Scarlet Witch’s Avengers: Doomsday Return Sets Up A Game-Changing Hulk Connection

Published Nov 11, 2026, 7:11 PM EST

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Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for VisionQuest episode 8.Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch is back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, setting up the character's surprise role in Avengers: Doomsday, and the franchise has just established an exciting connection between Wanda Maximoff and the Hulk. Olsen's Scarlet Witch grew to become one of the most popular characters in the Marvel Studios shared universe through the release of WandaVision, one of the MCU's best TV shows.

However, the character ended up becoming a villain again, leaving a path of destruction throughout the multiverse, and killing characters like a version of Patrick Stewart's Charles Xavier, John Krasinski's Reed Richards, and more in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Then, at the end of that movie, Wanda Maximoff sacrificed herself to destroy all Darkholds across the multiverse.

The dark magic book, which she was seen reading at the end of WandaVision in hopes of finding her twin sons, had corrupted her, and by giving her life to avoid the same happening in any universe, Olsen's Scarlet Witch found a path to redemption. For years, Marvel has worked with the notion that the Scarlet witch was dead, but that has changed.

VisionQuest's secret post-credits scene brought back the Scarlet Witch, who was resurrected seemingly right after her death in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness by none other than Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom. This directly sets Wanda to appear in December's Avengers: Doomsday, also drawing a link between her and Mark Ruffalo's Hulk, shedding light on Doom's plan.

VisionQuest's Scarlet Witch Return Establishes Doctor Doom's Plan

The VisionQuest finale saw the Scarlet Witch be resurrected by Doctor Doom as he told Wanda that her power would be his, which instantly reminded me of another 2026 appearance from Downey's MCU villain. The actor previously played Doctor Doom in one of Avengers: Endgame Encore's post-credits scenes, where he came to take away Ruffalo's Bruce Banner following the events of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Not only did Doom retrieve both the Hulk and the Scarlet Witch, but the scenes were similar, with the villain telling Banner that he came to collect him, while Doom said he wanted the Scarlet Witch's powers.

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Based on those MCU post-credits scenes, Doctor Doom is clearly assembling a powerful team of his own, either through mind-control or by taking the powers of some of the Marvel Studios franchise's most powerful characters, a category both the Hulk and Wanda fall into. There is a factor that boosts the mind-control theories, as that is an ability the Scarlet Witch has famously mastered through magic, which Downey's Victor von Doom could also know how to wield, given he managed to resurrect Wanda. Additionally, there are mysterious Latverian witches in Avengers: Doomsday, with one of them wearing red robes, which could be a mind-controlled Wanda.

Loki Is The Most Likely Candidate To Go Next On Doctor Doom's MCU List

Avengers: Doomsday will feature several powerful Marvel characters, but looking at the upcoming MCU movie's trailers, Tom Hiddleston's Loki has not appeared in the footage nearly as much as the rest. That, added to the fact that Loki is right on Doom's path to reshape the multiverse, given how the God of Stories' role is to protect the multiversal branches of Yggdrasil, positions Hiddleston's character as a fitting addition to the villain's growing list of kidnapped heroes.

Loki could also have a darker fate, as it would make more sense for Doctor Doom to kill him and take Loki's multiversal powers than to attempt a mind-control spell on him like the existence of the Latverian witches suggests might be the case for Wanda.

That said, it would also track if Doom was simply building his own team to fight the combined might of two Avengers squads, the Fantastic Four, and Fox's X-Men, as those superhero teams have powerful characters like Thor, Sentry, Magneto, and more. With few Avengers: Doomsday details revealed a month before the film's release, Marvel's new Scarlet Witch reveal, and its Hulk connection is an exciting update.

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