I'm wondering how it is that Paul Bettany will be returning as The Vision in the upcoming Disney+ series Wanda/Vision. Will he be rebuilt in Wakanda, magically restored by The Scarlet Witch, or only appear in flashback scenes? Whatever the reason, it will be good to see him back in action, as his heroic career was cut way too short in the MCU.
Now there's a question that should be interesting in being answered. If there is a "back up" drive, who has it and how will it be put to use? New kind of body? Will Disney just make him revived because of Tony Stark?
ReplyDeleteFor those who remember The Questor Tapes, as Gene Roddenberry said, the network grumbled that you couldn't put a woman together with an android. "After all, would you want your sister with one?" A whole new form of discrimination was being pioneered. He felt proud.
Cybertron is the home world of the Transformers, the shape-shifting(?) sentient robots based on the Hasbro toys of the same name.
ReplyDeleteIn the comics, the Vision was revealed at one point (a two-part story in 'Marvel Team-Up' #129 & #130, in which he and Wanda worked with Spiderman to stop Wanda's old enemy Necrodamus) to have a soul -- or, at the least, enough of a spiritual component -- for a "soul-swapping" spell to place his consciousness in control of Necrodamus's [decrepit] body instead of just wiping his personality from existence as that opponent had expected...
ReplyDeleteI was a bit disappointed that Marvel apparently forgot this point when they subsequently had him dismantled & rebuilt into the basically-motionless "white vision" form.
The MCU's Vision seemed so under-utilized as a character that my one big surprise was that [ENDGAME SPOILER ALERT] he made no appearance whatsoever in Avengers: Endgame. [END SPOILER] I also was expecting WandaVision to take place during the couple's "hiding out" period just before Infinity War, and was surprised to learn that it apparently takes place after Endgame (though a comment from Elizabeth Olson suggests that it somehow takes place in the 1950s). I'm imagining that, if the Vision is indeed reconstructed, it has to do with how Wanda's powers came from the Mind Stone, which is also what powered the Vision. In any event, I'm glad that Paul Bettany is coming back to expand the character a bit.
ReplyDeleteVery clever use of the cover of Avengers #194. I've always liked that cover, for some reason.
ReplyDelete@Ross: why couldn't they do both? The Golden Age Human Torch's original form is discovered and brought to Wakanda for repair and modification. While Wanda recovers J.A.R.V.I.S' electronic matrix and mystically channels it into the new body. Perhaps with more than a little help provided by a certain Aarkus of the 5th Dimension!
ReplyDelete*And, no, Brother Barnes, I do not mean the veteran singing group!!
we now return you to our regularly scheduled program. (commercial's over)
ReplyDelete@mr frank: Um, I think you might have the wrong blog.
ReplyDeleteNope! Mr. Frank's right.
ReplyDeleteThe Illuminati even drove THE GARGOYLES off the air as a Fox Network cartoon series.
After the Vision was around for a bit, we learned part of his being was based on Wonder Man's brainwaves and such. When he cried early on, he made a solid rep for himself.
ReplyDeleteWorking with Vic should have some enlightening conversations between them. Would Victor remind Vision of Tony Stark's good qualities? these stories carry so much potential.
det_Tobor- We actually learned that about the Vision in his second appearance, the issue after his first appearance.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he could meet Danton Black (Multiplex).
ReplyDeleteJust think, multiplication and de Vision.
"Multiplication and de Vision"...it took me a while to get it, but I like it!
ReplyDeleteBTW Alaric, I'm pretty sure det_Tobor can count!
Daviticus- Sure, but a character's second appearance isn't necessarily the issue after his first appearance. Some characters make a one-issue appearance, and don't appear again for a while afterwards.
ReplyDelete@Alaric: If ever!
ReplyDelete