'The Avengers 2' Will be Titled 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron'
Joss Whedon and the folks at Marvel unveiled a surprise bombshell tonight as they revealed that the villain in the 2015 superhero sequel "
The Avengers 2" is not going to be the giant purple alien Thanos after all — as was teased in the after credits scene at the end of "
The Avengers" — but rather the team's number one archenemy in the comics, Ultron.
Naturally, that news sent fanboys and fangirls around the world into swoons of excitement. But for everyone else, there was one itsy bitsy question: Who the hell is Ultron?
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Ultron, who first appeared in 1968's Avengers #54-55, has major personal ties to two members of the team that haven't actually appeared in Marvel's movies at all: Hank Pym and The Vision.
Created by super-genius scientist Hank Pym (aka Ant-Man, though he may not be the guy inside that costume when Edgar Wright's "Ant-Man" movie hits theaters in 2015), Ultron began life as the world's first true artificial intelligence. However, Hank made one mistake: He apparently programmed Ultron to be a complete d-bag. Before long, Ultron had upgraded his hardware and operating systems several times — building a indestructible robot body made so deadly even Thor fears him — and, armed with a major Oedipal complex, he set out to destroy his "father" Hank Pym and the rest of the Avengers.
This is where things really get complicated, because in order to do this, he decided to create his own deadly robotic minion, The Vision. He then sent Vision to infiltrate and destroy the team from within, but when Vision ended up becoming sentient himself, he had a change of heart and joined the team instead to fight on the side of good.
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As a result, most of Ultron's appearances through the decades have revolved around this deadly family feud, with Ultron trying to destroy both his "father" and his "son," with the rest of humanity being collateral damage. And given that the Vision's mutant wife, the Scarlet Witch, is already confirmed to be in "
The Avengers: Age of Ultron" — and that Vin Diesel is widely rumored to be in talks with Marvel to play Vision — chances are pretty good that we'll be seeing some version of this story play out on the big screen two years from now.
Of course, it should also be noted that the specific title "
The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" refers to a comic book event called "
Age of Ultron" that just ended last month. The plot of that series is so incredibly convoluted it's technically impossible to actually explain it, but given that it involved time travel to multiple alternate realities and prominently features Wolverine as one of the main characters (who can't appear unless Fox gives up the movie rights), it's pretty unlikely "
Avengers 2" will be a direct adaptation.
Whatever the case, though, we can't wait. Because, trust us: Ultron is awesome.
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