The Vision Can Fly. Why does nobody seem to care?!

So the Vision from Avengers: Age of Ultron, much like his comic book counterpart, can fly. Neat. That’s cool. And it really bugs me that nobody else seems to express just how cool this is both inside and outside of the movie.

Now here’s the thing. Nobody explains how or why he can. And you might think, “Well, he just does. Like Superman. Why is this noteworthy?” Well, whenever we saw Vision fly or hover, you know what I didn’t see? A reason of some kind.

Because in other MCU works, as fantastic as they may be, they try to give us some concrete explanation as to why stuff can get airborne. Repulsors, Turbines, Rockets, etc.

Whether they’re Tony’s Suits

Ultron’s Lackeys

The Falcon’s Harness

The Helicarrier

Those other Helicarriers

Even in Outer Space, we’re given some justification.

From the small

To the sizable

And at least it looks like the Chitauri leviathan-thing takes an effort of some kind to get going. Undulations and all that.

You wanna go the other way and get all Fantasy on me? Well they might be built by mythical races, but the ships we see in that division-.

-certainly look built to fly. Have some discernible mechanism. Blatantly magical stuff also appears to exist, but at least you can say a person can fly because of

Mjolnir

Or an Infinity Stone

Or a rip in space-time

See? They always state and/or show a reason why this stuff is floating around.

But Vision…he just-.

-yeah, that.

Is it the stone? Is the Vibranium? Is it magnets? Is it density control?

Granted, probably not the top priority for most of the Avengers at the time what with needing to determine whether or not this android was going to try and murder them like the last one. But c’mon, guys. A little fascination with how the metal man can fly without some kind of external mechanism or visible exertion. Dude doesn’t even thrum or glow like Wanda does at the end of the movie. He just floats and flies as he pleases.

He just does it. That warrants some questions. That should encourage some study. Look at this!

He got tossed and then he just stopped himself. Just like that. Just…halted. Total control.

It’s bizarre to me that no one inside or watching the movie seems to mind. This is an unprecedented happenstance in the MCU. How does this work? It’s pretty amazing. Why doesn’t anyone want to know how it works?

Whew.

Sorry if that got a little rant-ish there.

So anyway, back to my review of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Good fun. Had a great time. Would watch again.

9/10