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

6. 12 Stages Of Grief 

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Of all the Avengers to date, Wanda Maximoff probably has the biggest reason to lose her mind and go all Dark Willow in Phase 4.

Not only did she lose her parents when a mortar shell hit her family’s apartment building when she was just ten, and subsequently was trapped under rubble for two days, waiting for a second shell to go off before rescue, but she also had to experience the death of her brother, her robot lover, and the entire destruction of her homeland all within the span of about five years.

All that grief while also having to adapt to her new-found, mind-altering, reality-bending powers, not to mention feeling personally responsible for accidentally killing a number of Wakandan humanitarian workers in Lagos at the start of Captain America: Civil War, is bound to leave a lasting impression on you – an impression that will take more than just a couple of trips to the therapist to move on from.

When Hawkeye lost his family after the snap, he started wielding a sword and slicing up the Yakuza in Tokyo – and that was Hawkeye. Imagine the mess the most powerful Avenger could make?

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