What is Wanda’s future in the MCU?

(warning: Dr. Gharib 2 Spoilers follow!)

Is the scarlet witch alive or dead?

The first thing we need to address about Wanda’s future in the MCU: is she even alive to own one? The Scarlet Witch ended up coming to his senses after several dimensions of carnage, and took upon himself the heroic act of destroying Darkhold in every truth. To complete the task, Wanda had to destroy the original writings of Darkhold, which were carved into the walls of Mount Wundagore. Looks like Wanda chose to go down the proverbial ship when the mountain collapsed – but did she really go?

For her part, Elizabeth Olsen has already said that she doesn’t think her work on the Scarlet Witch is over:

“It’s strange that I’m expecting to come back but no one has told me I’m doing anything,” Olsen said. diverse. “But in my mind, I’m assuming they’ll host me again. I don’t know what the capacity is, but I hope to come back. I also hope there’s more fun in something different. Where are we going? I feel like we’ve done a lot with it. It’s been really two wild years. with her. “

The same Wanda – or a new witch?

Doctor Strange in a multiverse of madnessThe whole goal was to open the door of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse to fans and let us know what it’s really about. The movie also made the point of showing how many variants of the characters there are – and how dramatically they differ. The Scarlet Witch was one of those characters who obviously had some powerful variants scattered across the multiverse, so Wanda who went killer rogue in The multiverse of madness Not necessarily the one we have to (or want) to get back.

As illustrated in the Illuminati sequence for Dr. Gharib 2The X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises are coming to the MCU. The multiverse (and the inevitable reboot of it in MCU Secret Wars) is the obvious path to eventually merging the X-Men and F4 into the reality of the Avengers in the MCU, and Scarlet Witch is a character with the same number of X-Men comic book links as the Avengers connections do.

That’s all there is to say: There are plenty of MCU fans out there who would love to see Elizabeth Olsen return as a version of the Scarlet Witch who is a mutant and Magneto’s daughter like in the comics. And from her voice, Olsen might want the same:

“I want to know what the fans want, and what the ideas are. But I guess you just said that – if we want to X-Men “I’m going back here,” said Elizabeth Olsen. CinemaBlend. “But I don’t have actual plans yet. I am so excited to talk to her [Marvel Studios president and producer Kevin Feige] About that at some point.”

Lots of Wanda to choose from

In the comics, the Scarlet Witch became a global threat when she rewrote all reality according to her personal whims (the uplifting of her family’s cultural standing and mutations) in the “House of M” story. Wanda later causes the genocide of mutants through the will of Gene X (almost) out of existence, in the event known as “M-Day”. Since then, Wanda has apparently died several times and returned (she even killed herself); She lost her memory and ended up with Dr. Dom; And she even earned her spot as a child mutant and recreated Magneto’s daughter so that she and Quicksilver were experimental hacks from High Evolutionary, and her real family (Maximoffs) includes the former Scarlet Witch.

To be honest, many fans feel that Wanda’s Marvel Comics story was a mess of failed ideas and reboots. However, all of the above material holds the potential to bridge us into new and exciting chapters of both the MCU and Wanda’s story. So, whether Wanda is the focus of the upcoming Young Avengers story, reintroduced as a mutant in the X-Men, or delving deeper into her charming side in something like harkness housewe’ll take it.

… Thanks to all the various games in the Doctor Strange 2, It can be said that we can have all of the above.

Doctor Strange in a multiverse of madness It is now in theaters.