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

Ever since her introduction during the credits of arguably the MCU’s greatest film to date, 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, fans have been counting down the hours until Wanda Maximoff finally gets to unleash her true and terrifying potential, pull a House of M, and burn down the house that Feige built one billion-dollar franchise at a time.

But 2014 was a long time ago – fourteen MCU movies ago in fact – and since her initial introduction, The Scarlet Witch has had little screen time to fully live up to her reality-altering comic-book legacy, warts and all.

With Disney+’s WandaVision just two months away and the witching hour almost upon us, Marvel Studio’s first foray into streaming (and now introduction into Marvel’s Phase 4) promises to provide MCU fans, who have been starved of Marvel content since the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home over fifteen months ago, plenty of witchy goodness to dig their teeth into – hopefully making this agonising wait worthwhile.

But will WandaVision be weaving a hero’s tale, or will the series be brewing a cauldron full of something far more sinister? Will Wanda Maximoff come out of this wacky six-episode curiosity more friend or foe?

Join me as I channel-jump back through the last six years of the MCU, and take a look through the crystal ball into the future, to unpack some reasons why Wanda Maximoff will be the MCU’s biggest threat yet.

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?