“VisionQuest” has a villain, and it is not Ultron. Marvel’s new promos for the series show a hooded figure with glowing red eyes pulling back its cowl to reveal a metal face, and that figure is Jocasta (T’Nia Miller), the android the comics made Ultron’s bride. The two spots landed on Marvel’s channel on September 26th and 27th. Both close on the same card: a two-episode premiere, streaming October 14th on Disney+.
The series runs eight episodes, with the first two arriving together and the other six following weekly. Terry Matalas, who ran the final season of “Star Trek: Picard”, is the showrunner and directs as well. Paul Bettany is back as Vision and James Spader returns as Ultron, a role he first played in “Avengers: Age of Ultron” in 2015. Warning beyond this point there are spoilers for “VisionQuest” and for what its new promos reveal.
Both close on the same card: a two-episode premiere, streaming October 14th on Disney+.”
The longer spot opens by telling you exactly where this sits. “From the studio that brought you WandaVision,” the first card reads, over the old sitcom logo. A narrator lays out the premise in one line: “Wanda Maximoff spun an illusion so convincing that some of it became real.” Wanda herself appears only in footage from “WandaVision”, red energy pouring off her. Elizabeth Olsen is not in the series. Vision knows Wanda died in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and the show is built on what she left behind.
What she left behind is two things. The first is Vision himself. This is the White Vision that S.W.O.R.D. rebuilt from the original’s body, handed the old memories in the “WandaVision” finale and then let fly away. The second is a son. Tommy was one of the twins Wanda created inside the Hex. In “Agatha All Along”, his brother Billy placed Tommy’s soul into the body of a teenager named Thomas Shepherd. Ruaridh Mollica now plays him, and one line in the spot sets the plot: “Vision, what aren’t you telling me?”
Vision’s answer is the darkest line in either spot. “My son, this is a fight I likely won’t win.” That is a blunt thing for a Marvel promo to say about its lead, and it fits the setup. Marvel’s synopsis has Vision living in hiding with a bounty on his head and fleeing with a teenager who may be his son reborn. Marvel has also cast Todd Stashwick as Paladin, a gun-for-hire in the comics. The spot does not name anyone, but it shows enough armed men, red light and wreckage to make the danger clear.
Jocasta is the new piece. Jim Shooter and George Pérez created her for “The Avengers” in 1977, and she has been part of the team’s furniture ever since. In the comics Ultron built her as a mate from the brain patterns of Janet van Dyne, the Wasp. She turned on him and became an Avenger herself. The show’s character description calls this version “cunning and powerful” and “driven by revenge.” The spots show her twice. First she stands in shadow with her hood up, then she drops it to show a chrome face with red eyes that looks plainly related to Ultron. Later she trades blows with White Vision on a dark stage lit by chandeliers.
Casting Jocasta as the villain solves a problem the first trailer created. That trailer showed Ultron living inside Vision’s mind as a human-looking avatar, arguing with him like a bad roommate. It was funny but it left open who the physical threat would be. The answer is a body Ultron’s code could inhabit or command. The show has not confirmed that link. The design makes it hard to miss, and “driven by revenge” suggests the grudge is personal.
The shorter spot is built differently. It is almost all text on screen, spelled out across Vision’s face and the sets as he talks. “I am Vision. And yet I’m different.” Then someone asks, “So who are you?” His answer comes in single words: disconnected, lost. It closes on the tagline of the whole campaign: “You see an Avenger. But I’m something new.” That line is the thesis of the show. White Vision is a copy who knows he is a copy, and the series is about whether a copy can become a person.
The mind-palace cast is bigger than the first trailer let on. The artificial intelligences in Vision’s head are played as people, and the credits read like Tony Stark’s old tech list. James D’Arcy plays J.A.R.V.I.S. while Orla Brady plays F.R.I.D.A.Y. and Emily Hampshire plays E.D.I.T.H. Even the robot arms from Stark’s workshop, D.U.M.-E and U, get actors, Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer. That is a clever way to turn one lonely character into an ensemble without leaving his head.
ComicBook reports that the new footage also shows Tommy using super-speed, which would make him Speed, his comic-book name, and tie him directly to his uncle Pietro, Quicksilver. The spots frame the three title cards around that family: “Her Vision”, “His Quest”, “Comes to an epic conclusion.” Marvel is selling this as the end of a trilogy that started with “WandaVision” in 2021 and continued with “Agatha All Along” in 2024.
Matalas is the right hire for that job. “Picard” season three took a franchise that had drifted and ended it with a reunion people still talk about. He knows how to close a story that fans have lived with for years and he knows how to make a TV budget look like a feature. Filming took about seven months at Pinewood Studios in London under the working title “Tin Man”. The action in these spots, with its red-lit corridors and the stage fight, looks like it used every week of that.
There is a reunion inside the cast list too. Stashwick starred in “12 Monkeys”, the Syfy series Matalas co-created, and then played Captain Liam Shaw in “Picard” season three, the character fans adopted as the season’s breakout. Casting him as a gun-for-hire in a Marvel show is Matalas bringing his own people with him. The other directors on the series are Christopher J. Byrne, Gandja Monteiro and Vincenzo Natali, the director of “Cube”. Marvel has been showing footage for more than a year, starting at Disney’s upfront presentation in May 2025 and at New York Comic Con that October, before the first full trailer arrived at D23 in August.
The two-episode premiere matters too. It gives the show room to set up Vision’s hiding place and the bounty and Tommy, and at least a first look at Jocasta before viewers decide whether to keep watching. Marvel has used the double opening on several recent series, and it tends to help the ones that need a slow build. “VisionQuest” is exactly that kind of show.
October 14th is two weeks away and the promos have done their job. They have given the series a face for its threat, a clear emotional stake in Vision and Tommy, and a promise that the trilogy ends here. Whether White Vision gets the ending the original never did is the question the next eight weeks will answer.
What Do You Think? Is Jocasta carrying Ultron’s code, or is she after Ultron as much as Vision? Can White Vision protect Tommy when he admits himself that he may lose? And should Marvel have found a way to bring Elizabeth Olsen back for the final chapter?
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