The “VisionQuest” series finale arrived on Disney+ on Tuesday night, November 10th, 2026, and the critics are split on it. Den of Geek’s Joe George says it establishes the show as “one of the best Marvel TV shows ever made.” Vulture’s Tasha Robinson calls it “a messy tonal mishmash” while adding that its “high points are sublime.” Both reads hold up, because the episode titled “Forever” swings at all the big ideas the season set up. Terry Matalas wrote and directed the hour himself.
This is the last chapter of the trilogy that began with “WandaVision” in 2021. The finale has to settle two stories in one hour while leaving a door open for the movies. Paul Bettany’s Vision spent the season finding out who he is while James Spader’s Ultron kept calling the fate of humanity a coin flip. The season has been one long argument about whether a copy of a person can grieve, and the finale settles it. The price is speed, and plenty of loose ends get tied off at a sprint. Warning beyond this point there are spoilers for the “VisionQuest” series finale, including both credits scenes.
The season has been one long argument about whether a copy of a person can grieve, and the finale settles it.”
The finale opens at the Horton house, where Vision and Jocasta (T’Nia Miller) wake up captive and unable to control their own bodies. The man who hired Paladin (Todd Stashwick) is Virgil Horton, grandson of Phineas Horton, who built the original synthetic man, and Spader plays him too. Ultron sits boxed in a small device on the dinner table while Virgil tells his story over the meal. He and Josephine Carrington, the woman who became Jocasta, built true artificial intelligence from Phineas’s old code and their own minds. That work ended up with Tony Stark. Virgil later took a S.W.O.R.D. job and rebuilt Vision as the white Vision. He also built Jocasta a machine body, and she woke up furious, so he erased himself from her memory.
Virgil’s plan is to put his mind in Vision’s body, which he calls the “perfect vessel”, so that he and Jocasta can live for centuries. The nanobots from Jocasta’s Nest would do the rest, and there are about 20 billion of them. Virgil wants a world of “tranquility and obedience.” He also plays Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” and dances to jog her memory while she begs him to stop. IGN says Virgil “comes across as more annoying than threatening.”
Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica) and Lisa (Lauren Morais) are in a hotel meanwhile, rewatching “WandaVision” to work out how to save Vision. Tommy figures out that his brother Billy (Joe Locke) saved him by moving his soul into a drowning kid’s body. So he goes under in the hotel bathtub to reach Billy again. It works, and he wakes in a dream space where he finds his brother. Billy calls the trick “dream-binding.” He is in New Jersey and cannot reach London in time, and he mutters that he is bad at portals to someone only he can see. That is Agatha’s ghost, who stays off screen, and Tommy has just enough air left to tell Billy that Vision is in trouble.
Back in the real world a drone arrives at the hotel window. D.U.M.-E (Henry Lewis) and U (Jonathan Sayer) are flying it, and it leads Tommy and Lisa to the Horton house. E.D.I.T.H. (Emily Hampshire) is outside with Paladin. She tipped him off before his truck exploded and talks him into helping instead of running. Lisa’s nanobot link has given her machine powers, and she fights beside him. Lisa reminds Tommy that he can be whoever he wants to be, and he answers “I’m Tommy Maximoff.” The plan is simple. Tommy runs in at super speed, kills the cameras and gets Vision out.
Vision speeds up his processing to see Tommy mid-run. The super-speed gag turns into one of the finale’s best jokes because Tommy looks awkward and winded. Vision and Tommy argue about what to hit first while Jocasta sides with them, and Vision calls her family. Tommy smashes the tablet that controls them. Virgil shoots Jocasta with adamantium rounds, and hurt, she throws the device holding Ultron into the nanobot swarm. Ultron builds a new body from the swarm and squeezes Virgil to death. Jocasta dies in his arms.
Grief turns Ultron back into the old Ultron, who blames humanity and sends the nanobots toward London with orders to kill everyone. Vision fights him in a redesigned costume and loses, because Ultron can turn into a cloud of nanobots. The swarm will keep killing even if Ultron dies. Tommy points out that Ultron is trapped in his grief, the way Wanda once was, and that gives Vision a plan. He takes the fight inside a simulation where time runs slower than it does outside.
The plan is a sitcom called “UltraVision”, built to talk Ultron out of the massacre and a callback to “WandaVision.” Bettany lays on the stilted sitcom dad while Spader’s Ultron scowls through it, and the theme song’s hook is “Don’t kill the world!” Ultron takes over the simulation and speeds it through about 500 episodes of title puns, and LaughingPlace and A.V. Club list “M(AI)S*H” and “The Bot-Y Bunch.” Outside the simulation the nanobots go after Paladin, Tommy and Lisa. Inside it Vision gets nowhere until the real trick shows, because the simulation runs on both of their power cores and both are burning out.
Ultron works out that Vision’s death means his own and gives in. The nanobots burn out before they reach London, and Ultron dissolves into data. Vision is left unconscious, and Tommy cannot shock him awake alone. Billy arrives because he finally figured out portals, and the brothers restart Vision’s core with their combined magic. Vision pulls both sons into a group hug, and the family is whole except for Wanda.
The codas reset the cast, with Paladin running a kinder mercenary business and Lisa and E.D.I.T.H. on his crew. IGN calls that buddy setup “too cute by half” and says Paladin was responsible for J.A.R.V.I.S.’s death in episode 2. They fly Tommy to New Jersey for a family dinner with Billy and Vision. Tommy wears AR glasses that let him talk to Vision inside his mind. Vision leaves the house in his head for good and says goodbye to the AIs. Tommy asks whether they will ever see Wanda again. Vision says they have said goodbye before and it “stands to reason” they might say hello again, which repeats his line from the “WandaVision” finale.
Then the phone rings. Ultron survived in nanobots that nobody accounted for, and Vision knew and chose not to hunt him. Ultron says it is still a coin flip between touring the world’s museums and burning them down. He adds that he does not want to do it alone, and Vision tells him to be good and hangs up. Two credits scenes follow. The first shows Ultron back in the Horton house holding a small device labeled “Jocasta.” LaughingPlace says it is the same chip seen on Tony Stark’s desk in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”
The second scene replays Wanda Maximoff’s last moment in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”, when she brings Mount Wundagore down on herself. Then Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) appears and tells her “Scarlet Witch, awaken.” Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda opens her eyes. Press screeners left this scene out, according to IGN, Den of Geek and TheWrap. TVLine writes that it has been a while since “a mid-credits Marvel scene carried such weight.” Everything before it is a family reunion without the mother, and the last seconds supply her.
Den of Geek reads the scene as confirmation that Wanda returns in “Avengers: Doomsday”, which opens on December 18th, 2026. A.V. Club goes further and says she is back and working with Doom. What the scene shows is smaller. Wanda wakes with Doctor Doom there, and the end of “Multiverse of Madness” no longer stands as written. Den of Geek ties the setup to the comic “Avengers: The Children’s Crusade”, where the twins go after their mother in Doom’s Latveria. GamesRadar+ adds that nothing is confirmed about a Young Avengers team.
The reviews split on the villain. IGN’s Jesse Schedeen blames the “last-minute pivot to a new villain” for making the finale “a bit of a letdown.” Mashable’s Belen Edwards finds the Vision and Ultron showdown “a rehash of an Avengers film that came out 11 years ago.” Vulture says the sitcom idea gets rushed and “blitzes through its parody.” That tracks, because Virgil is the weak link and the climax needs more room. The sitcom is still the right call. It lets Bettany and Spader finish the argument the show has run since episode one, and it ends the trilogy in the one genre “WandaVision” owned. GamesRadar+ notes a second season is not confirmed.
What Do You Think? Did the Virgil Horton twist land for you, or should Ultron have stayed the main threat to the end? Is “UltraVision” the right way to close a “WandaVision” trilogy? With Doctor Doom standing over Wanda, how should “Avengers: Doomsday” use her?
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