VisionQuest screeners were sent out to press in early October, with all eight episodes of the Disney+ series provided in advance. However, the finale's surprise post-credits scene was not included. That means the stinger came as a shock to everybody.
The newly added scene takes us back to the events of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, when a heartbroken Wanda Maximoff tore down Mount Wundagore and unleashed the full extent of her powers to destroy every copy of the Darkhold across the Multiverse.
An undisclosed amount of time later, Doctor Doom uses his magical abilities to lift the rubble and finds Wanda Maximoff's body beneath it. "Scarlet Witch, awaken," he says. "Your power will be mine." With that, the Avenger's eyes snap open before the screen cuts to black.
The Doctor Strange sequel established that Wanda has similarly powerful Variants across the Multiverse, so why would Victor Von Doom choose Earth-616's Scarlet Witch, specifically? Well, it almost certainly has something to do with the immense power she unleashed to erase the Darkhold. Doom has a spellbook in Avengers: Doomsday, and it's likely that his Darkhold also vanished when Wanda cast her spell.
Power like that will likely come in very handy to a villain who intends to reshape reality into a singular world he can rule over, and this lends some weight to theories that a mind-controlled Wanda is one of the Latverian Witches. Sylvie is likely another, while we'd bet on Clea—potentially dispatched by Doom to manipulate Doctor Strange into becoming Boris—being the third.
It's worth noting that we don't currently know the extent of Elizabeth Olsen's role in Avengers: Doomsday. Chances are both this and her scenes in the upcoming blockbuster were added during reshoots, and the Scarlet Witch may end up playing a much bigger role in 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars.
There's been some speculation on social media about that not actually being Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom in the stinger. The accent does sound different from what we've heard in trailers for Avengers: Doomsday, but unless Doom has dispatched Boris, we're pretty sure this is meant to be Earth-828's Victor.
The bigger takeaway is that Doom is clearly assembling a "team" of some sort. Spider-Man was seemingly teleported off Earth-616 in Spider-Man: Brand New Day's post-credits scene, while Avengers Endgame: Encore established that Doom has also captured The Hulk. Clearly, the villain has a fascination with this world; is he also collecting Earth-10005's heroes, and if so, what is his goal? That question will be answered next month.
In our full season review, we concluded, "Paul Bettany and James Spader are masterful in VisionQuest, a staggering achievement by Marvel Studios and Terry Matalas that understands its characters, does right by them, and delivers one of the best MCU stories ever told."
VisionQuest is now streaming on Disney+.