Where does VisionQuest fit in the MCU timeline, and does it lead straight into Avengers: Doomsday?

VisionQuest is the Disney+ series that closes the trilogy begun by WandaVision and Agatha All Along. Its eight episodes ran from October 14 to November 10, 2026. Created by Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard), it brings back Paul Bettany as White Vision, the rebuilt synthezoid who flew off at the end of WandaVision, now tending bar in Scotland. James Spader returns as Ultron, and Ruaridh Mollica plays Thomas Shepherd, the teenager carrying the soul of Wanda and Vision's son Tommy. Avengers: Doomsday opens in theaters on December 18, 2026.

When VisionQuest takes place

Matalas settled it before the premiere. "Years have passed since WandaVision," he told Polygon. "I would say we're about current with Spider-Man: Brand New Day."

Brand New Day is set four years after No Way Home, which puts VisionQuest around 2028. The show backs that up on screen: Vision and Ultron both note that more than a decade has passed since the battle of Sokovia in Avengers: Age of Ultron. In episode 3, Vision says Bruce Banner is "unavailable," a nod to where Brand New Day leaves Banner: detained at a military base.

Where Marvel's official timeline puts it

Last. On the official MCU timeline on Disney+, VisionQuest is the final entry, after Wonder Man and The Punisher: One Last Kill, which makes it the furthest point the MCU has reached so far. Agatha All Along sits back in the fall of 2026, so Billy Maximoff and Agatha's ghost have been looking for Tommy for roughly two years by the time VisionQuest catches up with them.

VisionQuest watch order

• Avengers: Age of Ultron, for Vision's creation and Ultron
• WandaVision, for White Vision and the twins
• Agatha All Along, for Billy and the search for Tommy
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which runs alongside VisionQuest
• VisionQuest
• Avengers: Doomsday

Does VisionQuest lead into Avengers: Doomsday?

The main story doesn't. Vision's arc ends with his family, not with Doctor Doom, and the scheduling was mostly luck. "We had no idea that we would be sandwiched in between Spider-Man and Avengers," Matalas said, adding:

"It just worked out that way."

The credits are a different story. The finale has two extra scenes. The first belongs to Ultron, who now lives in Virgil Horton's mansion and holds the Jocasta Drive from Age of Ultron, which hints that he wants to rebuild Jocasta. He ends the scene by spiking the lens and staring at the audience. Matalas called it "a promise of some kind that Ultron's not done," but where Ultron goes next, he said, is "up to the MCU gods."

The scene that points straight at Doomsday

The second post-credits scene goes back to the end of 2022's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, when Wanda Maximoff brought Mount Wundagore down on herself. Moments after the collapse, Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom lifts the rubble off her body:

"Scarlet Witch, awaken. Your power will be mine."

Marvel didn't show it to press in advance; critics saw it for the first time along with everyone else.

The one scene in VisionQuest that leads straight into Doomsday is set years before the rest of VisionQuest.

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That is the real answer to the headline. VisionQuest leads into Doomsday through Wanda, not Vision. Bettany himself still isn't on the announced Doomsday cast, and when asked in October whether he would appear, he said, "That's for Kevin Feige to decide." Doomsday opens on December 18, 38 days after the VisionQuest finale.

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