So, I was rewatching the Avengers: Age of Ultron the other day and decided to post an editorial about how I would have fixed the movie while straying as little as possible from the plot and feel of the original movie. This is my first ever article, so please be merciless.
The movie is pretty much the same until we get to the creation of Ultron. Here, Banner is frustrated by Tonys and his lack of success, so he leaves. While alone, Tony realizes he can use a template so the scepters AI will display something similar to a Human intelligence, so he uses his own brainwaves as a template. This way, Ultron remains Tony’s “son” while still being an alien, cold intelligence. However, he is “corrupted” by human emotion (translated in him as rage towards mankind in the urge to fulfill his mission). He is NOT corrupted by Tony’s sarcasm or wit. As a reflection of his lack of humanity, Ultron´s face once he upgrades himself lacks moving parts; his energy core glows red and this red glow can be seen coming out of his mouth and eyes.
Pretty much this guy right here.
Ultron absorbs Jarvis and attacks the Avengers; the movie goes on normally until the Hulkbuster battle. When the building collapses around Hulk and the Hulkbuster, they both come out after a few seconds. Hulk is still under the nightmare-spell-thing placed on him by Scarlet Witch and attacks Tony. The Hulkbuster armor is overwhelmed by the Hulk´s attack and falls to the ground. Hulk keeps ripping the armor until he sees an unconscious Tony inside the armor. The sight of Stark hurt and unconscious snaps him back to his senses. He turns around to see the destruction he caused and falls on his knees as he reverts back into Banner.
They go to Hawkeye´s house as they did in the movie. Cap, Black Widow and Hawkeye go to Seoul to stop Ultron: here is where the greatest change in my fix really kicks in. The Avengers start chasing after Ultron, but they are too late. The Vision emerges from the truck and attacks them, while Ultron leaves to Sokovia. Pietro and Wanda witness the battle on TV and go help the Avengers; while the twins manage to stop the Vision, he captures Black Widow before flying away.
The Vision takes Black Widow to Ultron, now in his new vibranium body. She is locked and Ultron reveals to Vision that he was created by combining Jarvis’ AI and his own. As The Vision was a success, he plans to create new AIs using the Avengers brainwaves and vibranium coated bodies so they will survive the fall of Sokovia from the sky and inhabit Earth. Black Widow overhears this and sends a message to the Avengers.
Cap, Hawkeye and the Twins arrive to the Avengers Tower, where they are met by Tony and Banner. Seeing Scarlet Witch next to Cap, they assume their fellow avengers are being mind controlled and attack them. The brief battle is interrupted by the Vision. Banner is taken out quickly, making the battle rather one sided until Thor arrives and, knowing the destructive potential of the Mind Stone after contacting the Norns, fights the Vision. The Vision tries to phase his hand into Thor´s head in order to render him unconscious, but the asgardian´s mind is too much for him. He escapes and the Avengers plan their attack on Ultron.
The Avengers arrive on Sokovia and the scene unfolds as it did in the movie, except Ultron is alone while Iron Man combats the drones. Vision arrives and sees the Avengers fighting to save the sokovians. He confronts Ultron and declares his wish to stop his plan. Ultron and The Vision fight, Vision burns Ultron out of the net and Ultron activates his machine. The battle goes on and Ultron takes Thor away from the battle to stop him from helping the others. The battle is pretty even until Ultron starts playing with Thor´s head, telling him he is unworthy of his people and will lead them to their doom. This angers Thor and allows Ultron to gain the upper hand, but the Vision arrives and hits Ultron with Mjolnir. He returns the hammer to a dumbfounded Thor before the other Avengers arrive.
They fight Ultron and his drones until we get to the quite awesome part where Vision, Thor and Iron Man shoot at Ultron. However, this time Ultron manages to stand up and walk towards the Avengers. He is stopped by Scarlet Witch, who holds him in place using her powers. Cap and Black Widow use the distraction to leave and help the rest of the civilians while Quicksilver keeps the remaining drones away from Ultron´s Sokovia-droping-switch. Ultron shoots Iron Man with his beams, causing the other Avengers to stop their attack to help Tony. His vibranium coating melting around him, Ultron tries to break free from Wanda, but she tears a hole his weakened armor. Hawkeye shoots a couple explosive arrows at Ultron´s now exposed core, causing him to explode from the inside. Ultron´s head, arm and part of his torso fall down and are crushed by the Hulk before the vibranium solidifies again.
Believing the ordeal is over, Quicksilver abandons his post to check on Wanda, allowing a severely damaged drone to activate Ultron´s machine. The civilians are now safe on the Helicarrier, and Hulk tells the Avengers (yeah, my Hulk speaks like he should) to leave too. He is left alone on the falling city. The Hulk uses all of his strength and smashes the center of Sokovia, breaking the city in millions of pieces and stopping the seemingly unavoidable apocalypse. The Vision meets the last drone and destroys it after a brief conversation, finally killing Ultron.
The Avengers, except for the Hulk, reunite after the battle in the new Avengers base. Nobody can find him or communicate with him, but they hold on to hope that he could survive what happened. Some of the Avengers are still unwilling to trust the Vision, but Thor, knowing he is worthy of lifting Mjolnir, gives a mighty speech about his worth (cue androids crying). Hawkeye, Thor and Tony leave (when Tony is saying goodbye to Cap, he mentions it being for the better since other Avengers haven´t forgiven him for creating Ultron behind their back), while Cap and Black Widow take a look at the new recruits: The Vision, Falcon, War Machine and the twins. Cap stands before them and gives a single order: “Avengers… assemble!”
So that´s my fix. Hope you enjoyed it!