History Fridge / AvengersAgeOfUltron

** Cap is NOT worthy...at this point in time, because the film shows that he doesn't know how to stop fighting, making him little better than an assassin, albeit a righteous one. Thor, for all his bravado and love of fighting, did in fact learn when to stop fighting and surrender in his first movie, which was exactly the point the hammer deemed him worthy. Captain America is almost worthy, given his ability to nudge Mjölnir a little bit, but he's not quite there. His greatest strength has been his tenacity, his unwillingness to give up even when outmatched or outnumbered. He knew his odds were bad in just about every fight he took on, but when you grow up in a time when not fighting was seen as selfish and cowardly, let alone become the champion of that era, it's kind of hard to lay down the sword, so to speak. As a matter of fact, his stubbornness is a big factor in the comic version of ''[[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 Civil War]]'' because [[spoiler: while Iron Man is the generally agreed-upon villain of the piece, Cap's increasing ruthlessness against former allies and callousness with regard to team casualties makes him barely a hair better. The fact that he still tries to fight crime and save lives is really all that keeps him on the heroic end of the scale.]] If Movie Cap has even an ounce of that same doggedness in him, Mjölnir would likely NEVER deem him worthy.

*** Alternately, Cap isn't eligible to wield the hammer because he doesn't ''want'' to be. Steve Rogers has never cared for the idea that he's special, or in any way better than anyone else; to believe such a thing would be to buy into Red Skull's twisted ideology about superhumans' "superiority", and to denigrate the worthiness of the BadassNormal troops who'd died fighting alongside him in WWII. To be judged "worthy" where his comrades-in-arms have failed would make him very uncomfortable, and Mjolnir may have rejected him for this reason: he may ''deserve'' to be able to wield the weapon, but that alone doesn't necessarily make him the right person to do so.

*** Basically, Steve Rogers has his good points and bad points like most people, and for the moment, it seems that the same reckless pride and single-minded need to physically fight that once stopped Thor from being worthy to lift the hammer are also holding Steve back. Or to put it another way, Steve Rogers is not the flawless hero the world sees him as; he's a human being.

* Finding out Clint is a family man puts many things in the first movie in a new light. When Coulson calls to tell Natasha that "Barton's been compromised", he sounds almost choked up, which is strange in that they don't seem to have been close in his brief appearance in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and Clint had no reaction to Coulson's death later. Coulson also had to have seen fellow agents captured or killed before. It can only be because he knows that Clint has a wife and two kids that he would get so emotional about it. He probably even met them.

* Falcon [[spoiler: not appearing in the final battle]] has been met with some fan outcry and may not make sense in lieu of his [[spoiler: joining the team at the end]] but there are some legitimate reasons for it. His abilities basically amount to using a cool-looking jetpack and shooting with guns, not a particularly good skill set for dealing with a robot swarm. He also had trouble taking Rumlow, a man a few steps down from Widow and Hawkeye, in a fight meaning he probably wouldn't have fared as well as those two did. There is also the fact that while Fury brought in Rhodey, a military officer who he could get quick access to while on base or track down easily if on assignment because of his armor, he may not have had the time to track down Sam, who mentions that he has been searching for Bucky and may have been in the middle of doing so when the invasion went down.
** As a former pararescue, he could have been useful finding trapped civilians and getting them to the lifeboat.
** Falcon managed to successfully battle an enemy Quinjet and single handedly disable a Helicarrier in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', all the while evading and taking out enemy mooks. With his jetpack and sub-machine guns (which can always be upgraded for heavier firepower), he'd be even more effective in battle than Hawkeye, who by his own admission, is "just a guy with a bow and arrow".

* Tony says that Thor doesn’t get why the Earth needs a defense system. While all the Avengers are superhuman fighters, he is a legitimate businessman and so has a strong place in the civilian world, unlike the others (a demigod, a living legend, two master assassins, and a guy with anger management issues). So he can understand humanity’s frailty and need for a security system better than his fellow Avengers. It's further cemented by his saying this to Thor, an Asgardian, who comes from a world which '''has''' a defense system that ([[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld until recently]]) hadn't been breached in decades, if not centuries.

* It might seem a bit strange for the Mind Stone to give Pietro SuperSpeed instead of another mind-based power like his sister has. But then, if you look closely in the 'bullet from below' scene, you can clearly see how Pietro can see the bullet before realizing he's in trouble. The Mind Stone didn't give him SuperSpeed, it gave him enhanced perception of speed. It's not that Quicksilver has SuperSpeed, he's just able to see the world in slow motion, and his body just adapts to it. His reaction speed being physically tied to his body's energy levels lends credence to much of his performance throughout the film. When he's rested, he's basically unstoppable, reacting to everything and speeding appropriately -- but when he gets tired, he's not able to react ''nearly'' as great, as showcased by a stray bullet hitting him (after thorough exertion helping evacuate)... [[spoiler: and he was further exhausted during his TakingTheBullet action, not able to think/react beyond instinct.]]

** Cap is NOT worthy...at this point in time, because the film shows that he doesn't know how to stop fighting, making him little better than an assassin, albeit a righteous one. Thor, for all his bravado and love of fighting, did in fact learn when to stop fighting and surrender in his first movie, which was exactly the point the hammer deemed him worthy. Captain America is almost worthy, given his ability to nudge Mjölnir a little bit, but he's not quite there. His greatest strength has been his tenacity, his unwillingness to give up even when outmatched or outnumbered. He knew his odds were bad in just about every fight he took on, but when you grow up in a time when not fighting was seen as selfish and cowardly, let alone become the champion of that era, it's kind of hard to lay down the sword, so to speak. As a matter of fact, his stubbornness is a big factor in the comic version of ''[[ComicBook/CivilWar Civil War]]'' because [[spoiler: while Iron Man is the generally agreed-upon villain of the piece, Cap's increasing ruthlessness against former allies and callousness with regard to team casualties makes him barely a hair better. The fact that he still tries to fight crime and save lives is really all that keeps him on the heroic end of the scale.]] If Movie Cap has even an ounce of that same doggedness in him, Mjölnir would likely NEVER deem him worthy.

* The film provides a decent ([[StoryBreakerPower in universe]]) reason for Bruce to not be involved in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. In the comics ''[[ComicBook/CivilWar Civil War]]'', Hulk was absent because he was [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk blasted into space]] after Tony and others decided he was too dangerous. For the MCU, this needed to be simplified for storytelling and time, but they still made Hulk’s departure from the ongoing story occur in symmetry with a just-as-''[[TearJerker heartbreaking]]'' twist. Comic-wise: after saving the day from a dangerous man-made A.I., Hulk finds himself alone in a spacecraft flying where no one will ever find him. A video screen of [[ComicBook/TheIlluminati people he trusts]] tell him they’re [[TheExile sending him away]], never to be seen again. The film’s explanation? [[spoiler: After saving the day from a dangerous man-made A.I., Hulk finds himself alone in an aircraft flying where no one will ever find him. A video screen of a person he trusts tells him to ''come back''. He turns it off, and [[DespairEventHorizon disappears into self-imposed exile out of guilt]]. The next we see of him is in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', where he's a gladiator on Sakaar, in a storyline that is an adaptation of ''Planet Hulk''.]]

* Wanda is the one who influenced Tony's creation of Ultron, so she can be viewed as his "mother" in a way. Thus, Ultron's (and subsequently Vision's) affinity for her could be viewed as the film's version of his OedipusComplex.

** And ''Series/WandaVision'' [[spoiler: later shows that the Mind Stone didn't actually grant Wanda her powers, but amplified what she already had. This lines up with the comics, where Wanda is a RealityWarper. Destroying a few robots should be small potatoes for her.]]
* DeusExMachina means "God out of the machine" and is usually used as an easy end to an impossible situation (like [[spoiler: Fury showing up with an old helicarrier]]). But Ultron is literally a machine with superhuman intelligence and capabilities who compares himself to God. [[spoiler: He makes Biblical references about the flood and states that he needs to destroy the earth to help humanity evolve.]] He is literally a "god out of the machine." [[spoiler: Vision would probably count, too.]] Even more so given that Ultron [[spoiler: and Vision]] are given life by [[spoiler: an Infinity Stone, objects with God-like capabilities]].
* Why did Tony change his A.I. to Friday when it's no more sentient than the broken J.A.R.V.I.S.? Because [[spoiler:Vision has J.A.R.V.I.S.' voice. It would be difficult for Tony to differentiate between J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision during battle]].

* The film provides a decent ([[StoryBreakerPower in universe]]) reason for Bruce to not be involved in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. In the comics, Hulk wasn’t present during [[ComicBook/CivilWar Civil War]] because he was [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk blasted into space]] after Tony and others decided he was too dangerous. For the MCU, this needed to be simplified for storytelling and time, but they still made Hulk’s departure from the ongoing story occur in symmetry with a just-as-''[[TearJerker heartbreaking]]'' twist. Comic-wise: after saving the day from a dangerous man-made A.I., Hulk finds himself alone in a spacecraft flying where no one will ever find him. A video screen of [[ComicBook/TheIlluminati people he trusts]] tell him they’re [[TheExile sending him away]], never to be seen again. The film’s explanation? [[spoiler: After saving the day from a dangerous man-made A.I., Hulk finds himself alone in an aircraft flying where no one will ever find him. A video screen of a person he trusts tells him to ''come back''. He turns it off, and [[DespairEventHorizon disappears into self-imposed exile out of guilt]]. The next we see of him is in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', where he's a gladiator on Sakaar, in a storyline that is an adaptation of ''Planet Hulk''.]]
* Nat's best friend is a man with a loving wife and kids, and given the timeline, he was probably married when they met. Remember the vague sexual tension in the first film? It's not that Nat isn't attracted to him, she just knows she can't have him. In fact, being constantly reminded of the fact that she can't have kids hurts every time she visits, which may be part of the reason Clint doesn't talk about his personal life in front of her. Heck, she probably feels she doesn't ''deserve'' the love of a good man. Which explains why she was trying to set up Cap with so many women in TWS, despite clearly looking pleased when he said that she probably looked good in bikinis despite her scar. That may play into why she went after Banner -- nice as he is, he's got WAY too many issues to actually reciprocate.

* Finding out Hawkeye is married and has kids puts many things in the first movie in a new light. When Coulson calls to tell Natasha that "Barton's been compromised", he sounds almost choked up, which is strange in that they don't seem to have been close in his brief appearance in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and Clint had no reaction to Coulson's death later. Coulson also had to have seen fellow agents captured or killed before. It can only be because he knows that Clint has a wife and two kids that he would get so emotional about it. He probably even met them.

** It's pretty apparent that while the twins may not be ten years old anymore, a lot of what they do is very child-like because of the rough and traumatic childhood the two of them had. They'll put on a tough guy act but the minute the real teeth come out, they’re just a pair of frightened and uncertain children. Often, until Ultron shows up as the “adult leader” of the group, they don't even take action. This is best seen when strongarming Klaue. The twins step into his office and pull their go-to intimidation pose, but Klaue recognizes them as posers. He straight up brushes it off, laughs at their threats, talks down to them, offers them candy and dares them to do their worst. The twins are at a complete and utter loss because they don’t know how to approach a situation where their threats aren't enough to suffice. Ultron’s instructions probably did not even include a caveat for such a scenario, so the two of them are left standing in the doorway, looking to one another in confusion for what to do next, and Wanda even starts moving back into the shadows where she’ll be more safe. Immediately after this, Wanda and Pietro don’t even attack the Avengers at the scrapyard until Ultron gives the command.

* Steve's "sometimes my teammates don't tell me things" line is pretty hypocritical. Keep in mind that while Steve never knew for absolute sure that Bucky killed Tony's parents, he does have his suspicions and hasn't told Tony for a whole year at this point while admonishing Tony for keeping his own secrets. It is very possible that Tony remembered this following "Civil War". This could certainly go even further into his reluctance to contact Steve until he absolutely had to.

** Alternatively, the vision he got that told him about the Mind Stone and the importance Vision would have, also may have shown him the events of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''. This also adds some [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Fridge Humor]], as one has to wonder what Thor thought of [[ItMakesSenseInContext seeing a displaced Earthling challenging an Infinity Stone-wielding-Kree Warlord to a dance-off.]]

** D) Ultron was created using the Scepter; it's hinted in the first film that Loki was being controlled or influenced by it, as were Nick Fury and the Avengers when they started bickering around it. It's quite possible that Ultron was yet another UnwittingPawn for Thanos, being under MoreThanMindControl. He exhibits similar behavior as Loki, showing [[MoodSwinger mood swings]], [[ItsAllAboutMe ego-trippin]]g and [[AGodAmI delusions of godhood]], [[InsaneTrollLogic irrational ideas and thought patterns]] and [[SelfServingMemory selective]] [[SelectiveObliviousness perception]] and [[ObliviouslyEvil morality]], [[SanitySlippage psychotic]], [[AxCrazy homicidal]] and [[PsychopathicManchild childish behavior]], [[HeelRealization with]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone occasional]] [[VillainousBSOD lapses back to]] [[PetTheDog rational]] [[AntiVillain and sane thinking]] [[HopeSpot before]] [[RedemptionRejection reverting]] [[MoralEventHorizon to sociopathic behavior]]. In fact, their behavior seems to be imitating its first known possessor: Thanos.

** [[AscendedFridgeHorror Ascended]] in ''Infinity War'', where Thanos succeeds in killing Vision by ''ripping out the stone from his head''.