Author: Nat Brehmer / Source: ScreenRant
Vision is without question one of the most powerful Avengers, both in the comics and on the big screen. Whereas Scarlet Witch’s abilities have been limited in the films from what she has been able to do in the comics, Vision has showcased a variety of comic accurate powers throughout his three feature film appearances to date.
There are differences of course. MCU’s Vision was created through JARVIS, Ultron and the Mind Stone, a slight reworking of his comic book origin. On the page, Vision’s legacy stretches back to the earliest days of Marvel comics, back when it was still called Timely Comics.In those comics of the 1940s, Marvel debuted the original Human Torch, a cyborg, who would later serve as the body for the Vision. Although he was created by Ultron to take out the Avengers, Vision overcame his programming, fighting against his creator instead, and even wound up joining the team. In the movies, he is good and decent enough to even have proven to be worthy of wielding Thor’s hammer Mjolnir and is the only character capable of that other than Thor himself.
But even die-hard fans might not be totally understanding of just how powerful Vision actually is and how many different applications of his powers there are. That’s what we’ll be looking at in this list, the powers you didn’t even know that Vision had.
15 He Can Change His Density
Many fans familiar with the Marvel movies are aware of Vision’s ability to phase through objects. It’s a power he uses multiple times in both Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, even using it to disarm enemies.
But the ability to phase is only one small aspect of a much larger power and it’s one of Vision’s most effective abilities. He has the ability to drastically change his density, so that he can be lighter than the air or as heavy as a tank.This allows Vision to become intangible and phase through solid matter, moving through walls and even people with ease.
He becomes more of a ghostly figure when using the power for those purposes, often appearing translucent and floating in the air as he phases. But the power can also be used to drastically increase his weight, allowing Vision to become virtually immovable. When standing his ground, he can weigh tons, so that even extreme physical force won’t budge him and punching him would only result in a shattered hand. Vision’s complete control over his density is one of his most valuable abilities and, as a result, is also the power that he tends to use most often in a fight.
14 He Absorbs Solar Energy
The decision to put the Mind Gem into Vision’s head in the MCU makes sense, as it allows for a direct tie-in to the larger scheme of the films and to the stakes of Infinity War. But it also allows for an easy explanation on screen for the jewel that Vision has always had in his forehead in the comics. With the movies, it’s clear that the development team saw an opportunity to use an Infinity Stone and took it. In the comics, however, the gem in Vision’s forehead has a much more practical application.
It’s called the Solar Jewel and it is a conduit for solar energy. It’s practical to the point that, much like Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor, it is essentially the thing keeping Vision alive. The jewel absorbs solar energy, powering Vision’s whole body as well as his numerous abilities. Vision can regularly channel this energy through his eyes in a fashion similar to Cyclops’ optic blasts, although Vision’s beams are made of infrared and microwave radiation and are not simply blasts of concussive force.
If it werent’ for the Solar Jewel, Vision would be of much less use in a fight and likely would not be alive at all. It’s essentially the source of his power, much like the Mind Stone serves as the source of Vision’s abilities in the MCU.
13 He Has Extreme Superhuman Strength
Vision might not be seen as much of a brute force, but that does not mean that he couldn’t easily act as one if he chose to. Vision has a wealth of raw, inherent strength and the fact that he only uses it as a last resort says a lot about his nobility and heroism. Like most of his abilities, Vision’s superhuman strength stems from his power to control his density. He doesn’t have the proportionate strength of a spider, he can just make his body incredibly dense and heavy so that he packs a massively strong punch.
By putting all of that power into a single punch, Vision could ideally go toe-to-toe with just about any massively strong character and come out on top. Like The Hulk, he has the ability to increase his strength in the middle of a fight if need be, which is a trait that no doubt comes in handy a whole lot of the time. He can take incredible physical force as well without moving an inch. Due to his massive density, Vision would not even necessarily have to hit back. He often allows would-be attackers to shatter their fists on his immovable form.
Vision will frequently resort to use of this power if he has to, but knowing that he can come out on top in most any physical fight often leaves him perfectly willing to stand back and let his fellow Avengers do the fighting unless they absolutely need a hand.
12 He Can Repair Himself
As hard as it might be to physically damage Vision, it does happen pretty frequently. He’s been dismantled more than once, even torn in half by She-Hulk at one point. Because of that, an ability to self-repair comes in handy.
Luckily, Vision has that taken care of. Not only does he have the ability to self-heal, but he has a scientific understanding of his own anatomy and can even tinker and manually repair himself if it comes to that.
It’s saved him quite a few times, as Vision has been torn to pieces on more than one occasion, only to put himself back together again when necessary. Vision’s ability to regenerate himself has even led to him replicating himself and using his power to create a robot family in recent comics in order to provide himself with at least some shred of normalcy.
This decision was at least somewhat spurned by the end of his relationship with the Scarlet Witch. And even though he saw what the need for a normal life had done to her, Vision has succumbed to a similar delusion, only recently coming to terms with how false his attempt at the perfect family actually turned out to be.
11 He Has An Extremely Fast Mind
In many ways, Vision’s greatest asset is his mind. That should not be all that surprising as Vision is sort of a living computer. He has access to virtually any kind of knowledge that he would deem necessary, although it never stops him from being in almost all other ways a human being. Vision is one of the few characters in the Marvel Universe to not feel genuinely burdened by knowledge, at least not in the deep and drastic way that both Tony Stark and Reed Richards are. Both of those men have tortured themselves under the pressure of needing to use their mind to save the world, the universe or even the multiverse as a whole.
Vision uses his mind as a tool, like any other tool. It’s an asset that is there when he needs to use it, but it’s not something that seems to constantly gnaw at him, like it does with others. Thinking of things in factual, informative terms comes as naturally to Vision as breathing comes to everyone else. Vision’s mind is not only expansive, but genuinely fast as well.
He can think of things in tactical terms and determine outcomes and solutions in milliseconds that would take his fellow heroes minutes to determine on their own. Because of that, his mind is an incredibly valuable asset to the team.
10 He’s Capable of Superhuman Speed
In addition to strength, flight and phasing through solid objects, Vision is also incredibly fast. He’s not necessarily at speedster level, but he can achieve superhuman levels of speed and uses that power when he needs to. Super-speed has constantly shown itself to be one of the most useful abilities imaginable, if not the absolute most useful. There are so many applications of it to the point where plots have to be radically explained just for characters like Flash and Quicksilver to…
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