Iron Man Revealed the One Mistake That Stopped Ultron Becoming a Hero
Marvel's Iron Man is an egotistical braggart, but his ego was just the thing that could've made Ultron into a hero. The villainous machine is one of the Avengers' most frequent foes, fighting to conquer the planet, destroy it outright, or enslave organic beings while he creates a new world made of machines (or any combination of the three). But in Extraordinary X-Men #9, Marvel all bit admits that Stark could have turned Ultron into an Avenger itself — if he just put more of his own mind into the mechanical monstrosity.
The origin of Ultron in the comics is quite different from the origin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron. In the comics, Ultron is primarily a creation of Hank Pym aka the first canonical Ant-Man. Upon activation, Ultron developed a pure, irrational hatred of humanity — especially for his creator and «father» Pym. Perhaps because of this, he also developed an interest in the Wasp, while simultaneously creating the Vision to fight the Avengers. Vision eventually became part of the Avengers and a force for good, but Ultron did not.
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In Extraordinary X-Men #9, new mutants are more valuable than ever since the Terrigen Mists — the gaseous substance that grants the Inhumans their powers — were found to be poisonous to mutants. A group of mutants carrying embryos are beset with foes all around them — until they find a colony of artificial intelligences led by the Stark-Self, a highly-advanced AI housed in a body who's faceplate looks suspiciously like Iron Man's. Though helping the mutants is against the law in this new dystopia reality, the Stark-Self eventually agrees to aid them, because"...The
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