Wanda Maximoff

Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch, is a native of Sokovia mutant and sorceress and the twin sister to Quicksilver. Born with the latent ability to use Chaos Magic, she developed a hatred against Tony Stark and rallied anti-American protests after the Novi Grad Bombings killed her parents. Years later, in an effort to help purge their country of strife, the twins joined HYDRA (though they thought they were members of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and agreed to undergo experiments with the Scepter under the supervision of Wolfgang von Strucker, with the Mind Stone awakening and amplifying Wanda's powers. While her brother developed super-speed, she attained various psionic abilities. Her psychic abilities made her and her brother realize that it was HYDRA who gave them powers and horrified, Wanda and her brother ran away. After being saved from an angry mob by Magneto who revealed that he was their actual father, the Scarlet Witch and her brother joined the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to fight for Magneto's mutant supremacy cause. Disagreeing with Magneto's ruthless approach, Wanda left him and joined the X-Men.

Wanda developed a close bond with Perseus Aegaeus who discovered that she had magic. It was later revealed by Arion upon a trip to Atlantis that Wanda is a direct descendent from Orfeo, one of the most powerful mages who ever lived and a member of the Six Who Ruled: a group of powerful sorcerers who ruled Atlantis together. Graduating from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngers, Wanda joined Percy at the College of the Silent School where she was trained to explore her naturally powerful magical abilities.

Personality
Due to childhood trauma from seeing her parents killed right in front of her, and the constant war-like state of her home, Wanda Maximoff had developed a very aggressive personality. From being involved in protests to volunteering for Wolfgang von Strucker's experiments, and joining the Avengers, Maximoff has shown that she prefers to fight directly for what she believes in. Her passionate nature and willingness to engage in violence to achieve her goals led her to mistakenly side with HYDRA.

Maximoff carried a deep fear of making mistakes and was frequently wracked with guilt and remorse. Her self-doubt and guilt over the mistakes she has made have at times led her to inaction, even though she is generally action-oriented. Despite this, Raven was able to talk her into action, affirming her desire to fight for what she feels is right, despite what others may think of her.

Since finding a place and a family among the X-Men, Wanda is seen to be more compassionate, level-headed, and less inclined to use the manipulative aspects of her abilities, such as fear projection and mind control. Driven by a desire to fight in the front lines rather than as passive support, Maximoff honed her powers to become more combat-oriented, focusing on energy blasts, throws, and barrier projection, relying less on her telepathic abilities.

Upon coming back to life and returning to Earth to fight against Thanos and his armies, Maximoff displayed an overwhelming vehemence towards the alien warlord, tempered by a subtle confidence. Her presence and movements were more deliberate and forceful, unlike the relative apprehension she displayed in her earlier appearances. This was most evident when Thanos was trying to break through her protections, Maximoff gave him an almost mocking smirk before forcefully swatting away his weapon with relative ease.

By the time she created her ideal alternate reality, Wanda's mentality had deteriorated to the point where she believed the "Pietro" that showed up at her house, was her actual brother despite his different appearance. She was incredibly hostile, exiling anyone from the Hex who directly mentioned her past or disrupted her fantasy and was in complete denial that any of it ever happened. She eventually healed by facing her truth and reverting Westview back to normal and she was determined to master her newfound powers, changed from her experience.

Appearance
Wanda has long aurban brown hair and deep green eyes that shine like emeralds. She is often seen with a calm, but serious expression and can often come across as emotionless.

Not long after joining the X-Men, Maximoff would receive a new uniform, similar to her previous one. This version also contained a black leather suit with a red corset but had an open red leather coat over it instead. The uniform also included red leather fingerless gloves and flare-heeled boots.

Maximoff later on receives the red robes and regalia of the Scarlet Witch upon defeating Agatha Harkness and absorbing her magic. Unlike her other uniforms, she is able to transform it from her civilian clothes and back at will. This consists of a red chestplate with angular faulds extending into an ankle-length skirt, elbow-length red fingerless gloves, black trousers and thigh-high boots, and an intricate red tiara. She can also manifest a red hood and cloak in addition to the rest of her uniform.

Powers
Wanda Maximoff is an immensely powerful being, capable of altering reality, probability, and magic within the cosmos to her very whim. As revealed by Lord Arion the Immortal, in addition to the psionic abilities granted by the Mind Stone, Maximoff was born with latent magical abilities that were later unlocked and amplified through her exposure to the Stone.


 * Psionics: As a result of exposure to the cosmic energies from the Scepter, which contained the Mind Stone, Maximoff gained an array of psionic powers. These powers manifest as a luminescent mist or vapor of red hue emanating from her hands and body, resembling the natural Chaos Magic she was born with. When using her telepathic abilities, Maximoff's irises glow a dark red color. Her power signature is similar to that of the Mind Stone, as she gained her powers from it. Maximoff's powers are reliant on movement and focus, which means her enemies or opponents can stop her from using her powers by disrupting her concentration or restricting her movement.
 * Psionic Energy Manipulation: Maximoff can project energy blasts, streams, waves and bolts of her own psionic and telekinetic energy, allowing her to strike, push, pull or blow away her targets, potentially exerting enough force to destroy them. This energy manifests in any shape or form, outlining her telekinetic spheres of influence, as the energy is visible in a reddish color. When her energy hits a target, she can use her telekinesis to inflict further damage. Significant emotional turmoil can both amplify Maximoff’s power and causes her to lose control over it
 * Telekinesis: Maximoff has the ability to move, levitate and otherwise manipulate objects using her psionic energy in a remote manner without the need for her energy to first be projected from her hands. Maximoff uses this energy to affect and control molecules and particles, allowing her to fully control matter and energy.
 * Disintegration: Maximoff is capable of using her energy in such an acute telekinetic way that she is able to completely disintegrate objects.
 * Force-Field: Maximoff is able to create highly durable barriers of red energy that she can shape and manipulate as needed. She can use it to grab and break apart targets, protect others from enemy fire, contain a target or to cover and deflect attacks from enemies, such as Ultron's sentries. Like any physical barriers, the barrier could be broken with extreme brute force. Not only that, she was also capable to defend herself automatically, meaning her powers can defend her against attacks without her conscious will.
 * Flight: Maximoff is able to use this power to move through the air and simulate flight, in order to hover and safely float back to the ground. The use of this power manifests as a blast of psionic energy expelled from her hands onto the ground to propel herself up in the air, with a second blast used to slow her momentum as she approaches ground allowing her to land safely. It operates more like an enhanced leap similarly to Hulk, thanks to the force of gravity pushing her down.
 * Telepathy: Due to her ability to interact mentally with others, Maximoff can read minds, communicate telepathically and experience the memories and thoughts of others.
 * Mental Manipulation: Maximoff was able to deploy a form of mental manipulation, often as a type of illusory hypnosis, using the same neuro-electric interface that is the basis of her telepathic powers. When using her power, her irises sometimes glow a dark reddish color, especially when she concentrates it on specific targets. When this ability is in use, Maximoff's reddish energy takes a more mist-like form, floating into the head of the victim in the form of neurons. The effects also distort the victim's iris coloration, causing them to shine a dark reddish color. This also allows her to control other people's actions
 * Pathokinesis: With her mental powers, Maximoff often used it in order to elicit fear or emotional pain in a person in the form of nightmarish hallucinations that could stun and weaken even an individual as powerful as the Hulk. These visions can depict things that a person fears, regrets, or general disturbances, though the nature of it is not up to Maximoff. She is able to know what her victim is seeing and be inside the vision with them
 * Mystiokinesis: Maximoff is a human of magical birthright, descended from Orfeo who was one of the most powerful mages of his time. This 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 HYDRA as it was believed rather their experiments awoke her X-Gene which made her more receptive to magical energy.
 * Biokinesis: Her sorcery allows her to manipulate life on cellular level as well as control all aspects of living creature's biological make-up. For an instance, she can heal different kinds of injures and wounds. She gained training from the Silent School, learning Healing Magic and was stated to be one of their best healers in her year.
 * Chaos Magic: Wanda's main power is the superhuman ability 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. Maximoff was the realization of the myth of the Scarlet Witch, a being capable of spontaneous creation. She can shape and manipulate this magic for different effects, such as forming tangible constructs of energy or cast spells without incantation. 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.
 * Chronokinesis: Wanda Maximoff has proven to be capable of manipulating and controlling time. As a nexus being, Wanda also has the ability to alter the probabilities of cosmic timelines. She was able to stop and slow down time. She once conjured a spell that causes a person’s body to rapidly break down as if it has endured five thousand years of "wear and tear" over a period of a mere five seconds
 * Energy Manipulation: Wanda is capable to manipulate various forms of energy.
 * Energy Absorption: Wanda was capable to absorb and channel energy. Wanda once absorbed Wonder Man's ionic powers as a power source and used it to teleport all of mutantkind into a spaceship.
 * Energy Constructs: As an experienced magic user, Scarlet Witch has performed the ability to turn her magical energy into tools, objects, weapons, and other items to suit her needs. She has created a shield, sword, knife, sharp whip and other projectiles, weapons and constructions of mystical energy.
 * Energy Projection: Wanda was capable to release and project powerful energy blasts of various shapes and/or intensities, such as bolts, beams, bursts and waves, that can knock, destroy, slice, and annihilate her targets. Wanda has shown that her energy blasts can knock out god-like beings. This ability becomes the most frequently she uses in almost every fight.
 * Illusion Casting: Wanda has demonstrated the power to generate and cast realistic illusion. With this power, she was able to fool her enemies like she did to Emerald Warlock. Wanda has also demonstrated the power to create and shape holograms to entertain or to help her explain about any event or incident better.
 * Power Resistance: She has resistance to certain attacks, abilities, and powers that can affect and harm her. She is resistant to various types of magic and energy. She also has resistance against reality warping, probability manipulation, elemental forces, and even the Phoenix Force (to a limited degree).
 * Reality Manipulation: One of the most well known powers that Wanda Maximoff has is her ability to shape, warp, defy and bend reality itself. She has been stated as one of the world's greatest and most dangerous reality warpers. She can use this ability to create anything and everything from nothing and can disintegrate as well as erase person or object from existence.
 * Superpower Manipulation: Wanda Maximoff has demonstrated the power to manipulate superpowers of others by various means. Her magic allows her to control, absorb or steal, and boost or enhance any kind of superpowers that her targets have. Her magic also allows her to cancel, block, or negate the effect of her enemies' powers and reflect or redirect any power that is projected against Wanda herself.
 * Teleportation: Maximoff can teleport herself and others to any place she/they want across large distances. She was able to travel interdimensionally. Also, she can summon/teleport persons or objects to her or any other people's location and can banish/teleport away person or objects from her location.
 * Transmutation: The Scarlet Witch can transform or transmute anything into anything else, such as when she change her clothes in an instant. She also has transmuted ice and snow into steam as well as transmuted Jason's lightning into butterflies.
 * Tychokinesis: Wanda has been stated as a probability manipulator of the highest order. Initially, Wanda had the ability to manipulate probability via her "hexes" (often manifesting physically as "hex spheres" or "hex bolts") which manipulated energy fields and matter to varying degrees, and could disrupt time. These hexes were initially short range, and were limited to her line of sight. Casting a hex would initially require a gesture and concentration on her part, though the gestures were largely a focus for the concentration.
 * Spell Casting: Scarlet Witch has a vast knowledge of mystical spells and incantations invoking names and aspects of various extra-dimensional objects, beings and sources of power. Although she has shown the ability to cast "spells" by only saying or focusing on what she wants to happen, this could be related to the nature of her powers.
 * Astral Projection: She is able to project her spirit or astral form out of her physical body in order to travel into the spirit world or the astral plane. She still can use her powers in her astral form and can do this even while unconscious
 * Binding: Wanda has the power to bind and stop someone from moving with her magic and she has used this to stop someone as strong as Colossus.
 * Divination: Wanda Maximoff has the ability to receive information about a person or an object even though she has never directly seen them before. She also has the ability to predict the future.
 * Location Tracking: Can find, probe, and track the location of anyone she desires at the moment over any distance or conditions. She once manages to find someone who previously inhabited Mjolnir, and guide Thor to him
 * Purification: During her time as a mystic, Maximoff has demonstrated the ability to purify any kind of objects. She has magically purified a lake and thrown a demon, who at the time possessed 2 people, in it to protect the victims. She used spell in this case.
 * Protection Spell: Wanda can cast the spell of protection so that she and her teammates can be protected against certain danger. She has casted protection hex to herself, Thor, and Odin to keep them safe from knee-deep acid
 * Portal Creation: The Scarlet Witch is able to open magical portals and gates to another location, gaining the ability to visit or banish anyone/anything in tremendous distances instantaneously.
 * Replication: The Scarlet Witch is capable of replicating and multiplying herself and others. She has used this power to multiply germs, incapacitating people with sickness
 * Scrying: Wanda can hear, view, and observe people's location and condition by making projection image that shows event that is happening in faraway place.

Abilities

 * Aviation Intuition: Wanda has great and proficient skill in piloting aircraft.
 * Dancing: Maximoff has proven herself capable of doing one of the traditional dances of her childhood in front of many people.
 * Equestrian: Wanda Maximoff has great amount of knowledge in horse riding, impressing even Percy
 * Multilingualism: Scarlet Witch is fluent in several languages include English, French, and German, with at least some knowledge of Greek and Slorenian, however, in the case of the latter, she admits to being more comfortable speaking English. It is possible that she knows other language as well: for example, since she was born and raised in Sokovia, it is likely that she knows Sokovian and, since her foster parents were members of the Romani community, she may know one or more dialects of Romani as well. Her brother speaks fluent Russian and seems surprised that the other Avengers don't, suggesting that Wanda may also speak it.
 * Occultism & Magical Knowledge: Due to her mystic lore, Wanda is taught magic and witchcraft by Agatha Harkness and Doctor Strange. She also recently learns with her mother. Because of her power, knowledge, and experience, she is often the X-Men and Avengers go-to person for all things involving magic or the supernatural. She taught the students of Strange Academy and the Silent School about the Elements of Chaos. She is considered to be one of the greatest mystics in the universe.
 * Swimming: Maximoff has displayed the ability to swim and fight in the water.

Weakness

 * Mental Illness: Although she appears to be currently sane, her mental stability is still questionable. Wanda has undergone mental breakdowns, episodes of mental illness, and severe suicidal depression relating to her powers and personal traumas. Even so, Wanda has admitted that her mental health is better
 * 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.
 * 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

Equipment

 * Atlantean Kit: After losing control of her powers and causing an incident in Westview where she discovered she had magic, Wanda became a student at the College of the Silent School and thus was given a magic bag where all of her magic supplies are kept. She-like Percy-is not always seen with it and will mostly summon the bag or its items when needed.
 * Amulets: Wanda has created powerful rune like amulets imbued with her magic. Each amulet has a different effect and the most common amulet she has made are to protect those against mental intrusion. She has also created amulets which can act as a storage for magical energy that can be used later.
 * Magicians Box: Wanda learned how to harness a bit of her Chaos Magic at Brooklyn House and was given a wooden box with supplies that include papyrus, stylus, ink for writing scrolls, wax for making shabti statues, and other protective charms and amulets, and also a ball of twine.
 * Pewter Cauldron: Wanda has a standard size 2 Pewter Cauldron made of pewter which she uses to brew potions and also used to carry supplies
 * Phials: As she possesses a cauldron used for potions, Wanda has a set of phials made of glass or crystal which she uses to hold liquid or gases (mostly potions). Upon the potion being used, the phial automatically cleans itself for the next potion to be used.
 * Avengers Identicard:
 * Orfeo's Black Pearl: A beautiful pearl necklace once belonging to Wanda's ancestor, Orfeo. It was created by the Goddess Morsa in mockery of Poseidon's Pearls. Like all talismans, the Black Pearl strengthens Wanda's magic while also acting as an anchor in case she loses control of her abilities. The pearl also gives Wanda the power to control the dead, or at least speak with the dead. It also acts as one of the keys to open the Carceron, with the other five talismans being needed.
 * Darkhold: As the mythical Scarlet Witch, Wanda is the current owner of the Darkhold, an ancient book of spells created by the dark god Chthon wrote all his evil works and spells on indestructible parchment. Wanda will often use the Darkhold for various spells and is the only one who is immune to its corruptive influence, thus she has been able to use it for good rather than evil.

Transportation

 * Avengers Quinjet: Maximoff has access to the Avengers Quinjet.
 * Flight: Moreover, Maximoff has the ability to propel herself in the air and fly to any destination.
 * Teleportation: Maximoff can teleport to long distances using her Magic.

Trivia

 * Wanda Maximoff is a vegetarian and doesn't drink alcohol
 * While Wanda Maximoff agreed to help Magneto in his plans of conquest, she protested against murdering their opponents. She pointed to Magneto that he had never told her that the Brotherhood would ever descend to murder
 * Her cousin, Wendy Maximoff has the same powers as her and is also her archenemies