Spoilers for the VisionQuest finale and its post-credits scene follow.
Paul Bettany says Kevin Feige talked the VisionQuest team out of reuniting Vision with Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, because the Marvel Studios boss feared she would “distract” from the show. IGN reports that Bettany described the conversation in an interview with The Playlist. Wanda did turn up, but only after the credits had rolled.
Bettany says the idea of a Wanda moment at the end of the series was properly debated. There were questions about whether it should happen, whether it opened up too much for the wider MCU, and whether to save it for later. According to Bettany, Feige’s answer was that Bettany and showrunner Terry Matalas had made audiences care about Vision, and that a Wanda payoff would pull the show back into WandaVision territory. As Bettany recalls it, Feige’s reasoning was that the series “should and can stand on its own”. Bettany added that he thinks Feige was right.
The timing makes the comment more interesting. Kotaku notes that Bettany gave the answer before the finale aired, and that the finale carried a post-credits scene which wasn’t in any press screening. That scene returns to Wanda’s resting place on Mount Wundagore, where a cloaked figure that sounds and looks like Robert Downey Jr.’s Victor von Doom tells her to awaken. Her eyes then open.
IGN’s read is that the scene sits as far from the main story as it could, and that it appears to rely mostly on footage from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where Wanda met her apparent end in 2022. So Feige’s concern about distraction held where it counted, since the finale’s closing beats belong to Vision and his family. The reveal also arrives separately from that story, which makes it hard to read as a reunion. IGN scored the finale 7/10, saying the late villain addition “derails” it somewhat while the Vision and Ultron material still works.
The next test is Avengers: Doomsday, which opens on 18 December. CBR reports that Marvel hasn’t officially listed Olsen or Bettany in the cast, though it says the post-credits scene points to Wanda’s return and that Bettany is believed to be making an unannounced appearance. Whether Wanda gets to meet Vision, Billy and Tommy on screen is still open.
Does Wanda appear in the main story of VisionQuest?
No. Wanda’s only appearance is the post-credits scene after the finale. Bettany says Feige wanted the main story kept free of a reunion so the show could stand on its own.
Is Scarlet Witch confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday?
According to CBR, Marvel hasn’t listed Olsen in the film’s cast. The post-credits scene and IGN’s reading of it point to her return in the film, which opens on 18 December.
