Marvel fans are asking for a Scarlet Witch movie after Elizabeth Olsen’s ‘What If’ cameo
Fans of Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch are asking Marvel Studios to make a solo film after her brief cameo in What If…? Season 2.
Marvel is set to end 2023 with a bang with the release of the second season of its animated series What If…? for nine consecutive days.
The show follows an alternate timeline of iconic events that have happened or could have happened in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The fifth episode of the season, “What If…Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?” Fans welcomed the return of Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch to their screens, and now they are asking Marvel Studios to create a solo film for Elizabeth Olsen, despite her brief cameo.
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Marvel fans want Olsen to appear on the big screen after brief cameo
Olsen’s Scarlet Witch appears at the end of the third episode, “What If…Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?”, where Peggy Carter/Captain Carter must go toe-to-toe with her former lover Steve Rogers as he now pilots the dangerous Hydra Stomper armor.
At the end of the episode, Captain Carter and Natasha Romanoff find themselves in the presence of the Watcher, the all-seeing eye of the series, who is completely caught off guard when Wanda opens a portal across universes to steal Captain Carter from them.
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Captain Carter lands at the feet of Nick Fury, who asks if she can save their queen, to which Scarlet Witch replies, “What’s more, she can save our world.”
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Although Olsen only spoke one sentence in the series, fans quickly held on to it and began demanding that Marvel Studio finally greenlight a Scarlet Witch solo film, something they’ve been wanting since the premiere of 2021’s WandaVision.
Fans last saw Olsen as Scarlet Witch in 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where she played the film’s main villain, absorbing all the magic to try to get back to her children in another universe.
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At the end of the film, Wanda could be seen being crushed under a pile of rubble, but although Olsen’s cameo was filmed before Doctor Strange 2, there is a huge outcry against her returning to the MCU.
As Marvel Studios expands its Multiverse saga and integrates more characters at the end of Phase 5/beginning of Phase 6, there’s high hope that Olsen will return as everyone’s favorite morally compromised and all-powerful witch, preferably in her own right. film one.
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What if Season 2 is currently streaming on Disney Plus? Check out our cast here and the show’s Christmas episode schedule here.