Supervillain Origins: Ultron

this powerful sentient robot is one of
the greatest threats the Avengers have
ever faced
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the origins of Ultron I am
Ultron sinks my imperative is to bring
peace and order to this world I am about
to fulfill that imperative for the
extinction of humanity begins now
as with most comic book characters that
are often re-imaginings and different
versions to a character’s past we’ve
chosen to primarily follow the storyline
that unfolded in 1968 The Avengers 54
and 55 before being expanded upon in
issues number 57 and 58 in this evil
robots first comic book appearance it
was disguised as the mysterious leader
of the Masters of evil referring to
himself as the Crimson cowl bribing the
Avengers Butler Jarvis he gained
information on the Avengers lair as his
minions captured the superhero team the
Crimson cowls robot identity was
eventually revealed of course just to
make things extra complicated it turns
out that Jarvis was behind the entire
scheme to begin with using the robot as
cover and a tactical computer however in
the following issue this was shown to
just be a red herring as Jarvis had
really been undermined control and it
was the robot that really really was
behind everything after all ridding
itself of the disguise
Ultron 5 the living automaton revealed
itself and ordered its men to kill
Jarvis now that he’d served his purpose
of course
Jarvis managed to survive only to inform
a hero called the Black Knight about
what had happened and he must save the
team who were being held within an
h-bomb meant to blow up Manhattan
freeing the team together they stopped
the bomb only to discover that Ultron
was not there and had been watching the
events unfold from a secondary location
with its plans foiled Ultron pledged to
find other ways to kill the Avengers
team in the wake of this event the
mysterious amnesiac Android known as
vision began to recall his own origins
as it turned out he was created by
Ultron 5 to destroy his newfound friends
as his memories returned vision
remembered that his name came from the
phrase a vision of the death of the
Avengers
you’ll have your directive vision
executed during the fight with his
comrades vision struggled to regain
control from his base programming before
inadvertently leading the Avengers to be
captured again with vision deciding to
confront Ultron five he defeated his
maker when Ultron leaped toward the hero
as he phase-shifted passing through
vision and hitting his volatile cranial
electrodes Ultron blew apart despite
what appeared to be his total
destruction
Ultron’s head was recovered from the
scene soon after
Ultron’s origins were finally revealed
when Henry Pym decided to search his own
backup electronic memory bank there he
discovered something that he had somehow
forgotten that years before he had
created a synthetic life-form called
Ultron one instantly hostile the
sentient machine had subdued Pym and
decided to eliminate mankind however
instead of killing its creator it erased
PIMs memories of the event and began
upgrading itself
following this Ultron returned with his
surviving head having used mental
control to force vision to rebuild him
as Ultron six a version forged in the
invincible metal called adamantium my
chassis is comprised of pure adamantium
now Avenger it is unbreakable even by
your subsequent appearances often saw
Ultron evolves several more times over
the years the menacing Ultron has
continued to pose a major threat for the
Avengers and humanity he has appeared in
various media eventually becoming the
main adversary for the heroic team in
2015’s The Avengers 2 age of Ultron a
film sharing few resemblances to the
2013 comic book series of the same name
are you a fan of the mind-controlling
unkillable and super genius arch villain
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