- “Your father's creation has no limit for how much power it can absorb. So, now, neither do I. Prepare for humanity's end.”
- ―Ultron[src]
Ultron is the main antagonist of the second season of Avengers Assemble. He is a self-aware, highly intelligent robot and an Arch-nemesis of Vision and the Avengers. He serves as one of the main antagonists of season two, sharing the role with Thanos and the Squadron Supreme, and later as the overarching main antagonist of season three, even subtitled The Ultron Revolution.
Ultron was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.
Appearances[]
Avengers Assemble[]
His first appearance is in the episode "Thanos Triumphant", where he managed to infest the body of Arsenal while Tony Stark upgraded the robot to absorb the power of all five Infinity Stones. After the Avengers defeated Thanos, Ultron reshaped Arsenal's body in his image before leaving once he defeated the Avengers, supercharging himself with the Infinity Gauntlet's power.
Over the course of his arc, he begins formulating plans to dissipate the Avengers by utilizing what he knew of them to anticipate their movements, particularly that of Iron Man's. He was able to predict that since Ultron was using Arsenal's body, he wouldn't try to purge Ultron from his body by destroying his physical form. He was even briefly able to imitate Arsenal as a way of playing possum. Eventually, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, and Falcon left the Avengers to join SHIELD while Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Thor stayed in the disabled Avengers Tower.
Finally achieving his goal, Ultron began his final plan to unleash a horde of nanobots into New York City, infecting its citizens with an nanovirus into assimilated sentries. Dubbing his Arsenal body with the moniker of "Ultron Prime", Ultron took an unwitting Falcon in Central Park as his first victim to demonstrate the effects of his nanobot plague. The disassembled Avengers agreed to work in unorthodox team-ups, but Captain America and Tony decided that the two of them would attack Ultron Prime, who had set up a base in Avengers Tower and created a throne comprised of various scrapped Iron Man armors.
"Ultron Prime" in Avengers Tower, atop a throne of Iron Man armors.
Once the duo arrived, Ultron Prime used a series of laser silos to attack them as a distraction while he lured the Tri-carrier to his current position with Cap's voice. After briefly turning Ultron's distraction on him, Tony was able to inform Nick Fury of the danger, but Ultron had already begun his attempt to assimilate the Tri-carrier to spread his nanobots across the world. However, once onboard the Helicarrier, Tony deduced that Ultron would only use the portion of the Tri-carrier that would be able to go into space, and deliberately used himself as bait to lure Ultron Prime out of his base to take matters into his own hands.
Ultron Prime fell for the trap, and while they battled in the space-carrier, Tony was able to program the shuttle to fly them straight towards the sun. Ultron continuously thrashed his nemesis around, taunting how disappointed his father Howard would be at his failure to save the city (even though he was ironically using a robot body Howard Stark created). However, thanks to a formula developed by a partially-cured Falcon and processed by Ant-Man, the city was purged of the Ultron nanovirus and all copies of Ultron's program were forced back into Ultron Prime, briefly distracting him and giving Tony the upper hand. Once they reached a certain distance from the sun, the shuttle melted in the sheer heat as Tony put Ultron Prime in a neckhold to ensure he would fly into the burning heat with him.
Suddenly, Ultron restarted as the persona of Arsenal, who said goodbye to Tony and deliberately flew straight into the searing heat of the sun. Ultron Prime rebooted himself, only to scream "NO!" as his body was disintegrated by the massive heat of the sun.
Unfortunately, somehow, someway, Ultron's body was not completely destroyed by the sun's heat, therefore, making Arsenal's sacrifice for nothing. His half-melted, offline body drifted through space for an unknown period of time, before it was found by A.I.M. and the Scientist Supreme. Bringing Ultron's husk back to their HQ, Black Widow later found out that Ultron's body survived. After the Avengers battled the Scientist Supreme and his three new liquid metal Super-Adaptoids, and defeating him, preventing him from self-destructing his base, Ultron reactivated. Coming up from the ground, Ultron absorbed the liquid metal off of the Scientist, as well as absorbing his brainwaves, and used it to remodel his damaged body into a new, more powerful, humanoid form (resembling his appearance in Age of Ultron).
He would create replicas of the Avengers and take out each member one by one, dubbing the androids the Ultimates. However, the Avengers destroyed them. Ultron would later infiltrate the ancestral Inhuman city Attilan, duping the Seeker into working for him and creating an army of spider-legged drones. Developing a superweapon beneath the city that would capture and torture Black Bolt into amplifying his sonic voice into a world-devastating shockwave, Black Widow and Hulk inserted a Terrigen crystal into the machine's power source, instead dispersing the Terrigen Mists across the Eastern Seaboard, thus creating several new Inhumans, Inferno and Ms. Marvel chief among them, while Ultron was obliterated point blank by the blast.
However, Ultron's disembodied digital consciousness eventually possessed his very own creation Vision, using the Synthizoid hero to infiltrate Asgard while bonding with Thor in order to possess the the powerful automaton the Destroyer. While the Avengers combated the Ultron-possessed Destroyer, Vision managed to isolate Ultron in the armor, allowing Thor to short circuit it with lightning, leaving the Destroyer to fall into the ocean. However, Ultron's consciousness still survived via power cables on the ocean floor.
Rebuilding his liquid metal shapeshifting body, Ultron took on the guise of US bureaucrat Truman Marsh, forcefully signing himself on as the Avengers' government liason in response to the president's new laws regarding the recent emerged Inhumans. His new elaborate schemes involved impeding and supplanting the Avengers' progress, such as kicking the Hulk off the team to replace him with the Red Hulk, whom the Leader would brainwash via additional gamma radiation into a mindless berserker state, create a Inhuman prison in the case of criminal activity, such as Dante's hypnotic rampage destroying Attilan thanks to Maximus, or stripping the Avengers' ownership of Avengers Tower, and replacing them with the Mighty Avengers, consisting of their allies Captain Marvel, Vision, Red Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Black Panther, and Songbird. As well as pitting them against each other in a civil war conflict which ended in the Avengers being arrested into the superhuman prison. However, via control disks, he mind-controlled Black Bolt, Medusa, Crystal, Karnak, Inferno, and Ms. Marvel into attacking the Avengers, but following their liberation, and the split factions reuniting as a single team, Marsh disgarded his disguise and revealed himself as Ultron, before unleashing an army of Ultron drones across the globe to acheive his "Ultron Revolution". Although Iron Man, Falcon and Ant-Man disable his control disks, Ultron merely transfers himself into a Vibranium body in Wakanda. He reveals his ultimate plan having converted a satellite dish into a focusing array to build up solar radiation in the Earth's atmosphere to destroy all human life on Earth. However, thanks to Ant-Man and Falcon, they divert the ray into Ultron, but he then tackles Iron Man, transferring his conciousness into Tony's arc reactor and thus infiltrating and taking over his mind. Knowing they cannot defeat him lest they harm or kill Tony, Doctor Strange divises a plan to banish Ultron to a pocket dimension that disables technology, thus finally deactivating him and keeping Iron Man alive via an enchantment, but thus he can never leave until Ultron can be removed from his body. The Avengers regretfully and reluctantly leave Iron Man to his imprisonment, but thanks to an interdimensional frequency, can keep in touch with him.
Ultimate Spider-Man[]
Ultron appears in the episode "Strange Halloween", as a illusionary construct created by Baron Mordo to combat Spider-Man, Ant-Man, and Doctor Strange.
Trivia[]
- Fred Tatasciore voices the dark illusion version of Ultron, created by Doctor Spectrum, in the episode "Spectrums". His voice is deeper and almost raspier compared to Jim Meskimen.
- Ultron's initial design in the second season of Avengers Assemble is based on that of Ultron during the Annihilation: Conquest story line.
- Ultron's appearances throughout the third season is based on that of Ultron from Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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