The Young Avengers have had many iterations over the course of their careers. Often they suffer through great tragedy before reforming, never truly able to leave the world of superheroes for long before their sense of responsibility kicks right back in. One of their members, the new Vision, Jonas, was largely there for the formation of a new team. But he was also partially the cause of its later disbandment.

The new Vision's origins are a bit convoluted. There was never any actual intent to create him and he more or less replaced the hero who both created him and reformed the Young Avengers. Nathaniel Richards, a younger version of Kang the Conqueror, traveled to "the present" of the Marvel Universe, hoping to recruit the Avengers. Instead, he found a world already ravaged and a broken team of Avengers. Unwilling to accept this, he went through their old records and discovered a copy of the original Vision's operating system as well as the Vision's Avengers Fail-Safe Program, to create more Avengers in the event they fell.

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Nathaniel downloaded both into his armor and traveled further back in time, taking up the name Iron Lad so that he may form a new group of "Young Avengers" His plan to form a new team was successful, but his part in it would not last long. In Young Avengers #5 by Allan Heinberg, Jim Cheung, and Cory Petit, Kang the Conqueror came from the future to hunt Nathaniel down, tracking the young man through his armor. Knowing that he could not stay in that time period, Nathaniel left his armor behind as he returned to his own timeline. This gave Vision's operating systems the chance to take over the armor and create a whole new being. But this new Vision was unlike his predecessor. The armor he inhabited made him more technologically advanced than the original, but he also lacked all of the Vision's wisdom and experience. Adding to this, whereas the Vision's mind was based on Wonder Man, the new Vision's was based on Nathaniel. In short, he had even greater potential than the Vision, but needed time to hone his own abilities. This made him a perfect candidate to join the Young Avengers.

The new Vision would be integral to recruiting more members to the fledgling team, as well as playing key roles in major points of the Marvel Universe's history. He helped prevent a war between the Kree and Skrull before siding with Captain America during "Civil War", disabling Iron Man's armor during the final battle. But during all of this, Vision grappled with the notion of having an identity or more specifically, his lack of an identity outside of his superhero life.

Wanting to rectify this, Vision traveled all over the world, volunteering, studying, and just having fun. Eventually concluding that he was a unique individual and not just some copy of Nathaniel Richards, Vision adopted the name Jonas as the first step in embracing his identity. He even managed to admit his budding feelings towards Cassie Lang, who had been his teammate for some time. Sadly, this new lease on life would not last long.

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When the Young Avengers rescued Scarlet Witch from Doctor Doom and restored her memories, it launched them on a quest to restore her powers to undo M-Day. But in the process, Doom managed to steal Wanda's reality-warping abilities for himself. They managed to defeat him, but at the cost of Cassie sacrificing her life to do so.

Iron Lad had returned by that point, and seeing the chaos that had occurred in his absence, he offered to travel through time to save Cassie's life. Even though he was devastated by her loss, Jonas refused, knowing that if Iron Lad did so, he'd be one step closer to becoming Kang the Conqueror. Infuriated by this, Iron Lad destroyed Jonas before fleeing the time period once again. The loss of Cassie and Jonas resulted in the disbandment of the Young Avengers, but led to Wiccan, Hulkling, Speed, and Hawkeye being inducted into the Avengers.

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