History ComicBook / TheUltimates2

* ShootTheTelevision: Thor, who had left the Ultimates, watches in the televisions of a TV store the news that Hulk was Bruce Banner, something he ignored. He destroyed all the TVs in a fit of rage.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Nick Fury promised that the Ultimates would only be used domestically, but he broke that little promise. If he didn't the nine prisoners of the terrorists would soon become nine little body bags lined up at Dulles Airport.

"The Ultimates 2" is a 2005 comic book by Creator/MarkMillar and Creator/BryanHitch, starring ComicBook/TheUltimates. It is a sequel to the original miniseries, ''ComicBook/TheUltimates2002'', by the same authors.

* BattleDiscretionShot: What will Steve Rogers do with a group of thieves that try to rob him, threatening him with a gun to the face? We leave that to your imagination.

* HatesSmallTalk: When Pym shows up to meet Banner, the guardian mentions that cap and the wasp are in the news. He replies that "newspapers are for idiots".

* ShoutOut: Tired of Steve complaining about people cursing in movies and women showing off too much skin (even in films that are quite safe by modern standards), Jan protests that she does not want to fall down to watch ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie''.

* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: There a journalist that writes that Janet Van Dyne is an adulteress. Steve Rogers would like to smash his pretty face... but he dares not, because the guy has glasses.

* MoralGuardians: It's hard for Jan to take Steve to the cinema. When they leave, he's always complaining that people curse like sailors and that women take all their clothes off. But he doesn't say that about R-Rated films, that he's opinion about ''any'' film this side of [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie Sponge Bob]].

* VaguenessIsComing: Volstagg came to Eath to warn Thor that Loki had escaped from the Room Without Doors, wants revenge on Thor, and can now subtly alter reality.

Despite SHIELD's attempts to keep it classified, the nature of the Hulk's rampage is now open to the public: the monster was actually Bruce Banner, who is kept prisoner, but alive, in a special cell below the Triskelion. The public outrage is huge, and Banner has to face justice for his actions as the Hulk. Thor leaves the team when the Ultimates liberate some prisoners from terrorists in Iraq, which he saw as the starting point of the Avengers being used to enforce the US international policy. And the people see him talking to the air, and a doctor explains that he was actually a former psychiatric patient that stole the hammer and other weapons from the European Union Super Soldier Initiative, which gives him his strength. Thor, however, was informed by Volstagg (if he was real, and not a hallucination) that Loki escaped from the Room Without Doors and has reality-warping powers. Things eventually end in an open conflict between Thor and the Ultimates, ending with his defeat and incarceration. And right after it... the Ultimates have to deal with growing problems in the Middle East. But which was it, then? Is Thor just a nuthead with stolen weapons and delusions of grandeur, or really a Norse god, attacked by a rival god? [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Both options can be plausible]], and the narrative does not give an open answer]]. Not yet, at least.

* ContinuityNod: The first series mentioned that Cap is manly that he regularly jumped from helicopters to the missions without parachutes, but he crashed the plane on the Nazi stronghold to make an opening instead. The opening salvo of this arc is Cap actually doing this.