Spoilers ahead for the VisionQuest finale.
The finale of VisionQuest gives Vision something he has spent the series trying to understand: a family that knows him as he is now. It also leaves the door open for two major threats and delivers a post-credits reveal that could change the next chapter of the MCU. Wanda Maximoff is alive, and Doctor Doom has found her.
The show’s focus on Vision rebuilding his connection with Tommy pays off in the finale. As our reviews of episodes three and four and episode seven noted, the strongest part of the series has been watching Vision accept his memories and his place in the Maximoff family.
Vision and his sons find their way back to each other
Virgil Horton’s plan puts Vision, Jocasta and Ultron on a collision course. Horton wants to take over Vision’s body and use the nanobots to impose “tranquility and obedience” on humanity. Tommy helps break the group free, but the fight takes a steep turn when Jocasta is struck by an adamantium bullet and Ultron kills Horton.
Vision tries to stop Ultron by bringing him into UltraVision, a sitcom-like world that echoes the life Wanda once created for her family. The two A.I.s are powering that reality together, and both are being pushed toward destruction. Rather than let the system take them both down, Ultron deletes himself from Vision’s memory banks.
That appears to end Ultron’s story, but the first post-credits scene says otherwise. He survived by hiding in rogue nanobots and now has Jocasta’s source code. Ultron may have stepped away from his plan to control humanity, but he is still unpredictable. His next move could be an attempt to bring Jocasta back.
Vision’s story ends on a more hopeful note. Billy joins Tommy in saving their father, and the three reunite with plans to meet in New Jersey. Vision does not regain his old life with Wanda, but he no longer has to face his identity alone. He has his sons, and the family can decide what comes next together.
That resolution fits the larger story that began with WandaVision. Vision’s memories are not simply pieces of someone else’s past. They are part of the person he has become.
What happens in the Doctor Doom and Wanda post-credits scene?
The second post-credits scene returns to the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Wanda brought Mount Wundagore down on herself after destroying the Darkhold, and the MCU left her fate uncertain. VisionQuest picks up in the wreckage. Doctor Doom clears the debris, finds Wanda and tells her, “Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine.” Wanda opens her eyes.
The scene confirms that Wanda survived the collapse. It does not show Doom successfully taking her powers, and it does not tell us whether Wanda will cooperate with him. But his words make clear that this is no simple rescue. Doom wants something from the Scarlet Witch, and he may believe her power can help him achieve his goals.
That makes the moment especially striking after Vision and Tommy talk about whether they might see Wanda again. The finale gives the family hope, then shows Wanda waking up far away from them, under the control or influence of someone who may want to use her.
For a refresher on the moment Wanda seemingly sacrificed herself, read GVN’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review.
What does this mean for Avengers: Doomsday?
The timing points toward Avengers: Doomsday, which is scheduled to arrive in theaters on December 18. The scene does not confirm exactly how Wanda fits into the film, but placing her in Doom’s hands makes her return to the MCU feel like part of the larger conflict ahead.
One possibility is that Doom plans to use Wanda’s reality-altering powers. Another is that he will try to manipulate her by promising something she has wanted since losing her children. The finale does not confirm either plan, but Wanda’s grief and her desire to reunite her family give Doom a clear way to reach her.
The setup also invites comparisons to The Children’s Crusade, the Marvel Comics story in which Billy and Tommy search for Wanda and Doctor Doom is tied to her fate. GVN previously looked at whether VisionQuest could be setting up that story. The finale gives the theory new weight, though it does not confirm that Marvel is adapting the comic or forming the Young Avengers.
Where VisionQuest leaves the MCU
VisionQuest closes Vision’s immediate story with a reunion, but its two credits scenes point in very different directions. Ultron is still out there with Jocasta’s code, while Wanda is alive and has been found by Doctor Doom. The Maximoff family has a chance to find one another again, but Wanda may first have to escape the plans Doom has for her.
The final scene is a major MCU tease because it answers a question fans have had since 2022 while creating a more dangerous one: now that Wanda is awake, will she be able to choose her own side?
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