Warning! This article contains spoilers for Captain Marvel #39
Especially after seeing her recent Scarlet Witch in both the movies and the comic books alike–though in one of her most recent Marvel Comics appearances, Scarlet Witch receives some gruesome karma. In fact, she suffers the same fate as the victim of her most brutal MCU kill.
Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlet Witch) made her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the post-credit scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and made her first full appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron. While initially a villain controlled by Hydra and then aligned with Ultron, Scarlet Witch proved her heroism and ed the Avengers to take down Ultron, effectively becoming an Avenger herself. However, Black Bolt used his Inhuman power to obliterate Wanda with a mere whisper, Scarlet Witch rewrites the reality of his face and erases his mouth altogether, resulting in one of the most gnarly deaths in the MCU to date.
In Captain Marvel #39 by Kelly Thompson, Juan Frigeri, and Álvaro López, Carol Danvers is brought before a council of powerful magic s for her crimes against one particular sorcerer. In a previous issue, Captain Marvel tricked the son of Enchantress and Namor, a villain named Ove, into drinking a mystical substance that cuts off a magic ’s access to the mystic arts. While a number of sorcerers are calling for Captain Marvel’s head for her crime, Scarlet Witch is actually advocating for Carol, though she isn’t given the opportunity to be of much help. When Scarlet Witch tries to talk to her ‘client,’ the lead judge of this trial, Agatha Harkness, uses a spell to zip Wanda’s mouth shut before she can utter another word.
While the Marvel Comics’ version of Scarlet Witch is in no way responsible for the crimes committed by her MCU counterpart, this issue shows Wanda getting a taste of her own medicine nonetheless. Even though she wasn’t killed as a result of having her mouth closed by magic, Scarlet Witch is forced to endure the horror she inflicted on Black Bolt in that her mouth was sealed shut against her will, and she was powerless to stop it.
It is also worth noting that in this issue, Scarlet Witch has her mouth magically sewn shut by Agatha Harkness who also has a bone to pick with Wanda in the MCU. In the WandaVision finale, Scarlet Witch trapped Agatha in a prison of her own mind and forced her to remain in the town the series took place in. In this issue of Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch is on the receiving end of some hardcore payback. On two separate fronts she suffers the same horrifying fate as MCU’s Black Bolt and Agatha—Scarlet Witch's greatest MCU rival—employs this payback. However, despite who did it to her, Scarlet Witch received the ultimate payback by suffering her most brutal MCU kill in the comics.
Captain Marvel #39 is available now from Marvel Comics.
