In a flashback from Avengers #58, Ultron tried to kill Hank seconds after being born for no reason at all. ![]() The comic even rewrites Ultron’s birth and the original falling out with Hank. Remender writes Ultron much like Shelley’s Adam: determined to avenge himself on a parent who would not love him. It is this same rage that burns within Ultron. He deserted Adam, his son by intent if not blood, at the creature’s birth because Adam didn’t conform to Victor’s expectations Adam’s rage against his father is the rage of an abandoned child. Victor Frankenstein is both the scientist and the story’s monster. It’s a common joke to say, “Actually, Frankenstein was the scientist, not the monster.” This joke misses the forest for the trees, though. Ultron’s desire for companionship overlaps with another story of creation gone wrong - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. His intention? To use Janet as the basis for a mate, one named after Oedipus’ mother Jocasta, no less. The first story to call attention to this was The Bride of Ultron (Avengers #162, script by Jim Shooter, art by George Pérez), wherein the villainous android abducts his “mother,” Janet Van Dyne, aka the Wasp. The android’s relationship with his creator is often depicted as Oedipal - the desire to murder one’s father and wed their mother. ![]() Though Ultron is destroyed by his own creation the Vision shortly after this revelation, he has returned countless times, becoming the bitterest foe of the Avengers and Pym in particular. After trying to murder his father, Ultron settled for wiping his memory. He turned out to be a rogue creation of the Avengers’ own Hank Pym, aka Ant-Man/Giant-Man. ![]() Springing forth from the minds of Roy Thomas and John Buscema, Ultron debuted in Avengers #54, but it wasn’t until his fourth appearance - Avengers #58 - that his origin was revealed.
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