VisionQuest has put a bow on Marvel Studios’ WandaVision trilogy, culminating in a nice, big group hug between the newly revitalized Vision (Paul Bettany) and his two magic sons, Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica) and Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke). Yet, some fans were disappointed that the Disney+ series didn’t close with a family reunion complete with Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), the former Avenger and sorceress who remained—just before the credits rolled on the VisionQuest finale anyway—under the ruins of Mount Wundagore, where she apparently perished after the events of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. Well, those fans can blame Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige for keeping Wanda out of VisionQuest—as it turns out, Marvel had bigger plans for the Scarlet Witch beyond merely smooshing the cheeks of her adoring sons. With Avengers: Doomsday looming, the superhero franchise doesn’t seem to have time for such mush.
In a new interview with The Playlist, VisionQuest star and executive producer Paul Bettany said Feige politely suggested Wanda stay away from the show so VisionQuest could stand apart from the series that spawned it. “There were questions about it, whether that should happen,” Bettany said. “Whether it opened up too much for the MCU, whether they wanted to do it later. I don’t know. But I remember having this conversation with [Kevin], and he said, ‘You and [series creator Terry Matalas] have done such a great job at making me care about Vision. I really don’t think you should distract from that by giving the audience that at the end of the [show]. It will just fundamentally all become about WandaVision again, and this should and can stand on its own.’ And I think he was right.”
Setting aside the suggestion that VisionQuest‘s should stand apart from WandaVision—Marvel promoted it as a trilogy capper, so it’s questionable whether anyone really thought it was supposed to—Olsen still appears in the sequel series. Scarlet Witch appears in shots taken from WandaVision to emotionally connect the two series, and, bewilderingly, a post-credits sequence following the series finale shows her being seemingly resurrected by Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.), with the villain saying, “Your power will be mine,” which bodes ill for any Maximoff family reunion down the line.
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