It’s Really Him: ‘VisionQuest’ Showrunner Confirms Robert Downey Jr. Voiced Doctor Doom in That Post-Credits Scene

Marvel kept its biggest ‘VisionQuest’ surprise for after the credits, and fans have been talking about it all week. Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom showed up at the end of the Disney+ finale, but the voice behind the mask had some viewers wondering whether it was actually him.

The surprise stinger arrived in the eighth and final episode, “Forever.” Doctor Doom appears, levitating the rubble and freeing Wanda. “Scarlet Witch, awaken,” he says. “Your power will be mine.” Wanda’s eyes shoot open, and the scene cuts to black. Marvel guarded the moment closely. The finale’s surprise post-credits scene was not included in the screeners sent to press, so it came as a shock to everybody.

The surprise appearance quickly became a talking point online, but not only because of Wanda. A few curious viewers noticed that Doctor Doom didn’t sound like Downey’s voice. There was speculation on social media that it wasn’t actually Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom in the stinger.

Now the showrunner has settled it. “That’s Downey’s voice,” Terry Matalas confirmed to Gold Derby. That rules out a stand-in or a hint at another variant of the character. Matalas also explained that the Doom scene wasn’t his own work.

He wrote and directed “Forever,” but he wasn’t personally behind the camera for that sequence. He said Doom’s line was written specifically for this moment, but he wouldn’t explain how the scene was put together so he wouldn’t give anything away.

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The confirmation doesn’t explain everything. It’s unclear why Doctor Doom sounded different. Some have wondered whether that was intentional or just a matter of tweaking Downey’s voice before the movie’s release.

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Downey’s take on Doom had already divided fans before this. His accent was a talking point when it first appeared in an ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ trailer. Marvel has also kept Downey’s face hidden behind the metal mask in that footage, so his voice has been the main way audiences have met Doom.

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Matalas also explained why Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch didn’t appear earlier in the season. According to his Gold Derby interview, the team talked about having Wanda appear in a dreamlike way.

They worried that doing it at the wrong moment would make the episode about her instead of Vision, so the end-credits sequence was the right place to address her. The timing also worked out by chance. Matalas said nobody knew that ‘VisionQuest’ would be sandwiched between Spider-Man and Avengers on Marvel’s release schedule.

As it turns out, Doom almost wasn’t Downey’s only connection to the series. Speaking on the Brandon Davis Show, Matalas said he explored a voice cameo from Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark before deciding against it. The idea was a pre-‘Iron Man’ Stark in a flashback scene with guest star Mary McDonnell’s Katerina Wells.

The show’s budget got in the way. Matalas admitted that asking Downey to come in would have been a lot to request on a television budget. Now that he has met the actor, he thinks he would have tried anyway, though he also thinks the cameo might have taken away from the story.

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With the voice question answered, attention moves to Doom’s plans. Nothing in the footage establishes whether Doom intends to control Wanda, siphon her magic, or pursue another plan. There has also been widespread speculation that the masks of Doom’s witches hide familiar faces, including Wanda’s, and this post-credits scene all but confirms it.

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The scene also fits a pattern in how Marvel has built up its villains. Spider-Man was seemingly teleported off Earth-616 in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s ‘ post-credits scene, while ‘Avengers: Endgame: Encore’ established that Doom has also captured The Hulk. Fans won’t have to wait much longer, since ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ hits theaters on December 18.

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