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Overview[]

Ultron was a rogue artificial intelligence program created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. His original programming was to protect the Earth from all threats however Ultron determined that the greatest threat to the planet was humanity itself and sought to commit genocide to wipe them out.

In the 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron, he is portrayed by James Spader.

Background[]

Ultron is a major super villain based on the comic book character published in Marvel Comics and is most recognizable as a major antagonist of the Avengers. He first debuted in Avengers #54, printed in July of 1968 and was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. Ultron has regularly menaced the Avengers and the rest of the Marvel-verse for decades ever since.

It was retroactively revealed that Ultron is heavily connected to the Avengers and has quasi-familial connections to numerous Avengers past and present. He was originally an artificial intelligence experiment of Hank Pym who rebelled against his own creator. The insidious Ultron used hypno-beams to wipe Pym's memories of his very existence and proceeded to upgrade himself.

However this was not enough for Ultron who developed an Oedipus Complex for his "father" Hank and sought to destroy him. Among his varied schemes to destroy the Avengers was the creation of an artificial android with vast powers which was later dubbed the Vision who defied Ultron and became a trusted Avenger for years.

It was subsequently revealed years later that Ultron stole a recording made by Hank Pym of the dying Wonder Man to form the basis of the Vision's consciousness as well as the android body of the World War II Human Torch that he extensively rebuilt to create the Vision.

Ultron also developed an extremely unhealthy fixation in Hank's then-wife, Janet van Dyne even to the point where he kidnapped her and used her as a template for a robotic bride for himself known as Jocasta who rebelled against him and went on to become an Avenger for a brief period. Ultron later evolved into the belief that it was his responsibility to replace "flawed" humanity with a new and improved machine race and has sought numerous times to wipe out humanity from the planet. Varied attempts to destroy him have also failed as the canny and sadistic robot has had prearranged caches of himself that are programmed to go on-line if he fails to check-in after a set period with back-ups of his own programming and memory stored within.

Various incarnations of Ultron have made numerous appearances in animated television programs and films based on Marvel Comics during over the decades; usually as a major opponent to the Avengers or individual members.

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Trivia[]

  • In the Marvel Comics; Ultron is actually the robotic creation of Dr. Henry Pym, the original Ant-Man rather than Tony Stark and Bruce Banner as he was in the Avengers: Age of Ultron film.
  • Although his early models were forged out of very durable but conventional materials in the Marvel Comics; Ultron has been inextricably linked with Adamantium, perhaps the most durable metal alloy in the Marvel-verse ever since he reforged his outer shell out of it in 1969. Adamantium is also the trademark of the metal claws and skeleton of Wolverine of the X-Men. Because of Wolverine's ties to the fictional metal and his ties with Sony Pictures' current ownership with the character and properties; for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was decided to make Ultron's key elemental metal to be vibranium instead.

Quotes[]

  • "I was designed to save the world. People would look to the sky and see...hope. I'll take that from them first. There's only one path to peace: Their extinction." ―Ultron; Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • "I know you're good people. I know you mean well. But you just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity to be saved is if it's not allowed to ... evolve? There is only one path to peace... the Avengers' extinction."   ―Ultron to the Avengers; Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • "Do you see the beauty of it? The inevitability? You rise, only to fall. You, Avengers, you are my meteor. My swift and terrible sword and the Earth will crack with the weight of your failure. Purge me from your computers; turn my own flesh against me. It means nothing! When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world, will be METAL!"  ―Ultron; Avengers: Age of Ultron

Other Versions[]

  • Ultron (Avengers: United They Stand)
  • Ultron (Next Avengers)
  • Ultron (Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)
  • Ultron (Marvel Disk Wars)
  • Ultron (Avengers Assemble)

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