Warning: Spoilers for 2015's Vision miniseries!
Throughout Marvel comics' history, the Vision, as one of their own. Despite proving himself a hero time and again, the fact that Vision was originally created and programmed by Ultron to destroy the Avengers has always been a vital piece of history that could never truly be forgotten. Yet when it comes down to it, the act of fearing something is often precisely what makes that something so scary. And when Vision finally did turn into the fearsome foe Earth's Mightiest Heroes always imagined he could be, the Avengers themselves played and essential roll in pushing him past that dark brink.
In 2015's twelve-issue Vision miniseries from writer Tom King and artist Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Vision moves out to the suburbs of Virginia and Scarlet Witch ended in calamity. Sadly, the latter half of this series sees the Avengers taking great concern with Vision's happily ever after, resulting once again in a tragic outcome for the crimson creation.
After receiving foresight into the future, Vision's wife, Virginia, murders an unhinged Grim Reaper while protecting her and Vision's children. After Vision discovers this, he makes the difficult decision to help conceal Virginia's terrible secret in order to maintain his robotic family's innocuous facade. While specific details of the future are unclear, Agatha warns the Avengers that Vision's choice to protect his family at all cost will be what leads to his eventual destruction of the world. As a fearful response to a looming threat, the Avengers send in Victor Mancha, another human-like android created by Ultron, as a mole to investigate the Vision family.
Tragically, Victor accidentally kills Vision's son after being outed as an informant. As it turns out, the Avengers are the direct cause for Vision's turn to the dark side. His son's death leads Vision to seek out revenge against Victor, which the Avengers are obligated to stop him from carrying out. Vision takes the Avengers down with unsettling ease and precision, proving he really is the unstoppable force Ultron created him to be. Virginia ultimately redeems Vision in the eyes of the Avengers by killing Victor herself and concocting the narrative that she brainwashed her husband to attack them, but Vision turning on his own teammates goes down as an exceptionally hard-hitting chapter in Avengers history.
In the end, King's Vision series is both tragic and hopeful. The shocking lengths that Vision goes to in order to protect his family may cross moral boundaries, but the android Avenger does it all out of love. As a character that desires nothing more than to be accepted, Vision is only able to truly discover that acceptance through a synthetic family modeled after himself. The real tragedy comes from the fear that Vision's inherent otherness brings out in others. The Avengers don't think to consider their actions might lead to the future they hope to prevent because the suspicions they have always held about Vision are finally confirmed by Agatha's warnings. But it's this very pursuit of normalcy and ingrained outcast identity that makes Vision more human than he'd ever care to it. By concealing truths, making mistakes, and pursuing love in spite of hopelessness, Vision shows he's just as human as any non-synthezoid.
