Captain America: Civil War - 26 WTF Moments

22. Wanda's Inconsistent Powers

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Wanda's hero moment when she saves Cap is a great scene: it builds the dynamic between Cap's New Avengers, shows that Wanda has got over her villain phase and highlights the fact that she's a legitimate threat to innocent life. But seriously, how else did she think throwing a suicide bomber soaked in her own destructive magic towards a building full of people would have gone down?

That naivety sort of fits what we know about Wanda and her growing powers, but then to complicate matters further, when she is forced to attack Vision later on, she's able to control the Mind Stone. That's like next level powers.

And wait... so Wanda can now also manipulate gases? Is her power so strong that she can affect things on a molecular level? That sort of makes her struggle to control Crossbones' explosion a little more confusing. It's like there's actually two Wandas.

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