Check Out Unused 'Hulkbuster' And 'Ultron' Designs From AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

That second ultron is dope

These are more comic booky. I prefer the movie look.

AOU was cool, but if they had Pym in it would have been better. Douglas is awesome, he was really good in Ant-Man, but a young Pym and Janet in the MCU would have been better

Ultron would have been better too if Pym created him, Ultron having Pym's brain patterns instead of Stark's makes more sense and is more interesting

That third Ultron pic is cool. I'm not feeling the rest

Ultron looked like crap in the movie. Should've used that first one, but it was probably deemed "too scary" for kids.

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Ultron looked fine other than the chicken lips.

I wonder why they didn't use this...

the Hulkbuster in the movie was the better choice. dat first Ultron thou

It might've worked in the comics, but in the movies, there would've been literally nothing interesting about an Ultron that was patterned after Hank Pym. Nothing. Fanboys would've been orgasming from pure fan-service delight...while the rest of the moviegoing audience would be going "Who the [frick] cares about Pym being Ultron's father?" Sacrilege or not, it made TONS of narrative and dramatic sense for Ultron to be the brainchild of Stark in the MCU as we know it.

I certainly wish they could've played up Banner's involvement (Ultron having 2 dads would've been an interesting direction to go in) and that more weight had been given to Tony's involvement (no reason he should've came out at the end of the movie in anything other than handcuffs), but almost everything revolving around Ultron's relationship with Stark was spot-on and made perfect sense.

Being disappointed that the movie was different from the comics (or from how you imagined it would be in your head) is not, and never will be, a flaw of the movie itself. It's only a sign that fanboys are unable to separate preferences from legitimate criticism.

@SauronsBANE

I completely disagree with that, and it's not just that it's different than the comics, Pym's relationship is more interesting than Stark's was in the movie, but it is more than that

AOU was cool but it definitely had flaws and Ultron was one of them, even just from a villain stand point, he felt extremely rushed. I was actually totally behind Stark creating Ultron, because it makes sense in the MCU, but after seeing how it played out, and how they did it, it really wasn't that interesting, and like you said, it wasn't even just Stark Banner helped too, but they played that down.

I really feel like Ultron in general was rushed, especially in the full scale of the MCU, Ultron should have at least been hinted at in IM 3, it would have made more sense

The Marvel villain problem is real, but I have faith in the Russo Brother's, I liked phase 2, but I think Phase 3 is going to awesome

@DrKinsolving I don't know if this directly applies to your response, but the thing I probably should've made more clear in my comment is that by the time AoU was in development, it was FAR too late for Pym's relationship with Ultron to ever appear on-screen in the MCU. It simply was never an option, or at least it stopped being an option once Edgar Wright's Ant-Man kept being delayed. So with that completely out of the cards, having Tony Stark be the one to create Ultron was the perfectly logical choice. Like you said, that simply made sense in the MCU.

Now, could they have executed that better? Like I pointed out in my comment, there were DEFINITELY ways that they could've improved on that. But even so, I still found that the Stark/Ultron relationship was rather well thought-out and it even made sense with Tony's character arc throughout the MCU. He's a guy who has ALWAYS created his own enemies, and then made things worse by trying to fix it. When you add how Whedon made Ultron like the angry son who hates his father but also has many of Stark's exact same characteristics (which is something that resonates in and relates to a LOT of people), it seems clear to me that the general outline of that relationship was plenty interesting.

I'm not sure I'd go so far to say that it was "rushed", but I 100% agree that a longer cut of the film would've made a huge difference in that regard (having Iron Man 3 set up Ultron would've received complaints that it was just being a commercial for AoU, but I wouldn't have minded that at all actually. Having Ultron be created, fought against, and destroyed all in the same movie does feel like a bit much, I'll admit).

@SauronsBANE

It doesn't because I already addressed that in a previous comment, and said how I wish Ant-Man could have came out before AOU.

Regardless, Ultron was definitely rushed and not used to his full potential. I'll have to watch it again, but I felt like the Ultron/Stark relationship was weak, and like you said, Stark wasn't the only one who created him, because without Banner there would be no Ultron. So, there were 2 Dads, but nothing came of Banner, no real influence on Ultron.

I liked AOU but it would have been better if Pym COULD have been involved, it would have added more depth, for the same reason that a younger Pym and Janet in the MCU would have been better because it would have added more depth when Pym passed the mantle to Scott