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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Oh yeah, I had forgotten that little bit of stupidity. Nuclear weapons can't be hacked. Period. They're airgapped, locked in bunkers, and intentionally decades out of date. Trying to hack a nuke is only slightly more realistic than trying to hack a rock. It's just not going to work. Now, if the plot was that Ultron was looking for nuclear missile silos so he could throw drones at them, then that would be interesting. Supergirl did something like that, and it ended with an internet villain hiding in a general's cell phone when he went to visit a silo. But as it is, it's just wrong. Nukes don't work that way, and that's all there is to it.
Does anybody else find it hilarious that Supergirl got nukes right while Arrow and Ultron just waved around a magic wand and called it hacking?
I mean, that makes him smart in my eyes — he knows he's not a physical match for the Avengers, so he relies on others to hold them back, to tear them apart psychically and so on. Once Wanda and Pietro leave, he really has no one left to help him, so his plan is basically "Fuck everything."
I've seen people complaining and complaining about how the Avengers stop him, but for me, this is one of the good things about Ultron — he's not one of those villains who knows everything, he doesn't have a plan for every contingency. Those villains are not just unrealistic, they can take you out of the story completely — the mwahahaha Joker-esque "My ridiculously circuitous plan is three-fifths complete!" type villain is just silly. Ultron just does stuff, often without a plan. Again, pretty similarly to Tony Stark.
There's a pretty huge middle ground between that type of villain and what we got from Ao U
I'm not really sure what kinda Ultron I wanted
His comic self just tends to spam the win button what with adamantium body and encephalo-ray and always having more and more secret commands hidden in Vision
He's an unstoppable robot menace until suddenly he isn't because they put bible in his head or Wanda waves her arms or he gets a bunch of adamantium dumped on him
The best thing about comic Ultron is that instead of being the cold logical robot type, he is a screeching pissbaby that rails about humanity being flawed while possessing all those flaws himself and half of his evil plans amount to building someone that will talk to him and they all inevitably leave him anyway
The EMH Ultron arc was well built up to but it was missing that element of hyperbolically ridiculous robot
Movie Ultron was a lot lacking and could have been done better but I can at least appreciate its take on Ultron's personality
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHonestly I am fine wtih his plan being a tad convoluted and weird in Ao U. They just needed to make him physically stronger.
To quote Elijah Price there are two types of archvillains: the cerebral one who manipulates the heroes with his machinations and the physical villain who breaks the hero with his fists. Loki was the first, Ultron should have been the second, while Thanos would merge both categories into a single unholy mess.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I mean, there are other ways that someone connected to the internet can f*ck with people. "Hack nukes" is the lazy way to go about it.
- Fury: So, the good news is that Ultron is defeated. The bad news is that the Avengers are facing bankruptcy. Apparently, every cent in Tony's bank account's been put into pogs.
- Steve: Pogs.
- Fury: Yep. Ultron hacked Tony's personal information, then used all of his money to buy custom decorative pogs with his own face and the words, "HA HA ULTRON RULES YOU".
- Tony: Joke's on him. I have fraud protection.
At least he didn't do anything like download ten terabytes of transformers erotica onto all of Tony's computers
Forever liveblogging the Avengers![]()
They did touch on that; Ultron stole billions from Tony to pay Claw. Which of course begs the question of why he didn't just steal everything.
Because Ultron being a emotional trainwreck of a metallic toddler with anger issues and delusions of grandeur is a lot more creative than yet another Straw Vulcan robot.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Nothing says you can't be both. Comics-Ultron is more or less what I described and still a credible threat.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Ultron's personality isn't a problem at all in Ao U, if you ask me. Keep the character the exact same but give him a Vibranium body or somesuch and have him provide a physical match for the Avengers and you're good to go.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."

Maybe he was really far and the bullets where to close by that point? Also the fact that he was tired by all the fighting and that bullet injury he recieved earlier only give him enough energy to save hawkeye and the kid and not enough to dodge the bullets.