The VisionQuest season finale featured a surprise post-credits scene with the return of Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch. The stinger—setting up next month's Avengers: Doomsday—wasn't shown to the press in advance, meaning it came as a rare surprise for everyone.
With VisionQuest serving as the conclusion to the WandaVision trilogy, the hope was that Vision, Wiccan, and Speed might all reunite in the Disney+ series. While Vision now has his sons by his side, it seems their quest to find Wanda Maximoff is being saved for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.
During an interview with The Playlist, Paul Bettany confirmed that discussions about the Scarlet Witch appearing in the main VisionQuest series did take place. However, it was ultimately decided that it wouldn't be the best choice for the story showrunner Terry Matalas was telling.
"There were questions about it, whether that should happen, whether it opened up too much for the MCU, whether they wanted to do it later," the actor explained. "I don’t know. But I remember having this conversation with [Kevin], and he said, 'You and Terry have done such a great job at making me care about Vision.'"
"'I really don’t think you should distract from that by giving the audience that at the end of the [show]. It will just fundamentally all become about 'WandaVision' again, and this should and can stand on its own,'" Bettany recalled. "And I think he was right."
Matalas has already confirmed that Kathryn Hahn's Agatha Harkness and Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark weren't included for budgetary reasons, but it does feel like this was the right move to avoid distracting from Vision's story.
As for the hero's status quo at the end of VisionQuest, Bettany explained, "My understanding and the idea that I was playing with is that now all of those versions of Vision have coalesced and found space. I mean, White Vision, of course, was the original Red Vision – it’s his body. And then there is Hex Vision and all of those memories. He has to accept the truth of what happened in the Hex, which I love."
So, Vision is back to his normal self and ready to help take down Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. As for how the Scarlet Witch factors into that, it seems likely that we're getting a loose adaptation of Avengers: The Children's Crusade.
In VisionQuest, Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponise him, has been in hiding. Searching for new meaning, he consults the AI personas embedded in his programming, including F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., and the infamous Ultron.
His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision's son, reincarnated. As Vision evades capture, he must confront his nature, resist Ultron's influence, and unravel the enigma that is his young companion if he’s to survive.
VisionQuest stars Paul Bettany, James Spader, Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick, T'Nia Miller, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Polly Frame, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, with Emily Hampshire and James D'Arcy.
VisionQuest is now streaming on Disney+.