Vision hasn’t made an appearance in Scarlet Witch vol. 2, no. He has been briefly referenced in the last few issues:
Scarlet Witch v. 2 #8
Scarlet Witch v. 2 #9
What Wanda is referencing in #8 is likely West Coast Avengers v. 2 #45, when Vision loses his emotions. It is ignoring that he regained them, they reconciled, and got back together shortly before Disassembled in Kurt Busiek’s, then Geoff Johns’ run. It does, however, raise the fairly decent point that’s been raised only once before: why did none of the Avengers try to help Vision? We got an explanation from Tony for most of them, but it’s never been addressed with Wanda. This issue posits that Wanda has been too paralyzed by her history to confront it, and thus ignored Vision’s remains and refused to face what she did–kill her husband.
As for #9, this is taken directly from Englehart’s characterization of Pietro as a controlling brother who saw Vision as little more than a toaster. He didn’t feel that way before, and hasn’t felt that way in a long time. But as I said in the previous post, Robinson is making Pietro the villain of Wanda’s past, so it’s not surprising he drew from the era in which they were most at odds.
Yikes, talk about Quicksilver character assassination. Making Pietro the villain of her stories is insulting to both characters. This might be one of the most vicious characterizations of the man yet. His own sister calling him a sociopath (apparently Wanda’s a mental health professional capable of diagnosis)? After he tried to choke her out?
I really really wanted to like this run. But Robinson just doesn’t seem to get what could makes Wanda a strong character and how to strengthen her further. Wanda hasn’t been a “meek little flower” since they were in the Brotherhood of Mutants. But Robinson feels the need to declare that Wanda is so much better now, to tell us that he’s writing the character as strong and powerful (and to back it up by having her attack her brother…destroying her own furniture in the process?).
He’s always paying lip service to how great and skilled Wanda is–or rather, how great he writes her. When Wanda solves a problem, it’s because she knows all the answers and just the right thing to do. She arrives, fixes everything, moves on.
And then the few times Robinson deals with developing her as a person, it’s always on the troublesome side like her calling her brother a sociopath or saying she’s uncomfortable around her children. Rather than enforcing the character she does have, he’s inventing a new, more awful one.
[ A Pacific Rim AU where Wanda is pretty much Raleigh Becket. ]
Hailing from eastern Europe, the reckless red Jaeger known as the Scarlet Witch came to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s last remaining facility in New York carrying twin pilots Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. For almost three years the twins wreaked havoc on the kaiju threat, aiding where they could around the world, until tragedy claimed Pietro’s life.
Vision, an android lab assistant of scientist Tony Stark, was suggested to Colonel Fury as a stand-in for the Scarlet Witch’s lost pilot. Stark reasoned, the android would have 100% drift compatibility to whoever he piloted with, given that his personality is truly neutral and he is compliant to any co-pilot’s orders. Vision was happy to aid Wanda—it was not his first time stepping into a Jaeger, having drifted numerous times with Stark in the Iron Man up until injury prompted Stark’s retirement to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s science wing.
Initially, Wanda hesitated to take Vision into the Jaeger—Pietro was the only person she had ever drifted with, at nearly 100% compatibility. Physical training outside of the Jaeger brought Wanda to see Vision less as “the android” and more as a sympathetic individual who does more than quietly take orders and the abuse of some of the other, cockier pilots around the base (Simon Williams, for one.)
Still, Wanda is unsettled by the prospect of letting anyone into her mind through the drift—letting anyone into what she felt was only Pietro’s place.
Training with the neutral, synthetic man proved Stark’s theory that Vision could easily drift with anyone—and while it was pleasant enough to be back in the Scarlet Witch, Wanda found herself somehow bothered by Stark’s reminder to her that Vision was “an android” and compatible with anyone due to his mental neutrality. All that mattered, though, was that they could fight the kaiju together, Stark reminded her.
In their first drift, Wanda got caught up “chasing the rabbit” and nearly lost herself in memories of Pietro’s death and their traumatic Sokovian childhood—Vision’s clear mind pulled her from the downward spiral before she lost complete control of the Scarlet Witch. However, the near-disaster was enough to convince Wanda that without Pietro, there was no Scarlet Witch. She could not risk another mistake, even with the promise of Vision being there to ground her. Thus, she ran.
When the kaiju strike again (in accordance with Dr. Banner’s predictions that they would come in greater numbers with greater frequency,) Wanda is paralyzed by her own refusal to act.
Impatient and unwilling to let humanity’s last bastion go down without a fight, Stark takes Vision with him to fire up the Iron Man once more—only to find that Vision is no longer drift compatible with him. Vision posits that perhaps he’s bonded with Wanda in a way he had not expected, perhaps in a manner that directly affected the clarity of his mind.
“I didn’t think that was possible.” Tony says, to which Vision answers, “Neither did I.”
Stark knows the only option left is to bring Wanda back to the Scarlet Witch.
Wanda had left the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, having decided she would never pilot again—at least, until the pilot pair of the Widow’s Eye, Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton seek Wanda out and convince her in so many words, “Wanda, get in the robot. With the other robot.” (Those were Clint’s words.)
The Scarlet Witch rises again, with pilots Wanda and Vision, to fight the kaiju threat. Carrying a nuclear weapon into the kaiju’s gateway, they carry out the final orders to seal the rift between Earth and the kaiju world for good.
“It’s okay, Wanda. I can do this alone. All I have to do is fall. Anyone can fall.”
Steve Rogers was born with the shield. The serum just added wings to him.
Vision and his long-lost puppy.
Avengers and Pokemon drawings. I had a lot of fun.
As I found that Cubone lost his mother and was traumatized by the experience like Tony, I add this comment. I didn’t know the story of Cubone when I drew it since I primarily used visual cues and/or abilities of the Pokemons for the match. Maybe someone who wears a helmet has a past that makes him wear it with which he can have power to move forward. Tony would take good care of Cubone as he knows what kind of feeling the event gives.
James Robinson [W], Joelle Jones [A], David Aja [C] CIvil War II tie-in! When Wanda’s brother Pietro comes to visit, it’s not the happy family reunion they imagined. Pietro recruits Wanda to help him in the Civil War… …but what happens when the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are on opposing sides? 32 pages, $3.99.
Those Celestial Bodies 