Paul Bettany spent weeks insisting he did not know whether Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff would appear in “VisionQuest.” The Disney+ finale then answered the question in a scene that press never saw. The series ended Tuesday with Bettany’s Vision reunited with his sons, Billy and Tommy, but without their mother. Then came a post-credits sequence missing from the screeners sent to reviewers. It revisited Wanda bringing down the Scarlet Witch’s temple on herself, then showed Olsen stirring in the rubble. The scene ties Wanda’s survival to Victor von Doom, according to ScreenRant, and points toward “Avengers: Doomsday,” which opens December 18.
Bettany had tried to play down the idea. Speaking to The Playlist before the finale aired, he said Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige resisted a late Wanda return because it risked distracting from Vision and the sons. Bettany recalled that the team weighed whether a reunion “opened up too much for the MCU” or belonged in a later project. He credited Feige with telling him that he and showrunner Terry Matalas had made audiences care about Vision.
Matalas described the same tension. Wanda came up constantly in the writers’ room, he told TheWrap, and pages were drafted. He said the team dropped them because a returning Wanda would need her own story, not a supporting turn in someone else’s. He now says he wants a full Maximoff family reunion in a future project. The finale did leave a hint. Vision repeated a line from “WandaVision,” telling Tommy that the family had said goodbye before and would say hello again.
The scene has overshadowed the rest of the season. It dominated social media after the finale, even though it runs about a minute. The trilogy began with “WandaVision” in 2021 and continued with “Agatha All Along,” which left Wanda’s fate ambiguous. “VisionQuest” premiered October 14 with Bettany, James Spader as Ultron, and Matalas running the show. Marvel has not named Olsen or Bettany in the official “Doomsday” cast. Reports suggest both could surface in the film. Neither actor has confirmed it.
