Scarlet Witch was one of the highlights of the final battle in
Avengers: Endgame, taking on Thanos with all her might and then some. However, she was barely in the movie since she was snapped away in the end of
Avengers: Infinity War. Now it seems that wasn't always going to be the case.
Avengers co-writer Christopher Markus spoke to
Cinema Blend, saying they originally were going to have her stay alive.
We had a moment where [Scarlet Witch] looked at his body in a drawer, and it was mainly just maudlin. It was also frankly from a draft where she hadn’t been blipped. Because we had a draft where she survived and was a character in Endgame. The problem was she’d gotten so much mileage and story in the first movie that she didn’t really have anything that equaled that in the second. So it was a step down.
The process of deciding which characters to kill off and keep alive must have been one interesting day at the writing room. Looks like Scarlet Witch was almost one of the lucky ones. Back in July, Markus also said more insight on what could've been.
“There weren’t terribly outrageous [plot lines], there were a lot more boring ones,” Markus said during San Diego Comic-Con earlier this summer. “You can go to the Triskellion; it’s a building.
There was an iteration where Wanda was alive, she hadn’t been blipped. Wanda and Rocket drove a car from the Triskellion to Doctor Strange’s house, then used the doorway to go to Kamar Taj and get [the Stone]. It was like, ‘Really? We’re putting in a cross, inter-state car journey in this fast-paced action movie?' And then wiser heads prevailed.”
A road trip of Rocket and Scarlet Witch does sound enticing, to be fair. However, both Markus and his co-writer Stephen McFeely ultimately made the right choice, considering how good both movies were.
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