Somewhere in Latveria, Doctor Doom is standing in front of a closet with three identical robes hanging in it, and he simply cannot decide which color to give his new coven. Green? Orange? Purple, for that classy villain-adjacent flair?
Marvel Studios apparently couldn’t decide either, because over the course of one very chaotic San Diego Comic-Con week, the internet got a slow-motion costume reveal that changed colors daily like Doom was running a fashion show instead of assembling an army.
Now, with actual leaked promotional images finally hitting the internet, it’s time to break down exactly what we know — and gleefully speculate about what we don’t — regarding the Latverian Witches.
Wait, Who Leaked What, Exactly?
Let’s start with the actual news, because there’s a lot of it. Multiple outlets, including ComicBookMovie and NewsBytes, reported that promotional images from Avengers: Doomsday leaked online this week, giving fans their clearest look yet at both Doctor Doom’s mysterious right-hand man “Boris” and the Latverian Witches standing beside him.
According to ComicBookMovie’s breakdown, the poses struck by each of the Latverian Witches in the leaked shots may hint at who’s actually under the masks, with speculation currently centered on Clea in purple, Sylvie in green, and the Scarlet Witch in orange.
A separate report from Maxblizz went even further, claiming the leaks confirm Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange as “Boris,” Doom’s masked sidekick, complete with side-by-side comparisons to an earlier AI-enhanced leak of the same design
According to ComicBookMovie’s breakdown, the poses struck by each of the Latverian Witches in the leaked shots may hint at who’s actually under the masks, with speculation currently centered on Clea in purple, Sylvie in green, and the Scarlet Witch in orange. A separate report from Maxblizz went even further, claiming the leaks confirm Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange as “Boris,” Doom’s masked sidekick, complete with side-by-side comparisons to an earlier AI-enhanced leak of the same design.
This all builds on top of what actually happened at Comic-Con itself. According to Yahoo Entertainment and ComingSoon.net, Marvel put a costume on physical display at SDCC 2026 belonging to a character officially labeled the “Latverian Witch” — green robes, a silver face mask stripped of Doom’s usual ornamentation, and a belt buckle stamped with an unexplained silver diamond motif, all posed dramatically in front of a stained-glass window like Doom hired a cathedral decorator. Naturally, the internet lost its collective mind.
The Great Costume Color-Swap Mystery
Here’s where it gets genuinely funny: Marvel didn’t just show one witch costume and call it a day. Per Collider’s reporting, the display costume changed colors on a near-daily basis throughout the convention — green on Wednesday, orange on Thursday, and purple by Friday — with each new color triggering its own fresh wave of internet detective work.
CBR noted the same daily rotation, floating the theory that the shifting palette might even correspond to the Infinity Stones, which is either a brilliant piece of viral marketing or Marvel just really likes making fans lose sleep over laundry choices.
ComicBookMovie’s on-the-ground SDCC coverage confirmed the purple version arrived last, calling it the “third day in a row” of costume swaps and noting that if these were just generic, interchangeable Latverian Witches, there’d be no reason to give them different colors at all.
Which brings us to the actual point: there isn’t just one Latverian Witch. There are, as multiple outlets now confirm, at least three of the Latverian Witches, and Marvel clearly wants you obsessing over which actress is hiding under which robe.
So Who’s Actually Under The Masks?
Buckle up, because the fan theory buffet is fully stocked. Per the leaked images and reporting from NewsBytes and ComicBookMovie, current speculation has settled into a working theory: Clea (Charlize Theron) in purple, Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) in green, and Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch in orange, rounding out Doom’s trio of Latverian Witches.
The Direct backed up this same trio, but also floated a genuinely spicy wrinkle — since Peggy Carter has separately been rumored as a “follower of Doom,” and Loki variants are, definitionally, shapeshifters, there’s a real chance one of the Latverian Witches could secretly be a disguised Sylvie posing as Hayley Atwell’s Peggy Carter specifically to deceive Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers. If that’s true, somewhere a Reddit thread is already three thousand comments deep dissecting it.
Collider, however, threw a wrench into the whole “obvious answer” approach, pointing out that Marvel specifically chose the word “Witches” — not “Sorcerers” — a title that leans directly into the mythology built up across WandaVision and Agatha All Along rather than Doctor Strange’s more academic magic-school vibe.
Their argument: Sylvie has never been described as a witch, and Clea belongs to Strange’s mystical arts tradition rather than Agatha’s coven-based magic system, which makes the Scarlet Witch theory — Wanda Maximoff returning not as the Sokovian Avenger fans remember, but as a Latverian variant recruited straight into Doom’s service — feel like the most textually consistent answer of the bunch.
Per Yahoo’s reporting, this theory gets extra fuel from Marvel separately unveiling a Doctor Doom action figure sporting red energy attachments, a color scheme long associated with Wanda’s chaos magic powers.
And then there’s Boris. ComicBookMovie’s leak report and the Maxblizz leak analysis both point toward Doctor Strange as Doom’s masked lieutenant, complete with a third eye detail on the mask referencing his brief transformation in Multiverse of Madness.
If true, that’s a genuinely dark turn — the former Sorcerer Supreme becoming the head of security for the guy the Avengers are supposed to be stopping. ComicBookMovie’s earlier deep-dive on the character noted this would track with the comics, where Strange helps Doom “save” the Multiverse by building Battleworld, meaning Strange’s allegiance to the Latverian Witches‘ boss might come from a genuinely well-intentioned, if catastrophically misguided, place.
According to ComicBookMovie’s breakdown, the poses struck by each of the Latverian Witches in the leaked shots may hint at who’s actually under the masks, with speculation currently centered on Clea in purple, Sylvie in green, and the Scarlet Witch in orange. A separate report from Maxblizz went even further, claiming the leaks confirm Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange as “Boris,” Doom’s masked sidekick, complete with side-by-side comparisons to an earlier AI-enhanced leak of the same design.
What Does This Mean For The Plot?
According to ComicBookMovie’s earlier plot-leak coverage, Doctor Doom is rumored to take Steve Rogers to his castle in Latveria at some point in the film, where things apparently go very badly — including a leak claiming Doom kills Rogers’ young son and reveals Peggy Carter as a member of his coven.
If even a fraction of that is accurate, the Latverian Witches aren’t just a cool costume display Marvel used to bait convention-goers into buying merch; they’re set up to be a genuinely central, emotionally devastating part of Doom’s arsenal. Geeks + Gamers also pointed out the bigger-picture pattern here, noting that Disney’s franchises broadly — Marvel included — have been leaning hard into witch mythology lately, comparing the Latverian Witches to the Nightsisters of Ahsoka and the witches of Brendok from The Acolyte. Apparently there’s a company-wide mood board somewhere labeled “spooky ladies in robes, but make it IP.”
The Bottom Line
Whatever ends up being true, Marvel has pulled off a genuinely impressive slow-burn marketing trick: turning a single mannequin at a convention booth into a weeks-long, multi-outlet guessing game about the identities of the Latverian Witches.
Whether it’s Wanda coming home in a new coven, Clea finally getting her due, a shapeshifted Sylvie playing dress-up as Peggy Carter, or all three at once standing behind Doctor Doom’s throne while a corrupted Doctor Strange hands him his coffee, one thing is clear — the Latverian Witches have officially become the most-discussed background characters in a movie that hasn’t even released a full trailer for them yet.
Doom may be planning to conquer the Multiverse, but first, he’s conquered the discourse.
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Sources referenced: Yahoo Entertainment · ComicBookMovie — leak reveal · ComingSoon.net · AOL · NewsBytes App · ComicBookMovie — witch possibilities · SuperHeroHype · Maxblizz · Geeks + Gamers · CBR · Collider · The Direct · ComicBookMovie — third witch revealed · Comic Basics
