Alternate versions of Scarlet Witch

Scarlet Witch is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men #4 (March 1964) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The character has since starred in two self-titled limited series with husband the Vision, and has historically been depicted as a regular team member in superhero title The Avengers. She has numerous alternative versions throughout the Marvel Comics multiverse.

Age of Apocalypse

Age of Apocalypse was a comic book event where reality was altered by a time travel, and the mutant Apocalypse wages a devastating war over the world. The Scarlet Witch appears in X-Men Chronicles #1, a comic set in the early days of the war. She is a member of the X-Men, led by her father Magneto. While the team fights Apocalypse in his first attack, she dies defending their base on Wundagore Mountain from Nemesis. As a last request, she asks the newly recruited Rogue to stay close to her father.^[1]

The event was quite popular, and many new comics set in it were published in later years. One of those comics was Uncanny X-Force #19.1. The long dead Scarlet Witch is cloned, so that Jean Grey can control her body and use her power to replicate the mass mutant depowering seen in the House of M event. The spell fails, and only works in a limited radius, depowering only Jean Grey and Sabretooth.^[2]

Heroes Reborn

Scarlet Witch is one of the Avengers participating in the defeat of the entity Onslaught, and is subsequently trapped in the Heroes Reborn universe. In this artificial reality, with her mutant heritage non-existent, Wanda was raised by Agatha Harkness, with the Asgardian sorceress the Enchantress falsely claiming to be her mother.^[3]

Exiles

The title Exiles features an alternate version from Earth-8823 with the call sign "Witch". The character joins the inter-dimensional superhero team^[4] but is killed in action, and is replaced—without the knowledge of her teammates—by yet another alternate version of herself.^[5]

Marvel 1602

In Marvel 1602, Sister Wanda and her brother, Petros, are followers of Enrique, High Inquisitor of the Spanish Catholic Church.^[6]

Marvel Noir

In the limited series X-Men Noir, Wanda Magnus is a wealthy socialite and the daughter of Chief of Detectives Eric Magnus.^[7]

Marvel Zombies

In the Marvel Zombies storyline, an alternate universe version of Scarlet Witch helps Ash find the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Wanda is eventually attacked, hunted down and infected by zombified vigilante the Punisher.^[8] She reappears, still "zombified" in the third instalment in the series, Marvel Zombies 3. She works with the Kingpin, using the Vision—who was still in love with her—to block enemy radio signals as necessary. She (along with the other zombies) was later confronted by Machine Man, and Jocasta, who decided to save the Vision and finally kill the zombie Kingpin. At yet one point, zombie Scarlet Witch is decapitated by Machine Man's temporary chainsaw limb and was ripped apart in the zombie pile where Machine Man and Jocasta are victorious.^[9]

MC2

An older version of Scarlet Witch appears in the MC2 title A-Next. Having been placed in a coma during the original Avengers final battle (as part of an attempt to save Iron Man),^[10] Scarlet Witch was captured, revived, and brainwashed by Loki as part of his plan to corrupt various heroes into punishing the Avengers. She eventually returned to her normal mindset,^[11] and has made sporadic appearances in the MC2 universe since then.

Ultimate Marvel

In the Ultimate Marvel imprint title Ultimates, Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver defect from Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy to the Ultimates in exchange for the release of imprisoned Brotherhood members. The twin siblings share an incestuous relationship.

In the third volume of Ultimates 3, Scarlet Witch is killed by a lovesick Ultron which is later revealed to have been orchestrated by Doctor Doom.^[12] She is shown to be alive in Wundagore together with Teddy (Blob's other mutant child), Quicksilver and Mystique.^[13] However this is revealed to be an illusion by Apocalypse.^[14]

The Ultimate version's powers differ from the mainstream version's in that the character has to "do the math" in order to use her powers—she must calculate the mathematical probability that the effect she intends to create will actually happen; the more complex the effect, the more complex the mathematical formula.^[15]

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