Scarlet Witch’s 7 Most Impressive Feats of Power in MCU Appearances, Ranked

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Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch, is one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She started with abilities like moving objects with her mind and controlling energy, but has grown to wield incredible, reality-bending magic. Often, her most powerful moments come from strong emotions and deep sadness. She’s demonstrated magic so powerful it has changed realities, defeated incredibly strong opponents, and surpassed the magical abilities of anyone else in the MCU.

Whether she’s facing down Thanos or altering reality itself, seven key moments demonstrate why Wanda Maximoff is a uniquely powerful figure, inspiring both fear and respect. Her abilities have virtually no limits, making her incredibly formidable and impressive.

7. Ripping Ultron’s Heart Out

Wanda Maximoff made her film debut in *Avengers: Age of Ultron*, where she faced Ultron in Sokovia after he was severely damaged. Overcome with grief from the loss of her twin brother, she used her powers of telepathy and telekinesis to break through Ultron’s protective vibranium shell and destroy his core, effectively shutting him down.

This was the first time she truly demonstrated how powerful she could be. She didn’t even need to fight him; instead, she reached into the core of his being and removed his central processing unit-essentially, his ‘heart.’ This showed a frighteningly focused and destructive ability, hinting at the immense power she still hadn’t fully unleashed.

6. Destroying an Infinity Stone 

Okay, so the battle for Wakanda is insane, right? Thanos is coming after the Mind Stone, which is inside Vision’s head. And Wanda… wow. She basically has to fight Thanos *and* destroy the Stone at the same time. It’s heartbreaking because her powers originally *came* from the Mind Stone, meaning she was the only one who could actually destroy it. But doing so… well, it meant Vision didn’t survive. It was a total gut punch, but it made sense within the story, you know?

Destroying an Infinity Stone – one of the universe’s fundamental forces – takes an immense amount of power. Even Thanos, incredibly strong as he was, needed the complete Infinity Gauntlet to wield them, and it still seriously hurt him. Wanda Maximoff didn’t just break a Stone, she did it while simultaneously battling a powerful cosmic being, making her abilities far beyond those of her fellow Avengers.

5. Creating the Twins

After the devastating losses of Vision in *Avengers: Infinity War* and the events of *Avengers: Endgame*, Wanda was overwhelmed with grief. This sorrow unknowingly fueled her powerful chaos magic, leading her to create two twin sons, Tommy and Billy, within the reality she warped in Westview. She essentially brought two fully conscious and developing individuals into existence without realizing what she was doing.

Creating this was an unbelievably powerful act, beyond the capabilities of even the most skilled magic users in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It wasn’t just a trick; she genuinely brought something to life and sustained it with her magic alone. This accomplishment defied the natural laws of life and reality, and the events in *Agatha All Along* proved that both boys were truly alive, with real souls.

4. Bringing Down Mount Wundergore 

Driven to corruption by the Darkhold and now fully embodying the Scarlet Witch, Wanda attacked the Masters of the Mystic Arts. She then unleashed her power, collapsing Mount Wundergore – the fortress housing the Darkhold – onto itself and her. By destroying the fortress, she aimed to ensure the Darkhold’s dangerous magic could never corrupt anyone, in any reality.

Wanda unleashed her powerful magic, bringing down an entire mountain in a massive landslide. This incredible display of chaos magic didn’t just demolish a fortress; it proved she was a true hero, eliminating the source of her inner darkness and preventing anyone else from being corrupted by the Darkhold.

3. Dream Walking

Wanda learns a dangerous and forbidden type of magic called Dream Walking, which lets her temporarily take over the body of another version of herself in a different universe. Doctor Strange believes this is deeply wrong and damages the fabric of reality, but Wanda uses it to search for her sons, allowing her to completely control her alternate selves’ bodies throughout the multiverse.

Wanda’s ability to Dream Walk gave her incredible control, essentially letting her manipulate the entire multiverse. She could directly control alternate versions of herself, ignoring the usual limits of space and different realities. This level of dark magic was beyond even Agatha Harkness, who previously possessed and studied the Darkhold.

2. Creating Westview 

Overwhelmed by loss, Wanda unconsciously unleashed a massive surge of her chaotic magical powers, creating a completely fabricated reality around the town of Westview. She unknowingly rebuilt the town, controlled the people who lived there, and assigned them roles in this new world, maintaining it all without fully realizing what she was doing.

Westview was where audiences first witnessed the true extent of Wanda’s abilities. She unintentionally reshaped reality for everyone in the town, altering physics, time, and even people’s minds – a powerful display of chaos magic she didn’t realize she possessed.

1) Single-Handedly Destroying the Illuminati 

The most frightening and effective demonstration of her power happened when she fought the Illuminati in *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness*. She quickly defeated some of the strongest heroes from another universe – including Captain Marvel, Black Bolt, Professor X, Captain Carter, and Mister Fantastic – with shocking ease and force.

Wanda’s brutal defeat of incredibly powerful heroes established her as an exceptionally dangerous being, even though that level of threat hadn’t been formally recognized in the Marvel Cinematic Universe yet. She quickly defeated Black Bolt by silencing him, effortlessly destroyed Reed Richards, and split Captain Carter in two using her own shield. This demonstration of her abilities – including telepathy, altering reality, Dream Walking, and powerful chaos magic – was her most impressive and frightening feat to date.

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2025-09-28 21:11