How is Scarlet Witch able to stop the train?
There is a scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron where Scarlet Witch stops a moving train with her powers.
I didn't quite understand how she was able to do that. While she has some kind of telekinetic powers, it still seems impossible to stop an object if you are inside of it (by pushing/pulling it in opposite direction). So how was she able to stop that train?
Best Answer
Magic.
Scarlet Witch has abilities that are, obviously, well beyond what actual people can do. While they have never actually used the word "magic" in the movie universe, in the comics, her power is explicitly magical. As such, it's unfair to expect it to have any basis in physical reality.
In the movie, she was given telekinetic and telepathic powers by the Mind Stone embedded inside Loki's scepter. This allows her to, among other things, exert a force against objects mentally, without having to be in contact with them. In this specific case, she was able to exert a force against the train that was detached from the train -- it wasn't her body that was pulling against the train's wheels, it was entirely mental, so it didn't matter that she was inside the train at the time.
If you look carefully, a lot what she is doing is just applying the brakes: she stops the wheels from turning in the same way that a braking system does. However, we can also see her "pulling" on the train as she does so, to bring it to rest further. The braking part, of course, is just friction, but the other part is all down to her powers.
Pictures about "How is Scarlet Witch able to stop the train?"
What is the Scarlet Witch capable of?
Chaos Magic Reality Warping: Scarlet Witch's main power is the superhuman ability to manipulate chaos magic, given to her by the demon Chthon (imprisoned within Wundagore Mountain) when she was born.Why Scarlet Witch is so powerful?
The source of Wanda's unnatural abilities stem from a two-fold base; unparalleled mastery of actual magic and an innate power to warp reality. Due to exposure to mystic energies and forces at an early age, Wanda may reshape reality to various extremes.How does Wanda activate her powers?
As her powers likely come at least in part from the Mind Stone inside of Loki's scepter, Wanda's abilities include telekinesis, energy manipulation, and some form of neuroelectric interfacing that allows her to both read thoughts and also give her targets waking nightmares.How did Vision get Scarlet Witch pregnant?
In the comics, Wanda and Vision get pregnant through magic \u2014 since Vision is a robot, that's seemingly their only option. They have twins named Thomas and William. However, it's eventually revealed that Tommy and Billy were actually created using fragments of the soul of a demon lord named Mephisto.Wanda \u0026 Quicksilver Stops The Train - Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Movie CLIP HD
Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Images: Samson Katt, Pixabay, Pixabay, Ellie Burgin