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To paraphrase the famous "WandaVision" line, what is our lust for this show if not a hot bot crush persevering?

Published October 23, 2026 1:30PM (EDT)

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While we were swooning over “ WandaVision ” back in 2021, we couldn’t have known Marvel was softening us up for the AI revolution. Well, some of us probably suspected something was afoot since, like Agatha Harkness , it was right there all along. Algorithms were already predicting our tastes, needs and desires and serving us options before we asked for them. Virtual assistants steered our daily lives and still do. But Alexa and Siri don’t have faces, bodies or plausible imitations of human emotions or empathy — not on the level that Paul Bettany ’s synthezoid Vision provided for a grieving Wanda Maximoff ( Elizabeth Olsen ).

One five-year time jump later, “VisionQuest” drops in on the android’s story where “WandaVision” left off.…