The Ultimates: Difference between revisions

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.

* [[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.}}

* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Ultron

* [[Anti -Hero]]: Most of the Ultimates members. The Avengers team in particular is a black-ops team meant to handle jobs the Ultimates won't take. {{spoiler|They've recruited The Punisher into their ranks...}}

* [[Anti -Hero Substitute]]: The Ultimate Avengers are a team of anti-hero substitutes for the, er... anti-heroes of the Ultimates.

* [[Big Bad]]: Herr Kleiser in ''The Ultimates''; Loki in ''The Ultimates 2''; The Maker in the 2011 [[The Ultimates]] series.

* [[Brother -Sister Incest]]: Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, going from implied to straight up stated. Caused ''major'' [[Squick]] reactions.

* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Ultimate Thor ''is'' 21st Century Jesus, even moreso than his [[Hijacked Byby Jesus]] 616 counterpart.

* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: "Giant-Man vs. the Wasp" treats {{spoiler|spousal abuse}} as an [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]].

* [[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.}}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Fury's [[Super Empowering|empowering]] in ''Ultimate Origins'' is eerily reminiscent of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: {{spoiler|Wasp. So much.}}

* [[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.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|[[Ultimate Spider -Man]], Peter Parker takes a bullet meant for Captain America. He possibly could have survived had he not had to then go face off against a group of his own rogues that were attacking his family.}}

* [[Hypothetical Casting]]: At one point, they sit around while being transported via cargo plane talking about who would play them in the movie of their lives. Naturally, [[Nick Fury]] says [[Samuel L. Jackson]] (on whom Ultimate Nick Fury was based).

* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: Ultimate [[Red Skull]] is {{spoiler|Cap's illegitimate son}}.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Samuel L. Jackson]] as Nick Fury.

{{quote| '''Hulk:''' HULK SMASH FREDDIE PRINZE JUNIOR!}}

* [[Piggybacking Onon Hitler]]: Herr Kleiser was Captain America's chief nemesis during the Second World War, but was actually {{spoiler|an alien known as a Chitauri (aka a Skrull) that ate the real Kleiser and impersonated him, backing Hitler by giving the Nazis advanced weaponry. Really, this was just a scheme to soften the Earth up for a full-scale invasion.}}

* [[Race Lift]]: Nick Fury is black (and a dead ringer for [[Samuel L. Jackson]]), and Wasp is Asian.

* [[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.

* [[Ridiculously -Human Robots]]: The Ultron units in Volume 3.

* [[Shout -Out]]: Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen appear, unnamed, as part of a 60 Minutes interview staff.

* [[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. }}

* [[This Cannot Be!]]: [[Smug Snake]] Kleiser's repeated reaction to any event he hasn't planned for is a [[Dull Surprise|blank stare]] and a stunned "...What?" which is apparently Chitauri for "[[Oh Crap]]".

* [[Who Shot JFK?]]: It was {{spoiler|Red Skull.}}

* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]: The team discusses who would play themselves in a film adaptation.

* ~[[Why Won't You Die?~]]: Heroic example, Cap says it about Kleiser.