Marvel’s WandaVision Series Gets Surprise New Sequel

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for VisionQuest episode 8.WandaVision got a surprise sequel on Disney+ this week, and it perfectly brought the Marvel Cinematic Universe trilogy started by that show to a full circle. WandaVision was the first MCU TV show on Disney+, starting a new era for the popular superhero franchise. While the MCU has faced a lot of problems in its TV expansion, WandaVision did not create any of them.

The Marvel series felt like a breath of fresh air, and it was so successful that Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch was elevated to the MCU’s top shelf in terms of popularity. Following her lead turn in WandaVision, Wanda Maximoff’s role as the main villain of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness boosted that movie’s box office performance, and the Doctor Strange sequel got close to the $1 billion mark.

WandaVision‘s success was clear, and without Wanda, who died in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Marvel Studios decided to go back to the franchise by making it a TV show trilogy, a unique trend within the Marvel shared universe. The first sequel series was Agatha All Along, which starred Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness, and arrived on Disney+ in 2024.

The trilogy’s finale came through the recent release of VisionQuest, which brought back Paul Bettany as White Vision, now leading an MCU TV show alone for the first time. It was in VisionQuest‘s final episode that Marvel Studios pulled off one surprise that brought everything full circle; a WandaVision sequel, and I don’t mean that returning character in VisionQuest‘s post-credits scene.

The VisionQuest Finale Ended The WandaVision Sequel With A Surprising Sequence

Before the credits rolled on the latest MCU TV show, VisionQuest paid homage to the Marvel trilogy’s first project through the surprise UltraVision segment of its finale. Faced with the end of humanity as James Spader’s Ultron tried to use Jocasta’s nanobots following her death to kill everyone in London and then poison the world, Bettany’s Marvel hero found a way to essentially make time stop to give him alternatives in how to convince Ultron to back down. By taking the action to their minds in a sitcom scenario that mimicked WandaVision, aka the finale’s UltraVision, time moved slower than in the real world.

As such, Vision had a long time to try to get Ultron to stop, with hundreds of UltraVision episodes flashing over the screen as the Marvel villain also brought in characters like Tommy Maximoff, Lisa Molinari, Paladin, and more to this sitcom reality Vision built. The sequence felt like a true WandaVision sequel, with throwback sets and clothes, old-school jokes, a live studio audience, guest stars, and more. It was the perfect way to bring this unique Marvel trilogy full circle in its finale, while also feeling natural to VisionQuest‘s plot, not forced in any way.

VisionQuest Also Brought The WandaVision Trilogy Full Circle In Two Other Major Ways

UltraVision was a direct follow-up to Marvel’s WandaVision, but it was not the only way the VisionQuest finale brought things full circle for those who watched every project of the MCU TV show trilogy. At the end of the episode, Joe Locke’s Billy and Ruaridh Mollica’s Tommy join forces to save their dad, Bettany’s Vision. This is the first time that Vision and his twin sons have reunited since WandaVision, which means that there is only one missing member of the Maximoff family to bring them all back together.

Well, VisionQuest‘s second post-credits scene featured the surprise return of Olsen’s Scarlet Witch, with Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom showing up seemingly right after Wanda died as Mount Wundagore fell on her in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and resurrecting her with the goal of using the Scarlet Witch’s powers. After that scene, all members of the Maximoff family that was the focus of WandaVision are now alive again in the MCU, setting up their likely future meeting in one of the MCU’s upcoming Avengers movies or elsewhere. VisionQuest did a solid job of ending the WandaVision trilogy.