Marvel fans were in for a surprise at New York Comic Con 2025 when Paul Bettany took the stage to reveal VisionQuest, the long-awaited Disney+ series that will conclude the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued with Agatha All Along. Created and showrun by Star Trek: Picard’s Terry Matalas, the series marks Bettany’s long-anticipated return as Vision in a story that dives deep into memory, identity, and humanity.
Exclusive footage shown at the event gave fans their first glimpse of White Vision, last seen in WandaVision, alongside a human version of Vision. The teaser also introduced human incarnations of several well-known AI characters from the Marvel universe, including J.A.R.V.I.S., F.R.I.D.A.Y., and E.D.I.T.H., as well as Ultron, portrayed once again by James Spader. The clip concluded with a CCTV shot of an older Thomas Shepherd (Ruaridh Mollica), better known as Tommy, Wanda and Vision’s son.
On stage, Bettany offered insight into where the story picks up after WandaVision. “What’s different about Vision right now is that Red Vision gave Vision all of his memories, including the memories from within the Hex. But White Vision is having real difficulty connecting to them,” he explained. “So he has the memories, but he doesn’t have the emotions and the feelings, and I think that’s what the journey is—his attempt to connect to those memories and who he was… but with lasers!”
According to Marvel Television head Brad Winderbaum, VisionQuest serves as the final chapter in Vision’s emotional arc. While he remained tight-lipped about whether the new series will experiment with genre as WandaVision famously did, Winderbaum teased, “The less we say, the better. But what I will say about Terry’s vision for the show is that he knows the lore. So if you’ve been following the MCU all these years, you’re going to be very, very, very rewarded.”
Footage from the trailer also depicted Bettany’s Vision entering a white mansion, greeted by human-like servants revealed to be re-created AI programs. Spader’s Ultron, both in his robotic and human forms, looms large in the story, suggesting an uneasy reckoning between creator and creation.
VisionQuest will see Bettany joined by Emily Hampshire, T’Nia Miller, Todd Stashwick, and others. The series promises to explore Vision’s struggle to reconcile his mechanical nature with his human emotions, and set the stage for the next evolution of Marvel’s most introspective hero.
