The arc of the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) has been fairly wild since she was first launched into the Marvel Cinematic Universe again in 2014. On the finish of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” she was seen as an aspiring villainess, saved at bay in a mysterious jail. In 2015’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” she fell underneath the thrall of the evil super-robot of the movie’s title, utilizing her magical powers to battle the movie’s superhero characters. The character would ultimately determine that being a hero is preferable to being a villain, and would battle alongside the great guys in “Captain America: Civil Battle,” “Avengers: Infinity Battle,” and “Avengers: Endgame.” Like her comedian e-book counterpart, the Witch would additionally start a tentative romance with the Imaginative and prescient (Paul Bettany), a extra moral super-robot.
After the occasions of her personal therapeutic TV sequence “WandaVision” nonetheless, the Scarlet Witch would flip again to darkish magic to satisfy her dream of residing in a suburban dwelling with two sons. She turned a demonic, murdering villain in 2022’s “Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity.” That wasn’t the final anybody noticed of her, as Olsen reprised the position for the animated sequence “What If…?” in 2023. The character, many may need assumed, might have been retired after that.
As reported within the pages of /Movie, nonetheless, Bettany’s Imaginative and prescient character will return in his personal sequence, set to be overseen by Terry Matalas and to be launched in 2026. The final we noticed of Imaginative and prescient, he had been rebuilt by S.W.O.R.D. as a milk-white ghost-like android, despatched to destroy a synthetic doppelgänger. A more moderen report introduced that the destroyed Ultron (James Spader) might return because the present’s villain. The title could also be “Imaginative and prescient Quest,” though that’s not official.
Deadline has additionally seemingly heard a rumor that the Scarlet Witch may even return. Though no particulars have but been given.
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Deadline, it must be famous, can also be simply logically extrapolating the Scarlet Witch’s presence due to her longstanding romance with Imaginative and prescient. Within the authentic Marvel Comics, the 2 have been romantically intertwined for years, and the Witch/android romance turned a notable element within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Certainly, when the power-mad area alien Thanos (Josh Brolin) killed Imaginative and prescient in 2018’s “Infinity Battle,” the Scarlet Witch was thrown right into a fugue of grief. Whereas despondent, she unwittingly makes use of her magical powers to resurrect Imaginative and prescient and create their best, sitcom-like suburban fantasy inside a reality-warped bubble dropped over a small city in America.
The adventures inside that bubble and the Witch’s journey out of her grief was the topic of “WandaVision.” Though Imaginative and prescient was lifeless, he did play a significant position in that sequence. After he had been rebuilt, he flew away to search out himself and change into extra human. The upcoming Imaginative and prescient-centered TV sequence will observe his journey.
The Scarlet Witch, in the meantime, is presumed lifeless after the occasions of “Multiverse of Insanity.” On the finish of that movie, she had discovered a approach to leap right into a parallel universe — through a human near-sacrifice — the place the sons she created in “WandaVision” have been truly actual. Once they have been terrified of her, nonetheless, Wanda realized that she had change into evil, and destroyed the black temple the place she practically killed a younger lady. She may need crushed herself within the course of.
Ought to Wanda seem in “Imaginative and prescient,” the writers have their work minimize out for them. Or maybe not. Because of the machinations of the multiverse, it might be simple to achieve right into a parallel universe and retrieve nonetheless many Wandas Terry Matalas may have.
