VisionQuest's Post-Credits Scene Raises Major Questions About Avengers: Doomsday

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Contains spoilers for "VisionQuest" Episode 8 - "Forever"

The action-packed season finale of "VisionQuest" brought back a beloved hero, and their return raises some major questions about "Avengers: Doomsday" as well as the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe going forward. The post-credits scene takes audiences back to the end of "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" when Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) destroys Mount Wundagore and brings it down upon herself, sacrificing herself because of the damage she'd done to the multiverse to find her children.

The brief post-credits scene at the end of the "VisionQuest" finale, titled "Forever," takes us inside the ruins of Wundagore moments after its destruction at Wanda's hands. None other than Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) lifts up the rubble to find her body. He says: "Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your powers will be mine." Then, her eyes snap open and she gasps. That's right, Scarlet Witch is alive and kicking! But how is the MCU's next big bad going to use Wanda to his advantage when "Avengers: Doomsday" crashes into theaters?

Will Doctor Doom actually take Wanda's powers?

One of the major questions fans had after the "VisionQuest" finale is whether or not Doctor Doom will take Scarlet Witch's powers for himself or whether he's just going to use her to aid his assault on the Avengers. The last time we saw her, she had accepted that what she'd done in her hunt for her children was wrong, which is why she chose to destroy Mount Wundagore.

While this redeemed her in the movie, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine that she still wants her children back — and it would be very easy for Doom to manipulate her into helping him if he offers to remake a world in which she's back with her family. Of course, Vision (Paul Bettany), Billy (Joe Locke), and Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica) are all back after Marvel's "WandaVision" trilogy (which also includes "WandaVision" and "Agatha All Along"), but Wanda won't initially know that.

There have already been plenty of theories that Wanda is one of the masked Latverian witches who have been seen on the "Avengers: Doomsday" posters and at various events like San Diego Comic-Con. Now that she's been revived at the end of "VisionQuest," it would make sense that Doom makes her one of his acolytes. It's worth noting that the 2010 comic series "Avengers: The Children's Crusade" sees Doom get Wanda's powers when she's suffering from amnesia — and her sons are the ones trying to save her. So there's precedence for a lot of this already.

Will Doomsday feature a Maximoff family reunion?

The "VisionQuest" finale reunites Vision with Billy and Tommy in a truly heartfelt moment after the magic-wielding hero from "Agatha All Along" combines his powers with his speedster brother to save their synthezoid father. How's that for a dysfunctional family? Obviously, now the question is whether Wanda will get the chance to meet her sons or not in "Avengers: Doomsday."

Tommy does question whether Wanda is out there somewhere, and now that we have that answer it surely seems inevitable that a Maximoff family reunion is on the cards. But it would be a tragic twist of fate that she might not be on the right side of the fight with Doctor Doom.

Perhaps their arrival could be the thing that forces Wanda to realize Doom isn't the person she should be following, and that her family needs to come first. Hopefully the film doesn't tear the Maximoffs apart after they've spent three shows and a movie trying to just exist normally together. But with "Avengers: Secret Wars" on the horizon, anything is possible.

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