The Vision’s Story So Far

After Wanda accidentally caused the death of innocents in the midst of a mission, the announcement that the United Nations were planning to ratify the Sokovia Accords caused a huge rift within the Avengers, who split over those who sided with the Accords’ intention of an outside group having oversight over the team vs. those who worried it could hinder them or be used for nefarious purposes. While Wanda was, like Steve Rogers, ultimately firmly against the Accords, Vision backed Tony Stark’s support for them, believing that the existence of the Avengers and superheroes in general were causing new, more dangerous threats to rise against them.

While Vision fought with Iron Man’s forces, Wanda ended up joining Captain America’s rogue group. Attempts to not actually cause lasting harm to those who were mostly friends and allies on the other side failed though, with Vision rushing to a wounded Wanda’s side only to inadvertently badly injure War Machine, who was permanently disabled as a result.

After Cap’s group, Wanda included, went on the run as fugitives, Vision and Wanda couldn’t resist their strong connection, periodically sneaking away for what turned into a romantic relationship, during which they lived as normal a life as they could, as he masked his true form to the public.

Thanos and the Death of Vision

But their peace was interrupted by Thanos and his forces, who were now on the war path in an attempt to gather every Infinity Stone, including the one that sat within Vision’s forehead.

As attempts to remove the Stone from him while keeping him alive ran out of time, and realizing the cataclysmic consequences if Thanos were to succeed in getting all the Stones, Vision asked Wanda to destroy the Mind Stone, despite knowing that it would kill him.

Though in anguish over it, she agreed and took his life, only for Thanos to make an awful situation much worse. He used the Time Stone to reverse the last few moments, bringing Vision back to life just so he could tear the Mind Stone from his head, killing Vision once again in front of a distraught Wanda.

Thanos then used the combined Infinity Stones to complete his plan to eliminate half of all life in the universe, with Wanda among those killed by the dreaded snap. Five years later, the remaining Avengers managed to reassemble the Stones and bring back everyone who the snap had killed, including a vengeful Wanda, but that didn’t help the Vision, who’d been killed in a different manner.

WandaVision

After Thanos’ defeat, Wanda, who had returned to life having skipped over those five years, and still feeling the raw loss of Vision, discovered his body had been dismantled and analyzed by the organization SWORD, who had tried to resurrect him without success.

Overwhelmed with grief, the increasingly powerful Wanda – whose natural affinity for magic had been amplified by Hydra’s experiments on her – retreated into an idyllic world of her own creation, conjuring a massive magical hex that transformed the New Jersey suburb of Westview. Using the American sitcoms she grew up watching as inspiration, she put all of Westview’s residents into an ever-evolving TV scenario, where she lived as the newly married wife of her great love, the Vision – who was in fact a replica created by Wanda herself.

Tommy and Billy

Going even further, Wanda used her magic to cause herself to get pregnant and rapidly give birth to twin sons for her and Vision, Tommy and Billy, who continued to age years in a moment. However, the version of Vision she created was so true to the original that he began to realize something was wrong with Westview and its entranced populace. Eventually, despite Wanda continually resetting things to try and keep him oblivious, he was horrified to discover the dark nature of what Wanda had done, even as it also became clear that Vision and the twins could not physically exist outside the hex they were a part of.

The White Vision

With the government aware of the bizarre situation inside Westview, SWORD sent a weapon to kill Wanda in the form of the original Vision, rebuilt and finally reactivated thanks to SWORD using Wanda’s own magic to do so. Crucially, he was blocked off from his memories and the attached emotions of all he had experienced, including his love of Wanda, acting cold and genuinely robotic in a way he never had before.

The hex-created Vision leapt to Wanda’s defense, with the two Visions initially having a furious fight. However, the Hex Vision was finally able to reason with the original Vision, convincing him to let him unlock the memories of the life he’d forgotten as an Avenger and his time with Wanda.

Overwhelmed, he flew off to parts unknown… and his own series we’re finally about to get five years later!

Rise of the Scarlet Witch

Meanwhile, in the midst of a confrontation with the centuries old witch Agatha Harkness, who was attempting to take Wanda’s powers for herself, Wanda unlocked her full potential as the long prophesied Scarlet Witch, said to have a mastery of chaos magic above all others. After defeating Agatha, she finally decided to free the town from her thrall, even though ending the hex also meant the end of the lives she’d created inside it that she loved so much, the replica Vision and Tommy and Billy. But the replica Vision, glad she was doing the right thing, and recalling all the incarnations of both Jarvis and the Vision so far, told her he felt that somehow they’d be reunited.

However, in the aftermath of yet another massive loss, Wanda proved unable to accept the absence of her children. Her ensuing attempt to steal counterparts of Tommy and Billy from a powerless version of herself in another part of the multiverse would ultimately lead to more regret and to Wanda sacrificing herself in order to destroy the source of the dark magic she had used.

Agatha Harkness and Billy

But what Wanda didn’t realize was that her Tommy and Billy actually still existed, because as it turned out, as the hex fell, Billy – who’d inherited both his mother’s telepathy and magical abilities – was able to pull his and his brother’s souls from their bodies. Billy sent his own soul into the body of a 13 year old boy who was simultaneously dying in a car crash.

Now living that boy’s life, as William Kaplan, a confused Billy couldn’t recall his real history, but investigating the events of the Westview anomaly, gradually came to realize who he was in the years that followed.

Billy was determined to find Tommy, and with the help of an unlikely ally, in the form of Agatha Harkness, he was able to pinpoint Tommy’s still adrift soul and place it into the body of an ostracized boy who had just drowned thanks to a cruel prank, though Billy couldn’t perceive the specifics on where this took place.

When Death herself came to claim Billy, whose resurrection had defied her will, Agatha – having come to truly care for Billy – sacrificed herself instead. However, resisting being pulled into the afterlife, Agatha continued on as a ghost, now accompanying Billy on the mission that mattered most to him.

Next Up: VisionQuest

Will Billy and Agatha be successful anytime soon? That remains to be seen, as they haven’t been announced as being in VisionQuest, but considering Tommy is definitely in that show, it certainly seems possible we might get an appearance.

Regardless, we’ll find out what exactly both Billy’s brother, Tommy, and their father, The Vision, have been up to when VisionQuest debuts on Disney+.