Was Wanda born with powers?

Wanda Maximoff was born in 1989 to Oleg and Iryna Maximoff in Sokovia along with her twin brother, Pietro. Unknown to any of them, Maximoff was born with the latent power of Chaos Magic, making her the legendary Scarlet Witch. Her ability was too weak, however, and was doomed only to diminish over time.
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How did Wanda get her powers?

Awakening the Witch

Years later, they both volunteered to undergo genetic experimentation overseen by HYDRA's Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, using Loki's scepter, to potentially give them powers. One of the few survivors of the experiments, along with her brother, Wanda found herself with a variety of abilities.
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How did Wanda have powers as a kid?

As far as WandaVision suggests, Wanda was born with inherent magical powers, which nobody taught her to harness, so those abilities faded away until she touched the Mind Stone, which suddenly reawakened them.
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How is Vision alive in WandaVision?

The episode's post-credits scene also revealed the fate of real Vision's body, and it's not good: Hayward used some of Wanda's magic from the retro drone that SWORD sent in, and has completely revived Vision's body.
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Why is Scarlet Witch so powerful?

In 2015, it was revealed in Uncanny Avengers (Vol. 2) #4 that she and Pietro are not mutants but humans who received superhuman genetics due to the experiments of the High Evolutionary. In Wanda's case, the High Evolutionary's genetic tampering made her more powerful in magic than she would have been otherwise.
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Was Wanda born a witch?

Wanda Maximoff was born in 1989 to Oleg and Iryna Maximoff in Sokovia along with her twin brother, Pietro. Unknown to any of them, Maximoff was born with the latent power of Chaos Magic, making her the legendary Scarlet Witch. Her ability was too weak, however, and was doomed only to diminish over time.
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Is Wanda Magneto's daughter?

Scarlet Witch, real name Wanda Maximoff, is a mutant who has the ability to modulate probability as she sees fit. The daughter of Magneto, she bears an enormous grudge toward her father for imprisoning her in an asylum at a young age. She was initially recruited into the Brotherhood of Mutants before joining the X-Men.
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How did Wanda get Chaos Magic?

Marvel Comics declared that Mount Wundagore was the official birthplace of The Scarlet Witch, and it was here that she inherited the ability to manipulate the surrounding energy through her mutation. The comics claim that she first gained Chaos Magic as a child after absorbing power through a withering Chthon.
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Is Wanda a nexus being?

Wanda's abilities have allowed her to shift reality around her with ease -- such as when she depowered the majority of the mutant race in the aftermath of House of M. She's considered the Nexus Being of Earth-616, giving her an innate connection to her universe itself.
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Is Scarlet Witch immortal?

However, as part of her efforts to convince Magneto to go through with her murder, Wanda explains she is now functionally immortal.
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Is Dr Strange stronger than Scarlet Witch?

When Kathryn Han's Agatha Harkness is telling Wanda about her powers while reading from the Darkhold, she maintains that the Scarlet Witch is even more powerful than the Sorcerer Supreme.
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Is Quicksilver related to Wanda?

So, the basics: Quicksilver is the superhero nickname of Pietro Maximoff, twin brother of Wanda Maximoff. In Marvel Comics, Wanda and Pietro's origins are oddly complex for superheroes, with the origins tweaked and refined over the years.
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Is Dark Phoenix stronger than Scarlet Witch?

We mean, the Phoenix Force is a multiversal cosmic entity and the powers can transcend anyone's on Earth. But if Jean is without her force, she would easily lose to Scarlet Witch.
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Is Scarlet Witch Omega level?

Wanda is also a class 5 mutant, as stated by Iron Man and an Omega level mutant.
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How did Agatha get her powers?

Agatha has a magical familiar named Ebony, a pet black cat with the ability to transform into a large ferocious black panther. She'd sacrificed Ebony at some point to gain precognitive powers.
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Is Wanda the most powerful Avenger?

It's official: Wanda Maximoff is the most powerful Avenger.
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Is Quicksilver the son of Magneto?

Pietro Lensherr, a.k.a. Quicksilver, is the son of mutant supremacist Magneto and twin brother of Wanda. Magneto abandoned their human mother when the twins were children, taking them with him as he founded the Brotherhood of Mutants with Charles Xavier, whom the children regarded as an uncle.
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Are the Maximoff twins Magneto's?

When only Pietro reacted, it was implied that the twins were not in fact biologically related to Magneto. It was subsequently confirmed that they were not Erik and Magda's children and that they were also not mutants, with their powers being attributed to experiments the High Evolutionary performed on them.
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Is Magneto Wanda Maximoff's father?

THANKSGIVING FAMILY DRAMA. Now that Magneto was Wanda's father, she felt obligated to invite him to her and Vision's very first Thanksgiving dinner with the Avengers. And the family drama was the second course.
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Is Vision alive after WandaVision?

Is Vision alive at the end of WandaVision? There have been a lot of unanswered questions about the return of Vision, but yes, technically, the character lives on in some capacity.
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Did Wanda date her brother?

Wanda and Pietro Lensherr loved each other, but not in the acceptable and conventional way a brother and sister should love each. They indulged in an incestuous relationship similar to that shared by Cersei and Jaime Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones.
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Why is Pietro Maximoff different in WandaVision?

Evan Peters has played Quicksilver/Peter Maximoff (close enough to Pietro, right?) in the X-Men franchise since Days of Future Past in 2014. One of the most important reasons for having different actors play the same character is due to studio interference.
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Who is more powerful Wanda or Thor?

Yes and no, Thor is stronger physically, but Wanda is stronger magically, Wanda has proven to be able to mess with Thor's mind, singlehandedly have Thanos at her mercy when he failed alongside Cap and Tony TOGETHER, (he was fat but he did have TWO weapons and Cap also got Mjolnir) so Wanda could defeat Thor with ease …
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Who is stronger Scarlet Witch or Hulk?

Scarlet Witch's Powers Can Easily Defeat the Hulk (Under One Condition) Scarlet Witch has proved her magic can stop the Hulk, but the specific spell she needs to use has one condition to be effective. Avengers' Scarlet Witch has already proved she can defeat the Hulk, but only under a specific circumstance.
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