SPOILER WARNING: This story contains major spoilers for “Forever,” the finale of “VisionQuest,” now streaming on Disney+.
The “WandaVision” Saga has come to a close with the final episode of the Disney+ series “VisionQuest.” But it seems as though the story of the ultra-powerful Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), the synthezoid Vision (Paul Bettany) and their super-powered children will continue in the MCU.
The season finale sees Vision reunite with his and Wanda Maximoff’s grown-up sons, Ruaridh Mollica’s Tommy Maximoff (who was key to “VisionQuest”) and Joe Locke’s Billy Maximoff (whose eleventh-hour arrival completes the family reunion). Then, the post-credit scene replays the ending of 2022’s feature film “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” where Wanda eradicated the Darkhold from all of the multiverse before (seemingly) being crushed from within a mountain.
However, this time, the scene continues with the appearance of Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom, who lifts the rubble off Wanda and addresses her.
“Scarlet Witch, awaken — your power will be mine,” Doom says, as Wanda gasps and opens her eyes.
The coda confirms fan speculation that Wanda would return as the Avengers face off against Doom in “Avengers: Doomsday,” out Dec. 18. And she’s not the only powerful hero that Doom has now rounded up. In “Avengers Endgame: Encore,” Doom kidnapped the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) in a newly added post-credits scene.
Ahead of the finale, Marvel tweeted a message written in binary code, which fans were quick to decode as a quote from “WandaVision.” Though the tweet was written with a series of 0s and 1s, it translated to: “We could never truly leave each other, even if we tried.” The line is from the show’s 2021 finale.
Olsen first appeared as Wanda in the post-credits scene for 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” which set up her full-fledged debut in 2015’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Despite her wide-ranging powers of telekinesis and mind manipulation, Wanda’s first forays in the MCU were laden with tragedy, including the death of her brother Pietro (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), the devastation of her home country of Sokovia in “Age of Ultron,” and then the death of her beloved Vision (Paul Bettany) in 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War.”
That trauma led to 2021’s “WandaVision,” Marvel Studios‘ first TV series for Disney+, in which Wanda’s overwhelming grief led her to take over an entire New Jersey town and transform it into a recreation of American sitcoms — complete with a reconstituted Vision and two twin sons, Billy and Tommy. By the end of the series, she had to let go of Vision and her sons, all while her interactions with the witch Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) revealed Wanda to be the Scarlet Witch, one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel universe. Agatha’s witchy, post-“WandaVision” escapades continued in the 2024 Disney+ series “Agatha All Along,” which introduced Joe Locke as Wanda and Vision’s grown-up son Billy Maximoff.
Wanda’s story continued in 2022’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” in which her grief from the loss of her children led her to turn fully evil as the film’s central villain. She brutally killed anyone standing in opposition to her desire to find her boys within the multiverse, fueled by the corrupting book of magic, the Darkhold. By the end, Wanda understood all the harm she had caused, and she eradicated the Darkhold from all of the multiverse before (seemingly) being crushed from within Wundagore mountain.
When asked by Variety in 2022 whether she hoped to play Wanda again, however, Olsen sounded optimistic.
“It’s weird that I’m expecting to return, but no one’s told me I’m doing anything!” she said with a laugh. “But in my mind, I’m just making the assumption that they’ll have me again. I don’t know to what capacity, but I hope I’m back. I hope there’s also more fun to be had in something different.”
