Scarlet Witch Suffered Her Most Brutal MCU Kill in the Comics
Warning! This article contains spoilers for Captain Marvel #39
Especially after seeing her recent MCU rampage, Marvel fans are well aware of the vast amount of power wielded by Scarlet Witch in both the movies and the comic books alike–though in one of her most recent Marvel Comics appearances, Scarlet Witch receives some gruesome karma. In fact, she suffers the same fate as the victim of her most brutal MCU kill.
Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlet Witch) made her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the post-credit scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and made her first full appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron. While initially a villain controlled by Hydra and then aligned with Ultron, Scarlet Witch proved her heroism and joined the Avengers to take down Ultron, effectively becoming an Avenger herself. However, Scarlet Witch’s heroism had officially crumbled by the time she appeared in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, in which she is trying to murder a teenager, America Chavez, in the hopes of stealing her multiverse-traveling powers for her own purposes. In that effort, Wanda uses dark magic to travel to a universe where America is being kept, and she is faced with the full force of a superhero team known as the Illuminati. This team consisted of Mordo, Reed Richards, Captain Marvel, Captain Carter, Black Bolt and Professor X. However, they are no threat to Scarlet Witch as she easily kills every one of them in extremely brutal ways, especially Black Bolt whose death was the most gruesome. Right before Black Bolt used his Inhuman power to obliterate Wanda with a mere whisper, Scarlet Witch rewrites the reality of his face and erases his mouth altogether, resulting in one of the most gnarly deaths in
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