FIRST TIME WATCHING *AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON*

[@MlKETSU]

Ultron went on the internet for 5 minutes and decided humanity had to go. Definitely went through Twitter.

[@ty85207]

He easily scanned through Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan in those five minutes before realizing "Yeah, f*** these meatbags".

[@sawkman2092]

"Florida alone..."

[@alejandrovilla4052]

Oh shit, did he destroy almost all of humanity because I said you should pour the milk in before the cereal as a joke.

[@DontObliteratetheCommenter]

@@sawkman2092 As a person living in Florida, I approve this message.

[@Mugthraka]

NAh he took a look at Tumblr and all the Furry porn and decided that we had to be neutered.

[@donovan802]

Fun fact: Clint’s wife btw - that’s Linda Cardellini. Alicia, you may recognize her as the VA for Wendy from _Gravity Falls._

[@Qushu92]

And Velma from the Scooby Doo movies.

[@Jenazad.]

Or as your Dommy Mommy in "Scooby-Doo 2: Monster Unleashed".

[@NinjaC]

Oh shit- now I can't unhear any of them

[@HeWhoTookADumpOnAPorcupine]

Oh.

[@leorojas6390]

And also CJ from Regular Show.

[@vincentprice713]

I love how it took her so long to realize she was Scarlet Witch

[@donovan802]

Although, to be fair, I’ve seen many call Wanda’s design before the end of the movie Hot Topic-esque, and they’re kinda right 😂; to many, it probably didn’t click with people that this _was_ Scarlet Witch aside from maybe the powers.

[@ill_Hex]

Mainly because she had so little red on her that they were smart to not out the gate call her the Scarlet Witch.

[@goldencalf13]

They changed her design and ethnicity.

[@soybajo-kira8585]

Well she looks nothing like her so it’s understandable

[@sable-king2066]

@@ill_Hex Well there’s also the fact that legally-speaking they straight up weren’t allowed to call her the Scarlet Witch. When this movie was made Fox still owned the movie rights to the mutants, and while Marvel Studios were able to negotiate a deal to use them in the MCU, they weren’t allowed to use the names Scarlet Witch or Quicksilver. WandaVision was the first project to be made after the Disney-Fox deal, so they were allowed to use the name in that.

[@SpectrumAnalysis]

Just a clarification: The stone the Guardians had was The Power Stone. It's full of power juice, trying to hold it without being a powerful being will zap you into dust. Loki's staff and by extension Vision's head has The Mind Stone, with power over persuasion, cognition, thought, and free will. Touching it won't do much unless you weaponise it

[@xenoemblem7]

I think the rest of the stone can be touched by hand, only power stone is the most unstable since it holds *power* literally.

[@2ndlegend125]

​@xenoemblem7 the tesseract may randomly teleport you if you hold it.

[@xenoemblem7]

@@2ndlegend125 Well that's the tesseract, not the space stone

[@2ndlegend125]

@@xenoemblem7 the cube is just the container. It would probably do that more often if it was just the stone.

[@xenoemblem7]

@@2ndlegend125 Thanos can hold it just fine though

[@logandarklighter]

Captain America: "Watch your language!" Drax: "How can I watch language?"

[@JakNasty69]

"Unless I was to look at it in a book or a piece of paper, you humans are stupid" 😂

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Hehehehe!

[@liamriddle8794]

Deadpool: You can’t see the subtitles?

[@dannythemann6]

Drax WOULD say that! 😂

[@UltimateGamerCC]

he'd probably watch Spanglish. lol

[@Jack-sy8mr]

Quicksilver: “You didn’t see that coming?” Alicia: “I like him” Quicksilver: “Why do I hear boss music?” **dies** Me: “You didn’t see that coming?”

[@AevitosTrath]

Worst twist in Marvel. Like bruh, how did you get Hawkeye to safety but not urself?

[@mranonymous00]

@AevitosTrath they had to kill 1 xman character

[@bored_boar]

​@AevitosTrath They were contractually obligated to kill him off because of Fox. Fkin Fox.

[@meewec2091]

@AevitosTrath moved into the bullets to do it?

[@knightmare3197]

​@AevitosTrath He didn't move Hawkeye, he used himself as a shield.

[@Mightymatt4000]

20:15 someone give this girl a hug she deserves all the love that she can get

[@donovan802]

“I’m gonna say this once” “How bout nunce?” Underrated line that I never get to use

[@jaylenharris343]

Seeing the hulkbuster finally going up against the Hulk was awesome. Funny enough in the comics, Hulk always comes out on top, so this is one of the few Ws for Iron man suits.

[@InternetsDadGaming]

Pretty sure it's because Hulk wasn't actually mad AT Tony here, and was actively trying to gain control.

[@seanmahoney2671]

@@InternetsDadGaming I think it was more that Tony kept him busy until the effect of Wanda's mind altering magic was wearing off, more than Tony beating him. (though that was Tony's goal, so you could argue that if his goal was acheived he won).

[@FightingDuskstalker]

This is the version of the Hulkbuster that Bruce helped design. I like to imagine the modular system where the armour is able to automatically swap out broken parts was all because of his input.

[@filipvadas7602]

The fact that it took her 3 business days to put together that Wanda is Scarlet Witch sends me lol

[@AndreMoore1978]

No Clint Barton dissing is allowed in this house!! You'll understand why later in the series.

[@jpjfrey5673]

Dude is competing with a superspy, supersoldier, high-tech armor wielder, *a literal god* and an unkillable pile of gamma muscle.... using a bow and various arrows. And Clint is just *a guy* with very good eyesight and (eventually) hearing problems

[@AndreMoore1978]

@@jpjfrey5673 What you miss is that there's no **competition** They are a team. And Clint, as a trained S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, has earned our respect.

[@johnnynoise7897]

Amen! Clint has been the leader of the Avengers on many ocassions, he owns the title of THE avenger, he's one of the few people that can control Cap's shield without hurting himself. Never tolerate Clint dissing!

[@jpjfrey5673]

​@@AndreMoore1978I meant in terms of screentime and audience impact. Clint is a normal human so his style isn't flashy, doesn't hit AoEs and can't smash big bosses by himself It's literally the case of being overshadowed by awesome

[@YukoValis]

@@jpjfrey5673 His style can still be flashy even. I saw the TV series Hawkeye and it is pretty good. trick arrows are amazing.

[@Jaden_The_Celestial]

Alicia not sure if you knew this about Jeremy Reiner (Hawkeye), but a year or so ago, he actually got the chance to be an IRL Hero! One day during the winter, a snow plow was heading towards his kid-nephew. Jeremy leaped into action, pushing his nephew away, but he got ran over by the snow plow. By the miracle of God Himself, Jeremey not only survived, but he is now back to full recovery after spending months and months in intensive care and physical therapy. Robert Downey Jr. also had his IRL hero moment (kinda sorta) when he delivered a robotic prosthetic arm to a little boy who was a big Iron Man fan. The arm itself was also colored to look like Iron Man’s arm. Robert Downey Jr. dressed up like Tony Stark and delivered it to the kid in a fancy Stark Industries case. These movies, I feel, brought the best in a lot of these actors. Turning them into IRL heroes in a way. Love it.

[@syn420951]

No I would consider RDJ’s moment a full “hero moment”, not all hero’s have to save, some hero’s are hero’s because they would bring the person a sense of “hope” or a “never give up” moment…

[@kanebravo953]

What makes the Jeremy Renner story awesome is that he was helping his neighbors get their vehicles out of the snow, and he did that every year. The plow also had a defect that would cause the brake to come loose, which is why it was careening towards his nephew.

[@RichG-m3z]

That was no defect, the was Ultron getting revenge.

[@Biomelast]

Yeah Jeremy Renner also (allegedly) hit his IRL wife using a gun as a blunt weapon, just a funny side.

[@willkulczyk8099]

@@syn420951 dude this happened in real life not in a fucking movie.....

[@Hunt4Viktory]

James Spader, the actor who played Ultron was truly there in the scenes, when he became his own full robot form, Elisabeth Olsen, the actress of Scarlet Witch, couldn’t stop looking at his performance, but she had to look at a ball high above Spader’s head for where Ultron’s head would be, for if she looked at Spader’s actual face: she would have been looking at Ultron’s groin… and due to how good Spader is as an actor, it was difficult not to look him in the eyes

[@lanmandragoran8337]

I fucking love James Spader. I wanted The Blacklist to be good so badly. What a fucking failure in casting the main girl. At least I still have Boston Legal.

[@ZTheSloth]

​Spader is so good in Blacklist that I could care less about the cast surrounding him. The actors for Harold, Aram, and Dembe were also big favorites.

[@admiralbishop3022]

also, they would shout “BALLS, LOOK AT HIS BIG HUGE BALLS” to snap her out of it lol

[@ghostspider2056]

What makes Ultron more of a threat in comics the fact that he always returns, even alternate futures where he wins. Sadly this is his only appearance.

[@Juice1984]

...so far. 😊

[@johnniequinn3215]

so far...

[@Pumpkin7269]

I've heard that he might be returning in a Vision TV series but with the way Marvel has been writing their movies & shows I wouldn't get your hopes up.

[@jjhoops023]

He shows up in "What If..." a few times, which is deserved given his comic book presence

[@ghostspider2056]

Not sure if What If counts because it’s a different version of Ultron, how is that different from any other version in games and shows having more presence than the main MCU one?

[@ghostspider2056]

23:25 The one In Guardian was the Power Stone, every stone has different abilities and qualities. The one in the sceptre is the Mind Stone.

[@엘제-k9u]

If you ever feel stupid, remember that Captain America tried to choke a robot.

[@Mrryn]

Hey man, he's strong. If you squeeze any electrical device hard enough in the right place, pretty sure you'll break it enough where it shuts off. Metal robot in a humanoid form? You go for the joints since they are designed like a human and thus have them less armored for needed mobility, most likely areas of weakness to be attacked. And operating on similar humanoid logic, head housing the "supercomputer" that is the brain, you go for neck, break/bend it enough to hit that key bit of wiring or circuitry to cut the power off.

[@엘제-k9u]

@Mrryn Hey, relax. I know. I'm one of the people speaking for Cap's sake in Korean fandom, with similar logics with you. But it's always fun to meme about fictional things.

[@frescopino7866]

A lot of people criticize this movie for its treatment of Natasha, claiming that the movie says that she's a monster because she doesn't have a uterus. I often wonder how much attention they were paying to the movie to say that.

[@AshRain-nu3vz]

I genuinely never understood how they could come to that conclusion. Like, did they even see her nightmare sequence?

[@danior1732]

Damn and here I thought they call her a monster because she killed so many innocent people before she got convinced by Hawkeye to switch sides

[@ill_Hex]

Given the director and the producers, the treatment of Nat and other female suprheroines in the mcu got a lot worse than just that scene (less merch, the intentional delay of their solo films, and Ike Perlmutter's open racism and sexism).

[@johnniequinn3215]

They were paying enough attention to the scene she said it in.

[@matthewkreps3352]

​@johnniequinn3215, but clearly, the monsters were the ones to did it to her against her will.

[@KeonxKurosaki]

When I first saw Cap almost pick up the hammer, I lowkey made the shocked Pikachu face.

[@felwalkr_94]

The first time I saw and understood what that moment meant, I was more like that one meme template from “Friends”-that chill and then shocked Joey face.

[@felwalkr_94]

@@leorojas6390 they’re just referring to this movie, not the other movie.

[@YukoValis]

@@leorojas6390 they aren't saying anything, you are saying something. lol

[@ghostspider2056]

Originally, Wanda and her brother Peitro aka Quicksilver were mutants and kids of Magneto an X-Men villain. But that’s no longer the case due to retcons and the legal issues between marvel and Fox (who made the X-Men films).

[@johnniequinn3215]

They had shared first appearances in the comics between the avengers and the x-men.

[@HammerdWalrus]

IIRC, the deal between them was Fox can use them but not mention the Avengers, and Marvel Studios could use them but not mention Mutants, The X-Men, or their Hero Names.

[@sebastianemond5313]

Well, now that Disney owns Fox, and Pietro and Wanda are canonically dead- Spoiler Alert- by this point, hopefully, Disney can get their act together with the X-Men instead of shoe-horning them in as Easter Eggs, like with The Marvels. I mean, the X-Men '97 revival was amazing! More of that, Disney!

[@johnniequinn3215]

@sebastianemond5313 Careful with Spoilers please.

[@seanmahoney2671]

@@sebastianemond5313 It has already been confirmed the next saga (like infinity saga and multiverse sage) is the mutant saga. They are definitely coming. How is the big question.

[@frostedcrabcake1592]

23:27 So to add context, it was only the power stone that rips people apart. While the other stones are incredibly powerful, it's the pure might of the power stone that causes death. The other stones can be held. Robot

[@Crocogator]

"His voice sounds hot" That is James Spader. And yes. You are correct. "OH SHT THEY MADE THE ROBOT SEXY" Yes. Yes they did.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

"Oh No, He's HOOOT!!" - Squidward

[@Crocogator]

@@UltimateGamerCC When Ultron is Anime-Pinning Andy Serkis on the floor. "What are we doing on the ground, ultron-chan?"

[@Sairin13]

"You want to save the world, but you don't want it to Change," and "They're doomed," are some lines that went hard in this movie.

[@felwalkr_94]

Two things: 1. During the party, that Asgardian drink that Thor brought was probably the closest thing that made Cap drunk since before he took the supersoldier serum (since one of the things the serum did was enhance his metabolic rate to the point where alcohol doesn’t do anything to him). 2. Ultron’s cheek circle things sometimes retract whenever he gets a little too angry, which is last I checked, a lot more accurate to his comic design, where he has no cheeks. Edit: also, have you seen the trailer for the new Superman movie? It’s awesome.

[@MrGBH]

His comic design is based on a Jack'O'Lantern

[@yurimaldonado4966]

22:00 - Tony complaining about how the Avengers should be able to stop fighting and go home, to the guy who only has fighting left and at that point has no home waiting for him... And people think Cap tore that log with his bare hands just to show off his muscles 🫠

[@Shintigercurl]

fun fact: stan lee isn't wearing that hat for show. he did service in the army from 42 to 45 as a member of the signal corp.

[@zacharygroysman279]

James Spader did an amazing job as Ultron

[@leorojas6390]

He's also Robert California from The Office lol.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

@@leorojas6390 He's also Alan Shore in Boston Legal.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

wait, James Spader?? the OG Daniel Jackson of Stargate? ngl, i thought it was somebody else, damn.

[@botondnyitrai3128]

Well, they are lowkey pretending they need hawkeye, until you realise, that they never lost any fights, as long as he was with them. He is like a good luck charm

[@albertfronton3634]

In many of the fights he's involved, he always gets a good hit in the main villain or gets underestimated and gets a chance to act. In the first movie, he an arrow hit in Loki, and in this one, not only does he beats Wanda, he then proceeds to help the two new heroes.

[@botondnyitrai3128]

@albertfronton3634 didnt want to mention about infinity war and endgame so imma say spoiler now Without him, they lost. With him, they won. Even in the first movie, when he was brainwashed by Loki, the other Avengers have been losing. End of brainwash, and they won. "Coincidence? I think not!"

[@TheArcSet]

To be fair, until the "Ultimate" & MCU rework, Cap was kind of in the same boat as Clint: neither of them technically had superpowers for the majority of the time they've existed. Same way that Spiderman used to be the glass-cannon that almost never without at least 1 fractured limb. As opposed to bullet crumpling abs.

[@botondnyitrai3128]

@@TheArcSet well, cap has a different function. As the embodiment of American values he is on a motal highground compared to the others. He is also a trained soldier, knowing tactics and strategy. He is the leader of the avengers for a reason.

[@georgev3433]

Ultron is kinda the start of villians who could be reoccurring turning into one off villains. But as a Robot I guess it could be simpler for him to come back.

[@lucasmireles57]

Someone needs to tell her the guy playing Ulysses Klaue here is also Gollum

[@lanmandragoran8337]

Among every fucking other thing he's also done. Dudes prolific.

[@RichG-m3z]

Smeagel....he plays Smeagel.

[@Sin_ofGreed_]

And caesar

[@TheChiraagG]

And I cannot wait for a certain Star Wars show to hit this channel...!

[@ABronzeSoul]

Alone this movie is some what underwhelming but as you progresses through the movies the amount of foreshadowing in this one elevates its enjoyment levels on a re-watch quite a lot. and I love Ultrons voice in this movie.

[@kaijukyru]

As someone who watched Godzilla 2014 first, the casting for Wanda and Pietro never ceases to be an odd choice. Also, Robot.

[@Marvelfan-nu7ve]

For comics fans it was a pretty meta casting decision considering that Wanda and Pietro in the ultimate comic universe were pretty hot for each other.

[@kaijukyru]

​@@Marvelfan-nu7ve Thank you for reminding me. Now I have Sweet Home Alabama playing in my head.

[@felwalkr_94]

@@Marvelfan-nu7veoh god oh no oh god oh no-

[@ridewild1956]

the irony of that scene where nat talks about her getting her uterus removed, scarlet johanson was pregnant in this movie

[@brianbayot8347]

Fun fact: In the comics Cap can only lift Mjolnir when he's got his adrenaline pumping in the heat of battle. He has the right beliefs and ideals to make him ALMOST worthy, but he doesn't always have a warrior's spirit. He has a sentinel's spirit.

[@RichG-m3z]

CaP! Nowhere is it stated that ONLY in heat of battle he can lift it. He's lifted & used it in dire battle settings because he has no need to use it in normal situations. I'm so tired of reading people's FAN-FIC theory/explanations that are not comic true.

[@TheArcSet]

@@RichG-m3z Every writer changes the cannon. I guess that was said at some point. Same way the Odin enchantment was changed to the spirit of the mother-storm's choice. Or when believing yourself worthy was the factor.

[@redgunnit]

Alicia will never understand the sheer hype that "Fine... Ill do it myself" instilled in fans who saw this in theaters.

[@DaCanadian]

This is probably one of my favorite avengers films, Ultron was such a good character in my opinion. Really wish he wasn’t just a one off villain

[@CrazeeAdam]

Oh Aaron Taylor Johnson (I think is his actors name), plays Quicksilver. He is for all intents and purposes the Flash. Also Thor hitting Cap's shield for a shockwave was based around when they first met and didn't know each other in the forest. Thor slammed his hammer full force and destroyed the forest with a shockwave. Small refrences like that appear often. That ending dialouge between Ultron and Vision is so so good

[@ghostspider2056]

2:33 Yes, he is technically. Better known as *Quicksilver.* Although not as fast as Flash’s speed breaks most of the rules of reality.

[@johnniequinn3215]

Each comic universe has multiple speedsters.

[@itsthatmemelowell]

In the comics,Scarlet Witch is Magnetos daughter and Polaris,I'm not sure if Quicksilver is also one of Magneto's kids

[@johnniequinn3215]

@itsthatmemelowell Wanda and Pietro are Twins.

[@AdamPFarnsworth]

This movie grew on me. I didn't love it at first, but now it's one of my favorite MCU movies

[@elbruces]

*"OH SHIT, THEY MADE THE ROBOT SEXY!"* I can't...

[@leorojas6390]

Same thought that went in Wanda's mind when she met Vision lol.

[@stratostheplug]

James spader did an amazing job voicing ultron. Unbelievable actor

[@GojiraFan-in9oo]

Ultron is one of the greatest MCU vilains. Even tho he lost, he still technically won since this movie was the beginning of the Avengers downfall Ntm the fact that the Mind Stone is easily the most dangerous of the infinity stones Also. Robot.

[@TimothyGod]

Spoilers?

[@__TK___]

Bro went into the internet for 20 seconds and decided humanity had to go

[@jaysontatum01]

why are you spoiling future stuffs she reads these

[@GojiraFan-in9oo]

​@jaysontatum01 At this point it's just a matter of reading the warning signs

[@TimothyGod]

@@GojiraFan-in9oo victim blaming goofy ahh, maybe wait til she gets there first...

[@itztehendd]

James Spader is immaculate in whatever he's in. The Office, Boston Legal, The Blacklist, god he's so good. No one else could have voice Ultron imo

[@BothanJedi]

Hawkeye’s “The city is flying” motivational speech to Wanda is one of my favorite scenes in the entire MCU, and it showcases why Hawkeye deserves to be on the same team as a Norse god and a Super-Soldier.

[@sable-king2066]

Hawkeye didn’t get his own movie, but he did get his own Disney+ series. It’s honestly one of the better D+ Marvel shows.

[@Outrider85]

It's not though. It's just a vehicle for introducing other characters. It's barely about him.

[@sable-king2066]

@Outrider85 Fun fact, it does both. It introduces Kate Bishop yes, but it’s also about Clint dealing with the fallout of all the shit he did as the Ronin.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Nice Christmas Time show!

[@CrazeeAdam]

Imo it's a really good show tbh. =/ thoroughly enjoyed it. And the humanizing of what it takes to be a hero and his mental state

[@gamebillentertainment]

Most underrated avengers movie

[@Arkainjel]

A very small detail that I just realized: The Bartons named their youngest kid Nathaniel or "Nat" after Natasha, which is really sweet when you know that she can't have children because of her training in the Red Room. More subtlety to show just how close Clint and Nat are. Also, "Robot".

[@Abyss_Princess]

12:32 You are going to love Black Panther in a few weeks (R.I.P. Chadwick)

[@JakNasty69]

Only complaint of the movie is the CGI fight, I feel like it could have been a lot better

[@phntmthf5505]

My favorite thing about the hammer lifting scene is that it got confirmed that Cap realized he could lift it and the squeak was him accidentally moving it, because he wanted Thor to have his moment Also, the bit where Cap gets cut off before saying assemble has a behind the scenes shot where he points at the camera like he pulled a prank and we’re in on the joke

[@Vexizz]

Pretty sure this is a spoiler

[@phntmthf5505]

@ not really, it was confirmed pretty soon after Age of Ultron came out and Mjölnir doesn’t do worthiness in degrees. You’re either worthy or you’re not, theyre’s no in between.

[@Zeik56]

Vision is seriously one of my favorite Avengers. I don't know if he shines as much in this movie as he does later, but I definitely appreciate him in this movie more now on rewatch. Paul Bettany is seriously a top-tier actor, so it's great that he got a full on role in the MCU.

[@TobyMichaelsOfficial]

Your reaction to the Natasha and Bruce "monster" dialogue really got me. I remember that scene eventually got a bit of a backlash because people questioned a female lead thinking they where a monster cause they couldn't have a kid. Which isn't the point they were trying to make in my opinion. I always took it as men took that decision from her. Took away her control of her own body. I thought it was a genuinely heartbreaking scene, though I do also understand how people might have taken it a different way.

[@MuffinHunterX]

I took it as she felt "lesser" because she couldn't have children of her own and the reason she was denied that choice was the monstrous part. But Twitter folk gonna Twitter I guess.

[@TobyMichaelsOfficial]

@MuffinHunterX and that's a valid take on it too. The joy of movies is we can kinda fill in some blanks from time to time

[@willkulczyk8099]

sort of how she took bruces agencey away from him when she forced him to become the hulk against his wishes, if a guy did that to a female character .... well we know how that would go dont we.

[@TobyMichaelsOfficial]

@willkulczyk8099 this isn't a "men vs women" point, nor do i think you needed to make it. Neither losing agency is good. Bruce, at the time of that movie, was in a constant state of losing agency at the hands of others. As he hadn't learnt to control his hulking out. I am not getting into a debate akin to the ones when this movie came out. Cause "imagine if that happened to a man" was right up there in the "debate" Have a nice day

[@eltrueabdul611]

Remember when you said "imagine if people left Tony and Jarvis the safety of the world? They would make so good". Well...

[@huntertezz]

Wish they didn't make Ultron so human. He should have been like the Ultron from the Next Avengers animated film. He was just so interesting in that

[@criseist9786]

I'm sad that Ultron wasn't liked lol. Absolutely love him in this film, especially the two robots talking philosophy at the end of time

[@seanmahoney2671]

I think it is really only by comic lovers who know him from there where he did sooooo much more, so they feel the potential was under utilized. We'll see that LOT in the movies. There really isn't that many of them and that many stories compared to the comics so they can't do nearly as much with the antagonists. But it is generally the root of when you hear people say they didn't utilize a bad guy well enough.

[@criseist9786]

@seanmahoney2671 Comic lover here. We were never going to get a long recurring series with ultron, which is why his depiction here is great. They made the most out of him for the limited run he was allocated

[@johnman8398]

​@@criseist9786You are one of the most reasonable comic book lovers I've ever seen, almost any other time I see one they call him and the movie trash because it's different from how the comics do it without actually judging the character being presented.

[@criseist9786]

@@johnman8398 Well, I'm glad to give ya a better side then :)

[@Courier-number-6]

@@seanmahoney2671 no, the reason people like me don't like him is cuz he's a shane black style bad guy who I can't take seriously, he has marvel TM humor and stupid quips, he's far too human(which could work but it's never pointed out in this film) and why in the blue blazes would the twins ever team up with this guy? nevermind the fact that tony faces no repercussion for making a almost world ending threat.

[@donovan802]

Refresh my memory and do correct me if I’m wrong, but Disney couldn’t have the Avengers explicitly say Pietro and Wanda (Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch) were mutants since the X-Men branding was licensed by Fox and Disney didn’t buy Fox until later, right?

[@kaijukyru]

Pretty much.

[@mhollis1989]

Yes. That exactly.

[@Mugthraka]

yup

[@fabioherrera859]

Correct

[@yoyo777]

they are explicitly not mutants in the mcu

[@Hunt4Viktory]

Compassion, restraint, nobility, wisdom, and humility. These are the qualities required to be worthy to wield Mjölnir

[@scalyvaporeon2232]

Comic Ultron was made by ANTMAN (Hank Pym) And he was all like: MACHINES SUPERIOR! HUMANS INFERIOR! Build a world with only machines yada yada yada! XD

[@garavonhoiwkenzoiber]

james spader has a KILLER voice! Love his work :)

[@leorojas6390]

"I'm fine BISH, I'm fine." -Robert California from The Office (One of James Spader characters)

[@seanmahoney2671]

This movie had a very different purpose than the first avengers movie. That movie was the culmination of bringing together a bunch of individual heroes. This one was about setting up what is to come. And oh my god does it do that well. You won't see lots of it until the later movies when it pays off, because that is how setups work, but so much of what is to come traces back to this movie. After the first Avengers I think there was a 'what next?' moment after they pulled that off... something that hadn't really been done in cinema before. They realized they had to set it up again where they had a bunch of individual films and they all were building toward something and they had to figure out how to do that. On a seperate note, I think it is interesting how much people miss that Ultron was not Tony's fault. The mind stone has been in the staff this whole time. It was given to Loki for a purpose and what became Ultron was in it then (it wasn't just the mindstone itself, that is why Vision is so different than Ultron). What was to become Ultron was in the first Avengers movie as well, it was manipulating their emotions and minds cause them to fight one another in the scene in the lab where Banner ends up holding the scepter. You can see Thor trying to shake off the effect and the camera work is great to show what it is doing. Then in this one, Tony is trying to get an interface to what is already in there. He had protocols and what he would like the Ultron program to be, but he never got close to creating it. He did name it though. So when what becomes Ultron utilized that link (it had control, not him) it sorted through what he had intended for it... but it wasn't beholden to that. It was influenced by that though... but it is its own thing put there by the guy at the end of the movie. That's why when it didn't work for taking down the Avengers clearing a way for his real purpose, he says, "Fine. I'll do it myself." He has been behind the Chitari armies and sending Loki to get him the Tesseract. The reason he would let the scepter with the mindstone out of his possession (seems out of character otherwise) was to get what becomes Ultron down to earth. So he was behind both Avengers movies so far. And the end credit indicates he is coming himself, a guy powerful enough to feel confident giving away an infinity stone for his plans. I don't think people give him enough credit for how crafty he is. Anyway... this is why it bugs me later when people will make the argument that what happened to Sakovia in this movie is Tony's fault. I think he had a lot less to do with Ultron than people say. He named him and he (and Bruce) opened the door which allowed Ultron to take over his bot manufacturing.

[@n4l9bx]

My personal favourite since AoU has always been *full* blame on Tony, yet zero blame on SW for mindfucking people. Like, can you pick a *vaguely* consistant lane in how responsibility/accountability works, please?

[@CeltiesSin]

“I just don’t know what her powers are” Well, depending on which comic you read, her powers are: Yes 😐 she’s a bit of a God depending on which comic you read lol

[@ChiePet_]

You knoq, i used to think Thor's face was Panick that someone else was worthty, but now i see it as a face that screams "...interesting" especially how he leaned his head back a bit to see if it moved more.

[@Avenger85438]

In the comics, Ultron is not as... well childish, and was acting out of the cold logic that Humanity cannot be saved and must be destroyed. Here, they leaned into the idea of him being a newborn entity whose suffered severe information overload, Tony also didn't help create him, that role was Hank Pym's (Ant-Man). As a result his characterization here divided a number of viewers who felt it diminished his presence and intimidation as an existential threat. Them setting up Hydra as an ongoing threat only to deal with them mostly offscreen and kill off Strucker here, also split fans, as it again removed a threat with a lot more potential.

[@seanmahoney2671]

I guess I saw it more as a giving the threat of Hydra to Agents of SHIELD. "Here, go play with that and leave us alone. We won't recognize you exist even though you are based off our movies. We have long term plans and won't share them because you are not under our creative control."

[@Courier-number-6]

and I prefer that ultron this one is far too representative of "shane black" style humor. "oh look he's funny." "oh look he's got quips" it feels far too human and without pointing that out and making ultron maybe question himself about it , they just don't do anything with it. it's disappointing.

[@Avenger85438]

@@Courier-number-6 If the mcu didn't keep killing off it's villains, Ultron confronting his "humanity" and deciding to either embrace or destroy could have made for a decent follow up to this version of the character.

[@Daniel-dj7eo]

30:49 in your defense most iterations of Scarlet Witch (including marvel rivals) have a really different backstory where she’s Magneto’s daughter. Since at this point the X-Men aren’t in the MCU though they had to come up with something else

[@ymeynot0405]

@AliciaXLife Robot Hey, I rewatched some of you older Marvel and I just want to say: The fact that you no nothing about these movies / Characters is what makes watching your reactions great. I grew up with them in the 90's and knew most of the plot lines before the movies came out. Letting you be surpised or not know who people are is what makes your reactions worth watching. Thank you for the entertainment. I hope you stay healthy and that you and Rich are very happy.

[@smilenf2301]

23:26 He can hold the stone because he is a robot. The stones only react to organic matter, as stated in Guardians of the Galaxy. The rest only becomes a conductor of their power, like Ronan's hammer

[@gundamOPS]

Yes, but that only applies to the power stone.

[@jrr2480]

Spoiler: The farm scene in this movie seams to be inspired by the farm scenes from the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie 🐢

[@cstains5543]

Hawkeye is an interesting character. Starts out a pretty serious criminal, gets recruited as sort of a scout sniper type for SHIELD. Later joins the Avengers as a lesser member, still does a lot of heroic things, but is more of a second tier guy still doing a lot of the scouting and then sniping for the primaries in the Avengers. Sort of fades in and out of the team as needed. Honestly thought it was sort of weird that they made him a major secondary character in the Avenger films as he's still sort of just around, being helpful, but really just sort of a backup guy.

[@Haru-sx9sk]

For me, Avengers Age of Ultron, is the best Avengers Movie, the writing is so on point, and the cinematography is very good. To be clear: 1- Avengers : Age of Ultron 2- Avengers 3- Avengers : Infinity War 4- Avengers : Endgame

[@TheHeroBleeder]

Fun fact: Wanda and Peitro Maximoff in the comics are Magneto's Kids. Both This movie and I think Days of Future Past came out around the same time both movies feature Pietro who are played by Evan Peters and Aaron Taylor Johnson(who played friends in Kickass).

[@Plasmagon99]

Rody's story at the party before Ultron showed up was what Rody was doing during Avengers 1. Yes, Wanda is Scarlet Witch but due to copyright laws they can't call her that in the films since at the time Fox owned the Mutants and X-Men, however, they loop-holed Wanda and Quicksilver into the Avengers because they have been Avegners before in the comics.

[@TheFuriousMulatto]

I remember the first time I saw Age of Ultron. I went to see it in theaters with a couple of friends and we ended up staying up until 4am at the local Denny's talking about the movie. It was the first time I had to go "well, not everything Marvel makes can be gold." and now look at where Marvel movies are.

[@JohnnyOrc]

That moment when Alicia announced that Quicksilver was her favourite character and doomed him to die.

[@the_notorious_one4018]

age of ultron is top 5 marvel for me , very underrated

[@PrixtoTNT]

If Alicia ever reacted to Batman The Animated Series, I feel like the episode House and Garden would hit her hard. Specially the ending

[@MuffinHunterX]

That one still effs me up

[@nickmilo932]

The funniest part of this movie is how the avengers got together to get Loki's scepter but not to stop all the world threatening situations that happened in the movies before this one

[@donovan802]

The first MCU movie I fully watched and a solid one at that.

[@mixednarwhal]

7:50 When I first heard Ultrons voice in the trailers I immediately understood who the voice actor was and it brought the actor into a new perspective for me that he could play such a villain. I recognized him as Robert California from The Office US.

[@sammiebray1661]

As someone that was a massive Hawkeye hater, every movie I started liking him more. And by the time it came to watching the Hawkeye show, I loved him. He truly is the heart of the team that grounds them.

[@nathanmead9585]

Something they ended up either forgetting or disregarding is that they weren't building a robot or cyborg or anything mechanical with Vision. The device that created organic tissue to heal Clint's injury used vibranium as the base to do the same thing in creating the Vision's entire body.

[@fonzylopez5806]

also one cool thing about the big slo mo shots (the beginning one and the ending one) is essentially what that is is a splash page. in comics thats when you dedicate two whole pages to one huge moment the emphasize how grand and cool it is. so those scenes are just joss whedon (who wrote a number of great comics) bringing a splash page to real life in movie form.

[@Xenobears]

Loving the Marvel Monday thing. It’s nice to see somebody being so excited for these movies.

[@DoctorCVC]

While I think this is the least interesting overall of the Avengers movies, the roundtable hammer competition scene is one of my favorite sequences of the whole MCU. Because it’s just all the cast we’ve come to love actually hanging out as friends, having a fun time trying to do something silly (that also sets up one of the most BADASS moments of the MCU later), and I think in the speed/stakes of these movies that’s not something we got a lot of time to see with the whole avengers cast.

[@meggilow]

Oh yeah, one of the best movies right as I finish cooking my food. Peak

[@contagiousstorm]

Ultron can hold the mind stone for two reasons: #1 He is a robot, so rules don't apply the same way #2 He's the product of the mind stone, his very sentience is from it, meaning he's basically just an extension of the stone already

[@segaiuolo]

The scene "did you bring auntie Nat?" makes me weep every time. Also, you. Sending you a hug

[@Cozmic_Archer]

Hawkeye is one of my fave Marvel Heroes, he was in an accident that caused him to lose hearing and I’m half deaf

[@kimchiacid-b7f]

This was my favorite villain; snarky, intelligent, and rightous. Born of the hubrous of standing up the weak paving the way for the strong.

[@espaltagos]

At that time they weren't able to call Wanda and Pietro by their superhero names (Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver) because they're mutants and Fox had the rights for mutants characters. However, Wanda and Pietro are deeply involved with the Avengers in the comics, thats why they could use them but with their civilian names. That's also why at the time there were two Quicksilvers in movies. One was from the MCU and the other from the X-Men movies

[@chriswriter9087]

Codeword Robots. The character at 13:01, Kruger, is Andy Serkis / Gollum.

[@seanmahoney2671]

As for Hawkeye, I am glad you liked him a bit more at the end of the movie than the beginning. You were really giving him the short stick. You have to remember he wasn't in other movies much. He was an easter egg in Thor and then was mind controlled by Loki's scepter for most of the first Avenger's movie. We didn't really have a chance to get to know him. I think they realized they did his character a bit dirty in the first movie as a result and this one definitely gives him the spotlight a bit more. I love his and Natasha's relationship. I love that he is a family man. He has the same 'not actually a superhero' thing that Nat does in that he has no powers, just amazing training and natural skill. He is also an older guy in comparison... frankly that and the family man part make him my representation in the movies! lol. Anyway... yeah, not a main Avenger, but I still like him and think he is a good character. Not boring to me. (edit to clarify, in the comics he a main avenger... at times even THE main avenger, but in the movies, so far, he isn't one of the main ones).

[@ThePonderer]

19:10 I love that you point that out. For as much hate as the Natasha/Bruce relationship gets, their dynamic and that scene especially is really nuanced, and highlights how deeply the two of them share the same insecurities.

[@potitishogun2961997]

This movie was very good indeed :) It might feel different, tho, cuz this one gets into more personal matters for the Avengers. Iron Man's anxiety spiraling into bad choices (like creating the big bad villain), Banner's personal relationship with Natasha, Cap trying to be the moral compass of the team (altho he doesn't get a lot to work with in this film other than "ultimate good guy"), Clint having a freaking family... while also Thor doing a lore dive into the Infinity Stones. The movie does bank a lot on you KNOWING these characters already, so they don't go a lot into things previously established. So that's why, while the story of Ultron is interesting to explore and the new personal things introduced in the film are interesting, it may feel like this movie is like a sort of "drive by station", an in-between stop into the journey ahead. It's more like a connection point of several stories coming together before divulging again, so the movie doesn't exactly have its own identity. The first Avengers relied on the WOW! factor of the previous movies' stars coming together for the first time, which worked well in its favor, considering this had never been done before on this big a scale. In THIS film... that WOW! factor card has already been played. And they try to make up for it with a lot of additional character writing and world building, but that doesn't create an identity for the film and story. Furthermore... Ultron is just a tad bit boring 'xD I mean, don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like about him. His imposing stature, James Spader's sick fcking voice, how hard he is to destroy, he's very cool by design. Just... the writing direction for him is off. If he's so set on humanity's extinction, there's tons of different ways to do that. Why pick this random-ass poor Russian town and turn it into a meteor, when there's way less convoluted, way more efficient ways of creating chaos and destruction? One malicious malware code into Russia's security system, one nuke fired at an American city, it's enough to cause a chain reaction leading to humanity's annihilation. Granted, the entire world would be upside-down which could complicate future movie stories, but the AVENGERS are in his way. They could save the world from its own technology... Or another way Ultron could viralize himself: destroy the Internet. If Ultron fried global servers for the web, turning it into his own personal navigation network to move around the world, the death toll would be enormous (think like medical equipment tied to the Internet, or banks and their financial systems, or schools, or self-driving vehicles-) and his plans of extinction are one step closer. I dunno, Ultron could have posed a FAR greater threat than he turned out to be. For a hostile AI, he was remarkably non-viral. Which I think is a disservice to his character. Overall, this movie was fun... but it's indeed not as great as the first.

[@mythwing]

Hawkeye has his own show, and funnily enough it's one of the better MCU shows they released.

[@samwallaceart288]

James Spader, the guy who plays Ultron, is S-tier in the show _The Blacklist;_ a criminal mastermind spilling all the tea on the serial killers and mob bosses who wronged him and using the FBI as part of his revenge plot; a simple bald guy in a fedora but MAX LEVEL Charisma talking circles around people and standing on business, even from inside a prison cell. Its basically "Hannibal Lecter and Clarise take on Batman's entire rogues gallery: the show", absolute banger. For the first two seasons.

[@fonzylopez5806]

oh my fav bit of trivia from this movie. the hulkbuster armor is named veronica. in the comics 'archie' the lead is always torn between two love interest. veronica....and betty. betty ross is bruce banners love interest. so essentially the hulkbuster armor is 'the other woman' in hulks life.

[@frijolitoazul4343]

Gotta love how she was dissing hawkeye at the start of the movie, being fair and all that he had almost no scenes or development at that point in the movies so it's normal to not like him yet, even black widow had her moments before avengers and her own scenes, so seeing alicia watch his development is all i wanted

[@mixednarwhal]

31:14 Her possibly watching Marvels Agents of Shield after she watches the movies would be awesome. Especially with the beginning of the movie starting with the avengers attacking the snow base and how they got the information about the snow base in the first place and with how a whole Shield helicarrier came out of nowhere.

[@spacezombie13]

in the comics, Ultron is one of the big recurring villains in marvel comics. I hope they find a way to bring him back some day, cuz him just getting one movie is a tragedy.

[@jaylenharris343]

I'm gonna be honest, I didn't hate this Ultron but I didn't like him either. Ultron is supposed to be this cold, heartless and calculated machine. He doesn't make jokes or has a wise cracking attitude. Best version of him is from Earths Mightiest Heroes.

[@Joey245]

Oh man, I loved this movie when it came out! Still do, really - even if it's not as strong as the first one or the 3rd and 4th, it's still really fun and Ultron is such a fun ROBOT villain. The way the entire theater went quiet enough for a pin drop to sound like thunder when Vision picked up the hammer was such a cool thing to witness, and the Hulkbuster vs Hulk fight is always a crowd pleaser. Glad you enjoyed it! Can't wait to see you react to the next Captain America and Thor movies - I have a feeling you're gonna alternate between having a good time and a bad time

[@darrenheideman2546]

I think my biggest gripe with this movie was just how fast Hydra was taken out. Granted, it's said they've been raiding & eliminating Hydra bases, but it still went weak. Although I followed Agents of Shield, so some gaps were filled there, and I remember some fans being disappointed that Coulson and his team didn't appear here. But for me, the best part was Vision effortlessly lifting Mjirnor, showing he wasn't some watered-down Ultron or some other robot creation.