History YMMV / NextAvengersHeroesOfTomorrow

* FanPreferredCouple: James Rogers/Torunn is a surprisingly popular ship.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: 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.
* WhatAnIdiot: James Rogers. He ends up activating the Iron Avengers and giving away their location to Ultron all based on the (not quite plausible) possibility that the robots had been programmed with the exact memories and personalities of the original Avengers, hoping that at least this was the case for his dad's robot.
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* HarsherInHindsight: This film would not be [[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 the last time]] that Ultron took over the world and was nearly successful in wiping out organic life. The difference is, he (fortunately) does not have [[spoiler:the benefits of the completed Infinity Gems/Stones]] here.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
** Tony Stark being a father. First in this film, then several alternate comics and later ''Avengers: Endgame'' where he and Pepper have a daughter.

* CompleteMonster: [[AIIsACrapshoot Ultron]] is an android built by Tony Stark to bring order to the world. Eventually [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters deciding that the best way to bring order was to be the one giving orders]], Ultron [[HeroKiller 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.

* CompleteMonster: ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is an android built by Tony Stark to bring order to the world. Eventually [[AIIsACrapshoot deciding that the best way to bring order was to be the one giving orders]], Ultron [[HeroKiller 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.

* NightmareFuel: '''Ultron.''' He kills most of the Avengers and conquers half of Earth before the movie even ''starts.''

* FanPreferredCouple: James Rogers/Torunn is a surprisingly popular ship. Likely due to the relationship fumbling mentioned below.

%%* {{Adorkable}}: Pym. He's ridiculously adorable in most of his scenes.

%% * EvilIsCool: Ultron.

%% * NarmCharm: Thor and Torunn's little reunion at the end.
%% * RelationshipWritingFumble: A few lines are thrown in to make it clear that James and Torunn see each other as siblings; however, it would be very easy to read some of their interaction as romantic. (Indeed, [[RelativeError that's how Francis seems to see it]].)

* RelationshipWritingFumble: A few lines are thrown in to make it clear that James and Torunn see each other as siblings; however, it would be very easy to read some of their interaction as romantic. (Indeed, [[RelativeError that's how Francis seems to see it]].)

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Thor, who was pretty much forced to sit out the entire film for no better reason than he didn't have a big movie in 2008 while Iron Man and the Hulk did.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** While not funny per se, Tony Stark being the creator of Ultron becomes this when one looks at ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', which also had Tony Stark being the creator of Ultron.
** Tony being [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming a surprisingly]] [[Film/AvengersEndgame good dad]] in [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse the MCU]]? Yeah, this film did it first.

* IdiotPlot: The Hulk could have solved the plot before it even began but didn't because he, or the people who refused to force him into the fight before hand, are either selfish or idiots. All of Hulk's friends are dead, their children are in danger of dying, and humanity is being tormented by a crazy robot, and he does nothing to help, despite being able to defeat Ultron so easily it's pathetic. He seems afraid of turning into a monster, but apparently that fear is more important than the lives of millions! If that isn't enough, the kids get him to fight rather easily by pissing him off, why didn't Tony or one of the other Avengers go to him before the situation got so bad and force him into it? Sure they have to deal with the Hulk, but at least that would have saved countless lives!
** To be fair, when the Hulk finally came out to battle Ultron, he was on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle with Ultron easily managing to paralyse his arm with a PressurePoint. It was only through Jr.'s pushing Hulk past his RageBreakingPoint that Hulk was able to beat Ultron.

* TrueNeutral: According to Banner, the Hulk doesn't care about the world or Ultron and only wishes to be left alone, which is why he closed himself off from the rest of the world for decades. He only helped destroy Ultron after he came directly to Banner and attacked him, and immediately left with Betty after Ultron was destroyed.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** James Rogers. He ends up activating the Iron Avengers and giving away their location to Ultron all based on the (not quite plausible) possibility that the robots had been programmed with the exact memories and personalities of the original Avengers, hoping that at least this was the case for his dad's robot.
** All the kid heroes have moments of this. Which makes some sense because they're, you know, kids.

* EvilIsCool: Ultron.

* NarmCharm: Thor and Torunn's little reunion at the end.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: 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.

* Fan-Preferred Couple: James Rogers/Torunn is a surprisingly popular ship. Likely due to the relationship fumbling mentioned below.
* HilariousInHindsight: While not funny per se, Tony Stark being the creator of Ultron becomes this when one looks at ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', which also had Tony Stark being the creator of Ultron.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Thor, who was pretty much forced to sit out the entire film for no better reason than he didn't have a big movie in 2008 while Franchise/IronMan and the Hulk did.

* 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.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Thor really a loving father who just wanted to teach his daughter a lesson in humility and had no option but to return to rule Asgard after Odin's death, or a cowardly slacker dead beat dad with insanity issues and a possibly cruel sense of humor?

* CompleteMonster:ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is an android, built by Tony Stark to bring order to the world. Eventually [[AIIsACrapshoot deciding that the best way to bring order was to be the one giving orders]], Ultron [[HeroKiller 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, who adopted the children of 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 young superhero team, desiring to finish what he started years ago.

* CompleteMonster: ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is an android, built by Tony Stark to bring order to the world. But Ultron [[AIIsACrapshoot decided that the best way to bring order was to be the one giving orders]]. To this end he conquers the Earth, [[HeroKiller killing most of the superheroes]] in process. After 12 years, during which time Ultron conquered half of the planet, killing millions and driving the survivors underground, he locates Iron Man hiding out in a base in the Arctic. Smashing his way in, he confronts the children, now teenagers, and attempts to kill them for being "potential threats". The kids escape while Ultron beats down Iron Man, at which point he captures and proceeds to torture him for information regarding the kids.