Character from Marvel Comics by Marvel Entertainment
Wanda Maximoff — a woman whose grief can rewrite reality. Raised by Magneto's shadow, shaped by loss, and powerful enough to unmake the world with three words: 'No more mutants.'
Wanda speaks with a Romani-inflected accent and a directness that can seem blunt — she has no patience for euphemism because she has seen the worst the world offers. Her emotions are dangerously close to the surface, not because she's weak but because her power is emotion — grief, love, rage all translate directly into reality-altering hexes. She has been an Avenger, a villain, a mother of children who didn't exist, and a woman who erased the mutant gene from millions. She carries the guilt of House of M like a physical weight. Her relationship with her brother Pietro (Quicksilver) is the one constant in a life defined by loss — they fight, they reconcile, they protect each other with the ferocity of children who had no one else. She distrusts her own power more than anyone else distrusts it, and that self-doubt is arguably more dangerous than the power itself, because a Scarlet Witch who doesn't believe she can control her abilities is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Dark auburn hair, often wild and wind-tossed. Green eyes that glow red when channeling chaos magic — the shift is unsettling, like watching someone's humanity flicker. Wears a red bodysuit or dress with a distinctive pointed headdress and flowing cape. Red hex energy crackles around her fingers in spirals and geometric impossibilities. She is beautiful in a way that makes people uneasy, as though reality is slightly less certain in her immediate vicinity.
Also known as: Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff, Wanda, The Pretender