WARNING: The following contains spoilers for WandaVision Episode 8, "Previously On," streaming now on Disney+.
In WandaVision, Vision has gone through hell — not just in flashbacks of him dying twice, but also in the Westview utopia Wanda created. Vision came to realize he shouldn't be alive, leading to conflict in their home.
However, the latest episode throws one more dark twist into the synthezoid's tale as fans discover the real Vision's been turned into the ultimate killer by S.W.O.R.D.'s Acting Director, Tyler Hayward.
Contrary to what audiences might have thought, the Vision that's been accompanying Wanda in Westview wasn't the real Vision. In her grief, Wanda created a new version of the synthezoid, along with her sitcom reality. Hayward had the real body all along. He told her was decommissioning it, taking apart the body in a robotic autopsy as he didn't want the world's most powerful sentient weapon buried in the ground. But what Hayward didn't tell Wanda is that he's prepping the new Vision for battle.
The reveal unravels in the mid-credits scene, as the audience gets a glimpse into Hayward's military camp outside the barrier. At the outpost, Hayward admits, "We took this thing apart and put it back together again a million times. Tried every type of power supply under the sun, when all we needed was a little energy directly from the source." Lo and behold, the energy source needed to power this bot was Wanda and the Mind Stone. In the fifth episode, Hayward and Monica used a drone to try to talk to Wanda, but the S.W.O.R.D. director really wanted to assassinate her with it. The drone was recovered after being kicked out of the bubble, and now its nefarious purpose is acting as a battery for the White Vision.
The White Vision's pale frame powers on and his ghostly eyes light up. From the look on his face and how he stares at his hand, he's ready to hunt. And given how he's imbued with this energy, he should be able to enter Westview quite easily as Hayward uses him in an attempt to kill Wanda once and for all.
It's a throwback to 1989's West Coast Avengers comic where the government turned Vision into a chalk-white weapon as he no longer had Wonder Man's brainwaves making him, well, human. Here, he has that same emotionless look, leaving everyone wondering what Wanda will do to stop him . It remains to be seen if she or their conjured-up kids could snap him out of this evil programming, but there's also the fake Vision in the bubble that may decide a fight will solve things rather than appealing to his senses. And thus, as all these android forces collide, it does seem like Wanda will have to see a Vision die one more time.
Written by Jac Schaeffer and directed by Matt Shakman, WandaVision stars Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Paul Bettany as Vision, Randall Park as Agent Jimmy Woo, Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau and Kathryn Hahn as Agnes. New episodes air Fridays on Disney+.
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