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* HumiliationConga: Issue #6 humilliates Pym from start to finish. He joins the Defenders, a new superhero teams who are just losers without actual powers, Nick Fury refuses both him and his inventions (even if given for free), Captain America (current boyfriend of his ex) orders him to leave, the Defenders' first big superhero operation is a disaster that ends with Pym's ass in the newspapers (literally!), and finally the Ultimates had been working in a huge international operation while he was trying to stop that pair of thieves.

** Captain America never liked the Banner cover-up, but Fury does not regret it: it was the only way out of the mess they got themselves into. Plus, it allowed them to had the whole Ultimates outfit running.
** Fury told Banner that he had been acquitted and proposed a toast, but he actually got a death sentence and the toast was actually to knock him unconscious. If he didn't do it that way, Banner may turn into the Hulk when he receives the news.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: If Bruce Banner studied the Super Soldier serum for so many years is because he desired to be the new Captain America. He never intended things to end the way they did.

** Laura has been sending messages to Clint, but he didn't notice because he hardly understands how do cell phones work. Have in mind that the comic was made in 2005, cell phones were still relatively new.

* TheGlovesComeOff: Quicksilver tried to attack Thor a couple of times, and he easily dispatched him. But when he hears that he has threaw Captain Britain on Wanda, and that he hurted her... kid gloves are off!

* DeskSweepOfRage: Bruce got angry with Betty for a moment, blaming her for what was happening, and vent it with the things on his desk.
* DirtyOldMan: Pym had sex with Valkyrie, a girl who is just 19 (and lying that he would introduce her to Spider-Man, which he had never even met). Worse, he admits that he refuses to feel guilty, because "she was using me as much as I was using her".

** 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.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Pym thought he was such a genius when he created the Giant Man formulla... but those new guys made an army of Giant Men, who can grow beyond the size that Pym could.

* MoralDissonance: Pym had a theory, they are "phasing out" the nice guys like Banner and him from the Ultimates, and bringing violent people to replace them. As Banner was the only one in the room with him, nobody reminded him that he almost killed his wife during a case of DomesticAbuse, and that the deaths caused by Banner are in the three digits. None of the new heroes have such dirt in their backstories, and in fact, Hawkeye is a Black Ops guy but also a loving family man.

* SkewedPriorities: The Ultimates meet the European Defense Initiative, and their mission is to stop Thor, because he stole his armor and hammer from there. Jan can not believe it... "Way to ruin our first TeamUp, Nick".

* TheSpock: Bruce Banner may be executed, but Betty Ross stays cold and professional about it. She has a job, and will keep doing it anyway.