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Name: Wanda Maximoff • Energy projection: Wanda can summon and direct scarlet energy into blasts, shields, and waves of power. Her hex bolts can change direction to bounce between targets. Wanda seems to be able to tune its frequency so it can pass harmlessly through some objects (or people) while only affecting others.Door: Dominant Canon: MCU Canon Point: Post-Captain America: Road to War. This is an official tie-in comic that takes place between Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War. Age: Not stated in canon, seems to be early-mid 20s. I'll go with 22. Appearance: Here History: Here [warning for Infinity War spoilers just in case] Personality: Wanda is the generally calmer, more responsible half of the Maximoff twins. At her best, she is perceptive, caring, and protective of both her loved ones and the innocent. However, when properly angered, she can be extremely vengeful and is sometimes blind to the potential negative consequences of her actions. Wanda has had a drive to take her personal tragedy and turn it into something better since losing her parents at the age of 10 when their apartment building was bombed. She and Pietro participated in protests and riots against foreign powers occupying and destabilizing Sokovia before Strucker and List approached them. Where others may have collapsed into depression and apathy, Wanda and Pietro supported each other and became the other's rock. Neither sibling is the ringleader - Pietro had to convince Wanda to participate in Strucker's experiments and Wanda had to convince Pietro to let Tony go early in Age of Ultron. Wanda demonstrates her resilience again after losing Pietro by officially joining the Avengers. She was greatly moved by SHIELD's efforts to rescue her people, and I'm sure there is no small amount of wanting to atone for helping Ultron and accidentally putting Pietro in a fatal situation. Now, Wanda feels a need to prove that she can be better. See: volunteering to protect the key and insisting multiple times that Pietro rescue everyone else first before he came back for her. Even in Civil War, she doesn't beg Steve to stay and help the rest of Team Cap even though she likely knows better than anyone else what Ross has planned for them. It was more important that he be able to stop what they saw as a global threat. Basically, her home is gone. Her family is gone. Joining the Avengers gave her a way to find purpose and a place she might be able to belong someday. Wanda will still be looking for that sense of belonging and those who show her genuine kindness will find her receptive to their efforts to befriend her. She's lost so much that she will cling to whatever true friends she finds and do anything to keep them safe. Wanda definitely can get blinders where the people she loves are concerned - while she's normally not the impulsive twin, she completely abandoned her post after Pietro's death to track Ultron down. Angry, she is at her most dangerous. While she struggles with doubt from time to time, anger and protectiveness will always override it. She has clearly moved beyond her issues with the Avengers during the timeskip between the Battle of Sokovia and the final scene of Age of Ultron. Seeing what SHIELD really is, instead of the distorted version HYDRA presented, helped shift her perception. They went out of their way to minimize civilian casualties, and she won't forget that. She and Tony also seem to have come to enough of an understanding that they can be on the same team. It's not always easy, but they can work together. And of course, after Pietro sacrificed himself to save Clint, she has become extremely protective of him (and his family) as well. She even goes out of her way to protect Bucky from T'Challa for no other reason than he is Steve's friend. Despite her destructive potential, Wanda is still learning how to be a hero and deal with failure. She had a breakdown midway through the fight for Sokovia and was paralyzed by guilt and fear of her own abilities in Civil War after the disaster in Lagos. She is quick to blame herself, regardless of whether or not it's entirely justified. What is the point of her power if she cannot protect anyone? Usually, a pep talk from Clint or Steve will snap her out of it, and once Wanda's made up her mind, she acts decisively. But at this current canon point, Wanda is terrified of how destructive her powers can be...and of how many times someone else has used her as a living weapon. She walks a fine line between confidence in knowing she is one of the most powerful beings on Earth and the fear that she's going to mess up again and get people killed. Guilt both pushes her to try to be a better person, to save as many people as possible, and warns her of the consequences of getting involved. Still, when the people she cares about are threatened, Wanda has time and time again demonstrated that while her vengeful streak may have been tempered by the Ultron incident, it very much remains. She threw Vision through the floor and Nat into a cargo crate to protect Clint in Civil War. Although in each case her actions were meant to incapacitate, not cause actual harm, she does regret it later and a more rational Wanda would likely not have made the same choices. In Infinity War, she threw Proxima Midnight into burning cars to get to Vision and later literally shredded her for almost killing Natasha. Unlike some of the other MCU heroes, Wanda never shows any hesitation or remorse for the villains she's killed, and the very violent ways she chose to deal with Proxima Midnight and Ultron never seem to bother her. On a final note, although she's nowhere near the level of her brother, Wanda does have a dry sense of humor that escapes in the occasional quip. She briefly snarks at Steve in South Africa and shows a teasing side in a rare unguarded moment with Pietro. It seems to be the twins' main coping mechanism - if they weren't able to inject a small amount of humor into the dark situations they often found themselves in, it would have been a lot harder to keep going. Powers and Abilities: • Telepathy: She can read minds, induce hallucinations, evoke emotions, and generally pick up on the psychic atmosphere around her. Wanda is capable of mass mind control as well - her range seems to be a few blocks at the most, but I'm willing to reduce that if necessary. She is also said to have left several SHIELD agents in a fugue state as opposed to killing them. She will have a permissions post for this power, and typically if she uses mind control, it's on NPCs to prevent them from hurting someone. •Telekinesis: Wanda can sense and manipulate objects, people, and even gas particles with her mind. Larger objects present greater difficulty. •Flight: Wanda is able to fly in a manner similar to the Iron Man suits by projecting a constant stream of energy from her hands. She can also carry someone with her. • Healing: In Infinity War, Wanda seems able to push her own power into someone to stimulate healing. Canon doesn't expand on this power so I am going to limit it to injuries that the body could heal naturally unless later movies/tie-ins contradict this. Wanda requires free use of her hands (or more specifically, her fingers) to use her powers, and electricity seems to disrupt her ability to use them. Should she need to be contained, a mixture of drugs, a shock collar, and a straitjacket have been proven to do the trick. Inventory:
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