Warning: spoil for WandaVision ahead.
White Vision, a dangerous creation of SWORD acting director Tyler Hayward in Marvel’s Disney + series WandaVision, left the series’ finale in an unexpected way. But according to showrunner / lead author Jac Schaeffer, she was not worried about where the character’s version would end up or what would happen to him as soon as he left Wanda’s witch in Westview. In a new interview, Schaeffer explains why White Vision’s fate is an ‘afterthought’ and why his retirement is not a ‘Marvel cheat’.
After a fascinating philosophical discussion with Wanda’s version of Vision about the Ship of Theseus thinking experiment, White Vision is permeated with all the memories of the original Vision, utters the line “I am Vision” and then immediately flies away and bursts through the overhead glass in the city library and disappears, presumably to bring back when Marvel needs him in a future project.
‘This is not the man [Wanda] had children, ”Schaeffer told CinemaBlend about White Vision. ‘This is not the one who was with him in the sitcom world. This is not the one she said goodbye to on a hill in Wakanda. It is the body and the data. So for the purposes of me and my work in the show, and what I focus on, where he ends up, is a reflection on the story. “
“Vision’s whole thing is identity; his whole thing is: ‘I was a voice and then a body. And now I am a memory, ” she continues. ‘There is a constant kind of self-analysis of‘ What am I? “To me, therefore, it does not feel like a Marvel cheat of, ‘Now there’s one more.’ It actually feels very, very right. ”
I see how she sees Vision constantly questioning the nature of his existence and how it makes sense that he will continue to evolve through these MCU stories, but on the other hand … it feels like a great cheat to him hold, even in this altered form. The conversation Wanda had with her relaxation from Vision just before the hex took him away was so poignant … until the moment Vision basically looked at the camera, saying, ‘I will be back one day!’ and wink. Personally, I feel like it robbed the scene of the power it could have had if the vision’s loss was actually permanent, and from a cynical perspective the idea that there’s another iteration of the synthesoid floating out there with the same memories as the ‘Real’ Vision feels like a cheap way to keep that character on the board.
Of course, it all depends on what Marvel wants to do with that character in the future – but I think it would have to be pretty special to rob the show of the full emotional impact it could have had.
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