Scarlet Witch Fact — November 1, 2026

Today's Fact

Checked against independent sources — the issues are cited below.

WANDA'S TWINS WERE SHARDS OF MEPHISTO'S SOUL — AND HE CAME TO TAKE THEM BACK!

The Featured Fact

Wanda Maximoff's twin sons, Billy and Tommy, were the miracle of her marriage to the Vision — until Agatha Harkness arrived at the West Coast compound with a terrible observation: the children vanished whenever Wanda stopped thinking about them. In Avengers West Coast Vol. 1 #51 (1989), the reason surfaces — Wanda had not created life from nothing. Her power had unknowingly gathered two wandering fragments of a shattered soul.

The soul belonged to Mephisto. His essence had been broken and scattered in an earlier defeat, and the two shards Wanda's magic had shaped into sons were his property. The demon Master Pandemonium seized the twins first, incorporating their souls into his own body, and in Avengers West Coast Vol. 1 #52 (1989) Mephisto himself appeared to reclaim what was his.

The Avengers won the fight and drove Mephisto off — and it changed nothing. With the shards' true nature exposed, the twins could not remain, and Agatha's only way to sever Mephisto's link through Wanda was to erase every memory of her sons from Wanda's mind. The victory was so hollow that Wanda later fell into a catatonic collapse, and the buried memory's eventual return would detonate over the Avengers years later.

Why It's Obscure

Billy and Tommy only existed while their mother thought of them — because the souls animating them were never hers to give.

The clue

They faded — Billy and Tommy disappeared whenever Wanda's attention left them — the first sign they had no independent existence.

1989

The kidnapper — Master Pandemonium abducts the twins in Avengers West Coast #51 and absorbs their souls into his own demonic body.

Mephisto

The true owner — The twins were animated by two shards of Mephisto's shattered soul, scattered when the demon was previously destroyed.

#52

The price of winning — Agatha Harkness erases Wanda's memory of the twins entirely — the only way to break Mephisto's hold through her.

Gallery

Comic art of Scarlet Witch and the figures named in today's fact.

Scarlet Witch casting a spell beside the Vision — **The parents**Wanda and the Vision — the marriage whose impossible children turned out to be built from a demon's broken soul.

Scarlet Witch embracing the Vision in red-toned comic art — **What was taken**Wanda and Vision together, before Avengers West Coast #51–52 revealed what Billy and Tommy really were.

Sources

Every claim above checks out against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Scarlet Witch Biography — Mighty Avengers / uncannyxmen.netThe biography confirms Wanda unknowingly used two wandering shards of Mephisto's shattered soul, that he reclaimed them in Avengers West Coast #51–52, and that Agatha erased the twins from Wanda's mind.
How the Multiverse Helped Scarlet Witch Deal With the Loss of Her Children — CBRCBR recounts the twins disappearing when Wanda was absent, Master Pandemonium's claim in #51, and Agatha explaining that Wanda had effectively stolen souls to create the children.