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57-532: Jimmy Hudson first appeared in the Ultimatum follow-up Ultimate Comics: X by Jeph Loeb, David Messina and Art Adams . Cullen Bunn opted to explore Jimmy Hudson's past; he enjoyed the idea of a Wolverine that was raised in a positive environment, and aspects of the character's situation resonated with him to his own adopted son who was abandoned at birth. Following the Secret Wars storyline, Hudson

114-546: A berserk rampage against friend and foe alike, needing to be restrained by his allies before he could attack civilians Jimmy eventually calmed down and continued to fight, saving the people of Manhattan for the time being. Just as he got worried that his rage would take over soon, the Time Variance Authority showed up to arrest him, as this was Deadpool's plan all along. Hudson voluntarily gave himself up while Silence tried to protect him, being taken away by

171-466: A bomb strapped to his chest accusing Magneto of turning on his own kind, but Magneto is not dissuaded from his genocidal path. In Valhalla, Thor sacrifices himself to save Valkyrie and Captain America from Hela. Captain America then wakes up, now healed, and announces that Thor is dead. A horde of Jamie Madrox's duplicates—one of many suicide-bomber hordes dispatched by Magneto to blow up targets all over

228-520: A box of personal items belonging to his real father Wolverine, along with a final message from Logan informing his son that he loves him and never regretted having him. With this revelation, Jimmy sought out another former X-Man, Jean Grey, who was in hiding since the Ultimatum event. The two of them together begin recruiting mutants Derek Morgan and Liz Allan, and later the Hulk, forming Ultimate-X, under

285-600: A core five-issue eponymous miniseries written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by David Finch that was published from January to September 2009, and a number of tie-in books. The storyline deals with Magneto 's attempts to destroy the world following the apparent deaths of his children, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in The Ultimates 3 . The first issue of the core miniseries was the best-selling comic of January 2009, selling over 100,000 copies, though sales dropped with subsequent issues. Despite relatively strong sales,

342-756: A second series entitled Ultimate Comics: X , which dealt with mutants struggling under the new laws passed in the Ultimate Universe after the events of "Ultimatum". Elements of "Ultimatum"'s story were established in the Ultimates 3 , Ultimate Power , and Ultimate Origins miniseries, all of which featured a banner reading "March on Ultimatum" on their covers. During "Ultimatum", the three Ultimate Marvel titles ( Ultimate X-Men , Ultimate Spider-Man , and Ultimate Fantastic Four ), featured tie-in stories about various characters and events that occur throughout "Ultimatum". The series mainly builds on

399-477: A series of elaborate holograms to keep Emma's forces occupied. The team begins losing hope when Emma begins telepathically tormenting Cyclops. Havok is about to intercept Jean and Jimmy when he is suddenly ambushed by Polaris, resulting in the two of them fighting Jean and Jimmy manage to rescue their teammates and Briar until they're caught by Emma, who has taken control of Cyclops forcing him to attack them. Jean manages to release Cyclops from Emma's mental control and

456-482: Is fatally shot in the head by an unknown assassin. Meanwhile, Thing travels to Latveria and kills Doctor Doom after being informed by Reed Richards that in every one of millions of alternate scenarios he can come up with, the world suffers greatly under Doom's rule unless he is killed. In Wundagore, Quicksilver is revealed to be alive and reveals that he was the one who assassinated Cyclops. He then takes Magneto's helmet and swears to carry on his father's dream, all while in

513-665: The Secret Wars storyline, Old Man Logan ended up in the Battleworld domain of the Kingdom of Manhattan where its domain's versions of Jean Grey and Emma Frost took him to the X-Mansion where he met the rest of the X-Men and this domain's version of Jimmy Hudson. Ultimatum (Ultimate Marvel) " Ultimatum " is a 2009 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics under its Ultimate Marvel imprint. It consists of

570-626: The Baxter Building , while the Thing attempts to hold off a whale that has just crashed through a window. Yellowjacket breaks out of Tony Stark 's mansion looking for the Wasp . In the flooded streets of New York City, Bruce Banner appears to have drowned only to turn into the Hulk. Spider-Man attempts to help in rescue efforts. As Beast and Nightcrawler are caught in the tsunami, Angel carries an unconscious Dazzler from underwater to

627-475: The "Ultimatum" storyline began in late 2007 when Ultimate Power #8 featured a banner on its cover reading, "March on Ultimatum". The following year, a teaser advertisement for "Ultimatum" ran in all Marvel titles. It depicted a broken tombstone reading 2000-2008, with the 2008 piece broken from its place, indicating that the Ultimate Universe would be ending that year. In an interview on YouTube , artist David Finch said that Loeb would be bringing much to all of

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684-457: The Blue Team couldn't bring themselves to do so. The Poison attempted to flee after being forced into a fight with Daken which resulted in a brutal yet equal fight between them before being stopped by the Blue Team. Afterwards Jean scans his mind, and confirms that Jimmy's consciousness has regained control of his body, however he wishes to leave the team until he finds his place in the world. He

741-638: The Mothervine essence. To investigate this mystery, Jimmy and Black Box leave Utopia, following a trial from Logan's message to a maternity health center in Florida. Upon arriving at their destination, the two of them discover the truth of Project Mothervine before being attacked by Black Ops agents led by a mutant called Wild Child. The two of them were saved by Quicksilver, Magneto's son and Jimmy's half-brother, through their mother Magda Lensherr. Quicksilver tries to encourage Jimmy to join his side since Jimmy

798-531: The Purifiers’ prison, freeing as many mutants as he can before he ends up getting shot. One of the free mutants took him to the Morlock Tunnels where he meets up with Kitty Pryde, Iceman, Human Torch, and Rogue. The five of them together decide to stop Stryker from hunting and killing mutants. Kitty manages to kill Stryker, yet it is revealed that Stryker was secretly a mutant himself, his primary power

855-649: The TVA while the real fight wasn't over yet Jimmy's mutant powers are similar to those of his father, the Ultimate Wolverine. For instance, he possesses an accelerating healing factor that allows him to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue in a relatively brief period of time. While the full extent of his healing factor is unknown, it is possible Jimmy can withstand various wounds, diseases, drugs, and toxins. In addition, his healing factor makes him extremely immune to telepathic assault, probing, and mindwipes, from

912-745: The Thing watches over a comatose Invisible Woman, whose powers lash out at him. Meanwhile, Doctor Doom and Zarda confront Reed Richards, and forge a plan to retrieve Nick Fury from the Supreme Power universe. Upon finding Valkyrie 's lifeless body, Thor enters Valhalla to reclaim her soul. He is then confronted by Hela , who forces Thor to battle Hela's army of fallen warriors to reach Valkyrie. Captain America appears in Valhalla, implying that he has died. Meanwhile at Xavier's Institute for Gifted Children, Magneto confronts Professor X and tells him that

969-568: The Ultimate Universe to a close. Loeb said in an interview with Comic Book Resources that the storyline would "hopscotch back and forth between the two books [ Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men ] and conclude what I would like to say is the first chapter of the Ultimate Universe." During the Marvel Ultimate Universe panel at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con , Jeph Loeb said that Aron Coleite's run on Ultimate X-Men would tie-in to "Ultimatum", but did not indicate that

1026-482: The Ultimates and Wolverine confront Magneto at his citadel. Angel also arrives and is immediately killed by Sabretooth . Hawkeye blinds Sabretooth by shooting him through the eye. Magneto's arm is cut off by Valkyrie who is trying to reclaim Thor's hammer. Magneto slashes Valkyrie's throat, but this does not kill her. Captain America attacks Magneto. In response, Magneto collapses the ceiling on them, trapping them in

1083-601: The Ultimates, Magneto is able to steal Thor 's hammer which he uses, along with his magnetic abilities, to reverse the Earth's polarity. It is further revealed that Doctor Doom was manipulating these events. A series of disasters befalls a few major cities: a lightning storm suddenly appears in New York City and a tsunami hits Manhattan . Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman attempt to make it back into

1140-406: The Ultimatum event and the death of Wolverine, the U.S. government establishes strong anti-mutant procedures. Mutants across the nation were arrested on sight and killed if they resisted. Jimmy's mutant powers activate when he was badly injured in a drag race, resulting in him being shunned by his human girlfriend. Afterward, he meets former X-Man Kitty Pryde when she arrives at his house and hands him

1197-497: The citadel and leave. Eight days later, the world has begun to recover from the devastation. Cyclops gives a speech in Washington D.C. before a crowd of anti-mutant protesters. He acknowledges Magneto's crimes, but pleads for peace between humans and mutants. He also announces that Congress is currently voting on a bill that will require all mutants to turn themselves in to the U.S. government or be shot on sight. However, Cyclops

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1254-478: The core miniseries' earlier issues were mixed, with issue #1 holding a score of 6.3 out of 10 at Comic Book Roundup, based on 10 reviews, with the following four issues holding scores of 4.8, 3.7, 2.2 and 2.8, based on 8, 5, 6, and 6 reviews, respectively. In reviews of the first issue, Zak Edwards of ComicBookBin took notice of Loeb's ability to relay characterization while plotting a catastrophic event, while Jesse Schedeen of IGN thought Loeb's characterization in

1311-531: The covert supervision of Nick Fury . Ultimate Comics: X-Men After Valerie Cooper revealed to the world the true origins of mutants, proclaiming the first mutant to be Wolverine, an angry Jimmy left the team to seek answers for himself. However he gets captured by the Purifiers, a faction of Right-wing, mutant-hating, armed paramilitaries, led by William Stryker, Jr. who believed it was his "mission from God" to wipe out mutant kind. Jimmy manages to break out of

1368-477: The deaths of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have spurred him to exterminate the entire human race. When Professor X states that his motives have made him similar to Osama bin Laden , Pol Pot , and Adolf Hitler , Magneto kills Professor X and leaves. As the X-Men mourn their dead, Jean Grey telepathically learns of Professor X's death and informs the others. At Magneto's citadel, a Jamie Madrox clone arrives with

1425-485: The establishment of the nation of Krakoa, Wolverine's return to life, and the rest of the major events of the Marvel universe. Venom War It is revealed that Jimmy has gone to live in the underground city of Monster Metropolis, thinking he’s a monster, where he is watched over by Dr. Michael Morbius. When by an army of Zombiotes, undead and mindless symbiotes begin spreading across the city of Manhattan taking over both

1482-464: The events of Ultimates 3 , in which the villainous robot Ultron shoots and kills the Scarlet Witch . Ultron's rebellion and Wanda's death lead to a series of events which end with the apparent death of Wanda's brother, Quicksilver , who is shot by Hawkeye when Quicksilver uses his super-speed to intercept the bullet meant for his father. Magneto vows revenge on the Ultimates. Before escaping

1539-824: The events of World War X and The Galactus invasion, while encountering the time-displaced X-Men from The Prime Marvel Universe before the Final Incursion, that brought the Earth-1610 Universe and Earth-616 Universe into a destructive cosmic collision. After The Secret Wars and The Marvel Multiverse was ultimately reconstructed, Jimmy and several other mutants ended up in The Prime Marvel Universe where they were captured and experimented on by Miss Sinister, resulting in Jimmy suffering amnesia. X-Men Blue Miss Sinister succeeds in brainwashing

1596-469: The exiled Nick Fury. Fury reveals that he knew of Magneto's plan and forces Doctor Doom to reveal that he is responsible for the Scarlet Witch's death. Doom explains that he killed her in an attempt to overthrow humanity himself, but never expected Magneto to seek vengeance upon the world. Mister Fantastic and Zarda are outraged that Doom instigated Magneto's mass murder. Back in the Ultimate Universe,

1653-601: The existence of mutants was in fact the result of a misguided genetic super-soldier experiment (the decades-ago merging of Nick Fury's super-soldier blood and the DNA of Wolverine, thereafter alternately known as "Mutant Zero") and not the "divine calling" that Magneto had long thought it was. Disillusioned, Magneto immediately reverses the damage he had done to the Earth's magnetic poles. Despite insisting that Professor X would have forgiven him, Cyclops disintegrates Magneto's head with his optic blast at Magneto's request. The heroes destroy

1710-457: The first issue was poor. Weekly Comic Book Review 's Andrew C. Murphy gave the miniseries' first issue a B+ , praising David Finch's art, while Ben Berger gave it a C, opining that there was too much exposition , but also praising Finch's art. Criticism of Loeb's writing was more common in reviews of subsequent issues, and universal by the time of the series' conclusion. David Finch's art generally drew more praise, though even that element

1767-598: The former series would end. While it was first reported in Wizard magazine that only one Ultimate Marvel title would be ending following the series, Ultimate X-Men , Ultimate Spider-Man , and Ultimate Fantastic Four were all canceled following the events of "Ultimatum". The Ultimates continued under the title Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates after "Ultimatum", and is written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by artist Frank Cho . Mark Millar, writer and creator of The Ultimates , Ultimate Fantastic Four , and Ultimate X-Men ,

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1824-512: The last Poison alive wandering the Earth in Jimmy's human form. His body began an inner battle between the Poison's consciousness and Jimmy's consciousness fighting for control. While at the same time, Jimmy slowly begins regaining memories of his past, Jimmy's former teammates manage to track him down in hopes of saving their former friend. However their attempts are interrupted by Jimmy's half-brother, Daken, who has been sent by Magneto to kill him if

1881-422: The likes of powerful telepaths like Jean Grey and Miss Sinister. He also has his father's retractable bone claws that are housed within his forearms. Although he lacks his father's adamantium-laced skeleton and claws, he has the ability coat them in organic steel, similar to Colossus's mutant ability. While the durability of his claws has yet to be determined, they have proven to be strong enough to seriously damage

1938-529: The living and the dead, Deadpool travels to Monster Metropolis, seeking Jimmy's help against the horde of symbiotes. After successfully taking out the Zombiotes that were attacking Monster Metropolis, the group took the fight to the surface after Deadpool convinced the Legion of Monsters to fight for the people that lived above them. In the heat of battle, Jimmy's own hatred for himself as a monster made him go on

1995-466: The miniseries received almost universally negative reviews upon its conclusion, as it holds a score of 4 out of 10 at the review aggregator website Comic Book Roundup. By contrast, the overall crossover storyline holds a score of 5.8 out of 10, whereas higher scores are held by the tie-in series, Ultimatum: Fantastic Four Requiem , Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem and Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem hold scores of 7, 7.7 and 6.3, respectively. The foreshadowing of

2052-450: The number of characters he killed off, and inconsistent characterization and storytelling. Other points of criticism among these reviews also included the level of graphic violence, which included cannibalism , and the notion that the series was sold on the basis of its shock value. Still others asserted the story lacked originality, and that the series would have been better suited to someone who had previously been more involved with

2109-463: The presence of an unknown mastermind – a woman whose identity is hidden in the shadows. Following the "Ultimatum" storyline, each Ultimate title was given a Requiem follow-up series or one-shot, dealing with the status of each book's characters in the aftermath of Ultimatum . The core Ultimatum miniseries enjoyed strong sales. The first issue was the #1 selling book for November 2008, with 114,230 books sold by Diamond. However, sales dropped with

2166-604: The punch by Magda Lensherr, a freelance spy and ex-wife of mutant terrorist, Magneto, who was hired by an unknown party to steal the formula. Magda manages to inject the last of the Mothervine formula into her blood stream before having sex with Wolverine, resulting in her becoming pregnant with his child. After giving birth to a son named Jimmy, Magda entrusted him to Wolverine before disappearing, who in turn entrusted Jimmy to Iraq war veteran James Hudson ( Guardian ) and his wife Heather ( Vindicator ), who adopted Jimmy and raised him as their own. Ultimate X Many years later, after

2223-734: The rest of the X-Men begin searching for survivors. Hulk arrives and peacefully assists Spider-Man in rescue efforts. At the Triskelion, Iron Man arrives with an unconscious Captain America, who is put on life support. Hawkeye helps Yellowjacket search for the Wasp, but they discover the Blob eating her corpse. Enraged, the giant-sized Hank Pym bites off the Blob's head. Back at the Baxter Building,

2280-533: The rest of the mutants into her team of enforcers called, The New Marauders. Yet Jimmy remains defiant to her control due to his strong resistance to telepathy. He manages to escape her, and begins wandering the cold wilderness of Colorado, he exhibits mature characteristics, while fighting and killing a Wendigo. He later encounters the time-displaced X-Men, again when they save him from the New Marauders who were sent by Miss Sinister to recapture him. Afterwards,

2337-554: The rubble. He flees and cauterizes his arm with his magnetic abilities. He is confronted by Cyclops , Phoenix, Wolverine, Storm , Hawkeye, and Iron Man. After controlling Cyclops' visor and Iron Man's lasers into hitting Wolverine, Magneto kills Wolverine by ripping the adamantium from his bones and affecting his cells in such a way that he cannot regenerate. Nick Fury arrives with Mister Fantastic, Doctor Doom, and Zarda, and implements his contingency plan. Using Jean's telepathy, Fury transmits his memories to Magneto, showing him that

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2394-477: The savagely-powerful Wendigo and withstand Cyclops's optic blasts. During the Poison's multiverse invasion of Earth, Jimmy was assimilated by one of the creatures, but seems to have gained control over it as a result of the Hive Queen's death. Jimmy's Poison greatly boosted his natural mutant abilities while possessing other abilities such as wall-crawling, organic webbing generation, and shapeshifting. During

2451-592: The second issue, which sold less than 75,000 copies. Over the course of its nine-month run, Ultimatum lost an estimated 27,482 readers. The overall crossover holds a score of 5.8 out of 10 on the review aggregator Comic Book Roundup, based on 17 reviews. The core miniseries holds a score of 4 out of 10, based on five reviews. The tie-in series hold higher scores, with Ultimatum: Fantastic Four Requiem , Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem and Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem holding scores of 7, 7.7 and 6.3, respectively, based on 1, 2, and 1 reviews, respectively. The initial reviews of

2508-553: The team successfully escapes. During the Poison Hive's interdimensional invasion of Earth, various superhumans were forcefully bound to Symbiotes, The Poison consume the host's body and assimilate their memories, powers, and abilities in the process. Jimmy was one of the heroes bound with a Symbiote and later consumed by a Poison. After Jean destroys the entire Poison race through the Poison Queen, Poison/Jimmy Hudson becomes

2565-523: The threat of both the Nimrod Sentinels and anti-mutant activist factions. After the Nimrod Sentinels were ultimately defeated, a rationalized U.S. government, after attaining the mutant cure from the country of SEAR (South East Asian Republic), granted mutants the remedy allowing them to be free of the X-Gene or to move and live in a sovereign land, later called Utopia should they refuse it. Jimmy

2622-562: The top of a building. Iron Man rescues Captain America , reporting that many people have died and that he does not know where the rest of the Ultimates are. The Invisible Woman uses a massive force field to push all the water back out of the city without affecting civilians or buildings, but this puts her in a coma . In Latveria , Doctor Doom leaves his castle and discovers that everyone except him has been frozen. Professor X states that millions have died and telepathically informs many of

2679-514: The world's superheroes that Magneto is responsible for the destruction, having made use of a doomsday attack that Xavier knew he had but never believed he would use. Magneto is then revealed to be in a floating citadel with Thor 's hammer Mjolnir . In the aftermath, the Human Torch is missing. Mister Fantastic searches for Namor , whom he believes to be responsible for the widespread destruction. Dazzler, Beast, and Nightcrawler are dead, and

2736-477: The world—attack the Triskelion just as Yellowjacket arrives. He instructs Iron Man to take Wasp's body and find a file titled "The Jocasta Project". He then carries all the Madrox clones out to sea where he allows himself to be blown up with them. Captain America orders the Ultimates to gather all the remaining heroes and lead them in an assault on Magneto's citadel. Kitty Pryde leaves to search for Spider-Man, who

2793-593: The young X-Men brought him back to their headquarters in Madripoor and made him a member of their team. During The Secret Empire storyline, the team rebels against the government of New Tian following Hydra's takeover of the United States. While in their hideout, they're attacked by a group of mutants sent by Emma Frost. The team is captured however Jean and Jimmy are able to escape and regroup in order to plan their next move. They are rescued by Danger, who stages

2850-479: Was among the characters moved to the mainstream Marvel Universe, which resulted in his joining the time-displaced members of the X-Men . Early history In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, James Howlett, the Ultimate Wolverine, was assigned to a SHIELD covert team to get the Mothervine formula, an uncompromising enhancement serum developed to prompt mutant childbirth. However, they were beaten to

2907-463: Was among the twenty remaining mutants that chose not to accept the cure and when the mutants held a vote of who should be their leader, Jimmy handpicked Kitty. Ultimate Comics Wolverine It was sometime later, another mutant named Black Box discovered a hidden message within Logan's message to Jimmy, revealing a map of countless mutant sleeper agents that are scattered around the world, all who contain

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2964-496: Was born with a pure strain of Mothervine in his bloodstream, which Quicksilver believed would help their mutant race. However, after Quicksilver activates the latent mutation of a female sleeper agent she unsuspectedly created carnivorous germs, Jimmy considering Quicksilver to be dangerous, refuses to side with his genocidal plans. This results in them fighting until Magda steps in from out of nowhere and stops them from killing each other. After returning to Utopia, Jimmy took part in

3021-597: Was caught in an explosion inside the Sanctum Sanctorum , the home of Doctor Strange . She and Spider-Woman find his mask, and assume he is dead. Strange's home is destroyed by an explosion. When Dormammu appears, Strange confronts him. Dormammu, who is channeling the Human Torch's flame, kills Doctor Strange. Meanwhile in the Supreme Power universe, Richards, Doom, Zarda, and Arcanna approach

3078-551: Was last seen in the last issue of X-Men Blue, where he secretly returns and stops Sebastian Shaw from launching a sneak attacking on Cyclops and Jean Grey. Rise of Powers In Rise of the Powers 5#, in order to defeat Enigma, Jean Grey unleashes the Phoenix's full power, connecting to every mutant from X-Men's past, present and future. Amongst the mutant she comes in contact was Jimmy Hudson jr., who remains missing and absent from

3135-451: Was not without its critics, with some reviewers taking issue with Finch's focus on characters' physical beauty over expressiveness, and more than one reviewer criticizing him for his depiction of Carol Danvers 's breast size. Schedeen gave the series' final issue a scathing review, saying, " Ultimatum is one of the worst comics I have ever read," and called it "the ultimate nightmare." Criticism of Loeb's writing centered on his dialogue,

3192-425: Was the writer for a series that was introduced after "Ultimatum", Ultimate Comics: Avengers , which featured a rotating team of artists such as Carlos Pacheco , Leinil Francis Yu and Steve Dillon . Ultimate Spider-Man was relaunched after the end of "Ultimatum", written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by artist David Lafuente , who provided the art for the third Ultimate Spider-Man Annual . Loeb also wrote

3249-495: Was to communicate and control machines. With his last breath, Stryker transfers his final command to a fleet of Nimrod Sentinels whose primary objective is to hunt down and kill every mutant in the United States. With the U.S. government in a state of chaos, the American citizens are forced to protect themselves. Jimmy, along with Kitty, Iceman, and Rogue go on a road trip to create a mutant resistance group to protect themselves from

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