History Film / AvengersAgeOfUltron

JustForFun/TheOneWith the floating city.

* CasualDangerDialog:

** Thor mentions that four Infinity Stones have emerged in the past few years. He's encountered the Space, Mind, and Reality Stones across his movies and the first ''Avengers'', but the Power Stone is exclusive to the events of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (the Time Stone won't come into play until ''{{Film/Doctor Strange|2016}}'', and the Soul Stone not until ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''), indicating Thor has some awareness of those events, thereby tying them into the overall ''Avengers'' storyline.

** [[spoiler:Scarlet Witch causes Thor to see ominous premonitions of the Infinity Stones, and at the end of the film, he chooses to leave the Mind Stone with Vision. TheStinger then shows Thanos with his empty Infinity Gauntlet, vowing to find the stones himself. This all sets up the plot of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', and establishes ArcWelding with the previous year's ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', where the Power Stone was introduced. This is also possibly tied in with Tony's vision as well, since that includes several Leviathans (which carry Thanos's forces) traveling to Earth]].

** The Avengers continued to work as a team in this movie. They haven't changed in their roles with the exception of an expanded TheChick role for Natasha; she's in charge of using empathy and friendship to manage The Hulk. Hawkeye's role is expanded to being the TheHeart of the team, being the most emotionally stable and grounded member of the group who is still sorely needed despite the power gap between he and the other heroes.

* RealityEnsues: Cap grabs a car's rear bumper to stop it falling off of the rising city. Bumpers aren't built for that, so it gets ripped off as the car falls off anyway and Thor has to catch it.

* {{Crossover}}: This movie marks the last time that ''Marvel Studios'' and ''Marvel Television'' really coordinated anything. Season 2, episode 19 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E19TheDirtyHalfDozen The Dirty Half Dozen]]", immediately precedes this movie. Baron von Strucker is speaking with Dr. List, the HYDRA officer that Coulson's team went up against in that episode, and the secret intel that Coulson recovers in that episode is what directs the Avengers to Strucker's base at the start of the movie. The episode also ends with an Inhuman having a precognitive vision of the events of the movie. The Theta Protocol mentioned in that episode and followed up in the next is the revival of the SHIELD helicarriers that show up to sve the day at the end of the movie.

** [[spoiler:Ultron first appears to the Avengers in a badly damaged robotic body. Ultron's last body is confronted by the Vision, badly damaged.]]

* {{Crossover}}: This movie marks the last time that ''Marvel Studios'' and ''Marvel Television'' really coordinated anything. Season 2, episode 19 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E19TheDirtyHalfDozen The Dirty Half Dozen]]", immediately precedes this movie. Baron von Strucker is speaking with Dr. List, the HYDRA officer that Coulson's team went up against in that episode, and the secret intel that Coulson recovers in that episode is what directs the Avengers to Strucker's base at the start of the movie. The episode also ends with an Inhuman having a precognitive vision of the events of the movie.

* {{Crossover}}: This movie marks the last time that ''Marvel Studios'' and ''Marvel Television'' really coordinated anything. Season 2, episode 19 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E19TheDirtyHalfDozen "The Dirty Half Dozen"]], immediately precedes this movie. Baron von Strucker is speaking with Dr. List, the HYDRA officer that Coulson's team went up against in that episode, and the secret intel that Coulson recovers in that episode is what directs the Avengers to Strucker's base at the start of the movie. The episode also ends with an Inhuman having a precognitive vision of the events of the movie.

** The stealth tech on the Avengers Quinjet is mentioned off-hand on the way to [[spoiler:Clint's farm]]. It sure comes in handy when [[spoiler:Ultron hijacks it and uses it to kill Pietro.]] In a less drastic use, it also comes in handy when [[spoiler:Hulk wants to disappear by the end of the movie]].

-->'''Wanda:''' How could you?\\

* TemptingFate: One of the HYDRA agents confidently suggests that Project Insight is going to go off without a hitch, and that very soon, HYDRA will have conquered the world [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Cue montage of Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon kicking some HYDRA ass]].

** Similarly Bruce has done the math and notes he can't have children. In the comics many of his love interests are superhuman, particularly those who have bore him children.

** Captain America weathers Scarlet Witch's traumatic visions far better than the rest of the Avengers. Justified by him having a relatively tame past by comparison, so his vision is mostly remembering the horrors of war, as well as getting the homecoming party and dance with Peggy that he never got.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Wanda has a fairly prominent accent here that disappears later in the franchise. Justified, in that she spends more time around native English speakers and gets more practice, but it's never remarked upon.

* FanserviceExtra: The elder sister of the kid Hawkeye rescues is wearing an AbsoluteCleavage dress and gives tons of [[MaleGaze cleavage shots]].

-->'''Natasha:''' [[spoiler:I adore you... But I need [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the other guy.]]]]

* ChangingOfTheGuard: [[spoiler:By the film's end, several of the original Avengers lineup [[ComicBook/IronMan have retired]], [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor left to attend to other matters]] or [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk just plain disappeared]]. A new team is unveiled in the final moments: Captain America, Black Widow, War Machine, Falcon, Scarlet Witch and the Vision.]]

* UncannyValley: InUniverse. Tony sends in the Iron Legion to help with the local town near Strucker's base; however, the populace are more creeped out by these robots saying, "We're here to help," than the battle and start attacking the drones.

** The Vision takes a few elements from fellow artificial human [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]], including [[spoiler:having an Infinity Stone installed in his forehead and having a virtuous, nigh-messianic air to him. Note that Warlock also exists in the MCU given the SequelHook at the end of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''.]]

** The Vision takes a few elements from fellow artificial human ComicBook/AdamWarlock, including [[spoiler:having an Infinity Stone installed in his forehead and having a virtuous, nigh-messianic air to him. Note that Warlock also exists in the MCU given the SequelHook at the end of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''.]]

* KillEmAll: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Scarlet Witch, who shows Tony a vision of a future where all of the Avengers have been killed. [[spoiler:This vision directly influences Tony's decision to speed up the creation of his peacekeeping AI that ends up becoming Ultron.]]

** Loki, the charismatic villain of the previous ''Avengers'' film, does not appear, not even in the scene set in Asgard. And yet, Tom Hiddleston ''did'' work in the film, but he was removed from it as it already had LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The film has over a dozen major characters from all over the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, including:
** The six Avengers from the first film: Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye.
** Supporting characters from other MCU films: [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Maria Hill, Nick Fury,]] [[Film/IronMan2 James Rhodes]][=/=]Comicbook/WarMachine, [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Peggy]] [[Series/AgentCarter Carter]], [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Sam Wilson]][=/=]ComicBook/TheFalcon, [[Film/{{Thor}} Dr. Erik Selvig, and Heimdall.]]
** Several newcomers: Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, the Vision, Baron von Strucker[[note]] not counting the EarlyBirdCameo in TheStinger of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''[[/note]], Ultron, Ulysses Klaue, and Dr. Helen Cho.
** Every single one of the aforementioned characters is in the main cast end credits. There's a lot more that are large parts, considering the plots.

* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: This remains one of the more comedic entires in the MCU, but the aftermath of Hulk's rampage shows a scared and regretful Bruce horrified by what he has done. Later, [[spoiler: Pietro's death]] is also PlayedForDrama.