7 Reasons Why Wanda Maximoff Will Be The MCU’s Greatest Threat Yet

7. More Powerful Than Thanos

During a Q&A with The New York Film Academy after the release of Avengers: Endgame, an audience member asked Kevin Feige who he believed was the strongest Marvel hero. His response was very telling.

“If you look at Endgame, Wanda Maximoff was going to kill Thanos… that’s as scared as I’ve ever seen Thanos. And if he hadn’t said, ‘Decimate my entire team to get her off me’, I think she would’ve done it”.

Why would Kevin Feige, head honcho of the MCU, want audiences to pay close attention to this scene? Perhaps it was to plant the seeds of what’s to come.

Whereas Thanos bested The Scarlet Witch when he was in possession of a gauntlet of unparalleled power, The Scarlet Witch, using no fancy gadgets and relying on just the fiery rage within, almost smooshed the Mad Titan when it was just hero against villain.

Had Wanda been more in control of her powers, or had she had time to centre herself before facing off with Thanos (let’s not forget to Wanda, who was blipped out of existence, only minutes had passed since Vision’s death), she might have managed to finish him off before he had the chance to call in some firepower.

A hero that proved more powerful than the MCU’s biggest threat to date – a threat that showed time and time again he was stronger than Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and The Hulk combined – would sure make a formidable Phase 4 villain, no?