It wasn’t a joke. It was a quick way to show that Vision was a good guy without wasting loads of screen time. He enters the film pretty late and they had a climax to get to. You don’t want to waste loads of time with the Avengers arguing over if he is a good guy or not but you can’t just have them believe him or they look like idiots. He lifts the hammer and they know he is good. It’s that simple.
Imagine how much better Cap wielding Mjolnir in Engame would have been if they hadn't already done it in Age of Ultron...
Elijah Ward
Chase Smith
I think I justified him picking up the hammer because he had the soul stone in his dome piece
Landon Cook
I agree
Ayden Lopez
I'm simply telling you what we saw in the movie. Sure he was a highly advanced AI with a infinity stone, but he still never actually had a "soul" as far as we know so technically yes, he is machinery.
Luke Cruz
Vision deserves a win for the shit he has to put up with in CW, IW, and probably Wandavision.
Wyatt Reed
Because trucks and machinery are operated by people with the inherent purpose of lifting the hammer.
Nobody is "Behind the wheel" of Vision
James Foster
Same
Cap lifting it was the best part of Endgame for me
Tyler Rivera
>tfw meatshits are still arguing and pretending they know everything about us
Jackson Carter
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Jack Stewart
Despite the Soul Stone being a thing, or people being killed and resurrected in IW/Endgame, the MCU has not explored big existential questions of whether souls are real or if there's an afterlife. Regardless of that, Vision and Ultron are clearly presented as sentient, sapient life, and IW spends a lot of Vision's time on screen, and time when others talk about him making it clear he's far more than the sum of his parts, and more than just a machine. The only character to treat him like that was Thanos, who was the villain.