VisionQuest has saved its greatest thriller for its closing episodes: the id of the mysterious “Shopper” (or “Benefactor”) who employed the Paladin to search out White Imaginative and prescient. Although by no means seen, the Shopper has made their presence identified by common check-ins with Paladin (Todd Stashwick), in addition to impartial machinations like hiring Iron Man (2008) villain Raza al-Wazar (Faran Tahir) to take up the contract. Nonetheless, in Episode 6, “Impasse,” the Shopper makes their presence identified by shutting down all the energy grid of Madripoor to ship a digital monologue to Imaginative and prescient (Paul Bettany).
The Shopper’s speech included quotes like “I’m the one searching you. I’m additionally the one who can finish your struggling. You died for love. However rebuilt, reborn with out that love. I can provide you that coronary heart—it’s the soul you got here again to life with out.” It additionally got here with the ominous promise: “Give up your self, or I’ll take you, okay? There is no such thing as a life I’ll spare for this to be.”
The Shopper really making an look (even in digital disguise) was all some followers wanted to drag free clues collectively into a really compelling working principle; one that claims the Shopper is definitely the character we’ve been taking a look at (a method or one other) all alongside.
VisionQuest Concept: The Shopper’s Identification Revealed
Throughout this week’s episode of the ComicBook Nation podcast, we did a deep dive into VisionQuest episodes 5 & 6. Throughout that section, one of many regulars in our YouTube chat, “@NinDiego_64,” dropped an attention-grabbing principle: “I’ve a principle that the Benefactor (Shopper) is OG Imaginative and prescient.”
That’s a reasonably compelling principle to include into the present – however there are many breadcrumbs that assist it. Firstly, the reveal of Ultron’s return (Imaginative and prescient absorbing a chunk of him utilizing the Thoughts Stone) opens the door for OG Imaginative and prescient to have made the same transfer himself: within the prompt that Thanos was pulling the Thoughts Stone out of his head, Imaginative and prescient clearly had the aptitude to retailer a backup of his consciousness someplace, utilizing the stone. S.W.O.R.D.’s intervention would’ve prevented OG Imaginative and prescient from getting again a repaired physique, and White Imaginative and prescient’s presence would preserve him out, misplaced and formless out in digital area. VisionQuest has already pulled the twist of showing some key characters (like Paladin’s handler) are literally AI – the Shopper being one too suits, particularly after seeing Episode 6.
OG Imaginative and prescient would by no means have skilled “WandaVision” and the household bond it created – reminiscences which are additionally saved in White Imaginative and prescient’s head. He can be a “soul” desperately on the lookout for his physique; the alternative of White Imaginative and prescient, the physique lacking the center and soul of OG Imaginative and prescient. By now we all know these MCU Disney+ exhibits like to play with mirror photographs of their lead characters, and for the reason that Imaginative and prescient who battled White Imaginative and prescient in WandaVision was a conjuring, an precise OG Imaginative and prescient vs. White Imaginative and prescient battle is a spectacle followers would definitely need to see.
Concept #2: The Human Torch* vs. White Imaginative and prescient
As for how that battle will go down: NinDiego additionally posited the speculation that J.I.M. (Jewel Particular person Machine), aka the unique synthezoid (and Marvel’s unique “Human Torch” character), has been popping up in VisionQuest as a result of his synthezoid physique shall be what OG Imaginative and prescient inhabits to battle White Imaginative and prescient for his physique.
Some followers could have a look at this principle and object to the concept OG Imaginative and prescient would ever do the issues the Shopper has set in movement (Paladin’s many kills, using the Ten Rings). However once more, Marvel Studios loves a specific amount of synergy in these Disney+ collection character arcs. Wanda went down a darkish spiral after WandaVision, turning into a full-fledged villain and killer out of the obsession to get her household life again; OG Imaginative and prescient might have been bodiless for therefore lengthy that it warped him watching all these occasions within the Hex and VisionQuest play out, unable to avoid wasting Wanda from shedding herself to grief, desperately eager to get again to his life as a pondering, feeling, machine man.
The second plotline of Episodes 5 and 6 made a complete teleplay out of displaying how priceless Imaginative and prescient’s evolution is to synths like Ultron (James Spader) and Jocasta (T’Nia Miller). So is it actually that arduous to consider that OG Imaginative and prescient would go to violent lengths to get his physique again?
What do you consider this principle? Wouldn’t it present the thrilling (and thought-provoking) ending to VisionQuest you need? Tell us within the feedback!