5 Questions You May Have About Avengers: Age of Ultron - Part 2
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5 Questions You May Have About Avengers: Age of Ultron

What was shown was an animation where Iron Man’s helmet is bent and reshaped into the head of the super-team’s robotic nemesis Ultron. At the end, the words Avengers: Age of Ultron appear on screen, and while that will thrill fans of The Avengers’ comic book, less savvy movie fans may be wondering, who’s Ultron, why is this such a big deal, and what about that purple guy at end of the first film?
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[h2]Question #1: Who is Ultron?[/h2]

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Basically, Ultron is a highly sophisticated robot. He first appeared in The Avengers #55 published in August 1968, leading the Masters of Evil in an attack on the team using Jarvis, the Avengers’ butler and confidant, as his pawn. In flashbacks we see how Ultron was created as an artificial intelligence by one of The Avengers (more on that later) using their own brain pattern as a template, but as Ultron developed, he evolved his own goals and ideals, and decided that they didn’t align with either his “father’s” or his comrades in The Avengers.

But Ultron, despite being destroyed at the end of nearly every confrontation with the team, often returns stronger, smarter, and more evolved, as well as more blood thirsty in his desire to destroy The Avengers and their legacy. Other than Loki and the Masters of Evil, Ultron is probably The Avengers’ most powerful, and most bothersome, nemesis.

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