We saw a ton of Avengers: Age of Ultron footage, which starts light-hearted. We see the Avengers sitting around trying to untangle the "whosoever is worthy" thing, regarding who gets to hold Thor's hammer. And they all think it's a trick, or a circus sideshow.

"If I lift it, do I get to rule Asgard?" Tony asks. And Thor says yes. Tony says he will be fair but firm, and maybe work out the "wench clause." Tony can't lift it — even after he puts on an Iron Man glove and gets Rhodey to help him. Soon everybody is trying to lift it — including Bruce Banner, who gets kinda upset — and only Steve Rogers even comes close.

Black Widow doesn't even want to try lifting it, because "That's not a question I need answering."

Tony guess it's keyed to Thor's finger prints, or some other biometric, but Thor says the answer is simpler: "You're all not worthy."

Then there's a ringing sound and they're all deafened, and Ultron strides into the room, with a crude Avengers logo painted on his slightly misshapen chest. "How could you be worthy? You're all killers," Ultron says. "You want to protect the world, but you don't want to it to change. There's only one path to peace: your extinction."

Then a shit ton of robots burst through the wall and attack all of the Avengers, plus Maria Hill.

Then we hear Ultron's voiceover saying he had a vision of the whole world screaming for mercy, and everybody tangled in it.

And we see glimpses of some city in what looks like Africa being reduced to rubble by an attack. There's a closeup of Loki's staff, and everybody looking freaked out on the Quinjet — most of all Bruce Banner, who is holding himself and shaking with a terrified look on his face. People are running everywhere, and the debris is flying like crazy.

Ultron gives a menacing look, as he surveys all the destruction.

Then there are some hero moments: Captain America enters a place shooting some guns. Stuff is blowing up. Banner staggers to his knees in a snowy forest, looking sickly. Thor uses his hammer to smash a tank. Black Widow is in a medical bay, reaching for some surgical tools. We glimpse Nick Fury looking the way he did at the end of Winter Soldier. And Scarlet Widow is on a bus, approaching some people at the back of the bus with magic in one hand.

Tony Stark is looking forlorn and guilty. "It's the end, the end of a path I started us on," he tells Black Widow, who says everything ends.

Scarlet witch sinks to her knees shouting. And there are more shots of Scarlet Witch using her powers, just quick glimpses of her projecting magical energy.

At this point, the trailer strts playing the clasic song "I've Got No Strings."

Tony, in Hulbuster armor, confronts Hulk on a city street, and there are several shots of them brawling and Tony getting the shit beat out of him. Quicksilver runs through a crowded room that seems to be standing still. Captain America is fighting someone in what looks like a knock-down brawl.

And because this is Joss Whedon, there's a glimpse of girls doing ballet.

Then we're back to Black Widow shooting shotguns, and more of the Hulk/Hulkbuster brawl. Thor grabs Tony Stark's throat and lifts him off the ground. Captain America is riding a motorcycle and then running. Cars are tumbling in mid air. Black Widow touches her hand to the Hulk's massive green hand, like she's calming him down. We glimpse a confrontation between Black Widow and Scarlet Witch.

And then Ultron finishes the song saying, "There are no strings on me," clenching a fist as he celebrates that he's no longer a puppet.

And we go a shot of Captain America's shield — shattered to fragments. We pull back, and all of the Avengers are lying prone, apparently dead, in the rubble. Tony is leaning over them, and he looks totlaly horrified and ashamed.

The actual panel was more light-hearted and contained a few surprises.

The main sequence of events go like this: Storming of Sokovian HYDRA fort [big battle] -> Ultron's creation -> Avengers Tower party and fight [big battle] -> South African fight against Ultron and the Twins featuring the Hulkbuster [big battle] -> Retreat to Hawkeye's farm and Thor going off -> the Twins switching sides and Vision heist in Seoul [big battle] -> Thor returns to power up Vision -> Finale fight in Sokovia [big battle] -> New Avengers team formed

The movie dives right into the Strucker fight, with all the 6 main Avengers present.
Hawkeye gets shot badly when Quicksilver distracts him.
The Avengers call Dr. Cho in to the tower to patch Hawkeye up.

Tony retrieves Loki's scepter from Strucker.
Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch escape from Strucker's cell in the course of the battle.
Scarlet Witch touches many of the Avengers, "infecting" them with her mind.

The Avengers defeat HYDRA.
Back in the tower, Dr. Cho heals Hawkeye.

With the help of the information gathered in this battle, Tony and Bruce finish the Ultron program. They don't tell the others since Tony is unsure what they'll have to say about it.

Natasha and Bruce are seen flirting heavily.
Tony and Pepper are still a couple, as are Thor and Jane.

Ultron emerges for the first time as a program and kills JARVIS.
Ultron then crashes the party scene in the first robot form and is defeated.

The Avengers have a heavy discussion when Tony admit what he's done. Thor is choking him in the course of the debate. They get over it to fight the new threat together, though.

Ultron back at the Strucker castle recruits Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, promising them to help protect their country from the USA.
Ultron and the twins go to Africa to retrieve Vibranium from Klaue (no mention of Wakanda).

Ultron accidentally rips part of Klaus arm off, setting up his future prosthetic. Scarlet Witch puts some of the Avengers into trance, including Natasha and Steve who wander around
uselessly and unleashes the Hulk.

Hawkeye takes Scarlet Witch out with an electric arrow, causing Pietro to flee the battle with her while Hawkeye herds Thor/Steve/Natasha to safety.

The Hulkbuster fight starts with almost the avengers "done" from Scarlett messing with their heads. Tony calls down for "Veronica" from an overhead satellite and flies towards banner who is
attacking the near by city center. The fight starts with the hulk being trapped in a stark designed cage as the suit forms around him.

The cage obviously fails and the brawl begins just as seen in the clip released last week. The hulk is showing no signs of being talked down and he is ripping the suit up.

Tony keeps calling in replacement parts but soon the hulk starts intercepting the suit parts. There is a hilarious moment where stark pins the hulk and starts punching him with extremely rapid
blows while yelling "gotosleepgotosleep!".

As the fight climaxes, stark finds a sky scraper that's under construction and currently vacated, he latches on to the hulk and smashes him from top to
bottom straight down the middle of the building. This brings the hulk out of his delusional state and one final blow from Veronica knocks him out.

This fight delivers! It's impressive, funny and intense.

The Hulk eventually awakes from Wanda's influence and is horrified by the damage done and Tony knocks him out with a punch.

The Avengers defeat Ultron and the twins again and fly back to New York.

The Twins turn against Ultron and join the Avengers in Seoul. Vision is an android made of semi-organic materials created by Helen Cho, which Ultron plans to transfer himself into,
however the Avengers steal the casket containing the body. Natasha is briefly kidnapped by Ultron during the sequence, but is rescued by Hawkeye.

Ultron smashes the blue casing around Loki's scepter, revealing the yellow mind gem!

Vision has the yellow Mind Gem in his forehead, extracted from Loki's scepter. This is used to destroy the last bot Ultron transferred himself into.

The Avengers have to destroy every single Ultron bot in the finale.

Vision wields Thor's hammer in the final battle.

Both Rhodes and Falcon suit up

Ultron's plan involves uplifting a chunk of Sokovia using a perfected antigravity device Strucker designed, then slamming it back into Earth and causing an ELE.(extinction level event)

The Avengers are protecting the device to prevent the city block's premature descent. Wanda destroys the device and Thor blows up the entire city block at the end.

Scarlet Witch's visions: -Tony: Every Avenger dead because of his actions

-Bruce: The Hulk going on a rampage and killing all his loved ones

- Natasha: Her past in the KGB

-Hawkeye: Him with his family

-Cap: Him not getting to dance with Peggy

-Thor: The coming of Ragnarok


Hawkeye has been spending time with his family on the farm which is why he wasn't in Winter Soldier. Linda Cardellini plays his wife.

Natasha is the only one who knows Hawkeye's secret family. She's close with them and they plan to name their unborn daughter after her.

When the team flees to Hawkeye's farm, Thor goes to the realm of Alfheim to explore the visions he's been getting which warned of Ragnarok
as well as how Vision is crucial to the fight against Ultron.

Ultron designs the perfect android (Vision) and starts to give it his consciousness but is interrupted.

Later Vision (still not completed) is given JARVIS's AI as a basis with the mind gem to create a new life basically.

Vision is awakened by Thor's lightening and after a brief tussle, he sees that humanity is is cause.

Vision decides that Ultron must be stopped at all cost even though he is right about the doom of humanity.

The Bruce/Natasha storyline ends with Bruce persuading Natasha to run away with him, just as the final battle starts.

Natasha pretends to agree, then pushes him into a chasm to force his transformation into the Hulk (she chooses to stay and fight, as opposed to romance).

When the battle ends, Hulk is seen squeezed into a Quinjet and leaving. It seems no one can agree on whether or not the ship goes into orbit or into the ocean. It was left ambiguous.

Hawkeye was talking to Wanda during the 'if you step out that door, you're an Avenger', 'I have a bow and arrow' speech.
This is during the final battle, and she nearly gives up but is motivated by him to rejoin the fight.

Quicksilver dies. Shot by a quinjet piloted by Ultron. Pietro specifically sacrifices himself to protect Hawkeye, who was in turn shielding a kid from the Ultron-controlled quinjet.

Wanda senses him dying, goes on a rampage, and destroys Ultron's main body Ultron gets blasted by Vision, Thor and Iron man at the same time, then pummeled by the Hulk and finally,
has his internals ripped out by SW.

An Avengers Academy is created at the end of the movie that aims to train soldiers and spies.

A new team of Avengers is created at the end. The final lineup includes Rhodey, Sam, Wanda, Vision, Steve and Natasha. Hawkeye returns to his family, but it's understood that he will help the team out when he is needed. Tony leaves the team on good terms, Hulk goes into hiding.

Scarlet Witch gets a new costume at the end.


Thor only returns to Asgard at the end of the movie.

The mid credits scene involves Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet.

A small safe, it's futuristic.... Its dark, a door opens, there is something inside it.... A device of some kind.....the door opens like a secure vault.....it's the infinity gauntlet!

Thanos is opening this vault! He puts on the gauntlet and declares "Fine, I'll do it myself!" Fade to black.

Civil War looks like it's made up from the New Avengers that assemble at the end of AOU? Stark and Rogers don't seem to be particularly at odds when we last see them that is true.

floating island idea. How exactly did the Vibranium enable Ultron the means to rip up a city wide chunk of earth? Or did I miss something?

...death coming but it was a heroic one and I suppose there had to be at least one casualty to heighten the stakes. The rest of the team is kinda off limits in the death department.

Was it already a part of the Iron Legion AI in a rudimentary form and then the mind gem made it smart or was it totally born out of the mind gem? Was unclear on that one.

Thanos lost out on a third infinity stone in that film, it would have been more logical to see him taking matters into his own hands at its conclusion.

floating city

Killing off Quicksilver (wtf?)