marvel’s robot family tree needs a second whiteboard

VisionQuest has reached the part of the family history that requires arrows. Eric Diaz’s Nerdist explainer traces the Butcherbird story back through Marvel’s comics, where creating a robot rarely produces a manageable relationship.

Spoilers through episode 4 in the linked article. Read the comics-history explainer at Nerdist.

A useful companion read once you’re caught up: it separates the character’s comics origins from the television version, rather than treating decades of continuity as a single instruction manual. Keep the diagram handy. Ultron has been busy.

Image credits: VisionQuest promotional stills, © Disney/Marvel Television. Featured image via The Walt Disney Company’s newsroom; body image via Disney+’s series explainer.