Avengers: Age Of Ultron - 15 Theories That Were Utter Bull
7. Hank Pym Created Ultron First
The Theory: As a means to set up Ant-Man and make it actually tie in to the rest of the MCU in some tangible way, Pym would be introduced in the past as the inventor behind the first attempts at AI.
The Supposed Evidence: The comics said so. Plus the pre-release marketing called Ultron "a scrapped defence programme".
The Reality: Pym is nowhere near the project. The only suggestion that it was actually an old invention was Bruce Banner's allusion to it being a "fantasy".
And it turns out the abandoned security project was in fact the Iron Legion from Iron Man 3, and not really Ultron at all.
Would It Have Been Better? It would have been nice to have tangible links to Ant-Man, especially with it coming next. And the idea of Ultron being anything other than a fantasy brought to life by accident might have been an improvement.