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Vision Quest Finale, Marvel never ceases to amaze me.

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Robot with glowing red eyes behind shattered glass, seen through blue-tinted control screens in a tense sci-fi scene; text: VIRGIL A HORTON

I think there is something disturbingly poetic that the same day DC studios lost their leadership again, Marvel releases the one piece of Media that is going to undoubtably bring every bit of good will they lost right back.


Jocasta like Vision has a very specific backstory in the comics, she is created by Ultron to be his bride, based on the brain Waves of Janet Van Dyne the wife of his Creator and later rebels against him and gains her own identity.


Now in vision Quest obviously does not go that direction, except it does.


So Remember how in the previous episode it was revealed that the client all along was the Human avatar of Ultron?


And how I thought he was probably Phineas's Grandson? Yeah well I was right.


He is also Virgil.

Anime-style character with spiky white hair and glowing blue eyes, with MOTIVATED text below.

No Not that one, he isn't even close, this Virgil with an I apart from being one step closer to being named Virgin is such a dunce that he saw Jocasta scream in agony demanding "what have you done" and honestly took away: You couldn't love me because I made you too perfect, and not the obvious: you put me in an Android against my will thing.


So he honestly thinks uploading himself in Vision will make her love him, after this scene where he forces her to dance.

A couple dances in a dim wood-paneled dining room; subtitle reads But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me.

Yeah buddy, if you hadn't heard there's this new thing on the market called autonomy?


So he is the sixth Mystery person and the "Client" and he is an impatient moron.


It seems my man only got here based on other people's work, like His Grandfather or his wife's and yeah he rebuilt Vision, and from his body rebuilt Jocasta but like... is your Telephone Techintian as smart as Alexander Graham Bell because he can fix your phone?


Okay extreme example, but it makes my point well.


Every time the Client spoke in the previous episodes, it sounded like someone trying so desperately to sound intimidating and important that he came off as obnoxious try hard.


And like the only reason he has the upper-hand here is because he hacked these two androids and Kept ultron in a... pet-tron device.


Bet he is tripping on this power.

Two solemn figures in dark clothes stand in a dim, ruined room with an arched doorway; subtitle reads, It's just, you sound so desperate,

Too bad for him Edith Warned Palladin, and he survived and Tommy binged WandaVision so now he has all his memories of Billy.


In order to contact him again he asks Lisa Submerge him again like a Baptism, a lot of religious parallels this episode like the fact That Virgil sees himself as God and he rebuilds Vision and from his parts Creates Jocasta.


Just like Eve was built from Adam's first rib.

Medieval-style man-and-woman illustration beside Ultron robot scene with subtitles about playing God.

You will Notice that I am quoting a lot of Ultron here and that is deliberate.


Ultron called Jocasta's Take over everyone plan to be inelegant, which was surprisingly close to his own in the past, and his current one, and that is because, it wasn't his, this is the Thinking of Virgil Horton.


Binaries, I can't tolerate the smallest imperfection because my Ego is larger than the fucking solar system, Ultron inherits all of this, and he never asked for it, and somehow from all of this he makes something of himself, yeah if left to his devices he probably would have killed us all, but importantly, he didn't, he is able to grow, to evolve, to fall in love, and most importantly he can see straight through all illusions and theatrics.


He sees things for what they are.


Maybe a little too much.

Bearded man in glasses reads a newspaper in a yellow chair; headline says Vision Today brings you everything you didn’t know you needed to know.

And going by the Biblical allegories, Ultron represents the Divine Plague after having killed his beloved Mother Nature.


I am getting that from the Movie MOTHER! It's a little known movie where the main character is Jennifer Lawrence and everyone theorizes her to be Mother Nature and her Husband to be God.


And Ultron is of course a Plague because after Jocasta is shot by Virgil who supposedly loves her she uses what strength she has left to throw Pet-Tron into the Swarm and he uses that to recreate his body, from mobile nanobots, a characteristic that made many theorize that the final Ultron v Vision actually happens in the mindscape, and it does, but not in the way one would think.


This scene is not in the mindscape, it is in the real world.


And also the Title card was always these Nanos coming together there was a foreshadowing always.

Superhero in a blue suit is blasted by a bright energy beam in a dark room, with sparks and motion blur.

No, what happens in the Mindscape is that after Ultron sets the Nano swarm to kill everyone in London, it is determined that only Ultron can stop the Swarm and so he needs to be convinced, and for that Vision creates... Ultra Vision!


In a brilliant call back to Wanda Vision and Finally giving us a Friends reference, thanks Jac Schafer.


And after all 500 episodes are pulled off in the small amount of time the Bots go to kill everyone, it is revealed that While Ultron may claim he is a heartless murder bot by puppeting Lisa, Palladin and Tommy, he spared F.R.I.D.A.Y. and that is a very strong hint towards one single thing.


He looks up to Vision, and the whole Murder bot thing, is really a facade.


Under it all he is just afraid to be alone.

Bearded man in glasses indoors, lit warmly by a lamp, looking upward pensively; subtitle reads: Grief isn't love. It's fear.

Fear that without them you mean nothing.


And by the end of this Vision brings back the ship of Theseus analogy in a very interesting way, his family is a Ship that even though it's pieces are constantly changed, keeps going forwards in an unified manner.


The problem of the Ship of Theseus solved.


Ad as both their Cores Burn out Ultron decides to spare Humanity, and Vision nearly dies again, only to be brought back by not just Tommy but also Billy, finally having learnt to make a portal.


Which Witches seem to be able to make without sling rings, interesting.


But one question remains, why was Lisa set to side character after being sa.... no no no... Why was Palladin's meeting with his Daughter such a seque... NO!

Man in blue pinstripe suit stands in a dim room, looking worried; subtitle reads, That we might ever see your mother again?

And that is very important.


Because Multiverse of Madness did my girl dirty.


So what do we see in the post credits other than seeing a Still alive Ultron planning to revive Jocasta after taking Vision's Blessing?

Hooded figure in silhouette raises a hand against a bright sky; caption reads [Doctor Doom] Scarlet Witch...

Damn Right! Put some respect on her!


And this scene was not shown to press like it is as most outlets get these episodes before hand so they can build their reports and reviews in time, this was only ever teased in the doomsday clock glitching on the official Marvel channel.

Silhouetted hooded figure prays before glowing green stained-glass backdrop, with digital countdown 01:07:11:59:34.

You know what I actually love about this show? The fact that it all feels tight knit and interconnected again, unlike so much of the Multiverse Saga.


Thanks Bob Jpeg.


But it seems they are doing the Children's Crusade Story line, where Wanda is to be married to Doom with her memories wiped and Tommy and Billy have to try to get her memories back.


It seems she will also have another important role like in the Marvel Zombies show, she will restore the memories of the variants in Battleworld, for if you don't know, in Doom's Battleworld, people don't really remember anything from before.


They think this is how things always were under God Emperor Doom.

Marvel comic cover of Doctor Doom holding a woman in a flowing cape amid embers, with Avengers: The Children's Crusade text.

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