43 Facts About Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Wanda Maximoff is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.

Wanda Maximoff initially comes into conflict with the Avengers but later joins them and becomes one of its most powerful members.

Wanda Maximoff develops a romantic relationship with Vision, and after his death and the Blip, Wanda visits Westview, where she and Vision had planned to live together.

Wanda Maximoff becomes mentally unstable and unknowingly uses her abilities to trap the entire town in a false reality she creates to her liking.

Wanda Maximoff uses the Darkhold to locate alternate real versions of her children, Billy and Tommy Maximoff, whom she created in the false reality.

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Wanda Maximoff was introduced in the mid-credits scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and has since become a central character within the MCU, having appeared in six films as of 2022.

Wanda Maximoff has a lead role in the miniseries WandaVision, which is expanded by her appearance in the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Wanda Maximoff selected those characters because they were only published in the Avengers comic book, so it would not interfere with other publications.

Wanda Maximoff first appeared, as well as Quicksilver, in a mid-credits scene of the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier as a prisoner of Baron Strucker.

Quicksilver dies in the ensuing conflict while Wanda Maximoff goes on to become a member of Captain America's Avengers.

Wanda Maximoff appears in the 2016 film Captain America: Civil War.

In early drafts of Infinity War and Endgame, the screenwriters had Wanda Maximoff survive the snap and participate more substantially in the events of Endgame, while still mourning Vision, but this angle was ultimately dropped because "she'd gotten so much mileage and story in the first movie that she didn't really have anything that equaled that in the second".

Olsen felt her "ownership" of Wanda Maximoff was strengthened during development of the series, which allowed her to explore new parts of the character's personality such as her humor and sassiness.

Wanda Maximoff was thrilled that WandaVision focuses on Wanda rather than making her a supporting character as in the films, and was sold on joining the series when Feige mentioned the specific Scarlet Witch comic storylines that inspired WandaVision.

Wanda Maximoff was born in 1989 in Sokovia, Eastern Europe, unaware that she was born a witch and unknowingly engaging in basic hex magic.

In 2015, Wanda Maximoff uses her telepathic abilities to interfere with the Avengers's raid of Strucker's facility.

Wanda Maximoff becomes overwhelmed by her role in Ultron's scheme until Barton befriends and encourages her to join the Avengers in stopping Ultron.

In 2016, Wanda Maximoff joins the Avengers in stopping Brock Rumlow from stealing a biological weapon from a lab in Lagos.

Rumlow detonates his suicide vest in an attempt to kill Rogers, but Wanda Maximoff telekinetically contains the explosion and throws it upward, accidentally killing several Wakandan humanitarian workers, to her horror.

Stark has Wanda Maximoff confined to the Avengers Compound, where Vision watches over her and they begin to develop romantic feelings for each other.

Rogers, Wilson, and Natasha Romanoff rescue them and regroup at the Avengers Compound, where Vision asks Wanda Maximoff to destroy the Stone, but she refuses as it would kill him.

Five years later, Wanda Maximoff is restored to life and joins the Avengers and their allies' battle against an alternate timeline version of Thanos and his army, during which Stark sacrifices himself to defeat Thanos.

Overwhelmed, Wanda Maximoff accidentally loses control of her powers once more and nearly chokes them all to death.

Wanda Maximoff meets with a sympathetic Rambeau to apologize and vow to better understand her powers before flying away to live remotely in a mountainside cabin, where she studies the Darkhold to learn more about her powers before hearing her sons cry out for help.

When Stephen Strange seeks Wanda Maximoff's help in protecting Chavez, she accidentally reveals her knowledge of the girl and explains her plans to him.

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The trio enter the Gap Junction, a space between universes to find the Book of Vishanti, the antithesis of the Darkhold, but Wanda Maximoff appears, destroys the book, and takes over Chavez's mind, sending Strange and Palmer to an post-incursion universe, and opening a portal back to Earth-616.

At Mount Wundagore, Wanda Maximoff begins to absorb Chavez's powers but is confronted by a dreamwalking Strange who encourages Chavez to believe in herself and use her powers to bring Wanda Maximoff to Earth-838.

Wanda Maximoff is then taken by Vision to Camp Lehigh, where he attempts to cure her with the Mind Stone, though she proves immune.

Wanda Maximoff seems to stop, either seeing that her magic doesn't work on Ultron or seeing him unmasked and thinking that he's Vision and allowing Ultron a chance to get rid of her and the rest of the zombies using the stones' full power to obliterate the planet they were on, while Strange allows himself and the Guardians escape to another alternate universe.

Wanda Maximoff is possessed by her counterpart from Earth-616, who is hunting for America Chavez through the multiverse.

The possessed Wanda Maximoff then kills most of the Illuminati, but is eventually freed of the spell.

In Captain America: Civil War, Wanda Maximoff's powers have advanced and her telekinesis is strong enough to let her hold up the debris of a falling building as well as fly for brief periods of time.

Wanda Maximoff's powers allow her to, in a fight with the Vision, forcibly manipulate his density by controlling the Mind Stone.

Vision explains that due to Wanda Maximoff's powers being linked to the Mind Stone, she is able to use her powers to destroy it.

Wanda Maximoff is shown to be able to telepathically communicate with the Stone when she tries to figure out why Vision is in pain.

Wanda MaximoffVision explores Wanda Maximoff's ability to warp reality like her comic counterpart.

Wanda Maximoff's history is later explored, revealing that Wanda Maximoff was born a witch and would unknowingly engage in basic hex magic as a child, including unknowingly using a probability hex to turn a Stark Industries missile into a dud and save her and Pietro after an initial one killed her parents.

Wanda Maximoff is later shown leading a secluded life in a remote location, simultaneously using astral projection to study the Darkhold, now in her possession.

In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda Maximoff's powers are shown to have reached new levels, as she is able to successfully attack Kamar-Taj, defended by dozens of sorcerers and magical weapons.

Wanda Maximoff successfully takes control of her variant from Earth-838, using her to pursue Strange and Chavez, invade the Illuminati headquarters, dispatch waves of Ultron drones, and kill the central members of the Illuminati.

Wanda Maximoff passed on the title "The Scarlet Witch" to her daughter, and the biological father is assumed to be from the Romani community.

IndieWire praised Elizabeth Olsen's performance as Wanda Maximoff, stating, "her work on “Wanda MaximoffVision” which showcases her tremendous dramatic talent and, even more impressive, introduces her as a true comic delight".

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the performance of Elizabeth Olsen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, even commenting that he believed the character of Wanda Maximoff had the most compelling of the film's character arcs.