Scarlet Witch

"We have no place in the world..."

- Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff, also known as Scarlet Witch, is a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe set to appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron. She is the twin sister of fellow Avenger Quicksilver. She is portrayed by actress Elizabeth Olsen.

Scarlet Witch was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Scarlet Witch can be seen on Fury's wall of Skrull suspects in the episode "Infiltration".

Ultimate Spider-Man
Scarlet Witch makes a cameo in the Ultimate Spider-Man episode "Flight of the Iron Spider".

Early Life
Wanda Maximoff was born in the country of Sokovia alongside her twin brother Pietro. They became orphans when a mortar shell hit their house. Years later, Sokovia became a warzone. She and her brother participated in different riots in a attempt drive the foreign forces out of their country. However, all these riots were planned by HYDRA, who had taken up residence in Sokovia and used the riots as cover in their illegal experiments.

One day, List, a HYDRA scientist approached them to offer the opportunity to get enough power to drive war out of Sokovia. Wanda was skeptical but was finally convinced by Pietro. As results of these experiments, she won numerous mental powers as telekinesis, hypnosis, and energy projection; while Pietro achieved superhuman speed.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver appear in a mid-credits scene, where she and her brother were confirmed to have not been present at SHIELD's headquarters at the time HYDRA was defeated there and Operation Insight was shut down due to Baron Strucker's actions. Strucker also revealed he intended to use them for an unspecified purpose.

Avengers: Age of Ultron
Soon after, the Avengers arrived in Sokovia and raided Strucker's facility, stealing the scepter and arresting Strucker. In the confusion, Wanda and Pietro escaped from their holding cells and, though inexperienced, were able to use their powers to evade the Avengers and escape. Wanda herself used her powers to distract Iron Man and the Hulk, tricking the latter into believing that a dead Leviathan specimen that Strucker had been studying was still alive, goading him into attacking it.

Wanda and Pietro were soon called by Ultron to join him in his plans to destroy the Avengers, knowing that with their powers, they can tear the opposition apart. Soon after, Wanda and Pietro accompany Ultron in acquiring Ulysses Klaue's supply of vibranium. Wanda manages to knock Captain America back with her powers and began "hexing" the minds of Thor, Black Widow, and the Cap. She attempted to "hex" Hawkeye, but was subdued by him. Pietro saved her in the nick of time and took her outside Klaue's base, where she caught sight of the Hulk and manages to "hex" him as well.

When the Twins arrived in Seoul, Wanda learned of Ultron's plans upon touching the Cradle and left the facility, much to Ultron's rage. The Twins then assisted Captain America in fighting off Ultron on a moving passenger train and Wanda managed to stop it when it went off the rails. Wanda and Pietro then accompanied Captain America back to Avengers Tower and tried to stop Stark and Banner from bringing Vision to life. Wanda was held back by Banner in the scuffle, but she managed to escape his hold, only to witness Thor bringing Vision to life. She and Pietro then join the Avengers in stopping Ultron and saving Sokovia.

Wanda played a significant part in evacuating the civilians from Sokovia, using her powers of mind control on dozens of innocents. When Ultron's army began their attack, Wanda was overwhelmed by the carnage. Hawkeye told her that she needed to make a choice, to stay hidden and wait for her brother or to get out there and be an Avenger. When Clint was surrounded by Ultron's robots, Wanda made the save, taking them out. Wanda was then taken by Pietro to help rally the civilians and assisted in escorting them to the reinforcements sent by Nick Fury. Then, she and the rest of the Avengers stood together in defending the key to Ultron's plans and managed to wipe out a majority of the enemy forces.

Wanda opted to stay behind to guard the key while the others went their separate ways to accomplish their objectives. Unfortunately, Pietro is killed saving Clint Barton and a young boy and Wanda senses this, causing her to cry out in pure anguish. Wanda then left her post to avenge her brother by taking down Ultron's primary body with her powers, though she had inadvertently allowed an Ultron drone to activate the key that sent Sokovia plummeting towards Earth. Fortunately, Stark and Thor averted the cataclysm and Vision saved Wanda just in the nick of time.

Wanda has since joined Steve and Natasha's team of Avengers, alongside Vision, Sam Wilson, and Col. Rhodes, complete with an all new costume.

Trivia

 * After 50 years of appearing in various Marvel publications, Scarlet Witch's cameo in the 2014 film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier marked her first ever theatrical live-action appearance.
 * In the comics, Scarlet Witch is married to The Vision.
 * On top of that they had twin sons who would both die, but get reincarnated into two teenage boys that would become the superheroes Wiccan and Speed.
 * In the comics, she and her brother Quicksilver are the children of X-Men supervillain Magneto. However, this can't be portrayed in the movie because Fox owns the rights to Magneto, Although the family connection was retconned in late 2014.
 * In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays her twin brother. In the 2014 film Godzilla, he played her actress' husband.

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