Vision with his "V" symbol on his forehead in VisionQuest

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This article contains spoilers for "VisionQuest" Season 1, Episode 8, "Forever."

The season (series?) finale of "VisionQuest" teases that the Vision-Maximoff family still has a future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There are two post-credits scenes in "VisionQuest." One is vaguer: Ultron (James Spader), now free and convinced not to kill all of humanity for now, has a backup drive of Jocasta (T'Nia Miller). So, yeah, it looks like this isn't the last we've seen of the Living Automaton in the MCU.

Towards the end of the episode, Tommy Shepherd (Ruaridh Mollica) asks Vision (Paul Bettany) if they'll ever see his mom, Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) again. The second post-credit scene all but confirms, yes, they will.

The scene replays the climax of 2022's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," where Wanda buries herself under the rubble of Mount Wundagore to destroy the grimoire, the Darkhold. But then the scene shows green energy telekinetically lifting the rubble away, as a shadowed, hooded figure stands over Wanda. "Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine," he says in a European accent as green light bathes Wanda, and her eyes shoot open. Three guesses who Wanda's savior is and the first two don't count. (But you will get a hint — his name rhymes with "zoom.")

This basically confirms Olsen will be appearing as Wanda in "Avengers: Doomsday," and as a servant of Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) This scene also aligns rather well with a post-credits scene included in the "Avengers Endgame: Encore" rerelease earlier this year, which depicted Doom freeing Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) from imprisonment after the events of "Spider-Man: Brand New Day."

Doctor Doom rescues Scarlet Witch from Wundagore's rubble

Children's Crusade cover

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Many now vindicated Marvel fans refused to believe that Wanda was really dead after Wundagore's destruction. Elizabeth Olsen had previously said she was open to returning as Scarlet Witch, and it seems Marvel must've given her a call.

In "Avengers: Doomsday," Doom will have at least three "Latverian witches" under his command, and they will wear steel masks much like their boss does. That'll be a fitting homage to the three Brides of Dracula — Doom, as a caped, castle-dwelling Eastern European king, is very much a villain modeled in Dracula's image. But there's also rampant speculation the witches' masks hide familiar faces, including Wanda's. This "VisionQuest" post-credits scene all but confirms it.

(In the "Time Runs Out" storyline that "Doomsday" is loosely adapting, Doom had all female acolytes called Black Swans serving him. The Latverian witches might be a simplified version of that concept.)

While I'm hoping Marvel doesn't make Doom, their greatest villain, a literal variant of Tony Stark, the fact is Robert Downey Jr.'s casting means a lot of the audience will read Doom as "evil Iron Man." There'd be some fitting narrative symmetry then if Doom has corrupted Avengers, like Hulk and Scarlet Witch, on his side.

Doom has manipulated Wanda before in the comics, too. "Young Avengers: The Children's Crusade" by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung revealed that, after Wanda's infamous "No more mutants" crash-out in "House of M," Doom sheltered her in Latveria to try and gain her powers. This is the storyline that reunited Wanda with Tommy and Billy as well. With how "VisionQuest" leaves the Maximoff boys, and with Marvel Studios having planted the seeds for Young Avengers, I think a "Children's Crusade" adaptation is in the near future.

"VisionQuest" is streaming on Disney+.