Sadly, Wonder Man eventually turned against his fellow Avengers, growing resentful of the damage he perceived the team as having done to the world around them. And once again, this was not the end for Wonder Man.ДЄ few years later, while the Avengers were captured by the villain Morgan Le Fay, who stole Wanda Maximoff's reality-warping powers to remake the world in her own medieval image, Wanda reached out with her magic in an attempt to escape Le Fay's captivity - with the result being the reemergence of Wonder Man as a pure energy being, with no physical form.ДЄfter helping Wanda escape and rescuing the rest of the team, Wonder Man stayed on as an Avenger, with Wanda's magical abilities eventually growing to the point where she was able to fully resurrect Simon's physical form, giving him the power to change into his energy form at will.

However, before anything could come of their budding romance, Wonder Man sacrificed his life once again to save the team from a doomsday weapon. During this time, Wonder Man began to form a mutual attraction with Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch - who was also the ex-wife of Simon's 'brother,' Vision.

While there, Williams took up a new career in his personal life as an actor and stuntman in Hollywood movies (this became the basis of a new codename taken up by an alt-future version of Simon Williams who adventured alongside the 31st-century Guardians of the Galaxy under the name 'Hollywood').ДЇollowing the disbanding of the West Coast Avengers, several members of the team reunited under the name Force Works (opens in new tab), with Iron Man as their leader. In the '80s, Simon moved across the country with several other Avengers to form a new Los Angeles-based team known as the West Coast Avengers (opens in new tab). Once he fully regained his strength and powers, Simon Williams rejoined the Avengers as Wonder Man, embarking on a decades-long career as a mainstay of the team, where he sparked up a long-lasting friendship with Beast of the X-Men, who served as an Avenger for a time back in the '70s. Vision declines, leading to Grim Reaper's defeat and Simon's eventual revival as a being of pure 'Ionic Energy'. He'd make Vision fully human by putting his synthezoid mind into Simon's comatose body in exchange for Vision betraying the Avengers (a running theme in this twisted tale). Approaching Vision in secret, Grim Reaper offered Vision a deal. Due to his unique 'Ionized' physiology, he had actually entered a coma-like state of suspended animation - and his inert body was now in the possession of the Grim Reaper. Unable to kill the last remnant of his brother's consciousness, Grim Reaper retreats, and in doing so, recognizes Vision himself as a third Williams brother of a kind, the second brother we mentioned at the top.ДЄs it turns out, Simon wasn't actually dead. However, Grim Reaper's plan to kill the Avengers came to a halt unfulfilled when he discovered that the synthezoid Avenger known as the Vision had actually been created in part through the use of Simon Williams' 'Engram,' a record of his memories and personality, which was used to provide Vision's human qualities by his creator Ultron. Sadly, in the end, Williams' betrayal of Zemo meant that his condition couldn't be reversed, and he died among the Avengers as a celebrated hero.Д«ut this being comics - and this being Wonder Man, especially - death was only the beginning of Simon Williams' story. When the time comes to pull the trigger on Zemo's scheme and take down the Avengers, Wonder Man can't bring himself to betray the heroes who tried so hard to help him and instead turns on Zemo to help the Avengers defeat him.

Though their efforts ultimately fail, the Avengers try everything they can think of, down to Thor's magic and Iron Man and Hank Pym's super-science to save him, but the deterioration caused by Zemo's 'Ionic Ray' treatments can't be reversed without Zemo's own tech. Once among the Avengers, Williams told the team of his deadly condition, though not of his secret allegiance to Zemo. Taking on the outwardly heroic identity of Wonder Man, Williams enacted Zemo's scheme to infiltrate the Avengers, winning a place among the team after a staged battle with the Masters of Evil. (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab)

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