Warning: spoilers for WandaVision forward.
White Vision, a dangerous creation by SWORD director Tyler Hayward, on Marvel’s Disney + series WandaVision, came out of the end of the series in an unexpected way. But according to the showrunner / head writer Jac Schaeffer, she was not concerned with where that version of the character ends or what happens to him after he leaves Wanda’s spell in Westview. In a new interview, Schaeffer explains why White Vision’s fate is an “afterthought” and why its departure is not a “Marvel scam”.
After having a fascinating philosophical discussion with Wanda’s redone mental experiment, Vision on the Ship of Theseus, the White Vision is imbued with all the memories of the original Vision, pronounces the line “I am the Vision” and then immediately it flies away, blowing up glass suspended in the city library and disappearing, probably to be brought back when Marvel needs it in a future project.
“This is not the man who [Wanda] had children with, ”Schaeffer told CinemaBlend about White Vision. “It is not the one who is in the sitcom world with him. It’s not the one she said goodbye to on a hill in Wakanda. This is the body and the data. So, for my purpose and my work on the program, and what I focus on, where it ends is an afterthought in the story itself. “
“The whole thing about vision is identity; the whole thing is, ‘I was a voice and then I was a body. And now I’m a memory, ‘”she continued. “There is a kind of constant self-analysis of ‘What am I?’ So, to me, it doesn’t look like a Marvel cheat like, ‘Now there’s another one out there.’ In fact, it seems very, very certain. “
I see his point of view about the vision constantly questioning the nature of his existence and how it makes sense for him to continue to evolve throughout these MCU stories, but on the other hand … it seems like a sort of Marvel cheat to keep him around. , even in this altered form. The conversation that Wanda had with her recreation of Vision just before the spell took him was so touching … until the moment that Vision basically looked at the camera, said, “I’ll be back again someday!” and blinked. Personally, I feel that it stole some of the power it could have if the loss of Vision was really permanent and, from a cynical perspective, the idea that there is another iteration of the synthetoid floating around with the same memories as the “real” Vision. it seems like an inexpensive way to keep that character on the board.
Sure, it all depends on what Marvel chooses to do with that character in the future – but in my opinion, it’s going to have to be very special to justify stealing this show from all the emotional impact it could have.
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