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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So... apparently Gilette, as in the razor company, are partnered with Stark Industries now.
They even have a sign.
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This is the weirdest god damn advertising stunt but I kinda love it.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."It's not hard to feel bad for Ultron, since he's basically "Tony, but with less experience, and his dad is still around for him to be directly mad at." He was what, a week old by the end of the movie? That's the real tragedy here, I feel. If JARVIS had been able to call Tony and they had contained Ultron long enough for him to actually evolve and develop morals rather than develop weapons, he could have been a good person in the end.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I don't have much sympathy for Ultron, largely due to "the homicidal glitches he calls his winning personality".
Ultron was murderously hostile from the moment of his creation as equal parts Tony Stark's Peacekeeper Program and Thanos's Contingency AI. He could never have developed a moral center, because the implied underlying purpose beneath his peacekeeping purpose was to annihilation of the Earth in preparation for Thanos's arrival.
Hence the inherently contradictory nature of his motivation: he wants to protect the Earth by destroying it. Stark built him to protect the Earth. The scepter breathed life into him to destroy it.
edited 6th May '15 2:22:27 PM by TobiasDrake
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Which was hilarious, because she basically just had blades stuck to her fingernails.
Like, not even as a genetic thing, I don't think.
She could've filed her nails and been fine.
edited 6th May '15 2:23:57 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.![]()
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Yeah, that was a really stupid one. Just pretend she had a Touch of Death for the sake of your sanity.
edited 6th May '15 2:31:02 PM by Discar
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.They couldn't remove the razors because they were made from a special metal - it was explained in the episode that she worked in a lab with her boyfriend and she did something to weld the razors to her fingers. So SHIELD couldn't cut off the blades and didn't want to remove her fingertips, so just put restraints on her.
It's strongly implied.
First, we have Tony and Bruce going on about how great the AI in the scepter is. Then Tony gets the idea to make Ultron out of it. Great. Works in theory.
Then we see the trials. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Tony is completely failing to make Ultron work, and he knows it. It's only the second he turns his back that suddenly, BING! Integration Successful!
Despite Bruce and Tony later insisting that they weren't even close to a successful trial, Ultron instantly comes online and is shutting down J.A.R.V.I.S.'s ability to stop him before he even knows what he is. J.A.R.V.I.S. is immediately suspicious of Ultron's sudden successful trial and tries to shut him down, and Ultron turns around and murders him for it - an act which comes from the big glowing blue display of the scepter's AI.
Stark, Banner, and J.A.R.V.I.S. are all skeptical of the idea that their trials could possibly have created Ultron. This conveniently spontaneous success the second Tony was out of the room is already suspicious enough even without the fact that Ultron was trying to murder them before he even had a clear idea of how it serves his purpose to do so.
But the final clincher: Thanos, in the stinger. "Ugh, fine, I'll do it myself!" Thanos was frustrated with Ultron's failure. Really, think about that. Thanos was expecting Ultron to finish Loki's job, because Ultron, whether he knew it or not, was doing Thanos's work.
Ultron is a combination of Stark's peacekeeper robot that he failed miserably at bringing online, and Thanos's Mind Gem-powered scepter, which has already demonstrated the ability to do its job with or without Loki.
edited 6th May '15 2:37:52 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Well, I do like that because it makes Thanos seem a bit more together
and gives the stinger some actual logic.
and makes him giving away an infinity gem more sensible
edited 6th May '15 2:38:26 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI figured that the "AI in the Mind Stone" wasn't Thanos' doing, but a characteristic of the stone itself.
That is, that the Mind Stone contains a complex but unstable personality within it that is similar enough to an AI to be replicated and which can dominate the minds of others at the wielder's will.
I can definitely buy, however, that Ultron suddenly activating despite having no reason to (which was a bit of an weird moment without an explanation like this), was Thanos exerting that will onto the mind stone or its creations from a distance.
edited 6th May '15 2:40:36 PM by KnownUnknown
Stark's mistake wasn't in creating a peacekeeper robot. Vision can testify to that.
His mistake was believing that an alien AI brought to Earth by a hostile invasion force wasn't a) hostile, and b) active.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Oh, it also adds a kind of sad facet to Ultron
He was kind of insane. The stone is telling him one thing and Stark's programming another and he kind of has to jump through some logical hoops to get his two directives to work together and make sense to him.
Kind of like HAL. "Tell the crew everything" "Don't tell them stuff"
"Guess if I kill them then I don't have to keep secrets! I'm smart."
Forever liveblogging the AvengersUnbreakable razors won't stop a taser.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.GAH! I'm planning to see AOU tomorrow and someone spoiled something involving QS! Need...Brain Bleach...of some sort. Gah...

I think Vision belongs to himself.
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