Scarlet Witch’smysterious apprentice finallymakes her full debut, but the details provided about her backstory are less than informative, and the limited facts make her even creepier.She has no memories of where she comes from or who she is. The man that found her and took her in was driven mad as he tried to help her, andeven Agatha Harkness was afraid of her.
In the preview forScarlet Witch(2024)#6– written by Steve Orlando, with art by Lorenzo Tammetta – Agatha Harkness brings a student to Wanda Maximoff’s Emporium. Wanda is cautious, and struggles to take Agatha at her word, but Agatha assures her this isnt a trick.
Wanda’s new student, Amaranth, explains her backstory: she doesn’t know what her real name is, or where she comes from, and insists she doesn’t want to be a burden. Wanda assures her she’s not, and offers to use a spell to try and restore some of Amaranth’s memories.
Agatha Harkness' Fear Of Amaranth Should Make Wanda Maximoff Extra Cautious With Her New Protégé
Scarlet Witch#6– Written By Steve Orlando; Art By Lorenzo Tammetta; Color By Frank William; Lettering By Ariana Maher
Amaranth first appeared on the cover ofScarlet Witch (2023)#9as part of the New Champions cover series, which was meant to celebrate the new character Spider-Boy by creating alternate universe sidekicks for some of Marvel’s major heroes. The New Champions characters have slowly been debuting across Marvel’s various titles, includingUltimate X-Men,Spider-Woman,and Robbie Reyes' Ghost Rider Special, before their eventual team-up inNew Champions (2025)#1.Amaranth, Scarlet Witch’s apprentice, makes her first full appearance inScarlet Witch (2024)#6as she begins her training with Wanda Maximoff.
Amaranth says Agatha was smart to be afraid, but Wanda claims that she is not, even if that makes her a fool.
Amaranth’s explanation of how she ended up in Wanda Maximoff’s Emporium is unsettling, to say the least. She was found with no memory at ten years old, by a man who raised her as her father. The man was a celebrated psychiatrist, but Amaranth caused him to go mad. Amaranth ran away and found Agatha Harkness, who saved her life, but feared her, so after a month, shepawned her off to Scarlet Witch. Amaranth says Agatha was smart to be afraid, but Wanda claims that she is not, even if that makes her a fool.
Scarlet Witch’s Amaranth Has The Potential To Become A Powerful Villain If Her Hero Training Goes Wrong
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Agatha Harkness trained both Scarlet Witch, and Franklin Richards, a powerful reality-warper – yet she fears Amaranth, when she did not fear them. This could mean Amaranth’s power surpasses her own, as well as that of Wanda Maximoff and Richards. Further, Amaranth is slated to join the New Champions, but not all the New Champions will be heroes; some of them are teased to become villains. With Amaranth’s traumatic past, plus any dark events she faces before joining the team, especially if Scarlet Witch fails to help her, Amaranth could become the New Champions' powerful first villain.
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Wanda claims she may be a fool for not heeding Agatha’s warnings about Amaranth, and as the currentScarlet Witchseries progresses – and Amaranth’s past slowly becomes revealed – she could be proven to be tragically wrong in this case; perhaps Wanda will find outwhy Amaranth is so powerful, though the Marvel Universe can only hope that happens before it is too late. As Amaranth joins the New Champions, her dark powers,more powerful than theScarlet Witch’s,could make a formidable threat, and would be a mega-powerful villain, or an iconic hero.
Scarlet Witch#6isavailable now from Marvel Comics.
Scarlet Witch
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the Scarlet Witch debuted, along with her twin brother, Quicksilver in X-Men #4 (March 1964). Also known as Wanda Maximoff, she first appears as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, before she eventually became a member of the Avengers. In the comics, she is a mutant who uses chaos magic to alter reality.Scarlet Witch is played by Elizabeth Olsen in the MCU, having debuted in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
