UltimateScarletWitch said:
Lol. "Easily beaten" rarely produce an interesting story.
But I've got to disagree here. If Wanda could do half of what Proteus did in his short rampage, there wouldn't be much need to send anyone else on any Ultimate Mission.
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I don't read anything Marvel that isn't Ultimate Universe (But I read everything UU). So I don't know much about 616 Wanda. But I'm gonna go on a limb and say that the restrictions to Ultimate Wanda's powers are as follow :
1 - Mass : She can only affect so much. She was shown to be worried at having to dispose of all those missiles so we can assume that she was strecthing her abilities and this is close to her maximum.
2 - Targeting : She's not like Xavier or Magneto. She seems to need to target a beam of "probability energy" (look, I'm making this up as I go along, okay) like Cyclops or Havok. And therefore she needs to hit the target to affect it. That's a serious limitation because some opponents are a lot harder to target than others.
I'm guessing that a match up like Scarlet Witch VS Spider man would go badly for wanda because Spider-Man is notoriously hard to tag with any ranged attack, for example. Idem for her brother. Scarlet Witch VS Blob or Juggernaut ought to be fairly easy for Wanda on the other hand.
As an addendum, I think she needs to point at the target with her hand to fire off her power. I've never seen her affecting anything any other way. That means grabbing her arms like Colossus did in UXM 64 is an effective way to counter her.
3 - Charging up: This is less solid, but we've seen hints that she can't whip up her beam at the speed of tought. She is often drawn first gathering energies and then releasing them, such as in the 4th page of UXM 62 (Same page from which our Scarlet poster above takes her very nice signature, btw).
It could also be argued that Havok outdrew her in last issue for example. We see her gathering energies but Havok blast her before she releases. Of course, with Colosssus holding her, this is hardly definitive proof.
4 - Duration : We have hints that her ability to transform something isn't a permenant effect. Fury, on page 5 of UXM 62 says he will pick wanda and longshot "before the Hex wears off"
So she can moves stuff around (including herself) and transform it but the later is probably not permanent. I don't think she can destroy stuff, just alter its state.
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If most of those restrictions hold, this would explain why she didn't do much while fighting Thor. From a long distance it's hard to tag a moving target with a power that needs charging up while dozens of friendlies are moving in and out of the line of fire. And if she got closer for a better shot, well Thor seemed mighty good with these lightnings bolt. If he can tag Quicksilver, he can tag Scarlet Witch anytime she gets too close for confort.
Still a very powerful character, but not out of control.
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