2022 Finally Got Scarlet Witch's Powers Right, Just Not In The MCU
Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Wanda Maximoff's Scarlet Witch powers are finally presented correctly on screen, but not in the MCU's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but in the indie film Everything Everywhere All at Once. The sequel to 2016's Doctor Strange turned Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) into a villain, marking the first time an Avenger has become truly corrupted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, director Sam Raimi perpetuates an issue with the MCU's version of Scarlet Witch's powers while a totally unrelated movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once presents them perfectly.
Evolving from her first appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wanda Maximoff is shown to have reality altering abilities, making her the most powerful Avenger, even more so than Captain Marvel, Hulk, and Thor. Her chaos magic allows her to cast spells similar to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), but she mostly uses psionic energy, red blasts of energy that eviscerate anything in their path. In Everything Everywhere All at Once, Evelyn Quan Wang (Michelle Yeoh) gains the power to warp reality, just as her daughter Joy / Jobu Tupaki (Stephanie Hsu) can. While Evelyn uses her power to make people's lives better, Jobu ends their lives using the multiverse, such as when she explodes a man's head, turning it into confetti.
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The vast creative potential Wanda's powers offer is better realized by Everything Everywhere All at Once than any project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far. While Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness does show off her
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