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Real Name: Wanda Maximoff
Occupation: Professional adventurer-turned-housewife
Legal Status: Former citizen of Transia, naturalized citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Wundagore Mountain, Transia, Europe
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Vision (husband), Thomas (son), William (son), Pietro (brother, alias Quicksilver), Magneto (father), Magda (mother, presumed deceased), Django Maximoff (adoptive father, deceased), Marya Maximoff (adoptive mother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Leonia, New Jersey
Past Group Affiliations: Former member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, reserve member of the Avengers
Known Powers:
Probability Field Alteration: The Scarlet Witch can disrupt probabilities at Amazing rank so that unlikely (but not impossible) events occur. This can include the shorting out of mechanical equipment, spontaneous combustion of flammable objects, the disruption of energy fields and transmissions, the evacuation of air from a given volume, etc. On one occasion she even managed to put a crack in the adamantium casing of Ultron. Against unnatural materials or energies, such as complex alloys or force fields, she receives a -1CS when making the FEAT roll. Wanda can affect probabilities in any place that she can view directly.
Magic Manipulation: Wanda has mastered the following magical Power Stunts:
- Eldritch Bolts of Excellent Rank
- Shields providing Incredible protection against Mystical attacks.
- Good rank Telekinesis.
Talents:
Wanda has the Mystic background and has the Occult Lore talent.
Contacts:
The Scarlet Witch has contacts with both East and West Coast Avengers as a reserve member. She is not on particularly good terms with her father, Magneto, but he would come to her aid if she were in danger. She and the Vision are close friends of the mutant couple Glamour and Illusion. On occasion she has been able to contact the shade of her deceased teacher, Agatha Harkness.
Role-Playing Notes:
Early in her career, the Scarlet Witch had low self-esteem. As she grew in the use of her powers, she became a force to be reckoned with and now faces any danger with iron resolve. She has unflinchingly taken on such menaces as Chthon and UItron. She is also a devoted mother and wife, and is overly protective of her husband, the Vision, who is still in many ways new to "humanity."
History:
Wanda Maximoff was the daughter of the mutant later known as Magneto and a gypsy woman named Magda. Just prior to her birth, her mother fled from her father, terrified of the bizarre powers he suddenly manifested and his intentions of world domination. Seeking refuge in the scientific citadel of Wundagore in the Balkan Mountains of the tiny nation of Transia, Magda was taken in by Bova, a woman evolved from a cow by the master of genetic acceleration, the High Evolutionary. Magda gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, with Bova as her midwife. Still afraid that her husband might find her and learn of the children, Magda left Bova a note explaining her fears, and walked into the frozen mountain wilderness to perish. Feeling that it was not right to raise two seemingly normal babies in the environment of the evolved animal-men of Wundagore, Bova was relieved when several nights later, an American couple vacationing in Europe, Robert and Madeline Frank, also came to Wundagore seeking assistance with a birth. Bova intended to award the couple the days-old twins to raise along with their own newborn. Unfortunately, the couple's child was stillborn, and Madeline died in childbirth. Bova presented Robert Frank with the twins, representing them as his own natural children, in the hope it would assuage his grief. Frank, refusing the children, fled from Wundagore nearly insane with grief. (Years later, Frank and the children would come to believe that he was their natural father.) Bova then presented the twins to her master, the High Evolutionary, who agreed to find human foster parents for them.
The High Evolutionary did find such parents for them in the persons of Django and Marya Maximoff, a gypsy couple camped nearby who had lost their own twin children, Ana and Maleo, during World War II. The Maximoffs accepted the strange gifts from the High Evolutionary and were told their names were Wanda and Pietro, the names their natural mother had given them at birth. The Maximoffs cared for the children as if they were their own. (Years later, Django would believe that Wanda and Pietro were his natural children, Ana and Maleo.)
As adolescents, Wanda and Pietro discovered that they had peculiar talents. With a particular gesture while she was in a certain frame of mind, Wanda found that she could cause unusual phenomena to occur. When Django began to steal food to feed his starving family, enraged villagers attacked the gypsy camp. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister. The traumatic circumstances of the separation from their family were so severe that not until well into adulthood could they remember anything but the barest details of their childhood. The next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered central Europe, living off the land.
One day, Wanda accidentally caused a house to burst into flames with her uncontrollable hex powers. Despite Pietro's attempt to defend her from enraged townspeople, they were soon overpowered and about to become victims of mob violence when Magneto came to their rescue. Unaware that he was their natural father, Magneto pressed them into service in his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, costumed them, and named them Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. For months they served Magneto out of a sense of obligation and fear of his reprisal. When the extraterrestrial Stranger transported Magneto from Earth, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver left the Brotherhood and petitioned for membership in the Avengers. They were inducted along with Hawkeye to take the place of the charter members, who wished a leave of absence.
At one point during her career as an Avenger, the Scarlet Witch underwent training in sorcery under the tutelage of a true witch named Agatha Harkness. The mental discipline of sorcery aided the Scarlet Witch's powers of concentration, enabling her to exercise much greater control over her mutant hexes than ever before. While an active member of the Avengers, the Scarlet Witch met and married the synthetic man called the Vision. For a few years after their marriage, the two lived in Avengers Mansion, saving their Avengers' salaries. Eventually, the couple bought a house in Leonia, New Jersey, and retired from active membership. They returned to active duty when the Baxter Building was threatened by Annihilus's nullfield. The Vision assumed chairmanship when most of the Avengers disappeared while fighting the first Secret War. After a several-week stint, the Vision stepped down as leader and the couple returned to Leonia. By warping probabilities, Wanda managed to be impregnated by the artificial Vision. They have since had twin sons named Thomas and William.