Prompting Chris Evans to say “If I have to fight a bunch of Skrulls, I want to do it alongside Robert Downey and Chris Hemsworth not Ioan Gruffudd and Jessica Alba.”
Why can’t they introduce Hank Pym in this Avengers movie, and use it to introduce Pym to mainstream audience - which would enable an Ant/Giant-Man movie to have a chance…?
I think that would be a pretty good idea.
That’s an odds-on bet. Marvel needs to pilot the character with movie audiences before Pym merits his own movie.
This heartens me greatly. It means that we may expect Dr. Pym and the Wasp, and maybe the Vision to appear in Avengers 2. And that’s great because that’s more people for Joss to hurt, so maybe he won’t cripple/blind/kill Hawkeye (who’s always been my favorite Marvel hero).
I get a sense that Ultron is going to be a creation/byproduct of something Tony Stark did. But it’s possible that in this movie Pym will be an employee of Stark Enterprises.
The thing is, the Ant-Man movie appears to be an origin story, so if they do do it that way they’re going to have to introduce him without really explaining where this new superpowered guy came from and then say “if you really want to know, see the prequel movie this November!” It would be weird and out of order, but not impossible.
Is the superhero identity necessary for Ultron’s origin? Pym could build Ultron first, then acquire super-powers later.
It could work that way, as long as Hank Pym is together with Jan in his pre-hero state. In the comics, they hadn’t met before he became a super-hero, but she did know him before finding out he was a super-hero, so it could be tweaked that way.
Nevermind–answer to my question was given. Note-read thread before posting
Ah, so Hawkeye DOES get crippled/mutilated/killed.
Unless I missed a retcon, she learned his secret identity in the same issue where they first met, which was the same issue where she made her costumed debut.
I assumed for years now that if they did Ultron, it would be Stark creating it since it makes more sense in the movie context…He had already built an AI program by the time of the first Iron Man movie.
The weird thing is Marvel just finished an AWFUL mini-series by the same name (Age of Ultron) which is apparently not at all the basis for the plot of Avengers 2.
Sorry, Pepperwinkle, I think you’re right about that. 
I’m not sure that Jarvis is properly a true AI. His interactions with Stark seem natural and intelligent, but it’s a lot easier to build a program that interacts well with its creator than it is to build one that can do so in general.
You’d be correct if Jarvis was merely an OS that fit Stark’s habits like a glove, but the nature of the interaction requires that either Jarvis is an AI, or he’s a chatbot so good at selecting responses that he’d practically have to be an AI to do it, or Stark writes Jarvis’s witty banter in advance.
**Avenger 2
…Electric Boogaloo!**
'nuf said.
So you’re saying everything seems hunky-dory when Jarvis is interacting with Stark, but there’s something weird and sinister lurking just below the surface?
Just a quick note: in the comic book, when Ultron was introduced, he had Jarvis working for him, and at one point had Jarvis pretend to be Ultron. Granted, Jarvis was human, but…