All 8 Episodes of 'VisionQuest,' Ranked

Image via Disney+ Published Nov 11, 2026, 6:03 PM EST Eddie Possehl is a dynamic and driven writer/director with a passion for the written word and all things film, television, comics, and games. His passion for storytelling led him to establish his own production company in hopes of achieving his dreams. His dedication to his craft has attracted renowned talent like Yuri Lowenthal to collaborate with him on his projects. As he grows and improves, Eddie is a shining example of a self-starter. Sign in to your Collider account Spoiler Alert: This list contains spoilers for the VisionQuest finale.With VisionQuest finally finishing up its limited series run, Marvel fans are extremely happy. The finale to the trilogy that began with WandaVision is making its rounds as a fan-favorite Disney+ series. This is all thanks to the fact that the show has all the makings of a good superhero television series, while still staying extremely true to itself. The character of Vision (Paul Bettany) has been through the ringer since his birth in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and while many had thought his story ended with his death in Avengers: Infinity War, the likes of WandaVision revived him (in a way). While, at first, there were lots of people who weren't happy about this new Vision being introduced, VisionQuest's eight awesome episodes have given them ample reason to be. 8 "Firewall" Episode 5 Image via Disney+ VisionQuest Episode 5, "Firewall" is a bit more of a sit-down-and-breathe episode, so it takes itself a tad slower than the rest of the others. This doesn't mean it's any kind of snooze-fest, though. Episode 5 is a lot more character-driven, especially when it comes to the likes of antagonists Jocasta (T'Nia Miller) and Ultron (James Spader). This fifth entry does quite a bit of legwork to make them more understandable as characters moving into the latter half of the season. Having good, relatable, and sympathetic characters as antagonists is wildly important, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe can either be really good at this, or quite bad. Episode 5 makes it so VisionQuest truly succeeds on the antagonist front (even though the true villain of the series had yet to be truly introduced). It's not a perfect episode, and sometimes the pacing really keeps it from being everything it could be. But, all-in-all, it's still a decent episode that develops the characters effectively. 7 "Reboot" Episode 3 Image via Disney+ The first few episodes of a new show are extremely important. If the audiences are hooked by the first or second episode, the crew behind the series needs to make sure that hook stays and that was the important job that VisionQuest Episode 3, "Reboot" had. Thankfully, things are really kicking into high gear by this point in the plot, with Tommy Shepherd/Maximoff (Ruaridh Mollica) and Vision finally paired up and working together in full force. The third entry also further develops the mystery behind whom the so-called "Butcherbird" is, and why they have been killing so specifically. This mystery truly engages viewers and keeps them guessing. This, combined with the great character work written between Tommy and Vision, makes Episode 3 a great continuation to the borderline perfect introduction that was in the first two episodes (which dropped together). 6 "No Strings" Episode 1 Image via Disney+ A good pilot for a television show is everything. If a pilot fails, the potential continued viewership of the show drops drastically. While the MCU has pre-installed fans that will watch whatever they put out, a bad pilot can still crash the plane and detract even the most dedicated viewer. Thankfully, director Christopher J. Byrne did a wonderful job bringing this new story to viewers. Byrne reintroduces the audience to Vision and where he's been in the time since WandaVision with prowess and grace. Not to mention, it wastes no time introducing all the main players and the conflict. This faster pacing doesn't keep it from feeling too fast, though, and it still takes ample time to slow down and establish these characters, where they're at in their journeys, and what's to come. VisionQuest Episode 1, "No Strings" is a great example of an effective beginning. 5 "Deadlock" Episode 6 Image via Disney+ The truth of Tommy's past is a mystery (to him) that lingers over his entire character arc. That presence is very prominent in VisionQuest Episode 6, "Deadlock" as they head to Madripoor to meet with Paladin (Todd Stashwick) for a tense alliance. If it isn't obvious from online discussion, the son of Vision is a fan-favorite character in the series, and this is a big episode for his character arc. VisionQuest does a great job making reveals while still maintaining as much mystery as they can, and it doesn't just do that with Tommy's past in the sixth installment, but regarding the mysterious man behind all the shenanigans thus far. Not to mention, it's got a wonderful MCU callback cameo in Faran Tahir returning as Raza for the first time since Iron Man in 2008. A super fun inclusion that awards MCU fans who have been here since the beginning and still made it this far into such an expansive universe. Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which MCU Villain Do You Align With? Killmonger · Namor · Zemo · Thanos Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you do about something unfair, how long you will wait for what you want, who you are really loyal to, how easily you let a thing go. Answer them and we will tell you which one of these four you have more in common with than you would like. Every one of them thinks they are the reasonable person in the room. 🐆Killmonger(Black Panther) 🔱Namor(Wakanda Forever) 🎭Zemo(Civil War) 🧤Thanos(Infinity War) FIND YOUR VILLAIN → 01 How do you react to something you think is unfair? All four of these men started here. ALoudly, and I want the whole thing torn down. BI protect whoever it hurt, first and fast. CI say nothing, and I start planning. DI look for why it keeps happening at all. NEXT QUESTION → 02 How long will you wait for something you want? Patience separates these four more than anything else. ANot long, since I have waited long enough already. BAs long as my people stay safe meanwhile. CYears, if years are what it takes. DTime does not really come into it. NEXT QUESTION → 03 Who are you actually loyal to? Answer for the real one, not the polite one. AThe people nobody else turned up for. BMy own, and nobody outside that. COne person, and they are already gone. DAn idea, rather than any group of people. NEXT QUESTION → 04 How do you win an argument? Everybody has one method and uses it every time. ABy being angrier and more right. BBy making the cost of disagreeing obvious. CBy letting them talk until they trip over something. DBy explaining it until they run out of objections. NEXT QUESTION → 05 How easily do you let something go? This is the question that makes villains out of people. AI do not, and I can tell you exactly why. BOnce whoever caused it stops being a threat. CWhen the balance is settled, and not before. DInstantly, because it was never personal. NEXT QUESTION → 06 What do you think about breaking the rules? Nobody on this list has ever felt guilty about it. AThey were written by whoever benefits from them. BMine apply, and theirs do not reach me. CRules are a tool, and I use them precisely. DThe rule matters far less than the outcome. NEXT QUESTION → 07 What do people say about you behind your back? You already know which one it is. AThat I am far too angry about it. BThat I put my own above everybody else. CThat I am much quieter than I should be. DThat I am certain in a way that unnerves them. NEXT QUESTION → 08 What would you do with real power? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your villain. AGive it to the people it was kept from. BUse it to shut my own people off from the world. CUse it to make the guilty face what they did. DUse it to fix the thing everybody refuses to face. REVEAL MY VILLAIN → The Case Is Made You Align With…Four villains, and four arguments the films were honest enough to actually let them make. Here is the one you lean towards, the part of it that holds up, and the exact point where it stops holding up. Erik KillmongerYou align with the one who was right about the problem and wrong about the solution. Killmonger is the most persuasive villain Marvel has produced because the film never pretends his anger came from nowhere. You notice who was abandoned and you cannot let it go, which is a moral instinct before it is anything else. His argument lands because Wakanda really did watch and do nothing, and the film makes T'Challa admit it out loud. Where it breaks is the method, since a man who was failed by power decided the answer was to hold more of it. Michael B. Jordan plays him as somebody performing certainty over grief, which is why the last scene of that film still works. NamorYou align with the protector, which is the most understandable and most dangerous position on this list. Namor is not chasing power or revenge, he is doing whatever keeps his people hidden, and he has been doing it for centuries. Your loyalty has a hard border around it, and everything inside that border matters far more to you than anything outside it. Talokan is the best realised world Marvel has built since Wakanda, and the film makes you understand exactly what he is guarding. His logic is airtight right up until it requires somebody else's people to pay for his people's safety. He would rather be feared by the surface world forever than trust it once, and history has given him reasons. Helmut ZemoYou align with the patient one, the only man on this list with no powers, no army and no hurry. Zemo lost his family in Sokovia and then spent years working out that you do not fight the Avengers, you introduce them to each other's secrets. You go quiet when you are hurt, and the quiet is where the thinking happens. Zemo is the only MCU villain who completely won, and he did it with a notebook, a plan and a great deal of self control. His grief is real, and the film is careful never to let you forget that he started as an ordinary man with a family. Where it fails is the cost, since taking apart the people who hurt him meant hurting a great many people who did not. ThanosYou align with the one who decided the answer was arithmetic. Thanos is not angry and not grieving in any way he will admit to, he simply reached a conclusion and never once revisited it, which is precisely what makes him frightening. You are capable of holding a position that costs you everything, and you would call that conviction rather than stubbornness. Infinity War works because it is structured as his film, with a goal, a journey and a sacrifice, and the heroes are the obstacle. The flaw in the plan is not the cruelty, it is that he never seriously considered a single alternative to it. Josh Brolin plays him tired rather than triumphant, which is the choice that turned a purple giant into a real character. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 4 "Forever" Episode 8 Image via Disney+ Just as a good pilot is important, a good finale is just as important—if not more so. VisionQuest had a lot it needed to accomplish by the end of the runtime of VisionQuest Episode 8, "Forever" and, thankfully, it managed to execute on it. MCU Disney+ finales have definitely struggled in the past, so this story had a lot to prove, with high stakes. There was a lot to be screwed up here, and, if everyone on the team—cast and crew alike—didn't give their A game, it could have turned out catastrophically. A bad finale can tarnish how people view a series as a whole forever, unfortunately. The show's first seven episodes are incredibly strong, so to fumble in the final hour would have been horrific for the show's reputation and overall quality. "Forever" wraps up every plot thread relatively well, being able to weave the plots together into one cohesively. Everyone's character arcs feel like they've reached a natural conclusion, and the way that Vision finally bests Ultron is quite creative, as it doesn't rely on just action to wrap the conflict up. Plus, it gets huge points for finally bringing the Maximoff boys together, with Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) making an appearance to help Tommy revive their father. 3 "Theseus" ​​​​​​​Episode 2 Image via Disney+ VisionQuest Episode 1, "No Strings" focuses mainly on introducing Vision and his AI crew, but they're not the only protagonists of this show. On the other hand, VisionQuest Episode 2, "Theseus", takes its entire runtime to introduce the character of Tommy and develop his side of this world and his character arc. Ever since WandaVision and Agatha All Along, people have been wondering where he's at. Is he alive? Where did he end up? What does he even look like? This second episode answers all those questions. So, in a way, this is a bit of a "second pilot"—a job that it wonderfully succeeds at. The young man was always going to be one of the most important characters of this show, so giving him an entire episode to be introduced and established was an incredible call on the VisionQuest team's part. This is especially true with the great direction, as per usual, from Christopher J. Byrne. 2 "Malware" Episode 4 Image via Disney+ Comic book fans were abundantly excited when it was announced that the awesome villain, Jocasta, was going to be making her MCU debut in VisionQuest. If there's an episode to consider the "Jocasta Episode," it would be VisionQuest Episode 4, "Malware" as it's her big introduction and the reveal of her major plans for the future. This episode also throws a bit of a wrench in the father and son's relationship, as the young speedster discovers that Vision wasn't wholly honest about who resides in his mind. With Tommy putting it together that Ultron is in Vision's mind, he's obviously not very happy with his father. Things get worse, however, when Jocasta makes her move, and Vision is forced into letting Ultron take control to stop her—which, to no one's surprise, does not go well. Tommy also gets to finally show off his true speed in the climax of this episode, which is abundantly cool to finally see on display. 1 "Immolation" Episode 7 Image via Disney+ A good penultimate episode needs to tee up what's to come in the big finale, and—genuinely—VisionQuest Episode 7, "Immolation" is one of the best penultimate Disney+ MCU episodes of all time. The way this seventh episode sets up what's to come and reveals such massive information to the audience is masterful in every way. It truly puts Vision and Ultron at odds, brings Jocasta one step closer to her goal, sets Tommy up for a huge arc conclusion, and so much more. VisionQuest Episode 7, "Immolation" has everything that makes this show as great as it is. It has some of the most raw, vulnerable dialogue and character moments out there that bring these characters to where they need to be perfectly. It's got action that ups the ante with spectacle and wonder. Not to mention, the visuals continue to be astounding, thanks to Director of Photography, Neville Kidd. With this in mind, there's just no question that the penultimate entry to the VisionQuest journey is the best the show has to offer. The stakes are set, the characters are ready, and the crew executed everything they needed to with so much prowess. VisionQuest Release Date 2026 - 2026-00-00 Network Disney+