VisionQuest Ending Explained

The last episode wrapped up the story of the Maximoffs. An emotionally charged ending… which also opens the door to new adventures?

It is the conclusion of the trilogy started with WandaVision and continued with Agatha All Along.

Spoiler alert!

In the finale of VisionQuest, now available on Disney+, the Maximoff twins are finally reunited on screen with their father, Vision, still played by Paul Bettany. A moment awaited for several years by fans, which also sees the surprise return of Joe Locke in the skin of Billy.

To understand this reunion, we have to go back to Agatha All Along. After discovering that he was the son of the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), conceived by magic in WandaVision, Billy found refuge in the body of Billy Kaplan, an Eastview teenager who died in a car accident. Determined to find his twin brother Tommy, endowed with super-speed powers, he then managed to transfer his soul into the body of Tommy Shepherd, a foster child who died in a swimming pool accident.

In VisionQuest, Tommy is now played by Ruaridh Mollica. The choice of the actor opposite Joe Locke paid off, according to showrunner Terry Matalas, in Entertainment Weekly: “We didn’t do any chemistry testing between them. We just hope that the two will complement each other in different ways. They were so much fun to direct and willing to play along.”

Billy’s return comes when Tommy tries to communicate with him beyond the world of the living. To achieve this, he drowns himself in a bathtub, thus recreating the circumstances of Tommy Shepherd’s death. He then contacts his brother and asks him for help to save their father.

For Terry Matalas, this reunion couldn’t have happened earlier in the series:

“It had to happen. We knew Billy was somewhere, looking for Tommy. It was a question of when. We had considered showing him earlier in a dream sequence, but I ultimately felt like that would have robbed us of that moment in the finale where the two brothers finally reunite. I think that’s what people were hoping for.”

The showrunner, who himself directed these scenes, also promises that additional exchanges between the two characters will be among the cut scenes.

Another presence is hidden in this sequence: that of Agatha Harkness, Kathryn Hahn’s character.

At the end of Agatha All Along, the witch-turned-ghost accompanied Billy on his quest for Tommy. She never appears on screen in VisionQuest, but she is there, invisible to Tommy, while Billy talks to her. A nod to Vision, who also regularly converses with the artificial intelligences that only he can perceive. Terry Matalas confirms that making Agatha appear in the flesh was never an option: “We couldn’t afford it, financially…”

The family had to be reunited

Billy reappears one last time in the final moments of the series, with his now iconic blue crown, under his identity as a Wiccan. With Tommy and Vision in grave danger, he joins them through a portal and combines his magic with his brother’s speed to save their android father.

“We had the feeling that this family had to be reunited at the end,” explains Terry Matalas. But we had to find the right moment, the one that would have the most emotional impact. Because Billy has just discovered his powers as a wizard and has not yet mastered them perfectly. He can count on Agatha to guide him, but there is no guarantee that he will be able to cross the country, from New Jersey to London, in a few hours: “By the time he finally returns, we hope that it has given fans a thrill…”

The Young Avengers in their sights?

It remains to be seen what Marvel now has in store for the two brothers.

For several years, MCU films and series have been dropping clues about the formation of the Young Avengers, a team of young superheroes from the comics of which Billy and Tommy are important members. The end of VisionQuest clearly leaves the door open to new adventures for the twins.

But it’s difficult to know if Marvel intends to make this track a reality. The studio has significantly reduced its production of live-action films and series in recent months. Asked about a possible adaptation of Young Avengers, Ruaridh Mollica remains cautious: “I love comics and it would be nice, but I don’t know anything.”

Above all, will the Maximoff twins be in Avengers: Doomsday? The question is totally legitimate after seeing the post-credits scene, which resurrected their mother and which suggests that Wanda will be there, alongside Doom, in the big end-of-year Marvel film. So why not its offspring? Just to complete the family reunion… See you on December 16 at the cinema to find out the answer.