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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Unless Kilgrave planned for that and ordered someone to stick a fridge magnet on Vision's head.
Ant-Man, Iron Man, and War Machine would probably be immune though anyway by virtue of wearing hermetic suits.
edited 30th Mar '16 7:30:48 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Wanda's powers are magic. Kilgrave's are super science and also biochemical. Being a robot or hermetically sealed off can protect you from him, but not from her.
Vision could as much get mind controlled by Kilgrave as he could get the flu.
edited 30th Mar '16 10:19:32 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.If I remember correctly, experiments brought out powers she already had.
In any case I feel comfortable saying that her powers work differently from Kilgrave, who explicitly has to infect folks with a biological virus.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.One of the best/most horrible things about Kilgrave is how if he actually had any ambition he could've waltzed into Stark Industries and in a handful of steps come very close to taking over the world - especially since at the time nobody actually knew he or anybody like him existed.
But it says a lot about the kind of person he is that that never even occurs to him, because he's too busy treating people like objects for his hedonistic comfort and leaving destroyed lives in his wake. The fact that so many supervillains are so much larger than life keeps them from being as creepy as they could be, but the times when they do evil in mundane and true to life ways can be more chilling than anything else.
edited 30th Mar '16 11:05:20 PM by KnownUnknown
Well Ultron is a robot and yet she couldn't read his mind. But since she could when he was uploading himself to Vision, it implies that her powers need something biological to tap into, which makes them a bit more "science" than "magic".
The virus thing, though, who knows. Maybe Vision has the world's greatest immune system.
edited 30th Mar '16 11:07:33 PM by Tuckerscreator
I can't see Ultron building himself of a body that would make him vulnerable to the common cold.
I'm sure his singleminded obsession with Jessica and contentment with a simple hedonistic lifestyle are part of it, but it's also likely that he wants to keep a low profile.
Reserving the use of his powers for just a few civilians whom nobody will believe is more low-key than hijacking the minds of well-known corporate leaders or superheroes, and once he makes the wrong people suspicious that he's got mind control powers he's liable to get a sniper round through the head.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Ragnarok may be Loki's last film.
He's totally going to be in IW.

I believe it is also a matter of evidence. There is ample evidence Loki had brainwashing power because he kept using that power once every two seconds in the Avengers. There's literal video footage of him doing it when he came through the portal.
It's likely that the HYDRA remnanets covered up their tracks expertly, and left no evidence Bucky was brainwashed in any way. If that's the case, the only witness to back up the theory of Bucky being brainwashed is Capt himself.
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