Appearances
Featured Characters:
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Parker) (First appearance)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Aunt May (First appearance)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (First appearance)
- Gwen Stacy (First appearance) (Death)
- The Watcher (America Chavez)
- Django (Death)
Antagonists:
- High Evolutionary (Herbert Wyndham) (First appearance)
- Quicksilver (Pietro von Doom) (First appearance)
- Burglar (First appearance)
- Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) (First appearance)
- Blackout (Marcus Daniels) (First appearance)
- Sandman (First appearance)
- Hydro-Man (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (First appearance)
- Richard Parker (First appearance) (Death)
- Mary Parker (First appearance) (Death)
- Director Fury (Mentioned)
- Uncle Ben (First appearance) (Death)
- Avengers (First appearance)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (First appearance) (Death)
- Jewel (Jessica Jones) (First appearance)
- Black Knight (Dane Whitman) (First appearance)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (First appearance)
- Fantastic Four (First appearance)
- Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) (First appearance)
- Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards) (First appearance)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (First appearance)
- The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Mentioned)
- X-Men (First appearance)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (First appearance)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (First appearance)
- Meggan Puceanu (First appearance)
- Kurt Wagner (First appearance)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Mentioned)
- Storm (Mentioned)
- Aragorn
- Radioactive Spider (Mentioned)
- Flash Thompson (Mentioned)
- Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Mentioned)
- Thor (Mentioned)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Mentioned)
- Natalya Maximoff (First appearance) (Death) (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Daily Bugle
- J. Jonah Jameson (Mentioned)
- George Stacy (Mentioned) (Death)
- Helen Stacy (Mentioned) (Death)
- Stark Industries (Mentioned)
- Unidentified figure (Behind the scenes)
Races and Species:
- Watchers
- Humans (First appearance)
- Mutants (First appearance)
- Mutates (First appearance)
- Asgardians (Mentioned)
Reality:
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Queens
- Forest Hills (First appearance)
- Ingram Street (First appearance)
- Aunt May's House (First appearance)
- Ingram Street (First appearance)
- Forest Hills (First appearance)
- Manhattan
- George Washington Bridge (First appearance)
- Midtown (First appearance)
- 42nd Street (First appearance)
- Baxter Building (First appearance)
- 42nd Street (First appearance)
- Greenwich Village (First appearance)
- Bleecker Street (First appearance)
- Sanctum Sanctorum (First appearance)
- Bleecker Street (First appearance)
- Fifth Avenue (First appearance)
- Avengers Mansion (First appearance)
- Empire State University (First appearance)
- New York Public Library (First appearance)
- Queens
- Westchester County (First appearance)
- North Salem (First appearance)
- Salem Center (First appearance)
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (First appearance)
- Salem Center (First appearance)
- North Salem (First appearance)
- New York City
- New Jersey (State) (First appearance)
- Boston (Mentioned)
- New York
- United States of America
- Latveria (First appearance)
- Oxford University (Mentioned)
- North America
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit (First appearance)
- Cloak of Levitation (First appearance)
- Hoverchair (First appearance)
- Cerebro (First appearance)
- Image Inducer (Unnamed)
- Ebony Blade (First appearance)
- Mutant Registration Act (Referenced)
Solicit Synopsis
Wanda and Peter Parker embrace great responsibility in the next adventure of an epic multiversal series that reimagines iconic Marvel origin stories.
So many worlds, so little time. Infinite possibilities, creating infinite realities. Long have I watched death court the Scarlet Witch. But . . . what if Wanda didn’t have to suffer her grief alone?
All Wanda has ever known is her friendly little neighborhood in Queens. As an infant, after her parents died, she was adopted into a family where her doting Aunt May and Uncle Ben will always be at the breakfast table. One that includes her idiot brother, Peter Parker, who thinks hiding a spider bite, joining a secret fight club, and becoming a superhero are somehow good ideas.
When Wanda’s own powers emerge, blood, chaos, and suspicion follow in their wake. But as she harnesses her power under the guidance of Doctor Strange, Peter is standing beside her in the Sanctum Sanctorum. And as they try to protect New York City, the Parker siblings learn that with great powers, there must also come great responsibilities—and greater loss.
Reeling from tragedy, Wanda finds herself truly alone for the first time in her life. Peter is lost to his own grief, and so she must strike out on her own. But on her first solo outing, she runs into a mysterious speedster—a man named Pietro. And everything she has ever known shatters like glass.
Faced with unbelievable truths, Wanda is forced to choose between the life she knows and the life she could have.Notes
- Part of the What If . . . ? line of novels.