Avengers: Age Of Ultron - 8 Things You Need To Know About James Spader's Ultron

2. He Has Elements Of Tony Stark's Personality

If a lot of the descriptions of Ultron's personality seem familiar to another member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, well, that might not be a coincidence. It's just smart writing. Tony Stark, too, has significant daddy issues, owing to unresolved feelings over his aloof father Howard, who died when Tony was young and left a difficult shadow to escape from. He's also susceptible for moments of narcissism, and thinking the world revolves entirely around him. The arc throughout the Iron Man films has seen Tony coming to terms with these aspects of his personality. In fact, the set up of Age Of Ultron spins right out of the third Iron Man film, where he essentially abandoned his superhero role; here, he figures creating a fleet of robots to save all the world's ills will do a lot better than policing it with his superpowered mates. That hubris is still there, then, and it's carried over into Ultron too. Literally, since apparently the artificial intelligence Stark imbues the robot with is based on his own brain scans. So in a lot of ways Spader's performance will have some stuff in common with Robert Downey Jr's, only taken to a violent extreme; a hundred times more self-involved, more arrogant. Probably less of the boozing and womanising.