VisionQuest post-credits scene: Wanda is back, and Doctor Doom found her
The VisionQuest finale's surprise post-credits scene brings Wanda back with Doctor Doom. What it shows and what it means for Avengers: Doomsday.
Marvel kept its biggest moment of VisionQuest away from reviewers. The finale, “Forever”, ended with a post-credits scene that was not sent to press in advance, TheWrap reported, and it brings back Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch. “VisionQuest” was among the top searches in Pakistan on Thursday as fans went looking for what they had just watched.
What happens in the VisionQuest post-credits scene?
The scene goes back to the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), when Wanda brought Mount Wundagore down on herself. This time it carries on after the collapse: Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom lifts the rubble off Wanda and speaks to her. Wanda gasps and opens her eyes, GamesRadar and Variety described.
That is the whole scene, and it is enough. Wanda was presumed dead after Multiverse of Madness, and Elizabeth Olsen has spent four years saying she would like to come back.
Is Elizabeth Olsen in Avengers: Doomsday?
Marvel has not said so directly. Deadline wrote that the scene seems to hint at Olsen’s return in Avengers: Doomsday, which opens in cinemas on 18 December. Nerdist went further and said she will be back, but TheWrap and Variety pointed out that what her role in Doomsday will be is still unknown. Olsen herself told reporters she is hoping to return but does not know in what form, Variety reported.
What are fans saying?
The reaction has been loud and mostly delighted. One widely shared post called it the best promotion Doomsday could have asked for, according to TheWrap. Fans who know the comics have started theorising that Doom could turn Wanda to his side, because in the comics he manipulates a vulnerable Wanda into becoming his bride. That is fan theory, not anything Marvel has confirmed.
Not everyone is happy. A Mashable column argued that bringing Wanda back undoes the ending of her own story and is “everything that’s wrong with the MCU”, a sign that Marvel’s habit of reversing deaths is wearing thin for some viewers.
Where to watch VisionQuest
VisionQuest streams on Disney+. Disney+ has not officially launched in Pakistan. Avengers: Doomsday opens worldwide on 18 December.
