—VisionHello, Dane. I'm sorry you had to be incapacitated, but your arrival was most unexpected… and I really can't afford any interruptions now! You see, I have to save humanity from itself!
Appearing in "Deciding Factor!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- ⏴ Doc Samson (Leonard Samson) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Only in recap)
- Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) (Mentioned)
- Unnamed firefighters
- Unnamed police
- Unnamed civilians
- Charlie
- Thanos (Mentioned)
- Death (Mentioned)
- West Coast Avengers (Mentioned)
- Abigail Jarvis (Mentioned)
- United States Army
- Colonel Farnam (First appearance)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Mentioned)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (Mentioned)
- Chronos (Invoked)
- Lord (Yahweh) (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Synthezoids
- Titanians
- Mutants
- Human-Olympian Hybrids
- Monkeys (Mentioned)
- Roclites
Locations:
- Solar System (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Hudson River (Referenced)
- Montauk Point State Park, East Hampton (Mentioned)
- New York City
- Chicago, Illinois (Mentioned)
- New Jersey
- Bergen County
- Leonia
- Scarlet Witch and Vision's Home (Destruction)
- Leonia
- Bergen County
- Washington, D.C. (Mentioned)
- Arizona
- Former base of Thanos
- New York (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Caribbean, Atlantic Ocean (Mentioned)
- Pacific Ocean (Mentioned)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- Titan, Saturn (Mentioned)
- Pluto (Mentioned)
- Near Jupiter
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Paradise (Mentioned)
Items:
- Captain America's Shield
- Encephalatron Command Chair (Main story and recap)
- Captain Marvel's Suit
- Avengers Identicard
- Ebony Blade
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Deciding Factor!"
After an anti-mutant group burns down the New Jersey home of the Vision and the Scarlet Witch, the android Avenger overcomes his indecision and prepares to implement his plan for world control, but he first must lure his teammates away so that they cannot interfere. He sends Captain Marvel to inspect Thanos's starship, abandoned beyond the orbit of Pluto, while the other Avengers are dispatched to join an army unit studying the technology of the mad Titanian's desert base. When a teleport device there causes the inhumanly strong Blood Brothers to materialize, Captain America, the Scarlet Witch, and Starfox manage to keep them busy until they are dispatched by Hercules. Back at Avengers Mansion, meanwhile, former member Dane Whitman arrives unexpectedly and is taken captive by security devices to become the sole witness to the Vision's machinations.
Notes
- Vision offers Doc Samson membership in the Avengers, but he declines.
- Incited by anti-mutant hysteria, Scarlet Witch and Vision's Leonia, New Jersey home is burned down.
- After he sees his home burned down, Vision decides its time to take over the world, for its own protection. He sends the remaining Avengers on two different missions, with the majority going to a former base of Thanos' in the southwest, and Captain Marvel being sent to Thanos' Sanctuary starship.
Trivia
- This is the "infamous" issue where Hercules loses his skirt in battle. This results in him changing costumes, utilizing his first costume with pants.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Avengers #238 (Vision first connects with ISAAC)
- Avengers #243 (Vision begins laying the groundwork for his takeover)
- Avengers #253 (Vision takes over the world's computers)