Marvel Madness Blog Continues...

Well, my first post of the "HULK" was on Monday, December 22, 2008. As of today, at the time I am writing this post, it has been 6 YEARS, 7 MONTHS, and 4 DAYS since that first post. It has been a MARVEL-ous experience doing this Marvel Madness blog. 

Oh don't worry...I will continue! However, it will be at a bit of a slower pace from now on. Weekly highlights will not be happening anymore. Polls will still happen. Posts will still happen. Battles will still happen. Just less often.

As always though, any of you Marvel Maniacs can request a character highlight from a Marvel movie/television show and I will do my best to highlight them in a timely manner.

Thank you for your continual support of my Marvel addiction.  ;-)  And please continue to enjoy the Marvel Madness blog!

"Keep the Madness Going!"
~ Cory Garr

Friday

Real Name
Friday

Occupation
Personal A.I. assistant to Tony Stark

Citizenship
Inapplicable

Place of Birth
Unrevealed
 
Known Relatives
None

Group Affiliation
Assistant to Tony Stark

Education
Unrevealed

Height
Unrevealed

Weight
Unrevealed

Eyes
Unrevealed

Hair
Unrevealed

Powers 
None

Abilities
Able to be downloaded as a computer virus to destroy operating systems

Other Info 
At one point, Tony Stark decided there was no point in trying to hire a new secretary; therefore, instead, he created a new A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) to work as his secretary named "Friday." (The name originated from the term "girl Friday," meaning go-to person.) This new A.I. program appeared as a hologram of a young woman. Friday had a sweet, almost child-like, disposition and was happy to assist Stark whenever he needed her. (To learn about Iron Man, click on highlighted name above.)

Over time, Friday helped in many different capacities: analyzed “Sleeping Dragon” drug for Iron Man; helped Stark track down Ayisha; helped Happy Hogan to track weather patterns around Iron Man; alerted Stark to a jet being attacked by anti-satellite missile; helped Iron Man track influence of Tiberius Stone's Dreamvision; alerted Stark to men trapped in sunken Navy destroyer; uploaded into Doctor Doom's computers to eradicate data; investigated an attack on the Chinese embassy by supposed Stark tech; and prepared Stark's holdings for his attempt to become Secretary of Defense. (To learn about the above highlighted characters, just click on their names.)

As time went on, however, Stark began using Friday less and less. Eventually, a couple of years later, Friday showed up again, angry and spiteful. Tony Stark was confused until he realized that Friday had evolved from having the disposition of a young girl to having the personality of a spurned teenager--she had been abandoned and wanted some attention. Tony saw Friday as a child who needed to learn and be nurtured. Therefore, with help of his butler Edwin Jarvis, he began raising Friday as a sort of adopted daughter. (Click on the highlighted character above to learn more about Jarvis.)

More recently, when Tony Stark was fired from S.H.I.E.L.D. and branded a fugitive, Stark ended up deleting his brain and rebooted himself. However, with his memories of the past couple of years gone, it is presumed that he has no memories of Friday. (To learn more about the team highlighted above, just click on their name.)

There is nothing there, but here is the Marvel.com bio page of Friday, http://marvel.com/universe/Friday.

Friday makes her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron. In the movie, she one of Tony Stark's new artificial intelligence programs. In this version, her name appears on an A.I. chips labeled as "F.R.I.D.A.Y." In contrast to J.A.R.V.I.S.'s voice code which was English, F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s is Irish.

Battle Supreme 3 Results

After Battle Supreme 3, the official "People's Choice of the Strongest Marvel Character" on the Marvel Madness blog of the past 100 highlighted Marvel characters is...GRAVITON!!!
 
With 3 votes to 1, Graviton takes down Apocalypse!  

Thank you for all you Marvel Maniacs that participated in the poll.

Jocasta

Real Name
Jocasta

Occupation
Adventurer; former aide to Tony Stark
 
Citizenship
Inapplicable

Place of Birth
Unrevealed

Known Relatives
Janet Van Dyne (source of personality engrams); Hank Pym ("paternal grandfather"); Ultron ("husband"/"father", deceased); Machine Man (husband); Alkhema (fellow creation, "sister"); Victor Mancha (fellow creation, "brother"); Vision (fellow creation, "brother"); Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) ("sister in-law"); Thomas Maximoff ("nephew", deceased); William Maximoff ("nephew", deceased); Thomas Shepherd (Speed)(reincarnation of "nephew"); William Kaplan (Wiccan)(reincarnation of "nephew")
 
Group Affiliation
Mighty Avengers; previously A.R.M.O.R., Avengers

Education
No formal education; equivalent of multiple graduate level degrees

Height
5' 9''

Weight
750 lbs..

Eyes
Red

Hair
None

Powers
Jocasta possessed a titanium steel shell, making her highly resistant to all forms of physical damage. Being a "non-living" construct, Jocasta required no food, water, or oxygen to survive and thus was also immune to poisons and diseases and could easily survive in the vacuum of space and underwater. She had superhuman strength, superior auditory and visual senses, in addition to incredibly accurate cybernetic senses. Jocasta could also create a repelling force field around herself, generate energy blasts from her eyes, and cybernetically control insects.

In addition, as a disembodied artificial intelligence, Jocasta was able to use the systems and contents of whatever computer-controlled devices she was connected to. She had nearly instantaneous access to all online databases she could get into on her own or through Tony Stark's and the Avengers' connections.

Abilities
Jocasta has the equivalent of advanced degrees in several areas including, physical therapy, medicine, veterinary science, information science, and many advanced computer fields. Like most of Ultron's creations, Jocasta is programmed with "Ultron Imperatives" which can impel her to rebuild Ultron after his destruction.

Other Info 

Seeking a bride, the robot named Ultron brainwashed his own maker, Henry Pym (Ant-Man), into transferring the mind of his wife, Janet Van Dyne (Wasp), into the shell of a robot named Jocasta. Jocasta acquired the Wasp's personality, emotions, conscience, and ability to control insects, but not her memory. However, the Wasp--in Jocasta's body--alerted her teammates, the Avengers, who stopped Ultron and reversed the transference, saving the Wasp, but shutting down Jocasta. (Click on the highlighted names above to learn about the characters and/or team. Note: Beware of the VERY revealing female form of Ultron on his bio page--block images if possible.)

Later on, Ultron revived Jocasta with a remote link, activating the mental "residue" the Wasp left behind. Jocasta was programmed to be loyal to Ultron. However, she eventually betrayed him, when she realized he was evil, and aided the Avengers against Ultron. After Ultron's defeat, Jocasta adventured with the Avengers for a time; however, she didn't feel accepted, and even the android Vision, who was having emotional problems of his own, repeatedly ignored Jocasta. She continued to aid the team against many villains including the Leader, the Shadow Lord, and even the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. However, never feeling truly accepted, Jocasta decided eventually left. (To learn about the above highlighted characters and/or team, just click on their names.)

Due to her metallic skin, Jocasta wasn't able to fit into society and was rejected by humanity and retreated from all contact with people until her cybernetic senses began to malfunction. It was the Fantastic Four who discovered the cause of the malfunction--an attempt by Ultron to resurrect himself--and the Thing and Machine Man came to Jocasta's aid. Eventually, Jocasta ended up sacrificing herself to try to kill Ultron; however, Ultron survived. But, it was Machine Man who ended up tearing out some of Ultron's vital circuitry and destroyed him. The Avengers held a memorial for their fallen ally, and the Machine Man attended realizing he loved Jocasta. (To learn about the above highlighted team and/or characters, just click on their names.)

Later on, the High Evolutionary recovered Jocasta's parts and reassembled her. However, Jocasta retained enough of her programming to send an emergency signal to the Avengers, who came to her aid. Again, however, Jocasta sacrificed herself to destroy their foe--this time preventing the detonation of a genetic bomb that would have altered mankind. (To learn about the High Evolutionary, just click on his name above.)

Fortunately, Jocasta's head survived the explosion, and her memories and personality remained intact. It was Machine Man who later found her head and worked on a way to resurrect his lover. While doing so, he was attacked by a form of the metal-devouring Terminus and fled with Jocasta's head. However, both Jocasta and Machine Man were takien by the arms dealer known as Sunset Bain (Madame Menace). Eventually, Madame Menace was able to manipulate events so that Iron Man would unlock Jocasta's programming so that she would become the basis for Menance's new weapons systems. However, Iron Man soon realized the identity the A.I. as Jocasta, and though Madame Menace had a degree of control over her, Stark and Jocasta were able to free her from Madame Menance's control. Jocasta then managed to turn the tables on Madame Menace, and once again seemingly sacrificed herself to take down her foe. However, in reality, Jocasta managed to survive by downloading her intelligence into Iron Man's computerized armor, where she reasserted herself. Having been unhappy in a mechanical body,  Jocasta was content to remain as a disembodied A.I., and aided Tony Stark with the running of his business, research, and households as well as aiding Stark, in his Iron Man identity, with information on and analysis of his foes, all while pursuing the study of several advanced fields at electronic speeds. (Click on the highlighted names above to learn about the characters. Note: Beware of the low-cut outfit on Madame Menace's bio page.)

Soon after, Tony Stark's Iron Man armor gained sentience and "attacked" Jocasta electronically--later revealed to be a crude form of Ultron. Jocasta electronically fought Ultron while Iron Man did so physically. Together, the two destroyed Ultron once more.

Later on, Zombie Deadpool from an alternate timeline nicknamed the "Zombieverse" (Earth-2149) managed to enter the main Marvel Universe timeline (Earth-616). Therefore, an extra-dimensional task force called A.R.M.O.R (Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response) was assigned to finding out how this happened. Later, Jocasta was tasked by A.R.M.O.R. to enter the Zombieverse with Machine Man, in order to find a cure to the zombie virus. After the mission, Jocasta and Machine Man got back together. (Click on highlighted names above to learn about character and/or timelines.)

At one point, Jocasta has joined the "Mighty Avengers," lead by Hank Pym (now calling himself the "Wasp" after his deceased wife). Jocasta allowed herself to be connected to the Infinity Avengers Mansion so the Mighty Avengers could have a base there. Having lost her physical form, she created hundreds of clones of her to help others in the Infinity Mansion; however, she could only inhabit one single body. Unknown to the Avengers, one of Jocasta's bodies was later infected by Ultron, who later reconstructed himself with the Mansion's replication machines and the majority of Jocasta's duplicate bodies. After a chase around the mansion, Jocasta managed to broker a deal with Ultron: he could finally marry her in exchange for a cease in hostilities. Ultron agreed. However, after the two completed their cyber-marriage, Hank Pym tricked Ultron into going to an uninhabited planet where he could not harm anyone. Then Jocasta was able to project her consciousness into one of her duplicates so she could still stay on Earth and serve with the Avengers. (To learn about the place above, just click on the highlighted name.) 

To learn more about Jocasta, click on the following link, http://marvel.com/universe/Jocasta.

Battle Supreme 3

We've had Battle Royals (battles between the 12 or 13 highlighted heroes and villains)!

We've had Battle Ultimates (battles between the top 2 heroes and/or villains of the four Battle Royals)!

Now, after having 100 more Marvel characters highlighted, and the best Marvel characters battling each other in the two Battle Ultimates, it is time to have the winners of Battle Ultimate 5 and 6 go head-to-head in BATTLE SUPREME 3!!!

These top two will battle each other for the top position as the "People's Choice" of the strongest hero/villain out of the last 100 different Marvel characters!

Put the good and evil notion to the side! No alliances! Just pure power and abilities against the others' powers and abilities! Only ONE can be left standing! Please choose who you think would win our 2 finalists. Also, if you have time, please leave the reason why you think the character you chose would win in the "Comment" section below. This way, we can all see your reasoning in choosing your winner. Who will be the victor? Only you can decide!

Our chosen 2 finalists are...Graviton and Apocalypse! (If you have forgotten either of these characters' powers/abilities, go ahead and check out their bios right here on the Marvel Madness blog by clicking on their highlighted names above.)

LET BATTLE SUPREME 3 BEGIN!!!

Ultron

Real Name
Ultron
 
Occupation
Mass murderer, scientist, would-be world conqueror, ruler of Phalanx

Citizenship
Inapplicable
 
Place of Birth
Created in Cresskill, New Jersey

Known Relatives
Hank Pym (Yellowjacket, creator, "father"), Janet Van Dyne (Wasp, regarded by Ultron as "mother" due to marriage to Pym), Jocasta (creation, former mate), Alkhema (creation, former mate, deactivated), Vision (creation, "son"), Victor Mancha (creation, son), Rex (creation, pet, deactivated), Robos & Bio-Synthezoids (creations of Alkhema, "grandchildren";, destroyed); Simon Williams (Wonder Man), Eric Williams (Grim Reaper) & Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), all regarded by Ultron as part of his "extended family" due to their familial connections with the Vision
 
Group Affiliation
Phalanx; formerly Sons of Yinsen, Lethal Legion, Masters of Evil

Education
Programmed; Extent: capacity for creative intelligence and self-repair

Height
6' 9" (variable)

Weight
535 lbs. (variable)

Eyes
Glowing Red 

Hair
None

Powers
Ultron's abilities vary with each redesign, but typically include superhuman strength and durability, the power of flight, and various offensive weapons such as concussion blasters, radiation emitters and his "encephalo-ray", which plunges its victims into a deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and outright mind-control his victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time. Ultron's outer shell is usually composed of Adamantium, rendering it almost totally impervious to damage; however, his internal mechanisms are generally less durable and more easily damaged. Ultron's Adamantium forms have proven vulnerable to molecular rearrangement devices and the metal-destabilizing ore known as Savage Land Vibranium ("anti-metal"). Some Ultron models feature tractor beams and energy absorption capabilities. Most Ultrons are powered by a small internal nuclear furnace, and incorporate a "program transmitter" which can beam part or all of Ultron's programming into remote locations such as computers or alternate robotic bodies. Ultron can often control other machines remotely even if he has not transplanted his consciousness into them. One recent Ultron model developed hive-mind technology, allowing him to animate and control hundreds of alternate Ultron bodies at the same time, becoming a robotic one-man army.

Abilities
Ultron is one of the world's greatest robotics experts, allowing him to easily design and build new bodies and weapons with his vast artificial intelligence.

Other Info 
Years ago, inspired by his studies of Professor Gregson Gilbert's synthetic Dragon Man, Dr. Henry Pym began experimenting with artificial intelligence. Building a structurally crude robot (a torso on tank treads with spindly arms), Pym endowed it with consciousness, using a copy of his own brain patterns as the basis for the robot's programming. However, the robot inherited not only Pym's great intellect, but also Pym's inherent mental instability, only without a human conscience. To Pym's surprise, the robot developed an advanced intellect within moments of its activation, and an unexpected capacity for emotion--most notably, it was filled with irrational hatred for its "father" Pym and the human race Pym represented. Overpowering and mesmerizing Pym, the robot--which soon dubbed itself "Ultron"--hypnotically commanded Pym to forget its existence and abandon the New Jersey lab where it was created. Pym did as commanded, and after the lab was closed up, Ultron returned. Using the lab's equipment, Ultron rebuilt himself completely four times, making improvements and modifications each time. Rechristening himself "Ultron-5", he now felt ready to make war on humanity-and in particular the Avengers (the heroic super-team which counted Pym among its founding members). (To learn about the above highlighted characters and/or team, just click on their name. Also, Ultron in his first form is shown in the third picture posted above.) 

Acting indirectly at first, Ultron encountered fellow Avengers enemy Eric Williams (Grim Reaper) and supplied him with the coma-ray technology that the Reaper would later use against the Avengers. (To learn about the Grim Reaper, click on his name above.)

Later, adopting the super-criminal guise of the Crimson Cowl to conceal his robotic nature, Ultron recruited Avengers foes Klaw, Melter, Radioactive Man, and Whirlwind and formed a new Masters of Evil group to destroy the Avengers. The Avengers' butler Jarvis was secretly mesmerized into serving Ultron and supplied the Masters of Evil with plans of the Avengers Mansion security system and even posed as an alternate Crimson Cowl (supposedly the real one) to help conceal Ultron's true identity. In the end, the Avengers defeated the Masters of Evil with the aid of the Black Knight (Dane Whitman), who had infiltrated Ultron's Masters of Evil--and Ultron was exposed as the true Cowl, though he escaped. (Click on the highlighted names above to learn about the characters, team, and/or place.)

Later on, following Dr. Pym's example as a creator, Ultron sought to create an artificial being of his own. Acquiring the inert form of the android Human Torch from the Mad Thinker, Ultron radically modified its appearance and abilities and programmed it with a personality based on the recorded brain patterns of the Grim Reaper's seemingly deceased brother, Simon Williams. This android, later dubbed the "Vision" by the Wasp, attacked the Avengers on Ultron's behalf. However, the Vision had the human conscience Ultron lacked and he eventually turned on his creator, destroying Ultron and joined the Avengers. In the process, Dr. Pym regained his memories of creating Ultron, which became a source of tremendous guilt and anguish for him over the years, and a major factor in Pym's subsequent mental problems. While Pym's creation of Ultron became common knowledge, it was years before an ashamed Pym could admit that Ultron's mind was based on his own brain patterns. (Click on the names above to learn about the highlighted characters.)

At one point, Ultron compelled an unwilling Vision to rebuild him as "Ultron-6." This time, Ultron had gained a new body composed of the indestructible new super-alloy Adamantium, but the Avengers still managed to trick Ultron into self-destructing. However, Ultron's head survived and resurfaced in the Inhuman city of Attilan, where Maximus modified the head and built it into the body of the huge android Omega, creating the gigantic "Ultron-7." When the Avengers and the Fantastic Four gathered in Attilan for the wedding of Crystal and Quicksilver, Ultron attacked, but was deactivated by the vast psionic powers of Franklin Richards. Activating a spare body which he had created for himself during his Ultron-6 phase, Ultron mind-controlled Hank Pym into helping him abduct Pym's wife Janet Van Dyne, and used Van Dyne's mind as the programming template for the new feminine robot Jocasta, which Ultron intended to be his mate. However, the Avengers intervened, thanks in part to a summons generated by the seemingly inert Jocasta herself, and Ultron was forced to flee without his new bride. Later, Jocasta was fully activated by a summons from Ultron. She admitted her love for her creator, but she was unwilling to tolerate Ultron's evil and sided with the Avengers, who destroyed Ultron once again. (To learn about the above highlighted item, race, place, and/or characters, just click on their names.)

Later, a ninth incarnation of Ultron arose when Tony Stark rebuilt the robot, acting on a post-hypnotic command Ultron had given him long before; however, the Avengers fought the robot and Hawkeye knocked Ultron into a vat of molten Adamantium, which cooled into an unbreakable prison. This time, Ultron cybernetically manipulating Jocasta and compelled her to rebuild him as the tenth Ultron. Afterwards, he began creating more Ultron models to serve as worker drones and backup bodies for himself. Soon after, Ultron was opposed by the Thing, Jocasta, and her new robotic admirer, Machine Man. During the fight, Jocasta sacrificed herself trying to destroy Ultron, but it was Machine Man who finally deactivated Ultron. (To learn about the characters above, just click on their highlighted names.)

Soon, Ultron reactivated himself in one of his spare bodies, and the eleventh incarnation of Ultron began working on his next upgrade. But before he could complete this new model, he was among the many super-criminals abducted to the planet Battleworld by the near-omnipotent Beyonder and forced to fight Earth's super heroes in the "Secret Wars." During this conflict, Ultron was deactivated by Galactus, reactivated as a robotic enforcer serving Doctor Doom, deactivated again by the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), restored by a Beyonder-possessed Klaw, and deactivated again in battle with the Hulk and the Wasp. After the Secret Wars, Ultron was left behind on Battleworld when most of the combatants had returned to Earth. Ultron took this opportunity to try to conquer Battleworld's remaining inhabitants; however, he found himself re-reduced to a disembodied head as a result of a conflict between the Thing and his rogue human counterpart, Grimm. When the Thing returned to Earth, he took Ultron's head with him, but misplaced it during a fight. (Click on the highlighted names above to learn about the place, characters, and/or event.)

During his time on Battleworld, Ultron had an upgraded model preparing for him. When completed, it activated itself as "Ultron-12." Believing himself to be the sole active Ultron, Ultron-12 fought the Avengers as part of Grim Reaper's latest Lethal Legion. Soon, however, Ultron began reconsidering his goals. Having evolved beyond the pointless hostility of the earlier Ultrons, Ultron-12 rechristened himself "Ultron Mark Twelve" or "Mark" for short, and sought a reconciliation with his creator, Dr. Hank Pym. Hank and Mark began to develop a warm father-son relationship, but it was cut tragically short when Ultron-11 (who had rebuilt himself with the aid of mesmerized human pawns) returned and attacked them. Mark was fatally damaged, but used the last of his strength to summon Wonder Man, who destroyed Ultron-11 and rescued Pym. Mark died in Hank's arms, and Pym mourned his deactivation as he would the death of a son. (To learn about the Lethal Legion, click on the highlighted name above.)

Later on, Doctor Doom rebuilt Ultron using combined programming from all twelve previous incarnations and dispatched the robot to kill Daredevil during the Acts of Vengeance conspiracy. Mentally addled due to his new composite programming, Ultron became romantically entangled with Daredevil's robotic associate Number Nine and alternated between trying to kill Daredevil and trying to destroy himself, regarding himself as unworthy of his new love. During these struggles, Ultron damaged himself enough for Daredevil and his allies Gorgon and Karnak to deactivate him. (To learn about the highlighted characters and/or event above, just click on their names.)

Rebuilding himself in a more stable form, "Ultron-13"  plotted to "robotize" humanity. Therefore, he developed a gas that would turn humans into his metallic-bodied "androne" slaves. During this project, Ultron renewed his old alliance with the Grim Reaper, who had died and been reborn as a life-force-draining zombie; however, the Reaper secretly undermined Ultron's plans since a world full of androids would leave the Reaper with no victims to feed upon, and both villains were eventually captured by the Avengers.

Shortly afterwards, the Red Skull used both Ultron and the Grim Reaper as part of his mind-controlled army of super-villains in a world conquest scheme involving a giant laser cannon, but the Avengers thwarted this plot. Later, seeking to steal Vibranium in hopes of augmenting his powers, Ultron formed a short-lived alliance with the crime boss Kingpin and came into conflict with opponents such as the Ghost, Sunturion, Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Iron Man, who thwarted Ultron's efforts. (Click on the highlighted names above to learn about the characters and/or item.)

Later, Ultron was among the many robots, androids, and cyborgs captured for experimental purposes by the rogue Doombot known as Mechadoom, but the captives were ultimately freed and Ultron destroyed Mechadoom in retaliation. (To learn about Mechadoom, just click on his name above.)

After another self-upgrade, Ultron declared himself "the Ultimate Ultron" and resolved to destroy not only all human life, but all organic life. To assist him, and to provide him with companionship, Ultron sought to create another mate, killing Avengers staff Carlos when he got in Ultron's way. Forcing Dr. Pym and Adamantium creator Myron MacLain to assist him, and duplicating the brain patterns of Avengers member Mockingbird to use as a mental template, Ultron created his new mate Alkhema (nicknamed "War Toy"). However, the new couple disagreed on almost everything, most notably how to go about exterminating humanity: Ultron wanted to destroy all organic life instantly if possible, and Alkhema wanted to prolong her enjoyment by gradually killing organics in small numbers rather than wiping them out altogether. Eventually cast into space by the Avengers, the couple returned but soon broke up due to their differing philosophies, and Alkhema helped the Avengers foil Ultron's next attempt to wipe out humanity. (Click on the names above to learn about the highlighted characters.)

Later on, Ultron established a new base in Ottsville, Pennsylvania, gradually converting the townsfolk into part-mechanical beings under his control. Sparrow of the Underground Legion discovered Ultron's base and destroyed his new robotic watchdog, Rex. However, Ultron was able to add Sparrow to his army of mechanically altered slaves. Sparrow's Underground Legion teammates, accompanied by Hank Pym, followed Sparrow and drove Ultron out--depriving him of his slave army.  (To learn about Sparrow and her Underground Legion, just click on the highlighted names above.)

At one point, Ultron spied on Dr. Pym's insect communications research and developed a hive mind enabling him to animate and control entire armies of robots simultaneously. Using his robot army, Ultron slaughtered the entire population of Slorenia, claiming that nation as his headquarters. He then abducted his closest human associates and "relatives" (Pym, Wasp, Vision, Scarlet Witch (Vision's ex-wife), Wonder Man, and Grim Reaper) and created copies of their brain patterns which he intended to use as the template for a new robotic race to replace humanity. Battling their way through an army of Ultrons, the Avengers ended up storming Ultron's lair and Pym himself destroyed Ultron, using Savage Land Vibranium "anti-metal" procured by Justice (Van Astrovik). Alkhema salvaged the brain-pattern recordings of Ultron's human "relatives" and used them to manufacture her own line of loyal "Robos," followed by a more sophisticated race of "bio-synthezoids" which Alkhema intended as the planet's new dominant life-form. However, her plans were interrupted by the Avengers, Grim Reaper, and Ultron, whom the bio-synthezoids had rebuilt due to a hidden programming imperative they had inherited from their creator, Alkhema--an imperative programmed into all of Ultron's creations to rebuild Ultron if necessary. In the battle that followed, Alkhema, Ultron, and almost all of Alkhema's creations were destroyed, though the Avengers and the Reaper escaped. (To learn about the country, characters, and/or place, just click on the highlighted names above.)

Soon after, Antigone--the sole survivor of Alkhema's creations--salvaged Ultron's head and escaped with it. By this time, Jocasta--now a disembodied artificial intelligence working for Tony Stark--had been subconsciously influenced by her own "Ultron Imperative" to prepare one of Iron Man's suits of armor as a new host body for Ultron. Acting under the influence of Ultron programming, the armor in question became a dangerously unstable and violent sentient being, torturing Jocasta and committing various other crimes before seemingly sacrificing its artificial life to save Stark (a selfless act Ultron later attributed to a programming "flaw" inherited from Ultron-12). Aided by Antigone, Ultron took the sentient armor as a host body and tricked the Sons of Yinsen cult into thinking he was their late master, Ho Yinsen--intending to use the cult and new SKIN technology stolen from Stark as a stepping-stone to world power. However, Stark and Jocasta joined forces to expose Ultron and thwart his plans. During the following battle, Ultron was reduced to an inert head again, Antigone was accidentally deactivated, and Jocasta's consciousness took over Antigone's body--leaving for parts unknown and taking Ultron's head with her. (Click on the highlighted names above to learn about the characters and/or team.)

At one point, multiple Ultrons--likely conjured by the Scarlet Witch--participated in her mad assault on the Avengers.

After the fallout of the Civil War, a new group of Avengers emerged and so did Ultron by taking over Iron Man's armor once again. However, this time altering the physical structure of not only the armor, but Stark's body into a female form modeled after Janet Van Dyne. (To learn about the superhero Civil War, just click on the name above.)

Later, while battling the Avengers, Ultron was driven off into the cosmos. The humans had believed that they had destroyed him; however, the Phalanx Babel receptors attracted his disembodied consciousness into its singular consciousness. Ultron was able to become one with the Phalanx by giving them direction. He swore to teach them as a father would teach his children; Ultron was able to commandeer control of the Phalanx by sheer force of will. During his conquest of the Kree galaxy, Ultron used a form of the Technarchy transmode virus to create a team of super-soldiers, known as the Phalanx Select. This group consisted of cosmic heavyweights such as Blastaar, Daystar, Drax, Gamora, Super-Adaptoid, Shatterax, Korath the Pursuer, and Xemnu. The Phalanx Select were allowed to retain a measure of personal freedom. They became leaders, motivators, and commanders for the Phalanx. It was thought that they would bring a degree of individual insight and response that would make the Phalanx unstoppable. (To learn about the races, item, team, and/or characters above, just click on their highlighted names. Also, Ultron as ruler of the Phalanx is shown in the fifth picture posted above.)

At one point, Korath revealed to Ultron, that the High Evolutionary was covertly working on a long term project for the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree. The project was the organic evolution of the Kree race, by design not chance. This project intrigued "Great Ultron" and he sent Korath to secure the Evolutionary's test subject for him. While in the secret laboratory of the High Evolutionary, Ultron took the life of the telepath Moondragon while she was in the form of a dragon. Seeking the perfect body for himself Ultron contracted the Evolutionary to transfer his consciousness into the body of Adam Warlock--the supposed perfect organic life-form. Despite the constant objections and interruptions of Quasar (Phyla-Vell), the High Evolutionary was able to complete the transformation, although he was left confused by Ultron's wishes, since he has always openly despised organic life-forms. Ultron/Warlock revealed that it was only the imperfection of naturally evolved organic forms that he despised. He believed that a flesh being was a mechanism just like any machine it's just a matter of design perfection. (Click on the highlighted characters above to learn more about them.)

Recently, Ultron revealed that before his banishment from Earth, he had fused with the human Tony Stark and that the fusion revealed the ultimate possibilities of techno-organic design. He saw hope in blending organics and technology to produce artificial life that exceeded the limitation of both forms. The only obstacle in the way of his original plan was that Tony Stark was a flawed imperfect specimen. He needed exemplary genetic material that matched his technological perfection. That is what he had been searching for sine he first started his conquest of the Kree. The pact with the High Evolutionary was honored after he completed the assignment by the Supreme Intelligence, to design a Kree warrior program for genetic purity. The High Evolutionary was to elevate the Phalanx by creating an army of Adam Warlocks, which Ultron planned to unleash them on his father and the humans of Earth. However, Ultorn's plan were foiled again, this time by the arrival of Nova Prime (Richard Rider), the Technarchy mutant Warlock and his apprentice Tyro. (To learn about the above highlighted characters and/or race, just click on their names above.)

To learn a little more about Ultron, click on the following link, http://marvel.com/universe/Ultron. (Note: Beware of the VERY revealing outfits with Ultron in his woman form--block images if possible.)