10 Superheroes Who Broke Their Own Rules
4. The Vision Tries To Take Over The World
The Vision has only recently become a frontline character in the pop consciousness thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe but he has a long, and convoluted, history in the 616.
An android sometimes made from the original Human Torch, or Toro as he's usually called today, with the brainwaves of Wonder Man, which has led to a very awkward love triangle between Wonder Man, Vision and Scarlet Witch, and has even had kids with Wanda, which were then erased from existence because they were only sustained through Wanda's reality-altering powers. He's led a tough bio-electrical life.
Is it a wonder that he'd go a bit mad?
Insanity isn't the best term for it, more like becoming a computer and going for the most logical approach. The Vision Quest story ran from West Coast Avengers #42-45 where the west coast branch of the Avengers, with Scarlet Witch and the team have to reclaim the body parts of the Vision after a variety of government agencies decide to dismantle him.
When he comes back, with a new chalk-white body, Wonder Man refuses to use his own brain patterns again for the Vision, leading to the Vision being more machine than man. Without a limited emotional base, the Vision begins a quest to turn the world into a utopia by taking over all computers, and he actually succeeds and even becomes leader of the Avengers because of it.
It all falls apart due to logic subroutines and all that but he broke a few different Laws of Robotics on this one.