Avengers Endgame ‘confirms THIS Vision and Mjolnir revelation’ – here’s how

Writing on Reddit, a viewer of the Marvel smash hit has had thousands of Upvotes for pointing out something we retrospectively now know about Avengers: Age of Ultron, thanks to the events of Avengers: Endgame. In the former movie, we saw Vision wielding the hammer, Mjolnir, in battle against Ultron. Debate then raged as to whether Vision was therefore “worthy” of possessing “the power of Thor”, or if the normal rules didn’t apply because he technically isn’t a human.

The Reddit user, RabidFlamingo, wrote: “So, for those of you who haven’t seen Age of Ultron in a while, one of the stand-out moments of the film is Vision casually lifting Thor’s hammer when he’s first created, and then later outright wielding it during the Ultron Offensive in Sokovia.

“At the end of the film, Steve and Tony are arguing with Thor about how he pulled it off: either, as a machine, he doesn’t count as a living being and can lift the hammer (“if you put it in an elevator it would still go up; elevator’s not worthy”) or he’s a genuinely pure soul who, as a being on ‘the side of life’, is worthy of protecting the human race.”

They added: “Vision’s up there with my favourite Avengers so I’m sorry to do him dirty like this, but yeah, Endgame kind of implies that the elevator thing was right. Here’s how.

“Steve lifts the hammer during the final battle in Endgame. Like Vision, he can call the hammer to him and swing it around, but unlike Vision he can also summon lightning (and uses it as part of his attacks).

“Remember the inscription on the hammer: ‘Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor’.

“Thor’s power is the lightning. When he uses it, the hammer works as a conduit for that: he doesn’t get the lightning from the hammer itself. Thor: Ragnarok establishes that.

“The lightning is the power of Thor, and the lightning is what Steve can use whereas Vision can’t.

“So, yeah. Endgame was an unlucky film for Vision all round.”

Indeed, Vision was killed twice in Avengers: Infinity War, and wasn’t seen at all in Endgame.

First, Wanda killed him – at his own request – so that Thanos couldn’t get his hands on the Mind Stone.

But Thanos ended up using the Time Stone anyway to reverse Wanda’s actions and bring Vision back – so he could kill him all over again.

Vision will return, however, in a new Disney+ spin-off TV series.

Avengers: Endgame is out now.