VisionQuest Finale Teases Elizabeth Olsen Return for Avengers Doomsday Releasing December 2026

Wanda Maximoff is not dead under the crushed stones of Mount Wundagore.

Tuesday’s Season 1 finale of VisionQuest, titled Forever, concluded with a credits sting that radically shifts the Marvel Cinematic Universe slate. The sequence returns straight to the shattered mountain where audiences last tracked Scarlet Witch in 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. She was left buried under thousands of tons of falling masonry. Marvel had let that presumed demise linger for years. Yet the rubble did not hold.

In the post-credits sequence, a hooded figure harnesses mystic energy to lift the stones pinning Wanda's body. The silhouetted presence is Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom. His voice rings out over the clearing stone:

The line cuts through any ambiguity regarding Victor von Doom’s opening gambit. Marvel has not formally rubber-stamped Elizabeth Olsen’s contract paperwork for the next ensemble film, but the creative pipeline is unmistakably clear. The scene fuses Maximoff’s chaotic reality-warping juice directly into Doom's master plan for Avengers: Doomsday.

The Wundagore Excavation & Russo Brothers Playbook

Brothers Anthony and Joe Russo return to helm Avengers: Doomsday, stepping behind the franchise camera for the first time since closing out their two-part Infinity War and Endgame arc. The stakes require serious narrative mass. Joe Russo has already laid down the groundwork for returning moviegoers, declaring that revisiting their previous box-office smash is practically homework:

Doom hunting Wanda's residual powers bridges the Multiverse saga directly back to the physical threats that defined Phase 3. Stripping or enslaving a nexus being gives Doom an immediate shortcut to supreme dominance—and gives Olsen an avenue back into the narrative without having to undo her sacrificial turn in 2022.

The Assembled Ensemble & Release Rollout

Doctor Doom marks Downey Jr.'s headline-grabbing return to the studio lot, but the call sheet around him has ballooned into an astonishing collision of legacy heroes and mutant veterans. Chris Evans also returns to the MCU frame as Steve Rogers, flanked by franchise pillars, fresh Multiverse transplants, and Fox-era stalwarts.