Tom Hiddleston And Elizabeth Olsen Discuss Loki vs Scarlet Witch

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I'm actually more curious to see if Scarlet Witch uses her mind-bending powers AT ALL in Civil War. After Age of Ultron, that'd be kind of redundant and it could easily turn into an overused, cheap plot device.

I'd bet she won't use those particular skills anymore - hopefully Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely came up with a good character reason/motivation for why she'd want to stay away from that. Maybe she's guilty for letting Hulk loose on Johannesburg, or she's still reeling from Quicksilver's death and it all just leads to her going crazy.

Dammit, I just really want to see Civil War already.

I was extremely disappointed with the depiction of Wanda's powers in AoU.
She seemed to be able to do whatever the plot demanded from her, her powers were just under defined.

I was hoping they'd go back to basics and give her Probability Manipulation (at least to start with)
That would've been so cool and a better way to mess with the Avengers heads by turning their powers and abilities against them instead of the more obvious plot device of her just being able to reveal their deepest fears? So she's the boogeyman? I don't know it just felt poor to me, and no doubt she'll never use that power again.

I'm still confused on how they're handling Wanda's power set.

They made a huge mistake not making them Inhumans.
The Mind gem giving them their powers was just weird, it gave Wanda mind powers but Pietro speed? And made Wanda all powerful.
At least with the Terrigan mist it's a sort of random selection.

I want to see what kind of hand to hand fighting skills she can do

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I still don't understand why they didn't do it.
We know an Inhumans movie is coming (well, they've been super quiet on that front...), and so to plant the seeds for that now would've been perfect to revisit, and Wanda and Pietro being the bridge between Avengers and Inhumans, it's obvious but it's logical and it's not even obvious to those who aren't familiar with the comics. What was Whedon thinking.

They're about to do "battle" in the backseat of a limo!

cherrybomb- dont get me wrong tho she and her powers could have been handled better

Interesting thought... that Witch reads Loki's mind and finds something that levels us.

Whedon loves to strip power off characters... he doesn't like super powerful beings and has voiced it often. But that's only a matter of working the script properly. His Thor is pathetic.

The AOU producers said in a behind the scenes featurette that her powers are reminiscent of the aether energy and asgardian magic for a reason. Said her powers will continue to grow.

MY THEORY: is that Loki altered the scepter a bit to dispense accurate energy bursts. This is may be tied to Asgardian energy or magic. He used the energy of the mind stone and shifted it into offensive capabilities. I also think Strucker used the mind stone to open up the vast possibilities of the human mind thus unearthing powers within Scarlet Witch (her mind can move objects and harness the energy of the scepter etc.) and QS. The stone openeid up latent abilities; what humanity is capable of evolving into. The Scepter was then used in various HYDRA experiments, and other capabilities such as mind control, astral and energy projection were unearthed.The Mind Stone forces individuals to succumb to the holder’s will by altering their perception, as well as firing blasts of energy. Scarlet Witch literally inherited the power of the mind stone, just a different colored energy (similar to the aether, i assume all the stones are connected somewhat). The staff giving Pietro powers doesn't really explain Quicksilver's speed...my best theory is that Strucker messed with some experiments with speed and then coupled it with the gems ability to open the minds possibilities allowing Pietro's mind to use an advanced intuitive aptitude, to deduce how to make his brain activate his body to move at great speeds and how to use it. ...or the mind gem allowed the people experimenting on them to make breakthroughs in human enhancement by enhancing Strucker and his crews intelligence. QS runs with a blue streak...maybe thats a connection to the scepter energy. You can tell the visual similarities by comparing footage of the two in action. Though, Wanda’s magic also takes similar cues from the Tesseract, Aether, and Orb. There is some evidence -- inconclusive but compelling -- that the twins had latent powers, and that may be why they survived the experiments. The comic prelude to Age of Ultron includes some dialogue between the twins and List, describing the experiments. He uses the term "unlock" to describe the process of enhancing the twins with powers. Whether he was literally talking about bringing out latent abilities, idk. “The fact that you are twins will make the results of this test all the more valuable for my research. Who’s to know what kind of abilities the scepter will unlock in the two of you”. That may also be why they survived.



Wanda seems to have a close connection to the power of the stones. I think Wanda's connection to the stones will play a LARGE part in the future of the MCU. If Wanda's energy is related to the AETHER, that would open up her reality warping powers as the Aether is the Reality Stone.



Its one big mind[frick] haha.