VisionQuest Ending Explained: Wanda’s Post-Credits Return, Virgil Horton and What It Means for Doomsday

The VisionQuest ending explained in one line: Vision saves the world, gets his sons back, and then the post-credits scene brings back Wanda Maximoff, raised from the rubble by a figure who appears to be Doctor Doom. “Forever”, the finale of VisionQuest and of the whole WandaVision trilogy, streamed on Disney+ on November 10. Its final scene is now trending everywhere, because it points straight at Avengers: Doomsday on December 18. We are giving it a 10 out of 10. Here is the VisionQuest ending explained: everything that happened, both credits scenes, and what they mean.

Spoiler warning: this covers the whole VisionQuest finale and both of its credits scenes.

VisionQuest finale recap: what happens in “Forever”

The Client is Virgil Horton

Episode 7 ended with the Client stepping out of the Horton estate with James Spader’s face. The finale gives him a name: Virgil Horton, the grandson of Phineas Horton and the ex-husband of Jo Carrington, the woman inside Jocasta. As fans guessed last week, his mother Victoria was the girl who took Phineas’s notebook in 1939, and Virgil inherited it.

Over a very strange dinner, Virgil explains the rest. He and Jo built the first true AI together, using Phineas’s code and scans of their own minds, which is why Ultron has his face. After Jo died, he worked at S.W.O.R.D., where he rebuilt the White Vision we met in WandaVision. He also secretly built Jo her new body, then wiped himself from her memory.

Virgil’s plan

In short, Virgil wants to move his own mind into Vision’s body, then use around 20 billion nanobots to control every person on the planet, so that he and Jo can rule as gods. He even puts on Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” and makes Jocasta dance with him. Meanwhile, he hooks Vision up to a device to wipe him.

Tommy finds Billy

Meanwhile, Tommy works out that he and Billy were connected when he nearly drowned. So he has Lisa hold him under the water of a hotel bathtub, and he wakes up face to face with Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke), who has been searching for him with magic. They hug, but Tommy runs out of air before Billy can come with him.

Then Tommy embraces his own name, “I’m Tommy Maximoff”, and uses his speed to break into the manor and free Vision.

Jocasta dies, and Ultron returns

Jocasta turns on Virgil, but he shoots her. As she falls, she throws the device holding Ultron into the nanobot swarm. Ultron rebuilds himself a body and crushes Virgil to death. However, Jocasta dies in Ultron’s arms, and in his grief he sends the nanobots towards London with orders to kill everyone. Only Ultron can stop them.

UltraVision

So Vision does what Wanda once did. He traps himself and Ultron inside a sitcom of his own making, UltraVision, where time runs far slower than in the real world. After 500 episodes, Vision’s core is burning out, and Ultron realises that if Vision dies, so does he. Finally, Ultron gives in. The swarm destroys itself and Ultron fades away into data.

The family reunion

Vision is left lifeless, and Tommy cannot bring him back alone. Then Billy arrives, and the two brothers revive their father together with their combined powers. Vision pulls Billy into a hug, and the Maximoff men are a family again.

VisionQuest ending explained: where everyone ends up

Here is the VisionQuest ending explained character by character:

• Vision finally leaves the mansion inside his own mind for good. When Tommy asks whether they will ever see their mother again, Vision answers: “We have said goodbye before, so I suppose it stands to reason we might say hello again.”
• Tommy and Billy are reunited, with Billy’s magic and Tommy’s speed both now proven.
• FRIDAY is alive. ComicBasics notes that Ultron throwing her out of Jocasta’s mind in episode 7 actually saved her.
• Paladin survived the rocket, and he and E.D.I.T.H. team up with Tommy and Lisa to help people.
• Ultron is not gone. Some nanobots were never accounted for, and he calls Vision one last time. Vision tells him he believes in second chances, and signs off with “Be good, Ultron.”
• Virgil Horton and Jocasta are both dead.

The VisionQuest post-credits scenes, explained

The finale has two scenes after the credits start, and no VisionQuest ending explained is complete without both.

Scene 1: Ultron and Jocasta

In the first, Ultron stands in the Horton manor holding a small device labelled “Jocasta”. In other words, he has saved her data. He told Vision he does not want his future to be lonely, and this is what he meant. Whether he plans to bring her back, and what she would be if he does, is left open.

Scene 2: Wanda returns

The second scene is the one everyone is talking about. It returns to Mount Wundagore, where Wanda brought the mountain down on herself at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. A hooded figure, who appears to be Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom, lifts the rubble off her body with his powers. “Scarlet Witch, awaken,” he says. “Your power will be mine.” Then Wanda’s eyes open with a gasp.

It is the first proof since 2022 that Wanda survived Wundagore. Interestingly, the scene was kept so secret that it was not even in the copies sent to critics, according to Entertainment Weekly and ComicBook.com. Marvel had hinted at it ahead of the finale with a post on X written in binary code, which translates to a WandaVision line: “We could never truly leave each other, even if we tried.”

What the post-credits scene means for Avengers: Doomsday

This is where the VisionQuest ending explained gets bigger than one show.

Is Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Doomsday? Marvel has not confirmed it. Still, a Doom resurrection scene five weeks before Doomsday opens is about as strong a hint as Marvel gives. Deadline and EW both read it as setting up Olsen’s return in the film. Back in March, Olsen told Deadline she “knows nothing” about the character’s future.

Why Doom wants her. “Your power will be mine” is the key line. Wanda is the Scarlet Witch, able to rewrite reality itself, and Doom wants to use that power, not to save her. In the comics, the two have a long and twisted history. As EW points out, the Children’s Crusade storyline even has Billy and Tommy go looking for their missing mother, with Doom involved.

The Latverian Witch theory. As a result, the old theory is back in play. Doomsday promotion has shown masked “Latverian witches” in Doom’s service. We covered that theory in where is Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Doomsday?, and this scene makes Wanda the obvious candidate to be one of them. Treat it as a theory until Marvel says otherwise.

The family is now set up. Vision’s “we might say hello again” line, Billy’s return and a living Wanda all point the same way: a full Maximoff reunion somewhere down the line, possibly with Vision and the boys coming for her.

What critics say about the VisionQuest finale

Critics were split on the finale itself. IGN called it a decent but flawed ending, enjoyed Billy and Tommy’s reunion, but felt Spader’s Virgil was less effective than his Ultron. Vulture found it messy, while Den of Geek called it “worthwhile revival television”. Fans, on the other hand, have mostly been searching for one thing: the VisionQuest ending explained, and above all that last scene with Wanda.

Our take

This is a 10 out of 10 from us, the same as episode 7.

The family reunion is the part we loved most. After two shows of build-up, seeing Billy walk in and help Tommy bring their dad back, and then Vision hugging him, was the payoff the whole trilogy owed us.

As for Wanda, we are happy she is back. But Doom bringing her back worries us. “Your power will be mine” does not sound like a rescue, and after everything Wanda has lost, being used by Doom is the last thing she deserves. Avengers: Doomsday has a lot to answer for on December 18.

VisionQuest ending explained: quick answers

Who is the Client in VisionQuest?
Virgil Horton, Phineas Horton’s grandson and Jo Carrington’s ex-husband, played by James Spader.

Is Wanda alive after VisionQuest?
Yes. The second post-credits scene shows Wanda waking up under Wundagore after a figure who appears to be Doctor Doom frees her.

Does VisionQuest have a post-credits scene?
It has two: Ultron holding Jocasta’s data, then Wanda’s return.

Is Ultron dead?
No. He survived through stray nanobots, and the first credits scene shows him with Jocasta’s data.

Will there be a VisionQuest season 2?
Marvel has not renewed it. It was made as the final part of the WandaVision trilogy, although showrunner Terry Matalas has said he would love to make more, according to Screen Rant and GamesRadar.

The official VisionQuest trailer, from Marvel Entertainment’s YouTube channel.

Catch up on the series: VisionQuest episode 7 ending explained, episode 4 ending explained, and the Avengers: Doomsday cast.

Are you happy Wanda is back, or worried about what Doom wants with her? Tell us in the comments.

Images: featured image and in-body still (c) Marvel Studios / Disney+, from the official VisionQuest trailer and episode 1 clip on Marvel Entertainment’s YouTube channel. All used for editorial commentary. VisionQuest is a Marvel Studios production for Disney+; all rights belong to Marvel Studios and Disney.

Sources: TVLine, Vulture, CNET, ComicBasics, Deadline, Entertainment Weekly, ComicBook.com, The Direct, IGN, Den of Geek, GamesRadar, Screen Rant.