Wanda Maximoff is a native of Sokovia who grew up with her fraternal twin brother, Pietro. Born with the latent mythical ability to harness 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 and agreed to undergo experiments with the Scepter under the supervision of Baron Strucker, with the Mind Stone awakening and amplifying Wanda's powers. While her brother developed super-speed, she attained various psionic abilities. When HYDRA fell, the twins joined Ultron to get their revenge on Stark but abandoned him when they discovered his true intentions to eradicate humanity. Wanda and Pietro joined the Avengers during the Battle of Sokovia to stop Ultron; Pietro was killed during the battle but Wanda survived, and was shortly after relocated to the Avengers Compound.
A year later, during the Attack on the IFID Headquarters, Maximoff tried to contain an explosion caused by Crossbones, who pulled the cord on his own explosive vest, but failed in her mission and inadvertently destroyed a nearby building with the blast, killing many of its occupants, much to her horror. Maximoff felt responsible for what happened, and since she was unsure of her decision about the Sokovia Accords, she ended up under Vision's watch, who made every effort to make her feel better. However, Clint Barton convinced her to run away and join Steve Rogers in his fight against Tony Stark's team. As a result of her actions during the Clash of the Avengers and her violation of the Accords, Maximoff was briefly imprisoned on the Raft before Rogers freed her alongside her teammates.
Over the next two years, Maximoff reunited and reconciled with Vision, and together the two started living off the grid in Europe, forming a romantic relationship. In 2018, Maximoff and Vision were ambushed by the Black Order, who sought the Mind Stone, and sought refuge in Wakanda alongside the Avengers. Maximoff took part in the city's defence when the Black Order invaded the city, where she was forced to kill Vision to prevent Thanos from completing the Infinity Gauntlet. However, she witnessed Thanos resurrect and kill Vision before initiating the Decimation, which claimed Maximoff's life. After the victims of the Decimation were resurrected by Bruce Banner in 2023, Maximoff was among the many heroes who fought during the Battle of Earth, defeating an alternate Thanos and his armies.
Over the next few months, Maximoff became overwhelmed by immense grief from her recent personal losses and became enthralled by the demon Mephistopheles, unwittingly unleashing her Chaos Magic powers to enthrall the citizens of Westview into creating an alternate idyllic paradise of classical sitcom tropes. With a recreated Vision as her husband, Maximoff lived her ideal life, even producing twin sons, Tommy and Billy. Further complicating the crisis was Agatha Harkness, a fellow witch who sought to understand the nature of Maximoff's new reality, and a S.W.O.R.D. operation led by Tyler Hayward who wished to eliminate her. Maximoff, now knowing her own identity as the fabled Scarlet Witch, defeated Harkness and the S.W.O.R.D. agents, and dispelled her reality, erasing her family in the process. Maximoff then eventually went into exile, becoming a wanted woman.
During her exile, Maximoff fell further into Mephisto's manipulations and began studying the Darkhold, which slowly corrupted her mind. Mephisto manipulated her with thoughts of her children and used her in order to achieve his ultimate goal in ruling the Multiverse. In her quest to aid Mephisto, Maximoff began hunting down a multiversal traveler named America Chavez to steal her powers and came at odds with her former ally Doctor Strange, massacring members of the Masters of the Mystic Arts as well as a group of superpowered individuals from a different universe known as the Illuminati. She was eventually apprehended by Strange and his multiversal team and freed from Mephisto's control by the Ghost Rider. Feeling guilty in her part of aiding Mephisto, Maximoff redeemed herself by destroying every version of the Darkhold within the Multiverse and destroying the Darkhold Castle atop Mount Wundagore, before she was brought to Clint Barton's care by Strange.
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Scarlet Witch on the Marvel Wiki- Scarlet Witch on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
