In this feature, I spotlight storylines that have been, well, left unresolved. Click here for an archive of all storylines featured so far.

Today, based on a suggestion from reader Jason M., we try to figure out what the heck was behind the locked doors in Scarlet Witch's house in New Avengers #26 (this story has been referred to so many times as being about Scarlet Witch's CLOSET that I originally intended on just sticking with that terminology. I decided to change it the more accurate "closed doors", but I kept it as closet for our CBR headline because its more famously known as the closet story)...

In Avengers #503 (by Brian Michael Bendis, David Finch and Danny Miki), it is revealed that the architect behind the events of Avengers Disassembled (including the deaths of a number of Avengers) was none other than their own teammate, Wanda Maximoff, otherwise known as the Scarlet Witch, who had basically just went nuts...





In The House of M (by Brian Michael Bendis, Olivier Coipel and a bunch of inkers), the Avengers ponder what to do with the Scarlet Witch, who had been taken by her father Magneto at the end of Avengers Disassembled. Her brother, Quicksilver, freaked out and convinced the unstable Scarlet Witch to use her reality-altering powers to change the world so that mutants were in control of the world.

When the Avengers realized what was going on, they took the fight to Magneto and it led to a traumatized Scarlet Witch to use her powers seemingly one last time...







In the final issue of the series, we see what happened to the various characters involved in the House of M (who lost their powers and who had their powers spared by a Doctor Strange spell). We also see that Wanda is seemingly powerless living in Transia, at the foot of Mount Wundagore, which is where she was born...





Now you see, during Avengers Disassembled, Hawkeye was killed. During House of M, Scarlet Witch brought Hawkeye back to life. After House of M, Hawkeye remained alive and, well, you know, seriously confused.

So he seeks out Wanda in Transia and he finds her...





And then the really weird stuff happens.

Go to the next page to see the really weird stuff!

You see, once Clint saves Wanda from the thief and he faints upon seeing her, she takes him home, and she tells him that they can't wake up her Aunt Agatha. This is when we first see the door, the door to Aunt Agatha's room, not a closet, but I guess enough people have figured that it was a closet that it is now most commonly referred to as a closet instead of being another room.



Clint, naturally, is all "Ummm..you don't have an Aunt Agatha. You have an old witch friend named Agatha that talked to even after she was dead, but that's it."

But that doesn't keep him from sleeping with Wanda...





Afterwards, he can't help but look to see who the heck is in Aunt Agatha's room....





So yeah, what the heck was in Aunt Agatha's room? Eventually, Doctor Doom shows up and takes Wanda from Transia and leaves a Doom-Bot in her place (I joke about Hawkeye sleeping with a Doom-Bot, but the odds are that Doctor Doom removed Wanda AFTER this encounter with Hawkeye - but we don't know for sure, which is sort of an unresolved story in and of itself).

Since we've all moved on from this, it is unlikely that we'll ever know what was in that room. But maybe someday!

Ron Richards of iFanboy repeatedly asked Bendis about it, leading to this amusing exchange during their Age of Ultron discussion:

Finally, I asked Bendis if this story would tie into and resolve the dangling plot line of the Scarlet Witch/Hawkeye/Closet story from The New Avengers #26, of which Bendis responded with laughter, “You are an insane person. No matter what we’re talking about, you bring up that *expletive* closet. We were talking about the All-New X-Men and you brought up the closet. You are nuts. I love that about you. This is fantastic.” And then he dismissed the question by saying that behind the closet door was Ultron and laughed.

That's how ingrained the "closet" angle is! Bendis himself even refers to it as a closet!

That's it for this installment! Thanks for the suggestion, Jason! If anyone else has a suggestion for an interesting unresolved comic book story, drop me a line at bcronin@comicbookresources.com!