Avengers: Doomsday – Who Are Doctor Doom’s Latverian Witches?

This article contains spoilers for VisionQuest episode 8.

In a surprise to even those who had advanced screeners and wrote all of their reviews in good faith that they were being shown the entire show and are not at all grouchy about finding out that their articles are now wrong, VisionQuest ended with an unexpected post-credits scene. The scene picks up shortly after the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where Scarlet Witch gets crushed on Mount Wundagore. In the new material, we look through Wanda’s point of view as the rubble lifts, courtesy of Doctor Doom’s magic. “Scarlet Witch, awaken… your power will be mine,” commands Doom, causing Wanda’s eyes to open suddenly.

The post-credits scene all but confirms a theory that has been bandied about on the internet since promotional materials for Avengers: Doomsday revealed Doom’s Latverian Witches, a trio of women whose faces are hidden under masks, each of which wearing uniquely color-coded robes. We can now assume that the one in scarlet is, indeed, the Scarlet Witch. But who are the witches in purple and green?

The Purple Witch

The purple-hued witch is most likely Clea, who we met back in Multiverse of Madness. If you only know Marvel from the movies, then you probably don’t remember Clea, since she has approximately one minute of screen time. But this will help: she’s the person Charlize Theron played in the post-credits scene, recruiting Strange to help deal with the problem of Incursions.

Clea is one of the most important magical characters in the Marvel Universe. The daughter of Prince Orini of the Dark Dimension and niece to the Dread Dormammu, Clea became the love interest of Doctor Strange shortly after her first appearance in 1964’s Strange Tales #126, by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee. And, like most female characters in Marvel Comics, she sometimes gets corrupted when she gains too much power. However, Clea has more recently been given a steady place in the Marvel Universe, becoming the Sorcerer Supreme in Strange’s place and helping to bring balance to several dimensions.

Of course, a big blockbuster like Doomsday would benefit from a surprise appearance by an A-lister like Theron. But Clea also makes sense on a narrative and adaptation level. In the 2015 Secret Wars storyline by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić, Doctor Doom steals the powers of the godlike Beyonders to save the universe from destruction through Incursions. In the process, he remakes the world in his image, setting himself up as God Emperor and making the family of the despised Reed Richards—wife Sue Storm and children Franklin and Valeria—into his own family.

Although a handful of survivors escape Doom’s recreation and eventually arrive to fight against it, only one person within Doom’s world remembers what used to be: Stephen Strange, who sought the Beyonders alongside Doom, but hesitated to take the power. For that reason, Strange plays the role of the Sheriff of Agamotto in this world, a guilt-riddled collaborator who enforces the lie that Doom has always been God Emperor because doing so will keep the peace.

Although Benedict Cumberbatch was not one of the actors named in the infamous chair reveal video, it’s impossible to think that Strange won’t be involved in Doomsday in some capacity. And there has been a male figure dressed in brown and green alongside the Latverian Witches, also masked, who some have theorized is Doctor Strange. But why would Strange collaborate with this version of Doom, given that there are no Beyonders? The answer may be that Doom has captured Clea and turned her into one of his witches.

The Green Witch

Which brings us to the other witch, dressed in green. Initial theories suggested that the green Witch is Sylvie, a variant of Loki from his TV show. Sylvie has always had a reckless streak, and given the multversal nature of Doomsday, it would follow that someone who hops between realities would be of interest to Doom. And, of course, Sylvie wears green and gold, just like that of the Witch.

But green is also Doom’s preferred color scheme, which means that the Green Witch may be someone close to Doom, and here’s where things get interesting. In the comics, Doom learns magic from his mother Cynthia, and even teams with Doctor Strange to rescue her soul from Hell in the excellent 1989 graphic novel Triumph and Torment.

Perhaps, he has Cynthia alongside him in Doomsday. If that sounds harsh, you have to remember that Doom in the comics traded the soul of his beloved to the Devil in order to gain the power to destroy the Fantastic Four. That beloved was named Valeria, and she’s recently become a key character in Captain America comics about Steve Rogers fighting Doom, a plot point created to hype Doomsday. Could the Green Witch be Valeria, then?

Valeria is also the name of the third, and most compelling, possibility of the Green Witch’s identity. In the comics, Reed and Sue have two children. In addition to Franklin, who we met in Fantastic Four: First Steps, they have Valeria, a girl whose delivery almost killed Sue. Upon learning that only magic could save both Sue and the child, Doom offered his help, happy to succeed where Richards failed. He only had one requirement, that he name the child, who he christened after his lost love. Since then, Doom has been Valeria’s loving godfather.

Loving, that is, by Doom’s standards. We already have already seen Doom interacting with Franklin Richards in the post-credits scene of First Steps, and Doomsday seems to involve him kidnapping heroes’ children, including the son of Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter, as well as Thor’s daughter Love. Even though Valeria Richards favors science over magic, and does not have her brother Franklin’s vast mutant abilities, Doom may age her up and make her one of his witches, if only to hold sway over Reed.

The Season of the Witches

Perhaps the biggest question of all is why Doom has these Witches in the first place. Given all the talk about Incursions and heroes from other realities in films from the past three MCU phases, we can tell that Doomsday draws in part from the Secret Wars comic arc.

Are the Witches the replacement for the abilities of the Beyonder and the all-powerful Molecule Man, who help Doom remake reality in the comics? Or do they serve a more sinister, personal purpose? Recent trailers for Doomsday have suggested that this version of Doom turns evil after losing his family. That family connection tracks not just with his interacting with Franklin in First Steps, but also with his decision to resurrect Wanda—a mother willing to destroy the world for her children—to be one of his Witches.

And that brings us to the most terrifying possibility, that the Green Witch is Sue Storm. Like Valeria, Sue doesn’t have magical powers, but she is quite formidable. Moreover, Sue represents for Doom everything that Reed has and he does not, which is why he made Sue his wife in the Secret Wars storyline. Finally, making Sue the Green Witch would fit within the familial theme we’ve seen, with Doom getting his own stolen life to make up for the one he lost.

We can’t say for sure, but we’ll learn the truth soon. Because Doomsday is almost here.

Avengers: Doomsday releases in theaters on December 18, 2026.