The humans around them are like zoo animals they are trying to imitate and console.
They don’t have the fucking idea that humans, unlike them, can’t be turned on again once they are turned off, and this idea is constantly seen with how Vision considers himself above all humans(from threatening to kill Stark to “I said it so it is confirmed”), even law enforcement and this is especially seen in how they observe human nature as a freaky toy they want to have and play with too. These are androids who have no respect for human life. We have to consider here that the iteration of Vision here too is made from Wonder Man and I had hoped Vision would have reacted more strongly to being dumped by his wife for the man he was based on, considering how an important line in this book was, “Mom if you prick me, will I bleed?” I have seen some objecting to the absurd turn of events here, but I found it believable and honest. Much like Johns, it starts well and ends with the world crying foul. Much like Geoff Johns writing Watchmen sequels, Vision tries to create his family from characters that already be. Every issue here has to drop cliffhangers for the next and even at the end, King like a dead horse is flogged into hinting at ideas for a sequel. What (and I can only conjecture) King wanted to do is write a Shakespearean tragedy within the confines of the Marvel Universe.
The main idea which makes it so hard to categorize here is that again, like its main character, it wants to be something which modern standards are always trying to stop it from becoming. I think it is a character study first and to try to fit it in genres will be futile because like its protagonist’s efforts, it is an NP problem, and you can try a lot but you will probably not even be able to fathom if its solvable by the end of it. I think Tom King tries to juggle it all and mostly succeeds but also fails. It is a tragedy in the vein of Shakespeare(with a lot of Shakespeare lines in its veins) and also a tragic love story and an inspection of Lady Macbeth levels of guilt while also being about (lost) love and the unstoppable march to the future. Indeed, it’s also a superhero comic book movie with heavy sci-fi elements what with all its’ robots and robust vernacular. It starts as a fairytale, feels like a suburban horror story, has elements of gothic fiction but is also a deep character study and examination of family ties and the idea of humanity. The Vision is deemed by many as uncategorizable in genre.
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