History ComicBook / UltimateSpiderMan2000

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=33673 The new main character is a half-Black/half Hispanic teen named Miles Morales.]]

%%* FiveManBand: The Ultimate Six, though they're never named in-story.
%%** BigBad: Norman Osborn.
%%** TheDragon: Electro, in terms of power and personality.
%%** [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]]: Doctor Octopus, who is TheDragon to Norman in terms of rank.
%%** TheBrute: Sandman, who has almost no lines and mostly attacks stuff. Shares this with Electro.
%%** TheDarkChick: Kraven the Hunter, the weakest and most emotional of the group who only wants to kill Spider-Man.
%%** TeamPet: [[spoiler:Spider-Man... for about two pages.]]
%%** SixthRanger: The Vulture joins the group for "The Death of Spider-Man".

* WhipItGood: Montana

** In issue 23, Peter is wearing a ''Franchise/ThunderCats'' shirt during school.

** On the first page of issue 2, Peter's history teacher recites a nearly word-for-word rendition of the Ben Stein scene in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''.

** Volume 2 is essentially a modern version of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', with the Human Torch instead of Firestar, and a few more teen heroes joining the cast too.

* SavedByCanon: Of course that Norman, Harry and Octavius would survive the big explosion in Oscorp. The series is still starting, and we haven't make any actual story with them yet.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Somewhat and rather humorously for the Hollywood arc, which is set during the during the filming of ''Spider-Man 2'' and even uses the people who worked on the movie (Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi). The real-life movie had come out not too long before, in the same year. The real Spider-Man isn't pleased when he finds out, to say the least. Although he's mostly annoyed that he can't get royalties from the movie, at least not without telling them his real-life identity.

** Transformed [[spoiler:Mary Jane Watson]] into the Demogoblin, who rampaged out of control for a while before seeing Peter snapped her out of it and she transformed back. [[spoiler:Mary-Jane]] was supposedly cured. For now.

* BlahBlahBlah: The boring teacher at the start of issue 2. His students are ''falling asleep''.

* MaleGaze: Peter is standing in a lift next to Elektra and can't stop staring at her but glances away every time she looks at him.

'''Elektra:''' ''(smirks, gives an {{aside glance}})''

* KlingonPromotion: Unintended, but still the case. He broke the hand of Flash Thompson, the star of the basketball team, and now the team needs a replacement. Parker is unsure about it, he does not like sports that much, but when Flash insisted to took anyone but him, Parker accepted, just to screw him.

* CreateYourOwnHero: In the very start of the series, Norman Osborn is dealing with big and ugly experimental spiders, while wearing protective gloves. Then his lawyer calls and he starts discussing with him at the phone, and casually hands the spider to the employee next to him (who was no wearing any protection). Terrified, this guys throws the spider into her box. But he forgots to close it. The spider climbs and gets out, and the rest, as they say, is history.

** During the climax of Peter's first real clash with Norman Osborn, he [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied grabs MJ, takes her to the top of the Queensboro Bridge and eventually throes her off]]. Peter dives down after her, snagging her by the ankle with a web line just before she hits the water (although conspicuously ''without'' a telltale "SNAP" sound effect) then scooping her up and carrying her back up to the bridge. The chapter ends with him trying to reassure her that he has her, only to find her unresponsive, causing him to mutter "Oh no..." and cradle her despairingly in his arms... and the next chapter opens with the same scene, [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt only this time she opens her eyes]].

* TriangRelations: Type Four, with an added, extra suitor in Kitty Pryde, who would form a D to Peter's A. At certain points through the comic's run, the reciprocation Peter displays does switch based on events, but he's GenreSavvy or simply smart enough to realize a Type Seven would be a bad idea.

* TakeThat: In issue #200, Bobby Drake's version of Peter Parker's future involves him [[[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]] joining a team of teenage superheroes (including Nova and White Tiger), and using a bunch of hi-tech vehicles provided by S.H.I.E.L.D.]] Mary Jane rolls her eyes and asks if he's done talking.

* FacePalm: Ben Urich does a ''double'' face palm when Betty Brant points out that Miles Morales (even though in costume) is black, just before she [[Profiling posits]] that he and the African-American Prowler must be related.

* FacePalm: Ben Urich does a ''double'' face palm when Betty Brant points out that Miles Morales (even though in costume) is black, just before she posits that [[UnfortunateImplications he and the African-American Prowler must be related]].

** Mutated Norman Osborn into the [[BigBad Green Goblin]]. He himself has evolved throughout the series, starting as a [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk-lite]] who could [[PlayingWithFire throw fireballs]], becoming aware of himself ''at a molecular level'' and [[WalkingWasteland displaying serious pyrokinetic abilities]] (destroying [[ComicBook/TheUltimates The Triskelion]] during his escape), and eventually coming back from the dead after getting his head blown clean off.

!Please Note: Due to the comic changing main characters at the end of Volume 2, tropes for the first two volumes of the title are separate from tropes for the third and fourth volumes. As such, all tropes relating to ComicBook/MilesMorales will be collected under the tropes for Volumes 3 and 4. This page will also feature unmarked spoilers for the Peter Parker-focused portion of the series.

-> '''Mark Raxton''': Man...what's so special about this Peter Parker?\\
'''ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson''': Everything.

** Related to AdaptationalSpeciesChange into a true vampire, Morbius is centuries old.

* {{Meganekko}}: Mary Jane in Ultimate Comics.

** Another one features a man in what seems to be a raccoon costume yelling "I was just guarding her!! That's all I was doing!!".
*** Happened again, but with a person in a Nova costume babbling on about a Cosmic Cube.

* SadistTeacher: The gym teacher really hates students who can't place the ball in the net.

* AmateurSleuth: Being an illegal vigilante, the police always try to shoot Peter on sight. Thanks to his lawyers and their hability to find technicalities and legal loopholes, the state can't convinct Fisk of murder even after (literally) being handed footage of him killing a man with his bare hands. Even worse, the one member of the NYPD who seemingly ''does'' support Peter [[spoiler:turns out to be a DirtyCop, working for the Kingpin]]. Things start to change when Jameson see Spider-Man saving drowning people during [[ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}} the Ultimatum wave]], and gave a copernical shift to the Daily Bugle coverage of Spider-Man.

* PlotArmor: Ultimate Kingpin is this from a villain perspective since Creator/BrianMichaelBendis elevated him to second most prominent villain after Goblin, had him win unlikely victories (and a superpowered Peter Parker couldn't land a punch on him which Earth-616 Marvel called BS on in an iconic moment in ComicBook/JMSSpiderMan's ''Back in Black'' arc). Bendis is a huge fan of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' (and later wrote Daredevil) and his ridiculously convoluted manner in which Kingpin escapes justice despite being caught on tape strangling a man beggars disbelief in terms of a DiabolusExMachina. Ultimately subverted when Mysterio kills him.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: The Oz compound. It turned Peter Parker into Spider-Man, Miles Morales into another Spider-Man but with new extra powers, Norman Osbourne into a huge monster that makes fireballs, and Mary Jane into a grizzly-like monster.

There's also the 2005 [[VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan tie-in game]], which introduced Ultimate Beetle and was marketed as being in continuity with the series but this has since been the subject of CanonDiscontinuity. A version of the game's plot and events was adapted between USM #123-128 ("War of the Symbiotes"). And on the subject of video games, Ultimate Spidey also made an appearance in 2010's ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions]]'' as one of the four playable characters ([[DummiedOut on home consoles]]). Not to be confused with the ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' animated show, which has a different premise; though as with most Marvel adaptions it does have some Ultimate Universe elements incorporated into it.

* PutOnABus

* PutOnABus

After a six-month TimeSkip following ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'', the series was re-launched as ''Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man'' until the comic reached its 150th issue (counting both pre- and post-Ultimatum issues) and returned to its original numbering and naming format for 10 issues. The series ended with issue 160, followed by the miniseries ''Ultimate Fallout''. A third volume came out with a new character ComicBook/MilesMorales and the title ''Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, Volume 2'' or ''Ultimate Comics: '''All-New''' Spider-Man'' with new numbering. In 2012, as part of the [=50th=] anniversary of Spider-Man titles, the first 616 and Ultimate Universe crossover, ''ComicBook/SpiderMen'' was launched, which saw the 616 Peter arrive into the ultimate universe and meet Miles. In 2014, The fourth and final volume, called ''Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man'', began in the wake of the ''[[Comicbook/CataclysmTheUltimatesLastStand Cataclysm]]'' CrisisCrossover. This title ended with #12 and led into ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' at the end of which Miles Morales was imported directly into the main 616 Continuity, as a part of the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' line-up, not only starring in ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'', but also starring in ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2016'', by the same creative team and with Miles as the main Spider-Man with the original Peter Parker serving as a mentor for the younger web-slinger. The crossover ''ComicBook/SpiderMenII'' provided a coda for ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' and ''Ultimate Marvel''.

'''Please Note: Due to the comic changing main characters at the end of Volume 2, tropes for the first two volumes of the title are separate from tropes for the third volume. As such, all tropes relating to ComicBook/MilesMorales will be collected under the tropes for Volumes 3 & 4.'''