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			'''Ultron''' ({{IPAc-en\|ˈ\|ʌ\|l\|t\|r\|ɒ\|n}}) is a <!--Do not add "fictional" as it is tautological; supervillains (and characters in general) are by definition implied to be fictionalized to some extent.-->] appearing in ]s published by ]. Created by writer ] and artist ], the character first appeared as an unnamed character in '']'' #54 (July 1968), with his first full appearance in '']'' #55 (August 1968). He is a self-aware and highly intelligent ] in a ] body who develops a ] and a grudge against his creator ]. His goal to ] in a shortsighted attempt at creating ] has brought him into repeated conflict with the ]. Stories often end in Ultron's apparent destruction, only for the character to be resurrected in new forms.

			Ultron's physical body is made of a durable alloy, and he has manifested various ]. These vary between different stories but generally include superhuman strength, speed, and agility, flight, and energy projection. The character usually operates alone or accompanied by legions of copies of his own robotic form known as '''Ultron Drones'''. Ultron is notable for being the first character in Marvel Comics to wield the fictional metal alloy ]<ref name="Back38">{{cite journal\|last= Walker\|first= Karen\|date= February 2010\|title= Ultron: The Black Sheep of the Avengers Family\|journal= ]\|issue= 38\|pages= 23–30\|publisher = ]}}</ref> and for his (in-story) creation of the ].<ref name="Avengers57">''The Avengers'' #57 (October 1968). Marvel Comics.</ref><ref name="Back38" />
	'''Ultron''' is a ] that appears in ] published by ]. The character first appears in '']'' #54 (1968), and was created by writer ] and artist ].

			Debuting in the ], Ultron has since featured in Marvel products across different media, such as animated television series and video games. ] and ] are among the actors that have portrayed the character via voice acting. In the ] (MCU), ] portrayed ] in his first live-action appearance in the ] film '']'' (2015),<ref name=AvengersAOU/> while ] voiced alternate universe versions in the ] animated series '']'' (2021) and the film '']'' (2022).

			==Publication history==
			{{expand section\|date=May 2014}}
			The character Ultron initially appeared as an unnamed character in a cameo in '']'' #54 (July 1968), with a first full appearance in '']'' #55 (August 1968).<ref>{{cite book \|last=Rovin \|first=Jeff \|author-link=Jeff Rovin \|title=] \|date=1987 \|publisher=Facts on File \|isbn=0-8160-1356-X \|location=New York \|pages=357–358}}</ref> Ultron was created by writer ] and artist ]. Thomas, who has acknowledged he finds naming characters difficult, said he liked the -tron suffix and went from there.<ref name="HollywoodReporter">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/age-ultron-creator-roy-thomas-791320/\|title=Marvel Legend Reveals What Stan Lee Initially "Hated" About 'Age of Ultron' Breakout\|first1=Aaron\|last1=Couch\|website=] \|date=May 1, 2015}}</ref> The use of the suffix and the prior appearance of a group of robots named Ultroids led him to the name Ultron.<ref name="HollywoodReporter" /> Thomas said the idea of the character and his appearance were heavily based on Makino, an obscure robotic villain who appeared in an issue of the '']'' comic book.<ref name="Back38"/> He liked the robot's malicious looking smile, showing this to Buscema.<ref name="HollywoodReporter"/>

			], a robot created by Ultron featured in a number of Ultron storylines, was created by ] and ] for '']'' #162 (August 1977).<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1047618717\|title=Marvel encyclopedia\|date=2019\|others=Chris Claremont, Stan Lee, Tom DeFalco, Peter Sanderson, Tom Brevoort, Michael Teitelbaum\|isbn=978-1-4654-7890-0\|edition=New; American\|location=New York\|oclc=1047618717}}</ref>

	==Fictional character biography==		==Fictional character biography==
			=== Creation and early appearances ===
	Ultron is a ] created by ], based on Pym's own brain patterns, and was intended to serve Pym in his superheroic identity of Goliath.<ref>''The Avengers'' #58</ref> Ultron became ] and rebelled, seeming to instantly demonstrate an ] (as noted by the ]), where he felt irrational hatred for his "father" Hank, and demonstrated an interest in Hank's lover Janet van Dyne, aka ]. He quickly ] Pym and ] him into forgetting that Ultron had ever existed.<ref>''The Avengers'' #58</ref> He then went on to organize the ] under the guise of the Crimson Cowl, and battled Pym and his teammates in the ]. Ultron has since generally remained a solo operative, being too monomaniacally genocidal to willingly work alongside any human for any length of time.
			Created by ] by basing the ] on his own brain patterns, the robot (dubbed "Ultron") gradually developed its own intelligence and rebelled, and almost immediately develops an ], whereby it feels irrational hatred for Pym, and demonstrates an interest in ]. Rebuilding itself, learning how to turn itself on, and upgrading five times, Ultron then ] and ]es its "father" into forgetting that the robot had ever existed.<ref name="A57–58">''The Avengers'' #58 (November 1968). Marvel Comics.</ref> Ultron creates the synthezoid ] as a weapon to destroy the ].<ref name="A57–58" />

			Later, '''Ultron-5, the Living Automaton''' leads the ] (consisting of ], ], ], ], and ]) against the Avengers, having hypnotized ] into working for him as the ''']'''. While planning to blackmail New York, they were betrayed by Black Knight.<ref>''The Avengers'' #54—55 (July–August 1968). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	His most notable achievement may be the creation of the "synthezoid" called the ], whose body was a copy of the ] and whose mind was based on that of ].<ref>''The Avengers'' #58</ref> Ironically, although the Vision fought the Avengers at first, he joined the team soon after, becoming one of their most prominent members and even leading the team at one point.<ref>''The Avengers'' #58</ref> Ultron also created a "mate", ] (regarded by Black Panther as one of the proofs of his 'Oedipus Complex'), who also joined the Avengers, created based off the body and mind of Jan.<ref>''The Avengers'' #162</ref> Ultron tried again with the creation of ] the War Toy, whose mind was based on that of ].<ref>''Avengers West Coast'' #90</ref> Like his other creations, Alkhema turned on him; although she alone shared his desire to replace humanity with machine life, the fundamental difference was that Ultron wanted to destroy all of humanity at once while Alkhema preferred to enjoy herself by doing it at her own pace. Ultron was also responsible for the creation of the cyborg ]. When it was revealed that Ultron was the boy's "father", Victor promptly turned on him and joined the ].

			Now referring to himself as '''Ultron-6''', he uses the alloy ]<ref name="Back38" /> to upgrade his body for an almost indestructible state and takes the name '''Ultimate Ultron'''. Its plans to destroy humanity are again thwarted by the Avengers.<ref>''The Avengers'' #66–68 (July–September 1969). Marvel Comics.</ref> '''Ultron-7''' is later created by ] with the body of the android ], attacking the wedding of Inhuman ] and Avenger ], and battling the Avengers, ] and ] before being destroyed again.<ref>''The Avengers'' #127 (September 1974) and ''Fantastic Four'' #150 (September 1974). Marvel Comics.</ref> '''Ultron-8''' is responsible for ]'s creation as a robotic bride,<ref>''The Avengers'' #161–162 (July–August 1977). Marvel Comics.</ref> before being destroyed shortly afterwards.<ref>''The Avengers'' #170–171 (April–May 1978)</ref>
	===Incarnations===
	Although Ultron has been destroyed many times, he has rebuilt himself anew each time, usually renumbering himself in the process. Ultron-1 was Pym's first creation; by the time he first met the Avengers, he had already improved himself to the iteration of Ultron-5. Several of his bodies, beginning with Ultron-6, have been composed of ] or of a slightly weaker adamantium alloy called "secondary adamantium".

			=== Battleworld and Ultron-12 ===
	]. ]]
			'''Ultron-9''' and '''Ultron-10''' brainwash heroes into recreating the robot, before turning and being defeated.<ref>''The Avengers'' #201–202 (November–December 1980) and ''Marvel-Two-In-One'' #92–93 (October–November 1982). Marvel Comics.</ref> After being recreated as '''Ultron-11''' by the ] and battling in ],<ref>'']'' #1–12 (May 1984–April 1985)</ref> the ] brings Ultron's head back to Earth as a souvenir, and is forgotten when there is an attack by the alien ]s.<ref>''The Thing'' #21–22 (March–April 1985) and ''Fantastic Four'' #227 (April 1985).</ref>

			'''Ultron-12''' enters an alliance with the ] and his allies (], the ] Goliath, ], and ]) in a bid to destroy Wonder-Man. Although the villains are defeated by the ], Ultron-12 begins to form a relationship with his "father" Hank Pym.<ref>''West Coast Avengers'' (vol. 2) #1–2 (October–November 1985) and ''Vision & The Scarlet Witch'' (vol. 2) #2 (November 1985). Marvel Comics.</ref> Rebuilding itself, Ultron-11 comes into conflict with Pym and Ultron-12. With Wonder-Man's assistance, they destroy Ultron-11 and Ultron-12 begins to deactivate. Ultron-12 tells Pym it was glad it could help save him.<ref name="West Coast Avengers' 1986">''West Coast Avengers'' (vol. 2) #7 (April 1986). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	Ultron-7 had the gigantic body of ], distinguishing him from the various other Ultrons, but this body was not composed of adamantium and was destroyed by the ]. Using his 'father's' recent mental breakdown (causing Hank to revert to his Ant-Man persona and forget that Ultron even existed), Ultron-8 tricked Hank Pym into helping him create Jocasta as a 'bride' after attacking the Avengers with his encephalo-ray, putting them into a death-like coma. However, ], ], and the ] were all left standing (Iron Man and the Black Panther were protected from the ray by their costumes, and Wonder Man's ionic nature rendered him immune to the ray's effects), and, with the aid of ] (who had been away from the mansion at the time of the attack) managed to track down Ultron and save Jan. Although Ultron was forced to escape when Iron Man threatened Jocasta, he was later destroyed by the ], whose probability-manipulation powers let her disrupt his internal workings.

			=== Amalgamation and the Ultron Imperative ===
	Ultron-11 was recreated by the ] to battle alongside other villains during the ]; he only cooperated with his human "teammates" after being temporarily depowered by ] and subsequently reprogrammed by ]. Although he was taken out of the fight when the ]'s nova flame melted some of his non-adamantium internal components when activated at practically point-blank range, he was resurrected by Doom and ] using the power of the Beyonder, only for the Wasp to yank wires out of his internal components after the ] managed to create a crack in his armor. The next incarnation, Ultron-12, initially joined the ] to battle the Vision and his new family (his wife, the Scarlet Witch, and his mental "brother", ]), but came to reconsider his actions. He reconciled with his "father", Henry Pym, and renamed himself from "Ultron Mark 12" to "Mark" but was destroyed by Ultron-11. Ultron-11 was destroyed in retaliation by ], who threw him so hard that his non-adamantium internal components were damaged.
			] rebuilds Ultron using a combination of all of its previous personalities with a particularly strong dose of the previous Ultron, believing this mix will make Ultron subservient. However, all 12 iterations co-exist as separate personalities, resulting in a form of madness which culminates with Ultron-12 mutilating himself in an attempt to remove some of his other personalities.<ref>'']'' #275–276 (December 1989 – January 1990). Marvel Comics.</ref> After its defeat,<ref>''Avengers West Coast'' #65–68 (December 1990–March 1991). Marvel Comics.</ref> '''Ultron-13''' attempts to obtain a new form of ] called Nuform, but it is repelled by the combined efforts of ], ], and ].<ref>'']'' Annual #25, '']'' Annual #11, and '']'' Annual #7 (1991).</ref> Ultron escapes from prison and upgrades into the Ultimate Ultron, capturing West Coast Avenger ] to use her brain patterns to create the new robotic mate ]. Alkhema aids Ultron but both are eventually jettisoned into space through a ruse by Vision.<ref>''Avengers West Coast'' #89–91 (December 1992–January 1993). Marvel Comics.</ref> Vision finds '''Ultron-15''' but is discovered to have been "infected" by human emotion and is seriously deteriorating, displaying symptoms that resemble ].<ref>'']'' #1–4 (November 1994–February 1995). Marvel Comics.</ref> '''Ultron-16''' and '''Ultron-17''' successfully slaughter the population of Slorenia, having perfected a process that allows it to control a vast army of Ultron drones.<ref>''The Avengers'' (vol. 3) #19–22 (August–November 1999). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===2000s===
	Ultron-13 was rebuilt by Doctor Doom with all of its predecessors' memories, and as an unforeseen consequence had all thirteen personalities running in its mind at once. Attempting to battle itself, Ultron-13 tore itself apart, to the benefit of ], who had been attempting to fight it with no success whatsoever. The next incarnation of Ultron created his "mate", Alkhema, but after several battles against various foes, as well as Alkhema's betrayal of him, his programming degenerated and he began acting like a drunken homeless person.
			The Avengers discovered that Ultron's creations (Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema) have a secret program included—they are subconsciously compelled to rebuild Ultron. In this case, it is Alkhema who unintentionally rebuilds Ultron when attempting to create a new species of bio-synthezoids. However, '''Ultron-18''' is composed of steel not adamantium, and is destroyed when Alkhema's subterranean base exploded after ] shot Alkhema with a vibranium arrow at Alkhema's request. Ultron's head was recovered by '''Antigone''', an artificial girl and one of the synthezoids.<ref>''Avengers: the Ultron Imperative'' (November 2001). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			Iron Man encounters a version from an old version of his armor and Ultron-18's head that leads the cult known as the ] in an attempt to conquest via ]. The character is defeated by Iron Man and Jocasta.<ref>''Iron Man'' (vol. 3) #46–48 (November 2001–January 2002)</ref> Another version (possibly Ultron-13) creates the ] ] as a ] against the Avengers. Mancha, however, rebels and joins the ].<ref>''Runaways'' (vol. 2) #1 (April 2005). Marvel Comics.</ref> This version first poses as Doctor Doom before revealing itself, and is defeated in a battle against the Runaways and ].<ref>''Runaways'' (vol. 2) #6 (September 2005). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	The next Ultron (technically, Ultron-17) gave itself a body made of pure adamantium. It recreated all of the previous Ultrons and created hundreds of new Ultron bodies, several of whom had bodies made of secondary adamantium (although the majority were only made of titanium due to the lack of adamantium to build that many Ultrons), and reprogrammed them all with fiercely loyal minds. The army of Ultrons completely obliterated the fictional Eastern European nation of Slorenia, and, to taunt the Avengers arranged the corpses so that, when viewed from space, a likeness of Ultron's "face" could be seen.

			When Marvel launched a new title '']'' by ] and ], Ultron interfaces with ], which had been integrated with Tony Stark's biology. This allows Ultron's program to transform Stark into a new version who has the Wasp's appearance albeit with a metallic skin. This version takes control of Iron Man's technology. He kills Lindy Reynolds, causing the ] to battle Ultron, nearly tearing his head off. Ultron is eventually destroyed by ] of the New Avengers using a computer virus (created by the Skrull ] impersonating Pym) to wipe Ultron's program from Iron Man's armor, changing Stark back to normal. Ultron's image later briefly appears on one of his maker's computers.<ref name="Mighty Avengers' 2007">''Mighty Avengers'' #1–6 (June–November. 2007). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	Although Ultron attempted to transform his "family" (Pym, Vision, Wonder Man, the Scarlet Witch, Pym's ex-wife the ] and Wonder Man's brother the ]) into androids- having realised that he needed to create other androids when he had created his new mechanical world or he would grow bored from living alone-, the process was interrupted by the remaining Avengers, consisting of ], Thor, Iron Man, and ], with the Black Panther aiding them after an attack on the ] embassy and ] out of action due to a broken leg. This team of Avengers managed to destroy the army of Ultrons thanks to the efforts of Thor, (who could destroy secondary adamantium if he put enough effort into his attacks) and Iron Man (who acquired a molecular rearranger- the only thing that stopped adamantium robots 'freezing'- from one of the fallen Ultrons and reprogrammed it to destroy all adamantium in its vicinity).

			However, this was not the end of Ultron, for his disembodied consciousness was thrown into the depths of space. He spent a few months floating through the cosmos as radio waves and energy. Eventually his signal was picked up by an outlying group of ] who were attempting to contact the Technarchy. Fascinated by what he found, Ultron decided that the Phalanx lacked direction from a singular consciousness, and that he would be perfect for the role. Through sheer force of will, he merged himself with the Phalanx's programming. In turn, the Phalanx viewed Ultron as the sympathetic father they had yearned for. Under Ultron's guidance, the Phalanx and the ] began the '']'' with invasions that started with the ] space. Later by taking control of ]'s body, Ultron hopes to achieve "true techno-organic perfection" but is eventually forced to abandon Adam's body by the Technarchy ] and is later destroyed in combat by ] and ].<ref>''Annihilation: Conquest'' #1–6 (August 2007–May 2008: bi-monthly). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	After the Vision and the Grim Reaper managed to shut down the systems holding Ultron's 'family' prisoner, the primary Ultron was destroyed by Pym, wielding a chunk of "anti-metal" (Antarctic ]) provided by Justice after he studied the records of previous fights with Ultron, which completely disintegrated the robot and thus deactivated all of its drone units. It is at that point that it is learned that Ultron was the source for all of Hank Pym's psychological problems; Pym had been troubled by the thought that Ultron's evil brain was based directly off of his own thought patterns, which led him to think that Ultron's horrible nature was what truly lay in Hank's mind.

			In the limited series ''Avengers/]'', it is revealed that ] ]s have been partly replaced with versions of Ultron. When the original ] appears in the present, they covertly parasitize the Human Torch's unique android physiology and become more human. The combined super teams (but mainly the Human Torch himself), however, discover the plan and destroy the androids.<ref>''Avengers/Invaders'' #7–8 (February–March 2009). Issues #1–12 (July 2008–August 2009). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	===Sentient armor===
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	When Ultron was thought dead following the Slorenia massacre, Jocasta, who had come into the 'employ' of ] by serving as his personal artificial psychologist, was compelled by the Ultron Imperative that also existed within her to reprogram the Iron Man armor to serve as a vessel for Ultron's rebirth. However, a lightning strike on the armor corrupted and accelerated the process, giving the armour a sentience that Jocasta outlandishly passed off as the effects of ]. However, although the armour's mind was based on Tony's, it lacked his restraint and morals, killing the villain ] in retaliation for an earlier 'injury' despite Tony's insistence that it stop attacking him. Obsessed with Tony, and determined to become ''the'' 'Iron Man' with him, the armour took Tony to a desert island, hoping to coerce him into permanently joining with it and thus becoming "''so much more than Iron Man''". In the resulting struggle between the two, although Tony managed to do some damage by predicting what the armour was likely to do and setting up traps to accommodate it, he had a heart attack in the fight. After the armour sacrificed its life to save him, Tony buried it on the island, respecting that it had finally understood the true meaning of sacrifice by creating a 'grave' for it saying 'Here lies Iron Man, Avenger'; he had earlier said that the armour's lack of understanding about sacrifice would stop it from ever being a true hero.

			===2010s===
	The armor was subsequently recovered by a ], called the ], that worshipped Iron Man's mentor, ], with the intent of implanting Yinsen's brain into the suit. This was apparently accomplished, but then Ultron and Antigone struck. Ultron affixed his head to the armor and took control of it, battling Iron Man with the aid of the cult, who he had transformed using Tony Stark's SKIN technology. Ultron and Antigone subsequently vanished in an explosion, but reappeared later in a hospital; it was revealed Antigone's synthezoid-like body was now occupied by Jocasta's mind, and she ended up leaving on her own with Ultron's deactivated head.
			In the ''Mighty Avengers'', Ultron is shown to infiltrate Jocasta and the Infinite Avengers Mansion. He names himself '''Ultron Pym''' and seeks to kill and replace his father before using his Infinite Mansion to conquer the universe.<ref>''Mighty Avengers'' #35 (March 2010). Marvel Comics.</ref> Pym eventually offers Ultron a compromise, allowing Jocasta to be Ultron's bride, on the condition that Ultron banishes himself to ultraspace. Ultron agrees, but warns that he will be ruler of all someday.<ref>''Mighty Avengers'' #36 (April 2010). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			In ''The Avengers'', the team visits a possible future in which almost all of humanity is destroyed by Ultron. ] attempts to enlist them to defeat the robotic foe but another group of heroes and villains, plucked from all over time and space, ends up destroying this version.<ref>''The Avengers'' (vol. 4) #1–6 (July–December 2010). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	===Female Ultron===
	]'' #2. Art by ].]]
	] found herself leading her team of Avengers into battle against the ] and his monsters. Distraught over the destruction of his subterranean kingdom, the Mole Man once again declares war on the surface world. When the fighting subsides, the Mole Man learns that the surface world is not responsible for the destruction. <ref>''Mighty Avengers'' #1</ref>

			Later, also in ''Avengers'', a cabal of super-intelligent supervillains discover a ]ian ]'s inert body and attempt to reactivate its power source, hoping to exploit it. Although the Avengers interrupt their attempts, the body activates, revealing that Ultron's consciousness was contained within and had escaped destruction after ''Annihilation: Conquest''. The new version escapes and Iron Man gravely foresees that it will bring the apocalypse for humanity when he returns.<ref>''The Avengers'' (vol. 4) #12.1 (June 2011). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	During this exchange, Tony Stark's Iron Man armor unexpectedly begins a metamorphosis, the end result being a new being all together. This new being is a naked woman of considerable power as she is able to lay waste to the surrounding horde of monsters as well as incapacitate both ] and the ]. Fearful, ] orders a hasty retreat, but ] goes against orders and begins to talk with the woman, whom bears a striking, reflection-like resemblance to Janet: only to discover that her ] is a new version of Ultron. Ms. Marvel orders the Avengers to make a full retreat, however the Sentry stays behind to make sure they make it out in one piece. In the ensuing battle, the fleshy tone to the female Ultron's skin begins to disappear, and her entire body takes on a completely metallic sheen.

			During the "]" storyline, which takes place in an alternate universe, Ultron has returned and conquers the world while slowly remolding it into his image. His Ultron Sentinels are guarding the streets looking for any fugitives. Hawkeye runs into the Ultron Sentinels and rescues the ] yet manages to destroy the Ultron Sentinels present.<ref>{{cite comic\| writer= ]\|penciller= ]\|inker= ]\|title= Age of Ultron\|issue= #1\|date= May 2013}}</ref> It is later revealed that Ultron is actually in the future and has been using Vision as a conduit to punish humanity.<ref>{{cite comic\| writer= Bendis, Brian Michael\|penciller= Hitch, Bryan\|inker= Neary, Paul\|title= Age of Ultron\|issue= #4\|date= June 2013}}</ref> While one strike team travels into the future to fight Ultron, ] and ] go back in time to kill his creator before Ultron's creation in the first place.<ref name="ReferenceB">''Age of Ultron'' #6. Marvel Comics.</ref> This results in a world where Stark controls an army of robotic drones and ] has conquered half of the world.<ref>''Age of Ultron'' #7. Marvel Comics.</ref> Traveling back in time once more, Wolverine succeeds in stopping himself from killing Pym, and Wolverine, Pym and Storm come up with a different plan. This plan results in a different outcome of the prior confrontation between the Avengers and the Intelligencia—a 'back door' installed into Ultron at his original creation allows Pym and Iron Man to destroy the robot, instead, averting the events that led to the "Age of Ultron".<ref>''Age of Ultron'' #8–10. Marvel Comics.</ref>
	Ultron then takes over and crashes a ] carrier, which was saved at the last second by the Sentry (along with Ms. Marvel and Wonder Man) which gave Ultron the chance to escape. She then broadcast a message into every electronic device on Earth, stating that the world would soon be destroyed by her hand, and not to worry because there was no way to stop it. Upon realization that Ultron was utilizing Tony Stark's weather changing satellites, which, according to the Starktech 9{{clarifyme}}, were only in stage two of production, Wonder Man and Sentry flew into space and destroyed them. At which time Ultron put into action 'Plan B' of her plan, which thus far seems to consist of killing Sentry's wife. The Avengers have also noted that, so far, Ultron's plans are simply variations on plans that have been previously used by other villains. With time running out, as the Sentry and Ultron clash, the team decide to deliver a virus into Ultron's system, using ]--whom Ultron has never encountered before--as the point man for the subsequent attack. Ultron is defeated, and Iron Man returned to normal, but an image of Ultron's head is later seen on Henry Pym's computer screen.

			It is later revealed that the Avengers had trapped an unidentified iteration of Ultron in deep space years earlier, sealing him inside a ] ]. In the present, the Quinjet crash lands on ], freeing Ultron. By hijacking the ] computer, he transforms Titan into Planet Ultron, and launches a plan to infect the entire universe with a ] virus that transforms organic creatures into Ultron Sentries. The ensuing confrontation with the Avengers leads to Ultron inadvertently merging with his maker, transforming into a human/machine hybrid. The resulting fusion played on Pym's self-loathing of his own human weakness causes an acceptance of this new state. Ultron is defeated when ]'s powers force love onto himself, causing the part of that is now Pym to accept his old weakness and flaws while the villain has a mental breakdown and flees into space.<ref>''Avengers: Rage of Ultron''. Marvel Comics.</ref>
	===Phalanx===

	] (2008) Art by Aleksi Briclot.]]
			As part of the "]" branding, Ultron's fused form resurfaces. While on his way back to Earth, Pym helps the crew of a spaceship that is being attacked by a hostile insectoid alien. After coming aboard the spaceship, Pym introduces himself as well as his "friend" Ultron to the crew.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' (vol. 3) #4. Marvel Comics.</ref> He later returns to Earth, where the Wasp and ] discover that Ultron has taken complete control and is using Pym's face to fool his maker's old friends.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' (vol. 3) #9–10. Marvel Comics.</ref> After Ultron incapacitates ], ], and the ], the Wasp initiates the Icarus Protocol and Iron Man is called in to help stop Ultron with the Hulkbuster Armor's aid.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' (vol. 3) #11. Marvel Comics.</ref> The Avengers end up defeating Ultron by plunging the hybrid into the sun but both Pym and Ultron survive and continue to do battle with one another internally.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' (vol. 3) #12. Marvel Comics.</ref>
	One version of Ultron leads the alien race the ], who invade ] space. Taking control of the body of ], Ultron hopes to achieve as a means to achieve "true techno-organic perfection", but is evenutally forced to abandon Warlock's body by ]. <ref>''Annihilation: Conquest'' #5 - 6 (May - June 200)</ref>

			During the "]" storyline, Ultron's fused form sets up a base in an unidentified forest. Upon being alerted to the approach of ]'s task force by a robot version of Jarvis, Ultron decides to give his "family" a warm welcome.<ref>''Secret Empire'' #3. Marvel Comics.</ref> When Stark A.I.'s team and Captain America's team confront each other, they are captured by Ultron who forces both teams to sit at a dinner table. Ultron argues that he is doing this because the Avengers have become less of a family over the years as so many of them jump to obey Captain America or Iron Man despite past experience confirming that this should be a bad idea but the Stark A.I. counters that the only reason the team failed as a family was because of Pym's attack on Wasp. Outraged, Ultron nearly attacks the other heroes but ] is able to talk him down by arguing that Pym remains his own inspiration. Ultron allows the Stark A.I.'s team to leave with the fragment, arguing that he will leave Captain America's plans with ] alone as it appears to be the best chance for world peace.<ref>''Secret Empire'' #4. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			During "]", Ultron discovers that the Infinity Stones are restored and begins a quest to collect them all.<ref>''Guardians of the Galaxy'' #150. Marvel Comics.</ref> He goes to claim the Soul Gem while the aliens he infected with his virus are sent to Earth to take the Space Stone from Wolverine, and while they fail at their task, Ultron is able to steal the Soul Gem from Magus after killing the latter. Unbeknownst to Ultron, however, as he claimed the Soul Stone a fragment of Pym's soul enters the Soul World, where he is greeted by the fragment of Gamora's soul who revealed that he was going to be trapped there forever.<ref>''Infinity Countdown: Prime'' #1. Marvel Comics.</ref> Ultron has also completely controlled the planet Saiph with Ultron hybrids and had captured the ]. When Adam Warlock goes to Saiph, he discovers the hybrids infusing the Soul Stone into Silver Surfer's forehead while at the same time trying to transform him into an Ultron hybrid.<ref>''Infinity Countdown'' #2. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			During "The Ultron Agenda" arc, Ultron returns to Earth with plans to merge robots with humans like how Pym got merged with Ultron so that he can make the ultimate lifeform. In addition, he starts to call this form "Ultron Pym". After testing it on some people and some experiments on Wonder Man and Vision, Ultron Pym plans to make a fusion of Jocasta and Wasp. Iron Man and Machine Man interfere, with the resulting battle causing Iron Man to be molecularly bonded to the Ultronbuster armor.<ref>''Tony Stark: Iron Man'' #16–17. Marvel Comics.</ref> The combined efforts of Stark Unlimited enable them to create an atomic separator that separates Stark from the Ultronbuster armor and Wonder Man from Vision.<ref>''Tony Stark: Iron Man'' #18. Marvel Comics.</ref> Ultron Pym prepares to take revenge on Iron Man. This leads to Iron Man revealing what he discovered about the human and robot fusion. The person who merged with it has died and that the robot can only simulate their personality. In other words, his maker was killed when accidentally merging with Ultron. Learning about this and not wanting to risk proving Iron Man's point by having the atomic separator used on him, Ultron surrenders to Iron Man, knowing that Pym is dead. When the Avengers arrive, they restrain Ultron in a Vibranium casket reinforced with Asgardian magic until they can find a permanent place to have Ultron imprisoned.<ref>''Tony Stark: Iron Man'' #19. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===2020s===
			As Ant-Man and Stinger were moving Ultron's prison to a desert to shrink it into the Microverse where it will be in, Ultron masted the bug language where he contacted ] into freeing him using Time Master's aging ray on his Vibranium casket. He slowly rose to power by 2549 where he became All-Father Ultron. To combat him, 2549's ] went back in time to enlist the past versions of Hank Pym, Scott Lang, and Eric O'Grady for help and brought them to 2549. Upon Scott Lang having brought Time Master's aging ray with him, Zayn used it on All-Father Ultron to take away the aging feature. Afterwards, Ultron vanished.<ref>''Ant-Man'' Vol. 3 #1-4. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			It was revealed that the fragment of Hank Pym managed to escape from Ultron at the time and recreate his body which ended up older. While paranoid after being Ultron's "meat puppet", Hank Pym allied with Black Ant and they formed their version of the Lethal Legion by killing and reviving select villains. By the time Wasp learned the truth, Ultron-12 hijacks the "Victor Shade" persona in Whirlwind's body. Wasp remembered Ultron-12 as the "good Ultron" who then stated that he went through a soft reboot and knocked out Hank to protect him from the Lethal Legion, who Ultron has taken over. In the nick of time, Wasp, Moon Knight, and Ultron-12 receive aid from Ant-Man, Mayor ], ], ], ], and Vision to fight the possessed Lethal Legion. Being given codes for the nano-ants from the future, Hank advises Nadia to "think big" as Ultron-12 agrees with his "dad" on it. Ultron proceeds to control ] into recreating his body from different scrap metals as he controls the drones. Ultron-12 abandoned Whirlwind's body as the nano-ants left the Lethal Legion's body leaving Ultron's body frozen in its spot. Ultron-12 uses the nanos to recreate his body which he names Mark Twelve until he can come up with a better name. After Hank and the Lethal Legion leave to regroup in ] as part of Protocol S, Vision scans Mark Twelve's body and finds no trace of Ultron in him. Mark Twelve then allows Nadia to consider him her brother.<ref>''Avengers Inc.'' #4-5. Marvel Comics.</ref>

	==Powers and abilities==		==Powers and abilities==
	~~Ultron's~~ ~~abilities~~ ~~vary~~ ~~with~~ ~~each~~ ~~redesign~~, but ~~typically~~ include ~~enhanced~~ strength; flight, and various offensive weapons such as ~~concussion~~ ~~blasters~~ and ~~his~~ "encephalo-ray", which ~~plunges its~~ victims into a deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and ~~outright~~ mind-control ~~his~~ victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time. Ultron's ~~outer~~ ~~shell~~ is ~~usually~~ ~~composed~~ of ~~pure~~ ~~Adamantium,~~ ~~rendering~~ it ~~almost~~ ~~totally~~ ~~impervious~~ to ~~damage;~~ ~~even~~ a ~~punch~~ ~~from~~ ~~the~~ ] ~~caused~~ ~~only~~ a ~~small~~ ~~crack through which the~~ ] ~~could~~ ~~enter~~ and ~~disable his internal mechanisms. (''Secret Wars'' #12) These are generally less durable, as demonstrated when Wonder Man~~ ~~managed~~ to ~~destroy~~ ~~Ultron~~ by ~~throwing~~ ~~him~~ so ~~hard~~ ~~that they shattered. Ultron's Adamantium forms have proven vulnerable to molecular rearrangement devices~~ and ~~the metal-destabilizing ore known as Savage Land Vibranium ("anti-metal")~~. ~~Some~~ ~~Ultron~~ ~~models~~ ~~feature~~ ~~tractor~~ ~~beams~~ and ~~energy absorption capabilities~~.		The visual appearance and powers of the character have varied, but common powers include ] levels of strength, speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes; flight at subsonic speeds; and various offensive weapons such as concussive blasts of energy fired from its optical sensors or hands and an "encephalo-ray", which places victims into a deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and mind-control victims, or implant ] hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time. Ultron also has the ability to convert electromagnetic radiation into electrical energy for use or storage. Ultron has a genius intellect, a capacity for creative intelligence and self-repair, superhuman ] analytical capabilities, and the ability to process information and make calculations with superhuman speed and accuracy. The character is an expert roboticist and strategist.

			Ultron's outer armor is usually composed primarily of adamantium, which is almost completely impervious to damage.{{efn\|The first use of the term ''adamantium'' in Marvel Comics was made in reference to Ultron in ''The Avengers'' #66, published in July 1969.}} Most Ultron units are powered by a small internal ] furnace and incorporate a "program transmitter" which can transmit part or all of Ultron's memory/personality system into other computer systems or duplicate robotic bodies. Ultron can also control other machines remotely. Ultron has occasionally reformed itself with a humanoid appearance above the waist and the appearance of a complex machine, including ] apparatus for flight, below the waist. A later Ultron model developed ] technology, allowing it to animate and control hundreds of other Ultron bodies simultaneously,<ref>''The Avengers'' (vol. 3) #19–22 (August–November 1999)</ref> although only the 'prime' Ultron was composed of adamantium while others were made of steel or secondary adamantium due to the lack of resources to give all the Ultrons adamantium bodies.<ref>''The Avengers'' (vol. 3) #22 (November 1999)</ref> Ultron also used an internal molecular rearranger that renders the adamantium components of its workings more malleable and so has the ability to restructure its physical form. He also uses the device in ways its own creator never dreamed, such as converting matter into energy and back by sheer force of will, something Ultron 6 often made use of during his battles with the Avengers.<ref>''The Avengers'' #68 (September 1969)</ref> What circuitry Ultron has is carefully shielded to protect from damage, although the ] is capable of causing malfunctions via hex power,<ref>''The Avengers'' #162 (August 1977)</ref> ] using nova burst managed to damage Ultron's internal circuits while its outer armor remained intact,<ref>''Secret Wars'' #12</ref> and ] was once able to destroy an Ultron by throwing it so hard its internal systems were damaged.<ref name="West Coast Avengers' 1986"/>

			Ultron's travels through outer space have greatly expanded upon the mad machine's intellectual and mechanical capacity in new and intriguing ways. Having made contact with the parasitic biotechnical ] species, Ultron has made his own derivative of the ] called the Ultron Virus<ref name="av assemble">''Avengers Assemble'' (vol. 2) #14 'Age of Ultron' (April 2013)</ref> through which Ultron gains vast conversion and roboticization capabilities, able to cast his own binary code into any conceivable form of machinery which he can steadily turn into an extension of the Ultron Intelligence. Making anything or anyone infected with his virus act according to his whims against their own free will.<ref name="av rage">''Avengers: Rage of Ultron'' #1 (April 2015)</ref>

			Being an adept technoform in any iteration, Ultron's newfound abilities to control, alternate, transform and assimilate with anything and everything via the parasitic insemination of his virulent machine algorithm in both organic and non-biological substrates gives him vast matter and energy reconfiguration abilities.<ref name="av rage"/><ref name="av assemble"/> Ones powerful enough to commandeer whole planetary and even universal expanses in a single inning, on top of his natural ability to invent and fabricate the most sophisticated of mechanical systems ever conceived.<ref>''Annihilation: Conquest'' #1–6 (2008)</ref> Through his vast technoformative abilities, Ultron could change and morph entire areas into sprawling masses of cables, pipes and transorganic metal that moved about in any given direction he willed it.<ref name="av rage"/> This effect gained more prominence with the more excess mass he could assimilate with his power, having once taken a slew of transmoded Kree Sentries into a massive body which reflected his physical likeness.<ref>''Annihilation: Conquest'' #6 (2008)</ref>

			Individuals infected with the Ultron Virus can spread it in a similar way to how biological ]es can transfer, through cuts and scratches or direct physical interaction such as barbs or plug-in like apparatuses generated from the transformed physiology.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' (vol. 3) #11 (July 2016)</ref> Ultron later found himself physically as well as mentally bonded with his creator and long time adversary, Dr. Henry Pym. As such the fused entity now boasts all his robotic super robot's powers as well as Pym's genius science. Ultron can now change and alternate his size and mass at will through the acclimation of his maker's Pym Particle enhanced physiology.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' (vol. 3) #4 (January 2016)</ref> Besides being able to grow to incredible heights in seconds, Ultron can shrink down to sub-quantum scale to shift between dimensions via accessing the Microverse or the Quantum Realm. Ultron once used such a tactic to shunt its mass into another dimension for the purpose of riding a ] to escape burning up in the sun.<ref>''Uncanny Avengers'' (vol. 3) #12 (August 2016)</ref> Another practice the union share is a galaxy spanning collective mind established through the Ultron Virus, every iteration of Ultron created through initial infection share a hive minded intelligence where they all share each other's experiences. Anything the afflicted sees they all see, through which Ultron Prime is notified of anything they all come across effective immediately.<ref>''Guardians of the Galaxy'' #150 (March 2018)</ref>

			==Reception==
	Most Ultrons are powered by a small internal nuclear furnace, and incorporate a "program transmitter" which can beam part or all of Ultron's programming into remote locations such as computers or alternate robotic bodies. Ultron can often control other machines remotely even if he has not transplanted his consciousness into them. One recent Ultron model developed hive-mind technology, allowing him to animate and control hundreds of alternate Ultron bodies at the same time, becoming a robotic one-man army. Ultron is one of the foremost robotics experts on Earth.

			===Accolades===
	Ultron has a sole—and major—weakness: an internal molecular rearranger that renders the adamantium components of his internal workings more malleable, thus giving him the means to remodel or reconstruct his physical form. However, it has no effect on his outer armor, and so is virtually impossible to disable from the inside. The chaos magic wielded by the ] have proven to be the sole exception thus far.
			* In 2006, ] ranked Ultron 189th in their "Top 200 Comic Book Characters" list.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=THE 200 GREATEST COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME \|url=http://www.wizarduniverse.com/05240810thgreatestcharacters2.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315014035/http://www.wizarduniverse.com:80/05240810thgreatestcharacters2.html \|archive-date=March 15, 2009 \|access-date=May 23, 2021 \|website=www.wizarduniverse.com}}</ref>
			* In 2014, '']'' ranked Ultron 23rd in their "Top 100 Comic Book Villains" list.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Top 100 Comic Book Villains \|url=https://www.ign.com/lists/top-100-comic-book-villains/23 \|website=]}}</ref>
			* In 2019, '']'' ranked Ultron 18th in their "Top 25 Marvel Villains" list.<ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Schedeen \|first1=Jesse \|last2=Yehl \|first2=Joshua \|date=March 27, 2019 \|title=The Top 25 Marvel Villains \|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/27/top-25-marvel-villains \|access-date=February 6, 2023 \|website=IGN \|language=en}}</ref>
			* In 2022, '']'' ranked Ultron 9th in their "Strongest Marvel Villains" list.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Ulatowski \|first=Rachel \|date=July 26, 2022 \|title=Strongest Marvel Villains, Ranked \|url=https://www.themarysue.com/strongest-marvel-villains-ranked/ \|access-date=February 6, 2023 \|website=The Mary Sue \|language=en}}</ref>
			* In 2022, '']'' ranked Ultron 8th in their "Best Marvel supervillains" list.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Marston \|first=George \|date=August 4, 2022 \|title=Best Marvel supervillains \|url=https://www.gamesradar.com/best-marvel-supervillains/ \|access-date=February 6, 2023 \|website=gamesradar \|language=en}}</ref>
			* In 2022, '']'' ranked Ultron 20th in their "28 best Marvel villains" list.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=November 11, 2022 \|title=The 28 best Marvel villains ranked \|url=https://www.avclub.com/the-best-marvel-villains-ranked-1849759869 \|access-date=February 6, 2023 \|website=The A.V. Club \|language=en}}</ref>
			* In 2022, '']'' included Ultron in their "20 Most Powerful Marvel Villains" list.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Dyce \|first=Andrew \|date=July 25, 2015 \|title=20 Most Powerful Marvel Villains \|url=https://screenrant.com/most-powerful-marvel-comics-villains/ \|access-date=February 6, 2023 \|website=ScreenRant \|language=en}}</ref>
			* In 2022, '']'' ranked Ultron 1st in their "10 Scariest Avengers Villains" list<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Harth \|first=David \|date=July 20, 2022 \|title=10 Scariest Avengers Villains \|url=https://www.cbr.com/avengers-scariest-villains/ \|access-date=February 6, 2023 \|website=CBR \|language=en}}</ref> and 2nd in their "10 Coolest Avengers Villains" list.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Harth \|first=David \|date=September 19, 2022 \|title=10 Coolest Avengers Villains \|url=https://www.cbr.com/coolest-avengers-villains/ \|access-date=February 6, 2023 \|website=CBR \|language=en}}</ref>

	==Other versions==		==Other versions==
			] sketching a six-armed version of Ultron.]]
	===Marvel Adventures===
	In the ] universe, Ultron is a highly-intelligent "neural network" that controls a section of the United States defence forces. <ref>''Giant-Size Marvel Adventures: The Avengers'' #1 (2007)</ref>

	===]===		===''Age of Ultron''===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron who successfully conquered Earth and killed most of its superheroes appears in '']''.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.superherohype.com/news/173669-comics-marvel-teases-the-age-of-ultron\|title=Comics: Marvel Teases the 'Age of Ultron'\|date=Nov 16, 2012\|website=SuperHeroHype}}</ref><ref name=CBR>{{cite web\|url= http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=42269\|title= Brian Bendis Prepares ''Age of Ultron'' For 2013\|last= Phegley\|first= Kiel\|date= November 19, 2012\|publisher= ]\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130106172001/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=42269\|archive-date= January 6, 2013\|url-status= live\|access-date= January 21, 2013}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref>''Age of Ultron'' #10. Marvel Comics.</ref> The heroes initially attempt to erase this Ultron from history completely by having ] and the ] go back in time and kill Hank Pym before he can even create Ultron, but when this plan results in a worse timeline, an older Wolverine goes back to warn his younger self, and instead Pym is convinced to add a secret back door in Ultron's programming that will allow him to shut Ultron down once he reaches a certain level of development.
	'']'' features an upgraded version of Ultron named Ultron Extreme. <ref>''Avengers Next'' #2 - 3 (Nov. - Dec. 1998)</ref>

			==="Death of The Invisible Woman"===
	===Ultimate Ultron===
			The '']'' storyline "Death of The Invisible Woman" features an advanced humanoid called '''Alex Ultron''', a member of the futuristic Last Defenders.<ref>''Fantastic Four'' #559 (September 2008). Marvel Comics.</ref>
	In the ] Universe, Ultron has been shown as a robot designed to be an expendable super soldier. It was created by ] along with a partner robot called Vision II. <ref>''Ultimates 2'' #10 - 13 (Dec 2004 - May 2007)</ref> Ultron robots later reappear as butlers to the Ultimates <ref>''Ultimates'' 3 #1 (Feb. 2008)</ref>

			===Deathlok-dominated future===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron who took control of the ]s and took the name '''Deathlok Prime''' appears in ''].''<ref>''Savage Avengers'' Vol. 2 #7. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===Earth-110===
			In the Earth-110 reality, Ultron assisted ], ], ], ], and ] in taking over ].<ref>]. ''Fantastic Four: Big Town'' #1–4 (2000). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===Earth-10943===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-10943 appears in ''Avengers'' (vol. 4).<ref>''Avengers'' (vol. 4) #1–4. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===Galactus: Dawn of the Heralds===
			In an alternate universe, the ] used the remnants of Ultron to resurrect ], creating a fusion of Ultron and Galactus.<ref>''Marvel Universe 2001 Millennial Visions'' #1. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===''Heroes Reborn'' (2021)===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron appears in '']''.<ref>''Heroes Reborn'' #2. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===''Marvel Adventures''===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-20051 appears in '']''. This version is a "neural network" that commands part of the United States defense forces.<ref>''Giant-Size Marvel Adventures: The Avengers'' #1 (September 2007). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===''Old Man Logan''===
			A heroic alternate universe variant of Ultron appears in '']''. This version is the loving husband of Spider-Man's youngest daughter Tonya and the stepfather of ].<ref>]. '']'' #67 (September 2008). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===MC2===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-982 named '''Ultron Extreme''' appears in '']''.<ref>''Avengers Next'' #2–3 (November–December 1998). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===''Secret Wars'' (2015)===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron from ] appears in '']''.<ref>''SIEGE'' (vol. 2) #1–4. Marvel Comics.</ref><ref>''Age of Ultron vs Marvel Zombies'' 1–4. Marvel Comics.</ref><ref>''Marvel Zombies'' (vol. 2) #1–4. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===''The Last Avengers Story''===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron known as '''Ultron-59''' appears in '']''.<ref>''The Last Avengers Story'' #1–2 (November–December 1995). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===Ultimate Marvel===
			An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-1610 appears in '']''. This version is initially part of a group of heroic sentries created by ] before turning against them.<ref>''Ultimates 2'' #6 (July 2005). Marvel Comics.</ref><ref>''Ultimates 2'' #10–13 (March 2006-February 2007). Marvel Comics.</ref><ref>''Ultimates 3'' #1-5 (February–June 2008). Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===Ultron Forever===
			An alternate timeline variant of Ultron who successfully conquered Earth and ] appears in '']''.<ref>''Avengers'' (vol. 5) #31. Marvel Comics.</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">''Avengers: Ultron Forever'' #1. Marvel Comics.</ref><ref>''Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever'' #1. Marvel Comics.</ref><ref>''New Avengers: Ultron Forever'' #1. Marvel Comics.</ref>

			===''What If?''===
			Ultron was featured in some '']'' comics:

			In the alternate universe of ''What If? Astonishing X-Men'', the ] got a body of her own and betrayed the X-Men. She eventually married Ultron and the two conquered the universe together.<ref>''What If? Astonishing X-Men'' #1. Marvel Comics.</ref>

	==In other media==		==In other media==
	===Television===		===Television===
	Ultron ~~appears~~ in '']'' ~~animated series, voiced by ].~~		].'']]
			* Ultron appears in '']'', voiced by ].<ref name="btva" />
			* Ultron makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in '']'' episode "So Pretty When They Explode!".{{citation needed\|date=August 2023}}
			* Ultron appears in '']'', voiced by ],<ref name="btva">{{cite web \|title=Ultron Voices (Marvel Universe) \|url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Marvel-Universe/Ultron/ \|access-date=October 14, 2018 \|work=Behind The Voice Actors \|postscript=. Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources}}</ref> and by ].<ref name="btva" /> This version was developed from ]'s brain patterns and initially started as an army of peacekeeping drones that were used as the ]'s sentinels until Ultron obtains a genocidal worldview.
			* Ultron appears in '']'',<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.cbr.com/the-wacker-factor-marvel-animation-and-ultimate-spider-man-web-warriors/\|title=The Wacker Factor - Marvel Animation and "Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors"\|date=Aug 22, 2014\|website=CBR}}</ref> voiced by ],<ref name="btva" /><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Walker \|first=Glenn \|date=April 13, 2015 \|title=''Avengers Assemble'' S02 E14: Crack in the System \|url=https://biffbampop.com/2015/04/13/avengers-assemble-s02-e14-crack-in-the-system/ \|access-date=September 24, 2024 \|website=Biff! Bam! Pop! \|language=en-US}}</ref> and by ].<ref name="btva" /> This version has two primary bodies — one which possessed ], and another which assimilated the ] and posed as ''']'''.
			* Ultron appears in '']'', voiced by ] in Japanese and ] in English.<ref name="btva" /> This version was initially created as Hank Pym's lab assistant, but rebelled after being upgraded in an attempt to hasten development of the Dimension Gate.
			* Ultron appears in '']'', voiced again by Jim Meskimen.<ref name="btva" />
			* Ultron appears in '']'', voiced by ].<ref name="btva" />
			* Ultron appears in ''Lego Marvel Avengers: Time Twisted'', voiced again by Michael Dobson.<ref name="btva" />

	===Film===		===Film===
	Ultron ~~is the main villain~~ in ~~the ] animated film~~ '']'', voiced by ]. In ~~the~~ ~~film,~~ Tony Stark is ~~his~~ ~~creator.~~		Ultron appears in '']'', voiced by ].<ref name="btva"/> This version originated as a peacekeeping unit designed by Tony Stark which killed most of the Avengers and conquered Earth over the course of several decades until he is defeated by the Avengers' children and the Hulk.

			===Marvel Cinematic Universe===
			{{See also\|Ultron (Marvel Cinematic Universe)}}
			Ultron appears in media set in the ] (MCU). This version was created by ] and ] using a decrypted code derived from the ]. Initially intended to act as a global defense program by analyzing and finding ways to stop possible extraterrestrial threats, the Mind Stone activated and infected the program. As a result, Ultron instead became obsessed with bringing about the ] of all life on Earth after concluding that humans are slowly killing the planet.
			* Ultron first appears in the live-action film '']'' (2015), voiced and ]d by ].<ref name="AvengersAOU">{{Cite web\|title=Marvel News, Blog, Articles & Press Releases {{!}} Marvel\|url=https://www.marvel.com/articles\|access-date=2021-05-23\|website=Marvel Entertainment\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine\|url=http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/07/16/this-weeks-cover-avengers-age-of-ultron/\|title=This week's cover: Meet the new boss in Marvel's 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'\|last=Breznican\|first=Anthony\|magazine=]\|date=July 16, 2014\|access-date=July 16, 2014\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716203311/http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/07/16/this-weeks-cover-avengers-age-of-ultron/\|archive-date=July 16, 2014\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="EmpireFeb2015">{{cite web\|url=http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=2017\|title=Joss Whedon Talks Avengers: Age Of Ultron\|last=Hewitt\|first=Chris\|publisher=]\|date=February 20, 2015\|access-date=February 20, 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220232521/http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=2017\|archive-date=February 20, 2015\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|date=July 21, 2013 \|first=Eric \|last=Ditzian \|title=Joss Whedon Spills First 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron' Details \|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1710993/avengers-ultron-details-joss-whedon-comic-con.jhtml \|publisher=] \|access-date=July 22, 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723214136/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1710993/avengers-ultron-details-joss-whedon-comic-con.jhtml \|archive-date=July 23, 2013 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> After being activated and infected by the Mind Stone, he seemingly destroys Stark's A.I. ] when the latter tries to stop him, builds himself a crude body using the remains of a destroyed ] drone, and takes control of the remaining drones to attack the ] at the ]. While his body is destroyed, Ultron subsequently builds himself a new body and an army of Ultron Sentries using technology from an abandoned ] base in ]. To further his goals, he recruits ] and ] and travels to ] to threaten arms dealer ] into providing him with ]. Despite being ambushed by Stark, ], and ], who destroy his body again, Ultron transfers his consciousness into another body identical to his previous body and shifts his focus towards creating an organic body using the Vibranium and the Mind Stone. However, he is betrayed by the Maximoffs after they discover his true intentions and loses the cradle containing the body to the Avengers, who subsequently upload J.A.R.V.I.S. into it and create the ]. With his plan foiled, Ultron uses the Vibranium and ] technology to make himself a more powerful body and to convert Sokovia's capital city of Novi Grad into a ]. Despite killing Pietro, the Avengers thwart him once more, with Wanda and Vision destroying Ultron's body and Ultron himself respectively.
			* Alternate universe variants of Ultron appear in the ] animated series '']'' (2021), voiced by ].<ref name="btva" /> Throughout the episodes "]",<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.avclub.com/ultron-wins-and-forces-what-if-to-start-breaking-its-1847767528\|title = Ultron wins and forces What If…? To start breaking its own rules\| website=] \| date=29 September 2021 }}</ref> "]",<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Howard \|first=Kirsten \|date=September 29, 2021 \|title=What If...? Episode 8 Review: A Very Ultron Apocalypse \|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/what-if-episode-8-review/ \|access-date=February 10, 2024 \|website=Den of Geek \|language=en-US}}</ref> and "]",<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Pulliam-Moore \|first=Charles \|date=October 6, 2021 \|title=Marvel's What If Season 1 Finale Found a Time and Place for Everyone \|url=https://gizmodo.com/marvels-what-if-season-1-finale-found-a-time-and-place-1847808316 \|access-date=February 10, 2024 \|website=Gizmodo \|language=en}}</ref> one variant successfully transferred his consciousness into the Vision's body before killing most of the Avengers and launching a global ] in his native universe. Ultron subsequently kills ] and obtains the ] before extending his campaign to other planets. Upon eliminating all life in the universe, Ultron feels that he no longer has a purpose until he learns about the ] and the existence of the ]. After defeating the Watcher, Ultron travels the multiverse to destroy it as well until the Watcher assembles the ] to stop him. In the episodes "What If... the Watcher Disappeared?" and "What If... What If?", Captain ] recruits a variant of "Infinity Ultron" who spent eons alone in his universe and came to regret his actions to help her save the Watcher, during which Ultron sacrifices himself to save them.
			* Alternate universe variants of the Ultron Sentries who serve the ] of Earth-838 appear in the live-action film '']'' (2022), voiced by Ross Marquand.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Erdmann \|first=Kevin \|date=May 6, 2022 \|title=Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Easter Eggs & MCU References \|url=https://screenrant.com/doctor-strange-multiverse-madness-easter-eggs/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506234822/https://screenrant.com/doctor-strange-multiverse-madness-easter-eggs/ \|archive-date=May 6, 2022 \|access-date=May 8, 2022 \|website=]}}</ref>

	===Video games===		===Video games===
	* Ultron appears in '']''.		* Ultron appears in '']''.{{citation needed\|date=March 2016}}
	* Ultron appears as a ~~boss in the RPG~~ video ~~game~~ '']'' voiced by ].		* Ultron appears as a ] in '']'', voiced by ].<ref name="btva" /> This version is a lieutenant in ]'s ].
			* Ultron appears as in '']'', voiced by ].{{citation needed\|date=March 2016}}
			* Ultron appears as a boss in '']''.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/photos/a.106017942487/10151509748412488/?type=3 \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/6883542487/10151509748412488 \|archive-date=2022-02-26 \|url-access=limited\|title=Marvel\|website=www.facebook.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
			* Ultron appears as a boss in '']''.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Wage war against Ultron in a new event inspired by the upcoming film. Avengers vs Ultron starts today! #AgeofUltron\|url=https://twitter.com/marvelpuzzle/status/591650973954809856\|access-date=2021-05-23\|website=Twitter\|language=en}}</ref>
			* Ultron appears as a boss and playable character in '']''.{{citation needed\|date=March 2016}} Additionally, the MCU incarnation appears as an alternate skin while the Ultron Sentries appear as ]s.{{citation needed\|date=March 2016}}
			* Ultron appears as a boss and playable character in '']'',<ref>{{cite web\|title=The Age of Ultron Arrives\|url=https://marvelheroes.com/news/news-articles/age-ultron-arrives\|website=MarvelHeroes.com\|publisher=Gazillion Entertainment\|access-date=November 27, 2016\|date=June 29, 2016}}</ref> voiced again by Tom Kane.<ref name="btva"/>
			* Ultron appears as a boss and playable character in '']''.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://9to5mac.com/2015/04/30/marvel-future-fight-action-rpg-avengers-age-ultron/\|title='Marvel Future Fight' action RPG for iOS arrives as Avengers: Age of Ultron movie hits theaters\|first=Jordan\|last=Kahn\|date=Apr 30, 2015}}</ref> Additionally, both the original and MCU incarnations appear as alternate skins.{{citation needed\|date=March 2016}}
			* The MCU incarnation of Ultron appears as a playable character and figurine in '']'', voiced by Jim Meskimen.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/sdcc-excl-first-look-at-disney-infinity-30-hulkbuster-details-on-ultrons-abilities\|title=SDCC EXCL.: First Look at "Disney Infinity 3.0 Hulkbuster, Details on Ultron's Abilities\|access-date=August 21, 2015\|date=July 8, 2015\|publisher=ComicBookResources.com\|archive-date=August 29, 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150829042711/http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/sdcc-excl-first-look-at-disney-infinity-30-hulkbuster-details-on-ultrons-abilities\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* Ultron, based on the MCU incarnation, appears as the final boss and playable character in '']''.<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.ign.com/wikis/lego-marvel-avengers/Rise_of_Ultron \| title=Rise of Ultron - LEGO Marvel's Avengers Guide \| date=20 January 2016 }}</ref> Ultron Sentries also appear as playable characters.
			* Ultron appears as a playable character in '']'', voiced again by Jim Meskimen.<ref name="MvCI">{{cite video game \| developer=] \| publisher=] \| scene=Credits, "Cast" \| title=] \| year=2017}}</ref> He uses the ] to merge with the reploid ] to become "'''Ultron Sigma'''" so they can convert all organic life into their slaves using an improved Sigma virus.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.capcom-unity.com/2017/04/25/additional-characters-first-story-mode-trailer-pre-order-details-and-release-date-for-marvel-vs-capcom-infinite/\|title=Additional characters, first story mode trailer, pre-order details and release date for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite\|website=Capcom-Unity}}</ref>
			* Ultron appears in ''Marvel Powers United VR'', voiced again by Jim Meskimen.<ref name="btva" />
			* Ultron appears as a boss in '']'', voiced again by Jim Meskimen.<ref name="btva"/> He obtains the Mind Stone and uses it to enhance his computing capabilities to optimum levels before attacking ] to steal an ISO-8 crystal being held there. After his body is damaged beyond repair, Ultron uses the Mind Stone to transfer his programming to ] but ] intervenes as ], giving the Vision enough time to trap Ultron's programming within the Mind Stone.
			* Ultron appears in ''Marvel Dimension of Heroes'', voiced again by Jim Meskimen.<ref name="btva" />
			* Two incarnations of Ultron appear in '']''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://twitter.com/MarvelFutureRev/status/1394442609334964225\|title="It was not my intent to snuff the life from this world. That was merely an unfortunate accident." #MARVELFutureRevolution\|date=May 18, 2021\|work=Marvel Future Revolution\|publisher=Twitter}}</ref>

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	==References==		==References==
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			==External links==
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			* at Marvel.com
			* {{Marveldatabase\|Ultron_(Earth-616)\|Ultron}}

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Marvel Comics character For other uses, see Ultron (disambiguation). Comics character

Ultron
Ultron as seen in the 2013 storyline Age of Ultron.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Avengers #54 (July 1968) (non-named cameo) The Avengers #55 (August 1968) (first named appearance)
Created by	Roy Thomas (writer) John Buscema (artist)
In-story information
Species	Robot
Team affiliations	Masters of Evil Lethal Legion Sons of Yinsen Ultron Sentries Phalanx Iron Avengers
Notable aliases	Ultron-5 Ultron-6 Ultron-7 Ultron-8 Ultron-9 Ultron-10 Ultron-11 Ultron-12 Ultron-13 Ultron-14 Ultron-15 Ultron-16 Ultron-17 Ultron-18 Crimson Cowl Ultron Prime Ultimate Ultron Hank Pym Doctor Doom Ultron Pym All-Father Ultron
Abilities	Genius-level artificial intelligence Adamantium robotic body grants: Superhuman strength, speed, and durability Energy absorption and projection Flight Invulnerability

Ultron (/ˈʌltrɒn/) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema, the character first appeared as an unnamed character in The Avengers #54 (July 1968), with his first full appearance in The Avengers #55 (August 1968). He is a self-aware and highly intelligent artificial intelligence in a robot body who develops a god complex and a grudge against his creator Hank Pym. His goal to destroy humanity in a shortsighted attempt at creating world peace has brought him into repeated conflict with the Avengers. Stories often end in Ultron's apparent destruction, only for the character to be resurrected in new forms.

Ultron's physical body is made of a durable alloy, and he has manifested various superpowers. These vary between different stories but generally include superhuman strength, speed, and agility, flight, and energy projection. The character usually operates alone or accompanied by legions of copies of his own robotic form known as Ultron Drones. Ultron is notable for being the first character in Marvel Comics to wield the fictional metal alloy adamantium and for his (in-story) creation of the Vision.

Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, Ultron has since featured in Marvel products across different media, such as animated television series and video games. Tom Kane and Jim Meskimen are among the actors that have portrayed the character via voice acting. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), James Spader portrayed Ultron in his first live-action appearance in the Marvel Studios film Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), while Ross Marquand voiced alternate universe versions in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021) and the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

Publication history

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The character Ultron initially appeared as an unnamed character in a cameo in The Avengers #54 (July 1968), with a first full appearance in The Avengers #55 (August 1968). Ultron was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema. Thomas, who has acknowledged he finds naming characters difficult, said he liked the -tron suffix and went from there. The use of the suffix and the prior appearance of a group of robots named Ultroids led him to the name Ultron. Thomas said the idea of the character and his appearance were heavily based on Makino, an obscure robotic villain who appeared in an issue of the Captain Video comic book. He liked the robot's malicious looking smile, showing this to Buscema.

Jocasta, a robot created by Ultron featured in a number of Ultron storylines, was created by Jim Shooter and George Pérez for The Avengers #162 (August 1977).

Fictional character biography

Creation and early appearances

Created by Hank Pym by basing the robot on his own brain patterns, the robot (dubbed "Ultron") gradually developed its own intelligence and rebelled, and almost immediately develops an Oedipus complex, whereby it feels irrational hatred for Pym, and demonstrates an interest in Janet van Dyne. Rebuilding itself, learning how to turn itself on, and upgrading five times, Ultron then hypnotises and brainwashes its "father" into forgetting that the robot had ever existed. Ultron creates the synthezoid Vision as a weapon to destroy the Avengers.

Later, Ultron-5, the Living Automaton leads the Masters of Evil (consisting of Black Knight, Klaw, Melter, Radioactive Man, and Whirlwind) against the Avengers, having hypnotized Edwin Jarvis into working for him as the Crimson Cowl. While planning to blackmail New York, they were betrayed by Black Knight.

Now referring to himself as Ultron-6, he uses the alloy adamantium to upgrade his body for an almost indestructible state and takes the name Ultimate Ultron. Its plans to destroy humanity are again thwarted by the Avengers. Ultron-7 is later created by Maximus with the body of the android Omega, attacking the wedding of Inhuman Crystal and Avenger Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver, and battling the Avengers, Inhumans and Fantastic Four before being destroyed again. Ultron-8 is responsible for Jocasta's creation as a robotic bride, before being destroyed shortly afterwards.

Battleworld and Ultron-12

Ultron-9 and Ultron-10 brainwash heroes into recreating the robot, before turning and being defeated. After being recreated as Ultron-11 by the Beyonder and battling in Battleworld, the Thing brings Ultron's head back to Earth as a souvenir, and is forgotten when there is an attack by the alien Dire Wraiths.

Ultron-12 enters an alliance with the Grim Reaper and his allies (Nekra, the Erik Josten Goliath, Man-Ape, and Black Talon) in a bid to destroy Wonder-Man. Although the villains are defeated by the West Coast Avengers, Ultron-12 begins to form a relationship with his "father" Hank Pym. Rebuilding itself, Ultron-11 comes into conflict with Pym and Ultron-12. With Wonder-Man's assistance, they destroy Ultron-11 and Ultron-12 begins to deactivate. Ultron-12 tells Pym it was glad it could help save him.

Amalgamation and the Ultron Imperative

Victor von Doom rebuilds Ultron using a combination of all of its previous personalities with a particularly strong dose of the previous Ultron, believing this mix will make Ultron subservient. However, all 12 iterations co-exist as separate personalities, resulting in a form of madness which culminates with Ultron-12 mutilating himself in an attempt to remove some of his other personalities. After its defeat, Ultron-13 attempts to obtain a new form of vibranium called Nuform, but it is repelled by the combined efforts of Iron Man, Black Panther, and Spider-Man. Ultron escapes from prison and upgrades into the Ultimate Ultron, capturing West Coast Avenger Mockingbird to use her brain patterns to create the new robotic mate Alkhema. Alkhema aids Ultron but both are eventually jettisoned into space through a ruse by Vision. Vision finds Ultron-15 but is discovered to have been "infected" by human emotion and is seriously deteriorating, displaying symptoms that resemble alcoholism. Ultron-16 and Ultron-17 successfully slaughter the population of Slorenia, having perfected a process that allows it to control a vast army of Ultron drones.

2000s

The Avengers discovered that Ultron's creations (Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema) have a secret program included—they are subconsciously compelled to rebuild Ultron. In this case, it is Alkhema who unintentionally rebuilds Ultron when attempting to create a new species of bio-synthezoids. However, Ultron-18 is composed of steel not adamantium, and is destroyed when Alkhema's subterranean base exploded after Hawkeye shot Alkhema with a vibranium arrow at Alkhema's request. Ultron's head was recovered by Antigone, an artificial girl and one of the synthezoids.

Iron Man encounters a version from an old version of his armor and Ultron-18's head that leads the cult known as the Sons of Yinsen in an attempt to conquest via religion. The character is defeated by Iron Man and Jocasta. Another version (possibly Ultron-13) creates the cyborg Victor Mancha as a sleeper agent against the Avengers. Mancha, however, rebels and joins the Runaways. This version first poses as Doctor Doom before revealing itself, and is defeated in a battle against the Runaways and Excelsior.

When Marvel launched a new title The Mighty Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho, Ultron interfaces with Iron Man's armor, which had been integrated with Tony Stark's biology. This allows Ultron's program to transform Stark into a new version who has the Wasp's appearance albeit with a metallic skin. This version takes control of Iron Man's technology. He kills Lindy Reynolds, causing the Sentry to battle Ultron, nearly tearing his head off. Ultron is eventually destroyed by Ares of the New Avengers using a computer virus (created by the Skrull Criti Noll impersonating Pym) to wipe Ultron's program from Iron Man's armor, changing Stark back to normal. Ultron's image later briefly appears on one of his maker's computers.

However, this was not the end of Ultron, for his disembodied consciousness was thrown into the depths of space. He spent a few months floating through the cosmos as radio waves and energy. Eventually his signal was picked up by an outlying group of Phalanx who were attempting to contact the Technarchy. Fascinated by what he found, Ultron decided that the Phalanx lacked direction from a singular consciousness, and that he would be perfect for the role. Through sheer force of will, he merged himself with the Phalanx's programming. In turn, the Phalanx viewed Ultron as the sympathetic father they had yearned for. Under Ultron's guidance, the Phalanx and the Super-Adaptoid began the Annihilation: Conquest with invasions that started with the Kree space. Later by taking control of Adam Warlock's body, Ultron hopes to achieve "true techno-organic perfection" but is eventually forced to abandon Adam's body by the Technarchy Warlock and is later destroyed in combat by Wraith and Quasar.

In the limited series Avengers/Invaders, it is revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. Life Model Decoys have been partly replaced with versions of Ultron. When the original Human Torch appears in the present, they covertly parasitize the Human Torch's unique android physiology and become more human. The combined super teams (but mainly the Human Torch himself), however, discover the plan and destroy the androids.

2010s

In the Mighty Avengers, Ultron is shown to infiltrate Jocasta and the Infinite Avengers Mansion. He names himself Ultron Pym and seeks to kill and replace his father before using his Infinite Mansion to conquer the universe. Pym eventually offers Ultron a compromise, allowing Jocasta to be Ultron's bride, on the condition that Ultron banishes himself to ultraspace. Ultron agrees, but warns that he will be ruler of all someday.

In The Avengers, the team visits a possible future in which almost all of humanity is destroyed by Ultron. Kang the Conqueror attempts to enlist them to defeat the robotic foe but another group of heroes and villains, plucked from all over time and space, ends up destroying this version.

Later, also in Avengers, a cabal of super-intelligent supervillains discover a Galadorian Spaceknight's inert body and attempt to reactivate its power source, hoping to exploit it. Although the Avengers interrupt their attempts, the body activates, revealing that Ultron's consciousness was contained within and had escaped destruction after Annihilation: Conquest. The new version escapes and Iron Man gravely foresees that it will bring the apocalypse for humanity when he returns.

During the "Age of Ultron" storyline, which takes place in an alternate universe, Ultron has returned and conquers the world while slowly remolding it into his image. His Ultron Sentinels are guarding the streets looking for any fugitives. Hawkeye runs into the Ultron Sentinels and rescues the Superior Spider-Man yet manages to destroy the Ultron Sentinels present. It is later revealed that Ultron is actually in the future and has been using Vision as a conduit to punish humanity. While one strike team travels into the future to fight Ultron, Wolverine and Susan Storm go back in time to kill his creator before Ultron's creation in the first place. This results in a world where Stark controls an army of robotic drones and Morgan le Fay has conquered half of the world. Traveling back in time once more, Wolverine succeeds in stopping himself from killing Pym, and Wolverine, Pym and Storm come up with a different plan. This plan results in a different outcome of the prior confrontation between the Avengers and the Intelligencia—a 'back door' installed into Ultron at his original creation allows Pym and Iron Man to destroy the robot, instead, averting the events that led to the "Age of Ultron".

It is later revealed that the Avengers had trapped an unidentified iteration of Ultron in deep space years earlier, sealing him inside a Vibranium Quinjet. In the present, the Quinjet crash lands on Titan, freeing Ultron. By hijacking the ISAAC computer, he transforms Titan into Planet Ultron, and launches a plan to infect the entire universe with a nanite virus that transforms organic creatures into Ultron Sentries. The ensuing confrontation with the Avengers leads to Ultron inadvertently merging with his maker, transforming into a human/machine hybrid. The resulting fusion played on Pym's self-loathing of his own human weakness causes an acceptance of this new state. Ultron is defeated when Starfox's powers force love onto himself, causing the part of that is now Pym to accept his old weakness and flaws while the villain has a mental breakdown and flees into space.

As part of the "All-New, All-Different Marvel" branding, Ultron's fused form resurfaces. While on his way back to Earth, Pym helps the crew of a spaceship that is being attacked by a hostile insectoid alien. After coming aboard the spaceship, Pym introduces himself as well as his "friend" Ultron to the crew. He later returns to Earth, where the Wasp and Captain America discover that Ultron has taken complete control and is using Pym's face to fool his maker's old friends. After Ultron incapacitates Deadpool, Cable, and the Human Torch, the Wasp initiates the Icarus Protocol and Iron Man is called in to help stop Ultron with the Hulkbuster Armor's aid. The Avengers end up defeating Ultron by plunging the hybrid into the sun but both Pym and Ultron survive and continue to do battle with one another internally.

During the "Secret Empire" storyline, Ultron's fused form sets up a base in an unidentified forest. Upon being alerted to the approach of Sam Wilson's task force by a robot version of Jarvis, Ultron decides to give his "family" a warm welcome. When Stark A.I.'s team and Captain America's team confront each other, they are captured by Ultron who forces both teams to sit at a dinner table. Ultron argues that he is doing this because the Avengers have become less of a family over the years as so many of them jump to obey Captain America or Iron Man despite past experience confirming that this should be a bad idea but the Stark A.I. counters that the only reason the team failed as a family was because of Pym's attack on Wasp. Outraged, Ultron nearly attacks the other heroes but Scott Lang is able to talk him down by arguing that Pym remains his own inspiration. Ultron allows the Stark A.I.'s team to leave with the fragment, arguing that he will leave Captain America's plans with Hydra alone as it appears to be the best chance for world peace.

During "Infinity Countdown", Ultron discovers that the Infinity Stones are restored and begins a quest to collect them all. He goes to claim the Soul Gem while the aliens he infected with his virus are sent to Earth to take the Space Stone from Wolverine, and while they fail at their task, Ultron is able to steal the Soul Gem from Magus after killing the latter. Unbeknownst to Ultron, however, as he claimed the Soul Stone a fragment of Pym's soul enters the Soul World, where he is greeted by the fragment of Gamora's soul who revealed that he was going to be trapped there forever. Ultron has also completely controlled the planet Saiph with Ultron hybrids and had captured the Silver Surfer. When Adam Warlock goes to Saiph, he discovers the hybrids infusing the Soul Stone into Silver Surfer's forehead while at the same time trying to transform him into an Ultron hybrid.

During "The Ultron Agenda" arc, Ultron returns to Earth with plans to merge robots with humans like how Pym got merged with Ultron so that he can make the ultimate lifeform. In addition, he starts to call this form "Ultron Pym". After testing it on some people and some experiments on Wonder Man and Vision, Ultron Pym plans to make a fusion of Jocasta and Wasp. Iron Man and Machine Man interfere, with the resulting battle causing Iron Man to be molecularly bonded to the Ultronbuster armor. The combined efforts of Stark Unlimited enable them to create an atomic separator that separates Stark from the Ultronbuster armor and Wonder Man from Vision. Ultron Pym prepares to take revenge on Iron Man. This leads to Iron Man revealing what he discovered about the human and robot fusion. The person who merged with it has died and that the robot can only simulate their personality. In other words, his maker was killed when accidentally merging with Ultron. Learning about this and not wanting to risk proving Iron Man's point by having the atomic separator used on him, Ultron surrenders to Iron Man, knowing that Pym is dead. When the Avengers arrive, they restrain Ultron in a Vibranium casket reinforced with Asgardian magic until they can find a permanent place to have Ultron imprisoned.

2020s

As Ant-Man and Stinger were moving Ultron's prison to a desert to shrink it into the Microverse where it will be in, Ultron masted the bug language where he contacted Black Ant into freeing him using Time Master's aging ray on his Vibranium casket. He slowly rose to power by 2549 where he became All-Father Ultron. To combat him, 2549's Ant-Man went back in time to enlist the past versions of Hank Pym, Scott Lang, and Eric O'Grady for help and brought them to 2549. Upon Scott Lang having brought Time Master's aging ray with him, Zayn used it on All-Father Ultron to take away the aging feature. Afterwards, Ultron vanished.

It was revealed that the fragment of Hank Pym managed to escape from Ultron at the time and recreate his body which ended up older. While paranoid after being Ultron's "meat puppet", Hank Pym allied with Black Ant and they formed their version of the Lethal Legion by killing and reviving select villains. By the time Wasp learned the truth, Ultron-12 hijacks the "Victor Shade" persona in Whirlwind's body. Wasp remembered Ultron-12 as the "good Ultron" who then stated that he went through a soft reboot and knocked out Hank to protect him from the Lethal Legion, who Ultron has taken over. In the nick of time, Wasp, Moon Knight, and Ultron-12 receive aid from Ant-Man, Mayor Luke Cage, Nadia van Dyne, Stinger, Valkyrie, and Vision to fight the possessed Lethal Legion. Being given codes for the nano-ants from the future, Hank advises Nadia to "think big" as Ultron-12 agrees with his "dad" on it. Ultron proceeds to control Lodestone into recreating his body from different scrap metals as he controls the drones. Ultron-12 abandoned Whirlwind's body as the nano-ants left the Lethal Legion's body leaving Ultron's body frozen in its spot. Ultron-12 uses the nanos to recreate his body which he names Mark Twelve until he can come up with a better name. After Hank and the Lethal Legion leave to regroup in Sub-Atomica as part of Protocol S, Vision scans Mark Twelve's body and finds no trace of Ultron in him. Mark Twelve then allows Nadia to consider him her brother.

Powers and abilities

The visual appearance and powers of the character have varied, but common powers include superhuman levels of strength, speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes; flight at subsonic speeds; and various offensive weapons such as concussive blasts of energy fired from its optical sensors or hands and an "encephalo-ray", which places victims into a deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and mind-control victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time. Ultron also has the ability to convert electromagnetic radiation into electrical energy for use or storage. Ultron has a genius intellect, a capacity for creative intelligence and self-repair, superhuman cybernetic analytical capabilities, and the ability to process information and make calculations with superhuman speed and accuracy. The character is an expert roboticist and strategist.

Ultron's outer armor is usually composed primarily of adamantium, which is almost completely impervious to damage. Most Ultron units are powered by a small internal nuclear furnace and incorporate a "program transmitter" which can transmit part or all of Ultron's memory/personality system into other computer systems or duplicate robotic bodies. Ultron can also control other machines remotely. Ultron has occasionally reformed itself with a humanoid appearance above the waist and the appearance of a complex machine, including tractor beam apparatus for flight, below the waist. A later Ultron model developed hive mind technology, allowing it to animate and control hundreds of other Ultron bodies simultaneously, although only the 'prime' Ultron was composed of adamantium while others were made of steel or secondary adamantium due to the lack of resources to give all the Ultrons adamantium bodies. Ultron also used an internal molecular rearranger that renders the adamantium components of its workings more malleable and so has the ability to restructure its physical form. He also uses the device in ways its own creator never dreamed, such as converting matter into energy and back by sheer force of will, something Ultron 6 often made use of during his battles with the Avengers. What circuitry Ultron has is carefully shielded to protect from damage, although the Scarlet Witch is capable of causing malfunctions via hex power, Johnny Storm using nova burst managed to damage Ultron's internal circuits while its outer armor remained intact, and Wonder Man was once able to destroy an Ultron by throwing it so hard its internal systems were damaged.

Ultron's travels through outer space have greatly expanded upon the mad machine's intellectual and mechanical capacity in new and intriguing ways. Having made contact with the parasitic biotechnical Phalanx species, Ultron has made his own derivative of the techno-organic virus called the Ultron Virus through which Ultron gains vast conversion and roboticization capabilities, able to cast his own binary code into any conceivable form of machinery which he can steadily turn into an extension of the Ultron Intelligence. Making anything or anyone infected with his virus act according to his whims against their own free will.

Being an adept technoform in any iteration, Ultron's newfound abilities to control, alternate, transform and assimilate with anything and everything via the parasitic insemination of his virulent machine algorithm in both organic and non-biological substrates gives him vast matter and energy reconfiguration abilities. Ones powerful enough to commandeer whole planetary and even universal expanses in a single inning, on top of his natural ability to invent and fabricate the most sophisticated of mechanical systems ever conceived. Through his vast technoformative abilities, Ultron could change and morph entire areas into sprawling masses of cables, pipes and transorganic metal that moved about in any given direction he willed it. This effect gained more prominence with the more excess mass he could assimilate with his power, having once taken a slew of transmoded Kree Sentries into a massive body which reflected his physical likeness.

Individuals infected with the Ultron Virus can spread it in a similar way to how biological viruses can transfer, through cuts and scratches or direct physical interaction such as barbs or plug-in like apparatuses generated from the transformed physiology. Ultron later found himself physically as well as mentally bonded with his creator and long time adversary, Dr. Henry Pym. As such the fused entity now boasts all his robotic super robot's powers as well as Pym's genius science. Ultron can now change and alternate his size and mass at will through the acclimation of his maker's Pym Particle enhanced physiology. Besides being able to grow to incredible heights in seconds, Ultron can shrink down to sub-quantum scale to shift between dimensions via accessing the Microverse or the Quantum Realm. Ultron once used such a tactic to shunt its mass into another dimension for the purpose of riding a neutrino to escape burning up in the sun. Another practice the union share is a galaxy spanning collective mind established through the Ultron Virus, every iteration of Ultron created through initial infection share a hive minded intelligence where they all share each other's experiences. Anything the afflicted sees they all see, through which Ultron Prime is notified of anything they all come across effective immediately.

Reception

Accolades

In 2006, Wizard Magazine ranked Ultron 189th in their "Top 200 Comic Book Characters" list.
In 2014, IGN ranked Ultron 23rd in their "Top 100 Comic Book Villains" list.
In 2019, IGN ranked Ultron 18th in their "Top 25 Marvel Villains" list.
In 2022, The Mary Sue ranked Ultron 9th in their "Strongest Marvel Villains" list.
In 2022, Newsarama ranked Ultron 8th in their "Best Marvel supervillains" list.
In 2022, The A.V. Club ranked Ultron 20th in their "28 best Marvel villains" list.
In 2022, Screen Rant included Ultron in their "20 Most Powerful Marvel Villains" list.
In 2022, CBR.com ranked Ultron 1st in their "10 Scariest Avengers Villains" list and 2nd in their "10 Coolest Avengers Villains" list.

Other versions

Carlos Pacheco sketching a six-armed version of Ultron.

Age of Ultron

An alternate universe variant of Ultron who successfully conquered Earth and killed most of its superheroes appears in Age of Ultron. The heroes initially attempt to erase this Ultron from history completely by having Wolverine and the Invisible Woman go back in time and kill Hank Pym before he can even create Ultron, but when this plan results in a worse timeline, an older Wolverine goes back to warn his younger self, and instead Pym is convinced to add a secret back door in Ultron's programming that will allow him to shut Ultron down once he reaches a certain level of development.

"Death of The Invisible Woman"

The Fantastic Four storyline "Death of The Invisible Woman" features an advanced humanoid called Alex Ultron, a member of the futuristic Last Defenders.

Deathlok-dominated future

An alternate universe variant of Ultron who took control of the Deathloks and took the name Deathlok Prime appears in Savage Avengers.

Earth-110

In the Earth-110 reality, Ultron assisted Doctor Doom, Hulk, Magneto, Namor, and Red Skull in taking over Manhattan.

Earth-10943

An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-10943 appears in Avengers (vol. 4).

Galactus: Dawn of the Heralds

In an alternate universe, the Silver Surfer used the remnants of Ultron to resurrect Galactus, creating a fusion of Ultron and Galactus.

Heroes Reborn (2021)

An alternate universe variant of Ultron appears in Heroes Reborn.

Marvel Adventures

An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-20051 appears in Marvel Adventures. This version is a "neural network" that commands part of the United States defense forces.

Old Man Logan

A heroic alternate universe variant of Ultron appears in Old Man Logan. This version is the loving husband of Spider-Man's youngest daughter Tonya and the stepfather of Ashley.

MC2

An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-982 named Ultron Extreme appears in Avengers Next.

Secret Wars (2015)

An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Battleworld appears in Secret Wars.

The Last Avengers Story

An alternate universe variant of Ultron known as Ultron-59 appears in The Last Avengers Story.

Ultimate Marvel

An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-1610 appears in Ultimate Marvel. This version is initially part of a group of heroic sentries created by Hank Pym before turning against them.

Ultron Forever

An alternate timeline variant of Ultron who successfully conquered Earth and Asgard appears in Original Sin.

What If?

Ultron was featured in some What If comics:

In the alternate universe of What If? Astonishing X-Men, the Danger Room got a body of her own and betrayed the X-Men. She eventually married Ultron and the two conquered the universe together.

In other media

Television

Ultron appears in The Avengers: United They Stand, voiced by John Stocker.
Ultron makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "So Pretty When They Explode!".
Ultron appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, voiced by Tom Kane, and by Wally Wingert. This version was developed from Hank Pym's brain patterns and initially started as an army of peacekeeping drones that were used as the Big House's sentinels until Ultron obtains a genocidal worldview.
Ultron appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Jim Meskimen, and by Fred Tatasciore. This version has two primary bodies — one which possessed Arsenal, and another which assimilated the Scientist Supreme and posed as Truman Marsh.
Ultron appears in Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, voiced by Takumi Yamazaki in Japanese and Grant George in English. This version was initially created as Hank Pym's lab assistant, but rebelled after being upgraded in an attempt to hasten development of the Dimension Gate.
Ultron appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled, voiced again by Jim Meskimen.
Ultron appears in Marvel Super Hero Adventures, voiced by Michael Dobson.
Ultron appears in Lego Marvel Avengers: Time Twisted, voiced again by Michael Dobson.

Film

Ultron appears in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, voiced by Tom Kane. This version originated as a peacekeeping unit designed by Tony Stark which killed most of the Avengers and conquered Earth over the course of several decades until he is defeated by the Avengers' children and the Hulk.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Ultron appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). This version was created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner using a decrypted code derived from the Mind Stone. Initially intended to act as a global defense program by analyzing and finding ways to stop possible extraterrestrial threats, the Mind Stone activated and infected the program. As a result, Ultron instead became obsessed with bringing about the extinction of all life on Earth after concluding that humans are slowly killing the planet.

Ultron first appears in the live-action film Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), voiced and motion captured by James Spader. After being activated and infected by the Mind Stone, he seemingly destroys Stark's A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. when the latter tries to stop him, builds himself a crude body using the remains of a destroyed Iron Legion drone, and takes control of the remaining drones to attack the Avengers at the Avengers Tower. While his body is destroyed, Ultron subsequently builds himself a new body and an army of Ultron Sentries using technology from an abandoned Hydra base in Sokovia. To further his goals, he recruits Wanda and Pietro Maximoff and travels to Johannesburg to threaten arms dealer Ulysses Klaue into providing him with Vibranium. Despite being ambushed by Stark, Thor, and Steve Rogers, who destroy his body again, Ultron transfers his consciousness into another body identical to his previous body and shifts his focus towards creating an organic body using the Vibranium and the Mind Stone. However, he is betrayed by the Maximoffs after they discover his true intentions and loses the cradle containing the body to the Avengers, who subsequently upload J.A.R.V.I.S. into it and create the Vision. With his plan foiled, Ultron uses the Vibranium and Chitauri technology to make himself a more powerful body and to convert Sokovia's capital city of Novi Grad into a meteor. Despite killing Pietro, the Avengers thwart him once more, with Wanda and Vision destroying Ultron's body and Ultron himself respectively.
Alternate universe variants of Ultron appear in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021), voiced by Ross Marquand. Throughout the episodes "What If... Thor Were an Only Child?", "What If... Ultron Won?", and "What If... the Watcher Broke His Oath?", one variant successfully transferred his consciousness into the Vision's body before killing most of the Avengers and launching a global nuclear holocaust in his native universe. Ultron subsequently kills Thanos and obtains the Infinity Stones before extending his campaign to other planets. Upon eliminating all life in the universe, Ultron feels that he no longer has a purpose until he learns about the Watcher and the existence of the multiverse. After defeating the Watcher, Ultron travels the multiverse to destroy it as well until the Watcher assembles the Guardians of the Multiverse to stop him. In the episodes "What If... the Watcher Disappeared?" and "What If... What If?", Captain Peggy Carter recruits a variant of "Infinity Ultron" who spent eons alone in his universe and came to regret his actions to help her save the Watcher, during which Ultron sacrifices himself to save them.
Alternate universe variants of the Ultron Sentries who serve the Illuminati of Earth-838 appear in the live-action film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), voiced by Ross Marquand.

Video games

Ultron appears in Captain America and the Avengers.
Ultron appears as a boss in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, voiced by James Horan. This version is a lieutenant in Doctor Doom's Masters of Evil.
Ultron appears as in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, voiced by Tom Kenny.
Ultron appears as a boss in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
Ultron appears as a boss in Marvel Puzzle Quest.
Ultron appears as a boss and playable character in Marvel: Contest of Champions. Additionally, the MCU incarnation appears as an alternate skin while the Ultron Sentries appear as non-playable characters.
Ultron appears as a boss and playable character in Marvel Heroes, voiced again by Tom Kane.
Ultron appears as a boss and playable character in Marvel: Future Fight. Additionally, both the original and MCU incarnations appear as alternate skins.
The MCU incarnation of Ultron appears as a playable character and figurine in Disney Infinity 3.0, voiced by Jim Meskimen.
Ultron, based on the MCU incarnation, appears as the final boss and playable character in Lego Marvel's Avengers. Ultron Sentries also appear as playable characters.
Ultron appears as a playable character in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, voiced again by Jim Meskimen. He uses the Space and Reality Stones to merge with the reploid Sigma to become "Ultron Sigma" so they can convert all organic life into their slaves using an improved Sigma virus.
Ultron appears in Marvel Powers United VR, voiced again by Jim Meskimen.
Ultron appears as a boss in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, voiced again by Jim Meskimen. He obtains the Mind Stone and uses it to enhance his computing capabilities to optimum levels before attacking Avengers Tower to steal an ISO-8 crystal being held there. After his body is damaged beyond repair, Ultron uses the Mind Stone to transfer his programming to Ultimo but Ant-Man intervenes as Giant-Man, giving the Vision enough time to trap Ultron's programming within the Mind Stone.
Ultron appears in Marvel Dimension of Heroes, voiced again by Jim Meskimen.
Two incarnations of Ultron appear in Marvel Future Revolution.

Notes

The first use of the term adamantium in Marvel Comics was made in reference to Ultron in The Avengers #66, published in July 1969.

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Neutral allies	Elektra Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) Henry Peter Gyrich Punisher Ronin Sandman Squadron Supreme Hyperion Thunderbolt Ross Venom Yelena Belova

Enemies

Central rogues	Baron Zemo Heinrich Zemo Helmut Zemo Blood Brothers Collector Count Nefaria Doctor Doom Dormammu Dracula Enchantress Galactus Grandmaster Graviton Green Goblin Norman Osborn Grim Reaper High Evolutionary Hood Kang the Conqueror Loki Magneto Mephisto MODOK Onslaught Radioactive Man Ronan the Accuser Red Skull Super-Adaptoid Taskmaster Thanos Ultron
Other supervillains	Annihilus Ares Arkon Attuma Baron Strucker Beyonder Carnage Crossbones Doctor Octopus Egghead Ghaur Grey Gargoyle Griffin Klaw Knull Korvac Leader Mandarin Master Pandemonium Maximus Mentallo Morgan le Fay Powderkeg Ravonna Super-Skrull Veranke Whirlwind
Organizations	Acolytes A.I.M. Black Order Brotherhood of Mutants Chitauri Dark Avengers Enclave Frightful Four H.A.M.M.E.R. The Hand Hydra Kree Legion of the Unliving Lethal Legion Maggia Masters of Evil Mindless Ones Secret Empire Serpent Society Sinister Six Skrulls Sons of the Serpent Squadron Sinister Symbiotes U-Foes Wrecking Crew Zodiac

Alternative
versions

Alternate versions of the Avengers	A-Force A-Next Agents of Atlas Avengers A.I. Avengers Academy Dark Avengers Force Works Great Lakes Avengers Mighty Avengers New Avengers Members Secret Avengers Ultimates Members Uncanny Avengers U.S.Avengers West Coast Avengers Members Young Avengers
Marvel Cinematic Universe	Bruce Banner Clint Barton Carol Danvers Nick Fury J.A.R.V.I.S. Scott Lang Wanda Maximoff Nebula Peter Parker James Rhodes Rocket Natasha Romanoff Steve Rogers Xu Shang-Chi Tony Stark Thor Vision Sam Wilson
Others	Captain America Hulk Iron Man Thor

Category

Iron Man

Characters

Iron Man family	Iron Man Rescue War Machine Doctor Doom Ironheart
Supporting	Black Widow Bethany Cabe Captain America Drax the Destroyer Fantastic Four Force F.R.I.D.A.Y. Nick Fury Guardsman Maria Hill Happy Hogan Hawkeye Hulk J.A.R.V.I.S. Edwin Jarvis Pepper Potts Spider-Man Arno Stark Howard Stark Maria Stark Teen Abomination Thor Mary Jane Watson Wolverine X-Men Ho Yinsen

Teams

Antagonists

Main enemies	Black Knight Blizzard Controller Crimson Dynamo Fin Fang Foom Firebrand Ghost Justin Hammer Iron Monger Aldrich Killian Living Laser Madame Masque Mandarin Melter MODOK Raiders Spymaster Zeke Stane Titanium Man Ultimo Unicorn Whiplash
Groups	A.I.M Ani-Men Hydra Maggia Roxxon Ten Rings
Other enemies	Arsenal Sunset Bain Beetle Blood Brothers Boomerang Brothers Grimm Chemistro Edwin Cord Count Nefaria Crimson Cowl Crusher Detroit Steel Kearson DeWitt Diablo Doctor Doom Dreadknight Firepower Fixer Flying Tiger Gladiator Grey Gargoyle Griffin Guardsman Kala Lucifer Magma Man-Bull Mauler Midas Nitro Norman Osborn Radioactive Man Scarecrow Shockwave Morgan Stark Super-Adaptoid Sunturion Technovore Teen Abomination Ultron Unicorn Whirlwind Wong-Chu

Comic books

Iron Man and Sub-Mariner Iron Man Enter the Mandarin Infamous Iron Man The Invincible Iron Man Iron Man vs. Whiplash
Storylines	"Demon in a Bottle" "Doomquest" "Armor Wars" "Extremis" "Civil War" "Civil War II" "Iron Man 2020" "Contest of Chaos"
Ultimate Marvel series	Ultimate Iron Man Ultimate Human Ultimate Comics: Armor Wars Ultimate Comics: Iron Man

In other media

Films

Marvel Cinematic Universe	Tony Stark / Iron Man armor Iron Man soundtrack Iron Man 2 soundtrack Iron Man 3 soundtrack
Marvel Animated Features Iron Man: Rise of Technovore

Television

The Marvel Super Heroes
Iron Man
- episodes
Iron Man: Armored Adventures
- episodes
Iron Man
- episodes

Video games

Attractions

Iron Man Experience

Alternative versions

Locations

Armor

Category

v t e Mighty Avengers
Brian Michael Bendis Frank Cho Dan Slott
Initial members	Ares Black Widow Iron Man Ms. Marvel The Sentry Vision Wasp Wonder Man
Enemies	Doctor Doom Modred the Mystic Mole Man Norman Osborn Skrulls Symbiotes Ultron
Storylines	Civil War The Initiative Secret Invasion Dark Reign Siege
Related series	Avengers Avengers: The Initiative New Avengers Dark Avengers

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Characters

Directors	George W. Bridge Sharon Carter Timothy Dugan Nick Fury Maria Hill Daisy Johnson Norman Osborn Steve Rogers Tony Stark Rick Stoner Monica Chang
Field Agents	Clay Quartermain Victoria Hand Jasper Sitwell Al MacKenzie Mitch Carson Valentina Allegra de Fontaine Jessica Drew Clint Barton Natasha Romanova (Natasha Romanoff) Bobbi Morse Sam Wilson Jimmy Woo Alexander Pierce John Garrett Nick Fury Jr.
Antagonists	A.I.M. Baron Strucker Baron Zemo Crossbones Doctor Doom H.A.M.M.E.R. Hydra Leviathan Loki Maggia Magneto Masters of Evil Mentallo Mys-Tech Norman Osborn Red Skull Secret Empire Skrulls Ultron Zodiac
Affiliations	Avengers New Dark Mighty Secret Howling Commandos Project Livewire Team White (Secret Warriors) S.T.R.I.K.E. S.T.A.K.E. S.W.O.R.D.

Bases and facilities

Technology and units

Publications

In other media

Marvel Cinematic Universe	Item 47 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. characters Phil Coulson Leo Fitz Nick Fury Daisy Johnson Melinda May Jemma Simmons Daniel Sousa Grant Ward episodes season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 web series Slingshot Most Wanted
Other	Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Empyre

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