Contains Spoilers for West Coast Avengers (2024) #4!Ultronhas joinedthe Avengers, and now he’s got the costume to prove it, thanks to a classic member of the team. Hopefully looking the part can help Ultron win over a distrustful public, but it’s going to be an uphill battle, especially since he’s not the only Ultron out there anymore.
InWest Coast Avengers#4 – written by Gerry Duggan, with art by Danny Kim –the heroic new Ultron gets a new Avengers-inspired design courtesy of Iron Man.
Ultron has spent the series thus far trying to convince the titular team that he really is a hero, and not just the supervillain they expect of him. Iron Man giving him a makeover is the ultimate symbolof Tony accepting Ultron. It’s also, as Ultron notes, a way to symbolize to the public that Ultron can be trusted, despite his checkered past.
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West Coast Avengers#4 – Written By Gerry Duggan; Art By Danny Kim; Color By Arthur Hesli; Lettering By Joe Caramagna
One important thing to note is that this isn’t the only version of Ultron in the mainstream Marvel timeline right now.West Coast Avengers#3revealed thatUltron was split into multiple independent versions of himselfyears ago, each with the free will to make their own decisions.One Ultron may have decided to serve humanity, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t villainous Ultronsout there still. Crucially, though,the West Coast Avengers' Ultronreveals this to Iron Man, so it is not like it is a secret that could surprise the team.
The Avengers have an excellent track record when it comes to turning around the perception of former supervillains.
The bigger question is whether this redesign makes the difference to public perception that Ultron hopes it will. It’s got to be hard trying to be a hero when your very appearance reminds people of a world-threatening supervillain, and who knows much the addition of an Avengers logo will fix that problem. That said, the Avengers have an excellent track record when it comes to turning around the perception of former supervillains,from Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witchto Hawkeye, so maybe the public will be more magnanimous than expected.
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Funnily enough, this isn’t the only heroic Ultron that’s joined the Avengers in the past year. In the short-lived seriesAvengers Inc.– written by Al Ewing with art by Leonard Kirk – it turned out that the amnesiac ‘Victor Shade’ was also a version of Ultron. Luckily, a future Hank Pym had hidden a seed of heroism within this Ultron as well, and at the series conclusion, ‘Victor’ debutedas the heroic Ultron ‘Mark Twelve’. While he hasn’t been seen since,it is wild that there are two distinct Ultrons in the Avengers running around the Marvel universe now.
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