Marvel brought the Scarlet Witch back in the very last seconds of VisionQuest
VisionQuest's eighth and final episode, "Forever", landed on Disney+ overnight. In one of its mid-credits scenes Wanda Maximoff, presumed dead since 2022, gasps back to life, with a hooded figure who looks a lot like Doctor Doom standing over her. Avengers: Doomsday opens in December.
Marvel kept its surprise for the final seconds. VisionQuest’s last episode, “Forever”, dropped on Disney+ at 9pm Eastern on Tuesday, 2am in Lisbon, and in one of its mid-credits scenes Elizabeth Olsen is back as Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch audiences watched die in 2022.
The scene, laid out in TVLine’s recap of the finale, returns to the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where Wanda brings Mount Wundagore down to destroy every copy of the Darkhold and is buried under it. This time a hooded figure pulls the rubble away and tells her to wake. She does, with a sharp gasp.
Who wakes Wanda up at the end of VisionQuest?
The show stops short of spelling it out, but the signs point to Doctor Doom. Den of Geek identifies the figure as Robert Downey Jr.’s Doom, the villain of Avengers: Doomsday, and hears him promise that the Scarlet Witch’s powers will be his. TVLine is more careful and settles for “appears to be”. Either way you end up in the same place: Wanda is alive, and she is heading for the next Avengers film.
That isn’t the only loose thread. The first mid-credits scene leaves Ultron, voiced again by James Spader, holding a device labelled “Jocasta”, the robotic companion he builds in the comics. What it is for, Marvel isn’t saying.
When does Avengers: Doomsday come out?
In December. The film opens in US cinemas on 18 December 2026, a little over five weeks from now. Some markets, Italy and Brazil among them, are reported to get it two days early. In Portugal, Cinemas NOS have already said they will show it in their new Infinity Vision format across 19 screens, though the exact local date hasn’t been set.
How the Wanda and Vision trilogy ended
VisionQuest closes the run that began with WandaVision in 2021 and continued with Agatha All Along in 2024. Its eight episodes have been rolling out since mid-October, with Paul Bettany back as a Vision trying to find his way back to his family, and Spader giving Ultron a human form.
The resurrection lands in a week when the superhero business is reshuffling behind the scenes too: over at DC, James Gunn and Peter Safran stepped down from running the studio and handed the job to a Marvel veteran. Marvel, for its part, has chosen to bring a fan favourite back five weeks before its biggest film of the year.
By Lucy Bennett
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