Avengers Initiate #6: Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
Wanda Magda Maximoff (a.k.a. The Scarlet Witch)
Threat Level: Delta
Registration Status: Registered
Physical Description
Special abilities
Magic: Maximoff is a mutant of magical birthright which means she possesses the ability to manipulate magic from birth. She was born a mutant with the affinity to control magic, allowing her to use magic.
Chaos Magic: Ms. MAximoff's main power is the superhuman ability to manipulate the powerful magic known as Chaos magic, a dark magic, which allows her to alter reality and control various forms of mystical energy. Ms. Maximoff received the "blessing/curse" through her X-gene which would allow her to use his chaos magic as her own and this would increase Ms. Maximoff's natural ability to magic.
Divine Sources: Wanda Maximoff can tap and channel energies from other dimensions as well as mystical and non-mystical entities, such as Cyttorak and Morrigan.
Spells and Phrases: Ms. Maximoff has a vast knowledge of mystical spells and incantations invoking names and aspects of various extra-dimensional objects, beings and sources of power. Although she has shown the ability to cast "spells" by only saying or focusing on what she wants to happen, this could be related to the nature of her powers.
Flight: Ms. Maximoff has also proven to be able to fly at will. She can also give others the ability to do so. The full extent of this ability is unknown, but she was capable of fighting an enemy while flying. She has also shown the ability to levitate, as she has done while meditating in the lotus position.
Illusion Casting: Ms. Maximoff has demonstrated the power to generate and cast realistic illusion. With this power, she was able to fool her enemies. Ms. Maximoff has also demonstrated the power to create and shape holograms to entertain or to help her explain about any event or incident better.
Invisibility: Ms. Maximoff possesses the ability to make objects or people unseen.
Location Tracking: Ms. Maximoff can find, probe, and track the location of anyone she desires at the moment over any distance or conditions.\
Magical Awareness: Ms. Maximoff has displayed the ability to be aware of almost anything that affects her and her surroundings.
Telekinesis: Ms. Maximoff possesses the power to move, stop, and manipulate objects.
Telepathy: Ms. Maximoff has demonstrated the ability to enter, manipulate, and alter people's mindscape with or without the targets' agreement. She was also able to induce other people to sleep, control the minds of others, and create realistic illusions in the minds of others to trick her opponents, like she did to Maynard Tiboldt. And not only that, she was even able to communicate and torture other people mentally, as well as read the mind of other beings.
Emotion Manipulation: Wanda has demonstrated the ability to affect and control the emotions of others.
Probability Manipulation: Ms. Maximoff has been stated as a probability manipulator of the highest order. Initially, Ms. Maximoff had the ability to manipulate probability via her "hexes" (often manifesting physically as "hex spheres" or "hex bolts") which manipulated energy fields and matter to varying degrees, and could disrupt time. These hexes were initially short range, and were limited to her line of sight. Casting a hex would initially require a gesture and concentration on her part, though the gestures were largely a focus for the concentration. Her hexes are automatically triggered whenever she made a particular gesture, regardless of her intent. These hexes would only manifest as "bad luck," triggering negative effects. Wanda can use her hexes to cause a wide variety of phenomena, including, but not limited to:
- Spontaneous combustion or melting.
- Rapid or spontaneous decaying, breaking, healing, or fixing.
- Molecular destabilization.
- Energy control, transference, disruption, amplification, transmutation, and absorption.
- Inertia redirection, amplification, disruption, and transference.
- Lighting flammable objects.
- Containing or removing air from a particular volume.
- Cancelling others powers and abilities.
- Stopping the momentum of projectiles.
- Blocking, unlocking, closing and opening doors, objects and technological devices.
- Exploding and summoning objects.
- Creating force fields.
- Deflecting normal, physical and magical attacks.
- Negating or distorting physical laws and manipulating physical forces.
- Altering, affecting, and controlling matter, the molecular composition and physical state/form of physical objects.
- Causing various forms of energy to spontaneously appear or disappear.
- Altering size and gravity, as well as manipulating weather and technology.
- Animating things and sustaining the atmosphere.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Wanda Maximoff and her twin brother, Pietro, were born to a nomadic Romani witch named Natalya Maximoff and former criminal and mutant rights activist, Erik Lensherr, in the town of Wundagore, Sokovia. Soon after their births, Mr. Lensherr abandoned his children and moved back to the US leaving Natalya to raise the children on her own. Growing up in the war-torn country of Sokovia, the Maximoffs lived in poverty surrounded by ongoing violence which caused Natalya to seek refuge in the United States by moving to Westfield, New Jersey. To afford their newfound lifestyle, Natalya worked hard to introduce her daughter to the world of show business and often auditioned her for various roles in both television and movies. Besides a few small roles in local commercials, Ms. Maximoff didn't find a steady job until after the death of her mother. She gained a lead role in a new situational comedy program centered around a fictionalized version of her life called "Wandavision". What seemed like a strange decision on the casting agent's behalf soon turned out to be beneficial as she showed natural talent and had enough charisma to carry the show for several seasons. Unbeknownst to S.H.I.E.L.D., Ms. Maximoff also used her powers to aid in some of the program's special effects which cut costs. S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't aware of Ms. Maximoff's abilities until after she registered as a hero inspired by the advice of her new talent agent, Pietro. Ms. Maximoff has shown just as much talent in her hero work as in her acting often being at the right place at the right time and able to minimize collateral damage caused by super-criminals. She has been known to face powerful beings such as The Juggernaut and Avalanche on her own and her powerful spells can cause devastating effects on her foes. The downside is she has shown a lack of control over her mystical powers which can often pose a threat to herself and nearby bystanders.
- Clarice Ferguson, Director of A.R.M.O.R.
Employment
Star of the television series "Wandavision"
Relationships
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Divine Classification
Nexus Being
Age
24
Date of Birth
January 4
Birthplace
Wundagore, Sokovia
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Gender
Female
Eyes
Red
Hair
Brown
Height
5'7"
Weight
132 lbs
Aligned Organization
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- Sokovian
