This post contains major spoilers for VisionQuest‘s finale and whether Wanda is involved. If you want to avoid them until you see the episode check out our coverage from episode seven instead.
Dying has never stopped any comic book character from returning. There are always ways to bring anyone back. That’s especially true of one family in the MCU. When Wanda Maximoff destroyed her Hex in Westview, she killed the husband she’d brought back to life with magic along with the two boys she’s conjured out of nothingness. Billy and Tommy both found other bodies. Hex Vision also passed his own memories into White Vision, which was also the reanimated synthetic corpse of the real Vision. With the three men reunited in VisionQuest‘s season finale, one obvious question remains: will the MCU resurrect Wanda, too? VisionQuest confirms the answer to that is yes. The MCU is bringing back Wanda and it’s Doctor Doom that saved her life.
VisionQuest Sets the Scene for Wanda’s Return in Its Finale
VisionQuest’s final episode saw three-fourths of the Maximoff family reunited. Vision, having accepted he really is The Vision and not a mere facsimile, embraced both Billy and Tommy after they saved mankind from Ultron and Jocasta’s nanobots. Yet someone MCU fans have been waiting to see return since 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was conspicuous in her absence. The Scarlet Witch remains dead. But Tommy spoke for viewers everywhere when he asked his father if they might ever see Wanda again.
Vision said he didn’t know, but that anything is possible. We know, because we’re familiar with comic books, that’s true. Vision, Tommy, and Billy also know it’s true because it’s seemingly impossible any of them should be alive right now themselves. Thanos killed the original Vision. A grief-stricken Wanda then used magic to bring him back to life inside the Hex, where she then created their twin boys the same way. Without the Hex, though, they all ceased to exist/died. Or at least that’s what it seemed like. Hex Vision passed all of his memories granted to him by Wanda, along with his experiences in Westview, to White Vision, which the government remade from dead Vision’s body. Meanwhile, Billy used his own magic to transfer his consciousness into the body of a young man who had died moments before. He did the same for his brother Tommy.
Doctor Doom Brings Scarlet Witch Back to Life in VisionQuest‘s Post Credits Scene
And, indeed, Wanda did appear to completely die when she brought Mount Wundagore down upon herself to destroy the Darkhold forever, but that death, like many in the MCU was only temporary. In VisionQuest‘s post-credits scene, we return to the moment of Wanda’s death in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness… But this time, we see past the moment of Mount Wundagore’s collapse.
The rocks lift up at the behest of a very familiar cloaked figure. Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom has arrived into VisionQuest. He says, “Scarlet Witch… awaken. Your powers will be mine.” And ‘lo, Wanda awakens and the Scarlet Witch lives once more. Is Wanda under Doctor Doom’s spell now? People have been long speculating that she is one of his Latverian Witches. But we will have to wait for Avengers: Doomsday to arrive on December 18 to know for sure.
But, hey, at least now we know Scarlet Witch WILL be returning in Avengers: Doomsday… And maybe she’ll be the Wanda we know and love. And, in the end, we agree it was only right for Wanda to appear on VisionQuest with the rest of her family. Hopefully, a reunion awaits these long-suffering four.