"HEX Be a Lady!" Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff Appreciation 2021

[Force de Phenix]

Then how did Pietro get his powers?

He was a figment of her imagination from the start. JK The fact that not everyone can survive an Infinity Stone experience, but they not only survived, but got powers from it, kinda, we don't know, is a mystery they could answer.

[The Cool Thatguy]

If they didn't care about Pietro, they wouldn't have brought in Evan Peters.

That was done as a mindscrew for us

[Daedra]

I would not be so fast to celebrate the establishment of "Scarlet Witch" as title and power set, it may not be long until the usual hack-writers will find a way to pass it around and soon we will have a Scarlet Witch with no Wanda attached to it, I really hope I'm wrong on this.

[GenericUsername]

They are going with the Wanda is blessed with chaos magic from birth thing. Not mutant powers. They never mention genetics.

[GenericUsername]

I would not be so fast to celebrate the establishment of "Scarlet Witch" as title and power set, it may not be long until the usual hack-writers will find a way to pass it around and soon we will have a Scarlet Witch with no Wanda attached to it, I really hope I'm wrong on this.

I don't see how so. They didn't say it was her name. Just that she is a Scarlet Witch.

[Daedra]

They are going with the Wanda is blessed with chaos magic from birth thing. Not mutant powers. They never mention genetics.

If you were expecting them to map her genome it was never going to happen, all they told us is that there was something special with her an pietro prior to the mind stone exposure

[gurkle]

I would not be so fast to celebrate the establishment of "Scarlet Witch" as title and power set, it may not be long until the usual hack-writers will find a way to pass it around and soon we will have a Scarlet Witch with no Wanda attached to it, I really hope I'm wrong on this.

James Robinson's solo already made "Scarlet Witch" a legacy title -- true, it was a family title, but they could easily have passed the torch and the powers to Billy, or even Tommy, or just someone from outside the family.

If they want to kill off Wanda and make someone else the Scarlet Witch they'll do it, show or no show. It's not like the show has changed the way she's used in the comics at all.

[GenericUsername]

If you were expecting them to map her genome it was never going to happen, all they told us is that there was something special with her an pietro prior to the mind stone exposure

And Agatha said what that was... chaos magic.

[Daedra]

And Agatha said what that was... chaos magic.

That’s just the kind of magic her genetic gifts allows her to use, pietro turned into a speedster instead

[starduck]

James Robinson's solo already made "Scarlet Witch" a legacy title -- true, it was a family title, but they could easily have passed the torch and the powers to Billy, or even Tommy, or just someone from outside the family.

If they want to kill off Wanda and make someone else the Scarlet Witch they'll do it, show or no show. It's not like the show has changed the way she's used in the comics at all.

I think with Wandavision being a hit and the Scarlet Witch being revealed to be a legendary title to the general public, it wouldn't surprise me if a writer who liked her aesthetic and chaos magic but not Wanda herself would rip away her look and powers and give them to someone else like Wolverine.

[gonnagiveittoya]

"Shes a magical gal in a small town locale"
- I wonder if she's a mutant?"
"I'm going to magic you into a pickled herring"
- I don't know if what Wanda's magic or just a mutant
- spoilers:

"It's Chaos Magic and you are literally a witch, and I am also a witch with visually similar powers"

end of spoilers
- I really don't know what the source of Wanda's powers are

[GenericUsername]

That’s just the kind of magic her genetic gifts allows her to use, pietro turned into a speedster instead

It's literally the power she wields and they don't seem to have ever cared about Pietro. They killed him off immediately and left his body in Europe.

[LordUltimus]

"Shes a magical gal in a small town locale"
- I wonder if she's a mutant?"
"I'm going to magic you into a pickled herring"
- I don't know if what Wanda's magic or just a mutant
- spoilers:

"It's Chaos Magic and you are literally a witch, and I am also a witch with visually similar powers"

end of spoilers
- I really don't know what the source of Wanda's powers are

None of that says she can't be both.

[Drops Of Venus]

spoilers:

Have to appreciate after years of "it's chaos magic/it's not chaos magic", we have MCU!Agatha clearly state, "it's Chaos Magic, Wanda!" If nothing else, I suspect THAT piece will be permanently added to the comics.

end of spoilers

Bendis watching that ending like:

"Shes a magical gal in a small town locale"
- I wonder if she's a mutant?"
"I'm going to magic you into a pickled herring"
- I don't know if what Wanda's magic or just a mutant
- spoilers:

"It's Chaos Magic and you are literally a witch, and I am also a witch with visually similar powers"

end of spoilers
- I really don't know what the source of Wanda's powers are

This. The show is pretty straightforward with this. They gave us an answer. Some people just don't like it because they wanted it to be something else. They could always retcon it later on and say she's a mutant, but I don't think WandaVision specifically was written with that in mind. The show was actually being developed going back as far as 2018, BEFORE the Disney/FOX merger was done and Marvel wasn't really sure how or if they could introduce the mutants in the MCU at all. Kevin Feige even revealed recently that the decision to add Evan Peters to the cast was done in the early development process of the show, so it's entirely possible he was never there to be the mutant Quicksilver people wanted him to be either.

[Dipter]

You guys are going to be eating your words when MCU magneto is introduced and legally adopts Wanda.