History ComicBook / UltimateGalactusTrilogy

* RatedMForManly: Captain America jumps from a helicopter, without a parachute, and lands with his shield over the Silver Wing.

* AngryBlackMan: Or woman, rather. Captain America wants to detain Misty Knight for the incident with the Silver Wing. She replies, "Kiss my black butt, Captain Whitey."

* AbsenteeActor: The crossover involves the characters of all the major ''Ultimate'' series... Except for Spider-Man.

** In the main continuity, the Silver Surfer was working for Galactus and betrayed him in the first adventure, siding with humanity. Here, here his equivalents are the actively homicidal Silver Wings, who never change sides. Then again, this might be subverted by the fact that a TruerToTheText version of Norrin Radd later appears in ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' with no real ties to Gal Lak Tus outside of maybe (as speculated by Reed) serving as the basis for Gah Lak Tus's Siver Wings.

** In the main continuity, the Silver Surfer was working for Galactus and betrayed him in the first adventure, siding with humanity. Here, there is no betrayal. Then again, this might be subverted by the fact that a TruerToTheText version of Norrin Radd later appears in ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' with no real ties to Gal Lak Tus outside of maybe (as speculated by Reed) serving as the basis for Gah Lak Tus's versions.

* StarfishAliens: The Kree are nowhere near human beings. Mahr Vehl has gone through extensive surgery to look like one.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Sam Wilson openly calls the X-Men "morons" for charging into investigating Vision's broadcast on the belief it was a mutant psychic without even bothering to ''turn on the TV'' and see if anything else was happening in the world. Wolverine concurs and calls chides Jean that she and Xavier and are so tied up in the mission of protecting mutants that it never occurred to them there's more to the world.

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: In the first arc we see them, Carol Danvers conducts the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on Mahr Vehl. Unsure how to take him out of his armor, she places a plastic explosive on his neck, and was ready (and ''willing'') to proceed with an alien autopsy if needed. By the time of ''Extintion'', they are a couple.

* InterspeciesRomance: In ''Extintion'', it was pointed that Mahr Vehl and Danvers become a couple. This was completely ignored by later works.

* AFatherToHisMen: Nick Fury has an habit of calling Reed "son". And when he asks to use the Sentry system some day, Reed asked him to make sound less as if he was asking his dad to borrow the car for the weekend.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Sam Wilson openly calls the X-Men "morons" for charging into this on the belief there was a mutant psychic without even bothering to ''turn on the TV'' and see if anything else was happening in the world. He lampshades how the X-Men are so tied into their own mission of protecting mutants that it doesn't occur to them there's more to the world.

** The Big G himself. In the main continuity, Galactus is a [[NecessaryEvil regrettable part of the cosmic balance]], who doesn't enjoy being constantly hungry. Here, Gah Lak Tus is deliberately going around exterminating entire species because it hates them.

** In the main continuity, the Silver Surfer was working for Galactus and betrayed him in the first adventure, siding with humanity. Here, there is no betrayal.

* TheBusCameBack: Hey, look! ''Ultimate Extinction'' features Ultimate ComicBook/MistyKnight. She hadn't been used in comics since the 1970s.

** Mahr-Vehl telling Danvers and Fury he's on their side isn't believed at first, which he's indignant about.
-->'''Mahr-Vehl:''' Are you people so far gone you can't tell when someone's trying to help?

* ContinuityNod: Mahr-Vehl's interrogation brings up a few factoids from over in the first volume of ''Ultimates'', namely that there are eleven known alien species on Earth (the Kree aren't in that number because they're not ''on'' Earth, just watching), and he even compliments Fury on the Chitauri business. Later on, Hawkeye grumbles about Captain America's famous line from the conclusion of that fight.

* InterspeciesRomance: In ''Extintion'', it was pointed that Mahr-Vehl and Danvers become a couple. This was completely ignored by later works.
* IntriguedByHumanity: Why Mahr-Vehl decides to help us. We've got ''Series/{{Lost}}'', and Music/PearlJam and Krispy Kreme donuts!

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Mahr-Vehl has to suffer one of those after being captured, when Nick Fury refuses to believe him.

* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Mahr-Vehl just loves all of human pop culture, to the point that he talks like characters from TV series, thinking that real people talk that way.

** Captain Mahr-Vehl stops the Kree killbot and saves the prototype of the ASIS... and gets locked in an interrogation chamber as a result, with plastic explosives strapped to his neck just in case he tries something.

* ProperlyParanoid: Mahr-Vehl points out Carol never trusted him when she thought he was human. As Carol retorts, she didn't trust him because she thought he was a flake, not an alien spying on mankind.

* SlasherSmile: Carol Danvers looks ''way'' too enthusiastic about handing Mahr-Vell over to the scientists for an old fashioned vivisection.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Discussed by Hawkeye, to Reed Richards, when boarding the Kree vessel. ''He'' kills, Tony kills, Mahr-Vell almost certainly kills, but Reed and Sue do not. Later on, Nick mentions that Johnny and Ben only beat up the Kree soldiers they fought, as opposed to everyone else. So he'll have them burnt once the Fantastic Four aren't looking.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Hawkeye refuses to see the Kree as people, and eagerly murders them with no remorse. When Mahr-Vell points out they ''are'' people, and he's one of them, Hawkeye retorts "you'll die like people too".

* CallBack: Reed mentioned the Fantastic Four's adventure in the Negative Zone, where they met the alien Nihil. The knowledge they got there is crucial for Reed to develop the weapon that's key to victory.

''Ultimate Extinction'': It's discovered that Gah Lak Tus is not really a single creature but rather a HiveMind of millions of sentient beings in a swarm of powerful spaceships. As it arrives to Earth, Xavier and Jean Grey try to make psychic contact with the swarm, repulsing it and distracting it. Meanwhile, the Ultimates deal with Gah Lak Tus' army of Silver Surfers terrorizing the streets. With that, Reed Richards is able to use his new weapon against Gah Lak Tus, a cannon channeling the raw power of an alternate universe's big bang. This destroys 20% of the entity, who flees.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Just like the original Galactus story. A massive swarm of alien robots decides to stamp us out like ants, our insignificance in the grand scheme of things is a recurring theme, and [[spoiler: ultimately Gah Lak Tus isn't beaten, just convinced we're not worth the trouble of wiping out]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: You remember how the original Galactus story ended with the Silver Surfer having his dormant respect for life rekindled, leading him to valiantly turn on Galactus to save our world? Yeah, that doesn't happen here; he's a monstrous cult leader who prompts several mass suicides. Our heroes are also a lot more ruthless and we see a lot of the deaths and riots firsthand.

* ApocalypseCult: One springs up worshiping Gah Lak Tus.

The ''Ultimate Galactus Trilogy'' is a group of three miniseries that adapted ''ComicBook/TheComingOfGalactus'' to the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe. Those miniseries are ''Ultimate Nightmare'', ''Ultimate Secret'' and ''Ultimate Extinction''.

''Ultimate Nightmare'': Broadcast showing images of death and destruction is suddenly seen all across the world, in all types of media, causing a small-scale wave of mass suicides. S.H.I.E.L.D. locates the source to be from Russia, so Nick Fury goes to investigate with Captain America, Black Widow, and the Falcon. The X-Men also notice it, and Xavier sends Wolverine, Colossus and Jean Grey. Both teams, unaware of each other, enter into an abandoned military bunker. After dealing with several weird things including leftover Soviet experiments, they find the Vision, an alien robot who warns them about the coming of Gah Lak Tus.

''Ultimate Secret'': An alien invasion by the Kree tries to destroy an experimental spaceship. Dr. Philip Lawson, the creator of the ship, manages to stop them. It turns out that Lawson is a Kree himself, Captain Mahr Vehl, who had been sent to infiltrate Earth to examine humanity to see if they posed a threat to the Kree, but he actually came to like humanity's culture over time and want to help them stop Gah Lak Tus. With his help, the heroes infiltrate the ship of commander Yahn Rgg and steal their info about Gah Lak Tus.

''Ultimate Extinction'': It's discovered that Gah Lak Tus is not really a single creature but rather a HiveMind of millions of sentient ships. As it arrives to Earth, Xavier and Jean Grey try to make psychic contact with the swarm, repulsing it and distracting it. Meanwhile, the Ultimates deal with Gah Lak Tus' army of Silver Surfers terrorizing the streets. With that, Reed Richards is able to use his new weapon against Gah Lak Tus, a cannon channeling the raw power of an alternate universe's big bang. This destroys 20% of the entity, who flees.

** Captain Marvel is a mispronunciation of "Mar-Vell". Here, he was renamed as "Mahr Vehl" (but the misunderstanding as "Captain Marvel" stays)

* AssholeVictim: The X-Men announce that they intend to liberate all those Russian prisoners who had been experimented with and then left abandoned in the bunker. One of those guys, who could turn into a giant, thanks in full SarcasmMode the heroes who came to liberate them, and gets enraged, thinking that it's just psychological torture.

* BecauseISaidSo: Reed may like to work alone, but Fury wants him to work with Sam, Tony and Marvel. Because he says so.

* GodzillaThreshold: Reed figured out a way to hurt Gah Lak Tus, perhaps even kill it, but it is a crime against nature. [[spoiler:The idea is to open a portal to an alternate universe having its Big Bang, let it get out like a death ray, and attack Gah Lak Tus with it.]]

* IntriguedByHumanity: Why Mahr-Vell decides to help us. We've got ''Series/{{Lost}}'', and Music/PearlJam and Krispy Kreme donuts!

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Mahr-Vell has to suffer one of those after being captured, when Nick Fury refuses to believe him.

* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: In "Ultimate Extinction" the Ultimates and the Fantastic Four are preparing for the arrival of Gah Lak Tus... and then we change focus to Misty Knight, private investigator, and a client whose wife joined a cult. What does that have to do with anything? Of course, later on both plots ''will'' be related. [[spoiler:The cult leader is actually an alien working for Gah Lak Tus]]

* LudicrousPrecision: Nick Fury tells Xavier that he has resources and a bottomless budget to improve Cerebro and help him use it to make contact with Gah Lak Tus. Xavier asks Jean how much money they would need: it would be near the Gross National Product of Germany. Xavier then asks, "Define 'bottomless'".

* NightmareFetishist: Sue Storm accuses Reed of ''enjoying'' the thought of something going around killing civilisations in the crib.

** Captain Mahr-Vell stops the Kree killbot and saves the prototype of the ASIS... and gets locked in an interrogation chamber as a result, with plastic explosives strapped to his neck just in case he tries something.

* ProperlyParanoid: Mahr-Vell points out Carol never trusted him when she thought he was human. As Carol retorts, she didn't trust him because she thought he was a flake, not an alien spying on mankind.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Kiss my black butt, Captain Whitey. Misty Knight, ex-NYPD, licensed private investigator, attacked in my own office by a guy who disapeared because you didn't hit him hard enough, and your flying Stepin Fetchit missed with two guns! Count'em! '''Two guns'''!"

The ''Ultimate Galactus Trilogy'' is a group of 3 miniseries that adapted ''ComicBook/TheComingOfGalactus'' to the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel comics. Those miniseries are Ultimate Nightmare, Ultimate Secret and Ultimate Extinction.

Ultimate Nightmare: A weird vision of aliens dying is suddenly seen all across the world, in all types of media. S.H.I.E.L.D. locates the source to be from Russia, so Nick Fury goes to investigate with Captain America, Black Widow, and the Falcon. The X-Men also notices it, and Xavier send Wolverine, Collosus and Jean Grey. Both teams, unaware of each other, enter into an abandoned military bunker. After dealing with several weird things, they find the Vision, an alien robot, who warns them about the coming of Gah Lak Tus.

Ultimate Secret: An alien invasion by the Kree tries to destroy an experimental ship. Dr. Philip Lawson, the creator of the ship, manages to stop them. It turns out that Lawson is a Kree himself, Captain Mahr Vehl, who had to infiltrate earth but actually came to root for humanity. With his help, the heroes infiltrate the ship of commander Yahn Rgg and steal their info about Gah Lak Tus.

Ultimate Extinction: Gah Lak Tus is not really a single creature, it's a HiveMind of millions of sentient ships. Xavier and Jean Grey try to make contact with it, but it only gets disgusted. Reed Richards used an experimental gun that released part of the energy of the Big Bang. This destroys 20% of the entity, who flees.

This story had a sequel, ''ComicBook/UltimateVision'', starring the alien robot that was found in Ultimate Nightmare.

** The Big G himself. In the main continuity, Galactus is a regrettable part of the cosmic balance, who doesn't enjoy being constantly hungry. Here, Gah Lak Tus is deliberately going around exterminating entire species because it hates them.

* AngryBlackMan: Captain America wants to detain Misty Knight for the incident with the Silver Wing. She replies "Kiss my black butt, Captain Whitey"
* ArcWords: The "Take two things that work and nail them toguether" takes a new spin when they find out what has been going on at the bunker all those years.

* TheBusCameBack: Hey, look! Ultimate Extinction features Ultimate ComicBook/MistyKnight. She hadn't been used in comics since the 1970s.

* CanNotSpitItOut: Danvers has to report the results of her interrogation of Lawson. She's visibly ashamed to open her mouth and say "His name's Captain Marvel and he's a spaceman from the Cree indian tribe, sir"

** Marh-Vell telling Danvers and Fury he's on their side isn't believed at first, which he's indignant about.
-->'''Marh:''' Are you people so far gone you can't tell when someone's trying to help?
* ChekhovsGun: Why would they bother so much to make Dr. Phil Lawson go hrough the ID tests?
* TheChosenWannabe: Heather Douglas consider that only she and her clone sisters are capable of having first contact with Gah Lak Tus, and try to destroy Xavier's array because he will do it instead of them.

** Sam has to call the woman "Black Widow, because he's not cleared for real names.

* ContinuityNod: Marh's interrogation brings up a few factoids from over in the first volume of ''Ultimates'', namely that there are eleven known aliens species on Earth (the Kree aren't in that number because they're not ''on'' Earth, just watching). Marh even compliments Fury on the Chitauri business. Later on, Hawkeye grumbles about Captain America's famous line from the conclusion of that fight.

* CrazyPrepared: Basic NASA engineering doctrine, meaning they've got a nice backup Asis to lure the Kree troops in.

* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty much everyone. Creator/WarrenEllis is writing, after all. Carol Danvers in particular is a veritable desert of snark on her own.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Xavier's telephatic contact and Reed's doomsday device are not enough to cause Gah Lak Tus any real harm, but he's scared by the unexpected resistance and left.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Subverted. The scientists are taking their seats, but Lawson is taking his sweet time to do so, because he's "just looking at her". Carol Danvers? No, the Asis ship, in the window right behind her.

-->"My name is Geheneris [=HalaSon=] Mahr Vehl, rank of Pluskommander, officer of the Kree Void Navy. Pluskommander is a rank roughly analogous to Captain"

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: After WWII, the Russians increased their work in the bunker, trying in vain to make some viable super soldiers from it. Captain was dead (or so it seemed at the time), but they had no guarantee that the US could not eventually replicate the process and create more like him.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The Kree in general [[TheWorldIsNotReady are not ready]] to learn about Gah Lak Tus. Only high-ranked officials may do, after an extensive training. And yet, Yahn-Rahg went mad anyway after reading the Gah Lak Tus files.
* AGodIAmNot: "Hala was not a god. Hala was a Kree that tought that innocent life was worth saving."
* GodzillaThreshold: Reed figured out a way to hurt Gah Lak Tus, perhaps even kill it, but it is a crime against nature. [[spoiler:The idea is to open a portal to a universe having its Big Bang, let it get out like a death ray, and attack Gah Lak Tus with it.]]

* HopelessSuitor: Tony tries to flirt with Sue on first sight, but she only has eyes for Reed.

* InterspeciesRomance: In ''Extintion'' it was pointed that Mahr Vehl and Danvers become a couple. This was completely ignored by later works.
* IntriguedByHumanity: Why Marh-Vell decides to help us. We've got ''Lost'', and ''Pearl Jam'' and Krispy Kreme donuts.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Marh-Vell has to suffer one of those after being captured, when Nick Fury refuses to believe him.
* {{Jerkass}}: Hawkeye spends all of ''Ultimate Secret'' moaning and sulking about these stupid superheroes and aliens and kids and how they're all going to get him killed. Sue Storm eventually gets fed up of his attitude, and tells him to shove it.

* LudicrousPrecision: Nick Fury tells Xavier that he has resources and a botomless budget to improve Cerebro and help him use it to make contact with Gah Lak Tus. Xavier asks Jean how much money they would need: it would be near the Gross National Product of Germany. Xavier then asks "Define 'bottomless'".

** Captain Marh-Vell stops the Kree killbot and saves the prototype of the ASIS... and gets locked in an interrogation chamber as a result, with plastic explosives strapped to his neck just in case he tries something.

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Yahn Rgg messes with Marvel's armor, and he's incapatitated by pain. Hawkeye wants to go on and leave him behind, but Reed and Sue help him to his feet and bring him with them.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Subverted. The killbot destroy the ASIS, but there is a back up unit.

** When that random mom sees the video of aliens dying, she thinks it's a HeavyMetal video. [[MoralGuardians They shouldn't allow this stuff on TV]]!
** Before taking Misty Knight out of trouble, Tony has to explain to some girl in the phone that it was a friend, not a flirting. Always the Casanova, nobody would believe him, so he had to lie that he was about to help a "male" friend.
* OhNoNotAgain: Nick Fury did not go through the Cold War, and in fact end the Cold War, to accept a massively destabilizing terrorist comunications attack emerge from Russia!

* ProperlyParanoid: As Marh points out, Danvers never trusted him when she thought he was human. As Carol retorts, she didn't trust him because she thought he was a flake, not an alien spying on mankind.
* PunyEarthlings: Yah Rgg talks this way non-stop.
* RatedMForManly: Captain America jumps from a helicopter, without parachute, and lands with his shield over the Silver Wing.
* RedAlert: SHIELD got in this mode when the Heather Douglas clone army started attacking the Triskelion.

* SlasherSmile: Carol Danvers looks ''way'' too enthusiastic about handing Marh over to the scientists for an old fashioned vivisection.

* StartsWithASuicide: The video of the dying aliens caused countless suicides.

* TemptingFate: Misty Knight thinks that her mission will be super easy. Spy the Paul Maitreya guy and his cult from the other building, takes some photos and a video, and that's it. Easy money! Yeah, no.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Discussed by Hawkeye, to Reed Richards, when boarding the Kree vessel. ''He'' kills, Tony kills, Marh almost certainly kills, but Reed and Sue do not. Later on, Nick mentions that Johnny and Ben only beat up the Kree soldiers they fought, as opposed to everyone else. So he'll have them burnt once the Fantastic Four aren't looking.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Kiss my black butt, Captain Whitey. Misty Knight, ex-NYPD, licensed private investigator, attacked in my own office by a guy who dissapeared because you didn't hit him hard enough, and your flying Stepin Fetchit missed with two guns! Count'em! '''Two guns'''!"

* VaguenessIsComing: The video of the dying aliens really knows how to get a point across, but does not really say much that might be actually useful. "No. No escape. No escape. It comes. And there's no escape. All the stars got out. You are already dead. It comes and you are all dead. We are all dead. Listen. There is only death for you. There is only small life. Then there is this. We he I send this tell this warn this. There is only horror now. There is only death now"
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Vision came to earth to warn humanity about Galactus. The Russians stored her in a bunker, and tried to create super soldiers by removing parts from her and implanting them into people. All those experiments have GoneHorriblyWrong.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Hawkeye refuses to see the Kree as people, and eagerly murders them with no remorse. When Marh points out they ''are'' people, and he's one of them, Hawkeye retorts "you'll die like people too".