…Age of Ultron.
"Marvel Entertainment announced that James Spader had been cast as the titular supervillain in the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron. If you're new to the stylish robot scourge of the Marvel Universe—no, not the Sentinels; this is a different robot scourge — never fear: We're here to walk you through some of the key points of the killer ‘bot's backstory, and how it might tie in to the new movie.
Ultron is a legacy supervillain: He's been wreaking havoc in the Marvel Universe since the late sixties, accumulating the kind of retroactive continuity and time-travel laced rap sheet that gives migraines to Marvel Comics readers. It's also worth noting that when I say "Ultron," I actually mean about fifteen different robots named Ultron, because when you fight the Avengers as much as Ultron does, you go through chassis pretty fast. Add on a penchant for frequent upgrades and extending his consciousness into hive-mind robot armies, and there have been a lot of Ultrons.
Ultron — the original Ultron, at least — has the usual evil robot origin story. Dr. Hank Pym (aka Ant-Man, Giant-Man, or Yellowjacket, depending on how stable he was at the time) was experimenting with high-level artificial intelligence, and decided it would be a great idea to build a robot with a personality imprinted from his own brain patterns.
Pym's defining story arcs have included split identities, multiple emotional breakdowns, and a brief flirtation with wife-beating, so that experiment worked out about as well as you'd expect: Ultron rebelled, surprising no one. After a few decades of trying to kill his creator and sporadically stalking Pym's lady-friend, Janet Van Dyne (the Wasp), he finally decided to think bigger by branching out to the world-domination racket, which he's been doing with varying degrees of success ever since…"
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