A brand new Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) timeline e book has reignited the controversy over whether or not Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch is alive or lifeless after the occasions of Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity.
The brand new e book, Marvel Studios’ The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline, particulars the chronology of the MCU, together with Scarlet Witch’s showdown at Mount Wundagore. Per Culture Crave, it reads: “[Wanda] destroys Wundagore โ and collapses it upon herself โ ending two nice threats to the entire Multiverse.”
The final time we noticed the Scarlet Witch, she destroyed the Darkhold and introduced down Wundagore Mountain on high of her in what seemed to be a redemptive demise. However there was a touch of purple misty power below the rocks, leaving the slightest of prospects that Earth-616’s Wanda is just not actually lifeless and can return.
Some folks have taken the road of textual content within the new Marvel e book as official affirmation that Scarlet Witch sacrificed herself in the course of the act and is now deceased. Others have interpreted it as placing an finish to the menace that Scarlet Witch posed quite than the character assembly her demise due to the incident.
h/t @scotthoqe pic.twitter.com/nBrYY7h0Py
โ Tradition Crave ๐ฟ (@CultureCrave) October 25, 2023
Image is included. Itโs confirmed pic.twitter.com/VrdFo71EN1
โ Tradition Crave ๐ฟ (@CultureCrave) October 26, 2023
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, is lifeless. pic.twitter.com/GuEhilCOm6
โ Chief Mackenzie Bock (@GothamChief) October 25, 2023
They killed one of the vital highly effective mfs within the mcu like this? Wild
โ Drained (@_D0NTC4RE_) October 26, 2023
They will discover a solution to deliver her again. They know followers love Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch
โ Display screen Wizard ๐งโโ๏ธ (@screenwizardz) October 26, 2023
Technically, this does not imply she’s lifeless.
It simply means she’s now not a menace to the multiverse.
She overcame her corruption by the Darkhold and destroyed the unique Darkhold engravings.
No extra menace.
That is why the Scarlet Witch prophecy can go two methods. https://t.co/G4C5QEm9jV
โ MT (@MasterTainment) October 25, 2023
Even when she’s really lifeless, Scarlet Witch can resurrect herself. pic.twitter.com/pv9RuCsI0w
โ Scarlet Witch Updates (@ScarletWitchUpd) October 25, 2023
Thereโs no approach sheโs really lifeless. We didnโt see a physique!
โ Idris Elijah (@theidriselijah) October 25, 2023
Till pic.twitter.com/RKXQ1TQhdk
โ Charlie (@rcweston) October 25, 2023
Whereas the e book contains the “main character dies” image alongside the timeline entry, Reddit discussions had been shrouded unsure. “She is lifeless till/if the writers determine she now not must be,” one person commented, as another added: “Even when they’d present us a bloody corpse, I would nonetheless be like ‘She’s gonna come again’.”
A 3rd individual chimed in on the debate: “You’d assume Marvel would not assume so little of us. They very rigorously failed to say Wanda’s identify in relation to who really dies.” Someone else said: “Hate to interrupt it to you, however regardless of how ‘official’ the timeline is, Marvel would by no means permit supplemental supplies to spoil future plans.”
Olsen beforehand hinted that she might return to the MCU and needs redemption for Scarlet Witch, tapping into the extra humourous facet of her character. Agatha: Darkhold Diaries is maybe the almost definitely undertaking that would deliver her again, however she might additionally return in Imaginative and prescient Quest, one other reported WandaVision spinoff.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline hit cabinets on October 24, with each the Kindle and Hardback format variations available to purchase on Amazon. Within the meantime, IGN has a complete information to watching all of the Marvel motion pictures in chronological order that ought to assist to fill in any gaps in your data main as much as the following MCU Section 5 movie, The Marvels, releasing in theaters on November 10.
Adele Ankers-Vary is a contract leisure author for IGN. You may comply with her on X @AdeleAnkers.