Avengers Endgame: 10 Unexpected Consequences To Reversing The Snap

Taking a quick break from all this jolly talk of worldwide horror, let’s look at Wanda Maximoff.

In Marvel Comics’ Avengers continuty, the Scarlet Witch has the power to alter reality. The ability to change what’s real affects her perception of what’s real and - long story short - she has a nervous breakdown and attacks the Avengers; killing Hawkeye, Ant-Man and the Vision and creating an alternate reality, a supposed paradise in which everybody gets what they want.

There’s more (much more) - but that’s the gist. Now in the MCU, Wanda Maximoff has suffered her own series of tragedies: she lost her parents in a bombing attack when she was ten, and was groomed by terrorists, volunteering later on in life to be experimented on using the Mind Stone. Joining up with the Avengers, her twin was killed; she then fell in love with the Vision, who was murdered by Thanos, who then murdered her.

Five years later, this woman born of a lifetime of loss and trauma - her DNA rewritten by an Infinity Stone - is reborn in a world that has completely forgotten Sokovia, her brother, her lover and herself. She never even got to bury or say goodbye to Vision.

What might happen to this Wanda Maximoff? The scene is theoretically set for another breakdown, but how far do her powers really go in the cinematic universe? Can she bring back Quicksilver and Vision? Black Widow?

Can this Scarlet Witch rewrite reality to her whim?