Normal in every way
Agatha expresses concerns about Thomas and William, the offspring of a mutant and a synthetzoid, shocking Wanda with the revelation that her children disappear when she is not thinking about them (Avengers West Coast # 51). Wanda rejects Agatha’s accusation that the twins are not normal children, refusing to believe that Thomas and William “just cease to exist” when Wanda is concerned.
When Master Pandemonium attacks the Avengers with a horde of demons and kidnaps the twins, the villain reveals that the super-demon Mephisto spread his soul after splitting it into five pieces. When Wonder Man mentions Bewitched – one of the classic sitcoms that influence WandaVision – Enraged Wanda loses control and attacks his fellow Avenger, the Wasp.
Observing from afar is Immortus, one of the identities of Kang the Conqueror.
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A small step beyond illusion
Agatha reveals that Wanda’s children were born out of their desire for a normal home, making them manifestations of Wanda’s will through a combination of magic and its changing powers. Because Vision is a sophisticated machine, Agatha explains, Wanda used her probability-altering powers to enable the couple to start a family – but even Wanda’s immense powers cannot create life (Avengers West Coast # 52).
The Avengers confront Master Pandemonium, who kidnapped the sons of Wanda and Vision to replace the missing pieces in his soul – only to discover that Thomas and William are pieces of Mephisto soul that was once considered destroyed by Franklin Richards (The fantastic four # 277). When the demon reabsorb his lost pieces, restoring his essence at the cost of Wanda losing his children, Agatha defeats Mephisto by erasing the twins from Wanda’s memory.
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As if they never existed
Agatha explains: “Wanda wished her whole life for the kind of normal existence that was forever denied to her by her changing powers. She so desired a family – in her mind the perfect symbol of a happy and peaceful life – that she suffered what a human woman was. a hysterical or imaginary pregnancy. In these cases, there is usually no child to be born … but Wanda’s power to change the odds created Thomas and William. Twins, you see, to double the realization of their dream. Since their power does not can create a real life, she unconsciously reached out to take anything that worked as souls for newborns. What she took, still very weakened by the recent separation, were two of the missing pieces of Mephisto! ”
To save Wanda from the pain of losing her children, Agatha closes that corner of her mind – making the twins “never existed” for Wanda (Avengers West Coast # 52).
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Darker than scarlet
He almost fell into a coma after weeks of turbulence (Avengers West Coast # 53), Agatha cares for an indifferent Wanda when Magneto – Wanda’s mutant supervillain father, a relationship that would be reconnected decades later – takes her away from Earth (Avengers # 313). Wanda’s nervous breakdown becomes a villain when she returns to California and attacks the Avengers (Avengers West Coast # 55).
Trying to reason with his pupil, Agatha tells Wanda that his mind is confused because of recent tragedies. Savoring her new power, Wanda tells the captured Avengers that her ability to alter the odds means she can reshape the universe at will (Avengers West Coast # 56). With just one thought, Wanda can turn your smallest whims into reality.
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From pawn to queen
After going out with Magneto and his twin brother Pietro (Avengers West Coast # 57), Wanda allies with Magneto, despite Quicksilver’s attempt to save her. Immortus continues his conspiracy to rule centuries as the master of time, putting Wanda into a trance during a battle with the Avengers.
Just as Mercury begins to suspect that Magneto was manipulated by someone more powerful than himself, the time traveler reveals himself and takes Wanda as his queen (Avengers West Coast # 60).
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Revelations
Immortus transports the Avengers to Limbo, where he pits Earth’s most powerful heroes against the “zombified” enemies that make up the Legion of the Non-Living to prevent them from interfering in businesses that are “vital to the present day in many realities – including , more especially, this “(Avengers West Coast # 61).
Agatha realized that Immortus was behind Wanda’s misfortunes – his increased powers, his growing alienation from humanity and his nonexistent children – and he is aware that the Earth’s timelines are in danger of falling apart.
Immortus reveals that an omnipotent trio called The Time Keepers – who could enter the MCU in Loki – appointed him as guardian of the flow of time during the time he lived as Kang: from 3,000 BC to 4,000 AD His task: monitoring all time travel for seven millennia while unraveling realities brought about by various Kangs in exchange for total domination by seventy centuries.
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The scarlet witch’s final fate
Finally, Immortus reveals that he has been manipulating Wanda’s life for years because the Scarlet Witch is a Nexus being, who belongs equally to all possible timelines and all realities and disagreements. Through the power of Wanda, all futures can be protected and controlled by Immortus, the self-declared master of time.
Immortus explains that her orchestration of Wanda’s tragedies, and the resulting trauma, would make her susceptible to becoming her powerful and indispensable puppet (Avengers West Coast # 61 and # 62).
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Condemning the Multiverse
Agatha’s astral form attempts to reach Wanda in a trance, which is transformed into a source of living energy for Immortus. Urging her to get rid of the excess power generated by Immortus, Agatha desperately tells Wanda that it will be useless to him without the ability to alter the probabilities of the cosmic timelines. When Wanda’s love for his teammates takes her out of her trance, Immortus curses Agatha for creating new disagreements that he says will “do irreversible damage to countless existing realities” – potentially condemning the entire Multiverse.
While Wanda tries to attract this power back to itself, thus avoiding a cosmic calamity, the Guardians of Time interfere and prevent her from reabsorbing those powers (Avengers West Coast # 62).
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Future Jeopardy
The Timekeepers tell Immortus that their only duty was the final transmutation of a particular Nexus being – the Scarlet Witch – into a source of power. They explain: Immortus would then use that power over the odds to safeguard the main events that I owe occur over a variety of timeframes to ensure a certain future, including one in which Time Keepers have a personal interest (Avengers West Coast # 62).
The trio reveals that Immortus could only use a pre-existing Nexus being, not create one. When Wanda managed to reject his spell power, they were forced to intervene. “If that power could cause chaos between the timelines,” they warn, “all futures would be in danger – including the one where we ourselves came into existence!”
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The greater good
When Immortus reveals that the Time Guardians never told him exactly what future he was protecting, they tell the Avengers that his altruistic actions were for “the greater good of the cosmos.”
“If we cease to exist because of dirty timelines, the loss to the Multiverse would be profound,” say the Guardians of Time, who send the mutant energy expelled by the Scarlet Witch to Immortus. They condemn him to an immobile existence in limbo, transformed into the same vessel of all-powerful energy that he intended Wanda to be, and Wanda returns to the Avengers (Avengers West Coast # 62).
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