Ultron Never Even Met The MCU Hero He's Meant To Be In Love With
Ultron is one of Marvel Comics’ most cutthroat villains, but that doesn’t mean he lacks feeling. His emotional spectrum is connected to that of his creator, albeit at a heightened degree. In the MCU that was Tony Stark, but in the comics, it was Hank Pym. And Ultron took many traits from his father, but the most important was desire, largely aimed at Janet Van Dyne, aka the Wasp. The love Hank had for her mutated within Ultron, and he would spend years trying to possess her for his own. Yet in the MCU, they never even met.
It made sense for Tony to create Ultron in the MCU. Hank Pym hadn’t yet been introduced and the Avengers needed a recognizable threat for their sequel. Stark already being established as the preeminent engineering mind on the planet, his was the most logical hand to birth artificial intelligence. By the time Janet Van Dyne emerged from the Quantum Realm in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Ultron had long been destroyed, so these two never got to interact. In the rush to bring Ultron to the screen, some of his crucial character history was left behind. In Ultron's eighth incarnation, he decided to create a bride for himself based on Janet’s brain patterns. He kidnapped her and manipulated Hank into transferring her lifeforce into the robot wife’s shell. Her name? Jocasta: after the mother/wife of Oedipus Rex. Even in his mania, Ultron is a poet. Though he’s powerful enough to kill the Hulk without breaking a proverbial sweat, he’s ultimately crippled by his psychology.
Related: Daredevil vs. Ultron Proved the MCU Ignored Its Best Avengers LineupBut Ultron’s infatuation with Janet doesn’t stop there. In The Mighty Avengers #1 (Brian M. Bendis and Frank Cho, 2008), it gets downright horrific. After subduing
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