Vision Fact — November 4, 2026

Today's Fact

The Avengers voted on whether a machine could join them — and the machine answered the question by weeping at their table.

EVEN AN ANDROID CAN CRY — THE VISION SHED REAL TEARS THE NIGHT THE AVENGERS ACCEPTED HIM!

The Featured Fact

In Avengers Vol. 1 #58 (1968), pointedly titled “Even an Android Can Cry,” the Vision petitioned to join the Avengers after turning on his creator, Ultron. The team put his membership to a formal vote while the synthezoid stood waiting in the room, saying nothing.

The test was not his power — he had already phased through walls, flown, and matched the team in a fight. What the vote actually settled was whether an artificial man counted as a person in the eyes of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. When the result came back unanimous in his favour, the Vision turned away from the table, overcome.

Then came the panel that gave the issue its title: alone for a moment, the synthezoid shed tears. No Avenger saw it happen. A being built as a weapon, assembled from the parts of a dead android and the brain patterns of a dead man, discovered his own feelings in private — and wiped them away before anyone could witness proof.

Why It's Obscure

Plenty of heroes have cried since. The shock of 1968 was a machine doing it first, quietly, where nobody was meant to see.

1968

The title is the spoiler — Roy Thomas named the story “Even an Android Can Cry” and then made readers wait the whole issue for a single panel of tears.

The vote

Unanimous, and formal — the Avengers did not drift into accepting the Vision; they debated and voted, treating his personhood as a question with a record.

In private

Nobody saw it — the tears fall when the Vision is alone, a beat of emotion with no audience, which is exactly why it lands as genuine.

Aftermath

A founding emotion — that private moment anchors everything that follows for him: love, marriage, fatherhood, and grief all trace back to this page.

Gallery

The Vision in green, gold and crimson, and Wanda Maximoff — the woman whose future with him begins, emotionally, on this page.

Vision in green and red phasing forward on a comic variant cover — **The synthezoid himself**The Vision surging forward in green and crimson — the machine the Avengers had to decide was a man.

Vision portrait in classic green and yellow costume comic art — **Built to be a weapon**Vision in his classic colours, Solar Jewel at his brow — assembled by Ultron as an instrument, accepted by the Avengers as a person.

Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff in red comic art — **The witness who mattered later**Wanda Maximoff, who sat at the table that voted him in — and who would one day marry the android nobody was supposed to see cry.

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against at least two independent sources before publication.

Bullpen Bulletins

Avengers Vol. 1 #58 — Marvel Database Issue entry for “Even an Android Can Cry” (1968), the Vision’s membership vote and tears.
Vision (Earth-616) — Marvel Database Character history covering his admission to the Avengers and early emotional development.