Marvel Studios went back and canonically adjusted the ending of its second Avengers film through a new piece of history from the latest follow-up of 2008s Iron Man. Of all Avengers movies, Avengers: Age of Ultron has always been the most divisive, and it can get lost in the conversation next to the one from 2012. The Avengersthat started it all, and the climax of the Infinity Saga with Infinity War And End of game. Yet there is a lot of love for Age of Ultron. In fact, it’s really the last Avengers film to focus only on the original core six, like back in the day Infinity War rolled, the team had split up and the heroes were spread across the world (and the galaxy).
However, Age of Ultron undergoes some changes, such as VisionQuestthe most recent spin-off in the Iron Man saga, changes a key part of what fans knew about Tony Stark’s MCU legacy.
VisionQuest Showrunner Terry Matalas recently spoke with New Rockstars, explaining how the series, in a specific way, retconned the ending of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
In the 2015 film, Vision (Paul Bettany) confronts the last surviving robot Ultron (James Spader) in a distant forest, far from the main Sokovian battle.
After a brief philosophical discussion about humanity, “You are unbearably naive” Vision blasts Ultron with the Mind Stone as the camera cuts to a distant flash.
While many fans were hoping for an eventual return, this was always communicated to fans by Marvel Studios as the final and permanent death of Ultron…until now.
VisionQuestThe premiere revealed that Vision destroyed only Ultron’s body, first saving a copy of his code. A stark difference (no pun intended) from what has been considered MCU canon for years.
As VisionQuest largely acted as a Iron Man continuation of the trilogy by dealing with the remains of Tony Stark’s AIs, it makes sense that the series would also look at one of his greatest failures. By bringing Ultron back, it provides much more room for narrative exploration into the ramifications of the killer robot surviving his ordeal with the Avengers, and raises new questions about past moments in the MCU, knowing that Ultron was shaking around Vision’s head.
As Bettany and Spader previously explained, Ultron has spent years since as a digital prisoner in Vision’s mind, locked in a mansion-like loft upstairs in Mindspace, where Vision now has access to speak with his old man wherever he pleases.
Matalas had good reason to want the keys to Ultron’s story in the MCU. It turns out that the writer and producer actually traced the “What if he made a backup?” idea of Vision’s reluctance to kill Ultron in Age of Ultron.
He wisely points out the indeterminate nature of how this sequence was shot, leaving Return of Ultron open-ended:
“The vision was basically, ‘I don’t want to kill Ultron. Ultron is suffering.’ I’m like, “What if he made a backup?” » You cut off. Typically in film and television, if you cut death, even sometimes when you don’t, there’s a chance that person could survive. »
From there, he “I saw the ‘Dexter’ thing happen,” referencing the TV series and the way Dexter (Michael C. Hall) speaks with his late father:
“So, I thought that would be the case…I kind of saw the ‘Dexter’ thing happening, where Dexter was talking to his dad and then I started thinking about it.”
This image inspired the house built by production designer Will Hughes-Jones, with Ultron locked away “like (Hannibal) Lecter in the attic:”
“I saw this image of this house in my head, this weird AI thing. It looks a lot like what Will Hughes-Jones designed, this exterior.
I drove him a little crazy, then started thinking about what other AIs might inhabit and that Ultron would be locked away like (Hannibal) Lecter in the attic as an advisor. »
When asked by New Rockstar’s Erik Voss if Vision had ever told his fellow Avengers about the backup, Matalas didn’t think that would have been the case. “a smart call for Vision:”
“I didn’t think it was going to be a smart call for Vision, but in my mind, and in the writers’ room, and we were going to, you know, delve into all these questions, it was: Well, just because he saved his code doesn’t mean it was still on. He’s in cold storage. Or maybe he was?”
Matalas then mentioned that a fan wondered if Ultron was there when Thanos killed Vision, which got him thinking: “I kind of want to see what it looks like:”
“I saw someone online who was like, ‘Does that mean he was there for Thanos and had an opinion about Thanos?’ I was like, “I kind of want to see what that looks like.”
Did he come up to his house from time to time? Or was it even a house at that point? Was this another way to access this code that he would go to for advice or did he really only activate it afterwards?'”
Whatever the answer, Matalas said Vision is now “I really count on this guy:”
“Whatever it is, you still have this setup that, from this point on, he’s definitely looking to this guy for some kind of advice. Whether it’s because he has a better perspective on humanity or he kind of respects him, and even as twisted as he is, values his opinion.”
As is the case with most situations like this, recontextualizing or reconnecting a scene from a past TV show or movie, there are a lot of “what if” questions, but what really matters is whether those decisions lead to good storytelling.
For now, it’s paying: VisionQuest There have been overall positive reviews from critics, and after four episodes, fans have been loving the latest MCU Disney+ series.
Matalas and his group of creatives haven’t shied away from being a part of the larger MCU, with references quietly hidden in plain sight.
Will VisionQuest connect to Avengers 5?
VisionQuest is of course influenced by Age of Ultronand even Infinity War And End of gamegiven Vision’s first death and then the tragic memory of Tony’s death from FRIDAY.
Episode 3 also ties into the post-credits scene of End of gameThe recent re-release of, Vision noting that Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) was not available to repair it.
But the question now is whether it will work both ways. VisionQuest ends on November 10, a little over a month before Avengers: Apocalypse released on December 18.
At this time, it is unclear whether Vision, Ultron, Tommy/Speed (Ruaridh Mollica) or anyone else from the series will appear in doomsday.
Still, Vision’s new costume scene in the trailers could give fans hope that he will return to the big screen in the future. The design trades White Vision’s colorless look for his signature green, red, and gold, perhaps setting himself up for an even bigger battle after facing Ultron, Jacosta, and the Paladin.
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