VisionQuest Finale Reveals Fate of Marvel Character Before Doomsday

But Dr. Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) has other plans for Wanda. As he lifted debris from her lifeless body, he proclaimed, “Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine.”

Worlds collide in Doomsday—premiering Dec. 18—with many of the OG Avengers (minus Downey’s late Iron Man), Black Panther‘s Wakandans, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men uniting to face Dr. Doom’s existential threat to the multiverse. 

It was unclear whether Wanda would also return before the post-credit scene but Vision did tell Tommy at the end that “it stands to reason” they could meet the matriarch again.

When it came to Wanda’s role in VisionQuest, showrunner Terry Matalas shared insight into why she didn’t appear during the eight-episode series.

“We had lots of discussions,” he told E! News in an exclusive interview ahead of its premiere. “I can’t talk too much about the future of the MCU, but Wanda always felt present anyway, and I think especially in that very last scene, that intimate scene with Vision and Ultron.”

“Paul is talking about losing her, and it’s as if she’s in the room with them for a moment,” he recalled. “Would an appearance from her take away the journey that he’s on and become about that? That was a real question. Also, she can’t just be back. There has to be a story behind that.”

And he emphasized that they only had “so much real estate to be able to do that,” but he was looking forward to seeing what the future held for Wanda.

Meanwhile, Spader, reprising his role from Avengers: Age of Ultron,noted just how valuable her physical absence was in the series. 

“Sometimes someone’s presence is only magnified by their lack thereof,” he told E!. “The void that they leave by not being there makes their presence really so much more.”

“If it were that easy for Vision to be able to even imagine her right there and be able to reach out and not touch her, but to imagine her there, that would dissipate his feeling of loss,” he posited. “It would fill the void in an odd way, and the void for this show to work, the void had to be empty.”

While fans wait to watch Avengers: Doomsday, keep reading for more MCU shows to add to your queue.