Avengers 2: Age Of Ultron.

Avengers 2: Age Of Ultron.


Discuss.

Age of Ultron the mini series crossover event sucked donkey balls.

One of the worst written piles of dogshit ever. A total waste of time from start to finish.

Brian Michael Bendis spent 10 issues slapping fandom in the face with his nasty, diseased cock.

All that being said, Whedon may be able to make something watchable out of it, but a lot is going to depend on the quality of Marvel's phase 2 films including Guardians of the Galaxy and especially Ant Man.

Not familiar with Ultron, is he a decent villain?

He's Terminator and Skynet mashed into one.
Skynet with a body.

Well, multiple bodies, and he's taken various shapes and sizes over the decades.

Ultron was a robot/A.I. created by Hank Pym (who at various times has been Ant Man, Giant Man, Yellowjacket).

Ultron eventually became self-aware and sentient, and decided that humans were the problem and set about trying to annihilate us. Just like Skynet.

Age of Ultron the crossover event was basically a 10-issue What If? series that saw Ultron finally figure out a way to conquer the planet and wipe out humans. Most of the major heroes of the Marvel Universe are killed. The fate of humanity finally rests in the hands of Wolverine and Invisible Girl, who travel back in time so Wolverine can kill Hank Pym before he can create Ultron. Only it doesn't work, the timeline is further screwed up. So they have undo Pym's death, allow him to live and get him to sabotage Ultron by hiding a kill switch program deep within his core programming right from his creation that will activated at a key moment to finally destroy him.

Poof, end of story, reset button is pressed, everything back to normal.

Except....something happens, a temporal shockwave radiates througout the Marvel universe. We're told that after all these years of time travel and messing with things, the space-time continuum has finally been "broken" and the multiverse is disrupted.

The final result? A new character is introduced to the Marvel Universe. From out of nowhere, for no discernible reason, and with no real explanation, here comes Neil Gaiman's Angela, spawn hunter from the pages of Todd McFarlane's Spawn, first introduced in Spawn #9. The disruption in space-time has pulled from Image universe to Marvel universe.

It's not the comic storyline, they're just swiping the title.

And Pym isn't the inventor.

http://www.newsarama.com/18454-repo...ge-of-ultron-is-origin-story-no-hank-pym.html

Ultron without Hank Pym? Does not compute.

Tony Stark will likely be responsible.

Then they will have failed.

...so what about courting Death?

^They could have Ultron be some sort of tool of Thanos's, some sort of hack of JARVIS, for just the sort of purpose of courting death.

With Thanos (who was behind Loki in The Avengers), Marvel's beaten DC to the evil galactic overlord villain, so DC will have a tough time doing Darkseid without looking like a rip-off. And with Ultron they're beating DC to the malevolent artificial intelligence baddie, so DC's going to look like a me-too if they do Brainiac.

Better get off your ass, DC. Marvel's taking the credible-villains-for-a-superteam high ground...

Bulding up Thanos over two Avengers big villains, Loki and then Ultron, in order to come out with the big guy in #3?

Yeah, that makes sense.

Marvel has pwned DC so hard now that the best course of action might be to let the Superman Universe rest for a few years, and come back when Marvel's hegemony wanes.

Then again, DC's actual comics are equally far behind Marvel's (quality-wise, I mean) right now... perhaps they just need to get themselves a Quesada-team to replace the current crop of Didios.

DC had 20 years to get ready for this.

They have only themselves to blame.

Maybe, but that would be a risky move. Is the superhero genre going to be riding high indefinitely? Or is it going to get displaced by the next edgy genre (transsexual werewolves vs. robotic hobbits)?

Whatever it is, they need to get it going quickly. Recent entries in The Avengers and Iron Man series have made PROFITS in excess of a billion dollars...EACH. Even Thor, probably the big name Marvel character with the least mainstream cinematic appeal, racked up almost as much as Man of Steel which features DC's flagship character.

Thor went a long ways just on the strength of Kenneth Branagh as director. And out of all the Marvel movies so far, it's the one that has grown on me the most with repeated viewings.

Thor definitely improves with repeated viewings.

I really enjoyed "Thor" the first time I saw it.

James Spader is Ultron.

Discuss.

You're kidding.

*googles*

No you're not! That's... both amazing (as I'd watch Spader watch paint dry) and strange (as I'd have bet on a motion capture CGI effect for Ultron, leaving little room for Spader's trademark face and voice acting -- he's no Tudyk).

This should put an end to the "J.A.R.V.I.S. is Ultron" debate.

Now that I'm imagining Spader in the Marvelverse, I'm almost disappointed I'm not going to see him do Osborn.

Is Ultron fat? 'cause James Spader is. Of course, they can slim him down with CGI!!!

Conjures up images of this stuff in my head:

No mystery why!

Not this guy?

EPIC FAIL!!!!

Can someone over the age of 40 please enlighten him...?

Ultraman.

Ultron without Hank Pym is just wrong.

Is it? Hank Pym is a biochemist, not an engineer. In the comics, he developed an interest in artificial intelligence and robotics after studying Dragon Man. Ultron is one of the best villain's that the Avengers has to offer, and it would take way too long movie-wise to have Pym go from biochemist to engineer.

Who in the Marvel Cinematic Universe would you think has the skills to create a robot body and an advanced AI? How about the guy who has already done both: Tony Stark.

Ultron is the end result of the "House Party Protocol" gone bad. J.A.R.V.I.S. was shown to have the ability to control multiple sets of armor, and if he can do that, why would Tony ever need to be in the suit again? Because of Ultron.