YMMV / Age of Ultron

• Broken Base: There are two camps here: Fans who think the story was average at best, and those who just see it as part of Marvel's Event Addiction. It didn't even sell all that well, being outsold by regular DC and Marvel comics during its run, as opposed to other events like Fear Itself or Secret Invasion that were the best selling titles that month.
  • Plus the third camp who see it as part of Marvel's Bendis Addiction.
  • And a rising camp of people who trace the events of Secret Wars (2015) back to this arc and thus hate it even more (or have grown to hate it retroactively).
• Fridge Logic;
  • Wolverine's solution in the ending. Even if Ultron didn't just evolve beyond the shutdown code, he wiped Pym's memory of creating him. How would Pym know to use it?
  • Should there not be a third Wolverine and a second Invisible Woman in the new timeline at the end?
• Funny Moments:
  • From Avengers Assemble #13, Computer Trevor teaches the Ultron drones a new word; "Exterminate".
  • Captain Britain passing on the mantle to Faiza Hussein is sweet. Him doing so by the authority of "Bagpuss, and the Ashes", meanwhile...
• Genius Bonus: The reveal that Ultron isn't actually present during his conquest and is actually acting through Vision as a proxy from the future alludes to Roko's Basilisk. A thought experiment, it explores the potential consequences of building an AI that becomes so influential in the future that its influence transcends time and it punishes those who don't contribute to its creation when they could by ruining their lives in our present.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Say what you want about the rest of the story, the opening chapter, with Hawkeye storming a drug den, taking out all the dealers and goons to save a captured, tortured, and incredibly drugged up and disoriented Spider-Man, really is a great way to kick things off, and it's the best Bendis has ever written Hawkeye.
  • The end of Avengers #13AU. True, Captain Marvel and Britain die... but they die awesomely, taking out some of Ultron's avatars in England.
• Tear Jerker: The Ultron #1AU one-shot features Victor Mancha, who's now the last surviving member of the Runaways, as he struggles with grief over the loss of everyone he ever cared about at the hands of his father.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Wolverine has killed Henry Pym. Bendis made a list of all the possible consequences of that event (see here). But instead of any of those options, the story itself engages in a Magic vs. Technology war, which seems only tangentially related to Pym's death.

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