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Thanos may have ultimately gotten his just desserts from the whole crew in Avengers:
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Endgame, but he could have tasted defeat at the hands of just one of Earth's Mightiest
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Heroes.
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Chatting with ComicBook.com during San Diego Comic-Con 2019, Marvel Studios president Kevin
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Feige revealed that he believes an Avenger could have defeated Josh Brolin's Mad Titan
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singlehandedly had he not summoned his army to continue fighting in his name.
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The hero who would have whooped Thanos' purple butt in a one-on-one battle?
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None other than Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch, whom Feige said is, quote, "probably
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near the upper echelons of power" when it comes to ranking the heroes of the Marvel
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Cinematic Universe.
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"I contend she would have taken down Thanos if he hadn't called the, uh —" "Oh, she
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had him.
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"Right, he was done."
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Feige isn't the only one who feels Scarlet Witch would have killed Thanos if he hadn't
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started blowing up the battlefield in a desperation move.
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"Rain fire!"
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"But sire!
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Our troops!"
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"Just do it!"
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Avengers: Endgame co-screenwriter Stephen McFeely and co-director Joe Russo are of the
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opinion that she was Thanos' greatest adversary on the battlefield, even sharing their thoughts
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that the Mad Titan had to effectively cheat to beat her.
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As McFeely said during an Endgame commentary track,
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"She's really the biggest threat to Thanos on this field."
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Joe Russo agreed, saying,
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"She is a very powerful character, and he has to in a way, cheat, and sacrifice his
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own armies, just to escape her."
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Russo also added some more context as to where Wanda's powers come from in the MCU, which
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has always been somewhat ambiguous, especially compared to her brother Quicksilver.
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As Maria Hill memorably put it in Age of Ultron,
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"He's fast and she's weird."
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But Joe Russo cleared things up with his Endgame commentary, saying,
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"Wanda's powers have a lot to do with her internal life.
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And there's a growth to the powers and [a] growth of her internal life and her ability
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to harness them, and the emotion and pain caused by Vision's death has caused an acceleration
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of that growth."
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As you may know, Scarlet Witch came into close contact with Thanos at the tail end of Avengers:
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Infinity War, when the intergalactic tyrant was about to extract the Mind Stone from the
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forehead of her lover, the Vision - all as a part of his plan to power the Infinity Gauntlet
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and wipe out half of the universe's population.
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Initially, Scarlet Witch made the difficult choice to pull the Mind Stone out of Vision
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herself, at his request, destroying the powerful gem before Thanos could get his hands on it.
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She was successful, but Thanos used the Time Stone to undo Scarlet Witch's actions and
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snatch the Stone for himself.
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With Vision dead and Thanos' Gauntlet ready for snapping, the Mad Titan carried out his
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dastardly plan and turned Scarlet Witch and billions of other people into space dust.
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Fast forward to the final battle of Avengers: Endgame, when the formerly dusted heroes came
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back to life thanks to Hulk and the Stark Gauntlet, powered by Infinity Stones the team
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collected from the past.
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Scarlet Witch was once again on the side of the living, and her rage over Thanos killing
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Vision was fresh in her mind — even though this Thanos, chronologically, hadn't killed
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the Vision or even met Wanda yet.
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Not that that mattered to her.
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"You took everything from me."
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"I don't even know who you are."
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"You will."
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As soon as Scarlet Witch's powers proved too much for Thanos to take, he called in his
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airstrike, an assault only diverted by the arrival of Captain Marvel, another hero whose
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incredible powers stemmed from contact with an Infinity Stone.
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The fact that Scarlet Witch could have taken down Thanos on her own is intriguing, and
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though Thanos isn't coming back for the MCU's phase 4 - at least, not as far as we know
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- there will be ample opportunities to explore Wanda's powerset.
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She'll appear alongside Vision on the upcoming Disney+ [disney plus] series WandaVision,
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and will be a starring character in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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Both projects will give fans a chance to see Scarlet Witch at the top of her game, hopefully
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channeling the fire and fury seen in Avengers: Endgame.
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If Thanos couldn't handle her, it's hard to guess who will.
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