I can’t believe Marvel Studios only showed the brand-new Avengers team from the end ofAvengers: Age of Ultronin action in theMCUfor just ten minutes. I recently rewatchedThe AvengersandAvengers: Age of Ultron, wanting to get the nostalgia of seeing the original superhero team of the MCU in action before the group is revamped in theRusso brothers' upcomingDoomsdayandSecret Wars. The original six heroes formed the perfect line-up for the first Avengers team, and Marvel even debuted a brilliant successor, but this new team was completely wasted.
Avengers: Age of Ultronwas the sophomore adventure for the titular team on-screen in the MCU, as they came together to take down the remnants of HYDRA and, later, battle thetyrannical artificial intelligence, Ultron. Ultron hoped to eradicate humanity by dropping Sokovia’s capital city like a meteor, repeating the process that wiped out the dinosaurs.After the Avengers succeeded in stopping the robot, the original team disbanded, and an exciting new line-up was introduced, only to be all but ignored in the MCU’s subsequent crossover movies.
Avengers: Age Of Ultron Introduced A Powerful Line-Up For The New Avengers Team
Age Of Ultron Ended By Debuting A New Avengers Line-Up
Following thebattle against Ultron in Sokovia, Bruce Banner’s Hulk self-exiled himself to Sakaar, Thor set out to find the Infinity Stones, Clint Barton’s Hawkeye retired to spend more time with his family and Tony Stark’s Iron Man planned to also cut down on his superhero career. This left only Steve Rogers' Captain America and Natasha Romanoff’s Black Widow from the original Avengers roster, but they weren’t alone for long.Avengers: Age of Ultronended with a new Avengers team being introduced, and I was very excited about this new line-up.
Alongside Captain America and Black Widow, who became mentors and trainers to the new team,Age of Ultron’sAvengers teamcomprised James “Rhodey” Rhodes' War Machine, Sam Wilson’s Falcon, Wanda Maximoff’s Scarlet Witch and Vision.This team was confirmed to be an official version of the Avengers by Captain Americaalmostdelivering his iconic"Avengers Assemble"line- we had to wait tillEndgamefor this to come to fruition. Unfortunately, I don’t feel as though we got enough time with this new team, and I’m sad that it was forgotten by Marvel Studios.
I Would Have Loved An Avengers Movie Focused On Age Of Ultron’s Team To Develop Them Better
Captain America: Civil War Wasn’t Enough Time With This New Team
I really wanted to see a fullAvengersmovie featuringAge of Ultron’sfinal incarnation of the team. Instead,all Marvel Studios gave us was a ten-minute-long scene in the opening of 2016’sCaptain America: Civil War.Civil Warmight have opened with the new Avengers team - except for Vision and War Machine - in action, fighting Crossbones in Lagos, but the rest of the Phase 3 movie included every member of the Avengers, bar Thor and the Hulk, new and old. I wish we had more fromAge of Ultron’snew team.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron(2015)
Ten minutes was not enough time to give this team any significant amount of development, but I thinkit would have been brilliant to see Captain America, Black Widow, War Machine, Vision, the Scarlet Witch and the Falcon team up for a bigger adventure than just taking on Crossbones and his goons. Most of these heroes have seen ample development in the years sinceAge of UltronandCivil War, but I would have loved to have seen them become main characters long before the MCU’s Multiverse Saga, and a dedicatedAvengersmovie could have accomplished that.
Age Of Ultron’s Avengers Team Was The Perfect Successor To The Original Avengers
I consider it a huge shame that this new Avengers team didn’t get more attention, as it was a remarkably strong line-up, perhaps making this team the perfect successor to theoriginal Avengers from the MCU’s Phase 1.The Avengers first came together in 2012 under Nick Fury’s watchful eye to battle Loki on the streets and in the skies of New York City. The new line-up seen inAge of Ultronpacked even more of a powerful punch than the original, with the likes of Vision and the Scarlet Witch being two of the MCU’s most formidable heroes.
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Because of this, and because of the lack of focus then given to Rhodey’s War Machine and Sam Wilson’s Falcon, these heroes deserved more time to grow and learn as a team. Some of their abilities were very unpredictable, and their team-working skills still leave something to be desired, sothey would all have benefited from being trained by veteran Avengers and pitted against a much more significant foe. Marvel Studios still hasn’t introduced a realreplacement for the original Avengers team, so it’s a shame this group didn’t get more time in the spotlight.
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War Machine Still Hasn’t Been Developed Enough In The MCU
WhileCaptain America: Civil Wardidn’t give this new team the attention it deserved, its members have recently become much more important to the MCU. Wanda Maximoff and Vision were focused on in 2021’sWandaVisionseries, which saw Maximoff embrace her identity as the Scarlet Witch and become incredibly powerful, leading to her villainous turn in 2022, while Vision was reborn as White Vision, who will return in an upcoming solo series next year,Vision Quest. Sam Wilson has also undergone this treatment, becoming Captain America inThe Falcon and the Winter Soldierand getting his own solo movie.
Both Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff departed the MCU in 2019’sAvengers: Endgame, leaving the four new members ofAge of Ultron’sAvengers team space to get more attention in the MCU.
Not everyone has been so lucky, however, asDon Cheadle still hasn’t reprised the role of War Machine in his proposedArmor Warsproject.Armor Warswas confirmed to be a movie in September 2022, but we haven’t heard anything about it since then, so I’m worried it might be canceled altogether. I feel sorry for War Machine, especially afterSecret Invasion, so him getting more development afterAvengers: Age of Ultron was essential, and it’s a shame this didn’t happen. Of course, Rhodey could be included in theMCU’s upcoming Avengers team, which might redeem this history.
