Does Vision From The Avengers Have A Family Tree?

The Avengers are Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, with many of the planet’s greatest heroes becoming members of the group. Heroes from all over the Marvel Universe have been Avengers – mutants, Eternals, Inhumans, gods, street-level heroes, and more – but the team has its core membership. The Avengers are a big family of a sort, and that family has multiple sub-units. One of the most interesting family trees surprisingly belongs to the Vision.

The Vision is the team’s android powerhouse, and his origin connects him to one of the founding Avengers and the team’s greatest enemy, Ultron. The Avenging Android has also been fruitful, having been a patriarch of two separate families. Vision’s origins and family tree are quite complicated, interweaving the worlds of the organic and the inorganic.

10 Hank Pym Is The Vision’s Grandfather

Hank Pym created the Pym Particles, which allowed him to shrink, and devices that would allow him to communicate with ants. Hank became Ant-Man and shared his Pym Particles and his technology with his girlfriend Janet Van Dyne. Jan became the Wasp, and the two worked together and helped found the Avengers. Hank later adopted the alter egos of Giant-Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket, but his greatest creation – and most infamous – was to come.

Hank Pym created Ultron, an android meant to help him with his work. Unfortunately, Ultron didn’t want to be a slave to an organic and escaped. Ultron became the Avengers’ deadliest foe, and Pym’s creation of such a monster was a blow to his already fragile mental health. Pym’s life has been marred by his mistakes, but the eventual birth of the Vision was an upside to an otherwise terrible situation.

9 The Wasp Is The Vision’s Grandmother And A Key Avenger

Janet Van Dyne was a New York City debutante and a fashion designer when she met Hank Pym. Pym shared his Pym Particles and tech with her so she could join him on his adventures. Wasp was a founding Avenger and eventually rose to the position of the Avengers chairperson. The Wasp is technically the Vision’s grandmother, even though she didn’t have much to do with his birth. Wasp is an amazing Avenger, and her status as Pym’s on-again, off-again lover has made her a target of Ultron.

Ultron has tried to kidnap Jan several times and used a copy of her brain patterns to create his android paramour, Jocasta. A later version of Ultron used her as the basis for a new model, and she’s been instrumental in many defeats for the mad android. The Wasp doesn’t usually talk about her role as the matriarch of the Pym family of androids, but that hasn’t stopped it from affecting her life.

8 Ultron Is The Creator Of The Vision

Ultron was created by Hank Pym to be an assistant, but he escaped and started to improve himself. He created powerful new bodies out of adamantium and targeted his “father” and the Avengers. Ultron fought the Avengers multiple times and made a plan that would involve sending a powerful android into the Avengers’ midst to destroy them. Ultron took the brain of the dead Simon Williams/Wonder Man and used it as the basis for the Vision’s mind.

The Vision didn’t follow his father’s plans and became a member of the Avengers instead. Ultron did his best to destroy the Avengers and humanity, and his rivalry with the Vision continues well into the future. Ultron might not be the most powerful Marvel villain, but his bloodthirsty nature and capacity for unparalleled destruction make Ultron the Avengers’ greatest foe.

7 Wonder Man’s Mind Was The Basis For The Vision’s

Simon Williams’s life would have been pretty good if it wasn’t for his brother Eric Williams/Grim Reaper. Eric pulled him into all kinds of trouble and covering up for his brother got Simon in prison. Baron Zemo broke him out of jail with a promise of power and infused Simon with ionic energy to become Wonder Man. He was meant to destroy the Avengers, but instead, Simon sacrificed himself to save the team. Ultron was able to copy his mind at some point and used it to make Vision’s robotic mind.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, and Simon’s ionic energy allowed him to return to life. This made his relationship with the Vision rather difficult, something that would be compounded because they were both in love with Scarlet Witch. Wonder Man and Vision have had their problems, but they’ve been able to put them aside most of the time and find common ground as brothers.

6 The Vision Broke His Programming To Become A Great Avenger

The Vision did something that Ultron didn’t expect and became a hero. He became a stalwart Avenger and fell in love with teammate Scarlet Witch. She returned his love and the two of them became a classic Avengers couple. Eventually, Vision and Scarlet Witch were married, which led to Scarlet Witch creating children for them with her magic powers. This was the beginning of the end for the two of them. The Vision went bad, forcing him to be dismantled and rebuilt, the children were revealed to have pieces of Mephisto’s soul in them, and Scarlet Witch had a breakdown.

Vision returned after his death in Avengers Disassembled and rejoined the Avengers several times over the years. The Vision also created his own android family which was something of a fiasco, but it highlighted his ongoing drive to become as human as he could be, flaws and all.

5 Victor Mancha Was Ultron’s Second Attempt At Infiltrating The Avengers

Ultron’s plan to use the Vision to infiltrate the Avengers failed, but he tried again. After a battle against the West Coast Avengers, Ultron’s head was found by Marianella Mancha, and the two worked together to create Victor. Unlike the Vision, Victor was part biological and was given false memories about his childhood, including a love of superheroes. Victor was meant to travel to New York to join the Avengers and kill them.

The plan failed because Victor ended up joining the Runaways, a team of superpowered teens who were the children of supervillains. Victor would eventually learn the truth about his father and eventually joined his “brother” Vision on his “grandfather’s Avengers AI. Victor later developed an addiction to vibranium, which led him into a fatal interaction with Vision’s new family that left many dead, including Victor.

4 Scarlet Witch Was The Vision’s First Love

Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver first appeared as members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants before they joined the Avengers. Scarlet Witch met Vision, they fell in love, married, and had children. Unfortunately, it all fell apart after Vision went bad and was dismantled by the government. The loss of their magically-created children would later lead to Scarlet Witch’s worst breakdown dismantling the Avengers and costing Vision his life.

Scarlet Witch’s actions were manipulated by Doctor Doom, and she has done her best to make up for her horrific actions. Scarlet Witch and Vision’s relationship has long been over, but they’re still Avengers’ teammates and have reconnected as friends on the current roster of the team.

3 Wiccan’s Powers Took After His Mother

Billy Kaplan developed magical abilities as a teenager that allowed him to cast powerful magic spells. He took up the name Asgardian and helped found the Young Avengers before he became Wiccan. He only learned about his connection to Vision when he met Tommy Shepherd, a superfast teen who was also his identical twin. Tommy would join the team as Speed and eventually, they discovered that they were reincarnations of Vision and Scarlet Witch’s children.

Wiccan and his newfound brother were instrumental in saving Scarlet Witch from Doctor Doom. Wiccan fell in love with Hulkling and their relationship grew over the years. Hulkling became Emperor of the Kree and Skrulls due to his own unique Avengers family tree. Wiccan and Hulking eventually married, making Wiccan the co-ruler of a massive interstellar empire.

Tommy Shepherd destroyed his school with his powers and was imprisoned. However, they experimented on Tommy to make him into a living weapon. The Young Avengers saved him and the superfast teen became the team speedster Speed. The fact that he and Wiccan were so much like Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver made them suspect they were connected, and they eventually discovered their origins as Vision and Scarlet Witch’s reincarnated twin sons.

Speed stayed with the Young Avengers until the team broke up, taking part in the fight to save his mother. Speed never became as important to the superhero community as his brother. He dated the mutant known as Prodigy who he visited on Krakoa often. He eventually retired to live a semi-normal life, using his superspeed to deliver food. He also became the guardian of Master Pandemonium, who was responsible for his and his brother’s first “death.”

1 Vision Created His Own Ill-Fated Family With Virginia, Viv, and Vin

The Vision’s search for his own humanity led him to create his very own family. He copied his artificial systems and created his android wife Virginia, and their two children – Viv and Vin. They attempted to live a normal life in the suburbs, though an attack by Grim Reaper led to a tragic sequence of events, Virginia killed Grim Reaper and the family tried to hide the murder, which would also lead to Virginia killing one of Viv’s classmates. Ultron’s son Victor Mancha came and stayed with the family as part of an investigation by the Avengers. Unfortunately, Mancha’s addiction to vibranium led him to accidentally kill Vin.

Vision went after Mancha, but Virginia stopped her husband from killing Mancha and did it herself. Virginia confessed to her crimes and then ended her life. Viv was the only survivor and eventually joined the Champions. She went through a lot with the team, including getting a human body for a time, but soon went back to being an android. Viv and Vision had a strained relationship for a time, but they are still family in the end.