That VisionQuest Credits Scene Has Big Doomsday Implications

We don’t yet know if the events of VisionQuest will impact the upcoming Avengers films — Doomsday in about a month and Secret Wars after a year’s intermission — but the show’s post-credits tag most certainly does. Both exciting in its revelation and inelegant in its execution, the tease in question is a kind of resurrection, which should come as no surprise in a show about the second incarnation of dead speedster child Tommy Maximoff and the third of his synthezoid father. Everybody comes back to life in these things; it’s just the turn of another family member.

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Spoilers follow for the VisionQuest finale.

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The Disney+ miniseries’ final episode kicks off with the reunion between the now-adult Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica) and his long-lost twin brother, Billy (Joe Locke), whose escape from death was explained in another WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Along. That’s a little too much to get into here, but the return of the superpowered siblings, and that of their AI dad, Vision (Paul Bettany), makes Tommy wonder out loud, late into the episode, if this means the fourth member of their sitcom family, the presumed-dead Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), might return someday as well.

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Wouldn’t you know it, Tommy was a few minutes early with his query — or perhaps a few years late, given when and where this tag appears to take place. Shortly after a vague tease of the human Ultron (James Spader) pondering what to do with the saved hard drive of his AI squeeze, Jocasta (T’Nia Miller) — yet another resurrection seems to be en route — we return to the climactic scene of the 2022 theatrical release Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. A grief-stricken Wanda, having recognized her villainy, uses her red-tinged hex magic to bring the Scarlet Witch temple on Mount Wundagore crashing down atop her. Only this time, the scene continues.

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Shortly thereafter, magic with a green hue (a-ha! Here he comes!) is used to psychically raise a bit of debris, under which Wanda appears to be unconscious. A hooded silhouette speaks in a raspy, mishmash accent: “Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine.” Wanda, in the emerald glow of this sorcery, opens her eyes in a fright as the screen cuts to black. This is, of course, none other than Robert Downey Jr.’s Victor Von Doom, a.k.a. Doctor Doom, the antagonist of Avengers: Doomsday and one of the most powerful figures in Marvel comics. But what exactly is going on here?

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If you watched the theatrical rerelease Avengers: Endgame Encore, a similar post-credits tag depicts Bruce Banner a.k.a. the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) being kidnapped — or in Doom’s words, “collected” — from an underground bunker. He’s clearly putting some sort of team together, and the VisionQuest teaser all but confirms the persistent rumor surrounding the identity of at least one of the “Latverian Witches,” mysterious cloaked and hooded figures revealed at Comic-Con who appear to be sulking around Doom’s castle in the movie’s trailers.

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While it would’ve been neat to attribute Wanda’s survival to witchcraft — some kind of protective spell keeping her alive, rather than just “she was unconscious the whole time” — the arrival of Doom, presumably from his own universe, further underlines the crazy breadth of his plan. He’s already magic’d up to the gills, so what could he possibly need Wanda’s powers for as well? Marvel may be winding down its TV shows, but this is probably the first time one of the MCU’s small-screen teasers might actually get people to buy tickets, so at least the venture is going out on a high.

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