VisionQuest post-credits scene: is Doom resurrecting Wanda?

The VisionQuest finale's post-credits scene shows Doctor Doom telling Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff to awaken, in a moment that feels like a resurrection to me, and it puts her in Avengers Doomsday. I'm floored. I'd been predicting Olsen's return for years, and I'm absolutely thrilled to see it happen.

I'd seen a press screener of the finale in advance, but this scene was not on it. The hint was a clue Marvel Studios released during its Doomsday Countdown, which is why I suspected something Doomsday related was coming. Hiding it from critics and press was, in my view, "brilliant by Marvel Studios to do this so that we all get surprised by this at the same time."

Doctor Doom tells the Scarlet Witch to awaken

The scene opens on the moment from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) when the temple crumbles on Wanda, the moment she died. A green glow appears, the screen fades to black, and a voice says: "Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine." Wanda looks different than she did in that film, which makes sense with four years having passed.

That voice did not sound like Robert Downey Jr. to me. If it is him, it's a new voice he's trying, or Marvel maybe used a sound-alike actor. The closed captions read "powers," but I clearly hear "power," so I think Doom means her general power, her sorcery and control over the multiverse. Maybe it's an arbitrary distinction. Either way, the scene implies that part of what makes Doom the master sorcerer he'll be in Avengers Doomsday is that he's taking powers from Wanda.

As for when it was shot, our friends at the Escape Pod podcast claimed they shared a flight with Olsen back from London in August 2026, so I assume that's when this was filmed. Who knows how much more she'll be in the movie.

Why Doom is collecting Wanda alongside Bruce Banner

I think this is certainly one of Doom's collections. He seems to be recruiting her the way he's collecting Bruce Banner, building a squad of Marvel characters who have affected the multiverse. Wanda qualifies: in Multiverse of Madness she dreamwalked into her variant from the 838 universe, slaughtered the Illuminati and terrorized her sons, Billy and Tommy. Reed Richards of that universe warned that dreamwalking can cause incursions. Banner undid Thanos's snap, and Peter Parker tampered with the runes of a spell.

Can Doctor Doom raise the dead?

Before the rubble lifts, that looks like a corpse, and Doom saying awaken feels like a resurrection to me. Or she's just knocked out. But if Doom has power over life and death, couldn't he reanimate his dead wife and child? Maybe what happens to them in the 828 universe isn't a mere death but some kind of erasure, a reality warp beyond simple mortal death. Doom does something similar with the Sentinels in the Avengers Doomsday D23 trailer.

Will this exact shot appear in Avengers Doomsday?

I don't know if the Russo brothers directed this. The Bruce Banner scene attached to the Avengers: Endgame rerelease was directed by their first unit director. They also said that scene, and the TVA scene with Owen Wilson as Mobius and Ke Huy Quan as OB, wouldn't appear exactly as is in Doomsday. This setup is simple: levitating rocks, no need for Downey, and Olsen in close-up. It could have been a one-day shoot for her.

So I don't think this shot has to be in Doomsday, and I think Marvel knows we'll all have seen it by December 18th. But it's a cool shot, and I hope it's incorporated somehow, because revisiting Multiverse of Madness would let the film's opening acts connect the dots of the Multiverse Saga.