History ComicBook / TheUltimates2002

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"The Ultimates" is a 2002 miniseries, written by Creator/MarkMillar, with art by Bryan Hitch. Set in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, it was a reimagination of ComicBook/TheAvengers, renamed as "ComicBook/TheUltimates".

* FingerlessGloves: Black Widow uses these.

* NotSoDifferent: A man in Marrakesh told Captain America is Herr Kleiser is still alive. He pointed that Rogers is not the only one out there with nine lives.

Once upon a time, during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the Nazis received the help of an alien race, the Chitauri. They built a super rocket which they intend to use to end the war. Captain America, the only super human ever created, apparently dies getting rid of it. Then we jump to the 21st century, where Nick Fury, newly appointed Director of SHIELD, is concerned about the increasing activity of superhumans, so he's looking to create a superhero team of his own. So far, he's got billionare playboy Tony Stark, dysfunctional married couple Hank and Janet "The Wasp" Pym, and Bruce Banner, whose experiments with the super-soldier serum have turned him into the Hulk. Then, one day, word comes to Tony Stark that they've found something in the Arctic - Captain America.

* FakeUltimateHero: Henry Pym proves to be completely useless as a super hero. Against the Hulk, he's taken down in the first scene. Captain America sends him to the hospital, regardless of his giant size (in fact, Cap demanded he grow for the fight), so he has to sit out the Chitauri invasion as well.

** Banner's work on the Super Soldier Program was a failure, to say the least, but he got a huge budget increase nonetheless. The growing threat of super humans and super terrorists demand a solution, and pronto.

** Freddie Prinze Jr. wants one of the Iron Man suits, or to be the test guy for banner's supersoldier formula. Whatever, if he can be a super hero!

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Although the Ultimates as a whole run on a BlackAndGrayMorality system, Hawkeye claims that the fight with the Chitauri was a black & white one. "Aliens who were in league with the Nazis, for God's sake".

** Jan says just before their fight that Hank is an expert on robotics. While it doesn't play in to the story, long-time Avengers fans will know the significance there, sink regular Hank's most (in)famous act was accidentally creating Marvel's premier KillerRobot, Ultron.

"The Ultimates" was a 2002 miniseries, written by Creator/MarkMillar, with arts of Bryan Hitch. Set in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, it was a reimagination of ComicBook/TheAvengers, renamed as "ComicBook/TheUltimates".

Once upon a time, during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the nazis received the help of an alien race, the Chitauri. They built a super rocket, that they would use to end the war. Captain America, the only super human ever created, died making it blow up in the sky. Then we jump to the XXI century. There is an increasing activity of superhumans, so Nick Fury started arranging a superhero team. He had Tony Stark and the Wasp, and Bruce Banner working in the supersoldier serum that created Captain america, and which is now lost. Pym makes a breakthrough of his own and gets the power to change into a giant (thus dubbed "Giant man"). Even more, Captain America is found frozen in the artic, and still alive! And yet, even having the actual Captain America around for study, Banner is still unable to replicate the super soldier serum. Feeling useless next to the others, he inject himself with a mixed dose of his old Hulk serum and Captain America's blood, and turns himself into Hulk. He wreaks havok across the city, until the Ultimates (joined by Thor) finally take him down.

Remember the Chitauri? They did not flee at the end of the war. They had regrouped, and started a big plan. The Ultimates located them to Micronesia, and drop in to blow up the place. However, it was a trap: the Chitauri had actually infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. But it was actually useless, as the main Chitauri fleet arrives and tells them that there is no time to purify earth because of cosmic reasons, so let's just blow it to kingdom come. This leads to an all-out battle between the Ultimates and the Chitauri. Thor teleports the bomb to another dimension, and Captain America and Hulk finally defeat Kleiser, the leader of the Chitauri band.

** Initially, Thor refused to join the Ultimates. When Hulk started his rampage, he said that he would help if Bush increased the budget for foreign aid. They took it as a refusal, and started the fight without him. But suddenly, there is a thunder and Thor shows up stomping Hulk under his hammer. Bush had just increased the budget for foreig aid.
** Initially, Tony Stark only minded about his own business, but he suddenly accepted Fury's requests and joined the Ultimates. He later revealed to Cap and Thor that he's SecretlyDying, that he has an inoperable cancer tumor in his head.

* AllAccordingToPlan: Hulk is trying to crack open the tank of Captain America? Excellent. Everything is going according to plan.
* AllForNothing: The Chitauri tried to harmonize Earth with the help of the Nazis, and that led to WWII. But the survivors regrouped in the jungles, started a mass infiltration, arranged many plans to achieve their goals through more indirect means... and it was all pointless. The Chitauri main fleet shows up, without even bothering with cloaking devices, and informs them that there is no more time. Because of intergalactic reasons, they have to leave the area ASAP, so Earth will have to be blown up and be done with it.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: "Well, let's see how many super soldiers you create wich don't involve getting big, getting small or telling ants what to do through a helmet, jackass! Bruce Banner was twice the geneman you'll always be and you know it, mister!"
* AmericaWonWorldWarII: Back in the day, Herr Kleiser boasted that, once Washington was wiped from the map, the Allies would have to find a new leadership, perhaps in Stalin or in the United Kingdom. However, those countries led the Allies on equal terms, the US had no special authority over the UK and the URSS. If either of the three countries had been invaded or taken out of the war, the others would have continued all the same.
* AncientConspiracy: The Chitauri want to destroy the free will of the human race. They worked with the Nazis, but kept planning things in the shadows since their defeat.

** Black Widow is saying that they can't count with Thor's help, that he's insane and a delusional schizophrenic... "Oh, ye of little faith".

* AscendedFanboy: Bruce Banner had always been a fan of Captain America, the skinny guy who was turned into a supersoldier by a tech that is now lost. Captain America has been found frozen in the Artic, he's somehow still alive, and it's Banner task to direct the medical effords to wake him up and heal him.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Bruce Banner thinks that the wifebeater Henry Pym should be left out ot the team. Yes, Bruce "Hulk Smash" Banner, who killed so much people in his rampage. But at least he works 18 hours a day trying to find a cure for that.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The childrens of Magneto are working for S.H.I.E.L.D., and this is not the first that the security services made deals with terrorists.

** Hawkeye manages to escape the blast of the Chitauri bomb at the office building, but now he's clinging from debris, with another soldier in his other hand, and four Chitauri about to shoot him. Black Widow made a super window jump, got the gun thrown from a helicopter above, and shot down the Chitauri, saving Hawkeye.
** The Wasp, under medical care after Pym's wifebeating incident, did not join the Ultimates in Micronesia and stayed at the base. She was captured by the Chitauri when they made their move, so Black Widow had to rescue her when the team got back.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Back in WWII, Kowalski did not like the military plan being used. At all. It was, from his point of view, just to drop as many soldiers as possible, with the vague hope that someone may break in. And don't let him get started on that "Captain America" guy used for recruiting posters.

* BerserkButton: Do not tell cap to surrender. Things will not be nice if you do.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: When Bruce asks Fury about his job, he explained in full detail how closely S.H.I.E.L.D. is monitoring him and everything he does.

** Did Banner thought that Hulk would simply let himself get a dose of a serum that would turn him back into puny Banner? Think again!

* BilingualBonus: The nazi soldiers speak in German, not English (except when they talk to Cap directly). When Captain America storms into the nazi base, one of the nazi generals shouts "mein gott! erschiesst es! erschiesst es doch endlich!" (german for "My God! Shoot it! Shoot it at last")
* BitchSlap: Pym gave one to Jan, starting a scene of domestic abuse.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Although the Ultimates as a whole run on a BlackAndGrayMorality system, Hawkeye claims that the fight with the Chitauri was a black & white one. "Aliens who were in league with the nazis, for God's sake".

* BlatantLies: Captain America convinced Hulk to fight against Kleiser by saying that he was after Betty, and then after the rest of the alien armada by saying they called him a sissy boy.
* BondOneLiner: Captain America has just beated Henry Pym to a pulp, giant size and all. "How big do you feel now, dirtbag?"

** Hawkeye killed the man in the lobby of the building (actually an alien) with an arrow to the head.
** Nick Fury tried to kill Herr Kleiser this way. But, as he's MadeOfIron, it was OnlyAFleshWound.
* BrickJoke: When Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are introduced, Quicksilver boasts he'd saved Hawkeye and Black Widow several times without them even noticing. They proceed to disappear for the rest of the story, only showing up again after the villains are defeated. When Natasha complains that they didn't do anything, Quicksilver once again tells her to check the tapes.
* BringIt: When he realizes that Captain America did not die at the trap in Micronesia, Herr Kleiser challenges him to a fight. "Come on then, Captain. Let's get this over with, eh?"
* BringMyBrownPants: Bruce Banner was released during the battle with the Chitauri, becoming Hulk. Nick Fury was not in MissionControl duties but in the scene, and had no problem to admit that he was messing a decent pair of army pants...
* BrokenWindowWarning: When Hulk arrived to the building where Betty was having lunch with Freddie Prinze Jr., the windows exploded by the impact.

** Larry King interviews Tony Stark in TV
* CannonFodder: There are two buildings filled by Chitauri, who pretend to be simple office buildings. Hawkeye and Black Widow demolish them and kill everyone inside.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: A throwaway line from Kleiser confirms that the shapeshifting Chitauri are in fact the Ultimate versions of the Skrulls, the word being one of the many names the race had been given over their centuries of interdimensional conquest.

** Captain America did not explain to Bucky where did the nazis got the "Flash Gordon tech". He merely said that there were more sides fighting in the war than it would be ever known.
** Initially, Bruce Banner refused to believe that the super soldier program got such a huge budget increase. Nick Fury then explained the political reasons for it.
** When the Hulk problem started, Thor said that he would help if the budget for international aid was doubled. They took it as a snarky way of refusing to help. And suddenly, he shows up during the fight and saves Captain America: Bush had just doubled the international aid budget.
** Thor and Captain America want to know Tony Stark reason for being Iron Man. He simply dropped an atomic bomb: he has a brain tumor that is killing him, so he wants to do something for the world in the time he has left. And he said it without losing his demeanour, so Cap did not understand if this was for real or just some complex joke. It was for real.
* CatapultNightmare: After calling Betty, Bruce had a hearth attack and collapsed. We suddenly woke up in the ambulance, crying Betty's name.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Subverted. The allies get into the nazi base, but could not stop the rocket from being launched. But that doesn't mean they were defeated: Cap jumps to the rocket and manages to disarm it in mid air.
* ChekhovsGun: When Pym and Jan start discussing, there is bug spray can around there. It will become relevant later on.

* CondescendingCompassion: Jan told Hank that he was amazing and brave during the fight with the Hulk. Hank knows that he was taken down with little effort in the start and did not help at all from that point on, and tells her that he hates patronizing.

** Cap has got to the DespairEventHorizon: other than Bucky and Gail, who are elders now, all the people he had ever known are dead. Including his family. He has lost everything. Nick Fury says "not everything, captain". Cue to a waving US flag.

* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: Averted: the buildings were filled with people, and Hulk caused massive casualties. The "Hulk never even accidentally killed someone with falling debris because Bruce Banner was always doing subconscious physics calculations" crap definitely does not apply here.
** And then reconstructed in the building where Iron Man crashed Hulk, which ''is'' empty. Because it has already been evacuated, and SHIELD told it Stark so he took the fight to it.

** Jan is wearing a new dress, and asks Pym if she looks nice. He asks, all grumpy, if it's for Rogers' or Stark's benefit.
** When Banner called Betty, she was having a lunch with Freddie Prinze Jr. And when he turned into Hulk, he still remembers that. Let's just say that "crazy" is an understatement.

* CrazyPrepared: Herr Kleiser is a shapeshifter, but Hulk eated him. End of story, right? Nick Fury will not take chances: he secured all his remains, and all the poop that Bruce Banner made after the incident.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Bruce Banner has been thrown from the helicopter, so he changes into Hulk, or dies without doing so. The general said "The mail has been delivered, Captain".

* DeskSweepOfRage: Banner did not like being compared with Steve Buscemi. He threw all his folders and papers to the airs, and stormed out of the room.
* DespairEventHorizon: Other than Bucky and Gail, who are elders now, all the people he had ever known are dead. Including his family. He has lost everything. Nick Fury reminds him of the one thing that still remains: America.

** Hulk was highly destructive on his own right, but the Ultimates were also destructive in their attempts to stop him.

** Thor was so busy firing thunderbolts at all directions against the Chitaur armada, that he also attacked Hawkeye's men by accident.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Banner's big plan was to turn into the Hulk so the Ultimates could make a show fight, so he provided them with a serum to revert him back to human. But he only made one: he never considered the chance that Hulk may destroy it during the fight.

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Nick Fury told Stak that he's a strange man. Stark hoped that his fortune in the billions would allow him to qualify as eccentric.

* DontExplainTheJoke: The Wasp takes Banner to the new base, the Triskelion, and pointed that she would have got crazy working in that rat hole in Pittsburgh. He asks if turning green and going into a destructive rampage doesn't qualify as crazy... and then points that he is making a joke.

* DragonWithAnAgenda: Despite their superior alien power, it was the Chitauri who worked for Hitler, not the [[WeDidntStartTheFuhrer other way]]. The Holocaust was entirely a nazi idea, the Chitauri simply accepted their "eccentricism" for the sake of their own long-term agenda.
* DudeNotFunny: In-universe, Pym stopped Captain America by aquashing him with his giant hand and said "the situation's well in-hand". Banner and Stark were horrorized at the idea that he may have killed Cap right after his return.
* DynamicEntry: The Ultimates were not counting with Thor to show up and help. He had asked that Bush doubled the international aid budget, and they took it as a CassandraTruth. But when Bush did exactly that... a thunderbolt took Hulk away from Captain America, Thor gave Hulk a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, broke his jaw, cracked his ribs and punctured one of his lungs.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tony and Fury discuss the line-up of the Ultimates, and they mention the Fantastic Four. They had been introduced in ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvelTeamUp'', as basically the same team than in the mainstream comics. The team would be properly introduced again some time later, in ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', now reimagined as teenagers and getting their powers ''after'' the formation of the Ultimates. This FF early appearance was rendered non-canon, so try to ignore that bit of dialogue.
* EasilyForgiven: Subverted. After causing a 9/11-like disaster in the city, leaving hundreds of deaths and injured people and loads of property damage, Banner insisted on his nonsense about giving the team a foe to fight so that they are not disbanded. At first, Cap seems to be about to forgive him, because he's part of the team and all that... and then he gave him a well-deserved kick in the face.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: The Chitauri organized a deep and complex infiltration that would allow them to destroy humanity's free will and turn everyone into mindless drones, as their race had been doing on many other planets. But then, the main Chitauri fleet shows up and orders those on Earth to pack and leave, because of intergalactic reasons. Without time to purify the planet, they leave a bomb for a EarthShatteringKaboom, but Thor managed to teleport it to another dimension.

* EskimosArentReal: It seems that there was a 18% of people who thought that the Chitauri invasion was not real. That it was faked by SHIELD, to justify the budget destined to the Ultimates initiative.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Janet Van Dyne and Betty Ross were roomies back in their college days, and now they are back toguether in the Ultimates initiative!

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Jan complains like Captain America looks like a Calvin Klein model, but talks like her old dad. Cap pointed that he's probably ''older'' than her dad. Jan admits that's a creepy thought.
* FacePalm: Nick Fury could not believe it when Captain America manipulated Hulk by telling him that the aliens called him a "sissy boy"

* FakeUltimateHero: Henry Pym proves to be completely useless as a super hero. Against the Hulk, he was taken down in the first scene. Captain America sent him to the hospital, regardless of his giant size (in fact, Cap demanded him to grow for the fight), so he had to sit out the Chitauri invasion as well.
* FakedRipVanWinkle: Captain America wakes up in the hospital, and is told that he has been frozen for 57 years. Suspecting that this trope is at play, he started beating everyone.

* FatalFamilyPhoto: Captain America checked her photo of Gail before jumping to destroy the nazi complex.
* FinalBattle: Herr Kleiser lost all his clothes in an explosion, the world is about to blow up, but he won't go out before he could force Captain America to surrender.
* FingerlessGloves: Black Widow uses those.
* FishOutOfWater: Captain America, from the 1940s to the XXI century, does not have a clue about anything, misses all the references and finds everthing strange.

** The Wasp pointed her finger to Pym ''in the face'' while remarking that Bruce Banner is twice better a geneman as he'll ever be.
** Bruce Banner gave one to the unknown scientist that told him that the Hulk cells were making a permanent bond with his DNA. He wants Pym, not some unknown guy, to check those numbers!
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When Cap hears that he has been frozen for ''fifty-seven years'', he starts attacking everyone, thinking that it must be a trick of the nazis.

** First three initiatives are dead in the water, so Fury gave permission to "traumatize Banner". Meaning, to force him to turn into the Hulk.

** Nick Fury had those for Banner. The good news: his SSP had a huge federal budget support. The bad news: he has been demoted, and he's no longer the leader of it.
** And a new guy also has those for Banner. Good news: his link with Hulk has been concealed to the public, so nobody knows it was him. Bad news: unlike his previous Hulk change, now the "Hulk cells" remain and formed a permanent bond with his system.
* GroinAttack: Captain America attacked Hulk with a good ol' kick in the stones.
* TheGrovel: Turned back into a human, and unable to stand up, Bruce Banner asked the Ultimates not to hurt him, repeating his nonsense about giving the team a foe to fight. He got a well deserved kick in the face.

-->'''Captain America:''' Cool, mr. president. Definitely cool.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Captain America cutted Herr Kleiser in half with his shield. It's only a temporary thing thanks to his great healing speed, but still...
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Jan is a mutant, and nobody knows it: everybody thinks that Pym gave her those shrinking powers. When they were having a marital discussion Pym complained that, as part of her mutation, she eats insects, has a disgusting hygiene, and frequently leaves the bed filled with eggs.
* HeroicBSOD: Iron Man had one of those after dragging the giant spaceship off-course to avoid it falling on a city. He had a crisis of faith after it, refusing to rejoin the fight. He said that this stuff was too big, and that he couldn't manage it.

* HistoricalRapSheet: Nick Fury is giving a debrief to the Ultimates, that contains top-secret information. There are 11 alien species living in the planet (at least, that SHIELD knows of). One of those species are the Chitauri, shape-shifter aliens that arrived in 1977. They infiltrated Germany in the 1920s, helping National Socialism and Hitler. WWII was actually a war meant to erradicate those aliens, and it ended with the destruction of their training camps in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

* IWasQuiteALooker: The resurrection of Captain America was a big hit on Gail's pride, who asked him not to see her. He knew her back when she was young a beatiful, and now she's old and ugly. She dropped it in time, and eventually the three of them hanged out as friends.

** Captain America flew the plane into the building, to make an opening for the Allied troops.
** When he wakes up in the hospital, he goes mad when he hears that he had been out for 57 years. The soldiers shoot him with TranquillizerDart guns, but he managed to deflect the shots with a medical tray he had nearby.
** Jan took a stereo during their fight and broke it on Hank's face.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Initially, when Bruce Banner was just a timid dork, Betty Ross despised him. When he turned himself into the Hulk, a destructive monster, because he was desperate by losing her, she warmed up to him. And when she saw those satellite photos of him eating Kleiser's instestines like some kind of animal... well, let's just say that she asked Fury for a conyugal visit.
* InMysteriousWays: Captain America wrote in his farewell letter to Gail that God is good, and even the most terrible things happen for a reason.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: In the mainstream universe, the idea of Captain America defeating Hulk in hand-to-hand fight seems absurd. But here, it makes complete sense: Hulk did not get his power from a gamma bomb, but from the same super soldier serum that created Captain America.
* ItsAllJunk: Tony Stark started throwing away all the stuff in his house that he does not actually use anymore. And, as a billionarie, there are loads and loads of junk that are incredibly expensive but have not actual use... such as the original WWII helmet of Captain America.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Black Widow tried it with a Chitauri, asking how to deactivate the DoomsdayDevice. But he refused to help at all, so she killed him.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: The Chitauri do not have time to harmonize earth anymore, so they'll blow it up, and good riddance. Herr Kleiser thinks that this is a terrible, terrible shame... now he won't be able to experiment shapeshifting into a female form.
* KentBrockmanNews: ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers USA Today]]'' said that Thor took down the big mothership, but ''People'' says it was Iron Man. Jan points that Tony Stark owns a 52% stake in ''People'', so she would believe in ''USA Today''.
* KilledOffForReal: Herr Kleiser was eaten by Hulk. Nick Fury took precautions to make sure that he did not return to life... and he never did.
* LanguageBarrier: The Wasp and Black Widow secured the Chitauri DoomsdayDevice, but can't understand the instructions, as they are written in BlackSpeech. So they call the super genius Tony Stark, but he's completely lost as well.

* LetMeGetThisStraight: When Tony Stark talks with Fury, they make a recapt on their Ultimate prospects so far: Stark, Pym, his wife, and some marine that Banner upgrades once he cracks the Super Soldier formula.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Captain America easily convinced Hulk against Herr Kleiser, by telling him that he was after Betty. BlatantLies, but does Hulk care about such details?

** Subverted by Hulk. Banner's pants did not survive the transformation. Instead, he killed some fat man and stole his pants (off-panel). And played straight when Banner was turned into Hulk during the alien attack: he still had his pants on, and there was no explanation provided this time.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Subverted. Unlike his return in ''The Avengers'', Cap was not found in the ocean by the Ultimates themselves, but by a unit of unnamed SHIELD scientists.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Was Thor really fighting the Midgard Serpent? Or was it an excuse he just made up?
* MegatonPunch: Hulk gave one to Thor that sent him several blocks away.

* MilitaryMaverick: Captain America called on all military personnel to ignore their orders from above, take a weapon go to the site of the alien invasion and start firing.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: Captain America turned a unit of soldiers with low morale into a fighting unit ready to kill nazis with just some words.
* MisplacedADecimalPoint: Banner considered that Captain America would barely have enough strength to talk. He awakes in full force and trash the floor with everyone. Banner admits that must have misplaced a decimal point somewhere.
* MissionControl: Nick Fury served this role for the Ultimates in their inaugural fight against Hulk. Not in the second one, where he fought alongside them.
* MistakenForGay: Captain America told Hulk that the Chitauri said he was a "Sissy boy". Hulk jumps to the sky to take down the alien ships, shouting "HULK STRAIGHT!"
* MomentOfSilence: Nick Fury and Betty Ross cross silently the area where the victims of the Hulk's rampage are being treated. Betty only managed to talk once they are in the elevator.

** In-Universe, Stark pointed that revealing his brain tumor killed the atmosphere stone dead, and tried to cheer things up after it.

* MrExposition: Kowalski explains the military stakes at the first issue, so we know (other than it being WWII) what is the fight about.

* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Hulk broke Iron Man's armor and almost killed him. He said that he saw five thousand blondes flash before his eyes.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Defied by Herr Kleiser. Although the Ultimates fell to his trap and were caught in the ground zero of an atomic blast, he wants evidence that Captain America and his batallion are dead. Keep searching!

** Herr Kleiser tried to blame Captain America with this one. If if had not stop that rocket back in WWII, earth would be harmized by now, and the Chitauri would not need to blow up the whole planet. Of course, being a SadisticChoice between two horrible fates, Cap did not get distracted by it a single bit.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Hulk never got anywhere near Freddie Prinze Jr. The Ultimates stopped him in time.
* NotAfraidToDie: Captain America jumped to an experimental hidrogen bomb, to make it blow up in the sky, before it could reach the United States. A soldier in the comlink asked "But what about you?". Cap dismissed the question, and the bomb blew up. Still, not even that killed him, because he's THAT tough.

** A TV journalist was going to ask Tony if he can be available as Iron Man at a moment notice, but it was not needed: he was goofing at a space shuttle.

* NuclearOption: Luring Hulk away from the city dropping a nuke on him was one of the plans to deal with him. Fortunately, the other plans worked and it was not needed to get so far.

** Back in WWII, Herr Kleiser gloated to Captain America that his mission was a failure, that his unit failed to hijack the train that was transporting parts to build the superweapon. Captain America gave a SlasherSmile and said "We weren't trying to hijack it, Herr Kleiser. We were trying to blow it up"
** Hawkeye got a bit worried when he fired the cure to Hulk, but he did not revert to Banner immediately and jumped to him.
* OhNoNotAgain: Happy pointed that Stark does not consider a suit test complete until he has saluted every office girl in the city. Stark said that no, he only salutes the pretty ones... and it seems that this discussion has took place several times in the past.
* OldSoldier: Nick Fury has served in Vietnam, South America, Kosovo, Gul War One and any modern war to care to number.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Defied by Jan, who critizised Pym for being an expert on cybernetics and robotics and also claiming to be a great super biologist, when he did not create the giant-man formulla from scratch but just reverse-engineer her mutant power.
* {{Paparazzi}}: The hospital were Jan was being treated started to get filled by this people, so Nick ordered to take her back to the Triskelion.

* PeopleJars: The Chitauri captured the Wasp, in her wasp size, and placed her inside a test tube. Herr Kleiser kept her around as a pet.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: When Hulk thought that Betty was getting away in a military transport plane, he got nuts and yelled "DON'T LEAVE BANNER ALONE AGAIN"

* PoorCommunicationKills: Captain america traces Henry Pym and and goes to arrest him, per Fury's orders... but he made up that part. When Fury discovered it, he ordered that Pym must not be injured: they are on the brink of an alien invasion! Too late: Cap jumped four minutes ago.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Henry Pym tried the Giant-Man experiment on himself. It was a successful case, but still, he was the leading scientist and many things could have gone wrong.

* PuttingOnTheReich: Once they secured their position in SHIELD and seemingly killed the Ultimates, the Chitauri displayed their old Nazi flags. Just for a sentimental thing, the Nazis were their allies, but the Chitauri have their own agenda.
* RacialFaceBlindness: During the ComicBookFantasyCasting segment, Jan asked who should play her. Nick Fury proposed Creator/LucyLiu, but Jan complained that she looks nothing like her, and asked [[SarcasmMode if Bruce Lee is his back-up choice]].
* RasputinianDeath: Herr Kleiser is impaled by a plane, sent to an explosion among the fuel tanks, cut in Half by Captain America, reduced t a pulp by Hulk and finally eaten by him.
* RatedMForManly: Captain America performs several manly feats alongside the series.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: After the wifebeating incident Jan wanted to resign from the Ultimates and move to a SHIELD research post in Dusseldorf. Fortunately, it was just a project and nothing came out of it.

** When Pym had a success in turning himself into a giant (while Banner keeps failing to recreate the super soldier formula), there is a brief glimpse of Hulk's eyes. Of course, in red.
* RestrainedRevenge: The nurses are not allowed to give details to Banner about his actions as Hulk, as stress makes his condition worse, but one of them lost a niece and said "screw the instructions!". He revealed him that he had killed more than three hundred people, so that he felt guilty and miserable.
* RiddleForTheAges: Jan asked Pym is Banner was, as rumors say, involved in secret superhuman trials on civilians. He does not know, and the issue was never mentioned again.
* RidiculousFutureInflation: Captain America, a HumanPopsicle, is amazed by the ammount of money that they paid for a pair of slacks. Back in the 1940s, to get that money he would have required the combined wages of six months.
* RightBehindMe: Proposing actors to play their roles, Henry Pym is about to propose one for Bruce Banner... who was entering the room, behind him.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The Chitauri blow up one of the upper levels of an office building, in a comic published very soon after the 9/11.

* SarcasmBlind: Captain America knows that sarcasm is a concept that he can't quite understand. When Stark said that he was dying by a brain tumor, he asked if that was some form of sarcasm.
* SayMyName: The Chitauri blow up the office building that Hawkeye and his crew were demolishinging. Black Widow, at the building in the other block, shouts his name in the comlink, ignoring if he was caught in the blast.

** When Iron Man proposes to teleport the bomb to some other dimension, Black Widow mockingly refered to it as dropping the bomb in [[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]].
* ShutUpHannibal: Hulk is not interested in Kleiser's speeches. In fact, he reduced him to a pulp shouting "Shut up!" several times.
* SkewedPriorities: Captain America has been found, and he's somehow still alive. Nick Fury is glad because it will be a great adding for the Ultimates program... and Tony because he has the trademark rights.
* SlasherSmile: Captain America gave one to Herr Kleiser when he informed him that his mission was to blow up the train they were in.
* SoMuchForStealth: Hawkeye arrives to a building filled with aliens, and tries to get past the man in the lobby by claiming he had an appointment. He doesn't. Time for plan B: kill everyone in sight.
* SomethingWeForgot: In the middle of action Kowalski starts asking where is that Captain America that Bucky talks so much about.
* SpitefulSpit: Captain America spitted to the wifebeater Pym after reducing him to a pulp.

* StealthInSpace: Averted. The Chitauri does have it, but the main armada did not use it. As they are in a hurry and do not have time for an invasion, they want to retrieve their fellow Chitauri from earth and blow up the planet, so why care with it?
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Cap earns a huge ammount of money with the Ultimates, but he wants to stay living in the same neighbourhood he always did, even if now it's filled of drug dealers and gangs.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Captain America has been found alive, but he's still a man with superhuman strength, and there's no telling to the way he would react to the idea of having been frozen for so long (or if he's still sane). Strapping him to the operation table was a mandatory precaution.

* SuperWindowJump: Captain America makes one in the hospital, even having just waked up from a 57 years sleep.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Discussed by Hawkeye and Black Widow. Black Widow complains about the poor resistance of the Chitauri in the office building, but Hawkeye protests: unlike her, with her cyborg implants, he can not have a superhero fight and hold a conversation at the same time.
* TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim: Kowalski in the plane is completely skeptical of the help that Captain America may provide, and dismissed him as a mere clown who will die down there alongside everyone else. Rather than reply to him, Cap told Bucky to tell them all that he never lost a crew.
* TemptingFate: Steve is determined to live in the same neighborhood he always did, regardless of the street punks around. Jan wishes at she hopes that he at least invested in some secure lock, only to arrive to his door and find it forced.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: Pym slapped Jan, and then immediately repented of it and tried to atone. She's not in the mood for that.
* TimeBomb: The Chitauri left one in Micronesia. The soldiers found it when it was already in 0.
* ToMakeALongStoryShort: Captain America wakes up in the hospital. The last thing he remembers is the military operatio at the Chitauri base, which he is informed was a sucess, followed by the Allied victory in WWII. He accepts it, and asks how much time he has been out. Days? Weeks? Months? Bruce Banner starts ranting theories about the super soldier serum, but Cap asks for a straight answer.

* TraintopBattle: Captain America and Herr Kleiser had one back in WWII, in a train that transported parts for the superweapon that the Chitauri were building for the Nazis. Captain America [[CombatPragmatism blew the train up]].
* TranquilFury: Captain America did not say a word while the team discusses Pym's wifebeating habits, and that it's not the first time he did it. He later tracks Pym on his own, and goes to give him a well deserved beating.
* TranquillizerDart: The guards watching Captain America fired those at him when he got mad. It was no use: he's Captain America, so he took some medical tray he had at hand and used as an improvised shield to block the shots.

** Remembering how the Nazis were such enthusiastic advocates of their drive for order, Herr Kleiser concedes that he ignored their "little eccentricities". This was when the wasp asked him about the ''concentration camps''.
** Bucky explained that he used to protect Cap from bullies at school. Then we see him storming across some waves of nazi soldiers. "Lucky for us, he's kinda filled out a little since then".

** The Wasp arrives to the lab, and sees that the boxes for the removal are being moved by... ants? The workers in there are completely unfazed by it, and told her to ask Pym.
** Bucky welcomes Captain America home, ask for their coats, and comments on their daily routines... until it finally hits him: Captain America, his old friend, that he thought dead since WWII, is alive and standing right there!
* UseYourHead: Herr Kleiser has secured Captain America, but cap fights dirty and does not shy away from any trick to regain the upper hand in a fight.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Iron Man attacked Hulk with though scramblers, to gain some extra moments. The weapon made Hulk threw up.
* WaterSourceTampering: The Chitauri had been dumping gamma butyrolactone to dampen people's thoughts. And they had been doing it for some time already.
* WeWait: Hawkeye has Hulk on his sight, armed with an arrow with the antidote, but he'll shoot at "the right moment". Fury urges him to stop the nonsenses and fire already.
* WeirdHistoricalWar: The US in World War II has the only superhuman in existence, Captain America. The nazis are helped out by an alien race, the Chitauri. It does not go into the ludicrous levels of the mainstream Marvel comics set in WWII, but it's still an example.
* WhamLine: Pym remarks that Rogers would despise Jan if he knew "what she really was". When she got angered about that remark, he said "Oh, let's see... Asian? Five foot three? A molecular freakin' biologist? A '''[[ComicBook/UltimateXMen mutant]]''', you idiot".

** This was Jan's initial reaction to Captain America beating Pym to a pulp and then going to check how she's doing. She protests that modern women do not need a KnightInShiningArmor, and that he can't seduce her by ass-kicking her husband. Later on she changes her mind: Rogers did jump to avenge and protect her, even when he had no obligation to do so, and they started dating after it.
** Black Widow could not believe that Iron Man was risking everyone with the bomb by asking Thor to teleport it to some other dimension. She thinks that Thor is just a raving madman, and the bomb will just be teleported some miles somewhere, leaving the same problem.
** Thor protests that Hulk was liberated against the Chitauri: he's the one thing worse than an alien invasion. Fortunately, Fury is CrazyPrepared and already has a plan to bring Banner back to his cell.

** Banner has all of Thor secrets in a SHIELD folder with his previous backstory. And Thor has all of Banner secrets... in his mind. He is aware that he cries every night over Betty's rejections, and that he fantasizes with hurting the Pyms for getting his old job.

* TheWorfEffect: The fight against Hulk had barely started, and he already took down Giant Man for good.
* WorryingForTheWrongReason: The Chitauri have decided that there is no more time to try to assimilate earth: it has to be destroyed in a single explosion instead. Herr Kleiser is sad about the loss... he was about to consume and replace the Wasp, but now he will never be able to experiment the female human form.

* XanatosSpeedChess: After everybody jumps from the plane, Captain America found a better use for it: flew it to the base to open it, allowing soldiers to get inside, and jump out at the last moment.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: Did anyone thought that Banner's would stay cured from the Hulk for good?
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Black Widow killed all the Chitauries next to the bomb, except one that looks like the smart guy. He has to deactivate it. He openly refuses. "Wrong answer, idiot!", so let's find some other solution.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: You would think that, once the Hulk has been defeated and the team had its baptizm of fire, and some view over the consequences of said battle, the series would be done. Not Quite. Remember those aliens that Cap fought in WWII? They are back... and it's still the same miniseries, not a sequel one.

* IdenticalLookingAsians: During the ComicBookFantasyCasting segment, Jan asked who should play her. Nick Fury proposed Creator/LucyLiu, but Jan complained that she looks nothing like her, and asked [[SarcasmMode if Bruce Lee is his back-up choice]].

* BlatantLies: Captain America convinced Hulk to fight against Kleiser by saying that he was after Betty, and then after the rest of the alien armada by saying they called him a sassy boy.

* BullyingADragon: Subverted. Cap is giving Pym a well deserved beating, after his domestic abuse of the wasp, and goads him into becoming a giant to have a fair fight. Pym obliges, and it would seem that he got the upper hand, but no: Captain America trashed him to a pulp nonetheless, giant size and all.

** Captain America did not explain Bucky where did the nazis got the "Flash Gordon tech". He merely said that there were more sides fighting in the war than it would be ever known.
** Initially, Bruce Banner refused to believe that the super soldier program got such a huge budget increase. Nick Fury explained then the political reasons for it.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The sons of Magneto are working for S.H.I.E.L.D., and this is not the first that the security services made deals with terrorists.

* LanguageBarrier: The Wasp and Black Widow secured the Chitauri DoomsdayDevice, but can't understand the instructions, as they are written in English. So they call the super genius Tony Stark, but he's completely lost as well.

*** And when he hears that the naked guy was after Betty... all hell breaks loose.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: In a special feature, Bryan Hitch discussed the "cast" of actors he and Mark Millar used for reference in The Ultimates. He picked Creator/SamuelLJackson for Nick Fury, Creator/BradPitt for Captain America, Creator/ZhangZiyi for The Wasp, Creator/BruceWillis for Hawkeye, Angelina Jolie and James Haven for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Matthew McConaughey for Giant-Man, and Steve Buscemi for Bruce Banner. He couldn't find a suitable actor for Thor, so he just said Jesus. Shapeshifting Chitauri villain Herr Kleiser, greatly resembles Robert Carlyle. Note, by the way, that the Avengers were a dead franchise at this point, and nobody was seriously planning about the MCU just yet.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: In a special feature, Bryan Hitch discussed the "cast" of actors he and Mark Millar used for reference in The Ultimates. He picked Creator/SamuelLJackson for Nick Fury, Creator/BradPitt for Captain America, Creator/ZhangZiyi for The Wasp, Bruce Willis for Hawkeye, Angelina Jolie and James Haven for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Matthew McConaughey for Giant-Man, and Steve Buscemi for Bruce Banner. He couldn't find a suitable actor for Thor, so he just said Jesus. Shapeshifting Chitauri villain Herr Kleiser, greatly resembles Robert Carlyle. Note, by the way, that the Avengers were a dead franchise at this point, and nobody was seriously planning about the MCU just yet.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: In a special feature, Bryan Hitch discussed the "cast" of actors he and Mark Millar used for reference in The Ultimates. He picked Creator/SamuelLJackson for Nick Fury, Creator/BradPitt for Captain America, Zhang Ziyi for The Wasp, Bruce Willis for Hawkeye, Angelina Jolie and James Haven for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Matthew McConaughey for Giant-Man, and Steve Buscemi for Bruce Banner. He couldn't find a suitable actor for Thor, so he just said Jesus. Shapeshifting Chitauri villain Herr Kleiser, greatly resembles Robert Carlyle. Note, by the way, that the Avengers were a dead franchise at this point, and nobody was seriously planning about the MCU just yet.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: In a special feature, Bryan Hitch discussed the "cast" of actors he and Mark Millar used for reference in The Ultimates. He picked Creator/SamuelLJackson for Nick Fury, Brad Pitt for Captain America, Zhang Ziyi for The Wasp, Bruce Willis for Hawkeye, Angelina Jolie and James Haven for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Matthew McConaughey for Giant-Man, and Steve Buscemi for Bruce Banner. He couldn't find a suitable actor for Thor, so he just said Jesus. Shapeshifting Chitauri villain Herr Kleiser, greatly resembles Robert Carlyle. Note, by the way, that the Avengers were a dead franchise at this point, and nobody was seriously planning about the MCU just yet.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: In a special feature, Bryan Hitch discussed the "cast" of actors he and Mark Millar used for reference in The Ultimates. He picked Samuel Jackson for Nick Fury, Brad Pitt for Captain America, Zhang Ziyi for The Wasp, Bruce Willis for Hawkeye, Angelina Jolie and James Haven for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Matthew McConaughey for Giant-Man, and Steve Buscemi for Bruce Banner. He couldn't find a suitable actor for Thor, so he just said Jesus. Shapeshifting Chitauri villain Herr Kleiser, greatly resembles Robert Carlyle. Note, by the way, that the Avengers were a dead franchise at this point, and nobody was seriously planning about the MCU just yet.