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"Ultimate Marvel" thematic stories
The Official Handbook of the Ultimate Marvel Universe.jpg

Cover to The Official Handbook of the Ultimate Marvel Universe: Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates

Publication information
Schedule Varied
Title(s) List of publications
Formats Varied
Original language English
Genre
  • Superhero
Publication engagement 2000 – 2015
Creative team
Writer(s)
  • Brian Michael Bendis
  • Warren Ellis
  • Mark Millar
Penciller(due south)
  • Mark Bagley
  • Bryan Hitch
Editor(due south) Joe Quesada

Ultimate Curiosity, later on known every bit Ultimate Comics, was an imprint of comic books published by Marvel Comics, featuring re-imagined and modernized versions of the company'south superhero characters from the Ultimate Curiosity Universe. Those characters include Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Ultimates (the Ultimate Marvel Universe counterpart of the Avengers), the Fantastic Four, and others. The imprint was launched in 2000 with the publication of the series Ultimate Spider-Homo and Ultimate X-Men in 2001, followed by The Ultimates and Ultimate Fantastic Four in 2002 and 2004 respectively providing new origin stories for the characters. The reality of Ultimate Marvel is designated as World-1610 every bit role of the Marvel Comics Multiverse.

The Ultimate Universe, as a part of a large-calibration reboot of the All-New, All-Dissimilar Marvel multiverse, ended at the decision of the 2022 "Secret Wars" storyline, when select characters from the Ultimate Universe moved to the mainstream universe.[1] However, writer Brian Michael Bendis established at the end of the 2022 miniseries Spider-Men II that the universe and its superheroes still exist.[2]

Publication history [edit]

Background [edit]

In the late 1990s, the US comic book industry had declining sales. Annual combined sales from all publishers, which had been shut to a billion dollars in 1993, had declined to 270 million. The bubble that held comic books every bit valuable collectible items burst. In addition, the poor reception of the Batman & Robin film cast doubts on the prospects of whatever other comic volume cinematic adaption. Curiosity Comics went through a Affiliate 11 bankruptcy, many notable artists left the company, and their rival, DC Comics, topped them in sales. Brian Michael Bendis, who was hired to start the imprint, said that "when I got hired, I literally thought I was going to be writing ane of the concluding — if non the last — Marvel comics".[3]

Comic book continuity, which had been a key to the success of Marvel Comics in its early years, turned into a problem for some readers. All stories had to fit into a sixty-year continuity, a bar that not all fans could reach and which scared away some new readers. The usual fashion of superhero comics with pages of garish colors, fantastical villains and convoluted plots was of trivial interest to immature adult audiences, who preferred the manner set by the Matrix franchise. Most superheroes were adults, even those that started as teenagers, such as Spider-Man and the X-Men.[3] Previous attempts to cut the long continuity did not work as expected: DC's Crunch on Infinite Earths and Zippo Hour: Crisis in Time caused several plot contradictions, and Marvel's Heroes Reborn was panned past critics and fans.[3] The Nighttime Age of Comic Books tried to counter the campiness of the Silvery Age with violence and shocking content, just the tendency was declining every bit well.[4]

Creation [edit]

The thought for the Ultimate imprint was developed past Neb Jemas. A lawyer who had worked mainly at the collectible-trading-card industry before that indicate, he had petty interaction with the product of comic books. In his perspective, the main problem of Curiosity Comics was that it was "publishing stories that were all but incommunicable for teens to read — and unaffordable, to boot".[3] He worked on an idea given by a CEO of the Wizard magazine: reboot the heroes to their original character premise. Marvel'southward editor-in-main Joe Quesada preferred to start an imprint with new heroes, only accepted Jemas' proposal. The working title for the banner at that betoken was "Footing Zilch".[3] Dissimilar previous reboots, there was no in-story explanation for the existence of the banner, and the standard comic books were still existence published, unaffected by the new projection. Thus, Ultimate Spider-Man would incorporate the stories of a new teenager Spider-Man starting his career, and the usual Spider-Man titles would even so comprise the stories of the adult Spider-Human with nigh forty years worth of continuity.[3]

Quesada then hired Brian Michael Bendis, an artist from indie publishers, for the first comic volume of the banner, Ultimate Spider-Man. One of the previous auditioners had fabricated a discussion-by-word rewrite of the Astonishing Fantasy #15 comic (the debut of Spider-Human), in a modern setting. Bendis preferred to avoid that writing style completely. Instead, he changed the narration manner, so that it resembled a TV series more than than a classic superhero comic book. There were no idea bubbling or long expositions, and the start issue did non feature any superhero costume. Jemas tried to bring more notice into the comic book past distributing it at concatenation stores similar Payless Shoes and Walmart. The sales rose, and the comic book was acclaimed by critics.[3] The art was created by Mark Bagley, known for his work on Spider-Man and Venom stories in the 1990s. The Bendis/Bagley partnership of 111 sequent bug fabricated their partnership one of the longest in American comic book history, and the longest run by a Marvel creative team, beating out Stan Lee and Jack Kirby on Fantastic Four.[5]

Ultimate X-Men was also launched in 2001. It was initially delayed past the search for a creative squad, and even Bendis' proposed scripts were rejected. The new title was finally given to Mark Millar, who had a controversial run in DC's The Authority. The 2 authors had alien styles: Bendis sought to modernize the old superhero tropes, and Millar sought to critique them. While Bendis tried to write atemporal stories, Millar preferred to fix his stories among the political tensions of the time, with edgy, quick activity-driven stories and making the relationship between humans and mutants more than realistic and distrustful. The first result of Ultimate X-Men sold 117,085 copies in a calendar month.[three] Defective previous cognition most the characters, Millar based his general typhoon of the series on the 2000 Ten-Men film.[6]

Jemas and Quesada paired Millar with creative person Bryan Hitch, who had also worked with The Authority, but in a run that did not overlap with Millar'due south. They would reimagine the Avengers, who were renamed equally "the Ultimates". Unlike the simple updates of the Spider-Human being and X-Men titles, the Ultimates were a consummate reimagination of the Avengers, with very trivial in common with the mainstream title. Ultimate Captain America got a rash and soldierly personality, Hulk was written as a murderous and cannibalistic monster that kills hundreds of civilians, and Thor was ambiguously introduced as either an actual Norse god (as in the master comics) or a man with stolen weapons and a psychiatric disorder.[7] Nick Fury, originally a caucasian character in the Marvel-616 Universe, was modeled after the histrion Samuel Fifty. Jackson, and the new design somewhen overshadowed the original one, existence incorporated into the mainstream Marvel-616 universe and all new media adaptions of the characters.[7] The main premise was to write a comic that looked the style a superhero motion picture about the Avengers should look. At that point, the Marvel Cinematic Universe had not been created, and the prospect of a pic nearly the Avengers was remote. The series was a huge success, and became the single best-selling comic of the year.[3]

The Ultimate Marvel imprint was benefited by the gimmicky topics that took place. Terrorism resurfaced into the public perception as a clear, dangerous and complex menace, which reduced the credibility of the usual supervillains of superhero fiction. Fictional conflicts involving explosions and property damage became more ominous. The Ultimate Marvel comics incorporated those topics into their plots, which would eventually get commonplace in the whole comic volume industry.[vii]

Ultimatum [edit]

Jemas was fired from Marvel in 2004, and Millar and Hitch left the Ultimates after writing a 2d miniseries. Sci-fi writer Orson Scott Carte du jour wrote a miniseries, Ultimate Iron Homo, which was poorly received and later retconned as an in-universe TV show. In 2008, Quesada considered that the Ultimate imprint needed a large crossover event to proceed the interest of the audiences, and hired Jeph Loeb for a third Ultimates miniseries that would lead to such event. This miniseries relied on shock value and gratuitous amounts of death and violence, instead of the political overtones of the first two. The fine art by Joe Madureira was standard superhero art, instead of the cinematic activity provided by Hitch. The miniseries had decent sales, but was almost-universally panned past critics.[iii]

The series was followed by 2009's Ultimatum, a crossover between the Ultimate titles. In five problems, the story kills off thirty-four characters with an increased amount of graphic violence. The series was both a critical and commercial failure, and it has since been regarded as one of the worst comic books of all-time. The sales of the whole banner were decreased, and never returned to their pre-Ultimatum figures.[3] After the crossover, Ultimate 10-Men and Ultimate Fantastic 4 were cancelled, with a last outcome for each title named Ultimate Requiem to give closure to their plots.

Ultimate Comics relaunches [edit]

The Ultimate Marvel banner was re-launched, as "Ultimate Comics".[eight] Ultimate Spider-Man was renamed as Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, and the line was joined later by Ultimate Comics: Avengers and Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates. New Ultimates featured the reconstruction of the team, and was made by Loeb and Frank Cho. Avengers features a black-operations superhero squad, and was made by Millar and several artists.

There was a new relaunch shortly later on, named "Ultimate Comics Universe Reborn".[9] Both teams met in Avengers vs. New Ultimates, where Nick Fury is reinstalled every bit director of SHIELD and the teams merge over again into a single squad, the Ultimates. This team would so be featured in Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates, written by Jonathan Hickman. The Death of Spider-Human being features the expiry of Peter Parker and his nemesis, the Green Goblin. An Afro-Hispanic teenager, Miles Morales, becomes the new Spider-Man. He was featured in Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, still written by Bendis.[10] The X-Men were relaunched in the miniseries Ultimate Comics: X, which introduced Jimmy Hudson, the son of Wolverine. This miniseries was followed past Ultimate Comics: 10-Men, written past Nick Spencer, who explored the X-Men mythos in a setting where both Charles Xavier and Magneto are dead.[eleven]

Initially, Marvel resisted the idea of crossovers [12] betwixt the Ultimate and the mainstream universes (although the idea had been teased for what turned out to exist the get-go of the Curiosity Zombies series),[xiii] but eventually relented. The beginning crossover was the Spider-Men miniseries, between Miles Morales and the developed Peter Parker. It was made for the 50th anniversary of Spider-Human.[fourteen] [fifteen] All-New Ten-Men, as well written by Bendis, had a story where the chief characters got stranded in the Ultimate universe and teamed-upwardly with Morales.[16] However, Bendis and Fialkov agreed that crossovers should exist done sparingly, to keep them interesting, and cited the creative decay in the Marvel/DC intercompany crossovers as a justification.[17]

The Age of Ultron crossover, between the mainstream comics, concluded with Galactus displaced into the Ultimate universe. This premise started the "Calamity" crossover in the Ultimate imprint, which was followed by yet some other new relaunch.[xviii] The Ultimates disbanded after the crossover, and were replaced by a completely different squad, led by Miles Morales. This team starred in All-New Ultimates, past Michel Fiffe and Amilcar Pinna. Spider-Homo was relaunched in Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man, which included the return of Peter Parker and the Green Goblin. Ultimate FF ("FF" standing for "Future Foundation", not "Fantastic Four") featured the "incursions", a multiversal threat that was being used in Hickman's run on the principal universe's Avengers, and which would pb to the Secret Wars crossover. Ultimate FF was cancelled, aslope the Fantastic Four comic book, as a result of the disputes between Marvel and 20th Century Fox over the motion-picture show rights over the characters.[19]

Conclusion [edit]

The 2022 "Clandestine Wars" storyline concluded the Ultimate Curiosity imprint. In the plot, it was destroyed alongside all the other alternate realities in the multiverse, and then recreated as a region of the Battleworld. Ultimate Finish, gear up in such region, is the last story of the Ultimate banner. It was produced by Bendis and Bagley, the team that started the imprint.[20] Miles Morales, a character that originated in the Ultimate Universe to accept over the mantle of Spider-Man when the Ultimate Universe'due south Peter Parker died, was migrated to the Curiosity-616 universe, forth with his supporting cast, a development that saw his mother restored to life, following her decease in a 2013 storyline.[21] The story, however, is largely a team-up of characters from the Ultimate and mainstream Marvel universes, with only a superficial relation with the plot of the crossover. Matt Petty from CBR suspects that the story may have been conceived at some before point, and so slightly modified to serve as a tie-in for Secret Wars.[22] [23]

Aaron Davis, Morales' uncle, makes his first Marvel-616 appearance in Spider-Man #234.[24] The Maker, an evil Reed Richards, is also restored to life and moved to Curiosity-616, where he is a recurring villain in the Infamous Fe Man comic book. The hammer of Ultimate Thor (lost in the Cataclysm crossover) is establish by Thor Odinson, who is non capable at the time to wield his classic hammer, owned by Jane Foster. He refuses to take the new hammer, which is then lifted by Volstagg in the Unworthy Thor miniseries.[23] Jimmy Hudson, the son of Ultimate Wolverine, is too revealed to be alive in the new continuity, though this was not explained at first,[23] [25] information technology was eventually established that during the last incursion that caused the clash between Earth-616 and Globe-1610, with both universe'due south planets Earth acting every bit the collision indicate of this phenomenon, Jimmy Hudson, Quicksilver, Mach-Two, Armor and Guardian roughshod from their reality into the other. When the Multiverse was eventually rebuilt, these mutants became stranded in the Prime Earth, suffering from amnesia equally a by-product of their transition from one reality to another.[26]

After "Underground Wars", Marvel published a new comic book named Ultimates, though it diameter no relation with the imprint beyond the name.[23] The Ultimates ii #10, renumbered as #100 under the Marvel Legacy relaunch, features the Ultimates from the Ultimate universe.[27] Bendis left Marvel Comics in 2017, and moved to DC Comics. I of his terminal comic books was a 2nd volume of Spider-Men, featuring Peter Parker and Miles Morales. The miniseries ends with the Marvel-616 Miles Morales emigrating to the Ultimate Universe to exist reuniting with his lost love, following the expiry of her Curiosity-616 counterpart, confirming that the universe yet exists. A brief glimpse of the still-extant Ultimate universe is provided past artist Marker Bagley, showing that Ultimate Peter Parker, who had been revealed live in i of the last bug, has returned to the role of Spider-Man, and that he is a member of the Ultimates, equally is Riri Williams and a gray Hulk.[28] The render of the Ultimate universe was used again in 2019, in story arcs at the Venom and Miles Morales: Spider-Man comic books.[29] [xxx]

Publications [edit]

Titles in this section are organized by approximate publication date and line championship.

Ultimate Marvel (2000–2009) [edit]

  • Ultimate Spider-Man #one–133 (vol 1) (2000-2009), plus Sorcerer 1/2 special (134 issues in vol. 1 initial run)
  • Ultimate Marvel Magazine #one–11 (vol 1) (2001)
  • Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #1–sixteen (2001–2002)[note 1]
    • Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special #1 (2002)
  • Ultimate X-Men #ane–100 (2001–2009), plus Wizard i/two special (101 issues total)
  • The Ultimates #1–13 (2002–2003)
  • Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra #1–4 (2002–2003)
  • Ultimate Adventures #1–half dozen (2002–2004)
  • Ultimate War #1–iv (2002–2003)
  • Ultimate Half-dozen #1–7 (2003–2004)
  • Ultimate Fantastic Four #ane–60 (2004–2009)[note 2]
  • Ultimate Elektra #1–5 (2004)
  • Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (2004–2006)[notation iii]
    • Ultimate Nightmare #1–v (2004–2005)
    • Ultimate Secret #1–iv (2005)
    • Ultimate Extinction #1–5 (2006)
  • The Ultimates two #1–13 (2005–2007)
    • The Ultimates Saga #one (Written by C. B. Cebulski and Mindy Owens and penciled by Travis Charest with stock fine art past Bryan Hitch, 2007)
  • Ultimate Atomic number 26 Man #1–5 (2005–2006)
  • Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk #1–6 (2005–2009)
  • Ultimate X4 #ane–2 (2005–2006)
  • Ultimate Vision #0–5 (2006–2007)
  • Ultimate Ability #i–9 (2006–2008)
  • Ultimate Iron Man II #1–5 (2007–2008)
  • Ultimate Human #1–4 (2008)
  • The Ultimates three #1–5 (2008)
  • Ultimate Origins #one–v (2008)
  • March on Ultimatum Saga #1 (2008)
  • Ultimate Captain America Almanac #1 (2008)
  • Ultimate Fantastic Four/Ultimate Ten-Men Annual #1 (2008)
  • Ultimate Hulk Almanac #1 (2008)
  • Ultimate X-Men/Ultimate Fantastic Four Almanac #i (2008)
  • Ultimatum (2008–2009)[annotation 4]
    • Ultimatum #1–5 (2008–2009)
    • Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem #1–2 (2009)
    • Ultimatum: Fantastic Iv Requiem #1 (2009)
    • Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem #i (2009)

Ultimate Comics (2009–2011) [edit]

  • Ultimate Comics: Spider-Human #i-fifteen (vol. 2) (2009-2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: Armor Wars #1–4 (2009–2010)
  • Ultimate Comics: Avengers #1–6 (2009–2010)
  • Ultimate Comics: Avengers ii #1–6 (2010)
  • Ultimate Comics: Doomsday Trilogy (2010–2011)[annotation 5]
    • Ultimate Comics: Enemy #1–4 (2010)
    • Ultimate Comics: Mystery #1–4 (2010)
    • Ultimate Comics: Doom #ane–four (2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: 10 #1–v (2010–2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates #1–5 (2010–2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: Thor #1–four (2010–2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: Captain America #1–4 (2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: Avengers 3 #1–vi (2010–2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #150-160 (reverted to original numbering) (2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: Avengers vs. New Ultimates #1–half dozen (2011)

Ultimate Comics: Reborn (2011–2014) [edit]

  • Ultimate Comics: Fallout #one-half dozen (2011)
  • Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #one-30 (2011–2013) plus #xviii.1 (31 issues total)
  • Ultimate Comics: X-Men #one-33 (2011–2013) plus #18.1 (34 bug total)
  • Ultimate Comics: All-New Spider-Man #1-28 (2011–2013) plus #16.1 (29 issues total)
  • Ultimate Comics: Hawkeye #i–4 (2011–2012)
  • Ultimate Comics: Iron Human being #1-four (2012–2013)
  • Ultimate Comics: Wolverine #one-4 (2013)
  • Hunger #1-4 (2013)[notation 6]
  • Cataclysm (2013–2014)[annotation 7]
    • Cataclysm #0.1 (2013)
    • Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand #ane-v (2013–2014)
    • Cataclysm: Ultimates #1-3 (2013–2014)
    • Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man #1-3 (2013–2014)
    • Calamity: Ultimate X-Men #1-three (2013–2014)
  • Ultimate Spider-Human being #200 (vol 1) (2014)
  • Survive! #one (2014)

Ultimate Marvel NOW! (2014–2015) [edit]

  • All-New Ultimates #one-12 (2014–2015)
  • Ultimate FF #1-half dozen (2014)
  • Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #1-12 (2014-2015)
  • Ultimate End #1-5 (2015)

Timeline [edit]

  • 1-ii. Ultimate Origins #1-ii
  • three. The Ultimates #1
  • 4-5. Ultimate Origins #3-4
  • 6-9. Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra #1-4
  • 10-fourteen. Ultimate Elektra #1-5
  • xv. Ultimate Origins #v
  • xvi-27. Ultimate Fantastic Four #1-12
  • 28-35. Ultimate Spider-Man #1-viii
  • 36-38. Ultimate Curiosity Team-Upward #1-3
  • 39-43. Ultimate Spider-Man #9-13
  • 44-45. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #4-5
  • 46-51. Ultimate X-Men #1-6
  • 52. Ultimate X-Men #½
  • 53-56. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #6-eight, #x
  • 57-59. Ultimate Spider-Man #14-16
  • 60. Ultimate Curiosity Squad-Up #11
  • 61. Ultimate Ten-Men #7
  • 62-63. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #12-thirteen
  • 64-66. Ultimate Comics: Thor #ane-three
  • 67-71. Ultimate X-Men #eight-12
  • 72. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #xiv
  • 73-74. The Ultimates #ii-iii
  • 75-85. Ultimate Spider-Human being #17-27
  • 86-87. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #fifteen-sixteen
  • 88. Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special #1
  • 89-96. Ultimate Ten-Men #13-xx
  • 97. Ultimate Comics: Thor #4
  • 98-99. The Ultimates #4-5
  • 100-104. Ultimate Spider-Man #28-32
  • 105-112. The Ultimates #6-13
  • 113-119. Ultimate Spider-Man #33-39
  • 120-124. Ultimate X-Men #21-25
  • 125-128. Ultimate State of war #1-4
  • 129-135. Ultimate X-Men #26-32
  • 136-150. Ultimate Spider-Homo #forty-45, #½, #46-53
  • 151-156. Ultimate Adventures #ane-6
  • 157-163. Ultimate Six #one-7
  • 164. Ultimate 10-Men #33
  • 165-170. Ultimate Spider-Man #54-59
  • 171-176. Ultimate X-Men #34-39
  • 177-178. Ultimate Spider-Man #lx-61
  • 179-184. Ultimate Ten-Men #40-45
  • 185-188. Ultimate Spider-Man #62-65
  • 189-192. Ultimate Ten-Men #46-49
  • 193-212. Ultimate Spider-Human being #66-85
  • 213-216. Ultimate X-Men #50-53
  • 217-237. Ultimate Fantastic Iv #13-26, Annual #1, #27-32
  • 238-242. Ultimate Nightmare #1-5
  • 243-246. Ultimate Hugger-mugger #ane-4
  • 247. "Ultimate Vision" #0
  • 248-252. Ultimate Extinction #1-5
  • 253-257. Ultimate Vision #one-5
  • 258-264. Ultimate X-Men #54-60
  • 265-270. The Ultimates 2 #ane-6
  • 271. The Ultimates Almanac #1
  • 272. Ultimate Ten-Men Annual #1
  • 273-277. Ultimate X-Men #61-65
  • 278. Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #one
  • 279-283. Ultimate Spider-Man #86-xc
  • 284-285. Ultimate X4 #1-two
  • 286-291. Ultimate X-Men #66-71
  • 292-297. Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk #1-half-dozen
  • 298-304. Ultimate Spider-Human #91-96, Annual #ii
  • 305. Ultimate Fantastic 4 Almanac #ii
  • 306-309. Ultimate X-Men #72-74, Annual #ii
  • 310-316. The Ultimates 2 #7-13
  • 317. The Ultimates Almanac #ii
  • 318. Ultimate Captain America Annual #1
  • 319-327. Ultimate Fantastic Four #33-41
  • 328-336. Ultimate Spider-Man #97-105
  • 337-340. Ultimate X-Men #75-78
  • 341-345. Ultimate Fantastic Four #42-46
  • 346-350. Ultimate X-Men #79-83
  • 351-357. Ultimate Fantastic Four #47-53
  • 358-362. Ultimate X-Men #84-88
  • 363-366. Ultimate Fantastic Four #54-57
  • 367-375. Ultimate Power #1-ix
  • 376-387. Ultimate Spider-Man #106-117
  • 388-392. Ultimate X-Men #89-93
  • 393-404. Ultimate Spider-Human #118-120, Annual #3, #121-128
  • 405. Ultimate Hulk Almanac #1
  • 406-409. Ultimate Human being #i-iv
  • 410. The Ultimates Saga #1
  • 411-415. The Ultimates 3 #one-5
  • 416-419. Ultimate X-Men #94-97
  • 420. Ultimate X-Men/Fantastic Four Annual #one
  • 421. Ultimate Fantastic 4/X-Men Annual #1

Notable writers [edit]

Brian Michael Bendis wrote the first comic book of the Ultimate banner, Ultimate Spider-Man, launched in 2000. This was his first work for Marvel Comics. He after worked in other comics of the imprint, such equally Ultimate Marvel Team-Up (2001-2002), Ultimate Ten-Men (2003-2004), Ultimate Fantastic 4 (2003-2004) and Ultimate Origins (2008). He is recognized as the main author of the whole Ultimate imprint.[33] Near characters were reimaginations of classic Marvel characters; Miles Morales was an original character of his own creation. Given the success of the Ultimate imprint, Curiosity asked him to write mainstream Curiosity comics as well. He started a successful run on The Avengers, starting with Avengers Disassembled. He created Jessica Jones in the Alias comic book, part of the R-rated MAX imprint. He wrote major crossover events such as House of One thousand, Age of Ultron and Civil State of war 2. He wrote Cataclysm, the last crossover event within the Ultimate imprint, and Ultimate Finish, that closed it. He moved to DC Comics in 2017.[34]

Mark Millar is a Scottish comic book writer, and started his career with British comics such every bit Judge Dredd. He was hired by DC Comics, and worked in several titles. His almost successful work was Superman: Red Son, which reimagined Superman every bit a newborn alien whose ship roughshod in the Soviet Union instead of Kansas. This work was published in 2003, two years later on his divergence from DC. Millar started the Ultimate 10-Men comics, the Ultimate Fantastic Four, and The Ultimates. Stan Lee, creator of many characters of Marvel comics, praised his work, but also advised him: "That's great, just you lot should exercise your own characters instead of doing mine. I didn't do Superman and Batman and Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes. I went off and did the X-Men." Dave Gibbons, artist of Watchmen, was impressed past his piece of work and started working with him in Kingsman, published by Marvel at the Icon Comics imprint, which allowed Millar to retain the rights. Millar then created Millarworld, with his own comic books, such as Wanted and Kick-Ass. Wanted, Kingsman, and Boot-donkey had cinematic adaptations. On 7 August 2017, Millarworld was acquired by the American streaming media company Netflix.[35] [36]

In other media [edit]

Television [edit]

The only adaptations of the Ultimate Marvel works to other media are two direct-to-video films by Marvel Animated Features, Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2: Ascension of the Panther, based on the Ultimates. The plot was simplified and the political aspects of the original work were removed, turning it into a standard superhero animated picture.[37] Other animated series incorporated aspects of the Ultimate comics, despite not existence direct adaptations. The 2008 animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man shared many similarities with the Ultimate version of the titular character, including his historic period, his personal relationship with Eddie Brock, and a supporting cast largely based on their Ultimate counterparts.[38] Despite the name and the interest of Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Human is a unlike piece of work (although Peter Parker is modeled after his appearance in the comics though with a slightly bulkier build), aimed primarily at a younger audience. Being criticized by this, Bendis said: "I don't know what to say — 'Yous know, you're watching Disney XD'. It'south not on Showtime. I want you to similar information technology as well, only similar information technology in the context of what information technology's for. It's for kids. We're thinking of them while nosotros write it".[39] The series adapted some specific storylines such as the episode "Freaky" where Spider-Human and Wolverine switch bodies as in Ultimate Spider-Man #66-67.[39] Miles Morales appeared in that Television serial too showtime in a cameo before becoming a major character after for the series adaptation of Spider-Poesy. As for the Avengers, some character designs from The Avengers: World's Mightiest Heroes were based on the Ultimate comics, such as Helm Marvel and the conform of Captain America during the second season.[40] Nick Fury was based on Ultimate Nick Fury since flavour 2, which was kept for the following series, Avengers Assemble which also drew influence from Ultimate Curiosity Comics. As for the X-Men, the 2000 animated series Ten-Men: Evolution as well had important members reimagined as teenagers, and eventually incorporated costumes from the comics likewise. Similarly, Wolverine and the X-Men in 2009 had Magneto disassemble and reprogram the Sentinels similar in the Ultimate X-Men storyline Tomorrow People.

Films [edit]

Ultimate Curiosity has too been a strong influence in the early on stages of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Joss Whedon said that "it's my feeling that Ultimates brought Curiosity into the modern historic period in a style no other volume did".[41] Tony Stark's personality was based on that of his Ultimate analogue, and Millar and Bendis were included in the staff as consultants. Samuel L. Jackson, whose likeness was used to create the new version of Nick Fury, was bandage as the grapheme in a multi-picture deal, starting in a post-credits scene in Iron Man. The script of the scene was written by Bendis.[42] Equally a comic book fan, Jackson had noticed the use of his likeness and asked to be included in some eventual film.[43] Bruce Banner'southward origin story in The Incredible Hulk is based on his origin story from the Ultimate Universe, as both versions become the Blob while attempting to recreate the Super Soldier Serum that turned Steve Rogers into Helm America. Hawkeye and Captain America's costumes were based on their Ultimate uniforms as well and Captain America'due south origin story is partially adapted from the Ultimate comics such as Bucky Barnes being his childhood friend who protected him from bullies and being around the same age, him plant and existence thawed out of ice by S.H.I.E.50.D rather than the founding members of the Avengers. Hawkeye likewise has a family, a context exclusive to the Ultimate comics.[44] The film The Avengers featured the Ultimate take on the squad, as a military functioning organized by Southward.H.I.E.50.D. rather than an autonomous superhero group.[41] Kevin Feige based the script of the film broadly on the kickoff miniseries of the Ultimates and the ending of the second.[45] The S.H.I.E.50.D. Helicarrier's design throughout the films is also modeled afterward the Ultimate Curiosity version. The delineation of Falcon in the films is derived from the Ultimate incarnation, Rogers' relationship with Nick Fury in Captain America: The Winter Soldier is reminiscent of the one in the comics with the Triskellion, a notable landmark in the comics being featured in the motion picture. Spider-Human: Homecoming as well had aspects of the comics like Parker's historic period, a younger Aunt May, introducing Aaron Davis and revealing the presence of Miles Morales and Stark mentoring Spider-Man though without S.H.I.E.50.D and other heroes being involved similar in the comics, and in the aforementioned picture show where Stark sports an armor reminiscent of the Ultimate version. This also extends to Spider-Man: Far From Habitation where Nick Fury is seen mentoring Spider-Man. Thor has similar traits to his Ultimate analogue, such as his personality, powers, costume elements, and hammer. Thor ends up getting a new hammer during Avengers: Infinity War which is based on the Ultimate version of Mjolnir.

Other films based on Marvel comics were likewise influenced past Ultimate Marvel, albeit in a less notable degree. The movie Spider-Man was released in 2002, two years after the start of Ultimate Spider-Human being, and besides provided a higher graphic symbol development for Uncle Ben before killing him in Spider-Man'south origin story, while as well modifying the character'due south origin story, by writing a genetically-modified spider, instead of a radioactive spider, as the source of his spider-powers and replacing Mary Jane-Watson, every bit the chief character's main dear involvement.[46] The series was rebooted with The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012, and Sony asked Bendis for suggestions. He proposed that Spider-Man should use bogus web-shooters, as in the comics, instead of portraying the power as a part of the character's mutation, through the form of organic spider web-shooters in his wrists, equally was depicted in the Raimi trilogy. The film series too featured elements and aesthetics borrowed from his Ultimate counterpart'south personality and background, such as the emphasis and focus on his parents and their subsequent disappearance; his father Richard Parker existence a scientist specialising in biology, who worked on a secret project/experiment regarding the procurement of a special serum that was intended to cure last illnesses (which is depicted equally being derived from the blood of genetically-modified spiders, encoded to the bloodline of Peter'due south family, instead of the Venom symbiote in the comics); his signature wise-cracking and motor-mouthed sense of humour, his uncle'due south spoken communication on responsibility and subsequent statement with Peter, moments before his death; a genetically-modified spider being responsible for Peter's spider-powers; his relationship with Gwen Stacy, mirroring his relationship with Mary Jane-Watson from the comics, and Gwen also existence somewhat rebellious similar her Ultimate incarnation and sticking upward for Peter, albeit not-violently when he was existence bullied by Flash (though in the comics it was Kenny Kong), in add-on Wink having a trounce on her similar he did in the Ultimate comics; his friendship with Harry Osborn being modeled after that of Eddie Brock Jr. in the comics, being babyhood friends who have not seen each other in a long time and whose fathers had worked together on a project (with the name Spider-venom being a slight nod to the Venom project and both were intended equally a cure for diseases) and it is unsaid that Norman Osborn betrayed Richard much like Eddie Brock Sr. had in the comics when they both selfishly wanted the enquiry for their own ends and being responsible, even if indirectly in Norman's example for the deaths of Peter'southward parents. The villains featured in the films are modeled later on their Ultimate counterparts, Electro in particular being a blue being of energy and the depiction of Harry's transformation into Greenish Goblin.[42] The 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is based on the Ultimate Galactus Trilogy, in item the design of Galactus.[47] The franchise was rebooted in 2022 with Fantastic Four, which is strongly based on the starting time arcs of Ultimate Fantastic Four.[48] Sony made an animated Spider-Man film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which starred Miles Morales. The plot is an accommodation of the 2022 storyline Spider-Poesy, and was released in Dec 2018.[49]

Video games [edit]

The 2005 video game Ultimate Spider-Human being is a directly adaptation of the storylines and characters from the eponymous comics. The game is centered around the Ultimate Curiosity versions of Spider-Man and Venom, simply also features appearances from The Man Torch, Wolverine, and Nick Fury, and the 2006 prequel Spider-Man: Battle for New York features the retelling story of Spider-Man and Green Goblin, the game features appearances from The Ultimates and Kingpin. The 2004 video game X-Men: Legends and its 2005 sequel X-Men Legends 2: Rising of Apocalypse have the titular characters wear their Ultimate costumes as practice the Alliance of Mutants. Other Curiosity video games have also featured Ultimate influences such equally Curiosity Ultimate Alliance and its sequel Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 as well have elements from the Ultimate Curiosity Universe such as the main costumes of Helm America, Thor, Colossus, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic, the Homo Torch based on their Ultimate counterparts as well every bit alternate costumes for Iron Homo, Elektra, Storm, Wolverine, Moon Knight, Physician Foreign, Nick Fury, Deadpool, Magneto, Md Doom, Venom, Sabretooth, The Thing, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, and Hawkeye also based on the Ultimate versions of the characters for the kickoff game. The 2010 video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions features the Ultimate version of Spider-Human being possessed with a symbiote.

Encounter also [edit]

  • Heroes Reborn, an before endeavour past Marvel Comics to reimagine their characters in a split continuity from 1996 to 1997 albeit less successful.
  • New Universe, a standalone universe separate from the main Marvel Universe with no gods, conflicting races, magic or super science/engineering that lasted between 1986 until 1989.
  • The New 52, a relaunch by DC Comics of all of their characters from 2011 to 2016.
  • All-Star DC Comics, an imprint past DC Comics similar to Ultimate Marvel.
  • Earth One, another DC Comics banner that also did a modern reimagining of its characters.

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Ultimate Curiosity Team-Up titles include Ultimate Spider-Human Super Special #ane as the series determination.
  2. ^ Issues #21-24 crosses over with Marvel Zombies.
  3. ^ The Galactus Trilogy titles are listed in gild of publication and story development.
  4. ^ The Ultimatum titles are listed in order of publication and story development. One-shot March on Ultimatum Saga #1 and limited series Ultimate Origins are besides prologues for the event.
  5. ^ The Doomsday Trilogy titles are listed in society of publication and story development.
  6. ^ The Hunger miniseries is one of ii story arcs bannered as resulting from the Curiosity Universe crossover/miniseries Historic period of Ultron [31] and serves as a prologue for the following miniseries, Calamity.[32]
  7. ^ Hunger acts every bit a prologue to the event, while Survive! #1 1-shot serves equally the miniseries epilogue.

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External links [edit]

  • Marvel.Com's Ultimate Curiosity Encyclopedia
  • Sequart'southward Ultimate Marvel Continuity Page

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