Right? It makes me think about how there were soooo many “android Jesus” and “robot Marvel Superman” references after Age of Ultron came out, and those all drop off come Civil War.

While I think in the long run I would have been happier with the Russos portrayal of Wanda and Wanda and Vision’s romance, I do think that Whedon did a great job of modernizing Silver Age Vision. Silver Age was very unique in being a sympathetic android, and a lot of his character beats might seem a bit trite and overdone now, but were then novel. The idea “even an android can cry” was necessary to show that Vision is equal in his humanity in an era where most robots were like this:

But we have lots of stories like that now (even if some people are still unable to accept non-human personhood like they just walked straight out of the Westworld remake), so the novelty is lost. By making an android who is more than human, though, I think Whedon could capture some of that freshness while staying true to the sentiment.