Elizabeth Olsen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

Wanda Maximoff is a fictional persona mainly portrayed through Elizabeth Olsen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise based totally on the Marvel Comics persona of the equal name. Wanda is in the beginning depicted as a Sokovian refugee who, alongside with her twin brother Pietro, volunteers to be experimented on by way of Hydra. The Mind Stone amplifies her herbal telekinetic and power manipulation competencies recognized as Chaos magic. Wanda originally comes into war with the Avengers however later joins them and will become one of the team's most effective members.

She develops a romantic relationship with Vision, and after his demise and the Blip, Wanda visits Westview, the place she and Vision had deliberated to stay together. She will become mentally unstable and unknowingly makes use of her capabilities to entice the complete city into a false truth she creates to her liking. This brings her into a struggle with S.W.O.R.D. and Agatha Harkness, inflicting her to in the end free the city and faucet into her latent powers and her historic prophesied identification as the Scarlet Witch. She makes use of the Darkhold to discover alternate actual variations of her children, Billy and Tommy Maximoff, whom she created in the false reality. Corrupted by using the Darkhold, she seeks to soak up the multiverse transportation powers of America Chavez, coming into a struggle with former allies Stephen Strange, Wong, and their allies who attempt to defend Chavez; and possesses her counterpart from Earth-838. After inflicting devastation and inadvertently scaring the alternate actual selves of her children, a guilt-ridden Wanda collapses Mount Wundagore on herself, destroying all copies of the Darkhold throughout the multiverse in the process.

Wanda was once added in the mid-credits scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and is considered the fact that end up as a central character inside the MCU, having seemed in six videos as of 2022. She additionally has a lead position in the miniseries WandaVision (2021), which is extended through her look in the movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). Alternate variations of Wanda show up in the animated collection What If...? (2021) and Multiverse of Madness. Olsen's portrayal of the persona has been well-received and she has earned a number of accolades for her performance, pretty being nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2021, and a Golden Globe Award in 2022