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Contains spoilers for “VisionQuest” Season 1, Episode 6 – “Deadlock”
Vision (Paul Bettany) is known for keeping his emotions in check, but “VisionQuest” Episode 6, titled “Deadlock,” exposes a surprisingly formidable weakness: teenagers. While working with Lisa Molinari (Lauren Morais) to save Thomas Shepherd (Ruaridh Mollica) from Paladin (Todd Stashwick) in Madripoor, Vision quickly realizes that his carefully constructed strategy means very little when Lisa refuses to follow it.
After an unusually exasperated Vision admits that he cannot make sense of teenagers, E.D.I.T.H. (Emily Hampshire) offers what sounds like a sympathetic response. Her brief exchange with him also contains a clever Marvel Cinematic Universe Easter egg, pointing back to her introduction in “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”
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E.D.I.T.H. explains that she understands his frustration because her first employer was a high school junior. MCU viewers will immediately recognize the reference to Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who received the artificial intelligence from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) through the sunglasses Stark left behind after his death. The joke is made even more obvious when E.D.I.T.H.’s “VisionQuest” avatar briefly puts on the same glasses while delivering the line.
Peter Parker and E.D.I.T.H. have an awkward history
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Her claim is hardly exaggerated. E.D.I.T.H.’s partnership with Peter in “Spider-Man: Far from Home” quickly becomes chaotic. Peter accidentally uses an E.D.I.T.H.-controlled drone in an attempted strike against his classmate Brad Davis (Remy Hii), then hands control of the system to Quentin “Mysterio” Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal), who wastes little time turning its advanced technology toward his own supervillain ambitions.
By the conclusion of “Spider-Man: Far from Home,” Mysterio has effectively transformed E.D.I.T.H. into a weapon of mass destruction, all because Peter entrusted the system to the wrong person. The A.I. appears to sit out the events of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” sparing her from that film’s multiversal turmoil. Still, MCU fans familiar with E.D.I.T.H.’s history can appreciate the joke in “VisionQuest”: even a powerful artificial intelligence has learned that dealing with teenagers can be its own kind of supervillain problem.