Line # ComicBook/UltronForever


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4	''Ultron Forever'' is a 2015 Marvel comic book written by Creator/AlEwing and drawn by Creator/AlanDavis.
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6	In the far future, ComicBook/{{Ultron}} has won. The mad machine has killed his enemies, conquered the galaxy and enslaved mankind. Now, factories belch forward endless numbers of Ultron drones, while what little remains of humanity exists as nothing more than puppets to Ultron's will. God bless Ultron-America.
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8	But not all hope is lost, as one man summons together a team of heroes from across time, Avengers from past, present and future, to fight a foe none of them could face alone. And that man... is Doom.
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10	''Ultron Forever'' takes place across three issues (Ultron Forever: Avengers, Ultron Forever: New Avengers, and Ultron Forever: Uncanny Avengers).
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12	!!Tropes:
13	* AnalogyBackfire: At the beginning of the story, the Vision says he is no more programmed than Black Widow. She retorts that she spent her childhood as a brainwashed agent of the Red Room.
14	* AndIMustScream: Loki, in the BadFuture, is converted into nanotechnology and forced to serve Ultron's will. Inbetween the machine gibberish, he manages to plead Thor to help him. So Thor [[MercyKill does]].
15	* AndThenWhat: Ultron doesn't seem to have had a proper idea of what to ''do'' once he took over the world. Even after conquering Asgard, he's [[BigEgoHiddenDepths not satisfied with his accomplishments and desperately trying to figure out why he did everything he did]]. One of his Avengers remarks on [[VillainousBSOD hearing him crying to himself in his private moments]].
16	* BadassBoast:
17	** The Thor from the past gets one in the second issue:
18	--->'''Thor:''' For I am the stormbringer! The master of the thunders! I am harrower of Hel and my late father's son! I am all that you have forgotten - unworthy one!
19	** Captain America has her own:
20	--->'''Captain America:''' I am the shield!
21	* BadBlackBarf: The future version of Thor coughs up [[spoiler:a nanotech version of Loki]], who Ultron had been using to control him, in this fashion.
22	* BadFuture:
23	** Captain America's future, at least from our viewpoint. New York is flooded, and resources are scarce. Also, there's campy supervillains about, such as the Golden Skull.
24	** Ultron's future, previously glimpsed in a time-travel arc of Jonathan Hickman's ''Avengers''. In the year 2420, a new, vastly improved Ultimate Ultron fought the Avengers, and killed all of them. Since then, Ultron's taken over damn near everywhere, [[spoiler:including Asgard]]. All humans found are crushed and turned into bio-slaves.
25	* BlingOfWar: Ultron's true form is a giant, golden body designed to look like he's wearing Asgardian armor.
26	* CallBack:
27	** Nat recognises Ultron's future, having been there during Hickman's ''Avengers''.
28	** Thor is taken from the middle of Simonson's run, and is still suffering Hela's curse, which prevents him from dying.
29	** Thinking Nat isn't taking him seriously, Hulk tries boasting about how he beat the Metal Master (from ''Incredible Hulk'' issue 6).
30	** Rhodey notes that his armor's causing him a lot of pain, but he doesn't know why (it's because it's calibrated for Tony Stark's mind, not Rhodes', and is slowly driving him mad).
31	* TheCavalry: One big honking Norse-god themed cavalry, courtesy of Jim Rhodes and basic physics.
32	* DeusEstMachina: Subverted. Ultron, who's taken up the Odin-Force and ''literally'' become a god, is still a murderous and sometimes petty villain.
33	* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Ultron, as a matter of fact, is atomized partway through the second issue. The true threat is Doom.]]
34	* DramaticIrony: Thor is pleased to see the female Thor, believing she took over after he died. Jane doesn't have the heart to tell him what ''really'' happened to him.
35	* EvilIsPetty: Doom figures that Ultron making his ruling caste his own version of the Avengers is a joke on Ultron's part. Likewise, he figures having the bio-slaves maintain the systems keeping them enslaved is another of Ultron's jokes.
36	* FastballSpecial: Captain America asks Hulk to supply her one. Despite being a few years before it becomes popular, Hulk manages to figure out what she means, because hey, it ain't rocket science.
37	* FloodedFutureWorld: In the future where Danielle Cage is the new ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, New York has been flooded and Dani protects it from pirates and scavengers.
38	* FutureBadass: Captain America, also known as Danielle Cage, daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. She's also got a mix of their powers.
39	* FutureMeScaresMe: Vision is understandably alarmed at meeting his warped, deformed future self serving Ultron, and vows never to become him.
40	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Deconstructed. This version of Ultron has gone crazy with anger and sadness over the possibility that he did everything he'd done for no damn reason at all.
41	* HoldTheLine: Seven Avengers, and all the warriors of the Nine Realms, versus an endless supply of killer robots.
42	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The Thor from the past, courtesy of his BadFuture counterpart. Since the Thor who's travelled from the past is cursed by Hela and literally cannot die, it only allows him to get close.
43	* LegacyCharacter: The future Captain America is black and a woman.
44	* MadeASlave: All of mankind, thanks to Ultron. Also, unlike most of the Avengers, who are merely replicants, Thor and Vision.
45	* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hulk (and Banner) are from the early ''Tales to Astonish'' era. Hulk still has the more ape-like design of the time, along with the somewhat wonkier powers and relatively higher intelligence.
46	* MultipleHeadcase: Because the Hulk is from a time where Banner regulated his transformation by technology, which made them unstable, so when he gets decapitated by Ultron's Widow he grows Bruce Banner's head out of his chest who then proceeds to reattach it.
47	* NoodleIncident: Captain America mentions having seen the Doom of her time die.
48	* NoSell: Ultron's Captain America tries to take over Rhodey's Iron Man armor and make him blow his head off. It doesn't work, because Rhodey's armor is from the 1980s. No Wi-Fi to hack.
49	* OffWithHisHead:
50	** Vision blasts off the future Spider-Woman's head.
51	** The future's Black Widow slices off Hulk's head with Captain America's shield. [[spoiler:Mercifully, Hulk's from a time when his powers and abilities fluctuate wildly, so it doesn't kill him.]]
52	* RedeemingReplacement: [[spoiler:Doom, for both Ultron and the original Doctor Doom.]]
53	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Doom isn't Doom. He's a Doom''bot''. ''The'' Doombot, that is. The one who served alongside Vision in ''Avengers A.I.]]
54	* SealedBadassInACan: The entirety of Asgard (except Thor, Loki and Odin) has been sealed away inside a magic mirror.
55	* TimeyWimeyBall: Seven Avengers of five different eras are pulled together to face Ultron; Hulk from early in his existence when his mutation could be relatively random, James Rhodes during his time as Iron Man, Thor when he was afflicted by the curse of Hela (making his bones fragile but Thor himself is basically immortal), Danielle Cage/Captain America from the "future" (by the standards of the current reader), and Vision, Black Widow and the Jane Foster Thor of the "present".
56	* TragicVillain: Ultron has conquered the galaxy, ascended to godhood and enslaved or murdered hundreds of billions at minimum...but, he's also ''miserable'' and has no idea ''why'' he did these things, or what he's supposed to do now that he's done it. In the end he's just a crazy robot that was a slave to its' own defective programming.
57	* VillainousBreakdown: Ultron, once confronted by the three Thors. Even though he's all-powerful, and has the Odinforce ''and'' the Norn stones, he still can't figure out what any of it was for, and goes into a screaming breakdown.
58	-->'''Ultron:''' "Why?" ''That'' is what ''I'' ask myself. Now that Earth is ''conquered'', now that humanity is ''subjugated'' — what was it ''for''? Revenge? Ideology? ''Programming? Why?'' I have the ''God-Sight'' now! I see ''everything''! I see ''inside myself''! I see ''circuits! Subroutines! Loops of data!'' Yet! I! Do not! See ''why''! WHY? '''WHY?'''

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