‘VisionQuest’ Star Ruaridh Mollica Reveals Tommy Was Fully Measured for a Speed Suit That Never Made the Finale

Tommy Maximoff’s superhero suit has been one of the quieter questions hanging over ‘VisionQuest‘ since the Disney+ series introduced him. Comic readers know the character as Speed, a speedster with green goggles and a costume to match. Viewers who only know the MCU version have mostly seen him in street clothes.

Ruaridh Mollica plays the role, with Tommy’s soul living inside the body of a young London grifter named Thomas Shepherd. Marvel confirmed the Scottish-Italian actor, who earlier appeared in ‘The Franchise’ and ‘Sebastian’, as Tommy at New York Comic Con on Oct. 11, 2025. Since then, fans have waited for the moment the character would finally look like the hero from the comics.

Following Tuesday night’s finale, Mollica has explained why that moment never came. He told Screen Rant that he was fully measured for a complete superhero suit, and that the plan was for it to appear at some point in the finale. He added that he hadn’t shared this with anyone before the interview.

The reason it fell through came down to the showrunner’s vision for the series. Mollica said Terry Matalas “couldn’t find a way for [Tommy] to just appear in a suit,” and that Matalas wanted the show to stay as grounded in reality as possible.

According to Mollica, there was never a natural beat in which Tommy could find a superhero outfit or show up wearing one without breaking the show’s link to the real world. ‘VisionQuest’ spends much of its time with Tommy and Lisa as 2 orphaned grifters on London’s streets, and a sudden costume reveal would have clashed with that texture.

The solution was a compromise. The production shifted Tommy’s wardrobe toward something greener and more tracksuit-like, an outfit meant to echo the superhero look without announcing it. Mollica described that choice as a good one.

The decision also sets Tommy apart from his twin. Billy Maximoff received his full Wiccan suit in ‘Agatha All Along’, so the 2 brothers have now taken very different routes to the superhero wardrobe.

The comic-accurate version of Tommy has not been completely hidden. Mollica once posted a photo of his Tommy Maximoff Funko Pop on Instagram before quickly deleting it, and the figure showed comic-accurate green goggles and a green jacket that the series itself had not yet shown. Mollica himself acknowledged in the post that the sneak peek was probably not allowed.

Set-visit coverage of the series also suggested the costume team avoided copying the looks from ‘Agatha All Along’ or ‘WandaVision’ for the 2 brothers. Instead, the designer drew from the original 1960s Vision comics. Mollica has also said he leaned toward playing the Thomas Shepherd side of the character rather than Tommy Maximoff, a choice that fits a show built around a more grounded Tommy.

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The finale did deliver another long-awaited payoff, with Tommy reuniting with Joe Locke’s Billy in their teenaged bodies, according to TheWrap’s finale coverage. Matalas also told TheWrap about a deleted scene from that reunion, in which Billy jokes about being a witch while Tommy reacts to something on the ground, so more behind-the-scenes details may still surface.

Mollica has also compared Tommy learning his abilities to Peter Parker’s early days, as played by Tobey Maguire, in an interview with GamesRadar. That framing suggests an origin story still in progress rather than a finished hero. None of the coverage I found confirms when, or whether, Tommy will wear the full Speed costume on screen.

The same Screen Rant conversation also touched on Tommy’s sexuality, since Speed is canonically bisexual in the comics and the series did not fully explore that side of him. Between the missing suit and that untouched thread, Tommy still has a lot of room to grow in the MCU.

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