Vision

*For the Golden Age Vision see Aarkus.*

*For the Gather team member see Anti-Vision.*

Origin

The robot villain Ultron created the Vision - a type of android he dubs a synthezoid - to use against Ultron's own creator, Dr. Hank Pym . The Avengers believe that the Vision's body was created from that of the original Human Torch, the android Jim Hammond, while the patterns of his synthetic brain were based on those of the then-deceased Wonder Man. The Avengers would later learn that the time lord Immortus harnessed the power of the Forever Crystal to split the original Human Torch into two separate entities; one body remained the original Torch, while Ultron used the other to create the Vision.

Character Creation

The Vision made his first appearance in Avengers volume 1 #57, in 1968. He was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.

Mayor Story Arcs

Joining the Avengers

Ultron explaining the Vision's powers

Almost immediately, the Vision rebelled against his creator and joined the Avengers. He become a distinguished member of the Earth's mightiest heroes, but unknowing to the Vision and his teammates, Ultron had placed a chip that allows him to control the Vision and ascertain and information that Vision might learn of that would assist his creator in plotting the ultimate downfall of the human race. The Avengers were testing a new metal called adamantium. Ultron linked himself to the Vision and had him remake himself with the new metal. Eventually, the Vision gained control and helped the Avengers defeat Ultron. Vision would later became romantically involved with his teammate Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch. The two eventually married and later, using Wanda's hex powers, conceived twin boys they named Thomas and William. The family lived peacefully in New Jersey for awhile, before Vision and Wanda decided to join the West Coast Avengers.

Avengers West Coast

While serving on the Avengers' west coast team, rogue US government agents, manipulated by the time traveling Immortus, abducted Vision and dismantled him. The Avengers recovered his parts and Hank Pym rebuilt him to the best of his abilities. However, Simon Williams refused to let his brain patterns once again be used to provide a matrix for Vision's emotions. Simon felt that the original process, done without his consent, had "ripped out his soul". Although Williams' own love for Wanda caused him to feel guilty, he tried to justify his actions by claiming Vision was never anything but a copy of him; a claim that a number of othe

Colorless Form

r Avengers accepted. This, along with the damage done to the Vision's synthetic skin during dismantlement, resulted in the synthezoid's resurrection as a colorless and emotionless artificial human.

Furthermore, the original Human Torch was resurrected, causing speculation about Vision's identity. Soon after that, Thomas and William were revealed not to be the children of Scarlet Witch and Vision, but rather fragments from the soul of the demon Mephisto, who had been broken apart by Franklin Richards shortly before the birth of the twins. Wanda had unconsciously grabbed the soul fragments and used them to fulfill her and her husband's desire to have children. The twins were then absorbed back into Mephisto, but Wanda's magic had transformed fragments so drastically that they caused Mephisto to disperse once again. The loss of the twins temporarily drove Scarlet Witch to insanity and, although she recovered, she and Vision separated, each operating on a different Avengers team.

The Vision regained his emotions by adopting new brain patterns from a deceased scientist named Alex Lipton. He eventually gained a new body that resembled his original from an alternate reality counterpart. In addition, Simon Williams' brain patterns gradually reemerged and combined with Lipton's patterns, restoring the Vision's capacity for full emotion.

Troubles in love

While he recovered from a crippling injury inflicted during a battle with Morgan Le Fey, the Vision gave up his attempt to reconcile with Wanda. Though he still loved her, Vision felt that she was better off without him. When he recovered, he found that Wanda and Wonder Man had begun a relationship. Trying to move on, Vision became romantically involved with teammates Ms. Marvel and Mantis, before ultimately reuniting with his wife. 

Avengers Dissasembelled

However, lingering grief over the loss of Thomas and William once again drove Wanda insane. She attempted to rewrite reality in order to recreate them, thus causing a series of catastrophic events that included the Vision crashing a quinjet into the Avengers Mansion. As he emerged out of the rubble, Vision apologized to his stunned teammates, telling them he was no longer in control of his body. He then expelled several spheres that formed into five Ultrons. The Avengers destroyed them, but She-Hulk, enraged at the destruction done to the team, ripped apart the remains of Vision. Later, the Avengers believed that Ultron may have put a command in the Vision that would have been activated by the Avengers' 'code white' alert. It is still unknown whether Wanda's magic or Ultron's command was responsible. .

Vision 2.0

Utterly destroyed, the Vision's remains were placed in storage until the Avengers could find a way to reactivate him.

Some months later, a boy by the name of Nathaniel Richards traveled back in time - using a highly advanced suit of armor - to seek aid from the Avengers in escaping his future as Kang the Conqueror. After realizing that he had traveled back to a time when the Avengers had disbanded, Nathaniel, using his new armor, broke into the Avengers' storage facility looking for anything he could use against Kang. Upon the discovery of the original Vision’s remains, Nathaniel downloaded the Vision's operating system and data files into his armor.

Iron Lad explaining about Vision 2.0

Among the Vision's collected data banks Nathaniel discovered the "Avengers Fail-safe Program"; an emergency revival protocol created by the late Vision to locate and evaluate potential candidates for a new generation of Avengers, should the original team have disbanded. Deciding to activate the program himself, Nathaniel recruited several super-youths, all whom appeared to have a connection with the Avengers. Together, they started the Young Avengers, taking up names and costumes to honor the original Avengers.

Despite his best efforts, however, Nathaniel's future eventually caught up with him. Kang, desperate to preserve the current time-line, tracked Nathaniel down. When he arrived he found that Nathaniel had made some powerful friends, all of whom were prepared to fight defend Nathaniel against Kang. However, the presence of both the young and the old Nathaniel Richards, caused the time-stream to fluctuate, distorting and warping reality. Hoping that removing Kang would repair the fractured time-line Nathaniel killed his future self. With the time-stream still in a state of disarray, Nathaniel realized that, for the sake of the universe, he had to accept his fate and become Kang. Before returning to his native time period however, he left behind his neuro-kinetic armor, still imprinted with the remnants of Nathaniel's brain patterns, emotions and memories. This, combined with the late Vision's data banks and operating system, allowed Nathaniel's armor to gain sentience. Able to fully utilize the powers and abilities of its predecessor, Nathaniel's armor became the new Vision. Extremely wary of allowing anything to do with Kang to have access to the Avengers, the reformed New Avengers tested and analyzed this new Vision for anything and everything that could be used against them. Growing tired of the endless analysis and suspicion, Vision eventually decided to join the Young Avengers instead. Having inherited Nathaniel's personality and memories, he developed an unrequited crush for his teammate Stature. The original Vision's powers and memories - coupled with Nathaniel's imprinted intuition - led him to the belief that twin teammates Speed and Wiccan may be the 'imaginary' children of the Scarlet Witch and his deceased predecessor.

Vision sided with the Anti-Registration side during the Civil War and fought along side them against Iron Man and his Pro-Registration team. During the final battle between the two sides, he compromised Iron Man's armor allowing Captain America to take the upper hand.

After the Civil War, Vision traveled around the world trying figure himself out, becoming many people to find that he was one particular individual. He went to Camp Hammond and, while impersonating Tony Stark, he took Cassie away from camp grounds with the intention to make clear to her that he, wishing to be called Jonas, wasn't a what, but a who - a real person who had feelings for her. He desired to find out if she had similar feelings for him. They shared a kiss, but Cassie stated that she needed time which Jonas was willing to give.

During the Skrull invasion of New York, Vision, along with his fellow Young Avengers, tried to keep the people safe while staving off the invading force. The Super-Skrulls, however, maintained the upper-hand, defeating both the Young Avengers and the Initiative. Vision was shot with a beam that destroyed his head. He survived, and he and his teammates join Nick Fury against the Skrulls.

After, Jonas joined the Mighty Avengers with Stature. They remained members of the Young Avengers, maintaining a duel membership.

Powers

The Vision has the ability to alter his density at will. He can become light enough to fly and phase through objects and people or become extraordinarily heavy and make his body nearly impenetrable. The crystal on his forehead called a solar cell emits different levels of radiation. One of the Vision's signature moves is to phase into someone and then increase his density, a process he describes as "physical disruption." This causes the person under attack massive amounts of pain and can result in incapacitation. Vision is also capable of interfacing with outside technology and self-repair. The new Vision possesses all of these abilities, as well as the powers of Iron Lad's neurokinetic armor, such as holographic and energy manipulation, shape shifting, and time travel.

Alternate Realities

Earth-1610

 Ultimate Vision

Ultimate Vision is a female alien robot that came to Earth to warn the earthlings of the Gah Lak Tus threat (this universe's version of Galactus). When she was about to leave earth, she was captured by A.I.M. who tore her apart. She escaped and stopped a Gah Lak Tus hive robot that A.I.M. used for their own.

Earth-10101

Vision of Earth-10101 was a member of Weapon X. He was destroyed by teammate Hyperion.

Earth-982

Vision of the MC2 universe had retired from being a superhero and worked for the President of the United States, but he later rejoined the new generation of Avengers, A-Next.

Earth-398

Vision of Earth-398 was known as Ghost of Stone and was a member of the Queen's Vengeance.

Earth-932

Vision of Earth-932 was known as Anti-Vision and was a member of the Gatherers.

Earth-691

Mainframe

Main Frame is an alternate version of Vision from the 31st century who acts alongside the Guardians Of The Galaxy. In this alternate future, Main Frame is the chief operating system of an entire planet and controls everything from the climate to planetary stability, and when first encountered, the guardian of the shield of Captain America.

After the destruction of the planet Haven, all it's inhabitants were sent to Main Frame's world. After the planet was nearly destroyed when Main Frame became infected with the Ultra-Max computer virus, he was saved by a group of heroes led by Martinex. Main Frame would join with the group to become the Galactic Guardians.

Earth-2301

In Marvel Mangaverse reality, Vision was a boy-genius who had the body of a density changing robot. He was a member of the Avengers. He was killed by Doctor Doom who deactivated his density-changing program before destroying his head.

Earth-9062

In Amalgam comics Vision is combined with Red Tornado to form Red Vision.

The Cancerverse

Cancerverse Vision

In the dark and twisted Cancerverse, Vision is the leader of an underground rebellion formed by individuals who were made of pure science like himself and could not be corrupted by The Many-Angled Ones.

He had been hiding in his wife's body for years trying to find a cure for the infection that The Many-Angled Ones called "eternal life," but when Earth-616's Quasar ended up captured by the Revengers in the Cancerverse, Vision eventually unveiled himself and freed Quasar, thus completely ruining the Revengers' first chance at being able to get The Many-Angled Ones an entirely new reality for them to conquer and devour.

Recently, after Thanos killed The Defenders of The Cancerverse, Vision appeared in the sky above, greeted Thanos and The Guardians of The Galaxy and told them that he meant them no harm.

Other Media

Television

• The first android Vision is one of several Avengers to make cameo appearances in the mid-1990s Fantastic Four television series.
• The Vision appears in The Avengers: United They Stand voiced by Ron Rubin. Like the comics, he was created by Ultron in his attempt to destroy the Avengers. The Avengers managed to use the defeated Vision in order to store some of Wonder Man's memories after Wonder Man was attacked by Ultron.
• Vision will appear in The Super Hero Squad Show, voiced by Tom Kane
• Vision will appear in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, voiced by Peter Jessop

Film

• The first Vision appears in the direct-to-DVD movie Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow voiced by Shawn MacDonald.

• In 2009, Marvel announced they have begun hiring a gathering of scribes to help come up with creative ways to launch its lesser-known properties, such as Vision, along with others such as Black Panther, Cable, Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, and Nighthawk.

Video games

• The first android Vision is a playable character in the 1991 arcade game Captain America and the Avengers by Data East.
• The Vision is a helper/assist character in Avengers in Galactic Storm, a fighting game also by Data East.
• The Vision appears as a non-playable character- serving mainly as the team's 'Information Officer'- and an available striker on the PSP in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance voiced by Roger Rose.