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The following story contains spoilers for WandaVision episode 9, “The Series Finale”.
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For the first half of the WandaVision finale “The Series Finale,” Wanda’s Vision had an epic fight with the newly reconstructed White Vision.
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The two Visions came to an understanding in the middle of their struggle, however, and White Vision went flying.
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We are wondering where the hell he went and what that could mean from now on.
Before WandaVision started (following the events of Avengers: Infinity War) we had no visions (killed twice, by Wanda Maximoff and later by Thanos). In the moment that WandaVision finale, entitled “The Series Finale” came, we had two Visions (one now with a white tint). And at the end of WandaVision final, after Wanda finally accepted Vision’s fate and White Vision had an “Eureka!” moment and we fly, we type do you have, like, a vision again? A little bit? This is yet to be seen. But the question everyone is probably asking is obvious: where the hell did White Vision go?
Let’s recap what exactly happened for a second. After being corrupt (and somewhat devoid of any real reason to be an idiot), SWORD Director Tyler Hayward implanted his new White Vision at The Hex, much of the first half of “The Series Finale” was spent with Wanda’s Vision fighting White Vision.
But after the two visions combined spent a lot of time coming and going, Wanda’s Vision decided to take a chance. Instead of continuing to fight and going nowhere quickly, he tried to reason with White Vision. “But I am not the real Vision,” he says. “Just a conditional view.” To be one Vision, he knows how another Vision thinks and works. And he is not shocked when he sees the (possibly literal) gears start to turn inside White Vision’s head: “I request an elaboration,” he says.
Wanda’s Vision continues to explain the circumstances using the mental experiment known as “The Ship of Theseus” (with which White Vision is “naturally” familiar). We’ll save you the details for now (“Neither is the real ship. Both are the real ship.” Our visions agree), but the important part is that Wanda’s Vision unlocks all old Vision memories within White Vision. “I am the Vision,” he realizes, before flying.
We didn’t see White Vision again for the rest of the episode. With his memories unlocked, however, it is certainly a loose end that indicates that we will see him again. It is also good news for Paul Bettany, who will now certainly have at least 1 more MCU appearance on him. It is also the only viable way to WandaVision could bring Sight back to the larger MCU universe, while still maintaining life and death risks for his characters. Wanda’s Vision could not leave the hex, but the White Vision – with the body of the original Vision – certainly could.
While it is exciting to assume that this topic can be explored in future projects, it is also similar to the terrain that has already been covered with the story of Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier, starting with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, continuing through Civil war is at Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
White Vision did not accumulate a body count as high as Bucky, but he realized that, by having his memories cut, Hayward had transformed him from a sentient being into a killing machine. Like when Bucky went to the museum to learn about Captain America before his memory was fully unlocked, it is possible that White Vision is flying to the locations in the memories he unlocked, such as the location of his death in Wakand, or the airport where he fought alongside Tony Stark and accidentally paralyzed James Rhodes.
To look. We it could see this Vision again in any number of future Marvel Studios projects. The most obvious candidate, obviously, being Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, that we already know that she will present Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch, and, as the post-credits scene at the end makes clear, she will be looking to save her twins, either from the real world or the astral world. There is also a chance that this Vision can meet with old friend James Rhodes when he launches his own Disney + series Armor Wars a little further on. Could it also be another multiverse link (or at least more than one that Ralph Bohner seems to have been)? This is yet to be seen.
Where and When The vision appears again, however, it is not the point at this point. The important thing to take away is that the Vision – and, in turn, the wonderful portrait of Paul Bettany’s Vision – is now once again part of the toy box that Marvel Studios must play with. We don’t know when and where it will appear again, and there is a decent chance that any one of several writers working on MCU projects will not know it either. But as soon as White Vision recovered his memory and left the painting for the last time in WandaVision, a new unwritten book has been opened.
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