In a
recent interview director Joss Whedon briefly explained why he chooses Ultron
as the main antagonist to hour heroes.
“I
was pitching Ultron before I took the job on the first movie. I was like, ‘I
don’t know if I want to do this, but for the second one, you should totally do
Ultron.’ Because he’s been a thorn in their side as much as any other character
over the years and particularly back in my history.
“He
was great. He’s somebody who can juice things up and he’s a real problem for
the Avengers. That’s not always easy to find. It’s not like the Vulture is
really going to give them a hard time for 20 minutes.”
Although
Whedon said that we will give Ultron a different origin story in the original
arc, Age of Ultron, the story is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which
Ultron has taken over the world and exterminated most of the world’s
superheroes. This arc can also be seen in the animated movie Next Avengers:
Heroes of Tomorrow, where the children of the Avengers take to arms to defend
the World and defeat Ultron, plus a geriatric Iron Man and Hulk.
Ultron
Powers and Abilities:
The visual appearance and powers of the
character have varied, but common powers include superhuman levels of strength,
speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes; flight at subsonic speeds; and
various offensive weapons such as concussive blasts of energy fired from its
optical sensors and hands, and an “encephalo-ray”, which places victims into a
deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and mind-control
victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be
enacted at a later time. Ultron also has the ability to convert electromagnetic
radiation into electrical energy for use or storage. Ultron has a genius
intellect, a capacity for creative intelligence and self-repair, superhuman
cybernetic analytical capabilities, and the ability to process information and
make calculations with superhuman speed and accuracy. The character is an expert
roboticist and strategist.
Ultron’s
outer armor is usually composed of primarily adamantium, which is almost
completely impervious to damage. (The first use of the term “adamantium” in
Marvel Comics was made in reference to Ultron in Avengers #66, published in
July 1969). Most Ultron units are powered by a small internal nuclear furnace
and incorporate a “program transmitter” which can beam part or all of Ultron’s
memory/personality system into other computer systems or duplicate robotic
bodies. Ultron can also control other machines remotely. Ultron has
occasionally reformed itself with a humanoid appearance above the waist and the
appearance of a complex machine, including tractor beam apparatus for flight,
below the waist. A later Ultron model developed hive-mind technology, allowing
it to animate and control hundreds of alternate Ultron bodies simultaneously,
although only the ‘prime’ Ultron was composed of adamantium while others were
made of steel or secondary adamantium due to the lack of resources to give all
the Ultrons adamantium bodies. Ultron also uses an internal molecular
rearranger that renders the adamantium components of its workings more
malleable and so have the ability to restructure his physical form. What
circuitry Ultron has is carefully shielded to protect from damage, although the
Scarlet Witch is capable of causing malfunctions with her hex power, Johnny
Storm, using his nova burst, managed to damage Ultron’s internal circuits while
his outer armor remained intact, and Wonder Man was once able to destroy an
Ultron by throwing it so hard its internal systems were damaged.
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