Summary
- Vision's backstory is a unique hybrid of organics and metals, with an intriguing timeline in the MCU.
- Actor Paul Bettany's portrayal brought Vision to life brilliantly, capturing his visual design and emotions.
- Despite facing heartbreaking deaths, Vision has become a fan-favorite Avenger with an uncertain but promising future.
Though the MCU's Avengers are full of diverse and interesting characters, Vision's backstory and timeline are among the most interesting. Thor is a god and Tony Stark is a genius, but Vision is a unique hybrid of organics and metals imbued with the mind of an AI and brought to life with an Infinity Stone. A phasing robot who waxes poetic and can shoot a laser from his forehead may have seemed like a tall task for the MCU, but there's little doubt that he's become a fan-favorite.
While this is partly due to Vision's striking visual design and costume, most of the credit goes to actor Paul Bettany. After voicing Stark's AI JARVIS, Bettany embodied Vision in the flesh brilliantly. Vision has gone through an exciting birth and more than one heartbreaking MCU death, yet he still remains in the franchise with an uncertain but promised future. Here is the Avenger's complete timeline as it currently stands.
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Vision Appearances In The MCU |
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The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) |
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Captain America: Civil War (2016) |
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018) |
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WandaVision (2021) |
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All dates are sourced from The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline print book (2023)
Vision Is Created To Be Ultron's Final Host Body
Spring 2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
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- Director
- Joss Whedon
- Release Date
- May 1, 2015
- Writers
- Joss Whedon
- Cast
- Chris Hemsworth , Clark Gregg , Robert Downey Jr. , Cobie Smulders , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Jeremy Renner , Thomas Kretschmann , Chris Evans , Don Cheadle , Mark Ruffalo , Elizabeth Olsen , Scarlett Johansson , Paul Bettany , Samuel L. Jackson , James Spader
When Tony Stark creates Ultron, the intention isn't for him to have a single body but instead to guide the legions of Iron Man-like drones that could protect the planet better than any individuals. Of course, Ultron goes rogue, and he upgrades his physical form a few times. Fortunately for the Avengers, his final transformation is stopped short.
Ultron uses Loki's mind-control scepter to compel Doctor Helen Cho to build him a body missing artificial organic matter with stolen Vibranium. As a final touch, he breaks the Mind Stone out of the scepter and uses it to power the body. The Avengers seize it before Ultron can transfer his mind into the body, instead filling it with a mixture of Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and the JARVIS AI, making up its personality. The result is Vision, a metal/organic hybrid given true consciousness by an Infinity Stone.
Vision Helps Defeat UItron And Joins The Avengers
Spring 2015
Given Thor offers the final element of Vision's creation by hitting the synthezoid Avenger with a bolt of lightning, Vision adopts part of his look, donning the cape and some flourishes that he sports for the rest of his time in the MCU. Vision quickly understands that Ultron is a massive threat and, even though it takes the Avengers a bit of time to trust him, welcome him to their ranks after he shows his purity by lifting Mjolnir.
In fact, after the Avengers clash with Ultron and his legions of drones in Sokovia, it's Vision who ultimately lands the final blow on his would-be bodily inhabitor. The meeting provides an interesting dichotomy between what Ultron is and what he could have been as both ponder their roles in the world and the flaws of humanity. For his work, Vision is officially welcomed onto the Avengers as a new team line-up forms at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron.