Scarlet Witch Fact — November 3, 2026

Today's Fact

One ceremony, two brides, and an officiant who was also the villain trying to crash it, separated only by a few centuries of his own life.

WANDA'S WEDDING WAS OFFICIATED BY KANG HIMSELF — IN A DOUBLE CEREMONY WHERE MANTIS MARRIED A TREE IN A DEAD MAN'S BODY!

The Featured Fact

When Wanda Maximoff married the Vision in Giant-Size Avengers Vol. 1 #4 (1975), the man performing the ceremony was Immortus, master of Limbo. Immortus is not a separate time traveller from the Avengers' enemy Kang the Conqueror — he is Kang, at a later point in the same life, which means the groom's party was married by the future self of the villain who attacked the wedding.

Wanda did not even get the ceremony to herself. Hers was half of a double wedding: beside her, Mantis, the Celestial Madonna, married the eldest Cotati — an alien plant intelligence — whose spirit had taken up residence in the reanimated body of the dead Avenger called the Swordsman. One bride wed a synthezoid raised from the original Human Torch; the other wed vegetation wearing her late teammate.

The road to the altar ran through the Celestial Madonna saga in Avengers Vol. 1 #129–135, where Kang hunted for the woman prophesied to bear the Celestial Messiah and the Swordsman died stopping him. By the time Immortus pronounced the couples married, the guest list, the officiant and the second groom between them covered a time war, a resurrection and a species that photosynthesises.

Why It's Obscure

Plenty of heroes marry in costume. Almost none do it as the warm-up act for a bride exchanging vows with alien flora.

1975

A giant-size knot — Giant-Size Avengers #4 closes the Celestial Madonna saga with the double wedding, which is why a romance needed sixty-eight pages to contain it.

Immortus

The officiant problem — Marvel's own wedding guide notes the ceremony was officiated by Immortus and attacked by Kang, then reminds readers the two men are the same traveller at different ages.

The Cotati

The other groom — Mantis's husband was the eldest Cotati animating the Swordsman's corpse, making her half of the bill the stranger wedding by a considerable margin.

Dormammu

An omen in the corner box — The issue's cover carries Dormammu looming over the wedding party, which proved a fair preview of how the marriage's later years went.

Gallery

The wedding cover itself, the synthezoid groom, and the Celestial Madonna who shared Wanda's ceremony.

Giant-Size Avengers number 4 cover showing Vision and Scarlet Witch at their wedding with the Avengers and Dormammu — **The wedding of the decade**The Giant-Size Avengers #4 cover: Wanda in pink with her bouquet beside the Vision in green and gold, Thor, Iron Man and Mantis with flowers in attendance, and Dormammu burning overhead.

Vision the synthezoid Avenger with red face and yellow cape comic art — **The groom**The Vision, the synthezoid built from the original Human Torch's body and Wonder Man's brain patterns — the bridegroom whose humanity the whole saga kept putting on trial.

Mantis the Celestial Madonna in green and yellow costume comic art panels — **The other bride**Mantis in her green and yellow costume, antennae up — hours from marrying a Cotati spirit and leaving Earth as the Celestial Madonna.

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against at least two independent sources before publication.

Bullpen Bulletins

A Handy Guide to Surviving a Marvel Wedding — Marvel.comMarvel's wedding survey: Scarlet Witch and Vision's double event with Mantis was officiated by Immortus and attacked by Kang, who are the same time traveller at different points in his life.
When Vision and Scarlet Witch Got Married — SYFY WireA walk through Giant-Size Avengers #4: the double wedding, Mantis's marriage, and Immortus splitting Vision from the original Human Torch to prevent Scarlet Witch having children.
Avengers #129–135 and Giant-Size Avengers #2–4 — Earth's Mightiest BlogIssue-by-issue account of the Celestial Madonna saga: Kang's hunt, the Swordsman's death, and the saga ending with Vision and Scarlet Witch married.