We don’t but know if the occasions of VisionQuest will affect the upcoming Avengers movies — Doomsday in a couple of month and Secret Wars after a 12 months’s intermission — however the present’s post-credits tag most definitely does. Each thrilling in its revelation and inelegant in its execution, the tease in query is a type of resurrection, which ought to come as no shock in a present concerning the second incarnation of lifeless speedster baby Tommy Maximoff and the third of his synthezoid father. All people comes again to life in these items; it’s simply the flip of one other member of the family.
Spoilers observe for the VisionQuest finale.
The Disney+ miniseries’ last episode kicks off with the reunion between the now-adult Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica) and his long-lost twin brother, Billy (Joe Locke), whose escape from loss of life was defined in one other WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Alongside. That’s a little bit an excessive amount of to get into right here, however the return of the superpowered siblings, and that of their AI dad, Imaginative and prescient (Paul Bettany), makes Tommy surprise out loud, late into the episode, if this implies the fourth member of their sitcom household, the presumed-dead Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), may return sometime as properly.
Wouldn’t you recognize it, Tommy was a couple of minutes early along with his question — or maybe just a few years late, given when and the place this tag seems to happen. Shortly after a obscure tease of the human Ultron (James Spader) pondering what to do with the saved exhausting drive of his AI squeeze, Jocasta (T’Nia Miller) — one more resurrection appears to be en route — we return to the climactic scene of the 2022 theatrical launch Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity. A grief-stricken Wanda, having acknowledged her villainy, makes use of her red-tinged hex magic to deliver the Scarlet Witch temple on Mount Wundagore crashing down atop her. Solely this time, the scene continues.
Shortly thereafter, magic with a inexperienced hue (a-ha! Right here he comes!) is used to psychically elevate a little bit of particles, underneath which Wanda seems to be unconscious. A hooded silhouette speaks in a raspy, mishmash accent: “Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your energy can be mine.” Wanda, within the emerald glow of this sorcery, opens her eyes in a fright because the display screen cuts to black. That is, after all, none apart from Robert Downey Jr.’s Victor Von Doom, a.okay.a. Physician Doom, the antagonist of Avengers: Doomsday and one of the vital highly effective figures in Marvel comics. However what precisely is occurring right here?
Should you watched the theatrical rerelease Avengers: Endgame Encore, an analogous post-credits tag depicts Bruce Banner a.okay.a. the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) being kidnapped — or in Doom’s phrases, “collected” — from an underground bunker. He’s clearly placing some type of group collectively, and the VisionQuest teaser all however confirms the persistent rumor surrounding the identification of at the least one of many “Latverian Witches,” mysterious cloaked and hooded figures revealed at Comedian-Con who seem like sulking round Doom’s citadel within the film’s trailers.
Whereas it could’ve been neat to attribute Wanda’s survival to witchcraft — some type of protecting spell maintaining her alive, slightly than simply “she was unconscious the entire time” — the arrival of Doom, presumably from his personal universe, additional underlines the loopy breadth of his plan. He’s already magic’d as much as the gills, so what might he probably want Wanda’s powers for as properly? Marvel could also be winding down its TV reveals, however that is in all probability the primary time one of many MCU’s small-screen teasers may truly get individuals to purchase tickets, so at the least the enterprise goes out on a excessive.
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