The first two episodes of Marvel’s VisionQuest debut on Disney+ on Wednesday, October 14.

One of the most frustrating things about the post-Endgame MCU is how long it takes Marvel to circle back around and follow up on loose ends. Heck, they waited five years between Spider-Man sequels. And that’s to say nothing of the numerous post-credits scenes that still remain unresolved. VisionQuest is yet one more example of Marvel taking its sweet time to address a character who’s been trapped in storytelling limbo. Five years after WandaVision wrapped, we finally have a series dealing with the fate of Paul Bettany’s White Vision. But it’s not necessarily Vision himself who emerges as the beating heart of the series.

WandaVision is essentially the final leg of the trilogy begun by WandaVision in 2021 and continued by Agatha All Along in 2024. When last we saw Bettany’s characters in the WandaVision finale, the regular Vision returned to blissful oblivion, while his emotionless clone fled Westview to ponder his own existence. Half a decade later, he’s still very much in the pondering phase. By day, works in a bar and struggles to master the nuances of human interaction. By night, he literally lives inside his own head in a fanciful construct populated by the various other Tony Stark-designed AI units. He’s a being who barely exists in the physical world any longer, until circumstances arise that force him back into action.

To be frank, as much as Bettany’s Vision is one of the best and most nuanced MCU characters, the series is a bit of a tough sell out of the gate.

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