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Scarlet Witch (Life Force)

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S+ / Bracket 10 / Marvel / Partly mapped
SW Scarlet Witch (Life Force)
Ranked#51
Rank
#51of 783
Rating
3,625pts
Win rate
95%
Record
715W / 36L
Kill reach
5/10
Still being built

This character hasn't been fully mapped yet, so treat what's below as a work in progress rather than a finished verdict — abilities still being mapped, no written profile. Ratings and abilities change as data is added.

Rating is a score, not a position — it rises by beating strong opponents and barely moves for beating weak ones.

Engine verdict · closest matchups, resolved just now
Physical
Strength
0
Speed
3
Durability
9
Energy
8
Intelligence
5
Combat
8
Win conditions
Reality
9
Erasure
0
Immortality
8
Control
0
Untouchable
0
Authority
0
On the page
Logged encounters, feats and notes are in the Canon record.
Canon record · encounters, feats and notes

These entries record encounters, feats and other events from the character's stories. Read each outcome with its version, sources and condition tags. Arena verdicts use the selected versions and matchup rules; a story result does not determine an arena result. This panel is for reference and does not feed the engine. The record is still being expanded.

Contains story spoilers.

Feat / note
Avengers Disassembled — Jack of Hearts explosionAvengers (1963) #500 (Sep 2004)

The decaying, animated corpse of Jack of Hearts says “I’m sorry” and explodes, destroying the backcourt and much of the Mansion; Scott Lang is killed.

Feat / note
Avengers Disassembled — Vision and She-HulkAvengers (1963) #500 (Sep 2004)

A Quinjet piloted by the Vision crashes into the Mansion; no longer in control of his body, he expels five Ultrons. She-Hulk, enraged by Scott’s death, tears the Vision in half and attacks her teammates, leaving Captain America unconscious.

Feat / note
Avengers Disassembled — Kree armadaAvengers (1963) #502 (Nov 2004)

A Kree fleet attacks the burning Mansion. Hawkeye, his quiver set on fire by a blast, seizes a Kree jetpack and flies into the warship’s engine; the ship explodes and Hawkeye dies. Strange then says “The magics are being abused.”

Loss
v Avengers and Doctor StrangeAvengers (1963) #503 (Dec 2004)

After defeating Dormammu, Strange summons the Eye of Agamotto; its light blinds Wanda, she falls from the sky and her conjurations end. Strange says she is alive but “gone”, and tells the team “there is not such thing as Chaos Magic!”

3 logged exchanges
  1. Avengers (1963) #503 (Dec 2004)Found living an illusory family life at Agatha Harkness’s manor, Wanda conjures the Red Skull and armed Nazis to shoot at Captain America, while duplicates and monsters (Ultron, a feral Wolverine, Rogue, the Hulk, Spider-Man clones and others) attack the team. plot summary checked MightyAvengers: Avengers #503
  2. Avengers (1963) #503 (Dec 2004)Wanda summons Dormammu to fight Strange; Strange defeats it. plot summary checked MightyAvengers: Avengers #503
  3. Avengers (1963) #503 (Dec 2004)After defeating Dormammu, Strange summons the Eye of Agamotto; its light blinds Wanda, she falls from the sky and her conjurations end. Strange says she is alive but “gone”, and tells the team “there is not such thing as Chaos Magic!” plot summary checked Avengers Disassembled — Wikipedia MightyAvengers: Avengers #503
Feat / note
Avengers Disassembled — aftermathAvengers (1963) #503 (Dec 2004)

Fury’s agents find Agatha’s badly decomposed body at the manor (“Long time,” says Fury), so the Agatha Wanda had been living with was not the living Agatha. Magneto arrives, says “Give me my daughter,” and Captain America hands her over.

Evidence checked: plot summary checked MightyAvengers: Avengers #503
Feat / note
House of M — the reality warpHouse of M (2005) #1 (Aug 2005); new world shown from #1–2

HEADLINE LIFE FORCE FEAT. After the heroes debate killing her and Pietro warns Magneto, Wanda transforms reality: at the end of #1 “reality changes”, and the world becomes the House of M, with the heroes’ lives and memories rewritten.

Evidence checked: plot summary checked House of M — Wikipedia UncannyXmen: House of M #1
Feat / note
House of M — Genosha, before the warpHouse of M (2005) #1 (Aug 2005)

Xavier forces Wanda to undo the twin sons she has reshaped reality to create, and has been psionically putting her to sleep after each episode, but the method is failing.

Statement; speaker not identified; not a demonstration

Evidence checked: plot summary checked UncannyXmen: House of M #1
Win
v HawkeyeHouse of M (2005) #7 (Nov 2005)

Hawkeye shoots Wanda in the back with an arrow; she destroys a second arrow block by block; one of her twins then blows Hawkeye apart into building-block fragments.

Evidence checked: plot summary checked House of M — Wikipedia UncannyXmen: House of M #7
Win
v MagnetoHouse of M (2005) #7 (Nov 2005)

Magneto kills Pietro by crushing him with Sentinel remains. Wanda destroys her tower, incapacitates Magneto, temporarily strips his powers and frees the heroes from their metal casings; when he tells her to stop, she erases his mouth. She then heals Pietro’s body.

Evidence checked: plot summary checked House of M — Wikipedia UncannyXmen: House of M #7
Feat / note
House of M — “No more mutants”House of M (2005) #7 (Nov 2005); outcome #8 (Dec 2005)

HEADLINE LIFE FORCE FEAT. Wanda cries “No more mutants”; a white light consumes the world, reality returns without the House of M, and most mutants lose their powers. In #8 Emma’s Cerebra scan finds “barely hundreds of mutants left, when there used to be around a million.”

Feat / note
House of M — aftermathHouse of M (2005) #8 (Dec 2005)

Neither Emma’s Cerebra scan nor Strange’s magic can find Wanda; the issue ends with her content in a remote eastern European village.

Evidence checked: plot summary checked UncannyXmen: House of M #8
Feat / note
Children’s Crusade — return to the Disassembled dayAvengers: The Children’s Crusade #5 (Jun 2011)

Iron Lad takes the team through the Time Stream to the day Wanda revived Jack of Hearts, and Jack explodes. The issue ends with Wanda back in costume, powers active, declaring she remembers everything. #6 shows Scott Lang alive, and its story notes credit Wanda with resurrecting him in #5.

Feat / note
Children’s Crusade — RictorAvengers: The Children’s Crusade #6 (2011)

Despite Shatterstar’s protests Wanda uses her power on Rictor; after a massive rumbling he announces “My powers are back!” She also uses her power on Wiccan and confirms he is her son.

Feat / note
Children’s Crusade — Mansion standoffAvengers: The Children’s Crusade #7 (Nov 2011)

Wanda stops the fight with hex energy, knocking out both teams including Magneto (“If they’re going to act like children, I thought it best they have a nap”), then teleports herself and the Young Avengers to Latveria.

Evidence checked: plot summary checked MightyAvengers: Children’s Crusade #7
Feat / note
Children’s Crusade — Life Force transferAvengers: The Children’s Crusade #7 (Nov 2011)

Wanda, Wiccan and Doom join hands to restore the depowered mutants. Patriot fires an incendiary arrow to stall the spell and it hits Wanda instead. She survives but says the life force is gone; Doom floats above them, restored and glowing: “VICTOR is here.”

Loss
v Emma FrostAvengers: The Children’s Crusade #8 (Jan 2012)

Emma steps in as Wanda’s team tries to protect her and Wanda collapses unconscious; Emma says she has taken Wanda “off the grid” so she can no longer alter reality, then reads her mind and confirms she has lost her power.

Fought weakened
Win · team encounter
v Doctor Doom (holding the Life Force)Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #8 (Jan 2012)

Wanda tells Wiccan that magic has a price; together they open the portal to the power’s source. Doom absorbs it, is overwhelmed and burns, reverts to his true form, claims he orchestrated Disassembled and House of M using Wanda as a “nexus creature”, and teleports away.

Decisive action: Wanda and Wiccan, opening the portal to the power's source · Scarlet Witch’s part: opened the portal with Wiccan
Help: Avengers, X-Men and others had already engaged Doom

Had help
Feat / note
Children’s Crusade — aftermath (end of form)Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #9 (May 2012)

Wanda declines Captain America’s offer to rejoin the Avengers and Magneto’s and Quicksilver’s invitations, and comforts her sons and friends. She no longer has the power to undo the Decimation.

Feat / note
Wanda rewrote reality into the House of M world, where mutants ruled and almost no one remembered the old oneHouse of M #1–2 (2005) for the feat; Avengers: The Children's Crusade #7 for the later ex…

Facing a debate over whether she should be killed, Wanda transformed reality into a world where mutants were the ruling class under Magneto's House of M; most heroes lost all memory of their real lives, and only Wolverine remembered until Layla Miller restored others. Conditions: Prompted by Pietro…

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Abilities · rated 0–10
chaos control9 reality warping9 battlefield control8 existential anchor8 magic8 combat reflexes3
Weaknesses · what an opponent can use
psychological manipulationmajor
Background

Life Force power — rewrote all of mutant reality

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