VisionQuest ended with Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom waking Wanda Maximoff, and the scene was so secret that Marvel left it off the copies sent to critics. The eighth and final episode, “Forever,” arrived on Disney+ on Tuesday, November 10, written and directed by series creator Terry Matalas.
Elizabeth Olsen and Downey both appear uncredited. The finale actually carries two mid-credits scenes. In the first, Ultron, played by James Spader, still holds a drive containing Jocasta’s data. In the second, a hooded figure revealed as Doom stirs Wanda awake at Mount Wundagore, apparently because he wants her power.
What happens in the finale
The big villain turns out to be the Client, Virgil Horton, also played by Spader. He rebuilt Vision and built Jocasta, T’Nia Miller’s synthezoid, as part of a plan to transfer his own mind. When Horton shoots Jocasta, Ultron kills him and turns a swarm of nanobots loose on London.
Vision, played again by Paul Bettany, does not win with a punch. He drags Ultron into UltraVision, a sitcom-style simulation that nods to the old-TV format of WandaVision, and makes him face the grief of losing Jocasta. Both systems collapse. Tommy, played by Ruaridh Mollica, and his twin Billy, played by Joe Locke and last seen in Agatha All Along, then join forces to bring their father back.
Terry Matalas on the ending
In an interview published hours after the finale went live, Matalas said the sitcom battle was the plan from the first day of the writers’ room. “I do think that all endings need to touch on the beginning in some way,” he said, adding that a straight robot fight alone would not have done it.
He said Marvel boss Kevin Feige had one firm request: Vision had to meet his son Tommy. Matalas said the team also tried a moment with Wanda as Vision was dying, but cut it because her return would swamp every other story. Bringing Billy back early was also ruled out, he said, because it would ease the tension too soon.
The Ultron scene has a backstory too. Matalas said a deleted scene showed Jocasta alive and sitting with Ultron at the end, and that he hopes it surfaces one day. On a second season, he chose his words with care: “I have to be careful what I say.” He then added: “But who would not want to see this family again?”
Where VisionQuest sits in Marvel’s plans
For readers catching up, VisionQuest is the third part of a loose trilogy:
- WandaVision (2021): Wanda builds a sitcom reality around a lost Vision; a white, memory-free Vision flies away.
- Agatha All Along (2024): Billy, reborn as a teenager, sets out to find his brother Tommy.
- VisionQuest (2026): Vision, Tommy and Billy reunite, and the credits bring back Wanda.
The series ran eight episodes from October 13, with episodes between 48 and 72 minutes long, and belongs to Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Doom’s cameo points straight at the next film on the calendar. Badiyaa covered the VisionQuest trailer that reunited Vision with Ultron in October, and Marvel has been building toward Doom for months, from the Avengers: Doomsday TV spot joking about “Captains America” to Downey’s Halloween costume swap with Pedro Pascal.
Avengers: Doomsday opens in theaters on December 18.
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