If the embed above goes dark, the official VisionQuest trailer is also here on YouTube.
Spoiler warning: what follows gives away the second post-credits scene of the VisionQuest finale. Though, given that half the internet has been shouting about it since Tuesday night, the horse has not so much bolted as booked itself a fortnight in Benidorm.
The eighth and final episode of Marvel’s Disney+ series, “Forever”, went out on 10 November, and for a show that kept its powder dry for seven weeks, it has rather emptied the magazine at the end. Paul Bettany’s white Vision gets his family reunion with the Maximoff boys, Billy and Tommy, which was the emotional point of the exercise. Then, after the credits, comes the bit everybody is actually talking about. Two stingers follow the end titles, and the second takes us back to the climax of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, with Wanda Maximoff bringing Mount Wundagore down on herself to destroy the Darkhold.
This time the camera doesn’t cut away. Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom strolls into the ruins, lifts the rubble off her with a casual flick of green sorcery, and addresses the body at his feet: “Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine.” Elizabeth Olsen’s eyes snap open, she gasps, and we cut to black. It’s the first new footage of Olsen in the role since 2022, and it more or less settles the long-running rumour that Wanda is one of the hooded “Latverian Witches” who have been lurking in the Avengers: Doomsday marketing like extras from a Hammer coven picture.
So what is Doom up to? The line about her power being his gives the game away, and comics readers will already be muttering about Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, the 2010 series in which Doom uses an amnesiac Wanda as a sort of cosmic battery. Given that Doomsday is reportedly building towards Battleworld, a planet stitched together from bits of other realities, having the most reality-bending woman in the MCU on the payroll is simply sound business planning. Doom has never been one to hire a contractor when he can conscript one.
It also leaves Vision and the twins with a rather awkward family problem. Earlier in the episode, Tommy asks whether they’ll ever see their mum again, and Vision suggests they might yet say hello. He probably wasn’t picturing her in a Latverian uniform. Whether Wanda ends up fighting alongside the Avengers, against them, or against Doom once the fog clears is precisely the sort of question Marvel would like you to pay a cinema ticket to answer.
There is something faintly comic about the MCU’s approach to death by this point. Wanda has been crushed under a mountain, Vision has been killed, dismantled and rebuilt in a different colour, and the twins were magicked out of existence before turning up again as teenagers. In this family, a funeral is less a full stop than an intermission. Here at SFcrowsnest, we’re old enough to remember when Jean Grey’s resurrection felt like a cheat; these days it’s practically a scheduling announcement.
Still, credit where it’s due. Showrunner Terry Matalas had said there was a scene in the finale he had long dreamed of making, and pulling a ghost out of the Wundagore rubble with the year’s biggest supervillain looming over her is a decent way to hand over the baton. Avengers: Doomsday opens in cinemas on 18 December 2026. The Scarlet Witch, it seems, will be there, though quite whose side she’s on is the five-hundred-million-dollar question.
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