“Why are you doing this?” – Hex Vision, WandaVision ... TV Quotes Database

[The two Visions' battle takes them into the Westview library]

HVHex Vision

Why are you doing this?

WVWhite Vision

My programming directive is to "destroy the Vision".

[Their fight progresses, until Hex Vision gets White Vision in a chokehold]

HVHex Vision

But I'm not the true Vision. Only a conditional Vision.

[White Vision phases out of the chokehold. Hex Vision heats up the laser in his forehead, prepared to fire, but White Vision doesn't do the same]

WVWhite Vision

I request elaboration.

[The two Visions float around the rotunda in the center of the library]

HVHex Vision

You are familiar with the thought experiment the Ship of Theseus in the field of identity metaphysics?

WVWhite Vision

Naturally. The Ship of Theseus is an artifact in a museum. Over time, its planks of wood rot and are replaced with new planks. When no original plank remains, is it still the Ship of Theseus?

HVHex Vision

Secondly, if those removed planks are restored and reassembled, free of the rot, is that the Ship of Theseus?

WVWhite Vision

[frowns] Neither is the true ship. Both are the true ship.

HVHex Vision

Well, then, we are agreed.

WVWhite Vision

But I do not have the Mind Stone.

HVHex Vision

And I do not have one single ounce of original material. Perhaps, the rot is the memories. The wear and tear are the voyages. The wood touched by Theseus himself.

WVWhite Vision

I have not retained memories.

HVHex Vision

But you do have the data. It is merely being kept from you.

WVWhite Vision

A weapon to be more easily controlled. But, certainly, you are the true Vision, for you believe yourself to be.

HVHex Vision

That was once the case. But upon meeting you, I have been disabused of that notion.