10 Problems With Marvel's Phase 4 (And How To Solve Them)
8. Wanda Maximoff Is A Completely Unknown Quantity
Four movies in and four years later, we know less about Wanda Maximoff than we did when we first met her as a villain in Avengers: Age Of Ultron.
In that film, she was revealed to have powers that were bestowed upon her by experimentation with the Mind Stone, alongside her twin Pietro. He gained superspeed; she gained… well, the jury’s out on that.
In the comics, her powers haven’t been clearly defined either. Depending on who’s writing her, she can alter probability, alter reality, wield magic, wield chaos magic, or some weird-ass combination of the above.
In the movies, she’s been able to put ‘the whammy’ on the minds of the Avengers and displayed some hellacious telekinetic ability, which as time went on has become her go-to power. The telepathic stuff's been completely forgotten about since Age Of Ultron.
It should also be noted, just in passing, that the MCU has never referred to her as ‘the Scarlet Witch’ (due to the franchise’s ongoing embarrassment at the comic book tropes it’s adapting) and it looks like with WandaVision this will be continuing. Has Carol Danvers ever been referred to as Captain Marvel, by the way?
WandaVision (they should seriously consider changing that title, it’s awful) is apparently going to be ‘weird’, harking back to how Maximoff was first described in Age Of Ultron, so it’s possible we might finally get into the nitty-gritty of the character and the extent of her powers. Not before time.