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VisionQuest‘s post-credits scene offers a new moment with James Spader’s Ultron.
“It was just a promise of some kind that Ultron’s not done,” showrunner Terry Matalas tells EW.
The executive producer shares he shot more of that scene than what’s in the episode.
This article contains spoilers from the VisionQuest season finale, “Forever.”
Editor’s note: This interview was conducted based on an advanced screener of the finale episode that did not contain the other post-credits scene connected to Avengers: Doomsday.
The VisionQuest finale came with a bonus treat. Unlike every episode leading up to the release of “Forever” on Disney+, the eighth installment of Marvel’s WandaVision trilogy capper featured a brief post-credits scene.
“I’ve always thought that was one of the great things the MCU did,” showrunner Terry Matalas tells Entertainment Weekly. “It’s like an extra present at the end of the holidays, after you’ve opened everything up. You get one more before bed. I always love that idea.”
The VisionQuest post-credits scene picks back up with Ultron (James Spader), who broke free from the prison in Vision’s (Paul Bettany) mind space and now exists in a new, more dangerous body made out of Jocasta’s (T’Nia Miller) nanites. We get a glimpse of him after the last phone call with Vision. In some undisclosed location, he holds a flash drive containing the remnants of Jocasta, the humanity-destroying A.I. he romantically fell for.
T’Nia Miller as Jocasta in ‘VisionQuest’
Credit: Courtesy of Marvel
“For me, it was just a promise of some kind that Ultron’s not done,” Matalas explains. “Whatever he’s going to do, for good or for bad, he promised Vision he doesn’t wanna do it alone. And he has this backup. So what is he gonna do? Then he completes it by spiking the lens and looking right at us. It’s kind of on us to decide. So to me, it’s a great question mark at the end of the piece.”
This isn’t meant to suggest that Matalas knows something that the rest of us don’t. The post-credits scene wasn’t a mandate from Marvel. In fact, Marvel Studios has dramatically scaled back on greenlighting new shows, with the exception of Zodiac, a spy-thriller that will film in London starting this spring and will premiere on Disney+ in 2028. Elsewhere, Wonder Man was canceled after an earlier season 2 renewal, and Daredevil: Born Again season 3 will conclude the show next year.
What’s left (that I know of) are the animated X-Men ’97 season 3, new Marvel Zombies streaming events, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2. If there’s another sequel show or movie to be had with the VisionQuest characters, Matalas is not involved in that process.
James Spader and T’Nia Miller in ‘VisionQuest’
Credit: Courtesy of Marvel
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The post-credits scene, he says, came “entirely” from the writers’ room. “I directed the last episode, and I knew that I wanted to come back to him and promise more Ultron because I am a massive Ultron fan,” the executive producer adds. “I really wanted to get the sense that this guy is not done doing his thing. Where does he fall with humanity and connection? He had the one time he made this amazing connection with an entity [Jocasta]. Is he gonna continue that?”
At the very least, Matalas notes, “There was more to the scene that we may put out one day on a Blu-ray or something like that.” For anything beyond that, he says, “It’s up to the MCU gods for what’s next for him.”
All episodes of VisionQuest are available to stream on Disney+.
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