It’s clear that Whedon feels more affinity for them, and he relishes Wanda’s power to mess with people’s minds. The Maximoff Twins present another problem with the movie.
He’s either angry at the Avengers or he uses people like the Maximoff Twins. He doesn’t change, he doesn’t really have his ideas challenged, and he doesn’t have positive connections with anyone. And even his motives kind of make a twisted amount of sense in that he correctly (at least in the film’s view) sees humanity as doomed, as a character, he falls short because he just shows up and he’s pretty much evil. The concept seems to be that he’s an angrier version of Tony Stark, and wants to crush his father figure and by extension the entire world. Thematically, he makes sense, but as a character, he feels underdeveloped, coasting on Spader’s masterful voice work and Whedonesque dialogue. Which is why Ultron is so disappointing as an antagonist. Nowhere is that more clear than in the Ultron program, and toying around with science he doesn’t completely understand just so he can put “a suit of armor around the world.” The road to hell is paved with Tony Stark’s good intentions. Tony covers his darkness in charm, but his arrogance continues to cause greater threats to the world. He’s not the hero type, not even along the lines of a dark figure like Batman. It would make for a deeply unsatisfying character if not for Downey’s charisma and how Tony breaks from the superhero mold. He’s a man who overreacts every time, uses his genius to try and control everything, and never seems to learn or grow from his mistakes. Appropriately, we start with Tony, who started this whole thing, and we see yet again that he’s both the primary hero and the villain of the MCU.
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