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I want to take a look at each of these characters’ arcs, and show how impressively they have been handled over a series of movies. Even Captain America, paragon of righteous hope, applies the M word to himself: “What kind of monster would let a German doctor experiment on him to protect his country?” While Thor doesn’t say it out loud, his Scarlet Witch-induced vision explicitly shows him as a monster, the lightning he controls destroying Asgardians around him. At one point in the film every Avenger (except Hawkeye) refers to him/herself as a monster. More than that, the character arcs of the original Avengers stood bright against the backdrop of Ultron’s machinations they’re easy to miss on a first viewing because they’re woven so completely into the film’s plot, but once you have that plot under control you can begin to see the ways that the Avengers’ personalities - and their journeys across almost a decade of Marvel Studios films - informs everything.Ī thread that runs through Avengers: Age of Ultron is the looming self-doubt of each team member. Most of my niggling problems with the film simply melted away on a second viewing, and many of the lingering questions felt answered. The film, a slightly too-breathless, sort of too-dense blockbuster, suddenly opens up, the little character moments emerging from between the set pieces and the fights. A second viewing of Avengers: Age of Ultron - a viewing free of hype and hope, a viewing in which you’re armed with a basic understanding of the plot, allowing you to dig a little deeper - pays off in enormous ways.