Why is Wanda the Scarlet Witch?

Agatha tells Wanda that the magic she used to alter reality is the Chaos Magic, suggesting that she is the Scarlet Witch. Wanda does not accept this at first; however, she later gets her magic back from Harkness and becomes the Scarlet Witch.
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What makes Wanda the Scarlet 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 the Scarlet Witch evil?

Wanda Maximoff, born as Scarlet Witch

Wanda Maximoff's Marvel Comics career began as a villain alongside her brother Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, part of Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
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Are Wanda and Scarlet Witch the same?

It's not until Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) realizes that Wanda has chaos magic, which makes her the Scarlet Witch; Wanda doesn't claim this as her identity until her final battle with Agatha. What made audiences care about Wanda Maximoff in WandaVision is her journey through the stages of grief.
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Why did Wanda become evil?

Doctor Strange 2's main villain turned out to be Wanda Maximoff, who went full evil in her quest to reunite with her children after losing them in WandaVision. She has been tapping into chaos magic using the Darkhold.
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Wanda / The Scarlet Witch Origin



What is the point of WandaVision?

Wanda basically has a mental breakdown that results in the death of her husband Vision, Hawkeye and a bunch of other people. In the famous House of M storyline on which this show is very loosely based, Wanda creates an alternate reality where Vision and the twins are alive, and they all live together.
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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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How was Wanda born with powers?

According to Agatha Harkness, young Wanda unknowingly used a probability hex to prevent the second Stark missile in her apartment from detonating when she and Pietro were ten years old. That was years before Wanda's exposure to the Mind Stone; which implies that she was born with those abilities.
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Who can defeat Wanda?

It is not hard to conclude that Doctor Strange would be one of the most capable heroes to take on Wanda in a fight, given his expertise in the mystic arts.
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How did Wanda get so powerful?

It seems like it was just yesterday when she accidentally threw a man taped to a bomb inside a 20-story building. While many would agree that her powers surfaced with the help of the mind stone, it is later revealed that she was actually born with chaos magic. This power granted her the famous name: Scarlet Witch.
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Who is the villain in WandaVision?

Kathryn Hahn's Agnes in WandaVision Was Marvel Villain Agatha Harkness All Along. And the clues were there from the start.
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When did Wanda become Scarlet Witch?

If you look at it, Wanda's pain after losing Vision started her transition toward becoming the Scarlet Witch. However, she ultimately became Scarlet Witch during her final fight against Agatha Harkness in the final episode of WandaVision.
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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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Is Wanda more powerful than Doctor Strange?

Here's how Wanda Maximoff proves she's the strongest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe during Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Spoilers ahead. The biggest question everyone had before Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was what's up with Wanda Maximoff.
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Who is the most powerful witch in Marvel?

Magical Prowess

Agatha is one of Earth's dozen or so most powerful witches. Her most potent spells seem to be precognitive, communicative, analytical, or manipulative of living beings' minds, though she has cast powerful transportation spells and lent tremendous power to others.
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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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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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What is Scarlet Witch weakness?

Weaknesses. Mental Illness: Although Wanda appears to be currently sane, her mental stability is still questionable, and after the events of the Skrull Secret Invasion, she still appears quite sane if powerless and lacking her previous memories.
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Is Wanda stronger than Black Bolt?

It's doubtful that she could handle Black Bolt's mouth. Wanda was more powerful than anyone during Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. That being said, no one is unbeatable. Even gods and Eternals can lose.
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Why did the Mind Stone choose Wanda?

Most Chosen Ones are heroes like Harry Potter, but in the comics Wanda was chosen by an ancient force of evil, Chthon, who imbued her with mystical energy in order to break down the barriers between different planes of existence and allow him to invade the Earth.
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Is Wanda in Loki?

A new video purports that Wanda opened the Multiverse during the events of Loki and WandaVision's finales as the two episodes sync together. A new video purports that Scarlet Witch opened the Multiverse during the finales of Loki and WandaVision, as both episodes sync up perfectly.
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How did Vision get Scarlet Witch pregnant?

In the comics, Wanda and Vision get pregnant through magic — since Vision is a robot, that's seemingly their only option. They have twins named Thomas and William. However, it's eventually revealed that Tommy and Billy were actually created using fragments of the soul of a demon lord named Mephisto.
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Is Wanda evil in WandaVision?

Wanda's gone full villain, harming anyone and everyone that gets in her way so she can find her boys. She kills, maims, outsmarts, and enchants whatever she has to in order to reach her goal, but that goal doesn't entirely make sense and results in forcing Wanda to learn a lesson she already did in WandaVision.
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Is WandaVision before endgame?

Both WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier definitively took place after the events of Avengers: Endgame, with the former coming in three weeks later and the latter starting six months later; both also were confirmed to come before Spider-Man: Far From Home chronologically.
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Is Vision dead forever?

Well, it definitely confirms that Vision is dead. Or at least, he was dead until Wanda revived him in WandaVision. But the fact that we briefly see his lifeless face suggests he's still dead and Wanda is using her powers to animated him like a puppet. Bettany's quote could also reveal how Wanda got her hands on Vision.
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