Scarlet Witch Returns in VisionQuest Finale — What Doctor Doom’s Resurrection Means for Avengers: Doomsday

The Scarlet Witch is alive. The Scarlet Witch VisionQuest finale, episode 8, “Forever,” which arrived on Disney+ on Monday, November 10, 2026, ends with a post-credits scene that replays Wanda Maximoff’s apparent death at Mount Wundagore — and then shows Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom lifting the rubble and waking her. “Scarlet Witch, awaken,” Doom rumbles. “Your power will be mine.” Wanda opens her eyes and gasps for air. After four years of ambiguity, Marvel has answered the question on screen — and the answer sets up Avengers: Doomsday directly.

When @thecaughtup shared the news on Instagram on Monday evening, the post’s image text read “SCARLET WITCH WILL OFFICIALLY RETURN IN ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.'” One correction to the hype: the Scarlet Witch VisionQuest scene resurrects Wanda on screen and sets her return up — but Marvel has not officially announced Elizabeth Olsen for Doomsday itself. That distinction matters, and this is what the finale actually shows.

Here is the post we shared on Instagram:

What Happens in the Scarlet Witch VisionQuest Finale?

The finale, billed as the closing chapter of the WandaVision trilogy after WandaVision and Agatha All Along, first reunites Vision with his sons. Billy Kaplan, also known as Wiccan, and Tommy Shepherd, also known as Speed, connect through magic — the Maximoff family coming back together, albeit with the twins in different bodies. Then come the two post-credits scenes, and the second is the one that broke Marvel fandom on Monday night.

The scene starts with the fall of Mount Wundagore, replaying the climax of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Then new footage continues where that film stopped: Doom approaches Wanda’s body in the rubble and commands her to wake, telling her that her power will be his. Sure enough, she opens her eyes. Four outlets covering the episode — Screen Rant, Den of Geek, Bam Smack Pow and Murphy’s Multiverse — all describe the same sequence, and Screen Rant calls it directly: VisionQuest “directly sets up the Scarlet Witch for Avengers: Doomsday.” Wanda is also the second Avenger Doom has now collected on screen, after Bruce Banner in a new post-credits scene filmed for the Avengers: Endgame Encore re-release.

How Did Wanda Maximoff “Die” in the First Place?

In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Wanda — corrupted by the Darkhold — hunted America Chavez across the multiverse, then turned on the Darkhold itself, bringing Mount Wundagore down on top of herself and destroying every copy of the book across the multiverse. There was a red flash of light. There was never a body. Marvel never confirmed her death, and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige teased in 2022 that “anything’s possible in the Multiverse,” adding that there was still “so much more to explore” in Wanda’s core comic-book storylines. Inside VisionQuest itself, the characters believed she was gone — Vision says she was “crushed under the weight of a mountain” — which is exactly why the finale’s reveal lands so hard.

Is Elizabeth Olsen Confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday?

No — and that is the line the coverage has been careful to hold. Olsen was not included in Marvel’s announced Doomsday cast in March 2025. Speaking to The Playlist in November 2025, she said she had “no idea how or when” Wanda might return. At the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo in March 2026 she was blunter: “I know nothing,” she said of Doomsday and Secret Wars — adding that she only knew about VisionQuest because she had seen Paul Bettany in the previous six months. In March 2025 she told The Hollywood Reporter she would not return as Wanda “anytime soon.” Director Joe Russo, asked in May 2025, would only say: “We shall see.”

But the on-screen evidence now points the other way. Screen Rant describes Olsen’s Scarlet Witch as “almost certain to appear” in the film, and Den of Geek reads the post-credits scene as confirmation “that Wanda will return in Avengers: Doomsday.” There is also the matter of Doom’s coven: promotional material for Doomsday has shown a trio of masked Latverian witches in purple, blue and red robes — and fans have read the red-robed witch as Wanda in disguise. None of that is an official casting announcement. What it is, is a resurrection staged on screen five weeks before the film opens — which is about as loud a set-up as Marvel ever gives.

What Does the Comic Book Story Tell Us?

The finale’s shape will look familiar to comics readers. In Avengers: The Children’s Crusade (2010–2012, written by Allan Heinberg), the Young Avengers — Wiccan and Speed, Wanda’s reincarnated sons — discover their mother is being held by Doctor Doom, who is channeling her magical abilities. They attack Latveria and free her. The MCU is tracking the same beats: the sons reunited in the finale, the mother in Doom’s grip, her power as his prize. If Doomsday follows the comic’s lead, the story engine is a rescue — Vision, Wiccan and Speed going to Latveria to free Wanda, and the Scarlet Witch coming back as the hero fans have wanted since WandaVision.

For now, the facts are these: Wanda Maximoff is alive in the MCU again, Doctor Doom woke her up, and he wants her power. Whether Elizabeth Olsen appears in Doomsday masked among the Latverian witches or waits for Secret Wars, the Scarlet Witch is back in play — and the question is no longer whether she survived. It is whose side she will be on when the film opens on December 18.

Sources: Screen Rant (“VisionQuest Has Two Post-Credits Scenes (And They’re More Important Than You Think),” November 10, 2026; “Marvel Studios Officially Resurrects Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch,” November 10, 2026); Den of Geek, Joe George (“VisionQuest Finale: Episode 8 Post-Credits Scene Sets Up A Major Return in Avengers: Doomsday,” November 10, 2026); Murphy’s Multiverse (“Marvel Shocker: ‘VisionQuest’ Finale Post-Credits Scene Just Resurrected a Dead Avenger,” November 10, 2026); Bam Smack Pow (“VisionQuest confirms [SPOILER]’s fate ahead of Avengers: Doomsday,” November 10, 2026); The Playlist (Elizabeth Olsen interview, November 2025); GeekTyrant via Deadline (Olsen at C2E2, March 2026); The Direct (“Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch Double Photo Sparks MCU Return Hopes,” August 2026); @thecaughtup (Instagram, November 10, 2026).

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