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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Weakest Avengers in comics?!
Vision once took down a guy that beat the rest of the team by just standing there and letting the guy punch himself to death on Vision’s diamond hard abs!
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIn the climax of Tom King’s run, Vision plowed through all the Avengers singlehandedly when enraged by the death of his son.
Okay, full-blown confession time: I actually haven't read too many actual Marvel Comics. I mostly have grown up on the X-Men and MCU films, and my actual comic reading was usually Tintin and Asterix.
I did read a Fantastic Four Spider-Man crossover comic, a Hulk story, and a few other Spider-Man stories. But that's all I really remember, and it was a super long time ago.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Power Levels are Bullshit to quote DBZA.
They fluctuate. Hell its an ongoing question whether Thor's lightning comes from him or his hammer.
Its weird, during the last Thor run when losing his hammer Thor became completely powerless save his bare Asgardian strength but in the current run when Tony takes it from him Thor summons lightning strikes to the ground and goes all "Do not mistake that having my hammer means I am without power, I am Thor."
Edited by slimcoder on Sep 29th 2021 at 7:23:15 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Well that's what happens when you have 8530 different writers in your publication history.
You are not alone.@dmcreif: While I definitely get most of your post generally, it really doesn't fit with the last What If episode because it's not actually Vision but Ultron after successfully taking over Vision's body. So it's not really an example of Vision unbarring himself to save Wanda, since....y'know, it's Ultron.
True, true.
I think what also makes the ensemble films so cool is that there isn't a main character in them, yet we see how the events of them affect certain characters personally in their own films and movies. Makes it one hell of a Rewatch Bonus to try to watch an ensemble film from a certain character's perspective.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."
Makes Infinity War more heartbreaking from Wanda's POV, knowing it's just a few weeks before her trip to Westview.
You also realize Vision was about to tell Wanda about the property he'd bought in Westview when Corvus Glaive skewered him. Although I'll be honest, I actually think that his nervousness in that scene wasn't because he was going to tell Wanda about the house, but because he was about to get down on his knees and ask, "Wanda, will you marry me?"![]()
Vision getting destroyed a lot is kind of like Jean Grey dying a lot
They kinda do but its weighed against decades and decades of publishing
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIts not the first time Vision got wrecked but Stern had Vision fall into a robot coma and spend a bunch of issues as a tube boy in service of an arc where Vision eventually tried to take over the world for its own good.
Some writers are not lazy.
The first time Vision got wrecked its because he was suicide bombed by a hate group that was against human-robot love.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersDepends on how you define death.
The two times I mentioned didn't kill him. He was just put in robot comas for a while slash until he was repaired.
He gets blasted in half and put in a tube in Busiek's run, because Busiek loves calling back to older runs. That didn't kill him either but he was not able to be an active Avenger until his legs grew back. But he at least kept his social life up by interacting as a hologram.
The first thing I can remember that I'd count as an actual death for Vision is when the government disassembled him into his component parts. Even though he was put back together, it destroyed the personality and emotions he'd had.
In a bit of a niche case he's torn in half by She-Hulk during Disassembled to get him to stop vomiting up Ultrons and he's treated as if he's dead and he's basically left in a box in Tony's lab forever and his programming is used to make the Young Avengers version of the Vision who is and isn't the Vision. But then it turns out that whatever Tony was using to fix Vision just took a really, really long time so eventually he's repaired and has his memories and such. So was that a death or another robot coma by other means?
Vision also probably died in Earth or universe ending calamities, same as everyone else. Everyone in the universe gets a few death counters by default because everything periodically explodes.
But in terms of actually dying dying Vision doesn't do that very often. He's ridiculously resilient in the sense that he can be basically fatally wounded but get up good as new several years later after a long rest.
Unlike his son Vin who go fatally electrocuted once and died forever of it.
Edited by Bocaj on Sep 29th 2021 at 1:14:57 PM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersDeath is kinda hard to define for a being whose thoughts can be transferred, uploaded/downloaded, or even just physically reassembled and turned back on provided it's not been ground to a fine dust.
The only reason death is such an absolute and irreversible thing for humans is because their hard drives are made of squishy stuff that's very hard to put back together once it's been blown to chunks or begun to deteriorate.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

Though I do like being able to see the extent of his true power level in ''What If', and do wish we got a little more. But I'm fine with Westview and Cataract Vision.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."