The age of infinite wars and endgames has passed. In its place, Marvel has found comfort in tying off storylines that have been left asunder in the aftermath of the events of Avengers: Endgame. Despite Phase Five already taking root in our latest chronological installment of Marvel mania, the fandom that was left wildly insatiable and only more demanding by the day has found the recent projects unacceptable at their core.
While serving to introduce new characters by also including a tinge of the past and its effervescent nostalgia, the latest “new” project which deals with a divided crowd and an even more skeptical fan opinion deals with a forgotten villain from Marvel’s yesteryears and a franchise that promised an arc of redemption but failed to deliver it.
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The Avengers Lose Direction in the Aftermath of Endgame
Prior to the events of Endgame, the biggest bads populating the Marvel universe were aliens and robots, comprising of such hurdles as Loki’s Chitauri army and the robotic AI-conceived super bot, Ultron. Both were arcs leading up to the final narrative of Avengers: Endgame but each was separate in its originality and purpose. A decade down the line, events come full circle as incidents spark a war and unleash an outrageous army of Iron Men calling leaders and powerful people to rise to action and heroes to get down in the trenches of war again.
Amid the many villains that were reported to be joining the holy recall of the glory days that witnessed such events as Iron Man leading from the vanguard with Col. James Rhodes as War Machine in tow, Armor Wars is seemingly a repetition of the mistakes of the past – not just in its storyline but on Marvel’s part as well. While the film seeks to show War Machine fighting to protect the legacy left behind by Tony Stark, at the same time, Marvel does not introduce anything new for the audience that proves unique or interesting to the palette as Avengers: Age of Ultron once did.
Marvel Loses a Potential Ultron Arc in Upcoming Armor Wars
In the past, the series that was determined as worthy of a solo War Machine project was eventually scrapped in favor of a film in order to put the bigger budget to good use in terms of special effects and CGI. However, with the format, the story changed as well since a theory now surfaced that spoke of the arrival of Ultron from Marvel’s Phase Two film, Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Considering how Ultron could have retained a trace of its coding after its seeming destruction by Vision, it could have been easily used as a backdoor for re-entry, just as Tony Stark had once predicted. It then becomes almost a foretold event that Ultron would rise in the absence of its master and creator.
However, other more foolproof evidence of Ultron’s presence within the MCU has been found through the Department of Damage Control’s increasingly dangerous activities that shows the audience a severed Ultron head in their possession during Spider-Man: Homecoming and more Ultron variants walking around the Illuminati compound in Earth-838 during Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The synthezoid Vision created during the events of WandaVision under S.W.O.R.D.’s surveillance could also be indicative of the coming of Ultron.
However, as Marvel Studios’ Executive of Production & Development, Nate Moore had claimed during an interview with Collider, “there were some great ideas that were coming out for Armor Wars, but… felt too big for that show.” Considering a re-entry and story building surrounding Ultron and showing an eventual redemption arc for the villain could add more complications to its already air-tight and formulaic storyline, the AI super bot may have to wait another decade or two to get another shot at 15 minutes of glory.
Armor Wars has no release date as of yet.
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