VisionQuest Showrunner Opens Up About Scrapped Scenes and Wanda’s Almost-Return

Warning: This post contains potential spoilers for the VisionQuest series.

Marvel Television’s VisionQuest series finale has now premiered, and showrunner Terry Matalas has opened up about the scrapped ideas and scenes from the show.

The VisionQuest finale pays tribute to both WandaVision and Agatha. The mysterious Client is revealed to be Virgil Horton, who captures Vision and Jocasta to achieve digital immortality.

When Virgil kills Jocasta, Ultron becomes furious, kills him, and unleashes a deadly swarm of nanobots on London. Vision stops him by trapping them both inside UltraVision, a sitcom simulation inspired by WandaVision. There, Ultron is forced to face his grief over losing Jocasta, which helps bring his attack to an end. Later, Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica) and Billy (Joe Locke) combine their powers to bring Vision back to life.

Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Was Almost Part of VisionQuest’s Finale

In a recent interview with THR, Matalas revealed that they considered bringing Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff into the finale as Vision was dying. Matalas and Paul Bettany experimented with a scene featuring Wanda during Vision’s final moments. However, they decided against it because the finale needed to focus on Vision and Ultron, as well as Vision’s emotional journey with Tommy and Billy.

Matalas felt that Wanda’s appearance would have taken attention away from the other important storylines. Instead, the team included a shot of Wanda from WandaVision, showing her smiling as Vision remembers her.

“It’s such a big idea to have Wanda there that you no longer pay attention to the rest of the arcs that are playing out. But I do feel like she’s very much in the room. My brilliant editor, Drew Nichols, found this shot of Wanda from WandaVision where she looks and smiles, and when he thinks of her and he’s talking about how love always leads to loss, I felt like we had her. I felt like we had honored her, but it didn’t really work to have her back in a dreamy way at the end.”

However, Marvel delivered a surprise in the second post-credits scene of VisionQuest, revealing that Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom resurrects Wanda, who had seemingly been crushed beneath a mountain after losing Vision and their twins at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Jocasta “Magnificently Survived” in Deleted VisionQuest Scene

According to Matalas, a deleted scene featured Jocasta surviving the events of the finale. In the finale, Jocasta was killed after being shot with an adamantium bullet. However, the creative team loved Jocasta and wanted to leave open the possibility of her return. He described the deleted scene as one in which Jocasta “magnificently survived.” The scene was removed because her survival weakened the emotional impact of the finale. Matalas hopes the deleted scene will eventually be released for fans to see.

Matalas said, “We were all so in love with Jocasta and [wanted] a promise that she would continue on in some way. Again, we had a deleted scene in which she magnificently survived. I think that scene will maybe one day see the light of day, but it sort of, in totality, robbed the finale of its punch a bit when we had it there. But there were no true directives from Marvel other than Tommy was going to meet Vision, and that by the end, cold white Vision would return to his original red self. That’s a pretty blank canvas to work from. Working with Marvel was truly wonderful and collaborative in every way.”

Here’s the synopsis for VisionQuest:

“When VisionQuest begins, Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponize 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, reincarnate. 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.”

The cast of VisionQuest includes Paul Bettany as Vision, James Spader as Ultron, Ruaridh Mollica as Tommy Maximoff/Speed and Thomas Shepherd, Todd Stashwick as Paladin, T’Nia Miller as Jocasta, Lauren Morais as Lisa Molinari, Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., Diane Morgan as an associate of Paladin, Polly Frame, Henry Lewis as D.U.M.-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., and James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S.

VisionQuest is now streaming on Disney+, and Vision and Wanda will return in Avengers: Doomsday, which hits theaters on December 18, 2026.