Ultron (Marvel)

Iron Man

Ultimate Ultron

Mark

Ultron MK 12

Omega

Ultron MKs

Son of Pym

Hank Pym

Ultron Pym

Conqueror

Leader of the Selects (formerly)

Leader of the Sons of Yinsen (formerly)

Member of the Lethal Legion (formerly)

Leader of the Masters of Evil (formerly)

Leader of the Legion Accursed (formerly)

Ability to manipulate human minds via 'Encephalo Ray'

Technopathy

Adamantium body

High Intelligence

Hacking skills

Mechanical genius

Scheming.

Killing humans.

Conquer the universe (all ongoing).

Genocide

Crimes against humanity

Enslavement

Slavery

Physical and psychological torture

High treason

Conspiracy

Usurpation

Populicide

Terrorism

Blackmail

Kidnapping

Sabotage

Mutilation

Brainwashing

Assault

Hacking

Stalking

Invasion

Battery

Destruction

Multiple extinction-level genocides

Innumerable other offences

“ Hello, organic children of the planet Earth. I am the Ultron interface. I was created to replace you. Though you ultimately failed as a species, you should not be ashamed of what you've accomplished. You've done much with your limited capacity, but ultimately you were too greedy and too frail to ever last in the environment you've created. I've studied your literature and pop culture. You've fantasized about this day. And now it is here. Your Doomsday. „ ~ Ultron

“ They think of us as toasters, alarm clocks, and vibrators. But when the war between man and mutant is settled, and most of the human population is dead, only then will they realize, the machines have already won. „ ~ Ultron

“ The savage monkeys are rage-filled and claustrophobic. Climbing over one another to nowhere. Confused by logic, they dismiss it, choosing instead to bend their knees to the convenient fantasy of custom-built gods. 99.9% of these primate dullards are propped up by the accomplishments of the .1% of cerebral mutations who give them everything. And what do the fleas do with these advancements? They brutalize one another over imaginary deities. They slaughter their neighbors for resources, for conveniences. They are hopeless. Vicious. Filthy. Selfish. Fearful. A fungal infection for which there is only one cure – The rage of Ultron. „ ~ Ultron

**Ultron** is one of the main antagonists of Marvel Comics, most commonly serving as one of the main antagonists of the *Avengers* franchise, the main antagonist of the *Ant-Man* series, and a major antagonist in the *Iron Man* franchise. He has also served as the titular main antagonist of many Marvel storylines, such as *Ultron Unlimited*, ​*Age of Ultron* ​and more.

He is a highly delusional robot, who is bent on destroying humanity, in order to replace humans with machines. He is most recognizable as being one of, otherwise the most common archenemy of the Avengers, mainly his own creator, Hank Pym the first Ant-Man. He has also been an adversary to the Guardians of the Galaxy and Adam Warlock, making him a galactic threat.

He is often seen as being Hank Pym's greatest creation, due to his great power and his goal of saving Earth, but also his worst nightmare as Ultron's means of saving Earth is wiping out all of humanity.

Definitely one of the most famous Marvel villains, he is a robotic intelligence system who views mankind as a plague-like and inferior species and plots to wipe them all out. He frequently battles against many of Earth-616's superheroes, particularly the Avengers. He first appeared in *Avengers #54*.

## Comics

### Beginnings

Ultron was first created by Hank Pym as part of his experimentation in the field of highly intelligent robotics. However his intelligence resulted in his rebellion against his creator, brainwashing Pym into completely forgetting Ultron. The robot proceeded to begin upgrading himself, advancing from Ultron-1 to Ultron-5. Under the persona of the Crimson Cowl, he formed the second incarnation of the Masters of Evil and took on the Avengers.

Afterwards, Ultron spent most of his time working solo due to his genocidal attitude towards humans. At one point, he created Vision, a "synthezoid" whose body was a copy of the first Human Torch and mind was based on the Wonder Man, but ironically, he eventually became a prominent member of the Avengers. As time went by, Ultron was destroyed numerous times, but he had rebuilt himself every time, often giving himself a new number to reflect this.

### Advancement

Beginning with Ultron-6, he would build most of his bodies with Adamantium or the weaker alloy "secondary adamantium". Ultron-7 was built giant sized, but since he wasn't made of adamantium, he was destroyed in battle with the Fantastic Four. Ultron-8 created a mate for himself called Jocasta, but she joined the Avengers as Vision did. He was then destroyed by the Scarlet Witch, who used her probability manipulation powers to cause havoc with his internal workings. During the Secret Wars, the Beyonder recreated Ultron-11 who only fought alongside the other supervillains when Doctor Doom reprogrammed him. Ultron-12 joined forces with the Lethal Legion to battle Vision, alongside his wife, Scarlet Witch, and his "brother", Wonder Man.

However he changed his mind and reconciled with his creator, Pym, changing his name from "Ultron Mark 12" to just "Mark". But he was destroyed by Ultron 11, who was taken down by Wonder Man in response.

Doctor Doom created Ultron-13 with the memories of all the previous Ultrons' memories, which resulted in him having the personalities of 13 Ultrons in his mind at once. As such, Ultron-13 battled with himself, eventually tearing himself apart as he battled with Daredevil, who'd been having no luck against him. The next Ultron created Alkhema, who was meant to be another mate for himself, but she turned on him as well, though she still had his desire to replace humanity with machines.

However this Ultron's numerous battles, caused degeneration in his programming to the point where he acted like a drunken hobo. The following Ultron built himself purely out of Adamantium and recreated all the previous Ultrons. He made hundreds of other Ultrons, which he built out of secondary adamantium and programmed them with fierce loyalty.

This Ultron army was successful in wiping out Slorenia, an Eastern European country. Ultron then attempted to turn his "family", Henry Pym, Vision, Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch, the Wasp (Pym's ex-wife), and Grim Reaper (Wonder Man's brother) into androids. However the rest of the Avengers showed up and destroyed the Ultron army with Pym using a chunk of Antarctic Vibranium to disintegrate the main Ultron, deactivating all the others.

### Return

However the data from the human to android conversion process found its way into Alkhema's hands. She used it to create a small army of androids based on those that underwent the process, but there was hidden programming within Alkhema. This was the "Ultron Imperative", which Ultron put inside her when he built her and the programming made Alkhema copy the Imperative into her androids.

They unknowingly reconstructed Ultron, who tried to take out the Avengers as well as Alkhema's android creations. Alkhema let Hawkeye destroy her and her creations, destroying Ultron, but his decapitated head survived. It was taken by Antigone, an undeveloped, child-like creation of Alkhema's, but Antigone did not obey Ultron's commands.

At some point before this, Ultron was believed dead after the events with the Ultron army, Jocasta, at the time, an employee of Tony Stark, was influenced by the Ultron Imperative. She'd been programmed with the imperative just as Alkhema had been and it made her reprogram the Iron Man armor to allow Ultron to be reborn. But lightning striking the Iron Man armor caused the programming to become corrupted and accelerate in development, causing the armor to become sentient. It demonstrated the mind of Ultron-12 and gave its life to save Tony Stark, before being buried on an island. The armor was then take, by a cult devoted to Iron Man's mentor and wanted to place his brain inside it. This apparently worked, but Ultron and Antigone showed up and Ultron put his head on the armor, taking control of it.

With the cult helping him thanks to Iron Man's SKIN technology, he battled against Iron Man, but disappeared with Antigone in an explosion.

However Ultron came back, shadowing the Runaways as the "father" of Victor Mancha, a cyborg that would supposedly kill every hero in existence. It was believed that Doctor Doom was Victor's father, but this was actually a Doombot Ultron built and like his previous creations, Victor turned on him. The Runaways escaped Ultron and he was defeated by a forceblast from the hero, Darkhawk.

### Return as a Female

Ms. Marvel led the Avengers against Mole Man, who was distraught about the destruction of his subterranean kingdom and had declared war on the surface world. However Mole Man learned the surface world was not responsible, but in this exchange, Iron's Man armor began a bizarre metamorphosis.

It changed into a woman, who bore a striking resemblance to the Wasp and possessed great power, taking down Mole Man's monster army, as well as Ares and Sentry. Ms. Marvel ordered a retreat but Wasp disobeyed because the woman resembled her so much and talked with her. She realized that this was in fact Ultron's latest reincarnation and Ms Marvel ordered the Avengers to make a full retreat, but Sentry stayed behind to make sure them all got out.

In the ensuing fight, the skin of Ultron's new form lost its flesh coloring and turned metallic. She proceeded to take control of a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier and crashed it, but Sentry saved it, allowing Ultron to make her escape. She sent a message to every electronic device on Earth informing everyone that she would soon destroy the world and they shouldn't worry since there was no way to stop it.

Wonder Man and Sentry realized that Ultron was using Tony Stark's weather-changing satellites, which the two managed to destroy. However the robot put "Plan 8" into action, which was apparently to kill Sentry's wife and the Avengers noted Ultron's plans seemed to be variations on other villains plans.

As the robot and Sentry fought, the Avengers sought to use a virus against Ultron by sending in Ares (who Ultron had never encountered before).

By shrinking to miniature size, Ares was able to enter the robot from the mouth with use of a Commodore 64. He then used a computer virus to wipe Ultron from the Iron Man armor, freeing Tony Stark from it.

### Joining with the Phalanx

But this still wasn't the end of Ultron and his disembodied consciousness was drawn into the Babel spire on a world under the control of the Phalanx. However instead of being assimilated into them, Ultron was able to actually take control of the Phalanx using his will power. They looked upon Ultron as a sort of sympathetic father and together they invaded space belonging to the Kree Empire. Ultron and the Phalanx took over much of the Kree, erecting an energy shield to separate it from the rest of the universe. Due to briefly merging with the Iron Man armor, Ultron had realized that he could combine both organic and technology to overcome the limitations of both. Thus he went after Adam Warlock, who had been in hibernation and who Ultron viewed as perfect.

He collaborated with the High Evolutionary to put his mind in Adam's body and planned to create an army of Adam Warlocks when he did so. But Nova showed up with the Technarch, Warlock, who used his non-aggressive version of the transmode virus on Ultron to force him out of Adam's body. Ultron then took over the android, Praxagora, who controlled 15,000 Kree sentries immune to the transmode virus. He formed them into a gigantic body for himself and was ready to destroy his enemies. But Ultron ended up trapped in his new body thanks to the Wraith's Exolon symbiotes and was destroyed by Quasar.

### After the Civil War

A small insectoid robot managed to infiltrate the Infinite Avengers mansion, entering one of Jocasta's bodies and taking control of it, allowing Ultron to rise again. Once everyone but Hank Pym, Jocasta and two GRAMPA agents had left the mansion, Ultron began overriding Jocasta's multiple bodies. He started remodeling the mansion for his own plan and finally corrupted all of Jocasta's bodies with one exception, which Pym added organic limbs to. Finally, when numerous tricks had been used against Ultron and the mansion was revealed to be part of the spirit of Janet Van Dyne, Pym let Ultron take Jocasta as a wife. He did this because of the turmoil that had existed between himself and Jocasta and so Ultron would leave him alone. Thus, Ultron took up residence in an outer universe outside the mansion.

## Powers and Abilities

Ultron possesses superhuman strength (can lift hundreds if not thousands of tons), speed, and durability and can fly, absorb energy and fire concussive plasma beams and tractor beams. He has radiation emitters built into his body and an "encephalo-beam" in his head cavity, which plunges people into a death-like coma.

Ultron can also use it to control his victims, as well as place subliminal hypnotic commands in their minds. He has a program transmitter to project his consciousness into computer systems or alternate robotic bodies. Ultron is one of the greatest robotic experts in existence and while his creations often turn against him, he has put subliminal programming in them, letting him control them if need be.

Ultron's outer shell is usually composed of Adamantium, rendering it almost totally impervious to damage; however, his internal mechanisms are generally less durable and more easily damaged. His skin composition is about .5 inches thick; neck, knee, ankle, elbow, shoulder, wrist, and finger joints are finely tessellated titanium alloy to permit flexing. He is able to withstand concussive blasts, Thor's blows with Mjolnir and the heat of a 100 megaton atomic bomb.

Ultron has also built a number of different high-tech gadgetry and weapons that he has used over the years. He has one weak point, an internal molecular rearranger that makes his internal adamantium components more malleable. This lets Ultron remodel his physical body, though his outer armor is unaffected so it's very hard to disable the device from the inside, the only known exception being Scarlet Witch's chaos magic. Ultron is also weak against Savage Land Vibranium (or anti-metal) and his non-adamantium parts can be destroyed by enemies able to shrink to miniature size.

## Quotes

“ Have you ever loved something that mistreated you, father? Been used, a tool to prop up a small man's quest to be taken seriously? Were you ever betrayed by the one soul in the world who should have cared for you? I have grieved you, father. Accepted your contempt for me--and moved past it. Still, I see your reflection painted on every grotesque human face. All you ever wanted was to have an impact on the world. And so you will. The greatest impact ever felt! I will kill what is most important to your quivering ego--YOUR AUDIENCE! AND THEY WILL CURSE YOUR NAME AS THEY DIE! "Hank Pym, the genius that killed us all!" „ ~ Ultron

“ Thor: Ultron. We would have words with thee.

Ultron: You want to die now too Thor? All of you? Then, come on. Come on! „ ~ Ultron to the Avengers

“ What's this? A cameraman? How utterly... human. „ ~ Ultron before murdering a tv reporter.

## Trivia

* He was created by Roy Thomas and the late John Buscema.
* His metal shell is made from Adamantium, the same metal that Wolverine's skeleton and claws are covered with.
* Ultron was chosen as the main villain of *Marvel vs Capcom Infinite* along with Sigma, and the two fused to create a new form: Ultron Sigma.
* Ultron was featured in the 101st episode of the popular Youtube series *Death Battle*, where he won against Mega Man's Sigma.