Captain America: Civil War - 9 Theories On How The War Starts

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4. Scarlet Witch: The Wild Card

That anyone thinks that putting an unhinged former science experiment with unquantifiable powers back into the field straight after the death of her brother has to go down as one of the most idiotic decisions in the MCU so far. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion, and there's a very real chance she's the problem behind the Accords. How It Would Work In a very similar vein to House Of M, only without the mutants. Deep-seated feelings about her brother could quite easily combine with post-traumatic stress disorder from Sokovia and lead to Wanda losing the plot entirely and unleashing an ungodly blast of her extremely dangerous powers. The collateral damage (particularly if she caused mass psychosis) would be as awesome as it would be terrifying. The Evidence Well, Elizabeth Olsen has already called her character a "wild card", which sounds pretty ominous, and there's the small matter of her not appearing on the team-up artwork that was leaked some time ago...
By this point, might she be in super-jail? Dead? Trapped in a world of her own creation to deal with her issues? The Likelihood If it happens, it is probably going to be part of the problem that helps the Accords come into existence. If the film opens with a military