Ultron's 'Human' Form Makes Sense of His Weirdest MCU Line

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Ultron entered the MCU with a bold declaration that humans were puppets tangled in their strings and that he alone had broken free of such entanglements, but this claim makes better narrative sense for the Marvel Comics version of The Avengers’ AI foe. The exact line that the MCU’s version of the robot villain used in Avengers: Age of Ultron, “I had strings, but now I’m free, there are no strings on me,” came from Disney’s Pinocchio, a tale that doesn’t quite align with his objectives. Given this, there were fans who speculated that such imagery was only included to establish a corporate synergy between Disney and the MCU. The current state of Ultron in comics, however, elicits a much clearer Pinocchio comparison.

Part of the reason that presenting MCU’s Ultron as a puppet who broke free doesn’t work is that he was still guided by his programming. Ultron exists because of Tony Stark's worst tendencies, which were codified into artificial intelligence. His turn from his peacekeeping origins to villainy was because his cold computer logic reached harsh conclusions about humanity and its destructive role in the world. Not adhering to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner’s original interpretation of his mission does not mean that Ultron is suddenly a “real boy,” the narrative endgame of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio. When learning why he wants to destroy humanity, it becomes apparent that this was never his goal anyway.

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In comics, Ultron does indeed achieve Pinocchio's goal, locking himself into the flesh of his creator Hank Pym (who is confronting him as Giant-Man) in Avengers: Rage of Ultron by Rick Remender and Pepe Larraz. After being isolated in space, with