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Ultron has been a long time adversary of the Avengers and is about to hit the mainstream
when he appears as the main villain of The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron.
Honestly though, Ultron really isn’t all THAT well known since he usually appears for
short, one off storylines, and can sometimes not be heard from for years.
Anyway, let’s jump in!
What’s cool about Ultron is that he is CONSTANTLY upgrading himself and you’ll never be able
to beat him the same way twice.
With every new upgrade, Ultron ups his model number with the current highest being I believe
Ultron-20.
Ultron-1 was created by Hank Pym, the first Ant Man, but when Ultron gained sentience,
he brainwashed Hank into forgetting that Ultron ever existed.
Fun fact though, the first time that Ultron ever appeared in the comics was as Ultron-5
under the guise of a supervillain known as the Crimson Cowl, but was swiftly defeated
by The Avengers.
For a while afterwards, Ultron appeared every once in a while to try to take down the Avengers,
but he’s defeated every single time.
Next up is Ultron-6 who is notable due to the fact that he was rebuilt using the powerful
metal known as Adamantium.
What’s neat about this is that this was the first time that Adamantium was EVER introduced
to the Marvel universe and appeared FIVE YEARS before Wolverine’s first appearance in 1974.
Ultron then kind of fades into the background and makes random appearances as a sort of
a “villain of the week”.
It wasn’t until the Secret Wars storyline where we see Ultron-11 brought back to life
by The Beyonder, defeated by Galactus, re-programmed to serve Dr. Doom, and then destroyed all
over again.
After Secret Wars, Ultron again faded into obscurity as a background character.
The next form of note is Ultron-19 and try to follow me on this…
Ultron manages to infect Iron Man’s armor which is made of Extremis, a shapeshifting
nanotechnology.
This turns Tony Stark’s armor into an almost exact replica of Janet Van Dyme A.K.A., Hank
Pym’s wife, WITH TONY INSIDE IT.
Yes, Ultron is now a mostly naked woman with Tony Stark inside of him…
Take that how you will.
Ultron is eventually defeated by a computer virus on a Commodore 64 which is a computer
that my dad had back when he was my age, but his consciousness found its way to an alien
race known as the Phalanx.
He built himself a new body as Ultron-20, became the ruler of the Phalanx, and tries
to take over the Earth because OF COURSE!
Ultron goes back to irrelevance until Age of Ultron where he takes over the entire world,
but then some superheroes do some time traveling shenanigans and then he didn’t.
Seriously.
Ultron was barely in Age of Ultron.
That brings us up to the recently released book, RAGE of Ultron.
In it, Ultron infects Titan, one of Saturn’s moons and becomes Planet Ultron.
Of course, Planet Ultron comes and attacks Earth, but When the Avengers try to save the
day however, Hank Pym MERGES WITH ULTRON.
That’s right.
At the time of this recording, Hank Pym IS Ultron!
However, it’s worth mentioning that Ultron has a habit of building other robots to take
down The Avengers, buuuuut they end up betraying their creator and becoming good guys instead.
The first and most famous of these is The Vision.
Ultron created Vision out of a duplicate of the original Human Torch, but after his initial
fight with The Avengers, Vision betrayed his master and has been an Avenger ever since.
Ultron’s next creation was the robot, Jocasta, who he made in order to have a bride.
He did so by having the mind of Janet Van Dyne put into Jocasta’s empty shell.
Of course, Janet’s mind was freed, but when Ultron re-activated Josta, there was still
a residual amount of Janet’s brainwaves left inside of her.
This of course caused her to turn against Ultron and join the Avengers.
So after two of his creations joined the Avengers, Ultron intentionally made his third creation,
Victor Mancha, a child who was OBSESSED with superheroes so that when he discovers that
he has powers, Victor would join the Avengers and essentially work as a sleeper agent.
This…
did not work out and Victor was able to break free of his programming and become a hero
all on his own.
The only things that don’t turn against Ultron are when he builds previous models
of himself to quite literally form a one man army.
However, the one “true” Ultron is always the most recent model.
Outside of the comics, Ultron is the main antagonist of The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron,
he’s appeared in Avengers Alliance and Ultimate Alliance, Marvel Superhero Squad, Avengers:
United They Stand, Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, Avengers Assemble, and Avengers:
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
If you want to read more about Ultron then honestly, I really don’t think that there
are too many GOOD Ultron stories.
I’d recommend Annihilation: Conquest, Secret Wars, and Rage of Ultron.
But now, let’s get ready for the Age of Ultron movie!
If you want a video on The Vision, then click on Vision!
However, if you want a video on Iron Man’s various suits, then click on the Hulkbuster!
If you want to learn more about Daredevil, then click this video right here OR you can
check out this video on Leviathan, the main baddies of Marvel’s Agent Carter!