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Marvel
Comics Character Profile - Scarlet Witch
| Name |
Wanda
Maximoff |
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| Nationality |
Eastern
European |
| Powers |
Mutant. |
| Affiliations |
Avengers,
Magneto |
| 1st
App. |
X- Men #4 |
| History-
Wanda is
the daughter of the Mutant Magneto and and a gypsy woman named
Magda. Before her birth Magda fled terrified of Magnetos power
to the mystic mountain Wundagore in the Balkans where she was
taken in by the cow woman Bova, an experiment of the High Evolutionary.
Magda gave birth to twins, Wanda and a boy Pierto (Quicksilver).
Magda died and Bova handed the babies to the High Evolutionary
who gave them to be raised by Django and Marya Maximoff, a gypsy
couple who raised the children as their own. As they grew older
the twins found that they had strange powers pietro could run
at great speed and Wanda had an erratic control over what she
called Hex Magic, an ability to control probability making situations
turn to her advantage in the most improbable ways. After their
gypsy camp was attacked by angry locals, Wanda and Pietro fled
and the pair wandered Europe living off the land. When Wanda's
unpredictable powers set fire to a house the pair were hunted
down by villagers. They were about to be executed when Magneto
arrived to rescue them enlisting them into his brotherhood of
Evil Mutants. The twins served Magneto out of a sense of obligation
for their rescue but soon left and and were invited to join
the Avengers. Wanda fell in love with fellow avenger the Vision,
after many years fighting side by side the pair were married.
After her marriage Wanda took an interest in true sorcery and
began learning the arts under the tutelage of the witch Agatha
Harkness. Wanda and the vision too some time out from the Avengers
to try and live a normal life and it was during this time that
she found out that Magneto was her true father. For a while
Wanda rejected her father, but after using her powers to help
her conceive with the Vision she gave birth to twins Thomas
and William. The two children softens her feelings to Magneto
who at this time was attempting to reform his ways. Shortly
after this the vision was captured and taken apart whilst helping
the West Coast Avengers. Even put back together his mind and
the 'man' Wanda loved was gone forever. On top of this Wanda
then found out that her children were actually parts of Master
Pandemonium's soul and she lost them when he absorbed them back
into himself. Wanda lost her mind for a while and joined Magneto
in his quest for world domination but she was bought back to
her senses by her fellow Avengers and returned to the West Coast
team. She went on to lead the group for as while and when the
team split after a short stint with the Force Works Team made
up of fellow West Coast Avengers. After battling Immortus alongside
her old team mates Wanda rejoined the main Avengers group. |
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