AVENGERS: ENDGAME Was Originally Supposed To Have Scarlet Witch Stay Un-Snapped And Alive

AVENGERS: ENDGAME Was Originally Supposed To Have Scarlet Witch Stay Un-Snapped And Alive

There must've been dozens of different storyline ideas for Endgame before the final product came to play. This one here would've been interesting, because it would change the ending of Infinity War too...

By KWilly - Oct 28, 2019 03:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Endgame
Scarlet Witch was one of the highlights of the final battle in Avengers: Endgame, taking on Thanos with all her might and then some. However, she was barely in the movie since she was snapped away in the end of Avengers: Infinity War. Now it seems that wasn't always going to be the case. 

Avengers co-writer Christopher Markus spoke to Cinema Blend, saying they originally were going to have her stay alive. 

We had a moment where [Scarlet Witch] looked at his body in a drawer, and it was mainly just maudlin. It was also frankly from a draft where she hadn’t been blipped. Because we had a draft where she survived and was a character in Endgame. The problem was she’d gotten so much mileage and story in the first movie that she didn’t really have anything that equaled that in the second. So it was a step down.

The process of deciding which characters to kill off and keep alive must have been one interesting day at the writing room. Looks like Scarlet Witch was almost one of the lucky ones. Back in July, Markus also said more insight on what could've been. 

“There weren’t terribly outrageous [plot lines], there were a lot more boring ones,” Markus said during San Diego Comic-Con earlier this summer. “You can go to the Triskellion; it’s a building.

There was an iteration where Wanda was alive, she hadn’t been blipped. Wanda and Rocket drove a car from the Triskellion to Doctor Strange’s house, then used the doorway to go to Kamar Taj and get [the Stone]. It was like, ‘Really? We’re putting in a cross, inter-state car journey in this fast-paced action movie?' And then wiser heads prevailed.”

A road trip of Rocket and Scarlet Witch does sound enticing, to be fair. However, both Markus and his co-writer Stephen McFeely ultimately made the right choice, considering how good both movies were. 

What are your thoughts on this? Would you have preferred they kept this? Leave your thoughts down below. 

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Vigor
Vigor - 10/28/2019, 4:25 PM
Good choices made here. The witch will get her spotlight and more with her show, strange 2 and when she gets sick n tired of them damn mutants
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 10/28/2019, 4:30 PM
@Vigor - that would be pretty epic if she does that , because at this point she's leaning towards needing to be checked ..... it's implied she'll give Captain Marvel problems smh
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 10/28/2019, 4:32 PM
Glad she bit the dust temporarily. Elizabeth is easy on the eyes, but she is not impressive in the acting department. Her terrible Eastern European accent is not convincing either. And although not her fault, her costume is so lacking that I don't ever think this is my beloved Scarlet Witch from the Byrne- and Perez-era Avengers comic run.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 10/28/2019, 4:34 PM
The more Lizzie, the better!

Nebula
Nebula - 10/28/2019, 4:37 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - Absolutely. One of the reasons I'm really looking forward to WandaVision.

HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 10/28/2019, 4:39 PM
@Nebula - me too bro, me too! Also, I think we have the same page bookmarked... ;-P
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 10/28/2019, 4:45 PM
I won’t ever say no to more Scarlet Witch.
LeonNova
LeonNova - 10/28/2019, 4:51 PM
Final version of the film turned out great, Wanda & Rocket on a road trip would make for an interesting one-shot though lol
Shroombeast
Shroombeast - 10/28/2019, 5:40 PM
Rocket Racoon on a road trip? I'd pay to see that.
ArchieLeach
ArchieLeach - 10/29/2019, 2:21 AM
Scarlet Witch and Doctor Strange are my two favorite characters in the MCU, but as much as I love them both, I think having Wanda Maximoff survive the snap in ‘Avengers:Infinity War’ would have been a mistake, mainly because she some character moments that are so powerful and emotionally impactful, especially toward the end of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ in her final scenes with Vision, that I don’t think that she could’ve had any comparable scenes in ‘Avengers: Endgame’, but by having her vanish from the Snap and then return after Bruce Banner does his Snap, she ends up having one of the most rivetting and exhilarating scenes during the final battle when, her powers seemingly amplified by her rage toward Thanos, that she nearly single-handedly defeats him. I prefer it the way it was done.
MiZeatWizad
MiZeatWizad - 10/29/2019, 7:37 AM
Her moment with Thanos was one of my favorite scenes, right behind Captain America with Mjolnir.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 10/29/2019, 4:30 PM
They should have left Groot unsnapped. And in the 5 year time jump allow him to have grown back into the older Groot.
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