How is Captain Marvel, who only gained a portion of the power of the Tesseract, stronger than Vision, who had all the powers of an Infinity Stone

How is Captain Marvel, who only gained a portion of the power of the Tesseract, stronger than Vision, who had all the powers of an Infinity Stone

There are five beings in the MCU who obtained their abilities directly from an Infinity Stone. Not used an Infinity Stone, but got their powers from an Infinity Stone.

Ultron and Vision

Tony Stark and Bruce Banner initially thought that the Mind Stone was just a fancy AI and created Ultron to do fairly basic computing. In fact, the only reason he even needed the Mind Stone was the scale on which he wanted to operate and the fairly vague operational parameters he wanted to give it. “Protect the world” is not really the clearest directive someone could give a computer. Ultron never really accessed the Mind Stone’s abilities beyond cobbling together enough code to be a sentient computer program.

Vision was built by Ultron to be his best possible body, using the best possible parts. And the Mind Stone did exactly for Vision what it did for Ultron: it allowed him to cobble together the code to become a sentient computer program, albeit one operating at an even higher level than Ultron. None of the Vision’s abilities even seemed to be derived from the Mind Stone, they just seemed to be things Ultron put into his body (with the exception of the energy beams and phasing).

In both cases, The Vision and Ultron seemed to be limited by their own lack of imagination. They treated the Mind Stone as a basic computer processor, which is something they got directly from Tony Stark and Bruce Banner who thought the same thing.

Quicksilver

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were created by someone with no clue what he was doing. Baron Strucker didn’t even remove the Mind Stone from its protective coating. We don’t know exactly what experiments he was attempting, but we know they were miserable failures that resulted in only two people gaining powers, with the rest dying.

Quicksilver’s powers are, as stated by Maria Hill, “increased metabolism and improved thermal homeostasis.” Now if I had to guess how he got those powers from the Mind Stone it would be that his nervous system is incredibly sped up coupled with enhanced perception, resulting in all-around super speed. It’s an effective power, but kind of outside the Mind Stone’s wheelhouse.

Scarlet Witch

Scarlet Witch’s powers, again as stated by Maria Hill, are “neural electric interfacing, telekinesis, mental manipulation.” She is a telepath/telekinetic. This is very, very much in the Mind Stone’s wheelhouse. This is why the Scarlet Witch is so formidable. She is utilizing the power of the Mind Stone exactly how it is intended to be used. This is why she was able to smash her way through Ultron's drones left and right. It’s why her powers seem to fluctuate with her emotions.

While Vision and Ultron were using the Mind Stone just as a fancy computer and Quicksilver was using the power in an odd way, Scarlet Witch is what the power is actually capable of, even when several steps removed from the Stone itself way.

Captain Marvel

Mar-Vell was, as explicitly stated in the text of the movie, attempting to build an engine to take a reasonably large group of refugees to an entirely different galaxy at light speed. And while it exploded, and she died, all indications are that the engine was successful. Carol Danvers was hit by the massive energy that was fueling that particular engine, all of which was derived from the Space Stone.

And Mar-Vell was basing her engine design on highly advanced Kree science, and unlike Strucker, Bruce, or Tony, she actually knew what she was doing. So let’s just say that her engine was using a hell of a lot of energy.

Carol, much like Wanda, is using the energy of the Space Stone exactly how it was intended. In fact, it is exactly how one would likely use it if one were traveling to a different galaxy. She is using it for speed, for energy generation and projection, and for the durability to survive high-speed impacts as well as many different levels of gravity.

Conclusion

Captain Marvel is using the Space Stone’s energy in a particularly impressive way, seemingly due to the peculiar circumstances under which she was exposed to it. Vision, on the other hand, was using the Mind Stone in a much more limited way, due to no one involved in his creation having a particularly good idea of what it even was, let alone is capable of.

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