What If, “… Ultron Won?”, Review!

The Watcher introduces another world which he says, “breaks my heart”, we see the ruins of a city.  Then, there is a motorcycle going at high speed, it is a battle-weary Black Widow (Lake Bell).  The actress returns to voice Natasha after “The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?” episode.  She sets a countdown as several forms rocket towards her.  It is a snowy day as Old Man Hawkeye appears and looses several arrows. They strike down several Ultron sentries.  Um, like battle droids why not defeat them with a giant magnet?  More sentries streak from the sky. Natasha tries to ride and evade the drones as Hawkeye takes down a few more with arrows. This is reminds me of the Terminator 2 3D: Battle Across Time (1996) Future War world, “Super!”  Natasha is faced with several sentries in front of her, slides the motorcycle and sends out two explosives to destroy the sentries.  Hawkeye’s arrows  take out more sentries and he shifts into a stealth mode via an invisibility cloak a la Harry Potter.     

A group of Ultron sentries land and Hawkeye goes all Legolas stabbing a drone in the head with his arrow, sliding off his stealth cloak, and then uses his bow.  How about an EMP arrow or something?  Natasha notes there is 30 seconds before they signal the hive.  She is struck from her motorcycle and then uses her Widow Sting staves to finish off her Ultron drones.  At his end, Clint (Jeremy Renner) has his arm, bionic?, and bow blasted off by an Ultron drone.  The one-armed archer, in the case of Green Arrow, was in the comic book series,  The Dark Knight Returns (1986).  He is thrown off a building by two sentries who stand above him, but Natasha brings her motorcycle down on them.  She offers Clint his bionic arm.  Natasha takes him to the headquarters in a mass of Russian churches’ onion domes.  The Watcher explains that this world began with one man, Tony Stark (Mick Wingert).  The actor returns to voice Stark after “Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?”  



Stark contemplates forming Ultron from the Mind Stone in Loki’s broken staff. The Watcher continues noting that Ultron (Ross Marquand) needed the body of Vision to fulfill his imperative.  Marquand was the voice of Red Skull in “Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?” The Watcher says that the Avengers used the Cradle to form the Vision, but in this world Ultron used it and the Mind Stone to take over the world Terminator-style.  Stark contacts Natasha and Clint on the quinjet and reports that Ultron is working on the nuclear codes going full Skynet.  Natasha tells him they have to destroy the satellite network.  Then, we get the battered Stark facing his creation.  Ultron releases a pulse that takes down Stark and activates the nukes, it’s Judgment Day!  All of the nukes are launched!, where is David Lightman from WarGames (1983) when you need him?, Ultron hasn’t learned, “How about a nice game of chess?”  The skies are filled with nukes that streak down in front of the quinjet.  Wouldn’t the EMP from some nukes take out the bots here and in Terminator?         The explosions ripple through the world and Vision/Ultron, Ultravision?, says now he has peace.  Ultravision is the name of a number of products.  


He has defeated humanity, but The Watcher points out that the Age of Ultron is kinda interrupted by Thanos who walks through a gate.  He has the Infinity Gauntlet, but missing a stone!  Plus, where is the Black Order?  UltraVision blasts him in half with his Mind Stone, um, Thanos has taken a heavy hit from energy blasts and is kinda foolish to appear and not use one of the Infinity Stones on his own.  UltraVision slices through the fingers of the Infinity Gauntlet and levitates out the Infinity Stones.  So this is three villains in one UltraInfinityVision!, is he more powerful than DoctorGalactusDormammu?, let’s go back to just Ultron. Now with the Infinity Stones in his chest, he drops the Ultron face mask, this is the version we saw at the end of “Thor Were An Only Child?”  He now has a vision, ha!, of the universe with the Infinity Stones and, rises the countless Ultron sentries from the rubble to take on the What If worlds!  Ultron adds a cape, very villanous, and a specter.  He creates an Ultron Sphere to travel to every alternate world appearing first at Asgard.  



Ultron uses the scepter to destroy Asgard. Then, the Sovereign with the Guardians of the Galaxy; Star Lord, Gamora, and Drax trying to defend the world, but it is destroyed.  This is a Crisis on Infinite Earths! or would be if it is DC. Sakaar, the sentries spill down as Korg takes them on.  Then, Ultron uses Death Star scepter.  The Grandmaster witnesses his world about to be destroyed, Ultron does not appreciate a good dj.  Ego is then shattered.  Xandar, the defenses of the Nova Corps try to destroy the waves of Ultron sentries.  Ultron fires his scepter to destroy a dome and Captain Marvel (Alexandra Daniels) confronts him.  Daniels was also in “Thor Were an Only Child?”  She takes Ultron down to the planet’s core and begins striking him with Marvel power!  Shouldn’t she rip out the Infinity Stones?, Carol should be able to sense their power, and that it is charging UltraInfinityVision.  It is a losing battle with Ultron sensing a new reality and about to take out the multiverse.  This is a threat to The Watcher and he is pushed to desperate circumstances fighting Ultron across the dimensions!  I realized that two cosmic beings fighting, one good, one evil is the end of Revenge of the Sith (2005).  There is still a part to play with Hawkeye and Black Widow.  Of course, there is a cameo from others in the multiverse, this episode of What If is starting to feel like Avengers: Infinity War!  


Four Infinity Stones out of Five!   


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