Avengers: Age Of Ultron - 8 Things You Need To Know About James Spader's Ultron
3. Joss Whedon Compared Him To Frankenstein's Monster
It's funny to compare Ultron to a petulant child, and accurate to suggest that he's insane, but Joss Whedon has probably the best, most accurate and certainly most intriguing comparison to get you to understand where Ultron's coming from: he's Frankenstein's monster. Not with all the Universal bells and whistles of the bolt on the neck and the stitches on the forehead, admittedly. And he's a fair bit more intelligent than The Monster, even if Ultron lacks the same emotional intelligence as his literary inspiration. But according to Whedon, Mary Shelly's creation has similarities to this new Marvel villain in that we create something in our own image and the thing turns on us. It has that pain of 'Well, why was I made? I want to kill Daddy. So there's some daddy issues because boy, does the Marvel Cinematic Universe need more of that but there's also the core theme at the heart of the film. Before, the Avengers were dealing with external threats, between Loki and the Chitauri. Here, the threat is internal, and created by one of their own. Which is a cool idea, and will be followed up in Captain America: Civil War...
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