I might be a little late to the party with this post, but I
still wanted to put something out to cover Ultron in the MC2, especially
given I missed my chance last time he made a major appearance on the big
screen, so now with his return to the small screen via the Disney+
animated series What If, I'm seizing the opportunity.
I briefly touched on Ultron in my History
of the MC2: The Avengers post but let’s take a more focused look this time.
At an unknown point in the team's past prior the original team’s final mission,
an Avengers team which included Captain
America, Iron Man and Thor fought Ultron
Extreme, the newest model of the team's old foe. Iron Man eventually
managed to erase Ultron's programming and the villain's
indestructible body was sealed away ‘half a world away, in a cavern far beneath
the Earth’ for over a decade (Avengers Next #2-#3).
The Avengers Compound contains an armory and ‘trophy room’ within which an inert head of an older model Ultron was kept. During Sylene’s staged attack on the Avengers Compound by ‘Zombie Avengers,’ her lackeys Warp and Ulik secretly stole this Ultron head. Sylene then used her magicks upon this Ultron ‘artifact’ so that it would guide her to the body of Ultron Extreme (Avengers Next #1-#2).
Still inert with its programming wiped, Sylene imbued the shell of Ultron Extreme with her magic and set it against the Avengers, while disguising herself as another ‘prime’ Ultron resembling that of the stolen head. However, when ‘Ultron’ Sylene’s assault module was suddenly destroyed leaving her vulnerable, she was forced to cover her deception by appearing to ‘self-destruct.’ Busy using her magic to disguise herself as the kidnapped and depowered former Avenger Kevin Masterson to enable her to enact her final plan, the Ultron Extreme body was left to collapse inert once again on the remote island atoll (Avengers Next #3).
It’s also worth mentioning that a model of statue of Ultron
is on display in the Avengers Compound alongside many others
representing past Avengers foes (American Dream #1). Presumably
the actual head of Ultron and other villain ‘artifacts’ are kept well
away from the public in the aforementioned armory or trophy room.
While this might be the last time we see of Ultron in the
MC2, the ever-clever Stinger notes that the villain was previously
only deactivated and that his programming could be copied or restored in the
same way Avengers members Mainframe and the Vision have
done in the past (Avengers Next #3).
Until I learn how to restore myself from some lines of code,
I remain
frogoat