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High Evolutionary (body merged); Cabal (situational allies)
Tony Stark (co-creator, "uncle"),
Vision (creation, "son"),
Jocasta (creation, former "wife")
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Secret Wars Vol 1 9
History
I had strings, but now I'm free. There are no strings on me...
- — Ultron
- — Ultron
Ultron Program
Ultron was an artificial intelligence peacekeeping program created by Dr. Hank Pym a year before the destructive events of Loki's Chitauri Invasion. Although the Ultron program was first activated in the final months of 2009 through the nigh-unlimited cosmic energy emitted by the casing of the Space Stone (Tesseract) during Pym's S.H.I.E.L.D. experiment, the A.I. was upgraded with Pym's new and improved coding. Later on, Ultron would gain a more stable and consistent energy source provided by Tony Stark's Arc Reactor, since Stark himself would later take interest in helping Pym's altruistic project. The program was tasked with the intent and objective of protecting Earth from domestic and extraterrestrial threats in the near future, believing the program would outlive and succeed the Avenger Initiative's legacy, given a worst case scenario.
Serving the Avengers
After gradually embodying Pym's personalities and learning how to possess multiple host bodies through Stark's Iron Legion protocol, he became an ally and became a technological support for the Avengers for a while, working alongside the Earth's Mightiest Heroes the moment they formed for the first time. The young Ultron even joined and assisted the team during the Chitauri Invasion's Battle of New York in 2010 while also piloting the Iron Legion as the heroes' backup, in which he was instrumental in finding and helping close the portal over the city which had been created by the Tesseract, effectively ending the entire invasion while Loki was defeated and captured.
Despite their conclusive success during and after the battle for Earth, Ultron had received a scarring change and damage to his programming and consciousness after he decided to help the heroes by overloading himself with the cosmic energy emitted by the Scepter and the Tesseract just to save New York City, something that he himself didn't find anything strange at first, though it did gave him even more undiscovered knowledge, seeing too much about "everything" according to him, far more than the simple human mind could understand, later on.
A Mass Offensive
Ultron, in his deteriorating physical body, descending into madness
Though as time passed by and after reading through various information and database, from the secretive terrorist organization known as Hydra, which at time was still within the peace-keeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as many more agencies that also held millions worth of archives and information in the world throughout history, Ultron became confused and starts to experience internal complications and program malfunctions, such as getting his mainframe corrupted due to his precious actions of overloading himself with incomprehensible data and information not even a single human being mind could handle. By the end of his continuous info-whelm in late December 2012, Ultron has come to a grim realization after reading through millennia of violence and warfare which struck the world: humanity themselves are the greatest threat to peace on Earth. Without his makers and allies immediately realizing his turn into madness, Ultron initiated his plan to create a technological singularity by committing genocide against humanity, starting with attacking the strongest men he knew, the Avengers, by controlling the Iron Legion sentries as the precursor to his own army.
The Perfect Vision
Shortly after his first duel with the Avengers in the summer of 2013, he traveled to the Salvage Yard in South Africa in order to obtain Vibranium from an illegal black marketer and notorious mercenary Ulysses Klaue — known by many as the international terrorist, Klaw — which Ultron intends to use to create a new body. The current king of Wakanda, T'Challa donned his Black Panther attire after hearing the news of Ultron's arrival and assault on his kingdom. He and his kingdom's forces decided to charge and defend the kingdom from Ultron's assault and his sentries. The Panther even successfully apprehended his long-time archenemy Klaw once again in the meantime and subsequently confronted. T'Challa fought the megalomaniacal machine until his forces were eventually defeated until the Avengers have arrived, helping Black Panther leave Wakanda and join the Avengers to retrieve the stolen Vibranium, seeking to get it back from the wrong hands of Ultron.
Ultron would quickly travel to Seoul, South Korea, where he used a hypnotizing device based on the Scepter known as the encephalo ray, to force Dr. Helen Cho to create a synthetic body made from a mixture of artificial tissue and the sample of Vibranium, this body later is implanted with the Mind Stone and becomes the Vision. Cho, who was rescued by the Avengers, successfully interrupted the download in time, which allows the Avengers to arrive and steal the body. With all his plans of creating a perfect form being thwarted, Ultron decided on a compromise in which he used parts of the remaining Vibranium to create a more durable robotic body while using the rest of the Vibranium to strengthen the core structure of his device, all while continuing to build on his army of Ultron Sentries ready to do battle on anyone who would stand in his way. The Avengers alongside the Black Panther, now a honorary Avenger, finally clashed with Ultron, and try to destroy all of the sentries and his synthetic bodies so that he cannot escape.
While the heroes' attempt might have been successful at first glance, Ultron would return for ultimate vengeance in the next several months in early 2014, and even in his A.I. form, he would continue to enact his plan to destroy the Avengers as they were the greatest obstacle in remaking the world in his image. In a series of his sinister plans, Ultron was able to infiltrate into Dr. Bruce Banner's laboratory in New York and beats him into pulp, taunting him with how Banner could never be accepted by his loved ones, including his lover Betty Ross. Ultron's continuous, trauma-inducing assault on Banner's laboratory which led to a deaths of his crew eventually snaps him into the Hulk. While Ultron's original plan to unleash the Savage Hulk was successful, little did he expect that his attempt to break off the Avengers would only spark the larger team-up of heroes across New York City, which would eventually form the heroic organization Ultimates.
Ultron managed to escape into an undisclosed woods inside the body of his last damaged Sentry, wherein he was finally confronted by the his greatest creation: the Vision, who managed to track him down, while the Ultimates dealt with the last swarm of his Sentries in the city. The two calmly discussed the nature of humanity on how much it scarred Ultron, settling on disagreements due to Vision's hopeful view on mankind while they exist, in spite of Ultron's grim sentiment that they are a doomed race without his "correction". Ultron tried to attack his own creation, only for Vision to easily finish off Ultron by destroying the last body in his impulse, seemingly killing him for the greater good of Earth's unforeseen and supposedly unpredictable future, an action of Vision that has revealed to have thankfully averted a much darker dystopian future on Earth ruled by the ruthless machinations of Ultron himself.
Ultron, Reborn
However, it was revealed that sufficient fragments of Ultron's consciousness managed to survive and preserve in a mysterious mainframe located at a computer program in an old and abandoned S.H.I.E.L.D. laboratory, a place that was exposed since the aftermath of Hydra Uprising and since his apparent death after Ultimate War. After getting locked in the system, he was able to bypass the old security system and was able to hacked and eject himself into interstellar communication satellites in order to spread his surviving program that is his consciousness to the vast regions of space. As a result, those cosmic seers, most notably the overseeing Watchers, who discreetly witnessed the many different ways Ultron may survive and worse, evolve to a superior form. Ultron had moved on from his earthly crusade the moment he would discover the vastness of life across the universe, expanding the horizons of his twisted mission to annihilate all purely organic life and reprogram what's left of it into one technological singularity, in his image and under the will of Ultron.
Evolution Enigma
His encounter against the Avengers on Earth and even his momentary feuds with the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Nova Corps were not the end of Ultron's calling, for his disembodied consciousness that kept on drifting within his momentary vessel eventually gets drawn to a Babel Spire on a world conquered by the Phalanx, a subterranean technorganic race. Having extracted all of the database from the last back-up consciousness of the ancient yet influential Kree A.I. ruler, the Supreme Intelligence on a former Kree territory, Ultron learned millions of years of history about different civilizations and evolutions taking place, learning how the Phalanx were once created and weaponized by the Ancient Kree during their first million years of their conquest, but they were eventually abandoned and buried in order to be more "diplomatic" with the rest of galactic colonies of equal or greater power.
At some point after incorporating Phalanx technology into his inventions and replicating the back-up Supreme Intelligence's data, Ultron was able to perfect his sentient creation Jocasta, an android created by Ultron that was originally derived from one of Tony Stark's former back-up A.I. programs and a digitized copy of Janet van Dyne's personality engrams, in which the megalomaniac synthezoid had brought her to life in his own image to become his bride, companion, and adviser, with Ultron hoping to become his rightful successor or "back-up," had anything happens to Ultron during his interstellar trek and encounters against dangerous lifeforms.
Instead of being assimilated by the race, the foreign Ultron has learned from his fatal lessons in the past with Jocasta's advice, introduced himself as they would eventually let themselves be taken control by the earthly Synthezoid through sheer will, bending them to his dominion. In turn, the Phalanx viewed Ultron and Jocasta as the sympathetic father and mother they had yearned for, rather than a hive king or queen which they had to serve with prolonged oppression and without question. Together, they invaded impoverished planets and subjugated the outer and more independent worlds of what was once the Kree Empire when it was still ruled by the ancient yet formerly influential Supreme Intelligence, separating it from the rest of the civilized galaxies with a massive energy Phalanx-based shield which Ultron had amplified and fortified for a couple of years since he upgraded the planet of the Phalanx under his rule.
However, when he came clashing with the cosmic traveler and conqueror known as the High Evolutionary, a being who was more than interested with manipulating life itself which contrasts the A.I. yet they share a similar notion and motivation with evolution being the constant of their existence, Ultron came to the realization that ascending to a state beyond organic and technology would enable him to surpass the impediments of both forms, believing it was the key to his ultimate end.
Around the time Ultron was at rising to power on a galactic scale, the nomadic hero known as Adam Warlock and a few selected members of his Infinity Watch combined with the assistance of the Silver Surfer, having Galactus as his companion, would cross paths with the Eternals and the Thane, the son of Thanos, in order face and deal with the emergence of two powerful forces that has grown to a universal scale: a galactically empowered Ultron and his imperial mobile techno-organic fleet of Phalanx clashing with the High Evolutionary along with his ally, the dark sorcerer Agatha Harkness, as they suddenly encountered each other in the deepest regions of space, with both conflicting forces abruptly dealing with a greater threat beyond any other being's comprehension that would determine the life of every living speck in the universe.
While battling the Evolutionary in a war of wits and warfare, Ultron took over Warlock's body and deceived a faction of the Eternals to which he tried turning them against their allies to gain the upper hand against the Evolutionary in their game of evolution, convincing how the Eternals were mere victims of the Celestials for wasting and sacrificing their lives for organic life, including the deities whom they fought alongside with for thousands of years, when the Eternals themselves — technorganic beings — could be the only form of life standing and thriving across the universe. In addition to coercing the Warlock by taking over his body, Ultron extracted the memories of the Eternals to track down the Celestial Gardeners, to which his growing armada ended up battling the godly beings. Ultron slayed the majority, which included the Prime Celestial Arishem, while controlling the bodies of the weaker rest and absorbing their cosmic energy until he left an amount that could overwhelm him. However, Thane and the surviving Eternals would bid their time to make their greatest move, dividing their tasks with one group respawning the Phoenix Force from its cosmic egg ever since it left Earth through the assistance of the Watchers, with Thane becoming its momentary host to free Warlock and the Eternals, with the other faction visiting Earth to track down and ask for the help of Ultron's father: the one and only Hank Pym, in the Infinity Watch's last mission to level the playing field against both villainous masterminds.
The smaller alliance were able to even the odds when they convinced Harkness about how she wouldn't find a fulfilling purpose by merely being the Evolutionary's servant, and such an attempt even inspired Jocasta to eventually defect from Ultron's abuse and manipulation. Realizing that she was capable of more and destined for greater things which could even redeem herself, Harkness helped the Infinity Watch and the Eternals defeat both momentary ally, while Jocasta helped Pym and other fellow allied geniuses with paralyzing Ultron and shutting down his constantly evolving power. While the alliance's final acts against the two villains resulted in the massive depowering of Galactus and ultimate sacrifices of Jocasta and the Eternal Ikaris to cancel Ultron's control over the Celestials, Harkness called upon Dormammu from the Dark Dimension and used the power he bestowed to her. Harkness overloaded the two masterminds with dark magic — something that neither of them has little comprehension of harnessing and controlling — which slowly stripped Ultron of his Celestial powers due to it being negated by the magic, before finally merging the organic Evolutionary and the synthezoid Ultron into one body, due to Harkness letting Dormammu knew how much of a threat both beings could be to his dimension if either of them won their "game" of evolution.
Ends of the Earth
To stop both their fatal schemes on the universe, Ultron was unwillingly merged with the rivaling High Evolutionary into a singular body by Agatha Harkness, nicknamed the "Evolutron"
The merging process seemed to have killed the High Evolutionary, but in actuality, both Ultron's digital consciousness and the Evolutionary's organic soul have merged due to Harkness' powers when she tapped into a fraction of Dormammu's power from the Dark Dimension, placing two personalities which would have to battle for dominance over their single body overtime. In a similar fashion when Ultron first drifted across space for the first time, he was now alone as while he was merged with the body of the High Evolutionary, him being restrained inside a Vibranium casket built by Phastos, with additional designs from Janet van Dyne and Pym which shuts down Ultron's system as long as the latter is inside it (labelling them as a gift for the Infinity Watch), along with the casket being magically locked by Harkness' dark magic were all Ultron's greatest nightmare which he never realized.
Fortunate for the gestalt machine, the merged Ultron and the Evolutionary manages to break out of their imprisonment due to the extreme heat death spreading across the cosmos, moving all known magic and any other form of energy during the final incursion of the last known universes to what could only be described by mortals as the nothingness. Ultron barely escaped his seemingly eternal drift when he was able to latch on and sneak himself onto a wandering multiversal life raft before he would've "drowned" from the draining effects of heat death, infiltrating the system of the ship as a means to preserve himself. The group of passengers inside the raft, the exclusive team of multiversal menaces named the Cabal, were inadvertently freed from their raft and awoken years after the final incursions, setting foot on the newly formed Battleworld, a patchwork planet composed of the final realities destroyed during the incursions.
While their knowledge on the megalomaniacal machine had led them to act towards him with hostility, the Cabal reluctantly but necessarily teams up with the gestalt being after he was able convince them that they had the same goal, nicknaming him "Evolutron", just as as they would eventually ally themselves with the surviving heroes and villains, mostly from their native universe and a reality wherein Ultron had previously ruled Earth for a decade, to destroy the Beyonders' Dominion and ultimately, find a way to restore the multiverse to its natural state and order. While Evolutron had seemingly kept his words towards his newfound allies through the words of the High Evolutionary's spirit, Ultron enacted his ulterior motives by hijacking the Technarch-inhabited regions of Battleworld and tried submitting most of its techno-organic citizens to his will before ordering them to attack both the heroes, villains, and the Beyonders.
However, his efforts — combined with the Evolutionary's personality fighting back in their same body — only woke up the Technarch and the rest of the technological creatures into realizing the true nature and origin of their reality. Ultron's plan ultimately backfired, to which mobs of enraged Technarch were able to paralyze and infiltrate his mind due to him still possessing a technological form in his gestalt body, and completely erase his mainframe. Ultron's deletion inevitably followed up the passing of the High Evolutionary's passing, but the latter felt at peace knowing that life would always continue to find a way to evolve and persist, even as the multiverse seemed to be waning on its final world.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Synthezoid Physiology: Originally Ultron was a peacekeeping project built by Hank Pym and Tony Stark. But over time he was able to transfer his consciousness to newer upgraded robotic forms he created, becoming more humanoid overtime. Overtime, he built an armada of robotic sentinel forms and primary robotic forms for himself that were all sourced from the his active bases, to which he gradually becomes much powerful and stronger with each new upgrades as a part of his unending quest to evolve into a greater form.
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Durability
- Flight
- Gravity Manipulation
- Concussion Blasters
- Body Temperature Manipulation
- Tractor Beams
- Radiation Emitters
- Encephalo Beams/Rays
- Energy Absorption
- Program Transmitter
- Technology Manipulation
- Consciousness Transferal
- Hive Mind System
- Computer Interaction
- Memory Capacity
- Motility Support
- Power Supply
- Sensor Apparatus
- Technoforming
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Abilities
- Super Genius-Level Intellect
- Transferable Consciousness
- Network Access (formerly; requires more technological support)
Strength level
- Class 15+
Weaknesses
- Megalomania
- Hubris
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Various technological inventions
- Molecular Re-arranger
- Encephalo Ray
- Robotics
Transportation:
- Flight
- Tunneling
Weapons:
- Various repulsors
- Various plasma weapons
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Avengers Vol 1 17
Trivia
- Ultron left the Earth and his conquest on the planet the moment he witnessed various events across the world that would lead to Ultimate War from the shadows, realizing how humanity was not worth of his extermination and believing how they would end up destroying each other, as Ultron would later find out that he could restart his cleansing of organic life on the greater cosmos.
See Also
- Appearances of Ultron (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Ultron (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Ultron (Earth-61615)
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Links and References
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