Heading into tonight’s VisionQuest finale, Marvel fans were all wondering if Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) would return as the Scarlet Witch, paving the way for an even more stacked Avengers: Doomsday cast. As it turns out, the Disney+ show’s series finale seems to be setting up a long-rumored spin-off project: Young Avengers!?
**Spoilers for the VisionQuest finale, now streaming on Disney+**
Okay, so ever since the MCU began introducing the likes of Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton), Ironheart (Dominique Thorn), and more teen superheroes, fans have been awaiting the ultimate announcement: an official Young Avengers roster that would emerge as a team in either a Marvel show or movie. Now, with Wiccan (Joe Locke) arriving to help his long-lost brother Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica) save their father, Vision (Paul Bettany), from certain doom, it seems like the kids might finally link up in a huge way. Not to mention the fact that Tommy’s main squeeze Lisa “Coat of Arms” Mollinari (Lauren Morais) is in on the action!
In fact, when Lauren Morais visited the DECIDER studio last month, she didn’t just tease a potential Young Avengers project — she seemed to know where she might fit into the project! When asked if she would like to be involved in a potential Young Avengers line up, she said, “Yes, I would absolutely love to be involved in it because if you think about the comics of Lisa and what you were saying earlier about the villainy, the superhero-ness of it and how she questions that, she sees superheroes and villains as a performance art almost.”
In the comics, Lisa Molinari emerges as something as a morally grey anti-heroine. Sometimes she teams up with the Young Avengers to fight evil; sometimes she’s plotting crimes herself! This lines up neatly with the shameless pickpocket character we’ve met in VisionQuest. Lisa even ends the series by teaming up with another morally grey character, Palladin (Todd Stashwick).
“I think that’ll be really fun to explore,” Morais said, “and the relationship between her and Tommy.” In the comics, Tommy and Lisa are very off-and-on. Sometimes they’re together and sometimes they break up.
“There’s a lot going on for Lisa,” she said, before quipping about her new accessories. “Also the arms as well.”
Of course, Young Avengers is still just a rumor at this point. Avengers: Doomsday is officially the next major tentpole project coming to the MCU. When DECIDER asked Morais if she was in that Dec. 18 release, she simply said, “Babe, come on now. [VisionQuest is] out in a week. Let’s watch that first and then we get to Doomsday.“
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All eight episodes of VisionQuest are now streaming on Disney+.
