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Today, we look at a really cool moment during Kurt Busiek and George Perez's epic run on Avengers.

The moment took place during the climax of "Ultron Unlimited," which took place during Avengers #19-22 (by Kurt Busiek, George Perez and Al Vey - I think there was also a Wizard #0 issue that sort of tied into it, as well, with art by Stuart Immonen and Wade von Grawbadger). The concept of the storyline is that Ultron IX has decided that he does not want to simply wipe out humans from Earth – he wants to repopulate the world with his own people: robots. He begins this attempt in horrific fashion as he enters the small European country of Slorenia and proceeds to slaughter the entire human population in three hours. He sends a message to the horrified public watching at home – do not come into this county or suffer the same fate.

Meanwhile, he has also kidnapped the Avengers that he considers “family” and intends to use their brainwaves to base his new world population of robots on, much like the way he earlier based his intended robot bride Jocasta on Wasp’s brainwaves, the android Vision on the brainwaves of Wonder Man and the robot Alkhema on the brainwaves of Mockingbird.

It is during this story that we learn for the first time something that probably should have been evident to readers earlier (it’s somewhat surprising it took decades until Busiek came up the concept), which is that Ultron’s mind was based on the brainwaves of his creator, Hank Pym, who happens to be among the Avengers kidnapped by Ultron.

The remaining non-capture Avengers ultimately decide to invade Slorenia, resulting in many interesting battles within the country as the small band of heroes seem to be overmatched by having to face off against all the earlier versions Ultrons, each of whom was enough to fight them to a standstill in previous years.

But then they are shocked when they discover that while they THOUGHT that they were only taking on PREVIOUS versions of Ultron, there are actually many more Ultrons there than they ever could have imagined (hence the "Unlimited" part of Ultron Unlimited)...

Things look bleak for our heroes. But let's face it, when things look their bleakest is often when the coolest lines of dialogue happen, right?

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Ultron is quite confident that his minions are more than enough to defeat the Avengers. However, he is dealing with some problems of his own when his "family" begin to turn on him. The Vision asks him to try to let them be a REAL family, but Ultron turns on him, but Hank is ready to attack, as well...

Still, Ultron thinks that this is only a momentary diversion. That jerkish confidence leads to one of the coolest dramatic entrances ever when the Avengers burst into Ultron’s lair, looking quite ragged, with Thor speaking for the entire team when he declares “Ultron, we would have words with thee!”

How awesome is that?

Amusingly enough, Ultron is ultimately taken out by the only Avenger to NOT make the trip, Justice, who had to skip out because he was still suffering the effects of a concussion he received in the previous storyline (Buisek was ahead of the game when it came to treating concussions as a really big deal!).

I am sad that Thor never got to tell Ultron "We would have words with thee" in the Age of Ultron movie.

If you care to suggest cool comic book quotes that you'd like to see spotlighted here, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com. There's a decent enough chance that if you think the quote in question is super cool than I, too, will find it super cool and feature it here. Not a 100% chance, though, of course. Let's say roughly a 60% chance.