At Last, The MCU Is Officially Setting Up The Best Doctor Doom/Scarlet Witch Story

Marvel Studios is preparing for the debut of Robert Downey Jr.s Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, which is set to release at the end of this year. However, an exciting new theory suggests Doom’s arrival in the MCU may also involve the return of The Scarlet Witch.

Played by Elizabeth Olsen, Wanda Maximoff’s Scarlet Witch has been absent from the main MCU continuity since 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which saw Wanda controversially being corrupted by the Darkhold in a bid to reunite with her sons from a different reality (no matter the cost). Eventually, Wanda was shown how far she’d fallen, prompting her to sacrifice herself by bringing down Mount Wundagore, destroying every copy of the Darkhold in the process.

That said, many fans have never stopped believing in Wanda’s eventual return to the MCU, especially with the rest of her family still having such prominent, ongoing roles. Between the new VisionQuest series on Disney+ and the reveal of mysterious mystical characters beyond Victor von Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, there’s plenty reason to suspect that Marvel Studios has secret plans for the Scarlet Witch (which may involve Doctor Doom himself).

VisionQuest Is Setting Up A Maximoff Family Reunion…But What About Wanda?

Beginning with 2021’s WandaVision, Wanda’s grief losing Vision (Paul Bettany) in Avengers: Infinity War led to her inadvertent creation of a massive hex over the town of Westview, transforming it into her TV-perfect happy ending, while also manifesting a new Vision and their twin boys from the comics, Billy and Tommy. By the end of WandaVision, Wanda undid the hex despite the fact it meant losing Vision and here boys. This is what ultimately led to her corruption by the Darkhold trying to get her boys back via another reality and subsequent death at Mount Wundagore in 2022’s Multiverse of Madness.

However, the story of Wanda Maximoff’s family has very much continued even without Wanda herself. In 2024’s Agatha All Along, it was revealed that Billy used his magic to transfer his soul into the body of teenager William Kaplan (Joe Locke) before the Hex was being undone. He then did the same for Tommy’s soul with Thomas Shepherd (Ruaridh Mollica), a key parallel to their origins from the comics.

While Agatha All Along ended with Billy/William and the ghost of Agatha Harkness searching for Tommy/Thomas, we now have 2026’s VisionQuest starring the original Vision (rebuilt by SWORD at the end of WandaVision), as well as Tommy himself who’s gradually been learning from his synthezoid “father” about Wanda, the events of Westview, and their family.

With VisionQuest just days away from its finale, Vision and the Maximoff twins finding each other again feels increasingly likely. Combined with Vision starting to regain the humanity and emotion he temporarily lost after being reactivated, nearly all of the pieces are in place for a major Maximoff family reunion in the MCU’s future except one: Wanda.

While she seemed to have died under the collapse of Mount Wundagore, The Scarlet Witch is one of the most powerful beings in the entire Marvel Universe. As such, it’s not much of a leap in logic to suggest that she could have survived (or was perhaps even rescued by someone seeking her power…)

Avengers: Doomsday Will Include Latverian Witches Serving Doctor Doom

Beyond what’s been happening on the small-screen for the surviving Maximoffs, the ambiguity and hopes about Wanda’s return have never been higher thanks to Avengers: Doomsday and its masked “Latverian Witches” who will apparently be serving Doctor Doom.

Their exact identities and purpose of these witches in the upcoming MCU crossover have yet to be confirmed, and they may very well just be generic servants of Doom (a master sorcerer in his own right). However, they’ve notably been shown wearing different colored robes including green, purple, orange, and red, leading many to wonder if established magical characters like Sylvie, Agatha, Clea, or Wanda herself could be under Doom’s influence.

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Thinking about Wanda in particular, Doom would have certainly had the power to secretly intervene to save Wanda at Mount Wundagore, perhaps in a bid to bring her into his service and plans for the multiverse at large. There’s also some key comics precedent for this idea as well, as seen in Marvel’s classic “Children’s Crusade” storyline.

In “Children’s Crusade”, Doctor Doom secretly takes in an amnesiac Wanda from Mount Wundagore after her major breakdown that resulted in her magic triggering the near-genocide of mutantkind (House of M). Hoping to marry Wanda and use her power for his own ends, the intervention of Wanda’s boys, their fellow Young Avengers, and several Avengers and X-Men alike prevented Doom from taking full control of the Scarlet Witch’s power and her memories being restored.

While none of this confirms that the MCU’s Wanda Maximoff is indeed one of these Latverian Witches in Doomsday, being onee of the masked magic wielders would provide a very natural way for the MCU to kick-off a new storyline inspired by “Children’s Crusade”, perhaps even one that continues beyond the Multiverse Saga itself.

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