Ultimates #24 and Ultimate Endgame #5, and maybe Ultimate Finale.
Are these three issues the end of the Ultimate universe? Is that really how the Ultimate Universe ends?
Damn, I knew it was rushed, but I didn't know it was this bad.
This is exactly why you’ve dropped to now my 2nd favorite Spider-Man! Ya had one job! One job and ya blew it!…..just like Spider-Man!? Oh wait no that’s par for the course never mind your fine 😂
So we got a vial of ionic energy, a red crystal aka gem of cyttorak, the eye of agamatto?, and 2 band?
I made a replica of Ultimate Nico Minoru's Staff of One out of wood.
As the Ultimate Universe is going down in flames, and Ultimate Wolverine is shaping up to tbe the most irrelevant, shitty part of the Ultimate line, a thought occurred to me the other day of what they should have done with that series instead of a downright standard Logan series.
One thought was that we just make Sabretooth the Wolverine stand-in, as at least that would be semi-original but then I had another thought.
What if instead of Logan, due to the changed nature of this universe it was Scott Summers who wound up as Directorate X's super-soldier?
My thinking is that as Professor Thornton was killed by the Maker before completing his Adamantium bonding process, it could be shown to have came to a dead-end as a result of this. Instead, Directorate X's research went in a different direction like say...enhanced energy projection.
As a result, Scott ends up being the Mutant turned into Directorate X's brainwashed hitman with a different explanation for why he can't switch off his optic blasts, as well as why it can vary between being more like lasers but also like concussive force.
He might have been given some cybernetic upgrades to increase his durability and ability to detect people, overall I see him as more of a ranged fighter who might be most often be deployed to kill from a distance. His lack of a healing factor might also lead to a Winter Soldier who's much more strategically inclined than Logan is.
How such a series could work, well its irrelevant given that the Ultimate Universe is ending, the people who wrote Ultimate Wolverine are dumber than rocks, and Ultimate Cyclops was just a mindless cyborg anyway, all I'm just proposing is that 'Cyclops as Weapon X' would've at least worked better than whatever they ultimately went with.
I feel SpiderCat would be a bit basic, especially since that's often specifically Peter x Felicia... Any suggestions?
I would really want the aspects of teh Uptimate x-men to be adapted more in depth and sort of make armor more of a focal point again in a younger xmen lineup.
Such a small thing, yet it never fails to annoy me. The is maker supposed to specifically be a younger reed. I know I know he’s basically a bagillion years old technically but he virtually stopped aging in his 20s.
Yes yes I know that this is just a mental projection of humanoid maker. And I know this isn’t the first time artists have drawn maker reed as older, but I was under the presumption that those were clearly errors. Feels so weird seeing him with the grey sides. Him being a young reed from a relative standpoint is a pretty important and distinctive feature for the character that makes him stand out from 616 reed imo. Really helps distinguish him from the simplicity of “reed but evil”.
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I don’t need a muh tragic backstory or anything, but I would appreciate some issues showing his origins and how he rose to power. He’s an interesting character, yet he has no mainstream universe counterpart so I’d like learn more about him.
Seeing how the end of this universe I once had such high hopes for and was excited to see the conclusion of this 2 year arc and the epic finale where they’ve taken what’s happened over the last two years of preparation and after a vigorous battle with the maker in the city they’d find a way curb him, I understand I should always set my expectations at a certain level but I didn’t expect two major players in the game to be so unceremoniously dispatched in the wickedest of ways, seeing this just felt so off especially when it felt like both of these heroes were just getting their time to shine , cap was building a rapport with all the new heroes he was recruiting and building to a better future and then within one issue cap is ruined to emotional pieces because he had to put down Bucky which I understand but in the end he made that call and there are much larger stakes at hand currently, to be tossed aside by captain Britain just seemed so belittling to a character who had so much potential depth in him with the slight twist on the man stuck in ice waking up to a country that dosing exist anymore plot. I will never forget you soldier
Now spidermen especially in his line in ultimate spiderman has been put to the side for half of the comic books life span had it just ended the other month on a hopeful ending of them being united as a family for what to come and Peter ends up getting merked by his own suit without a fight??? I don’t know, ultimate peter could have been so much more and could have even been the face that inspired heroes in the ultimate line seeing as he served as a perfect example of someone just getting into the fight and doing what they can little by little, but none of that happened.
Ultimately I don’t know, this really worries me for the ultimate fate of Tony, I don’t want to see him go out sad
Seeing how the end of this universe I once had such high hopes for is concluding, I really thought I was gearing up to see the conclusion of a two-year arc and an epic finale. One where everything built over this long stretch would finally pay off, where after a brutal, hard-fought battle with the Maker in the city, they’d find a way to finally put him down and for the first time in their lives, take control of their own destiny.
I know I should keep my expectations in check, but I genuinely didn’t expect two major players to be dispatched so unceremoniously.
It just felt off, especially when it seemed like both of these heroes were finally getting their time to shine. Cap was building something real in this world, forming a rapport with the new heroes, trying to shape a better future, and then within a single issue he’s reduced to emotional ruin after being forced to put down Bucky. I understand the weight of that choice, and I get the friendship they had for sure, but it still felt like he was being tossed aside right when his arc was reaching something meaningful instead of being shoe-pinned. And then to have him tossed aside by Captain Britain just felt belittling in a way that belittles how much potential depth he had, especially with that twist on the “man out of time” who wakes up to a country that doesn’t exist anymore. I will never forget you Soldier.
And then there’s Spider-Man. Especially in Ultimate Spider-Man, he’s been pushed to the side for a good portion of the series’ life span, only for things to finally land on a hopeful note recently, with the idea of him being reunited with his family and what comes next. And then Peter just gets merked by his own suit without even really getting a fight??? I don’t know. Ultimate Peter could have been so much more. He could have been the heart of this entire Ultimate line, the one who embodies what it means to step into the fight early, learn as you go, and keep pushing forward no matter how small the progress. But none of that really came to be.
Ultimately I don’t know, this really worries me for the ultimate fate of Tony, I don’t want to see him go out sad 😞
Is the maker only this successful against heros when they aren't already an establishment. Say for example The Ultimates were able to beat him twice in the span of months among each other. I know the situations are so different with maker having limitless time to set his plans in place. But The Ultimates really had a weaker overall cast when we look back at it. I would say the only advantage the original ultimates had on the new universe was the establishment of shield and its abilities.
