Line #26 ComicBook/UltimateWolverine


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm back, bub!"]]
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4	''Ultimate Comics: Wolverine'' was a comic book by Cullen Bunn and David Messina, set in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe. Although he's in the title, Wolverine is a PosthumousCharacter in this story, as he had died in ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' (and stayed dead), and only appears in flashbacks. The story has ties to the then current arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001''.
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6	Jimmy Hudson has a video will of Wolverine, and plays it several times. Black Box (a technopath mutant) hears it and realizes that the will has concealed information about "Project: Mothervine". They both leave the reservation and try to get info about it. It was a project of many years ago that turned the fetuses of selected pregnant women to turn the babies into sleeper agent mutants who could be awaken with a trigger phrase. It was stopped back then by Wolverine, working for the government, and Magda, working for other people but with a similar goal. They had sex after the reunion, and Magda later applied the Mothervine on herself. Only the part of it that turned her baby into a mutant, and not the rest.
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8	Jimmy is not the only one searching for the Mothervine. Quicksilver also does, trying to restore mutantkind. And also to try to recruit his newfound brother.
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10	Note that this page is about the miniseries. For tropes about the character, see [[Characters/UltimateXMen2001 here]].
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13	!!Tropes:
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15	* AbortedArc: At the end of the series, Jimmy gets a Wolverine suit. He never actually used it.
16	* ActionDad and ActionMom: Wolverine and Magda are both this for Jimmy. They even conceived him, and Wolverine knew of his parenthood, in the middle of an adventure.
17	* CardboardPrison: Quicksilver kept Black Box and Jimmy in a high-tech prison. Yes, that's right: a technopath mutant in a prison filled of high-tech stuff that bends to his will. He could have left them in the mall and saved some trouble.
18	* ConflictingLoyalty: There is a standing order to turn all mutants over to the authorities. Jimmy made all the way to his parents house to see them from afar, but he knows that if he took one step further and actually made his presence known to them, they would have to do that. They wouldn't, he's their son, but the old James Hudson is a cop. Also, what if there is surveillance at their house, and the authorities discovered that they met him and did not call anyone? Trying to keep them out of trouble, he left.
19	* CurseCutShort: All of Wildchild's goons are killed in the fraction of a second. He says "What the...", and then suffers a NeckSnap in high speed.
20	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Magda pointed that she and Wolverine are mercenaries and killers, but none of them would leave a baby to be the guinea pig of science experiments.
21	* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: The agents complain that Gregory Lee looks taller on TV.
22	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Wildchild's mooks are suddenly naked, and Wildchild suffers a NeckSnap in high speed. And then, the blur stops: it's Quicksilver.
23	* GenreSavvy: When Wildchild finds Jimmy and Black Box, he realizes that they are "TheSmartGuy" and the "DumbMuscle", so he will take the smart one for interrogation and kill the muscle right there. And he's sure that Jimmy is dying to cry "[[DefiantToTheEnd over my dead body]]".
24	* GiveHimANormalLife: Wolverine gave Jimmy to be adopted by the Hudsons. He had known James Hudson during a war. He knew that if he kept the kid, he would eventually be captured by his enemies, or worse, grow up and turn out to be like him. He wanted something better for him.
25	* GlorifiedSpermDonor: The only way that Wolverine may become a father, after all.
26	* HappilyAdopted: Jimmy made it clear, many times, that Wolverine may be his biological dad, but his adjectiveless dad is James Hudson.
27	* HeldGaze: When Jimmy asked Kitty about Wolverine, it seemed as if he was about to kiss her.
28	* HumbleGoal: Jimmy made a detour and took many risks, just to have a brief look of his parents from afar one last time.
29	* JuxtaposedHalvesShot: The recap page has one with Wolverine and Jimmy. There is another between Jimmy and Quicksilver later on.
30	* KickTheDog: Zoe, that friend of Quicksilver that sells frozen yogurth. She had the Mothervine and he told her the trigger phrase, that gave her an uncontrollable and lethal mutation, just to show off the way Mothervine works.
31	* LawOfInverseFertility: Wolverine and Magda had sex after meeting again, and of course, she got pregnant with that single intercourse.
32	* LightIsNotGood: A politician salutes a girl he finds, who was actually a Mothervine subject. She starts attacking with solid light.
33	* LikeFatherLikeSon: Magda pointed that Quicksilver is turning out more and more like his father, Magneto.
34	* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Magda also pointed that Jimmy is not turning out like Logan.
35	* LongLostRelative: Quicksilver shows up to say hi to his brother. They are both sons of Magda, after all.
36	* MaleGaze: When she first shows up, we can see [[spoiler:Magda]]'s back up close.
37	* ManchurianAgent: "Project: Mothervine" turns normal people into this.
38	* MercyKill: Zoe had to get one after her Mothervine mutation started.
39	* MirroredConfrontationShot: Jimmy had one with both Wildchild and Quicksilver.
40	* MySecretPregnancy: Magda had Jimmy in secret. She only told Wolverine after birth.
41	* PosthumousCharacter: Wolverine has died in ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}, and remains dead. He only appears in flashbacks.
42	* PowerIncontinence: When activated, Mothervine subjects are victims of this.
43	* PregnancyTestPlot: Magda checked that she got pregnant with Wolverine, and realized that NothingIsTheSameAnymore.
44	* RefusalOfTheCall: Jimmy's blood has the traces of the original Mothervine and may help to remake the mutant race. Jimmy wants nothing to do with that.
45	* SequelHook: Quicksilver, laying in a hospital bed, is recruited by someone for something. To be continued in... ''Ultimates: Disassembled''!
46	* SpyCatsuit: Magda wears a red one.
47	* ThisCannotBe: Wolverine did not really expect to see [[spoiler:Magda]] ever again.
48	* ThrowingTheDistraction: Black Box threw the video will of Wolverine during the fight with Wildchild, modified to display several holograms of Wolverine at once instead of one. This distracted Wildchild for a second, enough for Jimmy to destroy his artificial claws.
49	* TriggerPhrase: "Mother is calling her children home"
50	* VideoWills: Wolverine had left one for Jimmy. We had seen it when he was introduced, but it seems that Jimmy is playing and re-playing it all the time in his spare time.
51	* VillainousRescue: Jimmy and Black Box are rescued from Wildchild by Quicksilver.

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