It’s later revealed that Wanda’s magic miracles were, in fact, fragments of the demon Mephisto who had been using Pandemonium to regain the lost shards of his soul. Tragedy struck again when their twins were zapped out of existence by the Master Pandemonium. He gets put back together by Pym but after a jealous Wonder Man refuses to donate his brainwaves again, is left a white, cold, emotionless shell of the being he once was. Wanda and Vision decide to rejoin the Avengers on the West Coast, where Vision winds up being kidnapped by rogue government agents and dismantled, deleting his memories in the process. However, with the assistance of a Dr Stephen Strange, Wanda is able to leverage her powers to make herself pregnant and gives birth to twins Thomas and William. Inside the relationship, there are more struggles, heightened when the couple discover they can’t have children. In a commentary on cultural prejudices at the time, The Avengers #113 sees an image of Vision and Wanda kissing, aggravating a group of bigoted extremists who attempt to attack Stark Industries and destroy the Vision. Their suburban life leads to conflicts, not least with their new neighbours who protest to having their ‘kind’ living on their doorstep. But it’s not the quiet wedded bliss they’d hoped for. ![]() They briefly retired to seek out a normal existence in the suburbs of New Jersey, documented in two limited series featuring four and 12 issues, both titled Vision and the Scarlet Witch. In 1975, Wanda and Vision got married in Giant-Size Avengers #4, tying the knot in a joint ceremony with Mantis and Swordsman (well, an alien in the form of his body at least but one storied union at a time, please). It’s here where Wanda and Vision start their romance. The red, solar power-absorbing android ends up turning against Ultron and trying out for the Avengers himself. Created by Hank Pym’s rebellious Ultron by combining the brain scan of Wonder Man with the android body of the Human Torch, Vision is manipulated to be a villain in a bid to kill The Avengers, earning his moniker when the Wasp labels him an “unearthly, inhuman Vision”. ![]() Wanda had already joined the Avengers crew (and left and joined again) when Vision made his debut as the super powerful synthezoid with feelings in Avengers #57. Time passes and Wanda and Quicksilver’s motives don’t exactly sit well with that of the Brotherhood, so the reluctant villains ask the Avengers - in a handwritten letter, no less - if they can join their squad. Wanda, unaware of the paternal connection, obliges, feeling she owes Magneto a debt for their rescue. The twins are placed with a Roma gypsy couple Django and Marya Maximoff and after some pretty traumatic events that see the accidental slaying of their adopted mother, they are forced to leave their home town. Wandering through Europe, Wanda is spotted using her powers and chased by an angry mob but Magneto saves and recruits them for his mutant supergroup to go up against the X-Men. Leaving nothing but a note, Magda disappears and the new-borns are left in the care of the midwife cow who calls on her boss, the High Evolutionary, to help. Their mother Magda is said to have fled from Magneto to Wundagore Mountain where she gave birth with the help of an anthropomorphic cow named Bova - comics, ladies and gentlemen. Both Wanda and Quicksilver entered the series as members of the Brotherhood of Mutants under the wing of Magneto, who, depending on who you ask, is revealed to be their father - stay with us, thanks to a lot of retcons, their lineage gets complicated. ![]() She possesses magic abilities, can alter reality and manipulate probabilities to use against her foes. Wanda is a mutant who can tap into the cosmic powers of the universe. For starters, Wanda hasn’t actually been referred to as the red-caped Scarlet Witch yet following her introduction to the MCU with twin brother Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Scarlet Witch aka Wanda Maximoff first appeared in 1964 in Uncanny X-Men #4, and while in film she’s become a key member of the Avengers troupe and therefore, one of the good guys, in the comics, it wasn’t always that way. The characters and their relationship on paper are very different to that which we’ve seen so far on screen. While we decode and speculate the small teases we’ve seen so far on the marriage between mutant and synthetic in Disney+'s imminent MCU series WandaVision, we’re taking a look at the unlikely duo Scarlet Witch and Vision and their often-weird, sometimes sad history in Marvel Comics.
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