Apparently being an Avenger wasn’t complicated enough.
In Marvel’s upcoming “VisionQuest,” Vision isn’t only dealing with an identity crisis.
He has Ultron living inside his programming.
Yes. That Ultron.
The murderous AI from Avengers: Age of Ultron is returning, with James Spader back in the role, but Marvel is doing something much stranger with him this time.
After being rebuilt, Vision has gone into hiding while trying to figure out exactly who — or what — he is. To do that, he communicates with several AI personalities stored inside his programming.
Those include Jarvis, Friday, Edith… and Ultron.
Which feels like keeping your worst enemy in your internal group chat.
Things get worse when someone puts a bounty on Vision and he ends up on the run alongside Thomas Shepherd, a mysterious teenager who may somehow be the reincarnation of his son.
If that sounds complicated, congratulations. You understand Marvel.
The series is also clearly leaning back into one of the MCU’s more interesting questions: if Vision is technically artificial but can think, love, remember and grieve, where does the machine stop and the person begin?
And having his original creator turned enemy literally sitting inside his mind probably won’t make answering that easier.
VisionQuest arrives on Disney+ on October 14, with Paul Bettany returning as Vision.
After years of multiverses, timelines and increasingly large CGI threats, Marvel giving us an AI family crisis might actually be the weird reset it needs.
Therapy would probably be cheaper.
But Ultron is already there.
