VisionQuest Episode 7 Debuts Original Android Human Torch

Episode 7 of VisionQuest, titled "Immolation," brings the original comic-book Human Torch into the MCU in live action for the first time, portrayed as the android known as the Synthetic Man, according to movieweb.com. The episode shows Vision making contact with the Synthetic Man's source code, which the series describes as the basis for all artificial intelligence in the MCU.

The same episode also delivers part of the reveal of Paladin's mysterious client, a thread the show is expected to expand on in the season finale.

The character has a long history behind him. The Human Torch debuted in October 1939 in Marvel Comics #1 under Timely Comics, the publisher that later became Marvel. In the 1940s he was one of Timely's biggest heroes alongside Captain America and Namor the Submariner, and the three served together on the team The Invaders.

His crossover with Namor in Marvel Mystery Comics #9 in July 1940 was the first comic crossover. In November 1966, the android Human Torch was folded into the new Marvel continuity in Fantastic Four Annual #4.

On screen, the character previously appeared as an exhibit: in the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger, set partly at the 1943 Stark Expo, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes pass a glass case displaying the original Human Torch in his classic costume. In the comics, Vision's body was later established through retcons as being built from replica parts of the Jim Hammond Human Torch combined with the brain patterns of Simon Williams.