The “VisionQuest” finale ended with a surprise that connects the Disney+ series directly to “Avengers: Doomsday.” In a post-credits scene, Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom revives Wanda Maximoff. Marvel kept the scene out of the press screeners, so critics and reporters saw it only when the episode streamed Tuesday.
The scene shows Doom standing over Wanda, who had seemed to die beneath a mountain in grief at the end of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” He tells her, “Scarlet Witch, awaken,” and says her power will be his. Her eyes open and the screen cuts to black. The reveal reinforces the villain’s role in the film that opens Dec. 18.
An earlier mid-credits scene belongs to Ultron, played by James Spader. He now occupies a new body built from the nanites of Jocasta, and he holds a drive labeled with her name. Showrunner Terry Matalas explained that sequence in interviews timed to the finale, though he apparently said little about the Doom footage. In his conversation with Entertainment Weekly, he called the Ultron moment “just a promise of some kind that Ultron’s not done.” He said the idea came from the writers’ room, not from a Marvel mandate, and that he shot more of the scene than viewers saw. What happens to the character is, he said, up to Marvel’s higher-ups.
Matalas also described the finale’s emotional center as a reunion. Vision and his son Tommy meet Billy, and Tommy asks whether they will ever see their mother again. Vision answers that they “might say hello again,” a line the Doom scene now makes concrete. Matalas said the show’s placement between “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “Avengers: Doomsday” was a coincidence. The team did not plan around the release dates when it began work a year and a half ago, he said.
Reaction has focused on the gap between the creator’s account and the surprise. Some commentators noted that Matalas never mentioned the Doom scene, which raises questions about how much control he had over it. Disney has not said who decided to add it or why it was withheld from advance copies. Wanda’s return leaves a family reunion that “Doomsday” will have to address, with Doom controlling her.
