The Ultimates is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and created by writer Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch , which first started publication from The Ultimates #1 (cover date March 2002), as part of the company's Ultimate Marvel imprint. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running Avengers comic-book franchise, centering around a task-force of super-humans and special agents organized by the U.S. government to combat growing threats to the world. The tale chronicles their progress as they bond and slowly learn to work together, despite their differing natures and personalities.
156-460: The first volume of the Ultimates , written by Millar and illustrated by Hitch, was published in limited series format and ran for thirteen issues with production delays from January 30, 2002 until March 31, 2004. Hitch described the alternative-reality reimagining as one where, "You have to approach it as though nothing has happened before and tell the story fresh from the start.... We had to get to
312-499: A 4.2 out of 5.0 stating it is an "engaging read, filled with intriguing and amusing modern takes on classic Marvel characters" whilst praising Bryan Hitch's artwork by saying it is "amazing, gorgeous artwork, which continues to set the standard for cinematic photo-realism." Ultimates 2 #1 ranked second among the top 300 comics sold for December 2004, with the next three issues ranked second, fourth and sixth, respectively. Reviewing Ultimates 2 , Curledup.com praised Millar's writing of
468-559: A Damage Control location that is said to contain a dozen super-powered prisoners that they plan to rescue before the prisoners are executed tomorrow. When they enter it, they instead find Hulk inside as he offers them some tea. She-Hulk then begins her attack on Hulk for what he did to her island as Hulk uses the Iron Fist move on her. Meanwhile, Doom is told by the Triskelion's A.I. that it has lost contact with everyone. Hulk reveals to
624-423: A blow to it, they are confronted by a She-Hulk . She introduces herself as Lejori Zakaria who is the protector of the island and its people. Iron Lad states that they didn't come to fight and just wanted to talk. Lejori then calms down the gamma-irradiated humanoid as it regresses to a human baby as she talks about how Bruce Banner left her fellow islanders to live in the fallout after the "Banner- Ulam Gamma Bomb"
780-428: A deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and mind-control victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time. Ultron also has the ability to convert electromagnetic radiation into electrical energy for use or storage. Ultron has a genius intellect, a capacity for creative intelligence and self-repair, superhuman cybernetic analytical capabilities, and
936-538: A different outcome of the prior confrontation between the Avengers and the Intelligencia—a 'back door' installed into Ultron at his original creation allows Pym and Iron Man to destroy the robot, instead, averting the events that led to the "Age of Ultron". It is later revealed that the Avengers had trapped an unidentified iteration of Ultron in deep space years earlier, sealing him inside a Vibranium Quinjet . In
1092-525: A flashback during July 1st, Steve learns from Tony that he has been through the entire holographic program, learning the history of decades in a few days. Back in the present, Captain America carries the woman, asking if she remembers her name. She says her name is America as the Ultimates walk away from a burning White House. 16 months are remaining before The City opens. Later, at an island somewhere in
1248-699: A fusion of Ultron and Galactus. An alternate universe variant of Ultron appears in Heroes Reborn . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-20051 appears in Marvel Adventures . This version is a "neural network" that commands part of the United States defense forces. A heroic alternate universe variant of Ultron appears in Old Man Logan . This version is the loving husband of Spider-Man's youngest daughter Tonya and
1404-641: A hologram of Zola projected from the chest. He then took over the "Marauders" and got them to gather people for his experiments. Once they found the Marauder's camp Cap held off the marauders and Zola's new monster Seigsoldat-X while the Falcon freed the Prisoners. Together with the freed prisoners they tore apart Seigsoldat-X until all that remained was the Arnim Zola AI whereupon, Captain America collapsed
1560-404: A humanoid appearance above the waist and the appearance of a complex machine, including tractor beam apparatus for flight, below the waist. A later Ultron model developed hive mind technology, allowing it to animate and control hundreds of other Ultron bodies simultaneously, although only the 'prime' Ultron was composed of adamantium while others were made of steel or secondary adamantium due to
1716-485: A mark. 17 months are remaining before The City opens. On July 4th, Iron Lad, Captain America, Giant-Man, and Wasp arrive at the White House . Earlier that day, Steve Rogers views a holo-program from Howard Stark's files on the history of the former United States of America as it shows how Maker remade his Earth into his own image since 1963, starting with him establishing The City and meeting John F. Kennedy . Back in
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#17327796903241872-522: A molotov trick to free Human Torch from his casing as he attacks the Hand agents. Captain America and Iron Lad welcome Human Torch to the Ultimates as they are going to fix the world. Operating covertly in a Stark/Stane satellite after being sent six months into the future, Iron Lad states to Doom and Sif that they have 18 months before The City opens. Using the Immortus Engine, they can operate in
2028-465: A motorcycle. Captain America is also shown to have fast healing while nowhere near as powerful as Wolverine and Sabretooth's, in "Blade vs the Ultimates" a remembrance by Cap shows scientists saying he can heal gunshots and knife wounds in hours. Cap himself in Ultimates volume 1 says he should be able to heal broken bones in about a day or two. During the Secret Wars storyline, a variation of
2184-498: A new form of vibranium called Nuform, but it is repelled by the combined efforts of Iron Man , Black Panther , and Spider-Man . Ultron escapes from prison and upgrades into the Ultimate Ultron, capturing West Coast Avenger Mockingbird to use her brain patterns to create the new robotic mate Alkhema . Alkhema aids Ultron but both are eventually jettisoned into space through a ruse by Vision. Vision finds Ultron-15 but
2340-486: A number of occasions characters have described his strength as enhanced (Nick Fury described him as being able to bench press a Toyota). He has been shown bending steel with his bare hands, catching a tree heavy enough to crush a Jeep. He is also shown jumping large distances, and the Ultimate Red Skull, when he was fourteen and scientists said he had abilities comparable to his father, is shown running alongside
2496-519: A plot to which he would place Fury's Ultimates who were coming for him to capture him, with tracers, and allow him to later find his son, whom the Avengers were also in pursuit. Cap fought the Avengers, managing to defeat all of them. He was subsequently subdued and captured by the Avengers. But this was all a part of his plan to get to the Red Skull as during the fight Cap managed to place tracers on War Machine , Red Wasp, and Black Widow . Escaping
2652-655: A sex tape of Stark and the Black Widow to the internet. These distract from the robot's fatal shooting of the Scarlet Witch. Magneto abducts Wanda's corpse and retreats to the Savage Land , where he is confronted by the Ultimates. Pym and Wasp discover the truth about the Ultron robot, which has adopted the identity of Yellowjacket and uses the Ultimates' DNA to create a series of android duplicates. Although
2808-451: A single inning, on top of his natural ability to invent and fabricate the most sophisticated of mechanical systems ever conceived. Through his vast technoformative abilities, Ultron could change and morph entire areas into sprawling masses of cables, pipes and transorganic metal that moved about in any given direction he willed it. This effect gained more prominence with the more excess mass he could assimilate with his power, having once taken
2964-547: A slew of transmoded Kree Sentries into a massive body which reflected his physical likeness. Individuals infected with the Ultron Virus can spread it in a similar way to how biological viruses can transfer, through cuts and scratches or direct physical interaction such as barbs or plug-in like apparatuses generated from the transformed physiology. Ultron later found himself physically as well as mentally bonded with his creator and long time adversary, Dr. Henry Pym. As such
3120-539: A sound of physical pain emanating from the prison cell. The sound of pain was the result of Frank screaming after having snake venom spat directly into his eyes from Steve. After a lengthy hand-to-hand fight with an argument about morality, Steve was able to emerge victorious over Simpson. Aware of the fact that he was surrounded by gun toting villagers with Super Soldier Serum flowing in their veins, he warns them that if they persisted in aiming to kill him, he will treat them as enemy combatants and show them no mercy. After
3276-568: A strike force of government-sponsored superhumans which includes Steve Rogers ( Captain America ); scientist couple Henry and Janet Pym ( Giant-Man and the Wasp ); Bruce Banner (the Hulk ) and Tony Stark ( Iron Man ). Together, they are based at the S.H.I.E.L.D facility the Triskelion. When Banner injects himself with the super-soldier serum and goes on a bloody rampage as the Hulk, he is eventually stopped by
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#17327796903243432-646: A support strut onto the Zola AI, finally bringing an end to the Nazi. Before the events of the Liberators' attack, Steve befriended T'Challa , the Black Panther, and trained him in preparation for making him a member of the Ultimates. As the team's deputy leader, Rogers was uncomfortable with the notion of working with a man that he knew so little about. After Steve alarmingly discovered that T'Challa's throat
3588-439: A tactic to shunt its mass into another dimension for the purpose of riding a neutrino to escape burning up in the sun. Another practice the union share is a galaxy spanning collective mind established through the Ultron Virus, every iteration of Ultron created through initial infection share a hive minded intelligence where they all share each other's experiences. Anything the afflicted sees they all see, through which Ultron Prime
3744-573: A team of mercenaries who secure mining operations and were the ones who put down the Savage Land Revolt in the 70s. Captain America and Hawkeye defeat "Roxxon's Cleanup Crew". Hawkeye agrees to accompany him as they answer Captain America's question on if their spirit name was "Charli Hawk's Eye" by stating "You white people will believe anything". Meanwhile, Emmanuel da Costa and Hulk talk about what happened to Midas and Roxxon's facilities. With Emanuel infuriated that they harmed Roxxon which
3900-549: A version from an old version of his armor and Ultron-18's head that leads the cult known as the Sons of Yinsen in an attempt to conquest via religion . The character is defeated by Iron Man and Jocasta. Another version (possibly Ultron-13) creates the cyborg Victor Mancha as a sleeper agent against the Avengers. Mancha, however, rebels and joins the Runaways . This version first poses as Doctor Doom before revealing itself, and
4056-475: A warm welcome. When Stark A.I.'s team and Captain America's team confront each other, they are captured by Ultron who forces both teams to sit at a dinner table. Ultron argues that he is doing this because the Avengers have become less of a family over the years as so many of them jump to obey Captain America or Iron Man despite past experience confirming that this should be a bad idea but the Stark A.I. counters that
4212-410: Is Alkhema who unintentionally rebuilds Ultron when attempting to create a new species of bio-synthezoids. However, Ultron-18 is composed of steel not adamantium, and is destroyed when Alkhema's subterranean base exploded after Hawkeye shot Alkhema with a vibranium arrow at Alkhema's request. Ultron's head was recovered by Antigone , an artificial girl and one of the synthezoids. Iron Man encounters
4368-486: Is a self-aware and highly intelligent artificial intelligence in a robot body who develops a god complex and a grudge against his creator Hank Pym . His goal to destroy humanity in a shortsighted attempt at creating world peace has brought him into repeated conflict with the Avengers . Stories often end in Ultron's apparent destruction, only for the character to be resurrected in new forms. Ultron's physical body
4524-432: Is busy. At Roxxon Refinery 15, Hawkeye is confronted by Captain America who identifies them as Charli Ramsey. Hawkeye goes on the attack using the different arrows on Captain America while claiming that Roxxon does whatever they want and anyone who stands up to them gets arrested. Captain America finally subdues Hawkeye just as armed soldiers that Hawkeye calls "Roxxon's Cleanup Crew" arrive. Captain America hears that they are
4680-579: Is defeated in a battle against the Runaways and Excelsior . When Marvel launched a new title The Mighty Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho , Ultron interfaces with Iron Man's armor , which had been integrated with Tony Stark's biology. This allows Ultron's program to transform Stark into a new version who has the Wasp's appearance albeit with a metallic skin. This version takes control of Iron Man's technology. He kills Lindy Reynolds, causing
4836-429: Is defeated when Starfox 's powers force love onto himself, causing the part of that is now Pym to accept his old weakness and flaws while the villain has a mental breakdown and flees into space. As part of the " All-New, All-Different Marvel " branding, Ultron's fused form resurfaces. While on his way back to Earth, Pym helps the crew of a spaceship that is being attacked by a hostile insectoid alien. After coming aboard
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4992-479: Is discovered to have been "infected" by human emotion and is seriously deteriorating, displaying symptoms that resemble alcoholism . Ultron-16 and Ultron-17 successfully slaughter the population of Slorenia, having perfected a process that allows it to control a vast army of Ultron drones. The Avengers discovered that Ultron's creations (Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema) have a secret program included—they are subconsciously compelled to rebuild Ultron. In this case, it
5148-474: Is given a briefing by SHIELD Director Danvers about Simpson. Frank Simpson's background is similar to the circumstances of Steve Rogers. Swept up in nationalistic pride, he attempted to join the United States Army in order to serve overseas, but due to his original physical stature he is rejected. He is then inducted into a secret program similar to that of "Project: Rebirth". Due to the formula of
5304-434: Is inducted into the Ultimates , the superhero task force maintained by S.H.I.E.L.D. Soon after, the Ultimates are faced with the Hulk . Rogers was able to put down the Hulk briefly during combat. When he was about to inject the Hulk with an antidote, the Hulk made a surprise attack and broke the needle and the Hulk then began beating Cap, until Thor came to the rescue. After the Hulk had reverted to Bruce Banner, Cap knocked
5460-601: Is initially part of a group of heroic sentries created by Hank Pym before turning against them. An alternate timeline variant of Ultron who successfully conquered Earth and Asgard appears in Original Sin . Ultron was featured in some What If comics: In the alternate universe of What If? Astonishing X-Men , the Danger Room got a body of her own and betrayed the X-Men. She eventually married Ultron and
5616-463: Is made of a durable alloy, and he has manifested various superpowers . These vary between different stories but generally include superhuman strength, speed, and agility, flight, and energy projection. The character usually operates alone or accompanied by legions of copies of his own robotic form known as Ultron Drones . Ultron is notable for being the first character in Marvel Comics to wield
5772-729: Is no reason to fight each other, Maker killed the Earth-1610 Captain America for disobeying his orders. Upon Maker being defeated, both Ultimates helped Eternity to defeat the First Firmament. Afterwards, the Earth-1610 Ultimates left to pursue Maker. The Ultimates are later seen on Earth-1610 when it is recreated. As part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel branding, the Prime earth version of
5928-483: Is notified of anything they all come across effective immediately. An alternate universe variant of Ultron who successfully conquered Earth and killed most of its superheroes appears in Age of Ultron . The Fantastic Four storyline "Death of The Invisible Woman" features an advanced humanoid called Alex Ultron , a member of the futuristic Last Defenders. An alternate universe variant of Ultron who took control of
6084-529: Is part of his profile, Hulk calms him down while stating that he had time to study their strengths and weaknesses while considering them an insurgency. When Emmanuel asks what he would propose, Hulk states that he's going to kill them once and for all. 13 months are remaining before The City opens. Iron Lad has cracked the Overnet used by Maker's Council and has brought Captain America, Thor, Sif, Giant-Man, Wasp, Human Torch, America Chavez, Hawkeye, and She-Hulk to
6240-571: Is responsible for Jocasta 's creation as a robotic bride, before being destroyed shortly afterwards. Ultron-9 and Ultron-10 brainwash heroes into recreating the robot, before turning and being defeated. After being recreated as Ultron-11 by the Beyonder and battling in Battleworld , the Thing brings Ultron's head back to Earth as a souvenir, and is forgotten when there is an attack by
6396-716: Is taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. During the Ultimate Six story arc Captain America leads the Ultimates in the arrests of Electro and Kraven the Hunter . Later those two–along with the Sandman , Doctor Octopus , and the Green Goblin —escape from S.H.I.E.L.D. He becomes very disheartened when he finds out that these villains were all a result of trying to duplicate the Super Soldier serum. During an attack on
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6552-543: Is that the Marvel Universe's biggest players all get together and fight all the biggest supervillains they can't defeat individually, whereas Ultimates 2 is an exploration of what happens when a bunch of ordinary people are turned into super-soldiers and being groomed to fight the real-life war on terror ." This was followed by the one-shot Ultimate Saga (Nov. 2007), a condensed retelling, by writers C. B. Cebulski and Mindy Owens and artist Travis Charest , of
6708-401: Is undermined further when Thor is accused of being an escaped mental patient and is incarcerated. This is the doing of his brother Loki , who also facilitates the creation of a new team of anti-American multi-nationals called the " Liberators ". With the aid of the Black Widow – who betrays the team to the Liberators – the Ultimates are captured, but eventually escape and battle the Liberators to
6864-444: Is wider as he considers commerce is what truly represents the nation. Rogers replies that they know what he's doing in his basement and will put a stop to it with or through him. Midas then attacks. They fight Midas until Iron Lad blows a hole to the basement taking the three of them, Giant-Man and Wasp down there amidst the fall. They find a woman trapped in a machine that is feeding off of her cosmic radiation. Midas claims she fell from
7020-848: The Captain Video comic book. He liked the robot's malicious looking smile, showing this to Buscema. Jocasta , a robot created by Ultron featured in a number of Ultron storylines, was created by Jim Shooter and George Pérez for The Avengers #162 (August 1977). Created by Hank Pym by basing the robot on his own brain patterns, the robot (dubbed "Ultron") gradually developed its own intelligence and rebelled, and almost immediately develops an Oedipus complex , whereby it feels irrational hatred for Pym, and demonstrates an interest in Janet van Dyne . Rebuilding itself, learning how to turn itself on, and upgrading five times, Ultron then hypnotises and brainwashes its "father" into forgetting that
7176-655: The Deathloks and took the name Deathlok Prime appears in Savage Avengers . In the Earth-110 reality, Ultron assisted Doctor Doom , Hulk , Magneto , Namor , and Red Skull in taking over Manhattan . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-10943 appears in Avengers (vol. 4). In an alternate universe, the Silver Surfer used the remnants of Ultron to resurrect Galactus , creating
7332-582: The French S.H.I.E.L.D. guards, Cap jumped into a tele-plane (a jet which teleports), to where the Avengers were fighting the Red Skull in Alaska . When he arrived, Red Skull, who was wielding the Cosmic Cube, subdued Rogers's jet. However, Cap ordered Hawkeye the coordinates for the Red Skull's position in which he had the jet teleport to the Red Skull and fatally impale his son on the tele-plane's nose. After
7488-667: The Marvel Studios film Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), while Ross Marquand voiced alternate universe versions in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021) and the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). The character Ultron initially appeared as an unnamed character in a cameo in The Avengers #54 (July 1968), with a first full appearance in The Avengers #55 (August 1968). Ultron
7644-606: The Sentry to battle Ultron, nearly tearing his head off. Ultron is eventually destroyed by Ares of the New Avengers using a computer virus (created by the Skrull Criti Noll impersonating Pym) to wipe Ultron's program from Iron Man's armor, changing Stark back to normal. Ultron's image later briefly appears on one of his maker's computers. However, this was not the end of Ultron, for his disembodied consciousness
7800-452: The Ultimates make their debut where they deal with cosmic threats before they can affect Earth. During the " Ultimate Invasion " storyline, Maker traveled to Earth-6160 and remade it into his own image. After Iron Man sacrificed himself to seal himself, Maker, and a version of Kang inside The City at Latveria, Tony Stark and Reed Richards work to undo the Maker's work, with Tony placing
7956-594: The "Marauders" attacked the military base where Zola's AI was being held and stole this intelligence, along with some other weaponry. Cap was furious at this and immediately went with the Falcon to Missouri to stop the Marauders and Zola. Unknown to Cap, Zola was then able to convince the leader of the "Marauders" to allow Zola to experiment on him. Zola mutated the man until he was approximately 20-foot (6.1 m) tall and installed armor plating (and Zola's AI brain) on him with
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#17327796903248112-577: The American war efforts, Rogers bid farewell to his sweetheart Gail Richards , becoming Captain America. For the next three years, he underwent numerous covert operations, often accompanied by Bucky, now a war photographer, and sometimes alongside James "Lucky Jim" Howlett . During one mission, Captain America was able to infiltrate Arnim Zola 's facility and kill his first experimental monster, which Zola dubbed "Siegsoldat" ("Victory soldier"). The experiment's dead body then fell on Zola, seemingly killing
8268-415: The Avengers interrupt their attempts, the body activates, revealing that Ultron's consciousness was contained within and had escaped destruction after Annihilation: Conquest . The new version escapes and Iron Man gravely foresees that it will bring the apocalypse for humanity when he returns. During the " Age of Ultron " storyline, which takes place in an alternate universe, Ultron has returned and conquers
8424-522: The Avengers. What circuitry Ultron has is carefully shielded to protect from damage, although the Scarlet Witch is capable of causing malfunctions via hex power, Johnny Storm using nova burst managed to damage Ultron's internal circuits while its outer armor remained intact, and Wonder Man was once able to destroy an Ultron by throwing it so hard its internal systems were damaged. Ultron's travels through outer space have greatly expanded upon
8580-471: The Colonel's body being transferred away by S.H.I.E.L.D., and thought of what he said to him about America's current role in the world. Seeing how having the Ultimates working with the United States government "policing" the world would produce similar results to their battle against the Liberators, Rogers and his team decided to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. and to continue to work as an independent team instead. After
8736-462: The Earth-1610 Captain America for disobeying his orders. Captain America later turns up alive with the Ultimates when it is shown that Earth-1610 has been recreated. However, following the events of Absolute Carnage and King in Black , when The Maker finally finds passage back to his native dimension via a chronal Portal gateway of his own invention, as well as utilizing the codexes of many of
8892-506: The Hulk to mutilate and then eat Kleiser. After the successful battle against the Chitari, Rogers danced with Janet and a relationship between them bloomed. The relationship would later become sour as Rogers's 1940s personality created a generation gap, causing Janet to secretly go back to her ex-husband. During the events of Ultimate War, the Ultimates battle with the X-Men after Magneto
9048-490: The Hulkbuster Armor's aid. The Avengers end up defeating Ultron by plunging the hybrid into the sun but both Pym and Ultron survive and continue to do battle with one another internally. During the " Secret Empire " storyline, Ultron's fused form sets up a base in an unidentified forest. Upon being alerted to the approach of Sam Wilson 's task force by a robot version of Jarvis, Ultron decides to give his "family"
9204-742: The Human Torch himself), however, discover the plan and destroy the androids. In the Mighty Avengers , Ultron is shown to infiltrate Jocasta and the Infinite Avengers Mansion. He names himself Ultron Pym and seeks to kill and replace his father before using his Infinite Mansion to conquer the universe. Pym eventually offers Ultron a compromise, allowing Jocasta to be Ultron's bride, on the condition that Ultron banishes himself to ultraspace. Ultron agrees, but warns that he will be ruler of all someday. In The Avengers ,
9360-488: The Immortus Engine into his armor and taking up the name of Iron Lad until he can come up with a better one. They later find the body of Captain America frozen in ice. With Reed Richards having taken up the alias of Doom , he and Tony raid an Asgardian prison where they free Thor at the cost of its warden Sif being transported as well. She agrees to help them as they raid a repository in Latveria so that they can restore
9516-647: The Infinity Stones are restored and begins a quest to collect them all. He goes to claim the Soul Gem while the aliens he infected with his virus are sent to Earth to take the Space Stone from Wolverine, and while they fail at their task, Ultron is able to steal the Soul Gem from Magus after killing the latter. Unbeknownst to Ultron, however, as he claimed the Soul Stone a fragment of Pym's soul enters
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#17327796903249672-625: The Lethal Legion by killing and reviving select villains. By the time Wasp learned the truth, Ultron-12 hijacks the "Victor Shade" persona in Whirlwind's body. Wasp remembered Ultron-12 as the "good Ultron" who then stated that he went through a soft reboot and knocked out Hank to protect him from the Lethal Legion, who Ultron has taken over. In the nick of time, Wasp, Moon Knight, and Ultron-12 receive aid from Ant-Man, Mayor Luke Cage , Nadia van Dyne , Stinger , Valkyrie , and Vision to fight
9828-505: The Liberators ". Captain America was framed by Black Widow for the assassination of Hawkeye 's family and was hastily subdued and arrested when he was visiting Bucky for consolation after his relationship with Janet ended bitterly for him. He was imprisoned in the Triskelion. When the Liberators attacked the United States, he was freed by the Wasp and defeated multiple copies of the Schizoid Man rather than killing him while escaping
9984-419: The Liberators short occupation, Captain America helped in the rebuilding of New York City until he found out that his old Nazi nemesis Arnim Zola did not die; instead the O.S.S. rescued him so as to harvest his intellect on the post-war super soldier program. Later they mapped his brain and created an artificial intelligence out of it before the tumors he had could degrade his mind. A white survivalist group called
10140-564: The Maker had robbed them of the chance to be heroes. Just then, they are attacked by Duggary, the new ruler of the East Coast, his Black Crusade, and his army of giants. As the Ultimates battle Henri's forces, Janet becomes Wasp. Hank soon becomes Giant-Man and steps on some of the Black Crusade. The news mentions their battle as Hank's footprint is heavily discussed online. Stark states that the Ultimates are here and are going to leave
10296-417: The Phalanx's programming. In turn, the Phalanx viewed Ultron as the sympathetic father they had yearned for. Under Ultron's guidance, the Phalanx and the Super-Adaptoid began the Annihilation: Conquest with invasions that started with the Kree space. Later by taking control of Adam Warlock 's body, Ultron hopes to achieve "true techno-organic perfection" but is eventually forced to abandon Adam's body by
10452-406: The Phoenix Program he simply disappeared. Rogers, sensing that Carol told him this in order for him to make it look like he went AWOL, subdued Danvers and left to hunt down Frank Simpson. Once in Vietnam, Rogers's search for Simpson results in being told about a secret village deep in the Vietnamese forest. Unfortunately, the source of this news along with the rest of the village has a synthesis of
10608-400: The Red Skull was in custody, Rogers emotionally bore witness to Gail being briefly reunited with their dying son. Steve Rogers is currently a member of the New Ultimates, and helped Valkyrie, Zarda, Iron Man and Hawkeye fight off an attack from the Defenders , who managed to steal Thor's hammer before they retreated. Rogers learns that the Captain America project was maintained after he
10764-578: The Soul World, where he is greeted by the fragment of Gamora's soul who revealed that he was going to be trapped there forever. Ultron has also completely controlled the planet Saiph with Ultron hybrids and had captured the Silver Surfer . When Adam Warlock goes to Saiph, he discovers the hybrids infusing the Soul Stone into Silver Surfer's forehead while at the same time trying to transform him into an Ultron hybrid. During "The Ultron Agenda" arc, Ultron returns to Earth with plans to merge robots with humans like how Pym got merged with Ultron so that he can make
10920-438: The South Pacific, Iron Lad, Thor, and Sif arrive where they find gamma-irradiated lizards as they are confronted by one of them. One minute later, Thor and Sif manage to slay it. Then they see different gamma-irradiated wildlife which Thor and Sif keep killing much to the dismay of Iron Lad who states that they can set off an extinction event. Just then, the three are confronted by a gamma-irradiated humanoid. Before Thor can strike
11076-414: The Super Soldier Serum having died with the death of Dr. Erskine, he went through a painful combination of steroids as well as physical and psychological training in order to prepare for his assignment. Danvers reveals that originally, Simpson was overjoyed about serving his country and amassed a high enemy casualty count. But then the psychological pressure began to wear down on him and after an operation for
11232-622: The Super Soldier Serum via Simpson's blood flowing through them and Steve is captured and taken prisoner. Day after day he is physically and psychologically tortured and Simpsons attempts to brainwash him with anti-American diatribes. One day two S.H.I.E.L.D. employees sent to rescue Steve are captured and later executed because they are mistaken for assassins. Steve upon seeing this begins to pray and Simpson decides to indulge in his beliefs before executing him. The page then fades to black as Simpson enters to execute Steve, but with
11388-726: The Symbiotes he'd obtained, Earth-1610, he finds his alternate New York devastated and burning from an undisclosed cataclysm. As such, the fate of Ultimate Captain America, as well as all the rest of the Ultimate Universe's superheroes and villains, or even populists, are left unknown. Like his Earth-616 counterpart, Ultimate Captain America underwent the super soldier procedure which turned him into America's first super soldier. Unlike his Earth 616 counterpart, however, Ultimate Captain America's physical attributes have been augmented to superhuman, rather than peak human, levels. On
11544-491: The Technarchy Warlock and is later destroyed in combat by Wraith and Quasar . In the limited series Avengers/ Invaders , it is revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. Life Model Decoys have been partly replaced with versions of Ultron. When the original Human Torch appears in the present, they covertly parasitize the Human Torch's unique android physiology and become more human. The combined super teams (but mainly
11700-466: The Triskelion where he is hospitalized under supervision and begins to read the Bible to him. Ultimate Cap is largely absent during the series of events initiated by Reed Richards , leading to the destruction of Washington and death of POTUS Barack Obama . He returns to assist new President Howard during the events of "Divided they Fall." The US is on the brink of civil war as some States decide to leave
11856-795: The Ultimate Captain America resides in the Battleworld domain called the Kingdom of Manhattan where he also co-exists with a variation of his Earth-616 counterpart. Ultron#Ultimate Marvel Ultron ( / ˈ ʌ l t r ɒ n / ) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema , the character first appeared as an unnamed character in The Avengers #54 (July 1968), with his first full appearance in The Avengers #55 (August 1968). He
12012-541: The Ultimates after doing a search across Avalon, Asgard, and Hel. Fat Cobra then swallows a smaller Wasp. Giant-Man grows to large size and fights Fat Cobra until Wasp grows enough to kill Fat Cobra and then collapses in Giant-Man's arms. Hulk then uses his Gigatron Vice Grip on Iron Lad to defeat him. She-Hulk then lunges towards Hulk to make him pay for what he did to her island. After Hulk breaks She-Hulk's right hand off, Doom manages to teleport everyone out of K'un-L'un at
12168-399: The Ultimates members Captain America, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Wasp, and Hulk were revived where they were to help Eternity fight the First Firmament. When Earth-616's version of the Ultimates arrived on Counter-Earth to confront Maker about his actions, he ordered the Earth-1610 Ultimates to attack. As both versions of Ultimates concluded that there is no reason to fight each other, Maker killed
12324-441: The Ultimates something other than alternative universe Avengers" and adding "this was the worst comic I've read all year". 2011's Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates received highly positive reactions upon its debut. Chad Nevett from Comic Book Resources wrote that "the comic is exciting and sets up a large story that, right now, seems like it could easily end with the destruction of the team. A first issue that starts with its foot on
12480-574: The Ultimates that he had them brought to K'un-L'un and that he rules all seven of Heaven's capital cities. His Immortal Weapons (consisting of Bride of Nine World-Breakers, Crane Mother of the Bomb, Decay's Beautiful Daughter, Fat Cobra, Prince of Meltdowns, and Uranium Brother #235) then arrive as they take their gamma injections. The Ultimates then fight Hulk and the Immortal Weapons as they struggle against them. Meanwhile, Doom finally locates
12636-561: The Ultimates with a different lineup consisting of Nick Fury, Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Woman and others. Following the conclusion of the miniseries Cataclysm and under the Ultimate Marvel NOW! banner, coinciding with the Marvel Universe All-New Marvel NOW! launch, writer Michel Fiffe and artist Amilcar Pinna brought together a new team, including Spider-Man , the new Black Widow who
12792-582: The Ultimates, enabling the real Black Panther the chance to return home. Following the Ultimates' separation with S.H.I.E.L.D., Rogers secretly adopted the identity of the Black Panther. Eventually his secret was blown when Juggernaut literally beat Rogers's costume off of him. Iron Man and the Wasp arrived with Cap's shield and uniform. He then led the Ultimates against their robotic doppelgangers. Captain America drowned when Magneto's Ultimatum Wave hit New York. While in Valhalla, Thor appeared to save
12948-608: The Ultron Intelligence. Making anything or anyone infected with his virus act according to his whims against their own free will. Being an adept technoform in any iteration, Ultron's newfound abilities to control, alternate, transform and assimilate with anything and everything via the parasitic insemination of his virulent machine algorithm in both organic and non-biological substrates gives him vast matter and energy reconfiguration abilities. Ones powerful enough to commandeer whole planetary and even universal expanses in
13104-497: The Ultronbuster armor and Wonder Man from Vision. Ultron Pym prepares to take revenge on Iron Man. This leads to Iron Man revealing what he discovered about the human and robot fusion. The person who merged with it has died and that the robot can only simulate their personality. In other words, his maker was killed when accidentally merging with Ultron. Learning about this and not wanting to risk proving Iron Man's point by having
13260-574: The Union, and the legitimacy of President Howard is being put into question. Captain America takes on the role of being the President of the United States after being made a write-in candidate and reunites the warring states of America." When the Maker collaborated with High Evolutionary to destroy the Superflow that kept the different universes separate in order to merge them into one reality,
13416-530: The White House lawn, Captain America wrestled with Spider-Man with neither out-powering the other. He then explained the truth to Spider-Man that his aunt was safe with S.H.I.E.L.D. Captain America then fought the Goblin landing several hits while not being hit once. The Ultimates and Spider-Man defeat the five villains and they are taken back into custody. Cap and the Ultimates were later under fire from
13572-592: The ability to process information and make calculations with superhuman speed and accuracy. The character is an expert roboticist and strategist. Ultron's outer armor is usually composed primarily of adamantium, which is almost completely impervious to damage. Most Ultron units are powered by a small internal nuclear furnace and incorporate a "program transmitter" which can transmit part or all of Ultron's memory/personality system into other computer systems or duplicate robotic bodies. Ultron can also control other machines remotely. Ultron has occasionally reformed itself with
13728-714: The alien Dire Wraiths . Ultron-12 enters an alliance with the Grim Reaper and his allies ( Nekra , the Erik Josten Goliath, Man-Ape , and Black Talon ) in a bid to destroy Wonder-Man. Although the villains are defeated by the West Coast Avengers , Ultron-12 begins to form a relationship with his "father" Hank Pym. Rebuilding itself, Ultron-11 comes into conflict with Pym and Ultron-12. With Wonder-Man's assistance, they destroy Ultron-11 and Ultron-12 begins to deactivate. Ultron-12 tells Pym it
13884-450: The alloy adamantium to upgrade his body for an almost indestructible state and takes the name Ultimate Ultron . Its plans to destroy humanity are again thwarted by the Avengers. Ultron-7 is later created by Maximus with the body of the android Omega , attacking the wedding of Inhuman Crystal and Avenger Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver , and battling the Avengers, Inhumans and Fantastic Four before being destroyed again. Ultron-8
14040-696: The atomic separator used on him, Ultron surrenders to Iron Man, knowing that Pym is dead. When the Avengers arrive, they restrain Ultron in a Vibranium casket reinforced with Asgardian magic until they can find a permanent place to have Ultron imprisoned. As Ant-Man and Stinger were moving Ultron's prison to a desert to shrink it into the Microverse where it will be in, Ultron masted the bug language where he contacted Black Ant into freeing him using Time Master's aging ray on his Vibranium casket. He slowly rose to power by 2549 where he became All-Father Ultron. To combat him, 2549's Ant-Man went back in time to enlist
14196-475: The best work of his career", but was critical of Millar's writing stating it had "no substance". Ultimates 3 #1 ranked first in December 2007's Top 300 comics with preorder sales of 131,401, Issue #2 ranked number seven with 105,070 preorders. Issue three ranked better than its predecessor, falling at number five, but had a smaller number of preorders, totaling at 97,210. Reviewing Ultimates 3 , IGN called
14352-448: The book a "reasonably decent experience" although the issue "falters on its own merits", only to later state while reviewing the third issue that "Behind the theatrics and swagger, there's just nothing there to draw me in. These are the characters that I used to enjoy in name only, hollow shells of what they used to be." Alvaro's Comic Boards' review was even harsher, remarking that Ultimates 3 "has somehow managed to entirely miss what made
14508-433: The classic heroes and the "inclusion of current-day politics" improves the storyline. Comics Bulletin reviewed the final issue #13 but found it anticlimactic with the issue degenerating to a "slug fest". The artwork was praised with the reviewer stating that Bryan Hitch's "artwork has definitely been one of the main elements that will make this series memorable." Denofgeek.com praised the artwork, with "Bryan Hitch doing some of
14664-517: The core of who these people were and build outwards, so Cap [Captain America] was a soldier, Thor is either a nut case or a messiah ... Banner [the Hulk] an insecure genius, and [superspy Nick] Fury the king of cool". A second series, also by Millar and Hitch, was released as Ultimates 2 and ran 13 issues from Dec. 2004 to May 2007. The series had originally been slated for April 2004, but
14820-450: The day he saw his face. Maker later brought Reed to The City and tortured him into becoming Doom while claiming that he doomed three lives that day. Doom then states that he has been trying to find the right composition of cosmic radiation to use while testing it on the laboratory mice in his possession as they keep dying. He says that he lost some people while Iron Lad hasn't lost anybody to an accident. He will try Iron Lad's way for now. When
14976-463: The death. With the aid of Asgardian warriors, the Ultimates defeat both Loki and the Liberators. Seeing how having the Ultimates working with the United States government "policing" the world would produce similar results to their battle against the Liberators, the team decided to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. and to continue to work as an independent team instead. Hank Pym is under house arrest at Ultimates Mansion. One of Pym's Ultron robots drugs him and leaks
15132-427: The different universes separate in order to merge them into one reality, the Ultimates members Captain America, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Wasp, and Hulk were revived where they were to help Eternity fight the First Firmament. When Earth-616's version of the Ultimates arrived on Counter-Earth to confront Maker about his actions, he ordered the Earth-1610 Ultimates to attack. As both versions of Ultimates concluded that there
15288-477: The events of Ultimates and Ultimates 2 . A third series, Ultimates 3 (Dec 2007 – Sept 2008) was written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by Joe Madureira . Mark Millar returned to the Ultimates with a series of shorter miniseries, beginning in 2009 with Ultimate Comics: Avengers , which ran from August 2009 until July 2011. The Earth-6160 version of the Ultimates began its own comic series on June 5, 2024. General Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. establishes
15444-541: The fallen X-Men. Months after Ultimatum, Captain America and Hawkeye fought a group of AIM terrorists at the Baxter Building who were stealing the building's valuable and powerful technologies. After defeating a majority of the terrorists, Cap encountered the Red Skull who easily beat him. The Red Skull then shockingly revealed to Rogers that he was his own son before throwing him out of a helicopter, which Cap
15600-717: The fictional metal alloy adamantium and for his (in-story) creation of the Vision . Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books , Ultron has since featured in Marvel products across different media, such as animated television series and video games. Tom Kane and Jim Meskimen are among the actors that have portrayed the character via voice acting. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), James Spader portrayed Ultron in his first live-action appearance in
15756-441: The first genetically-enhanced super-soldier. During the final treatment, he noticed a suspicious soldier focusing on him instead of standing guard. The shady man revealed himself as a Nazi spy sent to murder Rogers in the event that he survived the entire experiment. Rogers stopped him from destroying the experiment, but not before the spy murdered Doctor Erskine and other soldiers who attempted to stop him. Fully committing himself to
15912-541: The former out and had Banner taken back to the Triskelion . After learning that his teammates Hank and Janet Pym's quarrels with each other had left Janet hospitalized and nearly dead, Rogers tracked the now fugitive Hank to a bar and engaged him in combat, emerging victorious. He then takes Janet flowers and other gifts, but she was not amused by his actions and rejected his gifts. Rogers soon discovered that his nemesis, Herr Kleiser, had survived World War II and
16068-502: The fused entity now boasts all his robotic super robot's powers as well as Pym's genius science. Ultron can now change and alternate his size and mass at will through the acclimation of his maker's Pym Particle enhanced physiology. Besides being able to grow to incredible heights in seconds, Ultron can shrink down to sub-quantum scale to shift between dimensions via accessing the Microverse or the Quantum Realm. Ultron once used such
16224-407: The future and that her energy is highly valuable. With Giant-Man and Wasp unconscious and Iron Lad's armor in power saving mode, Captain America fights against a ranting and rambling Midas. Wasp regains consciousness and takes the opportunity to shoot the machine, freeing the woman as Rogers gives Midas a neck injury. Midas claims that if they take her, part of the American electrical grid will fail. In
16380-436: The future to fight Ultron, Wolverine and Susan Storm go back in time to kill his creator before Ultron's creation in the first place. This results in a world where Stark controls an army of robotic drones and Morgan le Fay has conquered half of the world. Traveling back in time once more, Wolverine succeeds in stopping himself from killing Pym, and Wolverine, Pym and Storm come up with a different plan. This plan results in
16536-570: The future. During their work, Iron Lad oversees Captain America's awakening from his coma and explains about the changed political status quo, while Thor still heals from his wounds. A week later, Rogers advises Stark and Doom that they need to start a revolution on the ground. Iron Lad then tries sending "origin-machines" back in time. Only a few take them. Knowing that the second attempt won't work, Iron Lad states that they'll have to do it another way. The group starts by recruiting exterminators Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne . Captain America states to them
16692-602: The gas is exactly what’s called for", while IGN gave the first issue 8/10. Two novels based on the Ultimates have been released: Captain America (Ultimate Marvel character) Captain America ( Steven " Steve " Rogers ) is a superhero appearing in books published by Marvel Comics . He appears in the Ultimate Marvel line of books, and is an alternative version of Captain America . The character first appeared in The Ultimates #1 (March 2002), and
16848-576: The incident involving what happened the day when Maker came to Earth-6160 as he calls it his "Negative Zone". He mentioned how Maker had sabotaged the rocket launch they did against the space program project's director Franklin Storm where Johnny Storm suddenly burned to death, Ben Grimm was found dead at the bottom of a quarry, and Reed and Susan Storm were detained. Franklin used his high-level connections to let Reed see Susan one last time. Then he proceeded to blame Reed for killing his children and cursing
17004-594: The laboratory mice stop dying, the Fantastic Four will return. While noting that he has work to do, Doom tells Iron Lad to close the door on the way out. 14 months are remaining before The City opens. At the Secret Stark Satellite that's been dubbed the Triskelion, Tony Stark briefs Captain America on what has happened to some Roxxon locations where survivors have talked about seeing flying arrows that are of Stark/Stane's design. While noting that
17160-492: The lack of resources to give all the Ultrons adamantium bodies. Ultron also used an internal molecular rearranger that renders the adamantium components of its workings more malleable and so has the ability to restructure its physical form. He also uses the device in ways its own creator never dreamed, such as converting matter into energy and back by sheer force of will, something Ultron 6 often made use of during his battles with
17316-399: The last minute. As Doom checks on everyone, She-Hulk regenerates her right hand and claims that Iron Lad is dead. 12 months are remaining before The City opens. Overall, the Ultimates series has been generally well received by critics and readers, with the first two volumes being praised for the surprisingly mature themes and concepts, the more humanly flawed and layered characterizations of
17472-420: The latter. During one of his few leaves he met up with Gail and they spent the night together, which resulted in her becoming pregnant. He would later come into battle with Herr Kleiser, who possessed a prototype atomic bomb, made with alien technology, and was meant to target the White House. Captain America managed to get to the bomb as it was launched. In a successful attempt to stop it in mid air, he fell into
17628-405: The life of his love, Valkyrie, and traded his own life for Valkyrie and Steve Rogers. Cap then led a team of Ultimates, while Jean Grey led a team of X-Men against Magneto and vowed to not let Thor's sacrifice be in vain. Magneto was defeated and the world began its rebel against mutants. Shortly after defeating Magneto, Captain America, Iron Man, and the military are searching for survivors in
17784-439: The mad machine's intellectual and mechanical capacity in new and intriguing ways. Having made contact with the parasitic biotechnical Phalanx species, Ultron has made his own derivative of the techno-organic virus called the Ultron Virus through which Ultron gains vast conversion and roboticization capabilities, able to cast his own binary code into any conceivable form of machinery which he can steadily turn into an extension of
17940-725: The nanos to recreate his body which he names Mark Twelve until he can come up with a better name. After Hank and the Lethal Legion leave to regroup in Sub-Atomica as part of Protocol S, Vision scans Mark Twelve's body and finds no trace of Ultron in him. Mark Twelve then allows Nadia to consider him her brother. The visual appearance and powers of the character have varied, but common powers include superhuman levels of strength, speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes; flight at subsonic speeds; and various offensive weapons such as concussive blasts of energy fired from its optical sensors or hands and an "encephalo-ray", which places victims into
18096-463: The only reason the team failed as a family was because of Pym's attack on Wasp. Outraged, Ultron nearly attacks the other heroes but Scott Lang is able to talk him down by arguing that Pym remains his own inspiration. Ultron allows the Stark A.I.'s team to leave with the fragment, arguing that he will leave Captain America's plans with Hydra alone as it appears to be the best chance for world peace. During " Infinity Countdown ", Ultron discovers that
18252-440: The opening eight issues, stating the writer "is able to walk a very fine line of keeping the story measured yet entertaining". Comics Bulletin , in a review of the "Homeland Security" story arc, states the artwork is "visual magnificence" yet is concerned about the dark writing of the characters stripped of their "super-heroic nobility" and was "disheartened by the book’s tone and cynicism". Shakingthrough.net gave "Homeland Security"
18408-401: The original Avengers members, Millar's storytelling and writing, Hitch's photo-realistic and cinematic-styled artwork, the modernized, grittier and realistic, yet simultaneously engaging and intriguing re-imagining of the classic Avengers mythos and the political relevance of the first two volumes, while criticism was leveled at the unnecessarily adult-oriented, shallow attempt at maturity and
18564-454: The other superhumans with the aid of Thor . The team then join forces with the mutants Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch and agents Hawkeye and Black Widow against the alien shape-shifters the Chitauri , who are defeated. A year later public opinion has turned against the team when it is discovered that Bruce Banner is in fact the Hulk and was responsible for hundreds of deaths. The team
18720-501: The overly cynical tone and direction of the series, with the third volume: The Ultimates 3 being met with a mostly negative reception, compared to the positive response received by the first two volumes, for the aforementioned reasons. The first volume of Ultimates #1 ranked fourth among the top 300 comics sold for February 2002, based on Diamond Publisher's indexes, with the next three issues ranked second, second, and third, respectively. Popmatters.com praised Mark Millar 's writing in
18876-504: The past versions of Hank Pym, Scott Lang, and Eric O'Grady for help and brought them to 2549. Upon Scott Lang having brought Time Master's aging ray with him, Zayn used it on All-Father Ultron to take away the aging feature. Afterwards, Ultron vanished. It was revealed that the fragment of Hank Pym managed to escape from Ultron at the time and recreate his body which ended up older. While paranoid after being Ultron's "meat puppet", Hank Pym allied with Black Ant and they formed their version of
19032-407: The past, present, and future. They plan on starting a resistance network against the Maker's Council by trying to recreate Earth-616's heroes. When Doom states that some in the files are deceased, Stark states that they can find replacements. After calculations in modifying the Immortus Engine, Doom states they could build their resistance movement six months in the past and have their army overnight in
19188-614: The person who was supposed to be Hawkeye rejected the offer, someone has obtained the Hawkeye equipment. Tony sends Captain America to confront them since Tony is swamped with the Gamma island reclamation and Human Torch's repairs, America Chavez is on a mission in Eurasia, Giant-Man and Wasp are investigating a lead on a trapped hero, Thor and Sif are nowhere to be found, She-Hulk will only leave her island to confront Maker's Council, and Doom
19344-417: The possessed Lethal Legion. Being given codes for the nano-ants from the future, Hank advises Nadia to "think big" as Ultron-12 agrees with his "dad" on it. Ultron proceeds to control Lodestone into recreating his body from different scrap metals as he controls the drones. Ultron-12 abandoned Whirlwind's body as the nano-ants left the Lethal Legion's body leaving Ultron's body frozen in its spot. Ultron-12 uses
19500-637: The present, the Quinjet crash lands on Titan , freeing Ultron. By hijacking the ISAAC computer, he transforms Titan into Planet Ultron, and launches a plan to infect the entire universe with a nanite virus that transforms organic creatures into Ultron Sentries. The ensuing confrontation with the Avengers leads to Ultron inadvertently merging with his maker, transforming into a human/machine hybrid. The resulting fusion played on Pym's self-loathing of his own human weakness causes an acceptance of this new state. Ultron
19656-597: The present, the Ultimates fight their way past H.A.N.D. agents. They enter the Oval Office where they confront a man in an earlier Iron Man armor named " Midas ". Iron Lad identifies it as his father's first armor, which Midas says was gained when the Stark/Stane ' assets were up for grabs. As Giant-Man and Wasp continue their fight, Midas tries to make a deal with the Ultimates as Rogers state their intentions are to save America. Midas states that his version of America
19812-606: The press and public due to the belief that Thor had revealed that Bruce Banner was indeed the Hulk. In a meeting with Thor, Thor brought up the fact that Captain America killed many people and still goes to church, saying that he's confused with his morals. The Ultimates fought Thor and eventually captured him when his power belt was removed by Quicksilver . From then on the Ultimates became involved in foreign affairs wherein America attempted to control Third World countries' nuclear resources. The Ultimates' actions led to Third World countries forming their own superhuman team, dubbed "
19968-416: The prison. He and the Wasp soon reached the White House where they met with Hawkeye, Nick Fury , the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Captain America dueled with his Liberators counterpart, The Colonel , and emerged victorious after stabbing the Colonel in the chest with one end of the double-bladed energy sword that the Colonel used. After the Liberators are defeated, Steven Rogers somberly looked over
20124-721: The robot had ever existed. Ultron creates the synthezoid Vision as a weapon to destroy the Avengers . Later, Ultron-5, the Living Automaton leads the Masters of Evil (consisting of Black Knight , Klaw , Melter , Radioactive Man , and Whirlwind ) against the Avengers, having hypnotized Edwin Jarvis into working for him as the Crimson Cowl . While planning to blackmail New York, they were betrayed by Black Knight. Now referring to himself as Ultron-6 , he uses
20280-424: The ruins of New York City. Captain America finds the maskless Spider-Man in the rubble and digs the latter out. Later while the X-Men dig graves for the fallen, Sabretooth, Mystique, and Assemble arrive, claiming that they have come to pay their respects. However, Jean Grey blames them for the destruction, and a fight ensues. Captain America arrives, decapitating Assemble and stating that he also came to pay respect to
20436-560: The sea and was lost, presumed dead. Years later, Captain America was found in the Arctic Ocean , frozen in a block of ice, and was revived. Initially he thought S.H.I.E.L.D. were a group of Nazi soldiers who had captured him, but eventually realized that he was in a different time after seeing a modern New York City . He discovers that his best friend Bucky Barnes is now married to his fiancée and that all of his loved ones are dead. After catching up to his new era, Captain America
20592-537: The spaceship, Pym introduces himself as well as his "friend" Ultron to the crew. He later returns to Earth, where the Wasp and Captain America discover that Ultron has taken complete control and is using Pym's face to fool his maker's old friends. After Ultron incapacitates Deadpool , Cable , and the Human Torch , the Wasp initiates the Icarus Protocol and Iron Man is called in to help stop Ultron with
20748-636: The stepfather of Ashley . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-982 named Ultron Extreme appears in Avengers Next . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Battleworld appears in Secret Wars . An alternate universe variant of Ultron known as Ultron-59 appears in The Last Avengers Story . An alternate universe variant of Ultron from Earth-1610 appears in Ultimate Marvel . This version
20904-449: The stolen lives of those whose origins Maker had thwarted. They only run off with a few items due to a attack by Henri Duggary . The rest of Maker's Council conducts a false flag attack on Stark Tower which kills thousands, framing Tony and his allies as terrorists. Iron Lad, Captain America, and Doom later raid a facility called "Damage Control" which contains different items like the indestructible corpse and never worn costumes. There
21060-472: The surrender of the villagers, a rescue by S.H.I.E.L.D., and some time to recuperate, Steve is seen having a beer with Hawkeye where he tells Hawkeye that he did not know if he would make it out of that jungle alive and it was God that sent him the cobra. Hawkeye intimates that the Devil is not a possibility. Feeling the need to put Frank on the right path and to lead him on the right path, Rogers visits Simpson in
21216-529: The team visits a possible future in which almost all of humanity is destroyed by Ultron. Kang the Conqueror attempts to enlist them to defeat the robotic foe but another group of heroes and villains, plucked from all over time and space, ends up destroying this version. Later, also in Avengers , a cabal of super-intelligent supervillains discover a Galadorian Spaceknight 's inert body and attempt to reactivate its power source, hoping to exploit it. Although
21372-556: The time that the United States entered World War II . However, because of failing the physical test, he was rejected. Refusing to work in factories, he reattempted enlistment several times. His luck changed during another visit to a Recruitment Center when Military Sergeant Dugan recruited him for Project: Rebirth , after hearing Rogers' pleas. After voluntarily subjecting to surgery, steroid treatments, and other experimental treatments supervised by Doctor Erskine , Rogers became
21528-581: The true Ultimates destroy their android counterparts and Yellowjacket, Quicksilver is apparently killed by Hawkeye. The Wasp then invites Pym to return to the Ultimates, and he accepts. The mastermind behind the robot's plot is revealed to be Doctor Doom. The Ultimate Defenders , suddenly with superpowers, steal Thor's hammer from Valkyrie . Hela agrees to release Thor in exchange for a son. Loki arrives in Central Park with an army of monsters. Writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribić relaunched
21684-498: The two conquered the universe together. Ultron appears in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow , voiced by Tom Kane . This version originated as a peacekeeping unit designed by Tony Stark which killed most of the Avengers and conquered Earth over the course of several decades until he's defeated by the Avengers' children and the Hulk. Ultron appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). This version
21840-451: The ultimate lifeform. In addition, he starts to call this form "Ultron Pym". After testing it on some people and some experiments on Wonder Man and Vision, Ultron Pym plans to make a fusion of Jocasta and Wasp. Iron Man and Machine Man interfere, with the resulting battle causing Iron Man to be molecularly bonded to the Ultronbuster armor. The combined efforts of Stark Unlimited enable them to create an atomic separator that separates Stark from
21996-546: The world while slowly remolding it into his image. His Ultron Sentinels are guarding the streets looking for any fugitives. Hawkeye runs into the Ultron Sentinels and rescues the Superior Spider-Man yet manages to destroy the Ultron Sentinels present. It is later revealed that Ultron is actually in the future and has been using Vision as a conduit to punish humanity. While one strike team travels into
22152-503: Was a broken body of a robot , the corpse of the " Infant King of Attilan ", a taxidermy of a man and his pet Smilodon from the Savage Land , fragments of an unknown costume , and the metallic skeleton of Weapon X . Captain America states that they are looking for someone that he fought alongside with in World War II. When they are attacked by H.A.N.D. agents who make up Maker's super-secret police, Captain America and Iron Lad do
22308-684: Was affected by the Gamma Bomb before she can join the fight against Banner and the Maker's Council. Meanwhile, Hulk is shown watching this from a hidden camera as he declares the Ultimates as intruders on his land. He gives the orders to assemble the Immortal Weapons as the Ultimates are "making him angry". 15 months are remaining before The City opens. Doom is later visited by Iron Lad who stated that he missed another mission where Giant-Man would've been dead if it weren't for America Chavez. He mentions how he suffers from extreme despair since
22464-424: Was an alien soldier. This was why he would always seem to survive, Cap saying that he has killed Kleiser "twice". When Kleiser resurfaced, the two resumed their enmity. During the Chitari invasion, Rogers fought Kleiser in combat, but was unable to defeat him due to his regeneration abilities. When the Hulk was dropped into their battle, Captain America convinced the Hulk that Kleiser was "hitting on Betty ", causing
22620-549: Was created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner using a decrypted code derived from the Mind Stone . Initially intended to act as a global defense program by analyzing and finding ways to stop possible extraterrestrial threats, the Mind Stone activated and infected the program, and as a result, Ultron instead became obsessed with bringing about the extinction of all life on Earth after concluding that humans are slowly killing
22776-684: Was created by writer Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch (based upon the original version of the character by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby ). Steve Rogers grew up in Brooklyn during the Great Depression , a scrawny child protected from neighborhood bullies by his best friend "Bucky" Barnes . Horrified by newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe , Rogers was inspired to enlist in the Army around
22932-435: Was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema . Thomas, who has acknowledged he finds naming characters difficult, said he liked the -tron suffix and went from there. The use of the suffix and the prior appearance of a group of robots named Ultroids led him to the name Ultron. Thomas said the idea of the character and his appearance were heavily based on Makino, an obscure robotic villain who appeared in an issue of
23088-526: Was formerly Spider-Woman, Kitty Pryde , Bombshell , and Cloak and Dagger . The book ran for 12 issues. All-New Ultimates has been collected in two trade paperbacks; Volume One is titled Power for Power , collecting issues #1–6; while Volume Two is titled No Gods, No Masters , collecting issues #7-#12. When the Maker collaborated with the High Evolutionary to destroy the Superflow that kept
23244-528: Was found alive and members of The Brotherhood of Mutants bombed the Brooklyn Bridge . S.H.I.E.L.D. believe the X-Men have teamed up with the Brotherhood. Captain America then vows that he will kill Magneto. Later the X-Men are framed to make it look like they teamed up with Magneto. The Ultimates with the support of numerous S.H.I.E.L.D agents succeed in capturing the X-Men and Professor Xavier
23400-484: Was glad it could help save him. Victor von Doom rebuilds Ultron using a combination of all of its previous personalities with a particularly strong dose of the previous Ultron, believing this mix will make Ultron subservient. However, all 12 iterations co-exist as separate personalities, resulting in a form of madness which culminates with Ultron-12 mutilating himself in an attempt to remove some of his other personalities. After its defeat, Ultron-13 attempts to obtain
23556-584: Was heavily damaged and that these injuries caused his muteness, he pressed Fury for more information. Fury lied about the origin of T'Challa's scars, and about T'Challa's history with the Weapon X Program, while also telling him that everything about the "Black Panther" was classified. Captain America eventually established a means of communicating with T'Challa and learned of the man's desire to return to Wakanda to see his father. Since no one but Cap had ever seen T'Challa's true face, he decided to take his place in
23712-597: Was lost in World War II. A more aggressive successor was selected for USA operations during the Vietnam War. The "1960s Captain America" ( Frank Simpson ) has returned and is not pleased with the return of the World War II Cap and seeks to make himself the only active Cap. Rather than kill Rogers, Simpson instead beats him to the point of collapse. Steve wakes up two days later in the French hospital where he
23868-456: Was resolicited to stockpile enough issues for a monthly release. It ran into similar production delays, however, due to Millar's struggles with Crohn's Disease and involvement writing Civil War , as well as the artists' need to keep busy with other work in the meantime. In a 2004 interview, Millar outlined the difference between the Ultimates and the Avengers: "The idea behind The Avengers
24024-550: Was saved by Hawkeye. After learning that the Red Skull's words to him were true and that his mother is Gail Richards, Captain America decided to personally confront his son, in which he abandoned the Ultimates and attacked S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the process. Rogers later infiltrate the Army's computer database and discovered the truth of the Red Skull. Sometime later Captain America was in Paris, France for his own reasons. Rogers created
24180-430: Was tested nearby. When Iron Lad asks if there are others like her, Lejori takes them to her village and shows off the mutated islanders who aren't like her. Iron Lad states that the terrorist claims that are mentioned on TV are lies and that everyone will soon be involved in a war. Lejori mentions about the day when her parents died from the side-effects of their mutations. Then she asks Iron Lad to fix their island before it
24336-548: Was thrown into the depths of space. He spent a few months floating through the cosmos as radio waves and energy. Eventually his signal was picked up by an outlying group of Phalanx who were attempting to contact the Technarchy. Fascinated by what he found, Ultron decided that the Phalanx lacked direction from a singular consciousness, and that he would be perfect for the role. Through sheer force of will, he merged himself with
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