The VisionQuest finale hid a lot in a very short title sequence. When Vision traps Ultron inside a fake sitcom called UltraVision, the show gets its own theme song and opening credits, and more than 100 episode titles fly past in about 13 seconds. Most are tech puns on famous sitcoms, but a few are pointed Marvel references.
Spoilers for the VisionQuest finale follow.
Why Ultron Ends Up In A Sitcom
Vision’s answer to stopping Ultron from killing millions of people is to lock him in a sitcom simulation, a move that brings the WandaVision trilogy right back to where it started. UltraVision opens like any classic network comedy, with a theme song and a title card montage, and once the simulation speeds up, the episode titles fly by faster than anyone could read them.
The Marvel Easter Eggs
Four titles stand out for MCU fans:
- Edith Meets Her Variants: a nod to the TVA and the variants of the Multiverse Saga, applied to an AI for once.
- The One With Karen: Friends-style naming, and a callback to Karen, the AI in Peter Parker’s Stark-made suit that he named in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- Weekend At Jarvis’s: a Weekend at Bernie’s joke about Jarvis, who was killed off earlier in VisionQuest.
- A Beautiful Mindstone: a nod to the Mind Stone, the Infinity Stone that helped create Vision in the first place.
The Sitcom Puns
The rest of the list is pure groaner territory, in the best way. Everybody Loves Vision, Parts and Recreation, Two and a Half Synths, Malware in the Middle, How I Met Your Motherboard and It’s Always Sunny in the Mindscape all turn up, along with M(AI)S*H and The Bot-y Bunch. There are also movie jokes like The Silence of the Ram, The Wizard of OS and The Cache & the Furious.
Ultron gets a running gag of his own. Ultron Does a Murder is followed by Ultron Does Another Murder and Ultron Keeps Doing Murder, and later by Ultron Murders Tech Support. A couple of lighter entries, like Ultron Saves Christmas and Ultron Forgets His Password, make the joke land even harder.
The sequence is fast enough that almost nobody will catch it all on a first watch, which is the point. It rewards pausing, and it fits a finale that has already sent viewers digging into the post-credits scene and what it sets up for Avengers: Doomsday.
All episodes of VisionQuest are streaming now on Disney+.
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