Elizabeth Olsen says she hopes to one day get to explore the mutant side of her Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In the comics, her character is one of the most powerful mutants. Yet the MCU has yet to introduce the X-Men proper and has only barely hinted at mutants with one vague reference in “WandaVision,” a more direct one in “Ms. Marvel,” and Patrick Stewart’s Professor X cameo.
Despite her character’s seemingly being crushed by a falling temple in last year’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” many believe that’s not the end of Wanda.
Appearing at the TJH Superhero Car Show & Comic Con this week, Olsen was asked where she would like to see her character go in the future to which she quickly responded saying:
“Oh gosh, I just want to figure out the whole Mutant thing. Like, that’s really… and none of us can do anything about it. Like, we can’t do anything about it. We’re not X-Men, but gosh. I just would love to explore that so much. I think, X-Men was definitely my first experience with superhero-type films.”
The closest Wanda’s come to the X-Men has been Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness who says that Maximoff’s proximity to the infinity stone in Vision’s forehead ‘amplified’ something that was already inside of her.
Marvel Studios will tease another X-Men connection with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine to show up in next year’s “Deadpool 3” in some form. How and when the MCU’s version of X-Men will officially appear is not yet clear,.
Source: XMen Update
