The MCU has been planting Young Avengers breadcrumbs for quite some time. New heroes kept showing up, teenage heroes kept arriving in Disney+ shows, but a Young Avengers team never became a reality. Not until now.
With the advent of VisionQuest, it looks set to unite Billy and Tommy Maximoff in the main MCU timeline for the first time, finally linking those 2 threads that began in WandaVision. Not to mention, it completes the pieces fans patiently await for years to see a Young Avengers team.
That doesn’t mean the team will get together in VisionQuest itself. Vision is the story of Vision, and the Young Avengers will almost assuredly unite in a future project of their own sometime in the years to come. But by that point, when VisionQuest ends, the foundation will have finally been laid. The two most important members of the group, the Maximoff twins, will be defined, functioning, and available, and everything after that boils down to a matter of timing for Marvel.
VisionQuest x Young Avengers – The twin question gets its answer
Billy Maximoff was reborn at the end of Agatha All Along, and his soul has been reincarnated in William Kaplan, a teenage boy. Joe Locke took up his role, and by the final episodes, he was embracing his identity as Wiccan, a potent young sorcerer who is a member of the original Young Avengers in the comics.
Tommy’s journey has been more complicated. After a brief appearance in WandaVision and a variant appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there was no confirmed presence for the speedster son of Wanda and Vision in the MCU as currently established. VisionQuest rectifies that.
Scottish actor Ruaridh Mollica was cast in the series under the placeholder name “Tucker,” but Marvel announced at NYCC 2025 that he was, in fact, playing Tommy Maximoff. His true nature as a Maximoff will be revealed bit by bit as the series progresses, and in the same way as Billy’s origins began to be revealed in Agatha All Along.
Finally, having ‘found’ twins, we can place the two most important remaining Young Avengers pieces for the MCU.
The show that closes the WandaVision trilogy
VisionQuest is the third and last chapter of a story that started with WandaVision in 2021 and continued with Agatha All Along in 2024. Paul Bettany reprises his role as White Vision, the rebuilt, all-white version of the character who zoomed off at the end of WandaVision with his memories regained but his feelings toward them still broken.
Showrunner Terry Matalas, whose credits include Star Trek: Picard and 12 Monkeys, has likened the narrative arc of Vision in the series to that of Spock in Star Trek IV, in which the character has most of his memories back but cannot access them in any meaningful way. That internal battle is the heart of the series.
Production concluded in London by the middle of 2025. The series of eight episodes is scheduled to premiere on Disney+ in late 2026, just before Avengers: Doomsday.
A mind full of familiar faces
The series also features a surprising and rather audacious supporting cast. In Vision’s mind, many of the MCU’s A.I.s will appear as he attempts to reconnect with his memory of the past. In the process, one will be treated to Ultron’s return. James Spader will return to the role for the first time since Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015. Other returning characters will include F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., Jocasta, and even Tony Stark’s beloved robotic lab DUM-E and U.
It is a wildly creative premise. For every one of these characters embodies a different incarnation of artificial life created as an instrument of war, a tool of labor, a friend. All of them are within the confines of Vision’s mindscape and exploring what it means to be truly alive, gives VisionQuest a philosophical gravitas otherwise absent in your typical MCU action fic.
The Young Avengers roster is almost complete
Marvel has been building a new group of superheroes for many years. Kate Bishop appeared first in Hawkeye. Kamala was introduced in The Marvels, with Cassie Lang already in her sights. America Chavez, Ironheart, Skaar, and Elijah Bradley showed up in different titles. Billy is now a Wiccan. Tommy is about to join him as Speed.
It’s rumored that a full Young Avengers series will be released following Avengers: Secret Wars. VisionQuest, the concluding major setup series, will have aired before that happens. It won’t establish the team; however, after it finishes, no excuses will remain. The twins will be back together, the narrative established in WandaVision will be wrapped up, and the Young Avengers will have nowhere left to run.
Edited by Sahiba Tahleel