‘VisionQuest’ Showrunner Reveals More of Ultron’s Post-Credits Scene Was Filmed

The ‘VisionQuest’ finale gave Marvel fans plenty to talk about. The finale, titled “Forever,” was released on Disney+ on Tuesday, revealing Virgil Horton’s (James Spader) master plan, reuniting Vision (Paul Bettany) with someone very important, and including not one, but two mid-credits scenes. The closing episode is the only one in the series with a post-credits scene, so the payoff came all at once.

One of those bonus scenes pushes the story straight toward Marvel’s next big movie. The VisionQuest post-credits scene sees Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom levitate the rubble off of Wanda Maximoff at the site. The other belongs to the series’ standout villain.

Now showrunner Terry Matalas has explained why that Ultron scene exists, and he says there’s more of it that viewers didn’t see. The 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. “It was just a promise of some kind that Ultron’s not done,” Matalas told Entertainment Weekly.

Matalas sees post-credits scenes as one of Marvel’s signature touches. “I’ve always thought that was one of the great things the MCU did,” showrunner Terry Matalas tells Entertainment Weekly. He compared it to an extra present at the end of the holidays, after you’ve opened everything else.

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The idea started with the writers. The post-credits scene, he says, came “entirely” from the writers’ room. Matalas also directed the last episode and knew he wanted to return to the character, describing himself as a massive Ultron fan.

The version on Disney+ isn’t the whole scene. 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.” As for the villain’s future, he says, “It’s up to the MCU gods for what’s next for him.”

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Ultron also appears to have plans of his own. He’s holding Jocasta’s source code in his hand as he’s living in the mansion that once belonged to Virgil and Phineas Horton. This implies that he’s planning to try and bring her back somehow after she was killed by an adamantium bullet.

Fans almost got a clearer answer about Jocasta’s fate. On the Official VisionQuest Podcast, Matalas told host Iman Vellani that a deleted scene showed she had escaped in some of her nanites. The team ultimately chose to save that reveal, feeling it took too much drama out of the finale.

It seems safe to assume that, if and when we do see Ultron again, he will be accompanied by his “Bride.” The creative team also seems keen to keep going. Both Matalas and Vision star Paul Bettany said they had “lots” of ideas about a potential season 2.

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The Wanda scene was kept under tight wraps. The scene wasn’t included in the screeners sent to press in advance of Tuesday night, even to the reporters conducting early finale-timed interviews with showrunner Terry Matalas. According to EW, Matalas called the timing between ‘VisionQuest’ and ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ a coincidence.

“We had no idea that we would be sandwiched in between Spider-Man and Avengers,” Matalas said in an interview conducted in late October. The post-credits scene appears to confirm that Olsen will, in fact, return as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Doomsday.

Between Ultron’s new body, Jocasta’s source code, and Wanda’s return, the finale leaves several doors open. For now, Ultron’s future is in the hands of the MCU gods, as Matalas put it.

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