Elizabeth Olsen’s MCU return as Scarlet Witch could lead to a major X-Men storyline.
Olsen’s Scarlet Witch was last seen in 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Olsen is now voicing an undead Wanda Maximoff variant in Marvel Zombies, which premieres on Disney+ later this month, while there have also been numerous rumors that she’ll appear in Avengers: Doomsday. Her casting in that movie has not been officially confirmed at this time.
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Scooper Alex Perez of The Cosmic Circus was asked what role Wanda will play in Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday, assuming that Olsen truly is in the movie.
“In an unofficial capacity, I heard we’d be getting a Wanda variant from the X-Men universe that we’ll see in Avengers: Doomsday, which is a universe where Magneto is finally ruling Genosha as he had always pictured it; and we’d have like a ‘royal family’ type of situation with Erik, Pietro, Wanda, and Polaris,” Perez answered. “This is an idea that has been pushed since Multiverse of Madness, and then Deadpool and Wolverine, but it never feels like the right fit because it feels like it takes away from the overall plot. However, the main point they would like to explore with Wanda is the father-daughter relationship with Erik.”
When asked further about Ian McKellen’s role as Magneto in Avengers: Doomsday, Perez quoted one of the X-Men’s lines from 2024’s X-Men: From the Ashes Infinity Comic #13: “A lifetime — several lifetimes — spent chasing haven after haven, promised land after promised land, and for what? Every time the gates of Eden slam shut in our faces, it breaks us a little more.”
Avengers: Doomsday will be released in United States theaters on December 18, 2026, from Marvel Studios. The sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars, then follows on December 17, 2027.