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Scarlet Witch
Wanda Maximoff
Biographical Information
Real Name: Wanda Maximoff
Alias: Scarlet Witch
Age: 16-18
Species: Mutant
Religion: Jewish
Originally From: New York City
Relatives: Erik Lehnsherr (Father)
Pietro Maximoff (Twin Brother)
Affiliations: The Brotherhood
Interests: Todd Tolansky (Disguised as a snowboarder)
Physical Description
Gender: Female
Eye color: Blue
Height: 5'9
Character Information
Powers: Chaos Magic
Probability Manipulation
First Appearance: Hex Factor
Voiced by: Kelly Sheridan
GALLERY


Character Female Mutants Brotherhood Season 2 Season 3 Season 4
"You haven't seen me angry...until now!"
—To Erik in Hex Factor

Wanda Maximoff is the daughter of Erik Lehnsherr and the twin sister of Pietro Maximoff, she is a mutant and member of the Brotherhood of Mutants. During her youth, she was locked away by her father due to her powers being unstable and out of control before being freed during her teenage years.

Major Episodes[]

Personality[]

Wanda was originally a troubled young mutant, especially as a child due to her powers being out of control, after being locked away in an Institute, she grew resent for her father. After being released, Wanda continued to hold her resentment for Erik as well as Pietro, once being introduced to the rest of The Brotherhood, Wanda showed her frustration towards her brother until she was calmed downed by Agatha.

Despite having the courage to confront her father, Wanda also showed signs of fear after one of the doctors at her institute began leading her away from its confines until she discovered that the orderly was Mystique breaking her out. After being captured by her father and Mastermind, she showed further signs of fear as her memories were altered. After her memories changed, her hate for Erik and Pietro had subsided.

Physical Appearance[]

Wanda is a teenaged Romani girl with blue eyes, during her time locked away, her hair is black which was kept untamed and unkept whilst locked away but after being freed, she cut it to a much more shorter length to keep it out of her face with a red undertone. She also often wears a dark shade of red eyeshadow with matching lipstick and nail polish.

In the future, Wanda is taller, her hair remains short but slightly longer, it is black with its lower half dyed red, She also wears dark red lipstick

Powers and Abilities[]

Wanda's powers grant her the ability to change probability to her advantage as well as hex whoever she targets which in turn causes them to lose control over their own powers such as when she used her magic against the X-Men when they tried to stop The Brotherhood at the zoo. When her magic is active, it is blue.

Locked up[]

History[]

Scarlet Witch/History

Notes[]

  • Wanda's concept art and designs
  • She is the daughter of Erik and twin sister of Pietro.[1] [2]
  • Before Wanda's memories were altered, she was greatly feared by her brother.[2]
  • Wanda single-handedly forced the X-Men to retreat during her debut episode.[2]
  • At the end of The Hex Factor, Toad gave Wanda her the codename of Scarlet Witch.[2]
  • Wanda appeared but did not speak in Day of Reckoning I.[3]
  • Wanda remained mentally unstable until her memories were changed.[4]
  • Wanda was the third character to lose control over her powers.
  • Wanda did not go with her father to Egypt.[5]
  • Wanda is the only member of The Brotherhood to go to Egypt with Kitty.[6]
  • Wanda hesitated to fight her father in Ascension II until she was convinced to do so.[7]

Trivia[]

  • Wanda remained with her Brotherhood team in the future
  • This version of Wanda was mentally unstable until Magneto had Mastermind rewrite her memories. But in the Marvel comics, she was never locked up.[2]
  • This is the only version of Wanda to have her powers be blue as elsewhere, they are red.
  • This is the only version of Wanda to appear goth, similar to how Rogue dresses
  • This version of Wanda is not mentioned to have magical aspects to her abilities like her comic book counterpart, but it can be hinted that she possesses magic in this series although its not explicit as Agatha being a sorceress was specifically chosen to mentor and teach Wanda how to control her powers hinting that Wanda's situation with her powers involved magical matters that only Agatha could understand.

In other media[]

  • This is Wanda's second role in an animated X-Men cartoon, the first being: X-Men: The Animated Series. She first made her animated debut in The Marvel Super Heroes in 1966.
  • Wanda was Kurt's love interest in Wolverine and the X-Men.
  • Wanda has appeared in Avengers related films including: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, she has also appeared in her own Disney+ show Wandavision and was featured in Doctor Strange 2: Multiverse of Madness. She appeared in the post-credits scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and appeared in its following sequel, Civil War.
  • Wanda has appeared in many video games, some of which include: X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet and Lego Marvel's Avengers as well as Marvel: Snap.
  • In The Toad, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Wanda shows attraction to a blonde snowboarder named "Eric" until she discovers it was merely Toad in disguise using Kurt's stolen image inducer.
  • In the MCU, she and Pietro were allies of HYDRA as they willingly joined the organisation to be experimented on which resulted in the siblings gaining their powers rather than be born with them. Also in the MCU, Wanda and Pietro were Sokovian born and were not related to Magneto.
  • In the comics, despite it being retconned many times, she is also the sister of Lorna Dane.

Appearance[]

Season Two
Growing Pains Power Surge Bada-Bing Bada-Boom Fun and Games The Beast of Bayville Adrift On Angel's Wings African Storm Joyride
Walk on the Wild Side Operation: Rebirth Mindbender Shadow Dance Retreat The Hex Factor Day of Reckoning I * Day of Reckoning II
Season Three
Day of Recovery The Stuff of Heroes Mainstream The Stuff of Villains Blind Alley X-Treme Measures The Toad, the Witch,
and the Wardrobe
Self Possessed Under Lock and Key Cruise Control X23 Dark Horizon I Dark Horizon II
Season Four
Impact No Good Deed Target X Sins of the Son Uprising Cajun Spice Ghost of a Chance Ascension I Ascension II

References[]

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