Ultron’s Origins Revealed for ‘The Avengers 2’; First Official Image Released

The origins for the killer robot Ultron in the upcoming film ‘The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron’ have been revealed and it turns out we were right all along…

With San Diego Comic Con less than a week away now, details about some of the big reveals are starting to come out including ‘The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron’ which is expected to be one of the biggest events at the annual convention.

Before the cast and crew from the film arrive in San Diego, EW has an exclusive cover and interview with the cast coming to their magazine in which we get our first look at the murderous robot Ultron as well as the origins of his creation.

Back in February we speculated that Ultron would be a creation of Tony Stark aka Iron Man in an attempt to create a robot that could usurp Earth’s need for its mightiest heroes and well hate to say we told you so but that’s pretty much right on the money as it turns out.

As the story goes in ‘The Avengers 2’, Stark decides to build a robot to help defend Earth that will allow him to take off the Iron Man armor for good while also giving his colleagues in The Avengers a rest as well. The result is Ultron — a self-aware robot forged with an army of clones sent out to defend the Earth from all manners of evil — foriegn, domestic and intergalactic.

Unfortunately, Ultron’s artificial intelligence computes that the best way to save the Earth is to eliminate its biggest threat of all — human beings — and so it sets out on a mission of a planet wide genocide to eliminate mankind all together.

The most dangerous aspect of Ultron is that he’s not just one robot — he’s thousands. When Stark creates the monstrous metal machine he duplicates it in mass production, which means Ultron can pass its consciousness to any number of the same robots with the same abilities so it’s nearly impossible to kill.

Needless to say this sparks a huge conflict and the skeleton for what’s coming in ‘The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron’. Check out the cover of the latest EW below with Ultron shown in all its glory: