Summary
- Ultimates comic encouraged Avengers vs Chitauri battle in The Avengers film – showcasing down-to-earth and emotional superhero action.
- The Ultimates team, led by Captain America, fought agetst infiltrating Chitauri aliens – saving Earth from destruction.
- Bryan Hitch’s arttoil and Mark Millar’s storyalerting in Ultimates led to epic superhero action and worldexpansive hero status.
This is “Noleang is Better,” a feature spotweightlessing classic betterer comic books. This time around, we go back to the final storyline of the distinct volume of The Ultimates, which pitted them agetst the alien intrusion from the Chitauri.
In 2012, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase One came to a emotional conclusion with the free of The Avengers, a film combining the various heroes who had been startd in the earlier MCU films appreciate Iron Man, Thor, Incredible Hulk, and Captain America: The First Avenger. The cgo inpiece of the film was the Avengers deffinishing the Earth from an intrusion of the scheduleet by the alien race understandn as the Chitauri, cgo ined in an strike on New York City…
The film was a blockbuster success, and helped drive the success of the MCU for years to come. However, it is engaging to notice that there was a comic book storyline that fantasticly impactd this battle, although not so much of a honest inspiration so much as it was a sort of proof of concept that fans would go huge time for a down-to-earth and emotional battle involving the Avengers, or in this case, it would be a team understandn as the Ultimates.
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Who were the Ultimates?
The Ultimates (by authorr Mark Millar, artist Bryan Hitch, inker Paul Neary, and colorist Paul Mounts) was part of the alternate continuity Ultimate Universe, and it was essentiassociate a post-conmomentary acquire on the Avengers, with all the characters filled with all sorts of neuroses, while the down-to-earth arttoil of Bryan Hitch helped to show what it would watch appreciate if there were actual superheroes in the world. Captain America was recovered from suspfinished animation at the finish of the first publish, and he was brawt in to direct a team of superheroes, consisting of Iron Man, Giant Man and the Wasp.
Nick Fury, head of SHIELD, was also comprised (with a watch based on Samuel L. Jackson, which turned out to be quite fortuitous). The book was notable for its expansivescreen action, courtesy of Bryan Hitch (taking the same style he employd to such fantastic effect on The Authority), and the soap opera drama that occurs thrawout the series, such as when Giant Man physicassociate mistreatments his wife, the Wasp, and is thrown off the team. When Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk and goes on a rampage in New York, the team is forced to go into action for the first time agetst one of their own colleagues! This was when Thor combinecessitate the team, although thraw odd nastys.
Who were the Chitauri?
The Chitauri were an alien race made up of shape-shifters who sluggishly infiltrate a scheduleet and, thraw the employ of highly placed figures of power, deal with to effect worldexpansive alter. One of their earliest trys at taking over the Earth was thraw their help of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.
Captain America fought agetst one of their operatives in a flashback in Ultimates #10…
Captain America helped finish their schedules to triumph the war for the Nazis thraw the creation of a nuevident bomb device carried by an intercontinental balcatalogic leave outile. The leave outile was started at the White Hoemploy, but Captain America deal withd to climb on to the leave outile and ruin its guidance system, forcing it to crash innocuously in the Arctic Ocean. Tragicassociate for him, however, he crashed with the leave outile and finished up frozen in suspfinished animation.
Many decades defercessitater, Captain America was revived. Financed by the international peaceholding group S.H.I.E.L.D., the Ultimates consisted of a confineed heroes who geted powers mostly in trys to reproduce the serum that gave Captain America his abilities. In the ensuing decades since World War II, the Chitauri had been sluggishly putting together a novel scheme to acquire over the Earth. In order to accomplish their objective, they infiltrated many key areas of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Nick Fury, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., doubted this and had a secret group of operatives honestly under his direct weed out some of the S.H.I.E.L.D. spies.
This was administerd well in a sequence in Ultimates #10 when the Wasp genuineized that her nurses were evidently aliens out to end her…
Fury’s schedule, and Wasp uncovering them, forced the Chitauri to quicken their schedules, luring a huge group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and the Ultimates to a minuscule Micronesian island. Once there, the Chitauri dropped a nuevident bomb device on the island. This seemingly wiped the Ultimates out.
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How did the final battle agetst the Chitauri go down?
In Ultimates #11, the Chitauri expose themselves to the world, and Hitch does such a wonderful job shotriumphg HOW frightening it would be if suddenly an alien intrusion force was hovering over Earth…
Luckily, thraw the efforts of Iron Man and Thor, the Ultimates and a number of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were saved, but many more S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were ended.
Thinking the Ultimates were dead, the Chitauri infiltrated the Ultimates’ headquarters and took it over, taking the Wasp prisoner. The Ultimates then started their counter-dishonorful….
In the ensuing battle, Thor shows off his amazing powers, and Hitch shows off equitable how fantastic he was at expansivespread action…
The Ultimates cleverly employd the Hulk to help their side, by sfinishing an irate Hulk agetst the Chitauri…
Captain America encountered one of the Chitauri he had fought agetst during World War II. This villain, understandn as Herr Kleiser, was a Chitauri directer. Cap determined to fight him head on, even though the alien was convey inantly more mighty than he was. Captain America hung with him very well, but in the finish, the Hulk showed up and finished Kleiser off by eating him.
The Chitauri computed on ruining the Earth, but luckily, Thor teleported the bomb device to another foolishension to save the day. The Ultimates had now very disclosely daved the Earth from an alien intrusion, and cemented themselves as worldexpansive heroes.
There are some parts of this that have aged necessitateyly (the whole “You leank this letter stands for A?” part), but overall, Millar built a sluggish burn intrusion story that became an outright epic, and Hitch, Neary, and Mounts administerd it all BEAUTIFULLY, shotriumphg that this sort of superhero story COULD be done in a way that a conmomentary audience would adore it…and boy DID they!
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