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vision quest is entering the second half of its season, and Episodes 5 and 6 certainly moved the needle in terms of developing many of the series’ main characters (Vision, Ultron, Tommy, even the villains Paladin and Jacosta), while also setting up what’s at stake for Episodes 7 and 8.
There are still some fun questions on the board before the finale: who doesn’t have a theory about the identity of the mysterious “client” who hired Paladin? However, while doing their usual deep dissections, Marvel Cinematic Universe fans saw a familiar character pop in and out of Episode 6 so quickly you probably missed it.
The Watcher pays a visit to vision quest
Yes, the enigmatic Watcher is taking a look at what’s happening in VisionQWest. Fans saw the Watcher in episode 6, “Deadlock,” during a showdown in the grim port city of Madripoor. Vision, Paladin and return iron man The villainous Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar (Farah Tahir) is interrupted by the mysterious “Client” who hired Paladin and Raza. The Client’s presence is announced when the entire city loses power and goes dark in an instant, except for the network of screens from which the Client broadcasts, his face and voice digitally disguised. A program from an electronics store shows a stack of televisions broadcasting the Customer’s message; The Watcher can be seen watching the speech from a dark door next to the television store.
The blink-and-you-miss-it cameo has since been confirmed by vision quest Showrunner Terry Matalas, who cited a news tweet about The Watcher sighting with the caption: “Good eyes. Or… eyes.”
Now, theories about the Client’s identity are about to take a whole new turn toward characters worthy of a Watcher’s attention. What is your assumption?
What does The Watcher cameo mean? vision quest?
The Watcher is a cosmic being who appears to observe (but not interfere with) events of great cosmic importance. The character (and his siblings) have been seen in several MCU projects, including Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, X-Men ’97, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Eyes of Wakanda, Marvel Zombiesand Daredevil: Born Again Season 2. So far, And if?… has been the longest story arc for at least one of the Watchers, Uatu (voiced by Jeffrey Wright), who went from being the series’ narrator to breaking his oath and actively participating in assembling a multiversal squad of Avengers to stop a variant of Ultron that gained the power of the Infinity Stones and came close to conquering the multiverse next.
That makes The Watcher’s presence in vision quest Especially interesting: the cosmic being knows better than most what threat to existence the AIs and/or synthezoids of the MCU really are, and the events of vision quest They seem to be pushing the mechanical beings into some kind of evolution that could change everything.
Marvel Studios has never been very clear about what The Watcher’s cameos will lead to, but there will certainly be some terrible multiversal events that will happen in Avengers: Judgment Day and secret wars. The end of the multiverse, and the possibility of Doom creating his own world from the remains, should probably get the attention of the Watchers, not to mention the other MCU cosmic entities we’ve met (like Eternity). Otherwise, these Watcher cameos would just be another road to nowhere, and the MCU already has enough of them.
VisionQuest now streaming on Disney+.