‘WandaVision’ Finale Explained: What Happened to Vision?

WandaVision‘s final episode, appropriately titled “The Season Finale,” wrapped things up for the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), teased an interstellar future for Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), but left one major MCU character’s fate up in the air. I’m talking of course of Paul Bettany’s Vision. Both of them. The WandaVision finale left us all wondering: “What happened to Vision?” Specifically, White Vision.

After answering the question of “who was the cameo in WandaVision?” with “Paul Bettany,” and subsequently hyping up a major Paul Bettany-on-Paul Bettany battle last week, WandaVision resolved things between the two Visions with the “Ship of Theseus” thought experiment. That meant that one Vision didn’t kill the other. In fact, it seems one Vision might have actually saved the other.

Wanda Maximoff might finally have closure (and a hot new Scarlet Witch costume), but the WandaVision finale left the door open for a whole new version of Paul Bettany’s Vision to return. But which Vision will return to the MCU? Is the “Hex” version of Vision gone? And most importantly, what happened to White Vision in WandaVision?!?

Here’s everything we know about the fate of White Vision in WandaVision…

WHAT HAPPENED TO WHITE VISION ON WANDAVISION?

We…don’t know? Okay, that’s not fair. We actually have a pretty good idea of what happened to White Vision. Let’s break it down from the beginning.

In last week’s WandaVision post-credits scene, we learned that S.W.O.R.D. director Hayward (Josh Stamberg) had been attempting to resurrect Vision to use him as a living weapon. “Cataract” was the code name for this top secret (and very illegal since it went against Vision’s will!?!) project. Hayward was struggling to bring the synthezoid back to life until he hooked up Vision’s corpse to one of the drones Wanda had unleashed her chaos magic on. Using it as a battery, he brought Vision back online, stripped of both his memories and his humanity, and sent him into the Hex to neutralize Wanda Maximoff.

Naturally, “Hex Vision,” as we’ll call the Vision Wanda created with chaos magic going forward, didn’t like this.

The two Visions took to the skies for an incendiary battle that just proved how equally matched, er, two Visions could be in a fight. So Hex Vision switched up strategies and decided to get into White Vision’s head by stating he was only a “Conditional Vision.” White Vision asked him to explain and we got a rather nerdy discussion about the Ship of Theseus.

Ultimately Hex Vision was able to prove to White Vision that neither of them was the true Vision, and yet both of them were. When White Vision lamented he didn’t have the Mind Stone (that granted Vision humanity) or his memories, Hex Vision explained that the memory data had to be somewhere in his code. Using the Mind Stone-magic coursing through him, Hex Vision helped unlock these memories for White Vision.

Now it should be noted that White Vision’s memory banks do not include the events of Wanda and Vision’s little honeymoon period in Westview. White Vision only has memories of the films, leading up to and ending with his death in Avengers: Infinity War. However, these memories were enough to snap him out of Hayward’s control. He no longer sees Wanda as an enemy and he rejects the mission to be a sentient weapon.

The last we see of White Vision is him declaring himself to be Vision and zooming out of town. There’s a look of devastation in his now human looking eyes so it’s unclear if he’s capable of feeling emotions (remember: no Mind Stone!), but he definitely doesn’t want to be Hayward’s pawn. He also, like all the MCU characters, has a lot to process.

So White Vision is AWOL for now, but somewhere, out there, waiting to come back in the MCU.

DOES VISION DIE IN WANDAVISION?

Uh, sort of? The Hex version of Vision does?

Okay, so during the Scarlet Witch’s boss battle with Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), we learn that Hex Vision, Tommy (Jett Klyne), and Billy (Julian Hilliard) are tied to Wanda’s Westview spell. If she tries to free Westview of her magical hex, Hex Vision, Tommy, and Billy will all die. (Actually they’ll de-frag House of M style which is a pretty choice visual Easter egg if you ask this nerd.)

Ultimately, Wanda has to make the tough choice. In order to save Westview, she has to doom her family. Because she’s a hero, she chooses to sacrifice those she loves. She tucks the twins into bed and tells them family is forever. Then she and Hex Vision have a beautiful farewell that seemingly confirms that we will see Vision in some new form again.

But yeah, the Vision we spent all those zany sitcom episodes with is gone. White Vision, armed with memories of everything leading up to his death in Infinity War, is likely to show up later in an MCU show or film (but no confirmation on where). The one good bit of news? The second WandaVision post-credits scene teases that Tommy and Billy might not be gone forever after all…

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