Elizabeth Olsen has been upfront about not missing playing Wanda, but if the Marvel star were to return as Scarlet Witch, there is something that she would love to explore.
Olsen has been playing Wanda Maximoff since 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, but the character has only recently had a chance to reach her full potential. Previous MCU films have shown her telekinesis but little of the reality-bending she is capable of in the comics. This changed when Disney Plus' limited series WandaVision came out. Stricken by grief after losing Vision (Paul Bettany), Wanda creates a false reality where she and her robot husband live in a delightful sitcom world. Since then, Wanda's powers have been explored in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has even set up a possible WandaVision season 2. But there is still room to grow.
Wanda is Magento's daughter in Marvel canon, not the result of Hydra's experimentation. Olsen knows this and is ready to address Wanda's destiny as a powerful mutant. “I just really wanna figure out the whole mutant thing,” Olsen confessed in a panel posted by Scarlet Witch News. Though she admitted she couldn't do anything to make this happen, she said, “[…] I would love to explore [X-Men] so much.”
Before Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, Mutants were off the table in the MCU. Fox was the distributor behind the popular X-Men films and was a separate company from Marvel Studios. Because of this, characters such as Wanda and her brother Pietro (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) were only described as freaks of nature in the films. Their true lineage stems from their Omega-level mutant father–which is why Wanda is so powerful. The MCU films erased the morally ambiguous Magneto as the patriarch of her family and her connection to any mutation.
Now that Disney has absorbed Fox, mutants should start filtering in. Upcoming Deadpool 3 Disney family and has enlisted Hugh Jackman's Wolverine for the new film. Putting the legacy character in his comic-accurate yellow and blue suit is the first step to finally accepting the X-Men into canon as they should be. Disney is also releasing a follow-up to the X-Men animated series, X-Men '97. Creatives have remained suspiciously silent about the future of mutants in the MCU, but that can only mean they are planning something big.
After introducing a twist on the House of M storyline from the comics, Wanda is ready now more than ever to accept her status as one of the most powerful mutants in Marvel. And while they’re at it, they can also resurrect Pietro from the dead, who was gone far too soon. The multiverse is a gift; it is finally X-Men's time to shine.
Source: Scarlet Witch News