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The series lasted for sixty issues, from February, 2004 to April, 2009. As of ''[[Ultimatum]]'', the series was canceled and the Four have broken up: Sue continues her research at the Baxter Building, Ben's a test pilot for SHIELD, Johnny's moved in with [[Ultimate Spider-Man|Spider-Man]], and Reed moved back in with his family. In the "Ultimate Doomsday" trilogy of miniseries, it was discovered that {{spoiler|Reed had become disgruntled, turning villainous in wanting to change the world by force.}} Meanwhile, Ben has shed his stone skin, becoming physically human again but having unknown energy powers. Johnny later became a member of the [[Ultimate X-Men]].
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Both Reed and Victor.
* [[Academy of Adventure]]: The Baxter Building, before the accident that empowered the Four. (Though Reed pointed out that "it wasn't [[Harry Potter|Hogwarts]]", as the military was there in case people had to be protected from the students.) Afterward, the other kids were sent to another facility.
* [[Action Girl]]: Right off the bat, Sue is much more assertive, is a biologist at the Baxter Building and almost immediately realizes her full potential as the most powerful member of the team.
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: {{spoiler|Reed Richards}}.
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* [[Animated Armor]]: How Doom sees himself at least. A perfect suit of Wallachian armor.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Crimson Dynamo, doubles as a [[Retired Badass]].
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: {{spoiler|One of the most brilliant people in the world, [[Freudian Excuse|who grew up bullied and unappreciated]], thinks he has the answers to every problem that comes his way, and wants desperately to make the world a better place but feels interminably frustrated at being under the military's thumb. [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|What could go wrong?]]}}
* [[A Birthday, Not a Break]]: Victor finds out about his family history.
* [[Body Horror]]: Red Ghost
** Ben and Reed count as well. Ben has stone skin, and it's apparently a miracle that he can even breath...and Reed ''has no internal organs''.
* [[Breakup Breakout]]: Johnny's the only one of the Four to make regular appearances since ''Ultimatum''.
* [[The Bro Code]]: In ''Ultimate Enemy'', Ben confesses to Sue that he's fallen for her, but had refused to act on or acknowledge those feelings because she was with Reed. After some consideration, Sue realizes that [[Love Epiphany|she felt the same way.]] Though we never get to see how this might have effected Ben's friendship with Reed, since {{spoiler|the team had already dissolved}} by the time Ben confessed, and by the time Sue and Ben {{spoiler|got together, Reed was trapped in the N-Zone, apparently presumed dead.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Strange Josie was mentioned as one of many Baxter Building students with weird hobbies before appearing as an actual character.
* [[Clock Roaches]]: The Argiopes
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* [[Made of Iron]]: Doom literally after the accident.
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Lt. Lumpkin.
* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You|Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: {{spoiler|Susan and Johnny's mom faked her death}} so that she could study Atlantis. {{spoiler|Susan}} is unimpressed.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Rhona Burchill (the "Mad Thinker")
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Thing lampshades this when the crew meets Ultimate Annihilus for the first time.
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* [[Never My Fault]]: Victor blames Reed for the accident that transformed the five of them, saying that Reed's work was so wrong, that even he couldn't fix it. The "President Thor" arc showed what would have happened if he hadn't messed with the equipment.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Reed created the Cosmic Cube to defend Earth against Thanos... which is exactly what Thanos was manipulating him to do.
** Finally subverted in the ''Ultimate Power'' crossover. At first it looks like Reed's probes triggered the disaster that ravaged the [[Supreme Power]] universe, but in fact it was a conspiracy between Doom and Emil Burbank.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Victor changes the figures in Reed's N-Zone experiment, and winds up transforming himself and the Fantastic Four. {{spoiler|Turns out that if Victor ''hadn't'' altered the calculations, Reed would have made first contact with the Skrulls and doomed the human race to extinction}}.
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Ben. {{spoiler|Even more so after be evolves.}}
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* [[Series Continuity Error]]: {{spoiler|The Maker Reed shows to Falcon how he keeps his intellect always a few steps ahead of The Children by enlongating his brain}}, that shouldn't be possible or even necessary; to elaborate: in the first run of ''UFF'' Sue ran some tests on Reed and found out that his organism was completely mutated, he became a worm-like being with just a core, no organs other than that, and later Sue's mother remarked that Reed was getting smarter by the minute due his mutation; so {{spoiler|in the spam of a thousand years Reed would be evolve his genius naturaly, and there would be no brain for him to enlongate}}.
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Reed tries to use time travel to make sure the transporter test goes as planned. It works, but the new Ben Grimm ends up traveling back in and time and sabotaging it himself due to what happens.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Sue and Reed. {{spoiler|Or so it first seems, before their relationship ends disastrously and Reed turns out not be such a good man. Played straight in ''Ultimate Enemy'', when Sue finds a much healthier relationship with Ben.}}
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Reed disposed of {{spoiler|the Cosmic Cube}} by sending it back in time, where {{spoiler|Thanos}} first found it.
* [[Team Mom]]: Sue, as usual
* [[Un-Sorcerer]]: The "President Thor" arc.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Revka Temerlune Edifex Scyros III ("Psycho-Man"), enslaved an entire world by making them unable to feel anything but happiness, and did the same thing with the human-race after the populace of his home-world were brought out of his mind-control and their first encounter with negative emotions [[Freak-Out|caused them to kill themselves and each other.]]
** In ''Ultimate Enemy'', {{spoiler|Reed Richards}} decides that blowing up buildings with tentacle monsters is a good way to stop people from using science for the wrong reasons.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: In the post-series ''Ultimate Enemy'' trilogy, {{spoiler|Reed turns into one.}}
* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: Both Strange Josie and Namor have wondered enviously why Sue is dating Reed.
* [[Why Are You Not My Son?]]: Reed's father very much prefers Ben to his own son, apparently for his athletic abilities, and because he finds Reed's genius to be a nuisance.
* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: Ben can still go to the bathroom, but you don't wanna know the details.
** It's even worse when he has gas.
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