invasion, realizing that she was destined to become the one who laughs. However, she had the ability to warp reality at a whim and was determined to use her chaos magic to invade the entire multiverse. She steals America Chavez’ powers and re-assembles the Dark Knights, enhanced by the Darkness. She lets the re-awakened knights lose and attacks the Avengers. Wanda watched her knights destroy the Avengers and the Justice League throughout several worlds, fulfilling what her predecessor started. Wanda kidnaps the Over-Monitor and links him with the Anti-Monitor’s astral brain, but realizes it isn’t enough. Another battle between all the world’s heroes takes place with a resurrected Barbatos. Wanda retreats and travels to The One Above All. Shortly after, Wanda attempts to sever the link but is ambushed by a resurrected Witch Hunter Batman, who obtained weapons that can nullify witchcraft. Wanda battles him and eventually wins, but is heavily injured. After the weaponry’s effects wear off, Wanda heals herself and speaks to The One Above All, who warns her that the cosmic entities will come after her. Wanda transfers her conscience to a lobotimized version of herself like her predecessor, and regains her strength. Finally, she changes form once more and becomes a thin being of pure darkness and chaos and renames herself the Darkest Witch. Eventually, the Darkest Witch grows in power and steals energy from Barry Allen. She remakes the multiverse to her image at her whims. The Witch travels to The One Above All, and, informing him that it was her all along behind the plot, reveals that her intent is to kill him. She seals The One Above All with Chaos Magic amplified where it surpasses the power of every other user in the omniverse. She summons her followers and they attack those that oppose her. In her victory, she is confronted by every hero in the omniverse and she reveals that she can erase everything in the omniverse from existence, so they must join her. The heroes use the hands from the DC Multiverse to attack her, and she plummets to the last embers of the Death Sun. The other versions of Wanda erase the Darkhold and its temptations through her Chaos Magic and the Joker’s chemicals from existence, and before she could erase the Omniverse, she is realizes everything that happened. She reverts to a humanoid form and breaks down, fixing everything she has caused at a whim. Unable to cope, she flees to a distant universe and lives in isolation.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Nigh-Omnipotence: The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs acquired the powers of Doctor Manhattan, due to her conscience inhabiting the corpse of a Wanda Maximoff who had said powers. This transformed her into a quantum being with nearly unlimited power. After absorbing the energy of every crisis in history and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs became more powerful than ever. Her power was such that reality shook in response to her Nigh-Omnipotence, the possibilities of Hypertime to burn out and the last denizens of the Sphere of the Gods shudder at her power.
- Bio-Fission: The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs is able to split and replicate herself. She is capable of dividing her quantum consciousness among other separate physical forms resembling her physical appearance.
- Bio-Fusion: Likewise her Bio-Fission ability, Wanda can bring his sentient copies back into her body without any adverse side effects.
- Witchcraft: Wayne is a human of magical birthright which means she possesses the ability to manipulate magic since the very beginning. She was born a human with the affinity to control magic, allowing her to use the witchcraft she was born with and that her powers were never gave to her by the High Evolutionary as it was believed rather, he had altered her so Wanda is more receptive to magical energy. She was chosen to be one of the candidates as the next Sorcerer Supreme.
- Chaos Magic: The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs is able to manipulate the powerful magic known as Chaos magic, a dark magic which allows her to alter reality and control various forms of mystical energy. Wanda received the "blessing/curse" of the old God of chaos, Chthon, who came to her, the day she was born, which would allow her to use his chaos magic as her own and this would increase Wanda's natural ability to magic.
- Darkness Manipulation The Darkest Witch can fire beams of darkness from her hands. She can also generate chains from her darkness. This is further amplified as she is currently merged with the Darkhold.
- Darkness Constructs
- Dimensional Travel: Wanda can traverse between the various realities in the multiverse as well as reach into these worlds at will. She is also able to do this by Dreamwalking.
- Energy Absorption: Wanda is able to absorb both Crisis Energy and Anti-Crisis Energy, in order to add to her immense power. She is also able to absorb various different mystical energies.
- Energy Projection: After her conscience entered into the Final Wanda Maximoff's corpse, The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs became a being made up of a positive cosmic energy known as Anti-Crisis Energy. Wanda radiates this energy from her body, and was capable of projecting it on a massive scale.
- Flight: Wanda is not restrained by basic physical laws and can levitate and fly at will.
- Geokinesis: The Darkest Witch’s laugh was described as a terrible sound that shook the entire Earth.
- Immortality: After her transformation, Wanda never appears to age physically and mentally.
- Infection: Wanda is also able to infect other energy sources at will. She was able to find cracks in the Speed Force and corrupt it.
- Interstellar Travel: Wanda is immune to the nature of space and is not inhibited by its lack of gravity. She can travel the reaches of space where no human body could probably be without the aid of technology or protection.
- Molecular Reconstruction: The Scarlet Witch Who Laughs was able to restructure and alter her appearance at will. She is not limited to using this reconstruction power only on herself, as he can also take apart most inanimate objects and human beings.
- Disintegration
- Regeneration: The Final Wanda Maximoff reintegrated her body's molecules after she was disintegrated.
- Shapeshifting
- Size Alteration: Wanda can manipulate her physical size at will. There is currently no known limit to how much she can grow. She has shown herself capable of growing from the height of an ordinary woman to the size of several planets. Wanda had also displayed the abilities to shrink her planets and place them safety within herself and release them later back to their full size.
- Power Absorption: Wanda was capable of instantly removing powers.
- Reality Alteration: After being empowered with more Crisis Energy, Wanda gained the power to alter reality on an omniversal scale. She was able to create her own universes of madness.
- Resurrection: The Darkest Witch was able to bring her Dark Knights back to life.
- Summoning: Wanda was able summon an army of zombie Flashes to chase down Barry Allen, Wally West and Jay Garrick.
- Time-Travel: Wanda’s strength is to the extent that she was able to shatter time and space through sheer strength. By hitting hard enough, Wanda was able to send himself back through time to the dawn of creation.
- Telekinesis: Wanda is capable of manipulating the movement of objects and people with her mind.
- Telepathy
- Nigh-Omniscence: Wanda perceives time in a non-linear fashion. This means that he sees the past, present and the future simultaneously. Her powers allow her to view everything throughout time as well as the workings of the multiverse. Wanda is also aware of every Batman and Scarlet Witch from the Dark Multiverse, and was able to pull aspects of the most terrifying and vicious of them, including their skills and experiences, and stitch them into her own mind.
- Cosmic Awareness: Wanda possesses an understanding of the workings of the universe on a cosmic scale. She states she is able to feel the Dark Multiverse as if it were a part of her.
- Precognition: Due to her ability to see the past, present and future simultaneously, Wanda is able to look into the future of her own timeline, as well as the future of every Batman and Scarlet Witch of the Dark Multiverse.
- Retrocognition: Due to her ability to see the past, present and future simultaneously, Wanda can look into her past, as well as the past of every Batman and Scarlet Witch of the Dark Multiverse.
Abilities
None known.
Strength level
Unknown.
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.
Notes
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Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Wanda Maximoff (Earth -9602)
- Character Gallery: Wanda Maximoff (Earth -9602)
- Quotations by Wanda Maximoff (Earth -9602)
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