#ultimate hulk

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Given that the original version is your second favorite superhero: Any thoughts on the Nu-Ultimate Hulk, if you have any? Especially in the light of Ultimates #6 connecting him to Iron Fist bs.

Hurts to see another evil version of my guy, but I must admit he is a compelling contrast to both the 616 and 1610 Hulks.

With Hulk a question that writers have loved to ask, especially in recent years, is who is the bigger monster: the Hulk? Or Bruce himself? After all, Banner made the gramma bomb and was totally fine with the military using it. He only turned against the creation of gamma weapons once one said weapon blew up in his own face. Took feeling the negative effects of gamma upon himself for Banner to grow a conscience. Hulk meanwhile is usually a child in his morality. Yes, he's powerful and scary, but all he wants is to be left alone as he repeatedly states. Hulk typically doesn't set out to hurt anyone who hasn't done him wrong first. In that light, does Bruce not come off worse? Especially when you remember that some of the most evil Hulks, such as the Maestro, are Hulks where Banner is controlling the body completely.

Ultimate Hulk of Earth 6160 is in keeping with that line of thinking. He is a Hulk who has found peace, where Banner has seemingly mastered his alter ego and his inner rage. And he's all the more evil for it!

1610 Hulk also sought out Buddhist monks to find a way to control his rage. Difference between 1610 Bruce and 6160 Bruce, is that while both of them are bad guys, 1610 Bruce did feel guilt and shame over what he had done. He lacked the inner strength to make amends or even improve himself morally, but he possessed a conscience. Contrast that with this Hulk. NuUltimate Hulk refers to Gamma Island as "sacred ground" and is angry that the Ultimates "disturbed" his experiments there. He feels no shame or regret or guilt over what he has done. He's embraced the neocon mantra of "peace through strength" wherein you justify atrocities as part of the greater good. Detonating gamma bombs over innocents resulted in the creation of the Hulk, which resulted in a strengthening of the Pax Factoris, the Peace of the Maker. Therefore all the moral lines crossed were retroactively justified because the end product was a reinforcing of the status quo of "peace".

Nevermind that Hulk himself admits in Ultimate Invasion that this Pax is an illusionary one. Critics of "Peace Through Strength" have pointed out it frequently results in Peace Through War, which is exactly what the pre-Ultimates status quo for Earth 6160 has been. A never-ending rotation of false flag conflicts meant to quiet the populations within each territory from rising up against the Council.

616 Hulk is a case of the military-industrial complex creating a monster which turns against them. 6160 Hulk is the military-industrial complex embodied. With the Maker indisposed, Hulk has stepped up to lead the Council and crush the Ultimates before they pose a serious threat to the status quo. Complete contrast with 616 Hulk who is currently wandering the Earth as a long haired outcast, and prior to that was planning to overthrow the status quo in Immortal Hulk.

Of all the Maker’s Council, Ultimate Hulk is the one who has been twisted the furthest from what he is supposed to be. I'm excited to see how his story ends, I reckon the Ultimates are going to have to undermine his self-control in order to beat him.

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The Ultimates 5 (2002) by Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch

Cover: Bryan Hitch

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Ultimate Hulk Annual #1

HA!

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2008's Ultimate Human Vol.1 #4 cover by Cary Nord (pencils) and Richard Isanove (colors). Source

[nickfuryagentofsword]

Ultimates 6 (2024) by Deniz Camp & Juan Frigeri

Cover: InHyuk Lee

Ultimate Universe

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel (Comics), Marvel Ultimate Universe, Ultimate Invasion 2022 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bruce Banner/Reed Richards, The Hulk/The Maker Characters: Bruce Banner, Reed Richards, Reed Richards (Ultimateverse), Bruce Banner (Earth-6160) Additional Tags: Character Study, Getting to Know Each Other, Canon Compliant, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Fluff and Angst, Crack Treated Seriously, Worshiping a false god Summary:

The Maker is cynical, sceptical, rigid, unpredictable and pessimistic.

He believes that the world should be run while assuming the worst about humanity.

Hulk disagrees.

 A.k.a. A Hulk/Maker fic I made as a joke but actually wrote seriously

[torchdreemurr]

Small theory regarding The Ultimates #6: I believe that the character that has been hinted to be killed off in the issue will be Thor.

This theory doesn't have much going behind it, but I do have a little bit of evidence to prove this idea.

Firstly, I feel like if a character is going to be killed off, it's going to likely be a character that's been on the time for longer than the others. If a character that joined the Ultimates more recently like Hawkeye or Jim Hammond dies, the audience won't feel as much of the weight behind their death, and robs potential future moments they may have in the story.

To pull this off best, I believe it would have to be one of the 7 members that were part of the first issue. Tony Steve and Doom are obviously the book's three main characters, so one of them probably isn't going to die just yet, leaving Thor, Sif, Hank and Janet.

As a follow-up to this, these four also fit the bill due to essentially both being "pairs" of powers. Thor and Sif both being gods and such and Hank and Janet both being size changers. If one of them were to die, their collective role would be carried on by another member of the team.

As a more personal pick, I'm going to narrow it down further to Thor and Hank because if Sif or Janet were to die, it would be a blow to the number of female members of the team, which right now are roughly only a third of the roster.

The reason I'm choosing Thor over Hank however is specifically because the villain of issue six is Hulk. In the mainline 616 universe, Thor and Hulk fighting has been a longstanding tradition. Both of them are the heaviest hitters of the Avengers, so which is the heaviest? This question has been asked again and again and again, and I believe that this time, the Ultimate Universe will ask this question again, but with a darker twist to it, and with Thor not making it out of the issue alive.

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How weird is it that I first learned what Mardi Gras was from reading The Ultimates back when I was still in middle school?

The last panel exchange between Janet & Nick Fury still makes me laugh hard though!

From The Ultimates #5 by Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch.

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Hulk goes to Denny's.

[kingoftieland]

Is this the Hulk’s most R-RATED KILL? 💀

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Ultimates is the Best Comic on the Market

BONUS:

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Ultimates #6 (2024)

written by Deniz Camp art by Juan Frigeri & Federico Blee

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I know we all love evo Logan and hvw Deadpool pair up but may I introduce the team up of ultimate spiderman Wolverine and Deadpool

They are the definition of “I can make him worse”

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Six more great Marvel covers for November!

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Ultimates 6 (2024) by Deniz Camp & Juan Frigeri

Cover: Dike Ruan

Ultimate Universe