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Ultron is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema, the character first made a cameo appearance in The Avengers #54 (1968) as the Crimson Cowl, before being fully introduced in The Avengers #55 (1968) as Ultron-5, the Living Automaton. He has since endured as one of the greatest enemies of the superhero team the Avengers, since he is an artificial intelligence created by the founding Avenger Hank Pym.

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Contents
  • Publication history
  • Fictional character biography
  • Creation and early appearances
  • Battleworld and Ultron-12
  • Amalgamation and the Ultron Imperative
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
  • Powers and abilities
  • Reception
  • Accolades
  • Other versions
  • ''Age of Ultron''
  • "Death of The Invisible Woman"
  • Deathlok-dominated future
  • Earth-110
  • Earth-10943
  • Galactus: Dawn of the Heralds
  • ''Heroes Reborn'' (2021)
  • ''Marvel Adventures''
  • ''Old Man Logan''
  • MC2
  • ''Secret Wars'' (2015)
  • ''The Last Avengers Story''
  • Ultimate Marvel
  • Ultron Forever
  • ''What If?''
  • In other media
  • Television
  • Film
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Video games
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

Ultron is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema, the character first made a cameo appearance in The Avengers #54 (1968) as the Crimson Cowl, before being fully introduced in The Avengers #55 (1968) as Ultron-5, the Living Automaton. He has since endured as one of the greatest enemies of the superhero team the Avengers, since he is an artificial intelligence created by the founding Avenger Hank Pym.

He soon gains sentience, develops a god complex, and becomes obsessed with fulfilling his purpose to bring about world peace by causing human extinction. Regarded as one of the most powerful villains and greatest threats in the Marvel Universe, Ultron has come into repeated conflict with the Avengers. Although stories often end with Ultron's apparent destruction, the character's self-adaptive artificial consciousness returns in upgraded forms marked by sequential numerical designations. Ultron's primary robotic body is usually made of the unbreakable fictional metal adamantium and possesses superpowers such as superhuman strength, flight, energy projection, and control over technology, including legions of his Ultron Drones.

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