What VisionQuest's Surprise Post-Credits Return Means For Avengers: Doomsday

Contains spoilers for "VisionQuest" Season 1, Episode 8 – "Forever"

The "VisionQuest" Season 1 finale, "Forever," builds steadily toward its inevitable conclusion: The reunion of Vision's (Paul Bettany) remaining family. "VisionQuest" has explored Vision's past with "WandaVision" flashbacks and brought back a powerful cosmic item from "Avengers: Infinity War" to help him reclaim his identity and embrace Tommy Maximoff (Ruaridh Mollica). With Tommy's brother and "Agatha All Along" main character Billy (Joe Locke) also returning to the mix, all surviving members of the mysterious Maximoff-Vision family are now together — and a conversation between Tommy and Vision even teases that Wanda "Scarlet Witch" Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) might return one day, as well.

As it turns out, that day is far closer than the pair suspected. The big post-credits scene of "VisionQuest" reveals a hooded figure using some sort of levitation magic to dig Wanda out of Mount Wundagore, where she was buried at the end of "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness." What's more, Wanda is very much alive.

Let's face it, the scene doesn't exactly bother to hide that the hooded figure is Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.), who has been making moves in post-credits scenes before. "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" shows him kneeling beside the powerful young Franklin Richards, presumably up to no good. One of the post-credits scenes in "Avengers: Endgame Encore" shows him "collecting" none other than the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). With Wanda now apparently joining his collection of powerful individuals, it seems that Doom will enter "Avengers: Doomsday" with plenty of might at his disposal.

The newfound connection between Wanda and Doom implies that one interesting theory about the Latverian ruler's minions might be correct. In the marketing material for "Doomsday," there are three color-coded, masked Latverian witches. One wears red, and there's really only one witchy figure in the MCU who does that: Wanda.

Assuming that the "VisionQuest" post-credits scene confirms Wanda as the red Latverian witch, there's still the matter of other witches. The second, purple-robed character seems like more of a mystery. Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) from "WandaVision" and "Agatha All Along" wears the color, but her death in the latter show and current status as Billy Maximoff's incorporeal ghost mentor might make it difficult to wear physical robes. Because of this, it's possible that we're going to see the return of another purple-wearing magical character, Clea (Charlize Theron) from "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness." 

As for the green-robed witch, the most likely candidate is Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino). The female Loki variant has been absent from the big picture since the events of "Loki." Since "Avengers: Endgame Encore" already brought back the Time Variance Authority version of Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and a number of TVA workers, she'd be a logical choice. That is, unless Doom has somehow harnessed the powers of Death (Aubrey Plaza), who's established as the ultimate Green Witch on "Agatha All Along."

We'll have to wait until "Avengers: Doomsday" premieres on December 18 to see how the Latverian witch situation plays out, but with Wanda back in the MCU game, it will definitely be worth seeing what role she'll play in the events — and what happens when she finds out that Vision, Tommy, and Billy are alive.