Line #16 ComicBook/UltimateXMen2024


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4	->''"Something unimaginable is happening... It feels like all our sins, all the dark secrets we hid away... some cruel power has torn off the lid... let it all out."''
5	-->-- '''Hisako Ichiki'''
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7	''Ultimate X-Men'' is a 2024 comic book series by ''Creator/MarvelComics'', written and drawn by Creator/PeachMomoko, with Zack Davisson credited for script adaptation. It's part of Marvel's second ''ComicBook/{{Ultimate Universe\|2023}}'' line.
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9	Although it's linked to the wider Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the Ultimate Universe is an AlternateUniverse within the same continuity, where the meddling of the supervillain known as the Maker has ensured that the world, and its superheroes, take a very different path.
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11	Hisako Ichiki wants to live her life amidst the international chaos that's now brewing, but fate has other plans when she starts manifesting strange new powers.
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13	The first issue was released March 6, 2024.
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15	!!''Ultimate X-Men'' provides examples of the following tropes:
16	* AdaptationalAbomination: Mutants in general. In this universe, mutants are explicitly magical in nature rather than science fiction themed, and their powers are often depicted in decidedly frightening and eldritch ways. But whether this also extends to the mutants in the Maker's council is still unknown.
17	* AllThereInTheManual: As part of the new Ultimate Universe, the series takes place on Earth-6160, which isn't mentioned within issue #1 itself.
18	* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Nico Minoru is a mutant in this universe, though this actually aligns with how mutants in this setting are a magic-based race of humans.
19	* BreakingOldTrends: Most X-Men incarnations, when introducing a new universe, usually use a combination of the Original Five and the All-New, All-Different teams. Here, ''no one'' from those teams are there, not even Wolverine, Mr. WolverinePublicity himself.
20	* CanonImmigrant: Maystorm originated from Peach Momoko’s ''X-Men'' #27 New Champions VariantCover, which wasn't part of the ''ComicBook/{{Ultimate Universe\|2023}}'' setting.
21	* DieOrFly: Hisako's powers first manifest when her bike is hit by a car. They save her, but the car's driver is left in critical condition.
22	* GreaterScopeVillain: Japan, renamed Hi No Kuni ("Land of the Sun"), is ruled by Sunfire, Viper, and Silver Samurai of the Maker's Council. They aren't seen or mentioned in the first issue, but a lot of the territory's problems are implied to be their doing.
23	* InstantArmor: Just like in 616, Hisako's power is instantly manifesting an energy construct armor resembling a suit of samurai armor.
24	* InTheStyleOf: ''ComicBook/XMen'' by way of Creator/JunjiIto.
25	* KidsAreCruel: Some bullies were harassing Tsubasa which contributed to his suicide. As if that wasn't enough, some girls from Hisako's middle school make fun of her on her graduation day.
26	* MoodWhiplash: After a flashback showing Mei's troubled home life and the emotional circumstances in which she discovered her powers, the next panel cuts back to the present to show her getting comically smacked in the head by a stray volleyball.
27	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Hisako is haunted and tormented by her guilt over not doing more to help her deceased friend Tsubasa, who was victimized and bullied.
28	* MythologyGag:
29	** The mysterious shadow entity that antagonizes Hisako looks ''a lot'' like a very creepy and eldritch take on [[ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers Door Man]]. Whether this a mere example of this trope or he's meant to ''be'' this universe's version of Door Man remains to be seen.
30	** Hisako being haunted by the suicide of her friend Tsubasa (whose name means "wing") is a subtle rearrangement of the death of Wing in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' where Armor first debuted as a character.
31	* PlotTriggeringDeath: Tsubasa's death hangs over the story like a shadow, but the plot also truly begins when a teacher who was rumoured to have bullied Tsubasa hangs himself at the end of Issue #1, implying that the shadow creature is hunting down everybody it perceived as having pushed Tsubasa to his death.
32	* TheProtagonist: Hisako Ichiki (Armor) is the main character of the series.
33	* PsychologicalHorror: The series essentially puts a J-Horror spin on the X-Men, with emphasis on Hisako being mentally and emotionally tormented by her enemy and an atmosphere of eerie paranoia.
34	* RecycledTitle: The original ComicBook/UltimateMarvel line included another ''[[ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001 Ultimate X-Men]]'' series, which ran from 2001 until 2009.
35	* SpeechBubbles: The thing haunting Hisako in the first issue speaks in distinctive speech bubbles with ragged white text on a black background.

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