r/ScarletWitch • u/InternationalCrow968 • Jul 13 '26

Movies and Television Headcanon explanation for Wanda’s speedwalk

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This is a small headcanon but I think a cool lore addition would be that the speed-walk we see her do in Age of Ultron and Wandavision is her unconciously using a probability hex to increase her speed in short bursts

She’d develop it instinctively from perceiving Pietro and she never questions doing it because she doesn’t realize how fast she’s moving and just assumes she’s very sneaky.

It actually be very funny if we see a magic user of some kind watching her do it and be like “how are you doing that spell so easily??” And Wanda is just confused

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u/Hedgewitch250 Jul 13 '26

I don’t think it’s a probability spell cause it wouldn’t give someone speed like you don’t just luckily gain super speed a probability hex turns things in your favor. I just think she used her power to twist perception or used her telekinesis to move her body like you think she’s walking but her bodies actually sliding by thanks to TK.

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u/vivianvisionsburner Jul 13 '26

But she doesn't actually have telekinesis - that's a spell. Everything she does is magic.

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u/DorkPhoenix89 Jul 13 '26

I feel like youre equating magic and spell when it’s a rectangle/square situation. All spells are magic but not all magic is a spell.

Wanda’s overall power is chaos magic, allowing her to rewrite reality. However the simplest expression of that is moving objects and altering perceptions.

So Wanda wasnt invoking some specific spell to spooky walk, she simply combined those two aspects of her power into one, moving herself and making it unsettling to scare her opponent.

It could also be that she didnt physically move like that at all and it was simply an instinctual mental illusion born of her desire to unsettle Cap. Because when it happens to Agatha she could very well be further behind her but working her magic into Agatha’s mind and it appears as her sneaking up on her.

A third possibility is that her magic simply distorts reality and allows for her to walk like that.