A fictitious superhero named The Vision can be found in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema. It debuted in The Avengers #57 (August 1968, cover date October 1968). The concept was partially inspired by the Timely Comics character of the same name, who was an extraterrestrial from another dimension. The Vision is an android (sometimes referred to as a “synthezoid”) that Hank Pym’s evil robot Ultron constructed. Vision betrayed his creator and joined the Avengers to fight for the forces of good, although his original plan was to take on the role of Ultron’s “son” and kill the Avengers. He has since been shown as a regular team member and as having been married to the Scarlet Witch for a while. He was one of the Defenders as well.

The Vision was created from a copy of the original Human Torch, a synthetic man created by Phineas T. Horton. Ultron took this inert android and added more advanced technology to it, as well as new programming of his own design and a copy of human brainwave patterns. The result was the Vision, a synthezoid driven by logic but possessing emotions and able to achieve emotional growth. As an android, the Vision has a variety of abilities and super-powers. In the 1989 story “Vision Quest”, Vision was dismantled, then rebuilt with a chalk-white appearance and now lacking the capacity for emotions. A greater understanding of emotions was regained in 1991, his original red appearance was restored in 1993, and his full personality and emotional connections to memories were restored in 1994 in his first self-titled limited series, Vision. Another four-issue limited series, Avengers Icons: The Vision, was published in late 2002. From 2015 to 2016, Vision had his own series again, during which he attempted to live in the suburbs with an android family.

Since his conception, the character has been adapted into several forms of media outside comics. Paul Bettany plays Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the television miniseries WandaVision (2021), and the animated series What If…? (2021).