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101-610: Pom Klementieff portrayed the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022), and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). In an interview Englehart commented on the character's creation: "I wanted someone to shake up

202-428: A deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and mind-control victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time. Ultron also has the ability to convert electromagnetic radiation into electrical energy for use or storage. Ultron has a genius intellect, a capacity for creative intelligence and self-repair, superhuman cybernetic analytical capabilities, and

303-533: A different outcome of the prior confrontation between the Avengers and the Intelligencia—a 'back door' installed into Ultron at his original creation allows Pym and Iron Man to destroy the robot, instead, averting the events that led to the "Age of Ultron". It is later revealed that the Avengers had trapped an unidentified iteration of Ultron in deep space years earlier, sealing him inside a Vibranium Quinjet . In

404-670: A fusion of Ultron and Galactus. An alternate universe variant of Ultron appears in Heroes Reborn . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-20051 appears in Marvel Adventures . This version is a "neural network" that commands part of the United States defense forces. A heroic alternate universe variant of Ultron appears in Old Man Logan . This version is the loving husband of Spider-Man's youngest daughter Tonya and

505-568: A group of pursuing Spartax soldiers. Though she refuses to join his new incarnation of the Guardians, she helps him track down the source of mysterious "time quakes" that have been plaguing him in the wake of the Age of Ultron storyline. During the " Empyre " storyline, Mantis returns to Earth upon being contacted by Black Panther about the Cotati invasion and plans to reason with her son. Mantis has attained

606-623: A horse in a lake. Klementieff made her Hollywood debut in Spike Lee 's Oldboy (2013), a remake of the South Korean film of the same name . She portrayed Haeng-bok, the bodyguard of the antagonist played by Sharlto Copley . A fan of the original film, Klementieff heard about the part through Roy Lee , a producer with the remake, and took boxing lessons after learning the role involved martial arts. After showcasing her boxing skills during her audition, Lee asked her to go home and come back wearing

707-404: A humanoid appearance above the waist and the appearance of a complex machine, including tractor beam apparatus for flight, below the waist. A later Ultron model developed hive mind technology, allowing it to animate and control hundreds of other Ultron bodies simultaneously, although only the 'prime' Ultron was composed of adamantium while others were made of steel or secondary adamantium due to

808-400: A mastery of meditational disciplines, giving her an unusual amount of control over her body, including autonomic functions like heartbeat, bleeding, and breathing, as well as awareness of pain, allowing her to more quickly heal injuries through sheer force of will and affording almost superhuman reflexes and reactions. She also had psychic empathy, a telepathic power that allowed her to sense

909-428: A more feminine outfit and make-up, like her character in the film. She contributed some of her own clothes to the character's wardrobe, and trained three hours a day for two months for an on-screen fight with star Josh Brolin . Klementieff herself came up with the name Haeng-bok, Korean for "happiness", after Lee asked her to research possible names for the character. Klementieff moved to Los Angeles after Oldboy

1010-491: A new form of vibranium called Nuform, but it is repelled by the combined efforts of Iron Man , Black Panther , and Spider-Man . Ultron escapes from prison and upgrades into the Ultimate Ultron, capturing West Coast Avenger Mockingbird to use her brain patterns to create the new robotic mate Alkhema . Alkhema aids Ultron but both are eventually jettisoned into space through a ruse by Vision. Vision finds Ultron-15 but

1111-564: A place she must not name, to reach a place no man must know." (Mantis refers to herself in the third person as "this one") By the end of the issue, she leaves to go give birth. In the Eclipse Comics series Scorpio Rose #2, the character calls herself Lorelei . By this time, she has given birth to a son. What would have been issue #3, a "lost" Lorelei/Scorpio Rose story was later published in Coyote Collection #1 from Image Comics ,

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1212-502: A powerful Thanos clone, she displayed superhuman strength, a talent to simultaneously inhabit multiple simulacra, and the ability to project strong blasts of energy. She has not been seen using these powers since. As of her appearance in Annihilation Conquest: Star-Lord , Mantis also appears to have gained telepathic and precognitive abilities, and apparently now labors under a constant awareness of future events. During

1313-451: A single inning, on top of his natural ability to invent and fabricate the most sophisticated of mechanical systems ever conceived. Through his vast technoformative abilities, Ultron could change and morph entire areas into sprawling masses of cables, pipes and transorganic metal that moved about in any given direction he willed it. This effect gained more prominence with the more excess mass he could assimilate with his power, having once taken

1414-541: A slew of transmoded Kree Sentries into a massive body which reflected his physical likeness. Individuals infected with the Ultron Virus can spread it in a similar way to how biological viruses can transfer, through cuts and scratches or direct physical interaction such as barbs or plug-in like apparatuses generated from the transformed physiology. Ultron later found himself physically as well as mentally bonded with his creator and long time adversary, Dr. Henry Pym. As such

1515-439: A tactic to shunt its mass into another dimension for the purpose of riding a neutrino to escape burning up in the sun. Another practice the union share is a galaxy spanning collective mind established through the Ultron Virus, every iteration of Ultron created through initial infection share a hive minded intelligence where they all share each other's experiences. Anything the afflicted sees they all see, through which Ultron Prime

1616-540: A version from an old version of his armor and Ultron-18's head that leads the cult known as the Sons of Yinsen in an attempt to conquest via religion . The character is defeated by Iron Man and Jocasta. Another version (possibly Ultron-13) creates the cyborg Victor Mancha as a sleeper agent against the Avengers. Mancha, however, rebels and joins the Runaways . This version first poses as Doctor Doom before revealing itself, and

1717-682: A waitress and saleswoman in France. She started acting at age 19 at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris. A few months into her education, she won a theater competition and two years of free classes with the school's top teachers. Klementieff's first professional acting job was the French independent film Après lui (2007), portraying the stepdaughter of the protagonist played by Catherine Deneuve . Filming for her scenes took three days. In one scene, Klementieff

1818-521: A warm welcome. When Stark A.I.'s team and Captain America's team confront each other, they are captured by Ultron who forces both teams to sit at a dinner table. Ultron argues that he is doing this because the Avengers have become less of a family over the years as so many of them jump to obey Captain America or Iron Man despite past experience confirming that this should be a bad idea but the Stark A.I. counters that

1919-410: Is Alkhema who unintentionally rebuilds Ultron when attempting to create a new species of bio-synthezoids. However, Ultron-18 is composed of steel not adamantium, and is destroyed when Alkhema's subterranean base exploded after Hawkeye shot Alkhema with a vibranium arrow at Alkhema's request. Ultron's head was recovered by Antigone , an artificial girl and one of the synthezoids. Iron Man encounters

2020-530: Is a self-aware and highly intelligent artificial intelligence in a robot body who develops a god complex and a grudge against his creator Hank Pym . His goal to destroy humanity in a shortsighted attempt at creating world peace has brought him into repeated conflict with the Avengers . Stories often end in Ultron's apparent destruction, only for the character to be resurrected in new forms. Ultron's physical body

2121-570: Is defeated in a battle against the Runaways and Excelsior . When Marvel launched a new title The Mighty Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho , Ultron interfaces with Iron Man's armor , which had been integrated with Tony Stark's biology. This allows Ultron's program to transform Stark into a new version who has the Wasp's appearance albeit with a metallic skin. This version takes control of Iron Man's technology. He kills Lindy Reynolds, causing

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2222-429: Is defeated when Starfox 's powers force love onto himself, causing the part of that is now Pym to accept his old weakness and flaws while the villain has a mental breakdown and flees into space. As part of the " All-New, All-Different Marvel " branding, Ultron's fused form resurfaces. While on his way back to Earth, Pym helps the crew of a spaceship that is being attacked by a hostile insectoid alien. After coming aboard

2323-479: Is discovered to have been "infected" by human emotion and is seriously deteriorating, displaying symptoms that resemble alcoholism . Ultron-16 and Ultron-17 successfully slaughter the population of Slorenia, having perfected a process that allows it to control a vast army of Ultron drones. The Avengers discovered that Ultron's creations (Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema) have a secret program included—they are subconsciously compelled to rebuild Ultron. In this case, it

2424-678: Is highly intelligent, with her deductive skills rivaling those of Vision's; in Vision's own words, she has a "remarkable mind". She almost always refers to herself in the third person as "this one", "she", and occasionally "Mantis", which has to do with her upbringing at the Temple of the Priests of Pama (her husband the Cotati Elder, who spent a significant part of his life at the Temple, also referred to himself as "this one" instead of "I"). This speech mannerism

2525-585: Is initially part of a group of heroic sentries created by Hank Pym before turning against them. An alternate timeline variant of Ultron who successfully conquered Earth and Asgard appears in Original Sin . Ultron was featured in some What If comics: In the alternate universe of What If? Astonishing X-Men , the Danger Room got a body of her own and betrayed the X-Men. She eventually married Ultron and

2626-456: Is made of a durable alloy, and he has manifested various superpowers . These vary between different stories but generally include superhuman strength, speed, and agility, flight, and energy projection. The character usually operates alone or accompanied by legions of copies of his own robotic form known as Ultron Drones . Ultron is notable for being the first character in Marvel Comics to wield

2727-436: Is notified of anything they all come across effective immediately. An alternate universe variant of Ultron who successfully conquered Earth and killed most of its superheroes appears in Age of Ultron . The Fantastic Four storyline "Death of The Invisible Woman" features an advanced humanoid called Alex Ultron , a member of the futuristic Last Defenders. An alternate universe variant of Ultron who took control of

2828-578: Is of importance for her, for when the Silver Surfer asked her to stop speaking in the third person, she refused to comply. She wears a green-and-yellow dress, a hairstyle which mimics insectile antennae, and goes barefoot . In the Heroes Reborn reality, the alternate version of Mantis is the woman Kang the Conqueror loves, and Kang's motive to attack the 20th Century and the Avengers is to show that he

2929-556: Is responsible for Jocasta 's creation as a robotic bride, before being destroyed shortly afterwards. Ultron-9 and Ultron-10 brainwash heroes into recreating the robot, before turning and being defeated. After being recreated as Ultron-11 by the Beyonder and battling in Battleworld , the Thing brings Ultron's head back to Earth as a souvenir, and is forgotten when there is an attack by

3030-607: Is shown as a Kree prisoner who volunteers for a mission led by Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord . After the defeat of Ultron and the Phalanx , Mantis takes up residence on Knowhere with the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy , and becomes their counselor. During the Secret Invasion storyline, it was discovered that Star-Lord had Mantis use her mental powers to manipulate the members of

3131-611: Is worthy of her love. Mantis recognizes her love for Kang after he is killed by Loki , who kills her shortly after. In the House of M reality, Mantis is a member of Shang-Chi 's Dragons criminal organization, alongside, Swordsman , Zaran , and Machete . Mantis is arrested after the Dragons are ambushed by the Kingpin 's assassins. She and Shang-Chi are two of the three survivors of the group. During Old Man Quill , Mantis continues to work with

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3232-837: The Captain Video comic book. He liked the robot's malicious looking smile, showing this to Buscema. Jocasta , a robot created by Ultron featured in a number of Ultron storylines, was created by Jim Shooter and George Pérez for The Avengers #162 (August 1977). Created by Hank Pym by basing the robot on his own brain patterns, the robot (dubbed "Ultron") gradually developed its own intelligence and rebelled, and almost immediately develops an Oedipus complex , whereby it feels irrational hatred for Pym, and demonstrates an interest in Janet van Dyne . Rebuilding itself, learning how to turn itself on, and upgrading five times, Ultron then hypnotises and brainwashes its "father" into forgetting that

3333-631: The Deathloks and took the name Deathlok Prime appears in Savage Avengers . In the Earth-110 reality, Ultron assisted Doctor Doom , Hulk , Magneto , Namor , and Red Skull in taking over Manhattan . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-10943 appears in Avengers (vol. 4). In an alternate universe, the Silver Surfer used the remnants of Ultron to resurrect Galactus , creating

3434-564: The Disney+ animated series What If...? episode " What If... Thor Were an Only Child? ". Mantis, based on the MCU incarnation, appears in the Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout! , portrayed again by Pom Klementieff. Pom Klementieff Pom Alexandra Klementieff ( French: [pɔm klemɑ̃tjɛf] ; born 3 May 1986 ) is a French actress. She is best known for playing Mantis in

3535-765: The Fantastic Four as they dealt with the effects of the Inferno storyline. Kang pursued Mantis, not realizing she had lost her power and hoping to use her to attack the Dreaming Celestial , and in the process the Surfer was summoned to Earth. With the aid of the Cotati, Kang was defeated but Mantis realized she must leave her body and join with the Cotati to raise her son. Aside from mentions by Silver Surfer, Mantis does not reappear until 1995's controversial Avengers crossover story "The Crossing". In "The Crossing", Mantis returns as

3636-585: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) since 2017 and an assassin in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Klementieff was born in Quebec City , Canada, on May 3 1986 to Korean mother Yu Ri Park and Russian-French father Alexis Klementieff, who was working there as a consul with the government of France. She is a French citizen and does not have Canadian citizenship due to jus soli not applying to children of diplomats. Her grandfather

3737-596: The Marvel Studios film Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), while Ross Marquand voiced alternate universe versions in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021) and the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). The character Ultron initially appeared as an unnamed character in a cameo in The Avengers #54 (July 1968), with a first full appearance in The Avengers #55 (August 1968). Ultron

3838-663: The Netflix science fiction anthology series Black Mirror , the thriller film Uncut Gems , and had voice roles in the animated supernatural comedy film The Addams Family . In 2020, she had a recurring role as Martel in the HBO science fiction series Westworld . In 2023 she reprised her role as Mantis in the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and appeared as the enigmatic assassin Paris in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One . She will reprise her role in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in 2025. She played Marianna in

3939-588: The Sentry to battle Ultron, nearly tearing his head off. Ultron is eventually destroyed by Ares of the New Avengers using a computer virus (created by the Skrull Criti Noll impersonating Pym) to wipe Ultron's program from Iron Man's armor, changing Stark back to normal. Ultron's image later briefly appears on one of his maker's computers. However, this was not the end of Ultron, for his disembodied consciousness

4040-623: The West Coast Avengers team, with portions of her memories missing. (Steve Englehart intended the storyline involving Mantis and her amnesia to be his next major plotline, but editorial problems caused him to quit the series, with the plotline resolved hastily.) Mantis discovers, through the temporarily resurrected corpse of the Swordsman, that her psyche had shattered and that she needs to find her counterparts in order to restore her memories. She made her way to New York City where she encountered

4141-568: The 2024 thriller The Killer's Game starring Dave Bautista . Klementieff is multilingual . She learned English from watching American sitcoms. Ultron Ultron ( / ˈ ʌ l t r ɒ n / ) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema , the character first appeared as an unnamed character in The Avengers #54 (July 1968), with his first full appearance in The Avengers #55 (August 1968). He

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4242-642: The Avengers for believing their manipulative lies. The storyline was controversial, so much so that Kurt Busiek, in Avengers Forever limited series , retconned the Mantis who appeared in the story as being a Space Phantom brainwashed into thinking he was Mantis. Eventually, Mantis reappears in the Steve Englehart written Avengers: Celestial Quest limited series. She returns to Earth and merges with her remaining fragmented portions of her personality after

4343-415: The Avengers interrupt their attempts, the body activates, revealing that Ultron's consciousness was contained within and had escaped destruction after Annihilation: Conquest . The new version escapes and Iron Man gravely foresees that it will bring the apocalypse for humanity when he returns. During the " Age of Ultron " storyline, which takes place in an alternate universe, Ultron has returned and conquers

4444-580: The Avengers, Fantastic Four , and Inhumans , she faces Ultron at the wedding of Quicksilver and Crystal . Mantis becomes taken with the Vision , and—although rejected by the android—neglects the Swordsman. Alongside the Scarlet Witch and Agatha Harkness , she was abducted by Kang . She was revealed as the Celestial Madonna and witnessed the death of the Swordsman at the hands of Kang, only realizing

4545-698: The Avengers, so I came up with a femme fatale , but right after I did, I also came up with the Avengers-Defenders Clash, and I needed to use my femme as a solid team player, not a disrupter. I found that interesting – a character I'd created for a purpose who now had no purpose, and as a young writer exploring my parameters, I started letting her tell her own story – meaning, every issue I'd tell my overall Avengers story, with my various character developments, and things then would happen that she had to react to. Those reactions – or what I conceived her reactions to be – revealed her character for me, step-by-step, as

4646-460: The Avengers. What circuitry Ultron has is carefully shielded to protect from damage, although the Scarlet Witch is capable of causing malfunctions via hex power, Johnny Storm using nova burst managed to damage Ultron's internal circuits while its outer armor remained intact, and Wonder Man was once able to destroy an Ultron by throwing it so hard its internal systems were damaged. Ultron's travels through outer space have greatly expanded upon

4747-583: The Celestial Madonna and mate with the eldest Cotati on Earth to become the mother of the Celestial Messiah Sequoia , "the most important being in the universe". She excels in her martial arts studies, but upon reaching adulthood, she is mind-wiped and sent into the world to gain life experience. She becomes a sex worker and barmaid in a Vietnamese tavern, where she meets the Swordsman . She helps him regain his self-respect and follows him when

4848-555: The Guardians for decades, long after Quill drops out. The main threat they encounter in this timeline is the Universal Church of Truth, which commonly destroys entire planets. Mantis appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), portrayed by Pom Klementieff . This version is the daughter of Ego the Living Planet and half-sister of Peter Quill who initially serves the former before helping to stop him and joining

4949-596: The Guardians of the Galaxy to join the team against their will. Overhearing Mantis and Star-Lord converse about their deception, Drax shared this knowledge with the rest of the team. This caused most of the members to leave. Mantis was promoted to field status by Rocket Raccoon . Mantis was apparently killed by the Magus , who shot her and Cosmo with a powerful blast of energy. He holds them, Phyla-Vell , Gamora , and Major Victory in suspended animation before they are eventually rescued. Mantis later rescues Peter Quill from

5050-429: The Guardians of the Galaxy. She first appears in the live-action film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and makes subsequent appearances in the live-action films Avengers: Infinity War , Avengers: Endgame , Thor: Love and Thunder , and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as well as the live-action special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special . Additionally, an alternate reality variant of Mantis appears in

5151-482: The Hulkbuster Armor's aid. The Avengers end up defeating Ultron by plunging the hybrid into the sun but both Pym and Ultron survive and continue to do battle with one another internally. During the " Secret Empire " storyline, Ultron's fused form sets up a base in an unidentified forest. Upon being alerted to the approach of Sam Wilson 's task force by a robot version of Jarvis, Ultron decides to give his "family"

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5252-718: The Human Torch himself), however, discover the plan and destroy the androids. In the Mighty Avengers , Ultron is shown to infiltrate Jocasta and the Infinite Avengers Mansion. He names himself Ultron Pym and seeks to kill and replace his father before using his Infinite Mansion to conquer the universe. Pym eventually offers Ultron a compromise, allowing Jocasta to be Ultron's bride, on the condition that Ultron banishes himself to ultraspace. Ultron agrees, but warns that he will be ruler of all someday. In The Avengers ,

5353-623: The Infinity Stones are restored and begins a quest to collect them all. He goes to claim the Soul Gem while the aliens he infected with his virus are sent to Earth to take the Space Stone from Wolverine, and while they fail at their task, Ultron is able to steal the Soul Gem from Magus after killing the latter. Unbeknownst to Ultron, however, as he claimed the Soul Stone a fragment of Pym's soul enters

5454-613: The Lethal Legion by killing and reviving select villains. By the time Wasp learned the truth, Ultron-12 hijacks the "Victor Shade" persona in Whirlwind's body. Wasp remembered Ultron-12 as the "good Ultron" who then stated that he went through a soft reboot and knocked out Hank to protect him from the Lethal Legion, who Ultron has taken over. In the nick of time, Wasp, Moon Knight, and Ultron-12 receive aid from Ant-Man, Mayor Luke Cage , Nadia van Dyne , Stinger , Valkyrie , and Vision to fight

5555-417: The Phalanx's programming. In turn, the Phalanx viewed Ultron as the sympathetic father they had yearned for. Under Ultron's guidance, the Phalanx and the Super-Adaptoid began the Annihilation: Conquest with invasions that started with the Kree space. Later by taking control of Adam Warlock 's body, Ultron hopes to achieve "true techno-organic perfection" but is eventually forced to abandon Adam's body by

5656-578: The Soul World, where he is greeted by the fragment of Gamora's soul who revealed that he was going to be trapped there forever. Ultron has also completely controlled the planet Saiph with Ultron hybrids and had captured the Silver Surfer . When Adam Warlock goes to Saiph, he discovers the hybrids infusing the Soul Stone into Silver Surfer's forehead while at the same time trying to transform him into an Ultron hybrid. During "The Ultron Agenda" arc, Ultron returns to Earth with plans to merge robots with humans like how Pym got merged with Ultron so that he can make

5757-422: The Technarchy Warlock and is later destroyed in combat by Wraith and Quasar . In the limited series Avengers/ Invaders , it is revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. Life Model Decoys have been partly replaced with versions of Ultron. When the original Human Torch appears in the present, they covertly parasitize the Human Torch's unique android physiology and become more human. The combined super teams (but mainly

5858-537: The Ultron Intelligence. Making anything or anyone infected with his virus act according to his whims against their own free will. Being an adept technoform in any iteration, Ultron's newfound abilities to control, alternate, transform and assimilate with anything and everything via the parasitic insemination of his virulent machine algorithm in both organic and non-biological substrates gives him vast matter and energy reconfiguration abilities. Ones powerful enough to commandeer whole planetary and even universal expanses in

5959-436: The Ultronbuster armor and Wonder Man from Vision. Ultron Pym prepares to take revenge on Iron Man. This leads to Iron Man revealing what he discovered about the human and robot fusion. The person who merged with it has died and that the robot can only simulate their personality. In other words, his maker was killed when accidentally merging with Ultron. Learning about this and not wanting to risk proving Iron Man's point by having

6060-592: The ability to process information and make calculations with superhuman speed and accuracy. The character is an expert roboticist and strategist. Ultron's outer armor is usually composed primarily of adamantium, which is almost completely impervious to damage. Most Ultron units are powered by a small internal nuclear furnace and incorporate a "program transmitter" which can transmit part or all of Ultron's memory/personality system into other computer systems or duplicate robotic bodies. Ultron can also control other machines remotely. Ultron has occasionally reformed itself with

6161-450: The ability to transfer her astral form to any place where plant life exists. She could form and inhabit a plant-like simulacrum of her human body for herself out of the destination planet's local vegetation. Her fighting skills remained intact, and her empathic abilities were heightened to a superhuman degree and extended to the planet's flora and biosphere. She could control the vegetation within her vicinity. During her confrontations with

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6262-515: The alien Dire Wraiths . Ultron-12 enters an alliance with the Grim Reaper and his allies ( Nekra , the Erik Josten Goliath, Man-Ape , and Black Talon ) in a bid to destroy Wonder-Man. Although the villains are defeated by the West Coast Avengers , Ultron-12 begins to form a relationship with his "father" Hank Pym. Rebuilding itself, Ultron-11 comes into conflict with Pym and Ultron-12. With Wonder-Man's assistance, they destroy Ultron-11 and Ultron-12 begins to deactivate. Ultron-12 tells Pym it

6363-450: The alloy adamantium to upgrade his body for an almost indestructible state and takes the name Ultimate Ultron . Its plans to destroy humanity are again thwarted by the Avengers. Ultron-7 is later created by Maximus with the body of the android Omega , attacking the wedding of Inhuman Crystal and Avenger Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver , and battling the Avengers, Inhumans and Fantastic Four before being destroyed again. Ultron-8

6464-637: The atomic separator used on him, Ultron surrenders to Iron Man, knowing that Pym is dead. When the Avengers arrive, they restrain Ultron in a Vibranium casket reinforced with Asgardian magic until they can find a permanent place to have Ultron imprisoned. As Ant-Man and Stinger were moving Ultron's prison to a desert to shrink it into the Microverse where it will be in, Ultron masted the bug language where he contacted Black Ant into freeing him using Time Master's aging ray on his Vibranium casket. He slowly rose to power by 2549 where he became All-Father Ultron. To combat him, 2549's Ant-Man went back in time to enlist

6565-406: The character's fourth company. Lorelei is later mentioned in Englehart's 2010 novel The Long Man (page 355, mass market paperback edition). Mantis is the half-Vietnamese, half-German daughter of Gustav Brandt— Libra —and was born in Huế , Vietnam . In her childhood, her father leaves her in Vietnam at the Temple of the alien Priests of Pama, a sect of the Kree . The Kree believe she might become

6666-470: The depth of her love for the Swordsman just as he dies. She then buried the Swordsman, and battled the Titanic Three . She would learn the origins of the Kree-Skrull War , the Cotati, and the Priests of Pama. Mantis then formally joins the Avengers and is revealed to be, indeed, the Celestial Madonna and marries a Cotati in the reanimated body of the Swordsman, leaving the Avengers and the Earth to mate with him. After she bears her child Sequoia , she takes

6767-422: The emotions of others. Mantis gained additional abilities as a result of communion with the Prime Cotati. Her empathic ability enabled her to communicate with the plant-like Cotati and with plant life. She has the power of astral projection . Mantis had the ability to separate her physical and astral forms, projecting her consciousness from her body, allowing her to travel interplanetary distances. She also had

6868-476: The fictional metal alloy adamantium and for his (in-story) creation of the Vision . Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books , Ultron has since featured in Marvel products across different media, such as animated television series and video games. Tom Kane and Jim Meskimen are among the actors that have portrayed the character via voice acting. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), James Spader portrayed Ultron in his first live-action appearance in

6969-436: The first four are killed by a clone of Thanos . The final Mantis merges with them to become a "complete" Mantis for the first time since her dispersion. Thus reformed, she and a group of the Avengers go into space to stop "Thanos" from killing her son, Quoi, who by this time is a rebellious teenager desperate to leave the isolation of the Cotati home-world and travel the stars. During the adventure, Mantis flirts with Vision (with

7070-436: The former villain attempts to rejoin the Avengers. She becomes an Avengers ally when the Swordsman rejoins the Avengers, and she battles the Lion God alongside them. With the Avengers, Mantis has many adventures. She battles the original Zodiac , and learns that Libra is her father and that she was raised by the Priests of Pama. She encounters the Star-Stalker , battles Thanos , Klaw and Solarr , Nuklo , and then alongside

7171-439: The fused entity now boasts all his robotic super robot's powers as well as Pym's genius science. Ultron can now change and alternate his size and mass at will through the acclimation of his maker's Pym Particle enhanced physiology. Besides being able to grow to incredible heights in seconds, Ultron can shrink down to sub-quantum scale to shift between dimensions via accessing the Microverse or the Quantum Realm. Ultron once used such

7272-436: The future to fight Ultron, Wolverine and Susan Storm go back in time to kill his creator before Ultron's creation in the first place. This results in a world where Stark controls an army of robotic drones and Morgan le Fay has conquered half of the world. Traveling back in time once more, Wolverine succeeds in stopping himself from killing Pym, and Wolverine, Pym and Storm come up with a different plan. This plan results in

7373-415: The implication that she has sex with him), but ultimately ends the flirting when she realizes that he has feelings for his estranged wife Scarlet Witch, who is jealous of Mantis and Vision's friendship. Mantis also appears in the " Avengers Disassembled " storyline, although many occurrences in that storyline are illusions. Mantis appears in the 2007 miniseries Annihilation: Conquest : Star-Lord , where she

7474-487: The lack of resources to give all the Ultrons adamantium bodies. Ultron also used an internal molecular rearranger that renders the adamantium components of its workings more malleable and so has the ability to restructure its physical form. He also uses the device in ways its own creator never dreamed, such as converting matter into energy and back by sheer force of will, something Ultron 6 often made use of during his battles with

7575-439: The mad machine's intellectual and mechanical capacity in new and intriguing ways. Having made contact with the parasitic biotechnical Phalanx species, Ultron has made his own derivative of the techno-organic virus called the Ultron Virus through which Ultron gains vast conversion and roboticization capabilities, able to cast his own binary code into any conceivable form of machinery which he can steadily turn into an extension of

7676-657: The name "Mandy Celestine" and lives with him for a year in Willimantic , Connecticut before handing him to his father's people and going into space with the Silver Surfer and battling the Elders of the Universe alongside the Surfer. The Silver Surfer finds himself falling in love with Mantis. However, Mantis (whose body was now green and had begun to manifest new powers of invulnerability that allowed her to survive in space due to side-effects of her pregnancy) grows bitter with her life and

7777-719: The nanos to recreate his body which he names Mark Twelve until he can come up with a better name. After Hank and the Lethal Legion leave to regroup in Sub-Atomica as part of Protocol S, Vision scans Mark Twelve's body and finds no trace of Ultron in him. Mark Twelve then allows Nadia to consider him her brother. The visual appearance and powers of the character have varied, but common powers include superhuman levels of strength, speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes; flight at subsonic speeds; and various offensive weapons such as concussive blasts of energy fired from its optical sensors or hands and an "encephalo-ray", which places victims into

7878-463: The only reason the team failed as a family was because of Pym's attack on Wasp. Outraged, Ultron nearly attacks the other heroes but Scott Lang is able to talk him down by arguing that Pym remains his own inspiration. Ultron allows the Stark A.I.'s team to leave with the fragment, arguing that he will leave Captain America's plans with Hydra alone as it appears to be the best chance for world peace. During " Infinity Countdown ", Ultron discovers that

7979-504: The past versions of Hank Pym, Scott Lang, and Eric O'Grady for help and brought them to 2549. Upon Scott Lang having brought Time Master's aging ray with him, Zayn used it on All-Father Ultron to take away the aging feature. Afterwards, Ultron vanished. It was revealed that the fragment of Hank Pym managed to escape from Ultron at the time and recreate his body which ended up older. While paranoid after being Ultron's "meat puppet", Hank Pym allied with Black Ant and they formed their version of

8080-417: The possessed Lethal Legion. Being given codes for the nano-ants from the future, Hank advises Nadia to "think big" as Ultron-12 agrees with his "dad" on it. Ultron proceeds to control Lodestone into recreating his body from different scrap metals as he controls the drones. Ultron-12 abandoned Whirlwind's body as the nano-ants left the Lethal Legion's body leaving Ultron's body frozen in its spot. Ultron-12 uses

8181-628: The present, the Quinjet crash lands on Titan , freeing Ultron. By hijacking the ISAAC computer, he transforms Titan into Planet Ultron, and launches a plan to infect the entire universe with a nanite virus that transforms organic creatures into Ultron Sentries. The ensuing confrontation with the Avengers leads to Ultron inadvertently merging with his maker, transforming into a human/machine hybrid. The resulting fusion played on Pym's self-loathing of his own human weakness causes an acceptance of this new state. Ultron

8282-698: The robot had ever existed. Ultron creates the synthezoid Vision as a weapon to destroy the Avengers . Later, Ultron-5, the Living Automaton leads the Masters of Evil (consisting of Black Knight , Klaw , Melter , Radioactive Man , and Whirlwind ) against the Avengers, having hypnotized Edwin Jarvis into working for him as the Crimson Cowl . While planning to blackmail New York, they were betrayed by Black Knight. Now referring to himself as Ultron-6 , he uses

8383-495: The series, Mantis displayed pyrokinesis . She can remain invisible to the Phalanx and extend her power to cloak others. Additionally, Mantis was trained by the Priests of Pama to become a grandmistress of the martial arts, demonstrated as capable of defeating opponents as skilled as Captain America (although he was distracted while fighting a dragon). She could also instinctively sense weak points in an opponent and with her skills in pressure points, knock out beings as powerful as

8484-524: The spaceship, Pym introduces himself as well as his "friend" Ultron to the crew. He later returns to Earth, where the Wasp and Captain America discover that Ultron has taken complete control and is using Pym's face to fool his maker's old friends. After Ultron incapacitates Deadpool , Cable , and the Human Torch , the Wasp initiates the Icarus Protocol and Iron Man is called in to help stop Ultron with

8585-664: The stepfather of Ashley . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-982 named Ultron Extreme appears in Avengers Next . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Battleworld appears in Secret Wars . An alternate universe variant of Ultron known as Ultron-59 appears in The Last Avengers Story . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-1610 appears in Ultimate Marvel . This version

8686-472: The team visits a possible future in which almost all of humanity is destroyed by Ultron. Kang the Conqueror attempts to enlist them to defeat the robotic foe but another group of heroes and villains, plucked from all over time and space, ends up destroying this version. Later, also in Avengers , a cabal of super-intelligent supervillains discover a Galadorian Spaceknight 's inert body and attempt to reactivate its power source, hoping to exploit it. Although

8787-435: The thunder god, Thor . In her first appearances, Mantis represents the " Dragon Lady " archetype, that of a mysterious Eastern seductress whose sexuality causes tension among the male Avengers. She is assertive and confident in her powers, and while she appeared somewhat arrogant at first (as illustrated by her breakup with Swordsman when she chose Vision over him), she renounced her pride after Swordsman's tragic death. Mantis

8888-536: The two conquered the universe together. Ultron appears in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow , voiced by Tom Kane . This version originated as a peacekeeping unit designed by Tony Stark which killed most of the Avengers and conquered Earth over the course of several decades until he's defeated by the Avengers' children and the Hulk. Ultron appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). This version

8989-506: The ultimate lifeform. In addition, he starts to call this form "Ultron Pym". After testing it on some people and some experiments on Wonder Man and Vision, Ultron Pym plans to make a fusion of Jocasta and Wasp. Iron Man and Machine Man interfere, with the resulting battle causing Iron Man to be molecularly bonded to the Ultronbuster armor. The combined efforts of Stark Unlimited enable them to create an atomic separator that separates Stark from

9090-401: The villainous bride of Kang the Conqueror with the intention of bringing death to the Avengers; her father Libra (who by now was going by the name "Moonraker" as part of Force Works ); and the Cotati alien who had possessed the Swordsman's body and married/impregnated her. Her anger at her father (whom she had vivisected ) and the Cotati center around their "defilement" of her and that she hates

9191-420: The way she was forced to abandon her child. This comes to a head when Mantis is caught in an explosion and presumed dead by Silver Surfer. She survives, but the strain of the previous years causes her to literally split into multiple versions of herself, each representing conflicting aspects of her psyche that could no longer co-exist inside her mind. The fragments arrive on Earth and one version of Mantis rejoins

9292-529: The world while slowly remolding it into his image. His Ultron Sentinels are guarding the streets looking for any fugitives. Hawkeye runs into the Ultron Sentinels and rescues the Superior Spider-Man yet manages to destroy the Ultron Sentinels present. It is later revealed that Ultron is actually in the future and has been using Vision as a conduit to punish humanity. While one strike team travels into

9393-639: The worlds I was definitely creating grew bigger and bigger, and in that way the femme fatale became the Celestial Madonna." Mantis first appeared in The Avengers #112 (June 1973), drawn by Don Heck and created by writer Steve Englehart , beginning the "Celestial Madonna" saga. After leaving Marvel Comics , Englehart carried Mantis's tale through three other companies before returning to Marvel, moving from Marvel to DC to Eclipse to Image and finally back to Marvel again. In DC Comics ' Justice League of America #142, she appears as Willow . Asked where she came from, Willow replies, "This one has come from

9494-858: Was Russian painter Eugene Klementieff. Her parents chose the name "Pom" because it is similar in pronunciation to the Korean words for both "spring" (봄) and "tiger" (범). They lived in Japan and Ivory Coast before settling in France. Klementieff's father died of cancer when she was five, and her mother had schizophrenia and was unable to care for her children, so Klementieff was raised by her paternal uncle and aunt. Her uncle, whom she described as "like [her] second father", died on her 18th birthday, and her older brother Namou died by suicide seven years later, on her 25th birthday. Klementieff briefly studied law in an undergraduate capacity after her uncle's death to appease her aunt, but did not find it appealing. She also worked as

9595-537: Was created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner using a decrypted code derived from the Mind Stone . Initially intended to act as a global defense program by analyzing and finding ways to stop possible extraterrestrial threats, the Mind Stone activated and infected the program, and as a result, Ultron instead became obsessed with bringing about the extinction of all life on Earth after concluding that humans are slowly killing

9696-435: Was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema . Thomas, who has acknowledged he finds naming characters difficult, said he liked the -tron suffix and went from there. The use of the suffix and the prior appearance of a group of robots named Ultroids led him to the name Ultron. Thomas said the idea of the character and his appearance were heavily based on Makino, an obscure robotic villain who appeared in an issue of

9797-529: Was filmed and began pursuing more Hollywood auditions. She continued taekwondo after the film, and has a purple belt as of the summer of 2014. Her next acting role was the film Hacker's Game (2015), in which she plays a hacker she compared to Lisbeth Salander from the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . Klementieff used her boxing skills again in the film, and due to the movie's low budget, she had to do her own make-up and choose her own wardrobe. It

9898-484: Was glad it could help save him. Victor von Doom rebuilds Ultron using a combination of all of its previous personalities with a particularly strong dose of the previous Ultron, believing this mix will make Ultron subservient. However, all 12 iterations co-exist as separate personalities, resulting in a form of madness which culminates with Ultron-12 mutilating himself in an attempt to remove some of his other personalities. After its defeat, Ultron-13 attempts to obtain

9999-495: Was her idea to dye her hair purple for the role, to which the directors first objected but later acquiesced. In 2017, she appeared in the romance drama Newness and the black comedy-drama Ingrid Goes West . Klementieff received worldwide recognition when she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Mantis , appearing in the films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2019, she appeared in an episode of

10100-591: Was supposed to push someone down a set of stairs but accidentally fell down the stairs herself, and director Gaël Morel kept that shot in the final film. Her first leading role was in Loup (2009), a French film about a tribe of reindeer herders in the Siberian mountains. During filming, Klementieff stayed in a camp, hours from the nearest village, where temperatures dropped well below zero. She befriended nomads who lived there, worked with real wolves, rode reindeer, and swam with

10201-537: Was thrown into the depths of space. He spent a few months floating through the cosmos as radio waves and energy. Eventually his signal was picked up by an outlying group of Phalanx who were attempting to contact the Technarchy. Fascinated by what he found, Ultron decided that the Phalanx lacked direction from a singular consciousness, and that he would be perfect for the role. Through sheer force of will, he merged himself with

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