Just when the Vision finally got some closure, Marvel reached under a mountain and pulled out the one person guaranteed to reopen everything.
Wanda Maximoff is back, and as we know, her grief can crush you into mulch. After all, she did have an entire town under her control and chased after a teenage multiverse-hopper with devilish determination and then brought a temple down on her own head. Well, now, she has been dug out of the rubble, dusted off and recruited by Doctor Doom, of all people.
Please, no more grief for Wanda. Let her return to the Avengers.
The MCU has spent five years making Wanda sad, then scary, then dead. So, is she now more than a cautionary tale?
But before we get to that, there’s a whole finale to unpack, a heartbroken killer robot and a very familiar computer chip.
Spoilers for the VisionQuest finale follow.
Who was the Client?
Season-long mystery, solved: the shadowy “Client” is Virgil Horton (James Spader), grandson of Phineas Horton, the inventor who more or less kicked off artificial intelligence in the MCU. Twist on the twist: Virgil turns out to be the human template tucked deep inside Ultron’s code, the face behind the face.
His scheme is terrifying. Virgil built Jocasta (T’Nia Miller) and loaded his late wife’s mind into…
