Then the movie's Ultron is rather stupid. To me he was fine. But his execution was terrible and there was an entirely different way to portray him like that if the movie just took its time. For example:
The stinger of Winter Soldier shows Hydra still alive and planning something huge. The Avengers completely trash this guy in the intro of their movie in the first 15 minutes. How bout instead of that shit, Hydra actually manages to gain world domination-status threats and then Iron Man would have to build Ultron to counteract whatever. Having him build it for no reason other than to develop a Messiah Complex---when the 3rd movie already establishes that he is pretty much cured of that shit---is stupid. It's like "Because. Plot. For the Avengers." Being able to build Ultron to answer to a greater threat and watch it grow sentient and violent is way better pacing than him just suddenly being an asshole and doing whatever evil things he does.
I admit, that would've been better.
No effin way. This just all boils down to moolah again. Did you know that each of the first marvel movies had Shorts in their Blu-Rays and one of them depicted that the actual Mandarin existed and kidnapped the fake Mandarin for himself?
I knew of it.
If they don't go back much to Comic Lore then what's with all the blatant attempts to advertise the Infinity Gems in a storyline that has no business having them. It is appealing to older comic fans. It's telling them "LOOK THE GEMS ARE COMING NEXT. HE'S THE VILLAIN NEXT." Yes I know it's leading up to it but stuff like Thor just casually namedropping them and that reveal in the Stinger are just so annoying to appreciate the movie as a standalone deal. Ultron is a terrible Avengers villain in this movie. I know enough to know that he's the Quintessential Avengers villain but please there are far more capable ones like how bout the REAL Mandarin. How bout Kang. They already used Hydra so why not AIM. They could have done like the first one where it was Loki then suddenly ALIENS.
I'd say Kang would come up later, possibly as a GotG thing. Honestly, I was bummed about the fake Mandarin. I was pumped that the trailers show nothing of his magic and the fact that we're finally having the magic aspect of Marvel step into the MCU. It just built us up and tore us down. As I said, they can't fully dive in. They can only scratch the surface of things like how the Infinity Gems just exist as the macguffin device, Thanos exists to use it, Avengers are assembled to fight for him and every movie besides that is going to be a lead-up. If it was just Ultron and not an army alongside facing off with the Avengers, to me, that would have been so much better. Ultron, on his own, could kill the Hulk but I feel as if they're just doing this for the sake of doing it. Also, they
toned down Ultron for this movie because in the comics he was far too powerful but it could be argued that he could have started simple, been defeated now and just come every other scene like a relentless tide.
But eh.
