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Marvel’s WandaVision spinoff adds T'Nia Miller as Jocasta - but will she share a backstory with fellow android Vision?
The Vision show is making the world of androids in the MCU a lot bigger with T'Nia Miller as Jocasta
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The MCU has been overdue for some good android stories ever since Ultron was introduced and bungled in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, when superhero movies were still unable to escape Joss Whedon. Paul Bettany's debut as the Avengers stalwart, Vision, was a high point in the movie, as his journey to understand himself in relation to his "creator," Ultron, offered a new character mode for the MCU to play around in. Androids are cool because they're not gods, aliens, or humans. Even so, they have something in common with each of these groups while still remaining unique in their own way.
Now, it looks like the world of android characters in the MCU is expanding with the Vision show. Actress T'Nia Miller has been cast as Jocasta for the show, as reported by Deadline. Deadline describes the character as "cunning and powerful" and "driven by revenge." Miller joins Paul Bettany and James Spader, who is jumping back into the mo-cap suit once again to play Ultron.
Miller may be a familiar presence to some fans; in addition to a 2015 appearance in Doctor Who - she played the General in season nine's 'Hell Bent' - she was also part of the cast for Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Bly Manor on Netflix, as well as Apple TV+'s Foundation.
Jocasta being in Vision has some loaded implications for the future of the MCU. In the comics, she was a part of the Avengers in the 1980s, and most recently was seen in Avengers A.I. by Sam Humphries and Andre Lima Araujo from 2013. Like Vision, she was created by Ultron but fought for the good guys, eventually becoming an Avenger.
The MCU has appeared to be lining up new potential Avengers for the last few years. Vision is obviously coming back now with his own show. Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel was last seen in 2023's The Marvels seemingly recruiting Hailee Steinfeld's Kate Bishop for her own Young Avengers team. Not to mention, Wonder Man (a member of the West Coast Avengers in the comics) is set to debut in this MCU series later this year. If you've seen Thunderbolts*, you'd know that we've got The New Avengers. (Or, as Red Guardian wants to call the team, AvengerZ.) Sam Wilson's Captain America has his own Avengers team, as first referenced in Captain America: Brave New World.
Time will only tell what will come of all of this - and whether or not Jocasta will follow her comic book counterpart's path to an Avengers team of her own.
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