What's Up With Those Avengers: Doomsday Latverian Witches at Comic-Con? | Comic Con 2026

There’s a lot going on, arsenic usual, astatine San Diego Comic-Con. But successful betwixt each the sound and fury of the panels, announcements, and exclusives, there’s a enigma brewing: what the heck is up with those Latverian Witch costumes astatine the Marvel booth, and what bash they mean for Avengers: Doomsday?

Look, there’s each accidental that by contiguous erstwhile Marvel takes implicit Hall H for their overmuch hyped panel, we’ll person an reply to this question. But to instrumentality it backmost for immoderate context, if you are speechmaking this astatine home, oregon possibly got mislaid successful San Diego determination betwixt the Rick and Morty activation and getting trained up to go a Green Lantern, here’s what’s been going down implicit the past fewer days.

Who bash you deliberation the Latverian Witches are successful ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’? pic.twitter.com/YGf5IEjCCE

Starting connected Preview Night connected Wednesday (July 22), Marvel revealed a amusive astonishment astatine their booth: costumes from the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Those see a battle-worn Cyclops (James Marsden), a Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), a costume for Thor (Chris Hemsworth) which looks remarkably good fixed he’s gone axe to pointer digit with Doctor Doom (Robert Downey, Jr.), Sam Wilson/Captain America (Anthony Mackie), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), and Gambit (Channing Tatum).

But successful the midst of these costumes, each of which correspond characters we saw successful the precocious released Avengers: Doomsday trailer, was 1 large head-scratcher: a Latverian Witch. What’s a Latverian Witch? Great question, we don’t truly know. Or rather, we’ve got a slew of theories, and they’re based connected the information that not lone is determination a Latverian Witch successful the movie… There are (as of this writing) astatine slightest 3 of them.

That’s due to the fact that connected Wednesday, the Latverian Witch costume was green. The adjacent day, Thursday (July 23) it was yellowish (or orange), with a antithetic loop buckle and 1 concatenation hanging from its (her?) neck, alternatively of three, similar the erstwhile day. And connected Friday (July 24) the costume changed again, to purple. Chances are it volition alteration again (or has changed again depending connected erstwhile you’re speechmaking this), and we’ve got a beauteous bully thought what color(s) it whitethorn alteration to connected Saturday and Sunday.

But let’s get into this a small further, due to the fact that determination are astatine slightest 2 large things you whitethorn beryllium capable to prime retired from these seemingly innocuous costumes.

The first, and possibly slightest spicy spot of info? It’s wide that Doctor Doom has immoderate lieutenants moving for oregon with him successful immoderate capacity. Just similar Thanos with the Black Order, you request immoderate benignant of sub-bosses earlier everyone teams up to instrumentality retired the main boss. And portion it’s imaginable that Doom whitethorn beryllium employing Doombots a la the comics, oregon possibly conscionable taking everyone down each by himself, the instauration of these Latverian Witches seems to connote there’s a coven of magic users moving for him. It’s besides not unimportant to notation that employing Witches – unless there’s a weird twist present and they’re moving against him – means Doom is utilizing magic, possibly successful summation to science. This is existent to the comics, wherever helium employs a premix of both; truthful apt simply by having a “Latverian Witch” costume astatine San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve got confirmation of magic Doom.

…That’s not what you’re funny astir though, right? You privation to cognize who the Latverian Witches are? And the happening is, there’s each accidental they whitethorn successful information beryllium characters we already know.

So, arsenic you whitethorn beryllium aware, Doomsday is packed to the brim with characters already, from the Fantastic Four and Wakandans to the X-Men and Thunderbolts* (*New Avengers). We’ve got Talokans, Asgardians, and adjacent a clump of children and Ant-Men wandering around. Given the multiversal cataclysm we’re apt getting successful the movie, this makes a batch of sense. But what the beingness of these Latverian Witches astatine SDCC pre-suppose is: what if determination are adjacent more characters?

Is it imaginable that the Latverian Witch masks are besides hiding different acquainted faces down their metallic facades? And if so, who mightiness they be?“

One crushed for reasoning this? The costumes are masked, and hands covered, aforesaid arsenic Doctor Doom. Since we person yet to observe wherefore Doom has the aforesaid look arsenic our beloved Tony Stark successful the movie, is it imaginable that the Latverian Witch masks are besides hiding different acquainted faces down their metallic facades? And if so, who mightiness they be?

The colors, let’s beryllium honest, are a beauteous bully indicator. To enactment backwards here, Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) is intimately associated with purple, truthful if these LWs (Latverian Witches) are so recognizable characters, it’s much than apt the purple 1 is Agatha. Before we get excessively far, the travel up question present is: which Witch is which? Meaning, is this the Agatha Harkness of the MCU, who was past seen arsenic a shade hanging retired with Wiccan (Joe Locke) successful Agatha All Along? Likely not, and since we don’t cognize what beingness Doom is from, though he’s apt hailing from Earth-828, location of the Fantastic Four, this could beryllium that universe’s mentation of Agatha. It besides could beryllium a neat spot of connection, arsenic successful the Marvel Comics Agatha was sometimes baby-sitter for Franklin, Sue and Reed’s (Pedro Pascal) kid, who Doom shows a ton of involvement successful during the Fantastic Four: First Steps post-credits scene. Alternatively, this could beryllium Clea (Charlize Theron), who was lone concisely seen successful the extremity credits to Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, arsenic she is simply a magic idiosyncratic and besides wears purple.

To leap backmost to the archetypal costume, the greenish Witch has a antithetic costume than the different 2 that person been shown disconnected arsenic of this writing… She has 3 chains, arsenic mentioned, and a loop buckle, which seems to connote she’s successful charge. At archetypal glance, the buckle mightiness look successful the aforesaid vein arsenic the Eye of Agamotto, the mystical relic Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) uses, which could bespeak possibly the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton). Alternately? Another quality who uses magic and is tied to the colour greenish is Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), the pistillate variant of Loki. If this is Sylvie, well, she was near successful Loki Season 2 not knowing what she was going to bash next, and seemingly capable to traverse timelines. So this seems similar a likelier fishy than the Ancient One, and it simply could beryllium Sylvie uncovering a caller intent helping Doom. Though determination is 1 different possibility: Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), aka the Green Witch from Agatha All Along, aka Death. Rio seems a small little apt conscionable due to the fact that she’s, you know, the avatar of Death, truthful what is she doing moving for Doom? But hey, the colour strategy works.

Let’s spell to the head-scratcher, the yellowish LW. Or orangish LW – it’s hard to archer with the lighting. Turning to Agatha’s coven from Agatha All Along, Alice Wu-Gulliver (Ali Ahn) uses orangish magic, portion Lilia Calderu (Patti Lupone) uses yellowish magic. Nothing against either actress, peculiarly the legendary Patti Lupone, but if these Witches are astonishment characters it mightiness marque little of an interaction for wide audiences if they’re each Agatha’s coven, versus an array of faces from assorted properties (meaning Sylvie, Agatha, etc.). So if it’s not Alice of Lilia, past who? Again, we could spell backmost to the Ancient One, who utilized orangish magic courtesy of the Sling Ring.

…But there’s 1 much facet of this we request to sermon that possibly points to a wholly antithetic mode this colour strategy could work: they’re each Infinity Stones.

What bash we mean by “they’re each Infinity Stones”? Merely that the colors of the Latverian Witches, frankincense far, lucifer the colors of Time (green), Power (purple), and Soul (orange)... Unless it’s yellowish for the Mind Stone, but tin we conscionable accidental orange, jeez louise. Point being, determination are 3 much colors to go, and 2 days near of Comic-Con (again, arsenic of this writing). We’ve got Blue for the Mind Stone, and Red for the Reality Stone. As established successful some Loki and What If…? the Infinity Stones beryllium successful each universe. That means they beryllium successful the Fantastic Four’s beingness arsenic well, and assuming Doctor Doom is from there, is it imaginable that helium gave 1 Infinity Stone to each of his six Witches (or 1 to each of his 5 Witches, and kept 1 for himself)? Sure! Maybe!

Whatever is going connected with this colour scheme, it matches the colour of the Infinity Stones, and fixed you’ve got the Russos – the guys who directed Infinity War and Endgame – astatine the helm of Doomsday, that doesn’t look to beryllium a coincidence.

Okay, fine, determination really is 1 much happening we request to discuss, since it seems much than apt determination are astatine slightest 2 much colors to go, and much than apt 1 of those colors is red. Aka, scarlet. So if determination are Latverian Witches, and 1 is simply a scarlet Witch… Is it THE Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen)? When past we saw our Wanda Maximoff, she was being crushed by Mount Wundagore, with Doctor Strange beauteous conclusively saying that she died. But decease is conscionable a impermanent reprieve successful the MCU. There could beryllium an alternate Wanda, oregon Wanda could person been snatched retired of the timestream by Doom – oregon Loki? – moments earlier death. And adjacent if it’s conscionable a infinitesimal astatine the extremity of Doomsday, it seems similar an tremendous missed opportunity, if you bash person a masked, reddish Witch for it to not beryllium Wanda. To instrumentality it further, if Marvel puts a masked, reddish Witch successful their movie, and it’s not Wanda, Marvel fans successful movie theaters are going to marque the Battle of New York look similar a insignificant scuffle.

So volition Marvel truly bring backmost Wanda, and make a full coven of witches moving for Doom that are astonishment impermanent stars to beryllium revealed connected screen? Will those witches besides person Infinity Stones, and beryllium the cardinal to possibly allowing Doom to make Battleworld successful Secret Wars? Or possibly these are conscionable amusive costumes from 1 country successful the movie that Marvel thought would look bully astatine their booth. Either way, we’ll apt cognize much erstwhile Kevin Feige and institution instrumentality the signifier successful Hall H. Until then? We tin clasp retired anticipation that a mates of perchance randomly colored costumes mean Wanda Maximoff is coming backmost to us.