Ultimates (Earth-1610)
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The Ultimates were a group of superhumans created when the President of the United States approved a new defense budget to combat the growing risk of the U.S. being attacked by supervillians.
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General Nicholas Fury was chosen as the liaison between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the new group. He often acted as the group's leader.
The first members were Hank Pym (Giant-Man), his wife Janet (Wasp), and Tony Stark, (Iron Man). Bruce Banner was made the new science director, attempting to duplicate the super soldier serum.
Finding the body of Captain America, they examined it hoping to at least gain a sample of the serum. Instead, Steve Rogers was revived.
They also found a strange man claiming to be the Norse thunder god. Thor agreed to join the team, but only if the President would triple the funds allocated to environmental issues in the budget.
The team later enter their first mission in battling an enraged Hulk in New York City, and successfully subdues him. Later the former members of the Brotherhood of Mutants, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver joined in the ranks of the Ultimates along with Black Widow. The team found themselves in humanity's old war against the alien race, the Chitauri in which they successfully save the Earth and the Solar System from a Chitauri super-bomb. After the defeat of the Chitauri, the Ultimates are immediately praised as heroes to the world.
However, months after the defeat of the Chitauri, the Ultimates had been serving the United States government as part of its "police" force in the War on Terror, thus alienating many nations of the world, particularly in teaming up with the European Super-Soldier Initiative to invade a Middle Eastern nation for possessing nuclear weapons. The team also suffer internal conflicts and problems: the alienation of Hank Pym, Janet's dissatisfied marital relationship with a "old" minded Captain America, Bruce Banner's identity as the Hulk revealed to the public and was sentenced to be killed but only to escape, and Thor being labeled as a insane person and imprisoned by his own teammates.
It is then revealed that the cause of the ruination of Hulk and Thor was due to a traitor among the Ultimates, later revealed to be Black Widow, infiltrated and betrayed the group, in order leave the American country open to attack from the Liberators. The Liberators quickly killed the reserves and captured all of the Ultimates save for the Wasp. Thanks to her ability to move undetected, the Ultimates were able to escape and counterattack against the Liberators.
After their battle with The Liberators, the Ultimates, having experienced that working with the United States government and its resulted upbringing was not worth fighting for, decided to leave S.H.I.E.L.D., and continued to work as a independent superhero team instead.
Later the now-independent superhero team later gained new members including a more successful Valkyrie and Black Panther (who was revealed to be Steve Rogers). The team was manipulated and almost replace by Hank Pym's Ultron robot which was obsessed with Scarlet Witch, who was killed by the machine out of jealousy. The Ultimates, with the help of Pym, Wolverine, and Kazar stopped and destroyed Ultron but at the apparent cost of Quick Silver's life which shock and angers his father Magneto. Unbeknown to all participating parties, Doctor Doom orchestrated the entire events for his own ambitions.
Ultimately, Magneto's rage over his son's death was directly focus on destroying humankind causing the Ultimatum event. After New York City was engulf in a tsunami, many of the Ultimate members were separated from each other. Wasp was later discover dead and her body partially eaten by Blob, which an angered Hank later kill the cannibal. Captain America was in a coma cause from the tsunami and on the verge of dying but his soul along with Valkyrie were save by Thor in the afterlife, but the thunder god died in his efforts against Hela's undead army.
After Captain America awaken from his coma, the Ultimates then arrive to the Triskelion to stop a horde of Jamie Madrox's duplicates, acting as suicide bombers, from damaging the facility. hank Pym gather all the Madroxs in his giant form and out to sea, where he allows himself to be blown up with them. Captain America later orders the remaining Ultimates to gather any remaining heroes to battle Magneto, who wields Thor's hammer at his citadel. Together with some members of the X-Men, the Ultimates fought long against Magneto until he was killed by Cyclops. After this the Ultimates and the other heroes destroyed Magneto's citadel.
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See Also
- Appearances of Ultimates (Earth-1610)
- Team Gallery: Ultimates (Earth-1610)
- Fan-Art Gallery: Ultimates (Earth-1610)
- Images that include Ultimates (Earth-1610)
Links and References
- The Ultimates @ ULTIMATE X
- Ultimates/Covers
- Ultimate Power/Covers
- Ultimates Volume 1
- Ultimates Volume 2
