Battle of Sokovia

The photo of Sokovia being lifted, used at Shawarma Palace

The **Battle of Sokovia** is an event from the movie *Avengers: Age of Ultron* (2015).

## History

### Prelude

"Ultron" was an artificial-intelligence designed by Tony Stark to protect humanity for the Avengers. Ultron almost instantly turned evil, believing through convoluted logic that the best way to protect the world and humanity was to wipe out humankind. Ultron presumably killed Tony's A.I. butler JARVIS after his creation. Many of Ultron's operations were out of the Eastern European nation of Sokovia, with assistance from Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, superhuman siblings from the Nazi organization HYDRA who he kept in the dark about his true plans.

Ultron presumably created the android Vision during these events to help him, only for Vision to join the Avengers. When the Maximoffs learned of Ultron's true motives, they likewise defected to the Avengers.

### Events

Ultron proceeded to built an army of sentry versions of himself who planned to cause a mass-extinction event through lifting up the Sokovian city of Novi Grad, and dropping it as a meteor impactor. The Avengers assembled in Sokovia to stop him and managed to fight off his numbers and save the city, though Sokovia was still harshly affected by the incident. Ultron was seemingly killed by the Avengers during this incident.

### Aftermath

After the Battle of Sokovia, the *Sokovia Relief Fund* was established to try and support survivors.  New York City business owner Jimmy of the restaurant *Shawarma* *Palace* raised $35,000 to donate. One of Ultron's sentries was recovered, albeit heavily damaged, and by the late 2010s/early 2020s, entered the possession of evil alien Taneleer Tivan AKA The Collector who kept it in a tank within his teleporting fortress. Ultron himself returned with an army of his sentries to attack the *Disney Wish* in the 2020s as part of another omnicidal scheme.

## Appearances

### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

An Ultron sentry appears in the Collector's fortress, still flickering and talking. His description from the Tivan Group reads, "*Ultron was a sentient artificial intelligence who tasked an army of sentries with destroying all humans on Terra in an attempt to"protect" the planet*".

### Shawarma Palace

There are several newspapers detailing Ultron's attack on Sokovia decorating this food stand. One has the headline, "Disaster in Sokovia" with a picture of Iron Man overlooking the floating city. Another details how Shawarma Palace owner, Jimmy, is raising money for survivors of the incident.

## Trivia

* Ultron's appearance in the parks is inspired by his appearance in the movies and is significantly different than his more popular comic-book counterpart. In the comics he was created by mad Avengers member Dr. Hank Pym using Pym's own psychotic brain-waves, was abandoned by his creator, and wishes to dominate/eradicate humanity due to inheriting Pym's hatred for mankind while also trying to validate himself from the complexes which the abandonment left him with.
* The movie's events depicts Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver as having been white members of the Nazi organization HYDRA who later joined with Ultron before joining the Avengers. In the comics and mainstream series of events however, the two were Romani-Jewish founding-members of the *Brotherhood of Mutants*, an extremist mutant civil-rights organization lead by their father Magneto.
* Loki's sceptre appears to remain intact in the parks, as opposed to having been destroyed as it was in this movie.
* Unlike in the movies, the Sokovia Accords and subsequent Avengers' Civil War which spurned from these events seemingly never occurred in park continuity.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/Avengers-Campus-food-menu-restaurants-dca-16224177.php