5 Times The Scarlet Witch Altered Reality

Even though Wanda Maximoff returned to the Avengers and even managed to save Scott Lang’s life, redemption remained out of reach, especially when it came to the people of Krakoa. Her status in the mutant community was further tarnished by the revelation that she was neither a mutant. neither Magneto’s real daughter. Still considering Wanda his child, Magneto invited her to attend the first-ever Hellfire Gala as a sign of peace. Overwhelmed with guilt for her past actions, she did not attend, but secretly visited Magneto as seen in SWORD (2020) #6. Between this issue and X-FACTOR (2020) #10, she has presented a plan that would pave the way to healing her relationship with the mutants…until she was discovered dead on the gala grounds!
The investigation into his murder was covered in X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO (2021) where all the evidence pointed to Magneto’s involvement. Although the island’s leaders voted for do not resurrect Wanda, the Five planned to do it anyway. But while discussing the subject, the Scarlet Witch took matters into her own hands by bringing herself back to life!
Although her memories are incomplete, Wanda’s powers remained. She inadvertently created a pocket dimension to manage her past, present, and future, but also unwittingly spawned a trio of huge monsters that attacked the island. After regaining her composure, she helped stop the monsters and also took a big step in making amends with the mutants by implementing a magic system that allows Cerebro to create copies of any mutant that has already lived with backups stored in a pocket size. It was all part of his plan from the start. And with that, Wanda altered reality in an effort to heal not just her own past trauma, but the trauma she inflicted on others.
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