![]() Her subsequent journey has been anything but plain sailing, however – even though she fell in love with the Avengers’ resident Synthezoid. Pietro died in the fight, sacrificing himself to save Hawkeye and a child he was protecting.ĭespite her brother’s passing, Wanda became a full member of the Avengers. They ended up fighting alongside the Avengers at the Battle of Sokovia, taking on Ultron’s army of mechanical Sentries. Eventually they realized that Ultron’s real plan went way beyond bumping off Stark, Captain America, Black Widow and the rest – he wanted to wipe out all of humanity. After von Strucker was taken into custody, rogue AI Ultron capitalized on the twins’ hatred of their common enemy, Stark, and recruited them to his cause – reasoning that Wanda could tear the Avengers apart “from the inside”. They initially fought for HYDRA in Avengers: Age of Ultron, defending von Strucker’s Sokovian research facility when it was stormed by the Avengers. While many of von Strucker’s ‘volunteers’ died, the Maximoff siblings ended up with superpowers: Wanda picked up various telekinetic and telepathic abilities (usually signified by a characteristic red glow), while Pietro gained the ability to run really, really fast. ![]() HYDRA commander Baron von Strucker took advantage of the twins’ anti-Stark feelings to enlist them as test subjects for top secret experiments involving the Mind Stone – the Infinity Stone housed in Loki’s Scepter, that would later be used to power Vision. ![]() Some of the artillery used was manufactured by Stark Industries, which seeded a burning hatred of Tony Stark (Iron Man). When they were 10 years old, their parents were killed in a bombing raid on their apartment building. The siblings grew up in the Eastern European country of Sokovia.
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