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  • Alternative Character Interpretation:
    • Is Thor a well meaning father who for unknown reasons had to leave Torunn on Earth and couldn't help the Avengers, or a Jerkass God who abandoned his daughter to a hostile world ruled by a robot wishing to kill her and did nothing to prevent his friends from being murdered?
    • For some who didn't like how Tony Stark was Ultron's creator rather than Hank, they prefer to speculate that Tony lied about being Ultron's creator in order to spare Hank's son Henry the guilt of knowing that his father was indirectly responsible for the death of his friends' parents, not to mention dooming the world to an apocalyptic future.
  • Common Knowledge: There are some who mistook this movie as a sequel to the Ultimate Avengers duology even though there are notable instances where this isn't the case, such as the different costume designs (Next Avengers being more accurate to the mainstream comics while Ultimate Avengers is closer to The Ultimates). This might be due to them being produced by Lionsgate, or Captain America and Black Widow being a couple.
  • Complete Monster: Ultron is an android built by Tony Stark to bring order to the world. Eventually deciding that the best way to bring order was to be the one giving orders, Ultron killed most of the superheroes and started his own war upon the world, spreading chaos, death and destruction all over the planet. Conquering half of the world in 12 years, killing millions and driving the survivors underground, Ultron locates the surviving Iron Man hiding out in a base in the Arctic, where he adopted the children of the killed superheroes. Smashing his way in, Ultron confronts the children, now teenagers, and attempts to kill them for being "potential threats". Beating down and torturing Iron Man for information, Ultron leads a hunt after the young superhero team, desiring to finish what he started years ago.
  • Cult Classic: While not the most popular of Marvel's animated movies, it still has a fanbase who enjoys the Spin-Offspring premise.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: James Rogers/Torunn is a surprisingly popular ship, despite the two having been raised together as siblings.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: Tony Stark being a father. First in this film, then several alternate comics and later Avengers: Endgame where he and Pepper have a daughter.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Ultron is a threat so great that he is an intergenerational enemy to the Avengers and their children. An unstoppable machine created by Iron Man to protect the world, Ultron turned on his creator to enact his own rule on the planet. Ultron killed off most of the Avengers with his bare hands and sent the rest into hiding, after which Ultron created a robotic utopia called "Ultracity" and began to expand its borders. Within 13 years, Ultron conquers half the planet, with the rest soon to follow, and has murdered hundreds of superheroes that stood in his way. Constantly monitoring all goings-on around the globe, Ultron eventually locates the "Next Avengers" team, effortlessly takes over the Iron Avengers with his programming, and uses a hostage Iron Man to lure the Next Avengers into a trap. Even when the Next Avengers arrange a match between Ultron and Hulk in the belief that Hulk can beat him, Ultron easily demolishes the Hulk and nearly kills the Next Avengers. Ultron is only narrowly stopped by a surprise attack from Hulk, and even then has such powerful regenerative abilities that it takes the near-sacrifice of Torunn to finish him off for good.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Ultron in general. He kills most of the Avengers and conquers half of Earth before the movie even starts, and his first reaction when he comes across four little kids? "Potential threats, commencing termination."
  • The Scrappy: Nobody likes this version of Thor, for the reason noted in Unintentionally Unsympathetic.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Thor barely appears in the film, even though he could have been an invaluable source of help for the heroes in both the initial fight against Ultron and the kids' later attempt at defeating him. While there was likely a reason out of universe (either his Story-Breaker Power making it so the plot could be wrapped up too easily or because he didn't have a major blockbuster film that year when Iron Man and Hulk did), there's pretty much no reason In-Universe for him to be absent (and it makes him come off as a jerkass, to boot).
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The film explains that Thor left Torunn on Earth so she would learn the same lesson he did, but it completely ignores that Thor only needed to learn it that way because his own father failed to instill it while he was growing up and went for the tough love approach to get it through. Thor makes no attempt to teach her at all and just figures she'll learn it on her own, which makes him come off as an amazingly lazy father. After all, it's not like Odin didn't have the time to raise Thor, and surely Thor could at least try given he has some understanding of where Odin's parenting style was lacking. Not to mention, he seems to think that teaching said lesson to his daughter is more important than the lives of his friends and people he swore to protect, seemingly never even trying to take out Ultron.

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