Ultimatum

Ultimatum is a 2009 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics under its Ultimate Marvel imprint. It consists of a core five-issue eponymous miniseries written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by David Finch that was published from January 2009 to September 2009, and a number of tie-in books. The storyline deals with the X-Men's arch-nemesis, Magneto, who attempts to flood the world following the deaths of his children Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver at the hands of Ultron and Hawkeye during the events of The Ultimates 3.

Why It Can Get Any Worse

 * 1) The comic was made when it's writer, Jeph Loeb, was suffering a mental breakdown after the death of his son which affected his writing - and it shows.
 * 2) A very ugly, yet nonsensical story that starts with Magneto, who has stolen Thor's hammer, Mjolnir (and kidnapped a Latverian scientist building an earthquake machine, that was never bought up), shifting the Earth's magnetic poles and flooding the world after mourning the death of his children, Scarlet Witch (shot by Ultron) and Quicksilver (stabbed from the arrow by Hawkeye) after the events of Ultimates 3.
 * 3) Even so, he thinks flooding the entire world would solve his problem and considers that God despised humanity and washed it all away.
 * 4) *This was also revealed in the prequel, Ultimate Origins, where Magneto was not a Holocaust survivor in Nazi Germany in the mainstream version, but was a test subject experimented by the Weapon X project with Wolverine as the first mutant instead of Apocalypse (he is said to be the first mutant in the mainstream version). He often murdered his parents to prove he is not a freak.
 * 5) In regards to how Magneto offsetting the magnetic poles with his magnetic powers and Thor's hammer, it only constantly moves, which some scientists say that around 40 kilometers per year, so people will know that the poles can shift and in fact have likely do that several times.
 * 6) Also, the actual effects of the pole shift are negligible. The worst that could potentially happen is the weakening of Earth's magnetic field.
 * 7) But it would return to normal eventually, and that probably wouldn't hurt that much either. In fact, the only real effects of a sudden pole shift are reverse compasses and screw animals that have internal sense of direction.
 * 8) The tides have nothing to do with the magnetic field. Primarily, they're affected by the gravity of the moon, which Magneto has no power to control, but even if he did have that, tidal waves are not because of the moon.
 * 9) In fact, tidal waves are the result of plate tectonics, and in particular, earthquakes. Now, some speculated that anything powerful enough to drastically the magnetic poles would probably do a number on plate tectonics.
 * 10) In the end, Magneto's magnetisms have only been based on anything than "magnet".
 * 11) Doctor Doom's goal of taking over what's left of the world after Magneto floods it makes little-to-no sense. He reveals that he hired Ultron from The Ultimates 3 to anger Magneto by assassinating Scarlet Witch so that he can wage war on humanity, but that makes it even more nonsensical.
 * 12) *It was later revealed in the Ultimate FF issues that the Doom who orchestrated it was Dr. Mary Storm, mother of Fantastic Four members Sue/Invisible Woman and Johnny/Human Torch. But it was unknown why she worked for Doom during the Crossover story arc, from Ultimate Fantastic Four.
 * 13) **He is also no better in Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man, he plans to create an army of super-soldiers (including Miles Morales/Spider-Man, and his Ultimates team) to "save" the world from corrupt governments by working with Hydra (which wasn't a Nazi-like group in it).
 * 14) *Before he became Dr Doom as Victor Van Damme than Von Doom, Victor was the ancestor of the vampire, Dracula, whom his strict father, Werner wants to fulfilled his family's brotherhood footsteps and would later beat him if he doesn't memorize his family's history perfectly, which did explained of why he set up his schemes.
 * 15) Namor (who is never seen again for years until Ultimate FF), Hela, and Dormammu barely serve any purpose to the main narrative of the story but by filler.
 * 16) This comic sent the Ultimate Marvel universe into a downward spiral from which it never recovered.
 * 17) It is extremely mean-spirited and depressing, unlike the mainstream universe.
 * 18) The tone tries to be very dark but just ends being poorly executed.
 * 19) It is made so that Marvel would reboot the Ultimate Universe, but that plan was scrapped at the last minute.
 * 20) All of the Ultimates, Fantastic Four, and X-Men behave very out-of-character during the events of Ultimatum:
 * 21) Hank Pym/YellowJacket is still a killer who murders Blob by bitting his head for eating Wasp's corpse instead of sparing him. He even intends to keep Wasp alive, but Hawkeye said that she is already dead.
 * 22) Hawkeye barely serves a purpose to the story but just shoot arrows as an assist.
 * 23) Angel, after mourning Jubilee's death from drowning, acts like an selfish idiot by leaving the X-Men so that he can get revenge on Magneto for flooding the world and gets killed by Sabretooth by ripping half of his wings and kicking his neck.
 * 24) Professor X barely does anything but communicate other heroes about Magneto, and gets his head snapped by him just for comparing him to other evil real-life people.
 * 25) The Thing often kills Dr Doom for what he set in motion for murdering Magneto's children and flooding the earth as revenge by Reed's orders.
 * 26) It often destroyed everything that the Ultimate Marvel comics were so special for and was supposed to be a fresh start for readers who never read some of Marvel's comics and wants to get into it without decades of continuity reading the older ones (aside from trying to be faithful). Instead, they focused too much on being "dark and edgy" and changed so much of the material in a poor, unfaithful grasp.
 * 27) The pacing is either feels rushed or slow.
 * 28) Poor grasp to Norse mythology, Thor or other Asgardians should not be confronting to Hela in Valhalla because it is not her domain.
 * 29) Dialogue that doesn't make any sense, like Wolverine saying "All the other times we've fought, I guess I held back. Can't kill you if I'm not willing to die. Today...? I'm willing to die!" along with "You think you're God? That you'll destroy the Earth and make it over in your image? Well, I've got news for you... if you're God, then God is DEAD!".
 * 30) Valkyrie, who had her throat slit by Magneto using her own sword, actually survives off-panel and reappears in Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates.
 * 31) Like 2012, a disaster film that has the same year as the comic came out, it sounds like it was written by someone who saw too many disaster films, genres, literatures, or series.
 * 32) Plenty of nonsensical moments for example:
 * 33) Iron Man uses his rocket boots so that YellowJacket can sacrifice himself to stop the horde of Multiple Men instead of just getting rid of them in YellowJacket's entire body one by one.
 * 34) Magneto uses his magnetic powers to control Cyclops's visor (where he should have closed his eyes, idiot) and Iron Man's repulsor blast to incinerate Wolverine.
 * 35) Power Princess leaving Mr. Fantastic, Nick Fury, Doctor Doom, and Arcanna while flying and destroying a car Nick Fury was using and then just comes back to protect Doctor Doom after Mr Fantastic tries to strangle and accuse him about what he set in motion.
 * 36) Cyclops just...kills Magneto instead of letting him live.
 * 37) Instead of exposing Dr Doom for what he set in motion, the Thing just...kills him while an imprisoned Namor watches it in horror.
 * 38) It killed off so many well known Marvel characters such as Wolverine, Cyclops, Wasp (who's death is undone in 2016's The Ultimates 2 and the last issue of Spider-Men II), Beast, Nightcrawler, Angel, Jubilee, Hank Pym/Yellowjacket (who's death is also undone in 2016's The Ultimates 2 and the last issue of Spider-Men II), Professor X, Doctor Strange and many others purely for shock value.
 * 39) False Advertising: Lorelei in the third issue's cover doesn't appear along with Daredevil, who is in the cover of the fourth issue, (only appears in tie-ins from the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man and dies as well). Even Black Panther from the cover of issue 2, doesn't appear in this event while Thor doesn't have his original hammer despite Magneto using it.
 * 40) David Finch's artwork, while pretty decent, is wasted on rectangular two-page spreads that needed to be flipped horizontally (but can be very frustrating for readers), weird anatomy, reliance on center-faces, and shock-valued gore. Even though he also drew Scarlet Witch's face proportion in a messed up way as possible, and Hawkeye's bowstring being TINY and THiN for no reason when he manages to knock off Cyclops' visor from Magneto's magnetic control.
 * 41) Terrible Ending: Quicksilver somehow returns from being shot dead by Hawkeye in The Ultimates 3, as he now assassinates Cyclops, when he was giving a speech in Washington D.C. to the anti-mutant protesters about Magneto's crimes, human-mutant peace and voting all mutants to turn themselves or shot on sight. So, Quicksilver decides to continue his father's genocidal campaign against humanity, thus turning him back into the villain from his early days since Ultimate X-Men.
 * 42) *To add insult to injury after Cyclops was shot, Storm and Colossus are arrested by Colonel Danvers, while Jean is going near Cyclops' dead body as Rogues tries to stop her, and Iceman leaving Kitty behind to help this incident.
 * 43) Major Plot Holes:
 * 44) How Invisible Woman got recovered?
 * 45) How did the Hulk unleashed a wave of flashing lights while he is smashing the Sanctum Santorum? This was later explained in the final issues of Ultimate Spider-Man.
 * 46) How was Human Torch captured by Dormammu? How would Invisible Woman and Thing saved him? This was later explained in Ultimatum: Fantastic Four Requiem.
 * 47) How did the Blob know where the Wasp is?
 * 48) How did Captain America got to Valhalla while he was unconscious (is this supposed to mean that he's in an astral plane)?
 * 49) Who is this mysterious woman anyway talking to Quicksilver in Wundagore?
 * 50) Some fans suggested that this comic is considered to be Marvel's answer to DC Comics' 51-issued Countdown with similar plot problems and was inferior to a much better weekly series predecessor, 52.
 * 51) After that, Magneto's actions would caused a lot of problems over anti-mutant prejudice in which Kitty Pryde as the Shroud is against it and tries to lash out those that wronged her in the pages of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, a relaunch of Ultimate Spider-Man.
 * 52) The name itself is very predictable and a lie (means that it is a final statement of terms or rejecting in retaliation or breakdown in relations) where it only existed because it's always came from "Ultimate".
 * 53) It feels more like a publicity stunt as a lazy attempt to create a campaign of how many characters will die next.
 * 54) Since this comic series’ rating is T (teens and up), it has the huge amount of graphic violence, which makes it questionable for following reasons:
 * 55) The infamous scene where Blob eats Wasp's corpse whilst remarking that she "tastes like chicken".
 * 56) Yellowjacket eating the Blob's head.
 * 57) Thor and Captain America slicing heads of Hela's skeleton army.
 * 58) Carol Danvers and her soldiers shooting heads of the Multiple Men, while one of them is shot to the eye by Hawkeye.
 * 59) Dormammu tying Doctor Strange from his waist tie and stranging him as his head explodes.
 * 60) Sabretooth ripping off Angel's wings and kicked his neck so he can die, while he is shot to the eye by Hawkeye.
 * 61) Valkyrie slicing Magneto's arm.
 * 62) Magneto using Iron Man's repulsor blast and Cyclops' heat visor to discintegrate Wolverine whom he stabs him until he kills him again.
 * 63) Cyclops discintegrating Magneto.
 * 64) Cyclops being shot to the forehead.
 * 65) The Thing crushing Doctor Doom's skull.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some of David Finch's artwork is decent (despite the aforementioned problems in WIS #14).
 * 2) Magneto suffering a mental breakdown after learning the truth about mutants (that were revealed to be made from a laboratory re-creating Captain America's Super Soldier serum) from Nick Fury before getting his head blown off by Cyclops was well-deserved after all the horrible things he did (but maybe he should have just led him live and take him to custody for his crimes).
 * 3) As mentioned before, Magneto mourning his children was reasonable and would have deserved better of what he had become.
 * 4) The idea of mutants being created by a laboratory studying Captain America's Super Soldier serum found from it's tie-in Ultimate Origins, is an interesting concept but not very executed.
 * 5) There are some characters (like Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey, and etc.) that don't act very out of character:
 * 6) Spider-Man does not even join Magneto after his confrontation from the And His Amazing Friends story arc from Ultimate Spider-Man and was revealed to have survived in the Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem issue.
 * 7) Hulk, who was a threat to the Ultimates from their self-titled book series, does help the other heroes in the final 2 issues.
 * 8) Nick Fury does come back after the events of Ultimate Power and no longer has to be a threat at all while helping the Ultimates, and the X-Men stopping Magneto along with revealing the truth about mutants.
 * 9) A dupilcate of Multiple Men does realized that Magneto took the real Multiple Man for weeks and creating all the duplicates as suicide bombers and tries to stop him until he kills him to the head by using Thor's hammer.
 * 10) Thor sacrifices himself so Hela can bring Valkyrie back to life.
 * 11) *As a result, Thor has to stay with Hela and give birth to a son named Modi in the pages of Ultimate Comics Ultimates.
 * 12) It had an interesting concept, but it was poorly executed.
 * 13) The wraparound cover looks nicely well-done despite being generic.
 * 14) Some heartwarming moments like Wolverine having a farewell with Kitty Pryde, holding a secret box if he doesn't come back to stop Magneto.
 * 15) The Fantastic Four all survived except for Franklin Storm, Sue's and Johnny's father.
 * 16) Thor and Captain America fighting Hela's army of skeletons in Valhalla!
 * 17) Thor does eventually come back from Hela's bargain in Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates.

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