—Detective Matt LinJust now you said your son was with you. "With me," you said. Not "with us." That night, last Tuesday, the night Kinzky was killed, was the rest of your family at home? The mother. The daughter. They were there too?
Appearing in "The Villainy You Teach Me"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Arlington P.D. (First full appearance)
- Detective Matt Lin (First appearance)
- Unnamed officers
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Leon Kinzky (Comatose or unconscious) (Name revealed)
- Chris Kinzky (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
- Avengers (Main story and recap)
- Thor (Jane Foster)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (Only in recap) (Possessed by Chthon behind the scenes)
- Hercules (Only in recap)
- Thor (Thor Odinson) (Only in recap)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Only in recap)
- Mr. Santora (First appearance)
- William Shakespeare (Photo)
- Gil Saiz (First appearance; photo)
- Molly Rich (First appearance; photo)
- Agatha Harkness (Behind the scenes)
- U.S. Army (Referenced)
- Francois Puvot (Referenced) (Deceased)
- Principal Sam Waxman (Referenced)
- West Coast Avengers (Referenced)
- Sentinels (Only in recap)
- Proctor (Dane Whitman) (Referenced)
- Ultron (Only in recap)
- Giganto (Mentioned)
- Immortus (Nathaniel Richards) (Referenced)
- National Security Council (Mentioned)
- Thanos (Only in recap)
- Loki (Only in recap)
- God Emperor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Referenced)
- Mephisto (Referenced)
- Space Phantom (Referenced)
- Hyperion (Mark Milton) (Only in recap)
- Supreme Intelligence (Only in recap)
- Jocasta (Only in recap)
- Morgan Le Fay (Referenced)
- Necrodamus (Referenced)
- Michael Korvac (Only in recap)
- Phoenix Force (Referenced)
- Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) (Referenced)
- Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards) (Only in recap)
- Red Skull (Johann Shmidt) (Referenced)
- Klaw (Ulysses Klaw) (Referenced)
- Onslaught (Referenced)
- Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr) (Only in recap)
- Dimitrios (Referenced)
- Black Talon (Samuel Barone) (Referenced)
- Galactus (Only in recap)
- Billy Maximoff (Only in recap)
- Master Pandemonium (Martin Preston) (Only in recap)
- Tommy Maximoff (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Synthezoids (Main story and recap)
- Sentinels (Only in recap)
- Robots (Only in recap)
- Titanians (Only in recap)
- Frost Giants (Only in recap)
- Elder Gods (Behind the scenes in recap)
- Eternals (Only in recap)
- Human-Olympian Hybrids (Only in recap)
- Asgardians (Only in recap)
- Kree Cyborgs (Only in recap)
- Skrulls (Referenced)
- Mutants (Only in recap)
- Cosmic Beings (Only in recap)
- Demons (Only in recap)
Locations:
- Milky Way (Main story and recap)
- Sol (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Virginia
- Fairfax
- Alexandria
- Arlington
- Cherrydale
- Wilson Boulevard (Referenced)
- Arlington County Police Department (First appearance)
- University of Virginia (Referenced)
- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Referenced)
- M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts (Referenced)
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (Referenced)
- New York (Only in recap)
- Eisenhower Executive Office Building (Washington, D.C.) (Mentioned)
- Virginia
- Venice, Italy (Mentioned)
- Iraq (Referenced)
- Afghanistan (Referenced)
- Transia (Only in recap)
- Wundagore Mountain (Only in recap)
- Earth Orbit (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Sol (Main story and recap)
- Large Magellanic Cloud (Only in recap)
Items:
- Mjolnir
- Wundagore Everbloom
- Flying Water Vase of Zenn-La
- Serpent Crown (Only in recap)
- Iron Man Armor Model 4 (Only in recap)
- Kang Armor (Only in recap)
- Magneto's Helmet (Only in recap)
Vehicles:
- Damocles Base (Only in recap)
Events:
- Iraq War (Referenced)
- War in Afghanistan (Referenced)
- Atlantis Attacks (Referenced)
- Crossing (Referenced)
- Operation: Galactic Storm (Only in recap)
- Korvac Saga (Only in recap)
- Kree-Skrull War (Only in recap)
- Kang Dynasty (Only in recap)
Synopsis for "The Villainy You Teach Me"
Following the incident at the Kinzky house, Leon has fallen into a coma. The police have no leads on a culprit, and neighbors have pitched in sympathy for him. At his hospital room, Virginia is shown watching him forlornly. A coroner, meanwhile, performs an autopsy on Chris, ruling his death a homicide. Meanwhile, the other Visions continue on with their day in obliviousness: Vision fights alongside the Avengers, Vin listens to his teacher read a passage from The Merchant of Venice, and Viv rips out a page of a yearbook with Chris’s picture on it before phasing away.
At night, Vision is visited by Matthew Lin, an Arlington homicide detective. He asks Vision to come to the station, but Vision is suspicious. Virginia comes to check on the matter, and Vision decides to go with Lin. Virginia returns to the table, and tries to continue her conversation with the children, but she begins stuttering and repeating her words. She then notices the children’s concern, only to angrily slam her fist on the table, shattering it. Viv, holding back her emotions, runs away in tears at this, while Vin remains and asks Virginia if he would bleed if someone were to prick him, referencing the earlier quote he listened to.
At the police station, Vision recounts the 37 times when he saved the world in his head. He refuses to give Lin his records, but does provide an alibi. As Lin brings up Chris, the conversation suddenly shifts to Vin, whom Lin suspects having a motive due to their altercation. After providing Vin an alibi as well, Vision gets irritated at Lin’s line of questioning and begins to leave. However, Lin persists, asking where the rest of his family were. Vision lies and says they were all there, an action the narrator calls irredeemable despite the times he saved the world.
Vision returns home to find Virginia sitting on a chair facing the broken table. Virginia says she doesn’t know how to fix the table, and Vision (appearing to ignore her stuttering) says he will fix it tomorrow. He then departs, leaving Virginia to sit over the table and repeat that she doesn’t know how to fix it.
Solicit Synopsis
• The secrets are turning into lies, and the lies are turning into blood. In the midst of this violence, Vision must find the truth of what happened to the Grim Reaper. But when he does, will he protect his family or destroy them?
• Find out as the story of Vision’s family builds to a breathtaking cliffhanger.