The Scarlet Witch's Past Could Inform Her Future in the MCU
By Jamie LernerJun. 2 2022, Published 1:02 p.m. ET
Spoiler alert: This article comprises spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Phase Four of the MCU represents a new phase of all superhero tales as it places extra importance on the gray spaces of morality than the black and white. Heroes aren’t simply heroes, and villains aren’t just villains. However, it couldn’t be more transparent the place the Scarlet Witch stands in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. She fully embraces her villainy, and it’s truthfully terrifying (which is becoming, since Doctor Strange 2 is essentially a horror flick).
In the most up-to-date Marvel film, Wanda Maximoff embraces her identity as the Scarlet Witch to check out to reside in a universe the place her kids exist. After experiencing and dropping motherhood in WandaVision, she’s determined to get something and something handiest: her kids. Once she realizes the multiverse exists, along with her youngsters in a different universe than the one we follow on Earth-616, she is going complete big dangerous.
By the finish, then again, she realizes her mistake prior to reputedly dying in Mount Wundagore's cave in. However, maximum fans theorize that she's now not in point of fact dead — after all, she is an all-powerful witch! Plus, if she does live to tell the tale the cave in, it would not be the first time that the MCU has "resurrected" a persona from the lifeless.
So will she stay a villain, or will Wanda return to the just right side?
Wanda vacillates between hero and villain throughout the first few phases of the MCU.
When we first meet Wanda Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron, she and her twin brother, Pietro, are subjected to inhuman testing through HYDRA in a Sokovia base. So when Ultron takes over Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S., Ultron makes use of the sources from the base to improve his body to drones and recruit Wanda and Pietro.
At first, the Maximoffs battle towards the Avengers, but when Wanda reads Ultron’s “thoughts,” she discovers his plan for human extinction, so she and Pietro decide to battle along the Avengers.
In doing so, however, Pietro dies when protective Clint Barton from Ultron; Pietro being the handiest family she has, a vengeful Wanda destroys Ultron’s major frame. She’s then recruited as an Avenger and supports their undertaking in opposition to Thanos all over the Avengers movies. During the movies, she and Vision fall in love, however as soon as once more, Wanda loses the simplest circle of relatives she has when Vision perishes — twice — in the struggle for keep an eye on of the thoughts stone in Avengers: Endgame.
This reasons Wanda to take over the innocent the town of Westview in WandaVision, when she holds the minds and bodies of blameless folks captive in order to reside the life she desires with Vision and her sons. However, she does this subconsciously, and when she learns of her villainy, she decides to make the “proper” choice and free up the the city, which reasons her to lose her circle of relatives … as soon as once more.
It’s no wonder that through the time we get to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda has long past full villain. She’s lost her brother, the love of her lifestyles, and her children, all inside the MCU. Now, she’ll do anything to get them back, even if that suggests inflicting others to lose their loved ones and necessarily destroying the cloth of the multiverse.
In the movie, she horrifically kills Earth-838’s Illuminati while dreamwalking in Wanda-838’s frame. But by way of the finish, America is able to display her that her youngsters are supposed to be with their respective universe’s Wandas, and that as the Scarlet Witch, she is no mom to them. But will the Scarlet Witch remain a villain after Doctor Strange?
The Scarlet Witch will most probably proceed to be each a hero and a villain.
Unlike a personality like Loki, who is on a clear arc to transform from villain to hero, the Scarlet Witch exists in a ethical grey house. Sometimes she’s a hero, and occasionally she’s a villain. From what we can tell and what we find out about the Marvel comics, that development will most probably proceed. Once she in the end opened her eyes to what dangers the Darkhold could deliver to the multiverse (and the way terrible it made her), she destroyed all copies. That’s a lovely heroic thing to do.
It seems that once Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the Scarlet Witch will overcompensate for her villainy and sign up for the heroes as soon as once more. Although she does ceaselessly switch facets, she’s no longer untrustworthy, since she tends to wear her center on her sleeve. She is going the manner of her middle, which just about all the time finally ends up with her regretting any malicious actions she used to be compelled to take.
Despite this, in the comic books, the Scarlet Witch does embody her villainy in the Avengers: Disassembled and House of M storylines, either one of which it seems like the MCU is gearing up for. In the ones storylines, the Scarlet Witch embraces her chaos magic, which Agatha Harkness introduces to us in WandaVision. And since we all know Agatha is getting her personal Disney Plus series, there’s no approach we’re achieved with chaos magic.
In embracing this dark side of herself, the Scarlet Witch in truth fails to keep watch over that power and ability to vary fact, which ultimately results in the deaths of Vision, Hawkeye, and Ant-Man. While Vision is already gone, Hawkeye and Ant-Man could easily be the subsequent heroes to perish. And how becoming would it not be for that to occur at the arms of the greatest hero/villain of all time?
Since the MCU is outwardly never-ending, it’s likely that Wanda’s villain days are a ways from over. But despite the fact that she does once again embrace her villainy in the long run, it’s conceivable that, like in the comic books, she’ll revert again to heroism in an Avengers versus X-men arc. And because of Professor X’s easter egg look in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, we know that anything else is possible.
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