VisionQuest post-credits scene: why does Doom take Wanda?

The VisionQuest finale's post credits scene shows that Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, survived the events of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), and that she was taken by Doctor Doom. To me, this confirms Wanda will be in Avengers: Doomsday, and it changes what we thought we knew about her character and the role she'd play there.

We'd assumed she would turn up in Doomsday, but the open question was in what capacity. I'm very excited about it.

The VisionQuest post credits scene extends the moment Wanda collapses Mount Wundagore on herself

The scene picks up from the moment in Multiverse of Madness where Wanda, played by Elizabeth Olsen, collapses Mount Wundagore on herself. In this extended version, the debris is levitated off her body, and we see Doctor Doom standing over her.

Then Doom speaks: "Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine." That feeling in my chest when I saw it? Maybe not everyone felt it, but I certainly did.

Doctor Doom isn't recruiting Wanda, he wants her power

We've already seen Doom grab the Hulk in an earlier post credits scene. Now it would appear he has grabbed the Scarlet Witch as well, but not as an ally. He's telling her outright that her power will be his. He isn't recruiting her. He's planning to take her power. Or maybe he plans to corrupt her mind and make her do his bidding. We'll have to see.

That raises real questions. Is she one of his witches? Is she locked away in his dungeon and being used for her power? That's what I suspect he has also done with Captain Marvel, and perhaps what he's doing with the Hulk. With the Hulk, though, I'd think he's looking more to use him as a weapon than to take his power. Then there's Loki, whose power we know Doom plans to take. So we'll have to see what he's actually doing with Wanda.

My Wanda theory about the void didn't happen

I never believed Wanda was dead, and I doubt many people did. My theory was that she pruned herself, that she'd been living in the void, and that she'd pop up in Secret Wars or in a Doomsday post credits scene. That isn't what happened at all.

There were whispers ahead of the finale that it would have a Doomsday post credits scene, though we didn't know what it would be. Then, toward the end of the episode, Tommy asks Vision whether it's possible Wanda could return, and Vision says yes. I quickly figured we were about to get something Wanda related, and I really thought my void theory might come true. This is cool too, though.

Wanda's body suggests Doom reached the MCU long ago

Her body looked relatively fresh. Granted, it's cold there, so a body could be preserved, but she didn't look frozen. That tells me Doom showed up pretty quickly after the events of Multiverse of Madness.

If that's right, it means Doom set foot in the mainline MCU a long time ago, back when he took her.

Could Doom's Latverian witches be Wanda variants?

I'm now buying a bit more into the theory that Doom's Latverian witches could all be Wanda variants, and that they might all be drawing power from the Scarlet Witch. Remember, the 616 Wanda he's collecting, the one he calls the Scarlet Witch, is the only Scarlet Witch in the multiverse. She's a prophesied figure across the multiverse, tied up with the Darkhold and all of that.

So I wouldn't be surprised to see Doom wielding the Scarlet Witch's chaos magic in Doomsday. There are Doomsday toys of Doctor Doom that show him using red chaos magic. Those toys are based on early scripts and early concept art, because they have to be made well in advance, especially the first wave. So we could see Doom wielding that chaos magic in the film.

I still lean toward Clea being the purple witch, and I'm into the idea of the 838 Wanda showing up. Maybe there's also an 828 Wanda from the Fantastic Four universe. Going further down that rabbit hole, I think Latveria could be revealed to be the same geographical location as Sokovia. In the MCU it never became Latveria, it became Sokovia, and vice versa, because one world has Doctor Doom and the other has Tony Stark.

Clea, Doctor Strange and a possible Vision connection

Doom taking Wanda at this moment in Multiverse of Madness could support my theory that Clea is on Team Doom. Remember, she came and got Strange in that movie's post credits scene.

Here's another thought. We've all assumed the masked figure with the third eye on his forehead is Doctor Strange, and I still think he is. But what if that hole isn't an eye? What if it's a Vision style forehead hole, since it's not the Mind Stone anymore? Anthony Mackie said in an interview that he enjoyed getting to see Paul Bettany again on the set of Doomsday, so Bettany is in all likelihood in the film.

So maybe that masked figure is Vision or a variant of Vision, and the other Latverian witches are Wanda variants. I don't know. Perhaps, willingly or unwillingly, Vision, or a different version of him, is also on Team Doom.

How big will Wanda's role in Avengers: Doomsday be?

Personally, I don't anticipate Wanda, Vision and the boys having a huge role in Doomsday. I think it will more likely be in Secret Wars. But I hope I'm wrong, and that this reveal means she'll have a really big part to play in Doomsday.

Maybe that's even why VisionQuest released its first six episodes in two episode chunks instead of one a week leading right into Doomsday. Perhaps they wanted the Wanda reveal to happen first in the finale so they could put her in the final Doomsday trailer, which is rumored to be coming soon. There are a lot of maybes here, but that could be the reason, and we could see Wanda pop up in that trailer.

I adore Elizabeth Olsen, I love this character, and VisionQuest has been phenomenal. This post credits scene is huge. It's awesome, and I'm very excited.