VisionQuest's Finale Unexpectedly Features One Of The MCU's Goriest Moments
Contains spoilers for "VisionQuest" Season 1, Episode 8 — "Forever"
Marvel's critic-stunning "VisionQuest" builds on the foundation of surprising Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ shows "WandaVision" and "Agatha All Along," so viewers should expect anything to happen. However, the Season 1 finale, "Forever," still manages to sneak in a moment that few fans could have expected: One of the MCU's goriest kills.
In a sequence that was no doubt interesting for James Spader to film, his Ultron isn't a fan of the Client (aka Virgil Horton, also played by Spader) shooting Jocasta (T'Nia Miller). Unfortunately for Virgil, Jocasta's final deed is to throw Ultron's AI storage device into the nanobot cloud that Virgil is activating, thus allowing Ultron to hijack the nanobots and gain a physical body.
Ultron's first deed with this body? Why, to bear-hug Virgil so hard that the man's insides turn into mush. With this, the audience is treated to an unnerving visual of poor Virgil's eyes exploding into a bloody mess on the inside of his glasses, and another of Ultron tossing Virgil's unnaturally limp body aside like a rag doll.
Ultron challenges the MCU's undisputed king of brutal kills
To date, the Marvel Cinematic Universe villain with the bloodiest kills is pretty easily Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk. Originally, his big gruesome moment was in "Daredevil" Season 1, where he infamously smashes in Anatoly Ranshakov's (Gideon Emery) head by repeatedly slamming a car door into it. This, however, was just the first Kingpin scene that went too far.
In "Daredevil: Born Again" Season 1, the villain crushes the head of NYPD Commissioner Gallo (Michael Gaston) with nothing but the strength of his own two hands. Later, the "Daredevil: Born Again" Season 2 finale outdoes Kingpin's most gruesome Season 1 moment by sending him on a brutal rampage in a courthouse, manhandling and killing — or at least severely injuring — several protesters who are unlucky enough to encounter him.
It may be up for debate where Ultron's brutal murder of Virgil Horton ultimately lands on the sliding scale of MCU villain violence. Still, the sheer, painful cruelty of the act is more than enough to earn the AI villain a seat at Kingpin's table, as far as gory MCU moments go.