Warning: Spoilers for The Avengers #19!Doctor Doom’s assessment of the Scarlet Witch suggests that the Avengers member has officially fulfilled his redemption arc. The famous M’s House the plot has always been framed as Scarlet Witch’s biggest mistake and one that she spent years trying to make up for. Now, however, it appears that Scarlet Witch has finally been redeemed.
The Avengers #19 by Jed MacKay, Farid Karami, Federico Blee and Cory Petit sees Scarlet Witch alongside the Avengers confronting her former lover, Doctor Doom. Now that he has been anointed as the new Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Doom assesses how the Avengers use their power and at the same time declares that his future wife is “the hero for the desperate”, and the one who is “finally exercising the power she keeps under control, without fear of damaging the false fabric of the world.”
Such a definitive exploration of Wanda confirms that she has finally atoned for her sins.
What does Scarlet Witch need to make up for?
She changed the Marvel universe forever
The unfolding of Scarlet Witch begins for the first time in Avengers disassembledwhile Wanda Maximoff uses her abilities against her fellow Avengers. Her increasingly troubled mind forces Wanda to use her influence to make her Avengers teammates do catastrophic things, like convincing She-Hulk to attack the Avengers. Scarlet Witch also manages to summon a Kree fleet that not only causes certain destruction, but results in Hawkeye’s death. This forced Scarlet Witch into the care of her father, Magneto (who has since no longer been her biological father, but that’s another story), setting the stage for M’s House.
In M’s HouseMagneto feared the worst for his daughter as his X-Men and Avengers friends tried to figure out how to deal with Scarlet Witch’s reality-bending powers. Some of the heroes even consider killing Wanda, putting Magneto and his brother Quicksilver in danger with that possibility. In the case of the latter, he manipulates Wanda into using her powers to create an alternate reality where mutants are the majority of Earth’s population. He also suggests transforming your family into a monarch of greater power.
When the Avengers and the other heroes discover Wanda’s meddling (largely thanks to Wolverine being immune to his magic), they all confront the House of Magnus. Stressed and distraught because her children never existed, Scarlet Witch does the only sensible thing she can think of to do: pronounce the words: “No more mutants.” That said, the world is back to normal, but with drastic changes. Not only does Wanda manage to revive Hawkeye, but she also inexplicably reduces the world’s mutant population by millions, reducing the multimillion-dollar race to hundreds, as many mutants suddenly lose their powers.
Scarlet Witch has been rescued (according to Doctor Doom)
She really was redeemed
At the conclusion of the summer “Blood Hunt” story arc, which placed the Marvel Universe under the unruly decay of a vampire invasion apparently led by Blade (but it was actually pop culture’s first vampire, Varnae, possessing him), Doctor Doom appears as the Avengers. ‘last hope. A dead Doctor Strange who became the greatest vampire hunter reluctantly gives up his mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to Doctor Doom, who uses his new power to save the world. Still retaining this power, Doom puts the Avengers on trial.
Doctor Doom openly questions why the Avengers haven’t used their power to make the world a better place to live, but he takes the opportunity to judge each of the Avengers as individuals. He evokes Iron Man’s first vice, war, but he could conquer world war. He praises and distinguishes the two captains of the Avengers, Marvel and America, and then addresses Wanda. The nickname he gives her is indicative of the journey Scarlet Witch has taken and endured to right these wrongs.. Needless to say, these errors have finally been fixed.
Breaking down Doctor Doom’s words and Scarlet Witch’s redemption
Her presence in the Avengers proves she is a hero
Scarlet Witch’s redemption arc begins largely in the often forgotten and criminally underrated Children’s Crusadethe sequel to the Young Avengers M’s House where Wanda disappears following House of M. She ends up debilitated with amnesia on Doctor Doom’s doorstep. She almost married Doom until she met the Young Avengers, specifically his twin sons, Speed ​​and Wiccan. After trying tremendously to reverse the damage he caused with his declaration “No more mutants” before declaring that he wants set out on his own path in an attempt to discover his identity outside of his family.
She began trying to gain the trust of her fellow heroes again, while trying to prove that she deserved to be a hero. Her new self-titled series and her recent reintroduction into the Avengers through Captain Marvel have proven that she has redeemed herself. Doctor Doom is merely acknowledging the hard work on his path to heroism that has been evident, suggesting the rest of the Marvel Universe is also taking notice. It took two decades to Scarlet Witch feel totally redeemed, but the Avengers and Doctor Doom noticed.
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