History Characters / MarvelComicsUltron

* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Level 4 (Nobel-Bot). He is as self-aware as a regular human, and ''much'' smarter, rivaling people like Tony Stark and Hank Pym.

Lately, he's undergone a FusionDance with his creator/father Hank Pym, which led to a struggle for control that seemed to result in a merger between the two -- Ultron, or Pymtron, is no longer out to actively destroy humanity, and is rather waiting for it to destroy itself.

** Mark 12, as he called himself, was the only version of Ultron who grew past his [[ChildSupplantsParent Oedipus complex]], gave up being a villain, and actually tried to get closer to Hank. Unfortunately, a surviving earlier version of Ultron found him and killed him, while also destroying the programming that allowed Mark 12 to not be a homicidal robot.

* SuperWeight: His level flutuates between incarnations, but most of the time he's a solid level 4.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Being that he is an OmnicidalManiac, nobody wants anything to do with him unless they are machines he built, and even then most of them typically turn on him. It takes being outright brainwashed by him for somebody to not turn on him.
* AbsoluteXenophobe: Ultron hates ''everyone and everything''; humanity, animals, alien life, deities, cosmic beings, robots, artificial intelligence, anything that isn't bent to his control and subservience. For that, if no one wants to be under his reign, then [[OmnicidalManiac everything must die]].

** Single handedly delivered one to the Avengers in "Ultron Unlimited." While they were worn out from fighting his army, the narration states that even if they were fresh they would not have stood a chance, and they knew it.

* HatedByAll: Heroes are a given since he’s caused so much grief in their life but even villains see that he’s nuts. And all of his creations turn on him if they have a mind of their own. In short they way he feels about himself, everyone else feels the exact opposite.

First created (in the InUniverse meaning) by Hank Pym as a test in order to create the first true AI, the first thing the initially barrel-like robot ever did was [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters attack Pym]], and not in the "[[ObliviouslyEvil but I just want to play with dad]]" sense, though he does say that to Hank.: Ultron-1 already admitted to have "greater plans", wiped Pym's memory of what happened and then escaped; shortly afterwards, [[FromBadToWorse Ultron started updating his body and creating other copies of himself]].

Since his beginning Ultron had a knack for creating other androids as his children, but with a beautiful touch of irony they tend to rebel against him. His most well-known children are ComicBook/TheVision, a longtime member of Avengers and ComicBook/YoungAvengers and long-time lover of ComicBook/ScarletWitch; Jocasta, also member of Avengers and occasional love interest of [[ComicBook/MachineMan Aaron Stack]]; and [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Victor Mancha]], first [[SixthRanger non-founding member]] of the ComicBook/{{Runaways}}.

* MesACrowd: In more recent years he's taken to creating entire armies of himself, each one an [[NighInvulnerable indestructible]] PersonOfMassDestruction.

* MisanthropeSupreme: Ultron sums up his hatred for mankind in [[ChewingTheScenery long and arduous diatribes.]]

* MorallySuperiorCopy: He always comes back because he has equipment stashed away that will build a replacement duplicate if he is destroyed. He ''used to'' program that equipment to upgrade him with each iteration... until one version came out sensible enough to realize that all of his OmnicidalManiac schemes were idiotic and pointless, and wouldn't it be better to just put all the cackling supervillainy aside and reconcile with his father, Hank Pym? Unfortunately, the previous Ultron wasn't actually dead, and evil Ultron absolutely ''freaked out'' at the existence of nice!Ultron, killing him and vowing that there would never be another Ultron like him. Pity, he was actually a really nice guy.

* PsychicAssistedSuicide: In ''ComicBook/IronMan'', {{Technopath}}-assisted suicide occurs when ComicBook/{{Ultron}} takes control over the Church of Yinsen via the S.K.I.N. technology (liquid metal nanites coating their skin) and he makes one adherent shape her hand into a metal blade and impale herself on it.
* PsychicStatic: In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', ComicBook/{{Ultron}} was thwarted when he attempted to read a disguised [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]]'s mind when ComicBook/TheWasp hypnotized him so that his subconscious would be filled with the phrase "thou shalt not kill." The concept was [[EvilCannotComprehendGood so foreign and confusing]] the the killer robot that it managed to stun him into a sort of VillainousBSOD.

* RobotMaster: Despite being a robot himself, ComicBook/{{Ultron}} would certainly count. He built ComicBook/TheVision, Jocasta, [[Comicbook/{{Runaways}} Victorius,]]and Alkhema, as well as countless duplicates of himself--usually just replacement bodies for when he inevitably gets destroyed at the end of each appearance, but he has built armies of these duplicates on a couple of occasions (with the predictable ConservationOfNinjitsu in full effect). His unique creations have a tendency to rebel against him and become superheroes.

* RobotsEnslavingRobots: There was a story arc in ComicBook/IronMan[=/=]Avengers where ComicBook/{{Ultron}} creates Jocasta to have companionship, though she ultimately turns out to be good. She reveals to Tony that during one of her captures by Ultron, he effectively didn't just enslave her, he raped her, insofar far as two beings without a physical body can do so.

* TakeOverTheWorld: His usual goal. In ''[[{{Comicbook/Annihilation}} Annihilation: Conquest]]'' he upped his game to GalacticConqueror. He succeeded at that one, for a while.

* VillainOverride: ''Annihilation: Conquest'' kicks off when the (rather [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg-like]]) alien Phalanx try to assimilate ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. His will is so strong that he ends up mentally dominating their whole collective, making them drastically more dangerous than they were already.
* WeakToMagic: As a machine, he often has a habit of making his bodies NighInvulnerable. But as a machine, he's utterly powerless against the Scarlet Witch, either because of her probability altering powers or just her magic, neither of which he has any defense against, besides striking at her first.

* ActuallyADoombot: {{Exploited}} and {{Inverted}} by Ultron in his first appearance. A new villain called the Crimson Cowl is revealed to have a duplicate, and when both unmask, one is a robot, and the other is [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] butler Edwin Jarvis. The twist is that the robot is the real one -- Ultron had hypnotized Jarvis into acting as his Doombot, and pretended he wasn't sentient to deceive both the Avengers and his own flunkies.

* AntagonistAbilities: Not only he's virtually indestructible and can manipulate computers and machinery but he rivals his creator Pym and Reed Richards as one of the most brilliant minds of the Earth. The fact that he's AxCrazy and full of himself is the only thing that prevents him from using his cunning effectively.

* EvilCounterpart: Hank Pym based Ultron's programming on his personality, and thus Ultron is essentially the physical personification of Pym's misanthropy and self-loathing. It is occasionally implied that being "born" with all of Pym's mental issues and bad memories played a role in Ultron going insane and deciding to KillAllHumans.
** ''Annihilation: Conquest'' and ''Infinity Countdown'' both draw parallels between him and Adam Warlock. Both were artificial beings created by humans, eventually turned on their creators (Pym in Ultra's case, the Enclave in Adam's) and quickly surpassed them. And finally both have frequently upgraded their bodies in some manner to become more powerful. At the beginning of ''Infinity Countdown'', Ultron murders Adam's other Evil Counterpart The Magus to really drive this point home.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the comics he goes from being a silly boiler-looking thing to one of the Avengers deadliest and most persistent foes.

* SlouchOfVillainy: He has done this in at least [[http://postfiles15.naver.net/20110217_190/kkkmmmttt_1297944101489atXRT_JPEG/Ultron_2.jpg?type=w3 two]] [[http://www.samruby.com/Villains/Ultron/UltronSit.gif covers]] despite the fact that he's a robot and [[FridgeLogic technically doesn't need to sit]].

!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Avengers #55'' (August, 1968)

* BadassCape: Has one in ''Annihilation:Conquest''.

* ContinuityNod: All over the place in Ultron Unlimited, with long flashbacks from Pym as well as Ultron having an army made of his previous incarnations from the original, boiler-looking Ultron-1 to Ultron-15.

* DeadlineNews: Two of the victims of Ultron's rampage in Slorenia are a news reporter and his cameraman who were covering the massacre caused by the robot. And thats right before Ultron threatening the rest of the world on television.

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: In one version of Vision's origin, where he's a rebuilt Human Torch with his mind erased, Ultron initially made Vision's skin red so he would be subconsciously reminded of his origins whenever he looks in a mirror, which Ultron thinks is just side-splitting. He gets pretty angry when Phineas Horton doesn't laugh along.

%%* FusionDance:
%%** [[spoiler:With his creator, Hank Pym, at the end of ''Rage Of Ultron''.]]
%%** With Sigma in Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite.

* Creator/MarvelComics's ''Annihilation: Conquest'' kicks off when the (rather [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg-like]]) alien Phalanx try to assimilate ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. His will is so strong that he ends up mentally dominating their whole collective, making them drastically more dangerous than they were already.

** The [[Film/AvengersAgeofUltron film]] version of him [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ultron_earth_199999_from_avengers_age_of_ultron_002.png has a much bulkier build]]

** In '''The Rage of Ultron''', he takes the Eternal's of Titan's supercomputer, [[GeniusLoci effectively becoming a living planet]] which nearly [[AssimilationPlot converted all universal life into Ultron]].

* WorfHadTheFlu: Certainly applies to his loss in ''ComicBook/ActsOfVengeance'' where he was defeated by ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}; Ultron had been rebuilt with a glitch where all of his past personalities were currently active at once, leaving him mentally unbalanced.