Every tease Marvel still needs to pay off, in theory

polygon.com:

Over the past 15 years, Marvel Studios has used its superhero films to build a cinematic universe. Across 23 movies in the Infinity Saga, Marvel weaved cliffhangers, crossovers, and connecting threads that culminated in a blockbuster two-part Avengers event. It all started with a post-credits tease in Iron Man that introduced Nick Fury to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and started the ball rolling for crossovers, cataclysmic conflicts, and multiversal mayhem.

Since the Infinity Saga wrapped officially with 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, Marvel Studios has continued to tease new team-ups and new world-ending threats. Many of them have yet to fully pay off, and Marvel’s many hints and promises of sagas to come has become hard to keep track of.

So in case you find yourself wondering, Hey, whatever happened to that all-white Vision that went missing three years ago? or Wait, Harry Styles was in a Marvel movie? here’s a helpful rundown of all the cliffhangers and post-credits sequences that Marvel still needs to pay off.

[Ed. note: The following contains spoilers for almost every Marvel Studios project from 2021 through today, including the recently released movie The Marvels and TV series Echo.]

The cliffhanger: Vision is alive, in a different form

The original Vision created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner was killed by Thanos during the events of Avengers: Infinity War. In WandaVision, Wanda Maximoff revives Vision as a manifestation of her grief. Separately, the government agency SWORD rebuilds another Vision as a weapon, with the intention that their white version would destroy Wanda and the other Vision within the reality bubble of Westfield.

SWORD’s White Vision and Wanda’s revived Vision battle each other, and the latter helps the former see his existence from a new perspective. White Vision gains the memories and experiences of the original Vision and just… takes off. He hasn’t been seen since.

The eventual payoff

White Vision was reported to return in a new