It looks like Marvel Comic’s Ultimate Universe is
having something of a resurgence with the release of the Ultimate Invasion
mini-series and the upcoming
Ultimate Universe relaunch. So, of course, I wanted to see if there were
any connections between the MC2 and the Ultimate Universe.
There’s a humourous nod to the then-fledgling Ultimate Spider-Man
series in the pages of 2002’s Spider-Girl #49 during the
flashback to Peter
Parker
aka Spider-Man’s
final battle with Norman
Osborn
aka The
Green Goblin which resulted in Peter
losing his right lower leg and Norman’s death. Interrupted during the Gathering
of Five ceremony, Osborn declares he ‘was on the verse of
ultimate POWER!’ to which Spider-Man quips ‘Sorry about that! I guess
you’ll just have to settle for Ultimate Spider-Man—which is a lot more
entertaining!’
Ironically, while we saw the MC2’s Spider-Man and Green
Goblin face off in their final fight, their counterparts were also squaring
off in the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man.
Now here’s a more direct connection from the pages of Ultimate
Comics Ultimates #30. When Kang (actually an alternate reality future
Susan Storm from Universe-13074) warns the villainous Reed
Richards aka The Maker (of the Ultimate Universe-1610) of the
coming cataclysm that will destroy everything. Informing him of the Infinity
Gems (of which the Ultimate Universe apparently has 8 in total) needed
to avert this disaster, The Maker and his team of ‘Dark Ultimates’
battled the Ultimates for their possession.
However, just as Tony Stark aka Iron Man gains
control of the Infinity Gems using his armour, everyone is struck down
by an energy flux that shows visions of the various characters’ alternate
universe counterparts. Among them, Ben Grimm aka The Thing see’s
his counterpart from the Fantastic
Five of Universe-982 better known as the MC2.
As for the cause of the sudden energy flux everyone
experienced its origin lies in the pages of the Age of
Ultron event wherein the space-time continuum itself is broken as
result of it’s abuse in an attempt to stop the reign of Ultron (Age
of Ultron #10).
Once again, I have to stress just how significant this
time-breaking is/was and how useful a piece of continuity it truly is for any
*ahem* future MC2 writers who may wish to make use of the fallout from
the events of Age of Ultron to ignore certain plot points. As always a
huge thank you to arias-98105 for helping me out on this one!
Until we get an Ultimate Comics Ultimate MC2 Universe
reboot requel relaunch crossover spectacular in 10 years time, I remain
frogoat
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