Doctor Strange
Scarlet Witchis a potent superhero whose unlearned hexes can warp reality around her . She ’s also an accomplished magician who fits at home with the high echelon of sorcery in the Marvel Universe , including Doctor Doom , Doctor Voodoo , and the current Sorcerer Supreme , Doctor Strange . But just like her curse bolt make anything they hit to falter and develop , her magic has a habit of going horribly awry . When that materialise , it takes another high - layer mage to intervene , whether that mean working with her or stand against her .
In the new issueEmpyre : X - Men # 4 , theWandavisionstar has done something abominable to mutantkind once again , and Stephen Strange unsex it with the dutiful resignation of a pipe fitter working a clog .
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Scarlet Witch was n’t always a mage . Originally , Wanda Maximoff was merely a mutant whose power created sorry luck around her that could be fired at a mark . Then she joined the Avengers , where the ancient witch Agatha Harkness revealed that she was using echt magic and trained her to understand it . Then the problem start : she marry the Vision and undertake toconjure twin children for them , but the charm broke and the grief drove her to an emotional breakdown . Her powers go haywire and prove to bolt down the Avengers , who had to work with Doctor Strange to defeat her . The enraged , frantic Wanda cast a spell that depowered 98 percent of the humankind ’s mutants , killing many of them . ( It was afterwards retconned that Doctor Doom had win over her to become possessed by a cosmic entity , shifting the incrimination for these outbursts onto him . )
Her magic come from the elder god Chthon , who witch her in the uterus as a sorcerous vessel he could own . In theSecret Empirestoryline , when HYDRA took over the United States and the Avengers , HYDRA mages caused Chthon to take over Wanda ’s body . Thor fought her until she fell , then Doctor Strange exorcised her , provide her to join the resistance forces . The storyline ofEmpyre : X - Menis because of a mistake that might be even more ghastly than her elimination of mutants from the worldly concern . She ask for Doctor Strange ’s help to undo the " no more mutants " spell , but he recite her that the atrocity is too great to reverse and suggests that she do something good to counterbalance it instead . So she attempt to revive the sixteen million mutant who had been killed at Genosha … and accidentallyturns them into sharp-set zombiesinstead .
Issue 4 reveals what she did when she discovered the core of her enchantment : she take a sheepish second visit to Doctor Strange ’s sanctum sanctorum . He retraced her steps , realine the mystical effect she bid on to unmake each other . He discharged the turn , allow it to come down aside in a calendar month ’s time . ( This stand for that the entire difference ofEmpyre : X - Menresolves itself when that timekeeper run out , but that ’s okay , because it was all an excuse to write a report with the tagline " Plants vs. Zombies vs. 10 - Men vs. Old Ladies " . )
If this design of Wanda going off the rails and requiring one of her peers ( most often an quondam homo ) to harness her in sounds like a reenforce gender stereotype , that ’s a completely fair reading . Scarlet Witch is one of Marvel ’s older character , hail from the Silver Age days when some creators ( most notably , Stan Lee ) wrotemen as patronize chauvinistsand fair sex as irrational , undependable naif . The Wasp and the Invisible Woman ( then prognosticate " Invisible Girl " ) have age out of that portrayal … but Scarlet Witch now more than ever isdefined by her failures .
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