Appearing in "Lovers"
Featured Characters:
- Vision (Main story and recap)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda) (Main story and recap; joins and leaves Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and joins Avengers in recap)
Supporting Characters:
- National Security Council
- Norm Webster (First appearance)
- West Coast Avengers
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Main story and recap)
- Tigra (Greer Grant-Nelson)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark)
- Mockingbird (Bobbi Barton)
Antagonists:
- Zombies
- Lethal Legion
- Simon Williams zombie (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Invaders (Only in recap)
- Miss America (Madelyne Joyce) (Only in recap)
- Toro (Thomas Raymond) (Only in recap)
- Human Torch (Only in recap)
- Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie) (Only in recap)
- Bucky (Fred Davis Jr.) (Only in recap)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only in recap)
- Whizzer (Robert Frank) (Only in recap)
- Mad Thinker (Only in recap)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Only in recap)
- Ultron-5 (Only in recap)
- Professor Horton (Only in recap)
- Avengers (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Wasp ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Starfox ⏵
- Goliath (Hank Pym) (Only in recap)
- Black Panther (T'Challa) (Only in recap)
- Quicksilver (Pietro) (Joins and leaves Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and joins Avengers in recap)
- U.S. Army
- Guardsman (Michael O'Brien)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- I.S.A.A.C. (Mentioned)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Referenced)
- Man-Ape (M'Baku) (Mentioned)
- Devil (Invoked)
- Magneto (Magnus) (Only in recap)
- Magda (Only in recap)
- Bova Ayrshire (Only in recap)
- High Evolutionary (Only in recap)
- Unnamed Tribe (Only in recap)
- Django Maximoff (Only in recap)
- Marya Maximoff (Only in recap)
- Unnamed villagers (Only in recap)
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Only in recap)
- X-Men (Only in recap)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Only in recap)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Only in recap)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Only in recap)
- Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) (Only in recap)
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams) (Mentioned)
- Helmut Zemo (Baron Zemo) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Synthezoids (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Main story and recap)
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Only in recap)
- Cyborgs (Only in recap)
- Robots (Only in recap)
- Zombies
- Geese (Mentioned)
- New Men (Only in recap)
- Cows (Referenced)
- Pigs (Referenced)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Adirondack Mountains
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- Midtown (Main story and recap)
- Fifth Avenue (Main story and recap)
- Avengers Mansion (Main story and recap)
- Fifth Avenue (Main story and recap)
- Midtown (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- New Jersey
- Bergen County
- Leonia
- Scarlet Witch and Vision's Home (Mentioned) (Destroyed)
- Scarlet Witch and Vision's second home (First appearance)
- unnamed cemetery (the closest to the Vision residence)
- Leonia
- Bergen County
- California
- Louisiana (Mentioned)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Europe (Only in recap)
- Balkans (Only in recap)
- Transia (Only in recap)
- Wundagore Mountain (Only in recap)
- Unnamed European Village (Only in recap)
- Transia (Only in recap)
- Balkans (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Sun, Sol (Mentioned)
Items:
- Hawkeye's Bow and Trick Arrows (Main story and recap)
- Panther Habit (Only in recap)
- Guardsman Armor
- Avengers Identicard
- Iron Man Armor MK VII
- Magneto's Helmet (Only in recap)
- X-Uniforms (Only in recap)
- Shield (Only in recap)
- Devil's Dreamweed (Black Talon uses it to put the Scarlet Witch to sleep)
- Grim Reaper's Scythe
Vehicles:
- Customized MG-TC Rolls Royce (colour scarlet)
Events:
- World War II (Referenced)
Synopsis for "Lovers"
Fed up with Gyrich's treatment of their rights, Vision, and Wanda renounce their Avengers membership and set out to live as private citizens. They return to Leonia, where their previous house was burned down by their bigoted neighbors, and start to defiantly purchase a new home in the same area, receiving support from their new realtor, Norm Webster. However, while they're looking at their prospective property, zombies swarm into the yard to attack them. Vision attempts to phase through them, but it causes him intense pain and causes him to repeatedly shut down while the other zombies overcome and abduct Wanda. She's taken back to the zombies' master, Black Talon and his ally, Nekra. They restrain Wanda but fail to notice that she has a finger free to cast a small hex and she gets to work gradually freeing herself. Vision manages to overcome his pain and separate from the zombie he had been stuck inside and makes it lead him to Talon's base, then disguises himself as a zombie to infiltrate it.
The Grim Reaper, Talon and Nekra's sponsor, soon arrives to examine their progress, only to find both Vision and Wanda are free and prepared to fight. The Scarlet Witch uses her powers to disrupt Black Talon's control over his zombies and Vision braves the pain to phase through them to reach a tent that the Reaper's flunkies had been protecting and is shocked to find a body resembling Simon Williams prior to his transformation to Wonder Man. Vision threatens Reaper with "Simon's" life even as he holds Wanda hostage. They agree to break the standoff as the villains retreat with "Simon" and Vision and Wanda are reunited.
Following a hunch about the Reaper's scheme, Vision calls the West Coast Avengers and learns that they had been attempting to reach him all day following an attack by the Lethal Legion and the abduction of Wonder Man and Hank Pym.
Notes
- This series follows in the aftermath of Avengers #254, in which the Vision attempted to take over the world for its own protection, partly due to influence from interacting with ISAAC. He removed his own control crystal at the end of that story to avoid such influence in the future.
- This issue ties into West Coast Avengers Vol 2 1.
See Also
- 4 image(s) from Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol 2 1
- 6 reprint(s) of Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol 2 1
Recommended Reading
Family Ties | ||||
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Part I: West Coast Avengers #1 | Part II: Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1 | |||
Part III: West Coast Avengers #2 | Part II: Vision and the Scarlet Witch #2 |