History ComicBook / TheUltimates2002

!Tropes
* AchillesInHisTent

* AndHereHeComesNow

* BadassInDistress

* BigNo

* BoomHeadshot

* TheCameo

* CassandraTruth

* TheConstant

** The recent "mutant hysteria" that Pym mentions in passing was seen in the first arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''.

* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: Averted: the buildings were filled with people, because it's downtown New York, 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 with the building where Iron Man crashed Hulk, which ''is'' empty. Because it has already been evacuated, and SHIELD told Stark this so he took the fight to it.

* CrazyJealousGuy

-->'''Hulk:''' HULK WANTS FREDDIE PRINZE JR.!

* DestructiveSaviour

* FlatWhat

* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger

* GoodNewsBadNews

* GrumpyOldMan: Captain America subverted it when George Bush asked about his opinion on the 21 century.
-->'''George Bush:''' Well, what's your verdict on the 21st century, Captain America? Cool or uncool?
-->'''Captain America:''' Cool, Mr. President. Definitely cool.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial

* ImprovisedWeapon

* MagicPants

* MoodWhiplash

* NeverGotToSayGoodbye

* NotHelpingYourCase

* OhCrap

* RedIsViolent

* ShoutOut

* StatingTheSimpleSolution

* {{Understatement}}
** 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 asks him about the ''concentration camps''.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight

* WhamLine: Pym remarks that Rogers would despise Jan if he knew "what she really was". When she gets angery about that remark, he said "Oh, let's see... Asian? Five foot three? A molecular freakin' biologist? A '''[[ComicBook/UltimateXMen mutant]]''', you idiot".
* WhatTheHellHero

* WhatYouAreInTheDark

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: You would think that, once the Hulk has been defeated and the team had its baptism 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.

->'''Kleiser:''' The world was about to go up and you were about to surrender in these few brief moments we have left. Let me hear you say it... "I surrender, Herr Kleiser. Make it quick"
->'''Captain America:''' Surrender? SURRENDER??!! You think this letter on my head stands for 'France'?

[[caption-width-right:350:Bringing ComicBook/TheAvengers to the XXI century]]

* CostumeEvolution: Cap spends his WW2 scenes in a different, more military version of his typical outfit. The unveiling of his proper, modern day outfit, gets a nice, lavishly drawn splash-page to end an issue on.

* RatedMForManly: Captain America performs several manly feats through the series.

** 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 about hurting the Pyms for getting his old job.
** In public, Henry Pym is all nice and all smiles, but when nobody is watching them, he is a violent domestic abuser.

** Black Widow can't believe that Iron Man is 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.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Iron Man attacks Hulk with though scramblers, to gain some extra moments. The weapon makes Hulk threw up.

* TimeBomb: The Chitauri leave one in Micronesia. The soldiers find 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 success, 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.

* SuperSpeedReading: Tony Stark reads the 600 pages military defriefing so quickly that he can hardly turn the pages fast enough to keep up his own pace.
* SuperWindowJump: Captain America makes one in the hospital, even after having just woken up from a 57 years sleep.

* StealthInSpace: Averted. The Chitauri does have it, but the main armada doesn't bother using it ss they are in a hurry and don't have time for an invasion, they want to retrieve their fellow Chitauri from Earth and blow up the planet.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Cap earns a huge amount of money with the Ultimates, but he wants to stay living in the same neighborhood he always did, even if now it's filled of drug dealers and gangs.

* ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange: Herr Kleiser is a man because he consumed a man, but after some decades in that form he's ready to consume the wasp and experiment the female form.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Defied by Jan, who criticizes Pym for being an expert on cybernetics and robotics and also claiming to be a great super biologist, when he didn't create the giant-man formulla from scratch but just reverse-engineered her mutant power.

* PiggybackingOnHitler: The Chitauri gave their full support to the nazis, and provided them with alien technology. Fortunately, America has a secret weapon of its own: Captain America.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jan gave one to Hank, detailing how he's not as great as he thinks he is, and how all his work comes from analysing her mutant power. Hank reacted with violence.

** Hawkeye gets a bit worried when he fires the cure to Hulk, only for him to not revert to Banner immediately and jump him.

** Captain America has awaken, and Bruce Banner tries to explain him where he is. He is StrappedToAnOperatingTable and surrounded by armed soldiers, but he's among friends.

** Nick Fury has all those little geniuses to organize his schedule, and nobody thinks in the detail of not sitting Bruce Banner next to the window that shows the port area that he destroyed in his first Hulk episode.

** Herr Kleiser tries to blame Captain America with this one. If he hadn't stopped that rocket back in WWII, Earth would be harmionized by now, and the Chitauri wouldn't ''need'' to blow up the whole planet. Of course, being a SadisticChoice between two horrible fates, Cap didn't get distracted by it a single bit.

* NotAfraidToDie: Captain America jumps on to an experimental hydrogen bomb, to make it blow up, before it can reach the United States. A soldier in the radio asks "But what about you?". Cap dismisses the question, and the bomb blows up. Still, not even that killed him, because he's THAT tough.

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

** Cap. When it comes out just what Hank Pym is, and what he's done, Steve immediately takes off against order to go beat seven shades of shit out of him.
** Later on Captain America calls on all military personnel to ignore their orders from above, take a weapon go to the site of the alien invasion and start firing.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Tony Stark is interviewed during the first Ultimates' gala, by three journalists that look suspiciously similar to Clark Kent, Louis Lane and Jimmy Olsen.

* LackOfEmpathy: Always a problem for Betty Ross, apparently, but pretty prevalent after the Hulk's rampage, as she cheerfully informs Nick that DVD sales are going great. At the funeral for the Hulk's victims. Even Nick, who isn't exactly Mr. Squeaky Clean himself, is appalled by the lack of decorum.

* 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 doesn't not get his power from a gamma bomb, but from the same super soldier serum that created Captain America.

* InvisibilityCloak: Nick Fury has one, but it is very expensive to use for more than just some seconds.

* HeroicSecondWind: Captain America is losing his fight with Herr Kleiser. He's on top of him, and asks him to say "I surrender, Herr Kleiser. Make it quick". This enraged him: he [[UseYourHead gave a head attack to Kleiser]], freed his hand to smash his head a second time, tossed him aside, and cutted him in half with his shield. "[[BadassBoast Surrender? SURRENDER??!! You think this letter on my head stands for "France"?]]"

** 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 superhumans and super terrorists demand a solution, and pronto.
** First three initiatives are dead in the water, so Fury gave permission to "traumatize Banner". Meaning, to force him to turn into the Hulk. When punching him doesn't work, they're forced to go with "drop him out of the plane".

* FishOutOfWater: Captain America, from the 1940s to the 21st century, doesn't have a clue about anything, misses all the references and finds every thing strange.

* FaceStealer: The Chitauri need to consume a human to take their form. The original Herr Kleiser was a Nazi that voluntarily sacrificed himself when the Nazis stroke the deal with the Chitauri.

* 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 blasts Hulk away from Captain America, Thor gave Hulk a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, breaks his jaw, cracks his ribs and punctures one of his lungs.

* AmericaWonWorldWarII: Back in the day, Herr Kleiser boasts that, once Washington is wiped from the map, the Allies will have to find 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.

* BlandNameProduct: The scene of Bruce Banner in Manhattan includes a sign that looks similar to ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.

** Black Widow cann't believe that Iron Man is 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.