Biography - Page 6
With a baseline "humanity" back in place, Vision's capacity for emotional response was restored. However, like an atrophied muscle, his actual ability to emote did not instantly return. When greeting the new Avenger Crystal (his ex-sister-in-law) and her daughter Luna, Vision experienced an "involuntary playback of his memory circuits" that caused him to see his own lost sons, Thomas and William, his first known response ever to their loss. On other occasions, Vision demonstrated signs of rage and grief when the Black Knight was seemingly killed, and took 
offense when Crystal inadvertently compared him to the "unliving things" summoned against them during a supernatural mission. Though his neutral tone and expression during these events obscured the responses, Vision was clearly beginning to experience emotion once more. [Avengers (1st series) #343, 350, 353]
Unfortunately, that emotional development appeared to be forward progress only. Vision's ability to feel emotions again seemingly did nothing to restore his feelings for Wanda, a fact made abundantly clear when Vision joined forces with the Avengers West against a reconstructed Ultron-14. Vision's total ambivalence to Wanda was on full display for both her and Wonder Man, as he treated her like any other Avenger. His polite indifference to Wanda during this adventure gave her the final closure she had needed ever since he left for Avengers East, and she accepted their marriage, and her husband, were truly dead. [Avengers West Coast #89-91]
Vision's emotional growth was tangible when Miles and Laura Lipton, Alec's widow, came back into his life. Miles Lipton was dying, and in his last days he regretted all the things he never got to say to his son, Alec. Desperate to reconnect, Miles theorized that a programming loop would temporarily resurrect his son's full personality in Vision's body using the copied brainwave patterns. Vision started off pointing out the list of logical reasons why this idea was fundamentally flawed, but Crystal encouraged him to humor the dying man regardless. When the process did fail, Vision nevertheless used the video material and biographical data he absorbed about Alec 
Lipton to mimic the voice and behaviorisms of Alec for a time. He spent Miles Lipton's final moments by his bedside as "Alec" and even continued the ruse long enough to "say farewell" to Alec's wife Laura as well. When a suspicious Crystal asked Vision point blank afterwards if he had been faking, Vision would not answer her directly, but was seen shedding a single tear. [Avengers (1st series) #348]
Vision's feelings for Laura Lipton were soon used against him, however. The Avengers had gained new enemies in Proctor and his Gatherers, exiles from parallel worlds where the Avengers had been destroyed from within. The Gatherers had been a mystery to the Avengers until one of their own, Swordsman, was captured by the heroes. Fearing Swordsman might reveal too much about his operations, Proctor arranged to have him killed. He gathered an alternate version of Vision from another world to serve as his assassin. This "Anti-Vision" never lost his emotional capacity, but had become cruel and self-indulgent in his treatment of others, lashing out at humanity for treating him as something lesser, or "other."
Proctor lured Vision from Avengers Mansion by sending him an urgent message from Laura Lipton, asking him to come. When Vision arrived at Laura's house in New Jersey, she called him Alec and pulled him into a lover's embrace which, despite himself, Vision reciprocated. 
Unfortunately, "Laura" was actually the shape-changing Gatherer called Tabula, and Vision was surprised and captured by the villains. At Proctor's citadel in the Andes Mountains, Vision was held in stasis as Proctor conducted a ceremony transferring Vision's mind into Anti-Vision's body, and vice versa. Vision was unable to stop his doppelganger from returning to the Avengers in his guise, infiltrating the team on Proctor's behalf. [Avengers (1st series) #360]
Anti-Vision remained with the Avengers for several days before making his move. When he struck, the Gatherer incapacitated Swordsman and accosted Crystal in her bedroom before the other Avengers disabled him. [Avengers (1st series) #361-362] Forced to act as a guide, Anti-Vision led the Avengers to Proctor's citadel in the Andes. Enraged at the betrayal, Proctor tore Anti-Vision in half, tossing him aside during the battle which led to the destruction of the Gatherers' base. Vision therefore was forced to remain in Anti-Vision's body permanently once he was rescued. [Avengers (1st series) #363]
Vision continued to struggle with his emotional reawakening, particularly while adapting to a body that was very similar, yet in other ways very different from his own. He began to regret his loss of emotions more and more, but also refused to recognize emotional reactions when he had them. On one night in particular, he ran a gamut of emotions including shame, envy, desire, curiosity, all while dwelling on his supposed "lack" of emotions. It was the new Shi'ar envoy and Avengers associate Deathcry who finally called him on his behavior when she became aggressively forward 
and kissed him. Vision maintained that he did not kiss back because he lacked emotional routines, but Deathcry waived the excuse aside and told him that he was really just scared of letting go and losing control. The Vision's private outburst and destruction of property after she left indicated the truth in Deathcry's words, despite his denials. [Avengers (1st series) #367] Vision's emotional struggles may have been why he so coldly led a petition to dissolve Avengers West (the franchise team he initiated) without consulting with the group ahead of time. [Avengers West Coast #102]
Vision's emotional struggles were exacerbated by the return of Anti-Vision. The Gatherer barely survived the destruction of Proctor's citadel and wanted to exchange his heavily-damaged body for the original version Vision was "wearing." To clear Vision out of his real estate, Anti-Vision surreptitiously infected Vision with a virus designed to overpower artificial intelligences with emotional responses. Mostly left to his own devices while suffering the virus's effects, Vision's emotional memory of Wanda and his lost sons was reawakened in his dreams. Despite his best efforts, Vision could no longer deny he was an emotional creature once more, and the tragedy of his children's demise and the burdens he placed on Wanda began to weigh on him with full force.
Struggling with the virus, Vision found himself reverting to copies of Alex Lipton or Simon Williams' personalities, or entirely new personas crafted from his experiences. Eventually, Anti-Vision 
deemed Vision emotionally vulnerable enough to capture him and begin the process of rewriting himself onto that body. Inside his mind, however, Vision was confronted by aspects of himself representing Alex and Simon, and together the three of them united into a single and whole persona. Fighting off the Anti-Vision's incursion into his mind, Vision asserted himself and defeated his doppelganger. Although he thanked his Avengers teammates for their assistance during his trials, Vision resigned from active duty in order to readjust to his developing emotions. [Vision (1st series) #1-4]
On the anniversary of the Avengers' founding, he returned to the mansion for a celebration and found Wanda and her new team Force Works present. The two of them had a quiet reunion as Wanda hesitantly congratulated Vision on his restored emotions. With Wanda's feelings in mind, Vision made a point of gently explaining that he was literally no longer the same man she married due to the changes he underwent since his deconstruction and restoration: he was a man with emotions again, but not the same man with the same emotions. Nevertheless, he sincerely apologized to her for the disastrous end to their marriage and the way he abandoned her when in 
his emotionless state. [Avengers: The Crossing #1] (Years later, Vision admitted that he was completely lying in this conversation. He fully remembered and emotionally connected to their marriage and their love. However, his shame at letting Wanda down was so great that he didn't want her to feel beholden to him anymore, and so he pretended their relationship was "a different life.") [Avengers (3rd series) #12]
The Avengers spent several weeks caught in a complicated web of betrayal and loss orchestrated by their old foe Immortus. While still reeling from the many changes the team suffered through during this time, Vision and the others became involved in the struggle against Onslaught, the insane fusion of Professor Xavier and Magneto. The entity established a citadel in Central Park, unleashing a telekinetically fueled electromagnetic pulse across all of Manhattan, limiting Vision's ability to stand beside his fellow Avengers during the battles that followed. By the final conflict, however, Vision was back on his feet and joined the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four against Onslaught. When Onslaught evolved beyond a physical body that could be hurt, Reed Richards reasoned that the heroes could sacrifice themselves into the energy cloud Onslaught had become, acting as host bodies that made him tangible enough to hurt. Vision, along with the Fantastic Four and most of the Avengers and other heroes present, cast themselves into the void of Onslaught, giving the X-Men the chance to end Onslaught, apparently at the cost of the heroes' lives. [Onslaught: Marvel Universe]
Unknown to everyone present, the unlimited power of Franklin Richards saved the lives of the heroes. They were cast into a pocket universe created by his reality-warping abilities, reincarnated to live out alternate versions of their own histories for a time. The Celestials eventually intervened on Franklin's actions, however, which led to Vision and the other heroes returning from the "Franklinverse" and reestablishing themselves on the world of their origins. [Avengers (2nd series) #1-12, Heroes Reborn: The Return #1-4]
Like all available Avengers, Vision was summoned back to the mansion soon after their return to battle the forces of Morgan le Fay. Using the power of the Asgardian Twilight Sword and Norn Stones, Morgan rewrote reality to suit her whims and turned the Avengers into her own personal 
soldiers, the Queen's Vengeance. Wanda was a key element in Morgan's spell, however, and therefore was free of its effects. She freed the Avengers' minds and assembled them to break Morgan's spell on the rest of the world. During the final minutes of the battle, however, Vision was horribly injured by Morgan's attacks, leaving his lower body almost completely destroyed. [Avengers (3rd series) #1-3]
Just as with his Negative barrier encountered from years earlier, Vision found himself convalescing in stasis at the mansion while nano-repair equipment overseen by Pym and Stark rebuilt his inert body. The Vision himself could interact with his comrades by projecting his consciousness through the mansion's holographic relays, leaving him more untouchable than ever before. Wanda expressed initial concern over Vision's recovery, but he continued to robotically 
push her away by claiming to not be the same man she married. Finally, Wanda had enough and cut ties with Vision completely, acting as short and cold towards him as he was towards her. Although the consequence was of his own making, Vision was further aggrieved by the outcome. Wanda's pointed new inclination to walk though his holographic form as if he wasn't really there drove home the distant between them. [Avengers (3rd series) #4]
Confined to the mansion as he was, Vision regularly took up monitor duty for the active team. To facilitate this, he rigged the mansion's systems to conduct communications frequencies through his holographic form, letting his silhouette act as both audio and video transmitter. [Avengers (3rd series) #9] Once he was back on his feet, Vision retained these new abilities, allowing him to remotely interface with computers and mechanical systems, or broadcast and receive electromagnetic transmissions. The Vision's return coincided with Wonder Man's as well, who had been dead again until recently. Simon returned to life due to an emotional tether between him and Wanda, who finally returned his love now that her separation from Vision was undeniably final.
The Vision's voice remained as perfectly modulated as ever when his body was released from stasis, but Wanda finally noticed the hesitation in his tone. She tentatively approached Vision regarding his feelings about her and Simon being together. Vision initially maintained the same indifference he had expressed in recent months, but that shell cracked when he said being with Simon agreed with Wanda, and she was "as radiant as she was on the beaches of Rurutu." With this fond remembrance of their honeymoon, Wanda realized Vision had his full memories and 
emotions from their time together, despite his protestations. When confronted, Vision finally admitted the truth. He confessed to pushing Wanda away for her own good, after his failures and a husband and a man. He told her to be happy with Simon, and leave him to his solitude. [Avengers (3rd series) #12]