With less than a month left until VisionQuest arrives on Disney+, Marvel Television has just released a new banner featuring Vision and his father, Ultron, in their robotic and human avatar forms.
Very little has been revealed about the WandaVision and Agatha All Along follow-up. While the trailer confirmed that Vision will get to know his son, Tommy, he'll also battle Ultron, making this a direct sequel to their last clash in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron.
In the closing moments of that movie, Vision confronted his father's final drone body and seemingly destroyed it. Fans have long theorised that the Avenger made the mistake of showing the villain mercy, which has now been confirmed by VisionQuest showrunner Terry Matalas.
"He actually backed [Ultron] up in that movie," Matalas told Empire Magazine. "He always felt that he didn't really want to kill Ultron. Ultron was such a threat to humanity, and he was so lost, but at the last moment, we'll find out that Vision showed mercy."
"It’s more the Vision story, just because we’re going to dig into so much of who he is in ways that the films and WandaVision couldn’t, including some deeper parts of his origin that may go back even further than what we believed," he said in a separate conversation with SFX. "So it's very much its own entity, but it does obviously touch upon what has come before for this guy."
Will VisionQuest serve as Ultron's final defeat or open the door to him making his presence felt elsewhere in the MCU? The latter will be the preferred option for fans, especially as there are so many stories left to tell with him on Earth and in the cosmos.
For now, we'll have to wait and see how this conclusion to the WandaVision trilogy plays out. What we can say with some confidence is that it will set the stage for Vision, Tommy, and Billy to take centre stage in the next Avengers movies, Doomsday and Secret Wars.
Check out this newly revealed VisionQuest banner below.
In VisionQuest, Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponise 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, reincarnated. 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.
VisionQuest stars Paul Bettany, James Spader, Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick, T'Nia Miller, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Polly Frame, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, with Emily Hampshire and James D'Arcy.
The series is directed by Christopher J. Byrne, Gandja Monteiro, Vincenzo Natali, Terry Matalas, and written by Terry Matalas, Cindy Appel, Christopher Monfette, Nicole Falsetti, and Matthew Okumura.
VisionQuest is created for television by Terry Matalas, based on the Marvel Comics. The executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Mary Livanos, Terry Matalas, Jac Schaeffer, and Christopher J. Byrne, and the producer is Roopesh Parekh.
The series premieres on Disney+ on October 14.