Arriving at the mansion resigned to stopping Vision’s takeover of the world’s computers, the Avengers are momentarily paused by Vision-supportive holograms of Captain Marvel, She-Hulk and Thor. Cap signals the West Coast Avengers to send in Wonder Man, hoping he can talk the Vision down, before the East Coasters split up to search the mansion. As the mansion’s security systems and further holographic duplicates begging them not to stop the Vision stymie the Avengers, Hercules rescues the Black Knight from the combat simulator room’s training weaponry. Vision explains to the team that during his creation, Ultron implanted a control crystal inhibiting Vision’s emotional development until the Null field made it malfunction, paralyzing him; when Starfox linked Vision with ISAAC, the contact expanded his boundaries beyond the control crystal’s limits, igniting his need to exert further control over himself and the world. Vision’s mind soon succumbs to the strain of overexertion, but the Avengers disable his computer interface in time to save him. Upon awakening, Vision extracts his control crystal then apologizes to his teammates for his actions, his personality now not as mechanical as before. As the team recovers, Gen. Peabody, a NORAD officer, is furious to learn the Avengers breached their security and promises repercussions.
The Vision is rendered inoperative after passing through Annihilus’ Null field (Av #233, ’83). The Vision holds a press conference announcing his assumption of Avengers chairmanship, then later develops a device to stimulate the pleasure centers of the human brain (Av #243, ’84).
To reflect Vision’s changed persona and speech patterns, his dialogue stops being lettered in italics and his dialogue balloons are changed from their previous rounded rectangular shape to standard ellipses. Vision’s dialogue returns to its previous format in WCA #45, ’89, after he is dismantled and reassembled without his human-like persona.
