History Characters / MCUUltron

* StrawNihilist: During his discussion with [[spoiler:Vision]] at the end, they both agree that [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves humanity is doomed to destroy itself]]. However, whereas Ultron concludes that humans deserve to go extinct, [[spoiler:Vision]] believes it is better to [[TheAntiNihilist cherish something no matter how fleeting it may be]].

!''ComicBook/{{Ultron}}''

** His MK I form is decrepit, with his poorly-armored head looking barely like a human face. The sentries don't fare better. His "Prime" form is taller, more well-defined, and has a face that can display limited emotion (even to the point of having metal teeth, a trait carried over to his next form). His vibranium form is the strongest, and has a face that can fully display human emotion.

* DarkMessiah: He comes to the Maximoffs as one, promising a world where Tony Stark and the Avengers will be made to reckon for their deeds. And in his own mind, he is as well, [[spoiler:believing humanity's folly is sitting on its hands and asking for the power of the few to protect everyone when he wants the world to take responsibility for itself as a whole with him as the guiding light. However this changes gears when he comes to the conclusion that humanity is hopeless in its current state and the one true way to fix everything is to engineer a extinction-level event to forcibly replace humanity with something stronger of his own creation. This is the point at which the Maximoffs deem him crazy and must be stopped]].

* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Ultron is one of Marvel's most dangerous villains ever. His entire body is MadeOfIndestructium, and ComicBook/TheMightyThor has a hard enough time ''leaving a dent'' in it before it repairs itself anyways. Ultron also has {{Technopath}} abilities, where he once enslaved the techno-organic Phalanx through sheer force of will, and then went on to conquer to the Kree Empire and nearly took out Nova Prime (who had to be put into a coma to prevent herself from being taken over). In the movie, while being a dangerous, world-class threat, he gets dispatched much more easily in the end, and even struggles keeping up with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in a one-on-one battle (which is compounded by Cap getting the [[AdaptationalBadass reverse]] treatment). Getting overpowered and killed by ComicBook/TheVision would ''never'' happen in the comics -- Ultron once [[SingleStrokeBattle one-shotted]] him with no effort. [[http://i.imgur.com/gMaKXWh.png Really]].

* TheCameo: In ''Spider-Man: Homecoming''. Ultron Prime's head, or one of the heads of his drones, can be seen in the Damage Control facility when Peter is stuck inside after a skirmish with Toomes. The head can be seen brief as Peter looks around and comes across the offline damaged head.

* ClippedWingAngel: [[spoiler:In the form of the final Sentinel drone he's left with after the Sokovia battle, which Vision destroys after a short dialogue.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His Vibranium body, which is effectively invulnerable to everything except Wanda's telekinetic powers. The body that The Vision inhabits ''was'' going to be this before The Avengers stole it from him.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His Vibranium body, which is effectively invulnerable to everything except Wanda's telekinetic powers.]]

* PrimalFear: Despite his nigh immortality, he's afraid of death.

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* ObviouslyEvil: Just look at him! No one would think he’s a good guy by looking at him.

** A more minor when he scoffs at how they took something as versatile as vibranium and used it to make a "frisbee" for Captain America. Come ''Black Panther'' and all the impressive feats of engineering and medicine [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis Wakanda]] was able to do...

* VillainHasAPoint: Ultron's statement that the Avengers are [[DestructiveSavior killers]] shakes the team, especially considering the sheer amount of damage they had caused in all previous movies by their action or inaction. In fact, it is [[KirkSummation proving him wrong]] that is a major impetus behind their primary focus on [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind civilian extraction]] during the FinalBattle.

* AdaptationalWimp: While Ultron here is certainly a dangerous, world-class threat, he comes across as being lesser than his comic counterpart. In the comics, Ultron's entire body is MadeOfIndestructium. To give you an idea of how strong it is, ComicBook/TheMightyThor has a hard enough time ''leaving a dent'' in it before it repairs itself anyways. That's not taking into account his {{Technopath}} abilities, where he once enslaved the techno-organic Phalanx through sheer force of will, and then went on to conquer to the Kree Empire and nearly took out Nova Prime (who had to be put into a coma to prevent herself from being taken over), and is widely held as one of Marvel's most dangerous villains ever to the point where he's seen as Marvel's equivalent to ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}. In the movie, he gets dispatched much more easily in the end, and even struggles keeping up with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in a one-on-one battle (which is compounded by Cap getting the [[AdaptationalBadass reverse]] treatment). Getting overpowered and killed by ComicBook/TheVision is also noteworthy, as this would ''never'' happen in the comics[[note]]For comparison, Ultron once [[SingleStrokeBattle one-shotted]] Vision with no effort. [[http://i.imgur.com/gMaKXWh.png Really]].[[/note]].

* IAmNotMyFather: What ever you do, do ''not'' compare him to Tony Stark. [[AnArmAndALeg Just as Klaue on why not.]]

* GravityMaster: Ultron is equipped with repurposed anti-gravity technology taken from scraps of the Chitauri Army. It allows him small feats such as pulling Iron Man towards him, or suddenly make a sizeable chunk of concrete levitate to black Black Widow's path.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Ultron's first goal was "peace in our time" when he started out. By film's end, he firmly refers to his goal as "peace in ''my'' time".

* {{Narcissist}}: His primary reason for creating the Vision was so that he'd have a body that would look the part of a savior to those that survived his ColonyDrop.

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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Vision kills him, which he'd been hoping to avoid in favor of talking Ultron down. The way the scene played out, it seemed like Ultron wanted to die and forced Vision's hand.]]

* BecomeARealBoy: This allows the Avengers to get a jump on Ultron's plans. Tony realizes, even though Ultron is contemptuous of humanity at best and that the human form is pretty inefficient for a murderous AI who could create a body in any form that he pleases, that Ultron, nonetheless, keeps coming back to the human form as his primary template...which leads to Bruce realizing that [[spoiler:nobody's heard from Helen Cho (who specializes in creating artificial human tissue) in a while]].
* BerserkButton: He really hates Tony, to the point where he [[spoiler:severs Klaue's arm in rage]] after the man in question compares something Ultron said to Tony.

** He planned for [[spoiler:the Vision]] to be his final form, but when [[spoiler:the Avengers took it and the Twins betrayed him]], he decided to go with a larger and more demonic looking frame as his next platform.

* BondVillainStupidity: {{Parodied|Trope}}, {{defied|Trope}}, and {{subverted|Trope}} when he jokes about revealing his "[[SarcasmMode evil plan]]" to Tony Stark. [[BaitAndSwitch He then shuts up and starts fighting Iron Man]], catching him completely off-guard in his attack. [[spoiler:It is later played completely straight when he kidnaps Black Widow and talks about his plans, although he is pretty vague on the details. Justified as he outright says that he wanted to show her what he was doing because he didn't ''have'' anyone else left by that point.]]
* BookEnds: The first time he is actually seen in a physical body, he is showing up in a damaged Iron Legion drone to confront the Avengers, including his "father" Tony. The last time he appears in a physical body, he is confronting [[spoiler: his "son" Vision, in a damaged Sentry body]].
* TheCameo: In ''Spider-Man: Homecoming''. [[spoiler:Ultron Prime's head, or one of the heads of his drones, can be seen in the Damage Control facility when Peter is stuck inside after a skirmish with Toomes. The head can be seen brief as Peter looks around and comes across the offline damaged head.]]
* ColonyDrop: He really loves meteors. He discusses them in relation to extinction-level events multiple times, and [[spoiler:sets half a city flying purely to slam it into the Earth]].

* CreateYourOwnHero: [[spoiler:Creates ComicBook/TheVision's body, though it's completed by Stark, Banner, and Thor.]]
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Tony Stark builds him using information from [[spoiler:the Mind Gem in Loki's staff]], but Ultron comes online malfunctioning and insane, causing a ZerothLawRebellion.

** Perhaps best exemplified by his incredibly deadpan reaction to [[spoiler:the Hulk boarding the Quinjet he was escaping on]]:

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Ultron gets into an argument with Ulysses Klaue, the arms dealer who sells him Wakandan vibranium. Ultron casually [[spoiler:chops his forearm off]] in a rush of anger and then apologizes, as if it's all some big misunderstanding. Then he kicks Klaue in the chin.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Downplayed. He says something close to this [[spoiler:to Wanda, when she begins to turn on him.]]

* EvilGloating: He downloaded all of the internet into himself, so he frequently talks like an overtly confident know-it-all. However, he averts the usual ranting about his true intentions. [[spoiler: By the time Sokovia goes for a ride, he goes into a full out BreakingSpeech]].

* EvilPlan: He jokingly discusses his goal as being one. The plan itself is to engineer an extinction-level event to force humanity to evolve and grow stronger. [[spoiler:Or to just destroy humanity entirely. Ultron's insane enough that it's not clear what his real goal is.]]

* ForTheEvulz: There comes a point in the climax where he could have easily [[spoiler:escaped in a stolen stealth Quinjet]], but he just had to try and [[spoiler:gun down as many Avengers, police officers, and civilians as he could before trying to leave]].

* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: He kills Quicksilver (he was aiming for Hawkeye, but didn't seem to bothered with the ultimate results).]]

** [[spoiler:Ultron's obsession with making the perfect body for himself leads to the creation of The Vision's body. This ultimately leads to his downfall as the Avengers take Vision's body and upload JARVIS into it, who prevents Ultron from escaping into cyberspace in the final battle and is the one who ends up destroying his A.I.]]
** [[spoiler:This also led to Wanda discovering his true intentions that he'd been concealing, as while he was attempting to upload himself to the Vision body, he inadvertently gave her a readable mind to work off of.]]

** He is a SocialDarwinist that believes only the worthy will survive the holocaust he wants to create, meaning he's just fine with his plan killing billions of people like nothing. Yet, he ''himself'' is [[spoiler:is afraid of death. It never occurs to him that he'd be inflicting what he fears on countless others.]]

* InterimVillain: He serves as this between Thanos' role as the main threat behind Loki in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', and as the central BigBad in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', as Ultron's affiliated with neither Loki, Thanos, nor any of their respective forces, acting on his own accord and following through with plans of his own devising. Although he winds up indirectly alerting Thanos of an Infinity Stone being on Earth via using the Mind Stone [[spoiler:to create Vision]].

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The more time he spends active, the more he alters his plan to have further and further disastrous consequences. At first, he just wanted to eliminate the Avengers which, while still decidedly psychotic, can still be argued to have some logical basis due to DestructiveSavior and/or CreateYourOwnVillain incidents. [[spoiler:Then he decides it'd be far more beneficial to orchestrate a near-extinction event and guide the new humanity as its savior while they adapt to become stronger. Finally, he just decides "screw it" and hit the planetary ResetButton via nuking the Earth from the atmosphere with a gigantic "meteor" of his own design.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Downplayed. Near the end, he knows he's beaten, and yet takes the chance to [[spoiler:hijack the Quinjet and use it to gun down the Avengers rather than try to escape]], [[EvilIsPetty because he's petty that way]].

* MotiveDecay: Deconstructed. He originally sincerely wanted to help humanity and to bring peace, by [[SocialDarwinist rooting out the weak]] and guiding the survivors as a savior. However, [[spoiler: after the twins turn on him, and the Avengers steal his new body, Ultron decides humanity isn't worth the effort, and opts to simply [[ColonyDrop wipe the slate clean]], so that he can rebuild on his own]].

* {{Narcissist}}: His primary reason for creating the Vision was so that he'd have a body that would look the part of a savior to [[spoiler:those that survived his ColonyDrop.]]
* NighInvulnerability: His final body is made of vibranium, rendering him extremely resistant to harm. [[spoiler:A combined energy attack from Iron Man, Vision, and Thor, sustained for nearly a minute, damaged him significantly but still failed to destroy him. It took Scarlet Witch ripping out his power source to do that.]]

** He drops this goal in favour of unambiguous [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal mania]] when [[spoiler:the Vision is taken away from him]], which he sees as [[ItsPersonal a personal affront by the Avengers]].

* OmnicidalManiac: Ultron intends to [[spoiler:cause an extinction-level event on earth like the destruction of the dinosaurs]]. The problem is, he can't even decide on his own motives for doing so. He alternates between wanting to protect humanity, to wanting it to evolve and change through cataclysm, to wanting to supplant humanity completely. [[spoiler:The Vision feels pity for Ultron, but also recognises that he's so completely out of his mind that he can't be reasoned with and has to be destroyed to be stopped.]]
* PetTheDog: The Maximoff twins are not quite {{Morality Pets}} for Ultron, but they are the source of most of the sympathetic moments for his character. His first sign of any sort of kindness is when the twins talk about their DarkAndTroubledPast. He particularly has these moments with Wanda, who [[spoiler:he never attacks directly and seems the most distressed by her hate or fear of him.]]
* PinocchioSyndrome: He frequently sings "I've Got No Strings", and even mentions how after his EvilPlan rolls out, "the only living things left will be of metal". [[spoiler:For most of the movie he was also looking for a partly biological body to move his essence into, as he wanted to surpass the Avengers.]]
* PrimalFear: [[spoiler:Despite his nigh immortality, he's afraid of death.]]

** Ultron is extremely petty and childish at times. He [[spoiler:severs the hand]] of Ulysses Klaue, then apologized as if it were just an overreaction that could be forgiven, not realizing how traumatic his actions were. He gets upset when [[spoiler:the Maximoffs turn on him when they realize he's going to destroy the world]]. He later [[spoiler:kidnaps Black Widow]] just to have someone with whom to share his thoughts. All of these traits can be explained by the fact that he ReallyWasBornYesterday, but the fact that [[EmergentHuman Vision]] takes a different route negates the effectiveness of this as a viable excuse.

* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Ultron Prime's Ultimate form took a lot of punishment from the Avengers before he was finally terminated. He was partly melted by a concentrated attack from Iron Man, Thor, and Vision, punched over the horizon by the Hulk, and was beaten up by the Hulk again before getting thrown out of the Quinjet from thousands of feet in the air. Wanda finally finishes him off by ripping out his core. The actual Ultron A.I. meets its end when Vision destroys the surviving Ultron Sentry.]]

* RedemptionRejection: Thor tries to talk him into peacefully surrendering. [[spoiler:The Vision]] tries this twice. Ultron rejects all these offers.

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:His final death has shades of this, as he had to have known that the heavily damaged sentry body he was in was no match for the Vision, yet chose to attack him anyways.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Vision expresses a degree of pity for Ultron, sympathizing with his goal of world peace while recognizing that he's completely insane, before he destroys him.]]
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: After [[spoiler:he loses his organic body to the Avengers and the Maximoffs turn on him]], he decides to forego all pretense of altruism and openly begins working towards the destruction of humanity, even altering his body to reflect this new state of mind.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After Vision extracts him from the Internet and forces him to remain in his robotic bodies, Ultron stops caring about saving the world, deciding that if the Avengers took [[{{Cyberspace}} his world]] from him, he would take [[KillEmAll theirs in return]].]]
* VillainousFriendship: Shows legitimate kindness towards the Maximoffs, commiserating with them about their family's death. [[spoiler:Even when they have a HeelFaceTurn, he seems more saddened with them than angry, and even expresses concern for Wanda when he thinks she is going to die with his ColonyDrop despite his desire to impose it in order to wipe out mankind.]]

** [[spoiler: His attack on Sokovia killed Helmut Zemo's wife, son, and father, motivating Zemo to take revenge upon the Avengers in ''Civil War''. This also means, in a roundabout way, he posthumously achieved his goal of breaking the Avengers apart.]]

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: His "Oh, for God's Sake!" when [[spoiler:Hulk jumps into the Quinjet he's trying to escape in]] just screams this, sounding less angry than just plain exasperated.

* GravityMaster: Ultron is equipped with repurposed anti-gravity technology taken from scraps of the Chitauri Army. It allows him small feats such as
pulling Iron Man towards him, or suddenly make a sizeable chunk of concrete levitate to black Black Widow's path.

* GravityMaster: Ultron is equipped with repurposed anti-gravity technology repurposed from scraps of the Chitauri Army. It allows him small feats such as

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