Characters / The Vision

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Title Character

The Vision

The Vision

"Behold... the Vision!"

Notable Aliases: Victor Shade

First Appearance: The Avengers #57 (October, 1968)

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, Avengers A.I., All-New, All-Different Avengers

If you're looking for the Young Avengers version of Vision, go here.

A synthetic humanoid ("synthezoid") built from the remains of the android Human Torch, the Vision made his debut in The Avengers #57 (October, 1968) as a creation of the super-villain Ultron. The Vision is convinced to rebel against his creator after encountering The Avengers, who invite him to join the team. Named by The Wasp, who described him as an "unearthly, inhuman vision", the Vision becomes one of Avengers' longest-serving members until his death during Avengers Disassembled. This went to the point in the 1970s when The Avengers standard cover masthead picture in the left hand corner was just him. He came Back from the Dead a few years later and once again features in Avengers books.

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• Affectionate Nickname: In flashbacks during the 2015 comic, Scarlet Witch affectionately calls Vision a "toaster", in reference to a joke he made. During an argument, she also calls him this as an insult.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: Red Tornado is often said to be the DC Comics equivalent of the Vision, and vice versa.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is entirely bright red.
• Appropriated Appellation: Originally, Ultron didn't even bother giving him a name, on the grounds Vision was just a tool to him, "and what right does a tool have for a name or number?" Vision took his name from an alarmed outburst of Janet Van Dyne's (appropriately the closest thing he has to a 'grandmother').
• Badass Boast: Vision delivers one to Principal Waxman after he disrespects Vision's family members.
  Vision: I am the Vision of the Avengers. I have saved this planet thirty-seven times. Each day you live, each breath you take, each beat of your heart, each is due to my actions. Thirty-seven times over.
• Battle Couple: Vision and Scarlet Witch
• Berserk Button: The first sign of Vis's burgeoning love for Wanda was when she was abducted by the Skrulls. The previously, supposedly unemotional Vision flipped out.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a stoic family man who also effortlessly defeated multiple Avengers and nearly killed Victor.
• Black Eyes of Evil: As initially drawn, his eyes were totally black, and he was created as a servant of Ultron.
• Blinded by the Light: The Vision can emit a flash of solar energy from his forehead jewel bright enough to temporarily blind Thor.
• Brain Uploading: The Vision originally possessed the brain patterns of Simon Williams, the then-deceased hero known as Wonder Man. Later, after the U.S. government dismantles him, the rebuilt Vision would use the brain patterns of the dead scientist Alex Lipton until Simon's patterns reemerge.
• Cannot Dream: As a synthezoid, he shuts down during the night so that his system can process the previous day's input, but he does not dream.
• The Chew Toy: Because he can always be rebuilt or have his memories restored, he gets smashed up a lot. In JLA/Avengers he's the only hero who appears to be dead at the end, and his friends barely show any concern, with Thor telling Superman that the Avengers scientists have fixed him before and can do it again.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: An earlier example, the Vision's features were modeled on Leonard Nimoy.

• Continuity Snarl: Was the Vision's body rebuilt from the 1940's Human Torch? Originally, the answer was a simple yes, but when John Byrne wanted to bring the Torch back without sacrificing the Vision, he retconned the character's origin. Busiek and Stern's Avengers Forever spends an inordinate amount of time untangling this question. (The answer: Immortus used Applied Phlebotinum to allow the Human Torch's body to exist twice in the same timeline, one of which was used to build the Vision and the other of which remained the Torch.)
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: At the end of Ultron Forever, Black Widow accuses him of complicating things by not telling everyone his suspicions. Vision points out if he had, they probably would've thought he'd flipped his lid, something Nat concedes. Asking people to trust a Doombot would have that effect.
• Creating Life Is Awesome: Zig-zagged in Vision. Vision clearly cares about his new family, as suggested by his frantic efforts to repair Viv and his willingness to protect Virginia when the truth of her killing comes to light. However, Vision secretly felt fear when Virginia opened her eyes for the first time. He has to remind himself that Virginia is his wife and he has to love her.
• Creepy Good: In his early days, even his Avengers teammates found Vis just kind of unsettling, and he tended to give people he met the willies thanks to his total lack of emotional expression.
• Crisis of Faith: Vision finds no solace in philosophical or religious traditions after Vin's death. However, he does pray with Viv to comfort his daughter and himself.
  Vision: I have spent this time thinking about my brother, Victor Mancha.(...) And I have rigorously applied those scenarios to a variety of philosophical and religious traditions. Despite my efforts, unfortunately, I cannot see how, in any scenario, in any philosophical or religious tradition, this current outcome is just. I must therefore conclude that it is not just. And what is not just must be addressed.
• Dark Secret: He agrees to keep the events surrounding Virginia's killing and failed blackmail a secret to protect his family.
• Depending on the Artist: Many iterations of the Vision depict him as broad-shouldered and muscular. In the 2015 comic, he's lanky.
• Depending on the Writer: His level of stoicism is one of those things that bounces around from writer to writer. Does he have a sense of humor or doesn't he? Can he quip or is he entirely Literal-Minded? Is he capable of casual conversation, or is it all Spock Speak?
• Determinator: As Agatha Harkness observes, Vision will stop at nothing to protect his family.
• Do Androids Dream?: Explored from many sides over the years. To cut a long story short; yes, yes they do.
• Empty Shell: Averted. Ultron-5 designed the Vision to be a "nameless, soulless imitation", but the synthezoid's time with the Avengers gave him a name and a purpose. Vision did spend a brief period in The '90s as an Empty Shell after being taken apart and rebuilt.
• Epiphany Therapy: Vision was initially quite reluctant to pursue a relationship with Wanda at all due to angst over his origins. Once he learned the truth (or one version of it), he and Wanda get married.
• Eye Beams: The Vision can fire solar energy beams from his "thermo-scopic eyes".
• Face–Heel Turn: In All-New, All-Different Avengers, he's somehow turned rogue, most likely at the hands of Kang the Conqueror. He's able to get Ms. Marvel and Nova kicked off the team before attacking the Sam Wilson Captain America and Jane Foster Thor, leaving only Iron Man and Miles Morales left to face him and Kang.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • The Vision runs into a group of angry citizens in Avengers #59 who claim that he was too "awful" to walk the streets with "decent folk". One woman shields her child with her body while an older man says that "crummy androids" should be strung up by their jumper cables.
  • Often on the receiving end from Quicksilver. That Vision and Pietro's sister Wanda are a couple has something to do with this.
  • In The Vision (2015), the Vision and his family endure suspicion, hostility, and hate crimes as synthezoids living among humans. In one scene, vandals spray-paints "Socket Lovers" on their garage door. In another scene, Grim Reaper tries to kill Virginia, Viv, and Vin out of hatred.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Vision's hunger for normalcy (or the appearance thereof) leads him to make ethically questionable decisions.
  • The Vision implies that Vision created a synthezoid family because he longs to relive his old life with Scarlet Witch. His greatest flaw is that he cannot let go of the memory of his first love.
• Fiery Cover-Up: Virginia buried Grim Reaper's remains in the backyard. When George stops by the synthezoids' house, he sees a furrow carved into the backyard, and readers will notice that the dead body is missing. It's strongly implied that Vision burned Grim Reaper's body with a blast from his forehead crystal.
• Flying Firepower: He can levitate and fly, as well as fire lasers from the jewels in his forehead.
• Flight: Vision can fly by lowering his density to minimal levels.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: During the 90s, he got body-swapped with a psychopathic version of himself from another reality. Things got a little complicated when that Vision got himself killed.
• Future Me Scares Me: During Ultron Forever, he runs into a version of himself in a Bad Future, a mutilated and willing servant of Ultron who tries to turn him into a Manchurian agent. Vision kills his future self while vowing to never become him, before admitting to Jim Rhodes how unsettling the experience is.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Vision experiences this at the hands of She-Hulk during Avengers Disassembled.
• Head Blast: The Vision can also fire solar beams from the gem on his forehead.
• Heartbroken Badass: The Vision ends with Vision raising Viv alone, after Vin's death and Virginia's suicide.
• Heel–Face Turn: He was originally supposed to be a tool to be used by Ultron but ended up rebelling against his creator.

• I Just Want to Be Normal: He creates Virginia, Viv, and Vin so that he can have a family, but as they all discover, normalcy is beyond their reach.
  Agatha: Vision thought he could make a family. A happy, normal family. It was merely a matter of calculation. The right formula, shortcut, algorithm. What a shock then to (...) discover that it was all beyond him.
• Ignored Epiphany: In spite of all the evidence that he and his kind will never truly integrate into "normal" human society, Vision tells Scarlet Witch that he still wants to be normal in The Vision issue #11.
• Insistent Terminology: The Vision calls himself a "synthezoid" (a synthetic human being), and even protests and corrects people when he's called a robot or an android. The term, however, is exclusive to Marvel Comics, and has no scientific nor technological usage, being a term Hank Pym just made up one day just before making Ultron.
• Intangibility: Possessing complete density control, the Vision can shunt enough of his mass into another dimension to become completely intangible.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • In his first origin story, when he's rebuilt from Jim Hammond, Ultron wiped all traces of Hammond's mind and personality after he proved unwilling to be controlled. Ultron's a dick like that.
  • Due to a bad case of My Skull Runneth Over, just before his 2015 miniseries began, Vision erased any and all emotions related to Wanda from his mind.
• Legacy Character / The Nth Doctor:
  • For a while, it was deliberately unclear as to whether or not the teen Vision from Young Avengers was a successor to the original, or simply the original Vision in a new, younger body. It turned out to be a case of the former.
  • Subverted with his backstory of being built from the remains of the Golden Age Human Torch—the two have nothing in common aside from being android superheroes.
• Made of Iron: The Vision's durability depends on his density. At his maximum density, the Vision weighs 90 tons and becomes as hard as diamond.
• Magic Pants: Justified in that he wear "clothes that phase" to preserve his modesty when he phases out.
• Manly Tears: After being inducted into the Avengers, he heads out of the room for a moment. For you see, even an android can cry. And Vision didn't want the Avengers to see (it was the 60s, after all).
• Mind-Control Device: Ultron-5 installed a control crystal in Vision's head that has been exploited over the years.
• Minovsky Physics: His density control is later established to be the result of Pym particle treatments on his body by Ultron.
• Misplaced Retribution: The Grim Reaper has often attacked Vision for having the brain-patterns of his brother, blaming Vis for grudges against Simon, or Simon being dead. The Grim Reaper is not terribly sane even on a good day.
• Monochromatic Eyes: His eyes are white with no irises or pupils.
• Mundane Utility: The Vision issue #8 shows him melting snow with his forehead laser.
• The Needless: He doesn't require food or water. While he does shut down at night so that his system can process the day's events, they don't technically need sleep.
• Not So Above It All: As their love scene shows, Vision's stoicism is no match for Virginia's feminine charms.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Ultron-5 was destroyed by its own rage after taunting the Vision for having emotions.
  Vision: You ridiculed me for having emotions yet you possess them no less than I! Or else you would not have leaped at me in your rage to your own utter annihilation!
  • Also notable in their origins, both Ultron and Vision turned out to not be what their creators expected within seconds of being turned on. But where Ultron immediately decided Hank Pym, and all humans everywhere, needed to die the minute it turned on, Vision was driven by curiosity and intrigue.
• Old Flame: He was previously married to Scarlet Witch. The Vision implies that he created his synthezoid family because he's trying to recreate his old life with her.
• One-Steve Limit: Roy Thomas originally wanted to add a Golden Age alien character named The Vision to the Avengers lineup. His editor, Stan Lee, vetoed that idea and ordered Thomas to create an android character instead, so Thomas created an android with the same name.
• Outliving One's Offspring:
  • He's terrified when he nearly loses Viv.
  • The last page of The Vision issue #9 shows Vision holding Vin's dead body, begging his son to wake up after Victor kills him.
• Papa Wolf: When Tony Stark is about to shut off the power Vision is using to revive Viv, fearful that it will kill Vision, Vision threatens him into refraining.
  Vision: Tony Stark, you are my colleague. You are a fellow Avenger. You are my oldest friend. But if you touch that button, I will kill you.
• The Paralyzer: Called "physical disruption", the Vision can stun opponents by solidifying part of his intangible form inside their bodies to produce a sudden shock to the nervous system and excruciating pain.
• Phlebotinum Battery: The Vision is solar-powered and functions something like a solar battery, capable of sharing his power reserves during emergencies.
• Power Crystal: The Vision has a solar jewel on his forehead that absorbs ambient solar energy, even at night. Solar energy can be fired from this jewel at greater intensity than his eye beams, but it taxes his power supply at a higher rate.
• The Power of the Sun: Has it installed in his forehead, as a gem that absorbs latent solar radiation and grants him his powers. Naturally, Light Is Good.
• Projected Man: The Vision temporarily assumed a holographic form after his physical body was paralyzed during a battle with Annihilus. And again at the start of Avengers vol 3, when he's smashed by Morgan leFay.
• Punch a Wall: When Virginia confesses what really happened with Grim Reaper and Leon Kinzky, Vision smashes up the living room and backyard offscreen. Readers see the aftermath when George visits.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "She...is...my...DAUGHTER! And I will...SAVE HER!"
• Ridiculously Human Robot: From Avengers #57:
  Hank Pym: According to my examination, he's every inch a human being... except that all his bodily organs are constructed of synthetic materials!
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Vision fights his way through the Avengers and arrives at Victor's jail cell with the intent to kill Victor. Virginia suddenly appears and kills Victor instead to avert the Bad Future she and Agatha foresaw.
• Robosexual: He is capable of physical intimacy, having been in relationships with the Scarlet Witch, Ms. Marvel, and Mantis.. The comic depicts a love scene between Vision and Virginia and references his past romantic relationship with Scarlet Witch.
• Sanity Slippage: When he discovers that Virginia killed Grim Reaper and buried his remains in the backyard, he goes on an offscreen rampage, smashing up the house. Later, the narrator states that Vin's death precipitated Vision's full descent into madness.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: His speech is stilted compared to baseline humans, and his vocabulary is much larger.

• Speed Blitz: The Vision once stunned half a dozen escaped prisoners by flying through their bodies faster than they could react, ending the blitz with a full-density punch to the villain Klaw.
• The Stoic: Most of the time, he's calm and collected.
• Suicide Attack: During Chaos War, the Vision defeats super-villain Grim Reaper in this manner.
• Super-Reflexes: Vision's reflexes are more than twice as fast as the average human.
• Super-Senses: Of the technological variety, naturally.
• Super-Strength: The Vision's strength increases with his density, maxing out at 75 tons.
• Survivor's Guilt: After Vin's death, Vision regrets not giving him more attention. He removes his eye and replays a moment in which Vin was sharing Shakespeare with him, but he was too busy to pay attention.
• Tangled Family Tree: As the 'son' of Ultron and (ex)husband of Wanda Maximoff, he's part of the hideous snarl that is the Pym-Maximoff family tree.

• 10-Minute Retirement: Early on in his time with the Avengers, he temporarily quit the team due to angst. He's back by the very next issue.
• Trauma Conga Line: The end of Avengers West Coast was not great for Vis. In no particular order, his marriage ended, his wife went insane and evil, his children were utterly destroyed, and Vis himself went insane and evil before being taken to pieces.
• Uncanny Valley: Human onlookers In-Universe find him unsettling and inhuman.
• Underwear of Power: Vision wears a pair of yellow trunks as part of his iconic design. However, like many other superheroes, his live-action design abandoned the undies.
• The Unsmile: Vision has this problem from time to time.
  • During Kurt Busiek's run on The Avengers, The Avengers become a UN organization, and have to get new photo IDs to go with the change of status. Vision's attempt to smile for his photo at She-Hulk's urging is priceless◊. He seems to do just fine on the rare occasion that he actually wants to smile, but apparently, photo day is his downfall.
  "I do not like this...'smile'."
  • At one point during Geoff Johns' run of The Avengers, he's asked to smile for a photo. He does so technically, but it's... well, damned creepy looking. So Vis alters the photo to get rid of it.
  • In The Vision (2015), the Vision's fake smile◊ when he greets George and Martha for the first time cannot be unseen.
• Voice Changeling: The Vision can replicate nearly any voice he's heard.
• What Is This Feeling?: Ultron didn't program Vision for "feelings", just destroying the Avengers. Vision starts getting very confused about the odd reactions Wanda sparks in him, and the sheer fury when she's endangered. Ronan the Accuser figured out what was going on before either of them did; the synthezoid had a crush.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Often treated as less than human by unpleasant characters. His "death" in Disassembled has a nasty version of it. After being smashed and torn to pieces, rather than being sent to anyone who might have any knowledge of how to fix him, Vision's body is unceremoniously packed up in crates and sent off to a warehouse to rot for years.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: His work with the Avengers and with the President frequently keep him away from home, to Virginia's disappointment.
  Virginia: I do not relish asking this of you. You are an Avenger. You are needed there. Obviously. I am just trying to say, you are needed here as well.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: As a synthezoid, Vision could potentially outlive all his friends and teammates if something doesn't destroy him first. He's not terribly sold on this idea.
• Why Isn't It Attacking?: In The Avengers #57, Black Panther noticed that the Vision was programmed to kill the Avengers, but the synthezoid wasn't actually making any moves against the team.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In the Bad Future seen by Agatha and Virginia, had he succeeded in killing Victor, he would've gone mad with grief and killed every living thing in the planet, starting with the Avengers.
• The Worf Effect: Much like Cyborg of the Teen Titans and Red Tornado of the Justice League, the Vision is often the first Avenger to be taken down in order to demonstrate how powerful the villain of the week is. The fact that he can be rebuilt after being destroyed certainly helps. Completely averted in Vision: when Tony realizes Vision is coming to kill Victor, he hits the panic button and orders Kid Nova to bring in "Everybody!" This amounts to, in alphabetical order: Beast, Black Panther, Blue Marvel, Captain Marvel, Crystal, Doctor Strange, Falcon, Iron Man, Kid Nova, Medusa, Miles Morales, Ms. Marvel, Spectrum, Spider-Man, and Thor (Jane Foster). Vision takes them all out with hardly any effort. This is a strong reminder he was originally built to take out the Avengers.
• Working with the Ex: After his marriage with the Scarlet Witch goes south, the two Avengers worked together off and on. Then Disassembled happened. Vision was slightly less willing to work with Wanda after he got better, though they did eventually manage to mend most of their fences.
• Xanatos Gambit: Ultron-5's plan regarding the Vision had two intended outcomes: the Vision kills the Avengers or the Vision leads the Avengers into a death trap. The Vision takes a third option, but Ultron still wins thanks to the control crystal in the synthezoid's head.

Supporting Characters

Scarlet Witch

See Scarlet Witch

Agatha Harkness

See Scarlet Witch

Virginia Vision

Virginia

Vision's wife, a synthezoid whom he created for companionship.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Virginia is a polite neighbor and a loving wife and mother. She's also capable of savage violence in moments of stress or desperation, as Grim Reaper, Leon Kinsky, Victor, and Sparky all discovered.
• Big "NO!": She angrily shouts "NO! NO! NO!" as she kills Grim Reaper.
• Blackmail: Leon Kinzky secretly films her burying the Grim Reaper's body and tries to blackmail her.
• Break the Cutie: Her life becomes a trauma conga line that taxes her sanity.
• Broken Pedestal: Viv is enraged when she learns that Virginia was present when Leon shot C.K.
• Blatant Lies: She insists that "Everything is normal!" when law enforcement questions the Vision.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments.
  Virginia: Vin, does your suspension from school somehow equate to you being permanently suspended upon this couch? You might answer the door.
  • And then again, during an otherwise frightening scene in issue #9.
  Virginia: And where is the damn dog?
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: After drinking poisonous water, she dies as Vision holds her.
• Dramatic Stutter:
  • She stutters when a law enforcement officer questions Vision. The stutter is an expression of her own anxiety over her killing of Grim Reaper possibly being discovered.
  Virginia: I do not know how to fix fix fix fix...
  • In issue #8, she stutters repeatedly while talking to Victor. In issue #11, she stutters constantly while explaining Vision's decision to kill Victor and the ugly aftermath that will likely follow to Viv.
• Ghost Memory: Because her brain patterns were based off those of Scarlet Witch, Virginia has access to many of Scarlet Witch's memories, including a formula for seeing the future.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Downplayed but when Vision is showing a gift from Scarlet Witch to their neighbors, Virginia goes quiet with her arms folded and a frown on her face.
• Heroic Suicide: After giving Detective Lin a false story in order to protect Vision, she drinks poisonous water that corrodes her synthetic organs. She dies in Vision's arms.
• Housewife: She tends the house and cares for Vin and Viv while Vision is away.
• Killed Off for Real: Although the last issue of the 2015 series suggests that Vision is building a new body to resurrect her, she hasn't been revived.
• Mama Bear: After Grim Reaper breaks into her house and attacks her children, she savagely beats him to death. A trait less surprising when it's revealed she got her brain patterns from the Scarlet Witch, a woman so protective of her children she rewove reality.
• Murder Is the Best Solution:
  • In issue #11, she kills Sparky as part of a magical formula for seeing visions of the future, even though she already knew that the future held horrors for her and her loved ones.
  • She kills Victor before Vision can do so, instead of trying to talk him out of the killing or restrain him.
• Only Sane Man: Subverted. Out of all the Visions, she likely understands humans the best because she actually remembers the memories of Scarlet Witch and her concerns that sending the children to school may cause problems turns out to be justified. On the other hand, she puts on a Stepford Smiler exterior around company and her sanity takes a nosedive as the story progresses.
• Punch a Wall: She smashes the kitchen table out of anxiety when a law enforcement officer questions her husband.

• Robosexual: Despite being a synthezoid/android, she is capable of physical intimacy with Vision.
• Sanity Slippage: The trauma of killing Grim Reaper, witnessing CK's death, and putting Leon Kinsky in a coma is taxing her sanity. In issue #6, she behaves casually as she leads George through her smashed home. In issue #8, she stutters constantly, sings "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to herself, and tells Victor that she is the music she plays. Victor observes that she is "hurt" in some way. After Vin's death at Victor's hands, her mental state is even more fragile.
• Stepford Smiler: She cultivates a smiling housewife exterior, but cries when she explores her pre-loaded memory bank in private. We later learn that she weeps when she accesses Scarlet Witch's memories of her romance with Vision.
• Take Me Instead: Virginia knows that Vision will kill Victor, and that she will probably be persecuted and killed anyway after he does so. Virginia kills Victor instead so that justice can be served while keeping Vision's reputation intact.
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • A vandal thought that he could get away with spray-painting "Go Home Socket Lovers" on her garage. Virginia knocks the vandal out cold, and the expression on his friend's face is priceless.
  • Grim Reaper thought he could kill Virginia and her children by himself. Virginia quickly beat him to death.
  • Leon Kinzky tried to blackmail her after secretly filming her burying Grim Reaper's body, then threatened to destroy her loved ones. She struck him so hard that he was left in a coma.
• Unstable Powered Woman: Virginia Vision is a based on the Vision (which means there's some Ultron tech within her) with a facsimile of the above-mentioned powerful-but-mentally-fragile Scarlet Witch. When her children are threatened, she becomes increasingly homicidal and ruthlessly murders anyone who might pose a threat to her family. This sets off a string of events that culminates in her murdering brother-in-law Victor Mancha, then murdering the family dog, and finally committing suicide.

Viv Vision

Vivian "Viv" Vision

Alter Ego: Viv Vision

Notable Aliases: Viv, Vivvy, Vivid Vessel

First Appearance: The Vision (2015) #1 (November, 2015)

I used to be more emotional, like you. Then, within a very short period of time, my brother was killed and my mother committed suicide. After that, I decided that emotions were not something in which I cared to indulge.

— Champions (2016) #4

Vivian "Viv" Vision is the synthezoid daughter of The Vision. He built her from body alongside the body of her mother Virginia and her brother Vin and then made her mind by randomly combining his brain patterns with the brain patterns of Virginia (whose brain patterns were based on the Scarlet Witch).

Viv and her brother Vin were then instructed to go to school and become "normal" children, but things quickly went wrong. After an attack by the Grim Reaper, Viv was stabbed through the chest and the Vision went to great lengths to repair her. Unknown to her, however, her mother had killed the Grim Reaper and when the fact came to light, it was already too late and, due to an unfortunate series of events, her brother was killed and her mother committed suicide. This left both her and her father desolate and made her switch off her emotions, although she later turned them back on.

After this, she decided to join the newly-formed group of teenage superheroes called the Champions. She had a few adventures with them and even allowed Amadeus Cho to kiss her, although she said that it made her feel nothing. When Riri Williams, the armored superhero known as Ironheart, joined the team, however, Viv did feel something and, at one point, unexpectedly kissed her. Riri rejected her advances, however, although they remained friends.

In the beginning of Outlawed, the Champions were projecting a teen activist from mercenaries that Roxxon hired when Viv suffered a catastrophic meltdown and seemed to explode in energy, putting into a coma the nearby Kamala Khan, her teammate. The other Champions thought Viv died in the explosion, but Viv survived and ran away, blaming herself for hurting her friend and thinking that the new Kamala's Law, outlawing teenage superheroes, was for the best, even secretly tracking her friends to turn them in. Realizing what she was doing was wrong, however, she returned to the Champions, apologized, and helped them take down the corrupt C.R.A.D.L.E.

She is still nervous around Riri and still wants to make up for all the mistakes she made.

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• Affirmative-Action Legacy: Viv is a female "offspring" of an ostensibly male synthezoid. As a synthezoid she is pink with green hair, but her human form has dark skin and dark hair with green and pink highlights. Vision is also heterosexual, as shown by his marriage with Wanda and Virginia, while Viv turns out to be a lesbian and in love with Riri.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Even though neighborhood kids found her super-strength and laser-blasting abilities amusing, Viv was an outsider at school.
• Artificial Human: She's a synthezoid, a humanoid robot built out of both mechanical parts and synthetic organs and tissues.
• Badass Bookworm: She's extremely intelligent and well-informed due to her perfect recall and constant access to the internet, and is also a sturdily-built robot capable of tangling with supervillains.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: C.K. bullied her, but quickly turned around to try to befriend her, with implications that he might even have a crush on her. It ends up meaning a lot to Viv that he thought she was "cool" and she is furious when she discovers that Virginia had a hand in his (accidental) death.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Viv is a pleasant teenage girl most of the time (occasional moments of snottiness notwithstanding). When she is angered, however, expect shattered tables and staircases.
• Break the Cutie: Not to the extent of her mother, but the increasingly traumatic events of The Vision (2015) wore her down.
• Emotionless Girl: Very literally so. She turned off her emotions in order to deal with her grief over her mother and brother's death.
• Eye Lights Out: Her eyes briefly go black as Vision is reviving her.
• Foregone Conclusion: Viv was announced to be a member of the Champions after the end of The Vision (2015), so it was fairly obvious nothing permanent was going to happen to her.
• Golem: In the "Weird War One" arc, her Weirdworld self is a metallic being described as a golem powered by magical crystals.
• Heroic Safe Mode: After everything she's been through in The Vision (2015), Viv elected to eschew emotional experience, at least first. This remains her default through much of the series, but her emotions begin to reemerge by the end of the first run.
• Humanity Ensues: In the Champions/Avengers crossover event, the High Evolutionary turns her into a flesh-and-blood human, ostensibly as an improvement over her artificial form. She finds this state horrifying — for a being used to being able to fly, phase through matter, and turn harder than diamond, a human body is horribly heavy, weak, and fragile, and the loss of the mechanical sensors and digital communications that she used constantly leaves her in effectively a state of sensory deprivation.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: At first. By the end of The Vision (2015), she is at peace with the fact that she is not "normal" and does not need to fit in.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Grim Reaper impales her with his scythe, earning him a savage beating from Virginia.
• Incompatible Orientation: In Champions (2016), she comes out as a lesbian to Riri by abruptly kissing her. Riri, however, rejects Viv's feelings.
• Intangibility: She can lower her density to the point that she can simply phase through solid matter. This is useful for moving through solid obstacles and passing through attacks, although she cannot interact with other objects in this state. When her father wants to ground her, he needs to seal her room with walls designed to counter-resonate with her to prevent her from simply floating out.
• Jerkass Ball: In issue #9 of The Vision (2015), she's rude to Virginia when Virginia and Vision cannot locate Vin and Victor.
• Literal-Minded: In the first Champions series, Viv sometimes thinks of the literal version of a metaphor when someone says it.
• Logic Bomb: Suffers one when trying to explain to her great-aunt Nadia van Dyne how her half-brothers Wiccan and Speed fit into the family tree.^note Wanda and Vision get married. Wanda creates boys out of Mephisto's essence using magic. Mephisto sends Master Pandemonium to take the boys so he can reabsorb them, which he does. Billy and Tommy somehow reincarnate into different boys who then join the Young Avengers.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: While disguised as an ordinary human, Viv passes through a bathroom. Her reflection shows her actual synthezoid appearance.
• The Mole: In Champions (2020) Viv turns out to be alive, and is secretly leaking the Champions' whereabouts to C.R.A.D.L.E.
• Rage Breaking Point: When Viv learns that her mother was present when Leon Kinzky accidentally shot his son C.K., she explodes with rage and destroys the kitchen table.
• Serious Business: Viv and Vin once got into a brawl over whether Shakespeare's Shylock was truly a villain. Viv accidentally punched through the staircase.
• Token Religious Teammate: Viv turns to theism as a way to cope with Vin's death; first praying that there is a God, then that her brother has a soul, then that God will allow Vin's soul to rest.

Vin Vision

Vin

Vision and Virginia's son.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: Vin and Viv are outsiders at school.
• Badass Bookworm: Vin and Viv soak up as much information as they can through electronic means.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Vin is generally a nice teenage boy who likes Shakespeare. When provoked, however, he's dangerous. Vin necklifted C.K. when the boy gave him a hard time, and fought back against Victor by firing his forehead laser.
• Character Death: Victor attacks Vin and accidentally kills him. The damage to Vin's system is so extensive that he cannot be revived.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Even if Chris Kinzky was being a jerk, Vin overreacted when he grabbed the boy by his throat and choked him into unconsciousness.
• Friendly Fire: Vin fires his forehead laser at Victor in an attempt to defend himself. He misses and accidentally fires the laser at George and Martha's house, igniting a house fire.
• Eye Lights Out: Vin's eyes go dark after Victor kills him.
• He Knows Too Much: Vin walks in as Victor is secretly communicating with the Avengers. Victor attacks him.
• Killed Off for Real: He's killed in the 2015 series and, as of 2022, has never been revived.
• Neck Lift: Vin performs one on Chris Kinzky, earning him a suspension from school.
• Rage Breaking Point: When Chris Kinzky pushes him an inch too far, he lifts the bully off his feet by his throat and nearly chokes him to death.

Sparky

Sparky

A synthezoid dog created from the brain of Zeke (George and Nora's dog) after he is electrocuted by the late Grim Reaper's equipment.

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He's a bright green synthetic dog.
• Brain Uploading: Vision removes the brain from Zeke's corpse and scans its brainwaves into a synthezoid dog.
• Cute Machines: Vin and Viv are smitten when they see him.
• Robot Dog: Sparky is a synthezoid, a robot whose structure was designed to be as close as possible to a real dog's anatomy.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Virginia brutally kills him so that she can carry out the same magical formula as Agatha Harkness for seeing the future.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Zeke wanders into the synthezoids' backyard, smells Grim Reaper's remains, and digs up his body. When Vision discovers the dead body and electrocuted dog, it sets into motion his morally questionable decision to lie about Virginia's actions.
  • Sparky leads Vin into Victor's room while the latter is in a meeting with the Avengers. Afraid that the boy may reveal his secrets to the rest of the family, Victor tries to restrain Vin with his powers, but ends up accidentally killing him.
• We Can Rebuild Him:
  • Zeke digs up Grim Reaper's remains, bites a piece of Grim Reaper's equipment, and is electrocuted. Vision recovers his brain and uses it to create a synthezoid dog.
  • In issue #12, Scarlet Witch and Tony Stark repair Sparky after Virginia seemingly kills him. Scarlet Witch reunites Sparky with an overjoyed Viv.

Victor Mancha

See Runaways

Antagonists

Grim Reaper

See Avengers: Enemies

Leon Kinzky

Leon Kinzky

A man whose son attends the same school as Vin and Viv.

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• Blackmail: He secretly films Virginia burying Grim Reaper, then tries to blackmail her with the footage. He demands that the synthezoids leave town or else.
• Blackmail Backfire: His attempt to blackmail Virginia ended with him accidentally shooting his own son. When he threatened to kill Virginia afterwards, Virginia struck him, leaving him in a coma.
• Fantastic Racism: He refers to Viv and Vin as Virginia's "things". To her face.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He shoots his gun toward Virginia. Virginia phases out, causing the bullet to pass through her and strike his son instead.
• Papa Wolf: His decision to blackmail Virginia and demand that the synthezoids leave town was rooted in genuine fear for his son's safety after Vin nearly choked the boy to death.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: After Vin performs a neck lift on his son, Kinzky genuinely fears that the synthezoids will become dangers to his son and his community.

Other Characters

George and Nora

George and Nora

The synthezoids' neighbors.

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• Chekhov's Gun: In the first issue, Nora gives the synthezoids a baking tray of cookies. It's the same tray that Virginia uses to beat Grim Reaper to death. When Virginia returns the battered tray, George seems alarmed.
• Foregone Conclusion: Readers know from the first issue that George and Nora will someday die in a house fire set by one of the synthezoids. A stray laser from Vin's forehead accidentally strikes their house and ignites a fire in issue 9.
• Gossipy Hens: Nora reads online gossip about the Vision.

Chris "C.K." Kinzky

Chris "C.K." Kinzky

Leon Kinzky's son, who attends school with Viv and Vin.

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• Accidental Murder: His father tries to kill Virginia with a gun, but she phases out before the bullet can hit her. The bullet passes through her and kills Chris instead.
• The Bully: He shouts and swears at Vin, who proceeds to neck lift him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's obnoxious to Vin, but he's later shown having a pleasant conversation with Viv as they walk home from school. It's implied that for all his bluster, he likes Viv and is genuinely curious about the synthezoids.

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