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[[File:the_ultimates2_issue1_3375.jpg|frame|All your favorite Marvel superheroes....only jerkier.]]
Marvel Comics reimagining of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] as part of their new [[Ultimate Marvel]] continuity, courtesy of Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch. The series focuses on the government and [[SHIELD]] developing a superhuman army in order to effectively combat the rise of super terrorism and other [[Person of Mass Destruction|Persons of Mass Destruction]]. The Ultimates 3 was penned by Jeph Loeb and Joe Madureira.
The original run was made up of three miniseries
* ''The Ultimates''. 13 issues, from March, 2002 to April, 2004.
* ''The Ultimates 2''. 13 issues, from February, 2005 to February, 2007.
* ''The Ultimates 3''. 5 issues, from February to November, 2008.
After ''[[Ultimatum]]'', the concept was rebooted into two series: ''Ultimate Avengers'' and ''New Ultimates''. Ultimate Avengers, by Millar and various artists was told over the course of 3 six issue arcs, centering on the returned Ultimate Nick Fury, Hawkeye along with featuring new Ultimate versions of Marvel characters and original creations for the team of Black Ops super heroes. New Ultimates by Loeb and Frank Cho told the story of most of the remaining original Ultimate team, including Captain America as they faced off against another threat.
The two teams would ultimate clash later on in the ''Ultimate Avengers vs New Ultimates'' crossover,which tied into the Ultimate line event "The Death of Spider-Man" leading to a line reboot that had [[The Ultimates]] get another series titled ''Ultimate Comics: [[The Ultimates]]'', as well as giving ''Ultimate Hawkeye'' his own mini-series.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Apparently {{spoiler|Tony Stark is dying}}. You'd never know it because they only mention it once and he never does.
** {{spoiler|It was a tumor and its back as of issue 10 of the latest Ultimates series. }}
* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: {{spoiler|Captain America after the events of Death of Spider-Man.}}
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Tony, even a robot double that impersonates him.
* [[Alien Invasion]]: Luckily {{spoiler|it's an [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]] since they were already damaged and on the run.}}
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* [[America Saves the Day]]: Deconstructed. The team is American, but other countries start worrying about the Ultimates being used in ''their'' countries, whether they like it or not. There's also several European Super-Soldier initiatives {{spoiler|including Thor, who is really a Norwegian nutjob who stole the prototype tech for his country's hero. Except in the end he [[Physical God|really isn't]].}}
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: the Chitauri
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* [[Badass]]: Cap, Fury, Hawkeye, Black Widow. Others have their [[Badass]] moments (except Giant-Man-- the closest he gets is a nude-ass moment).
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Wanda in death.
* [[Big Bad]]: Herr Kleiser in ''The Ultimates''; Loki in ''The Ultimates 2''; The Maker in the 2011 [[The Ultimates]] series.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Quicksilver is ''very'' protective of his sister.
* [[Bishonen]]: Loki
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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Basically everyone except Giant-Man.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Combined with [[Affirmative Action Legacy]]--the Ultimate Universe of Nick Fury was recently introduced into the classic Marvel Universe as the original Nick Fury's son.
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Ultimate Thor ''is'' 21st Century Jesus, even moreso than his [[Hijacked by Jesus]] 616 counterpart.
* [[Cult]]: Thor's followers
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Darker than [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]], Edgiest of [[Ultimate Marvel]]
* [[Day of the Jackboot]]: The Liberators invade the U.S., {{spoiler|for like an hour}}.
* [[Decompressed Comic]]
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: "Giant-Man vs. the Wasp" treats {{spoiler|spousal abuse}} as an [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]].
* [[Defictionalization]]: {{spoiler|As mentioned elsewhere on this page, Nick Fury was deliberately modeled after Samuel Jackson and Nick Fury says in comic that Hollywood would most likely cast Jackson to play him. Six years later, Jackson plays Nick Fury in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].}}
* [[De-Power]]: {{spoiler|Thor after the Asgard is destroyed by the forces of the City. Forcing him to have to use a [[Powered Armor]] and weapons to still fight alongside the Ultimates.}}
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* [[Faked Rip Van Winkle]]: Cap suspects this upon his awakening, only discover that no, its a real [[Rip Van Winkle]].
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Cap.
* [[Flanderization]]: In some ways, the Ultimates are the original Avengers with each of their most noted personality aspects amplified to eleven though Millar managed to keep them interesting. The trope was fully unleashed, however, when Loeb took over.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Fury pretty much says flat out in the first Annual that that's the way his world is.
* [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]]: The Ultimate Marvel buzzword is ''Person'' of Mass Destruction.
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* [[Real After All]]: {{spoiler|Thor really IS the Norse God of Thunder}}.
* [[Reality Warper]]: {{spoiler|Loki}}
* [[Redshirt Army]]: 20,000 SHIELD elite troops go into the bag when the Chitauri nuke their own base in Micronesia. Also, most of the Ultimate Reserves are killed in the beginning of the Liberators attack.
* [[Relationship Reveal]]: Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: The Ultron units in Volume 3.
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* [[Super Soldier]]: The basic premise, and the origin of most, {{spoiler|actually all--except Thor}}, superhumans.
** {{spoiler|You forgot the Fantastic Four, and Captain Mar-Vell, and Doctor Strange, and Blade, and Daredevil...}}
* [[Temporal Paradox]]: The City that Reed Richards designs in the latest series is one big ball of paradox, while it exists in the present, within its walls generations pass while Reed was expanding it with the outer edges closer to normal time. While inside its walls, time moved at an accelerated rate the closer one got to the Core, so as one moved within the City's limits the further into the future it traveled until the City stopped expanding. {{spoiler|Which it wound up taking out Germany and a good chunk of Europe when they reach its current size. }}
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Goes hand in hand with [[Oh Crap]]. Honestly, if someone tries to say that {{spoiler|Thor ''isn't'' the god of thunder, and is instead a deranged scientist}}, they will proved wrong mere moments later.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Nobody seems to do anything about Hawkeye's obvious PTSD.
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