Do you need to watch WandaVision before VisionQuest? Terry Matalas gives a clear answer

VisionQuest is just 48 hours away from its release, and as that happens, fans are wondering if they need to watch what came before the upcoming show. If you remember, Thanos killed Vision in the last act of 2018's Avengers: Infinity War by ripping the mind stone out of the android's forehead. However, Vision was finally brought back in 2021's WandaVision.

There are two forms of Vision in WandaVision: Firstly, there is the classic Vision, whose origin is a mystery for the first half of the series. The second is the Vision, who was rebuilt after Thanos killed him. Now, almost five years after WandaVision, VisionQuest is set to feature the return of the android Avenger.

Marketed as a sci-fi series, showrunner Terry Matalas recently answered if fans should binge WandaVision and Agatha All Along before the solo Vision series.

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If you remember, the Vision series has been marketed as the last entry in the WandaVision "Trilogy", which also consists of Agatha All Along. Matalas recently sat down for an interview with SFX Magazine in which he addressed if VisionQuest was developed as the closing chapter of the WandaVision Trilogy. Terry Matalas responded, saying that while the series is a sequel, it also stands on its own.

The showrunner's exact words were:

"No, not really. I would say, if anything, it's definitely more of a sequel to 'WandaVision' in a lot of ways. But it really exists on its own. It's more the Vision story, just because we're going to dig into so much of who he is in ways that the films and 'WandaVision' couldn't, including some deeper parts of his origin that may go back even further than what we believed."

Terry Matalas further continued:

"So it's very much its own entity, but it does obviously touch upon what has come before for this guy."

So, it means that while watching the previous two entries isn't strictly necessary, watching them will enhance your experience of watching the Vision series.

Why should you watch WandaVision and Agatha All Along before VisionQuest?

Two key protagonists of the Vision series have their origin tales in WandaVision and Agatha All Along. Tommy Maximoff's origin story plays out in both shows. If you remember, the penultimate episode of WandaVision reveals that S.W.O.R.D. reassembled Vision in his new body, which is white.

Meanwhile, the second-to-last WandaVision episode also revealed that Wanda manifested the classic Vision and created a reality-warping hex surrounding Westview. She did so, harnessing the power of Chaos Magic.

The couple also became parents as Wanda gave birth to the twins, Billy and Tommy, using Chaos Magic. However, Wanda finally brought down the magical hex, which "kills" Vision and the two kids.

The WandaVision finale features a unique fight between the classic Vision and White Vision, in which the former unlocks the latter's memory. Upon receiving a portion of his memory, White Vision flies off, and we will learn where he went on this Wednesday with the VisionQuest premiere.

As for Billy and Tommy, their origin is revealed in Agatha All Along. Agatha All Along Episode 6 reveals that Billy's soul entered the body of an Eastview teenager, William Kaplan. Right after his rebirth, Billy is researching the Westview hex to find out what happened to Tommy. It wasn't until the penultimate episode that we learned that Tommy's soul hadn't found a body to inhabit.

Thus, Billy and Agatha help guide Tommy's soul into a drowning boy's body. Now, the Vision series is set a few years later, as we find out that Thomas Shepard (the reincarnated Tommy Maximoff) is a teenager in London who has aged out of the foster system.

What do we know about the Vision series?

VisionQuest will pick up right where WandaVision and Agatha All Along left off, as the upcoming Disney+ MCU series will follow Vision and Tommy. We may even get a cameo from Tommy's twin, Billy and Agatha. Agatha All Along ended with the ghostly form of Agatha inviting an alive Billy to find the resurrected Tommy.

Consisting of eight episodes, here's the release schedule for the Vision series:

"Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponize him, has been in hiding. Searching for new meaning, he consults the AI personas embedded in his programming, including Friday, Edith, Jarvis, and the infamous Ultron. His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision’s son, reincarnate."

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Binge the entirety of WandaVision and Agatha All Along before VisionQuest drops on Disney+ this Wednesday.

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