‘VisionQuest’ Just Became Required Viewing Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’, and Marvel Barely Said a Word

Marvel has spent weeks turning the road to ‘Avengers: Doomsday‘ into a full-blown homework assignment, and ‘VisionQuest‘ has now become part of that story. The studio wants fans to walk into the theater with the multiverse fresh in their minds, and Disney+ has been steering subscribers toward a curated watch list to make that happen. The collection brings together all of the films and shows Marvel recommends audiences watch before the new movie.

The ‘Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday’ collection lets viewers meet the characters of ‘Doomsday’ and explore the Multiverse and its many realities. It stretches from ‘X-Men’ and ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ through ‘Avengers: Endgame’, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’. There is also a 5-episode podcast hosted by Iman Vellani and Frank Alvarez, and you can find the collection in the All Collections section on the Search tab and on the Disney+ homepage.

That lineup just picked up a notable new entry. ‘VisionQuest’ was quietly added to the Disney+ Countdown to Doomsday lineup, appearing alongside ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’, ‘Thunderbolts*’ and ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’. The move is a surprise because none of the ‘WandaVision’ trilogy entries made the original list.

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The series was already sitting at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes ahead of the finale, so the addition also rewards a well-received show. The timing makes sense once you look at what happened in the season finale. Episode 8, titled ‘Forever’, ended with a surprise post-credits sequence that Marvel Studios withheld from the critics’ screener copies.

The scene shows a hooded figure that appears to be Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom raising the rubble of Wundagore off Wanda Maximoff. Doom then tells Wanda to awaken and says her power will be his. Showrunner Terry Matalas called Wanda the missing component of that finale, and in an interview with Gold Derby, he confirmed that the scene flows directly into ‘Avengers: Doomsday’. What he can’t say is whether the Maximoff family reunion will happen in ‘Doomsday’ or in ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’.

One analysis of the scene notes that Doom has no interest in acquiring Vision, which hints at the scope and direction of his plans.

Marvel appears to have planted clues ahead of time. The Doomsday Clock livestream on YouTube briefly glitched hours before the episode aired, showing a line of code that translated to a finale-tonight message. That connection could have been just another marketing stunt, but it looks far more deliberate in hindsight. The overlap makes sense on the production side, too, since ‘VisionQuest’ filmed at Pinewood Studios between March and July in 2025, while ‘Doomsday’ shot there between April and September.

Wanda had seemingly been dead since ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ arrived in 2022, so her return is a major development. Deadline also reads the scene as a hint at Olsen’s return for ‘Doomsday’. Entertainment Weekly reports that the scene appears to confirm Elizabeth Olsen’s return as Scarlet Witch, given the character’s strong ties to Doom in Marvel comics.

Fans are already debating whether Wanda becomes an unwilling ally of the villain, or whether Doom captures her to use her power for his own ends. Another theory suggests she could be one of the Latverian Witches.

The first trailer for #VisionQuest, premiering October 14 on Disney+. https://t.co/jIcsJ2Iarl

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The finale also reunited Vision with his sons, Billy and Tommy, played by Joe Locke and Ruaridh Mollica. Online, some fans have called the Doom reveal the best post-credit scene in MCU history, and it adds even more weight to a film that will mark Patrick Stewart’s final performance as Professor Charles Xavier.

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Disney+ is keeping the momentum going with ‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’, which arrives on the platform on Nov. 13. The extended cut adds new footage that leads into ‘Avengers: Doomsday’, and Marvel also released a new ‘Countdown to Doomsday’ TV spot and poster ahead of the streaming debut.

‘Avengers: Doomsday’ opens in theaters on Dec. 18, so there is still time to catch up. Anyone who skipped ‘VisionQuest’ may want to fix that, since it now sits on the official watch list.

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