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[[caption-width-right:350:MCU Nick Fury (left) and Ultimate Nick Fury (right). See any similarities?]]

* The animated film ''WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers'' was an adaptation of the first arc of ComicBook/TheUltimates. It helped to leave behind the awful reception of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersUnitedTheyStand'' some years before. It had a sequel based on the Black Panther, which was not related to ''The Ultimates 2'' or the way the Black Panther would be eventually used in the Ultimate Marvel universe.
* Regardless of the name, the animated series ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' is not a direct adaptation of the comic book ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', but it features many things from it, such as the designs of the Green Goblin, the Beetle, Nick Fury, etc. In one episode Peter Parker and Wolverine have a FreakyFridayFlip, as in an arc from the comics. It also featured [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]], the Spider-Man from an alternate universe where Peter Parker had died (as in the origin story of Morales).

** As in ComicBook/TheUltimates, Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}} was the result of an attempt to duplicate the super soldier serum that created Captain America, and not Banner jumping to save Rick Jones from a Gamma bomb.

** When Film/{{Thor}} shows up on Earth, his claims about being a God are met with huge skepticism, until he can reveal it as true in the finale. This has also been done in the first two volumes of ComicBook/TheUltimates. However, the comic played with the MaybeMagicMaybeMundane trope, whereas in the film the truth about Thor was clear from the let go. The film also introduced ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, who ignored the purple mask and spandex in favor of his tactical spy gear from the Ultimate universe.

** The first scene of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' is Captain America jumping from a plane without parachute. That trick was the opening salvo of ComicBook/TheUltimates, to show that Ultimate Captain America was manly. The film also features the Triskelion, the team's headquarters from the Ultimates. Additionally, ComicBook/TheFalcon has his Ultimate design, as well as his backstory of being a former soldier. SHIELD had also been infiltrated by WWII villains in the first ''Ultimates'' arc, although the ending of the story was not the same one.

* ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'' shows Galactus as a cloud rather than as giant in a purple suit and a strange hat, as seen in the ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy. There's even a quotation taken straight from the comic.

** Richard, Peter's deceased father, was a scientist instead of a spy. The revelation in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' that Richard was working on advanced bio-genetic research that he feared his employers would weaponize also came straight from the Ultimate comics, where, as mentioned above, he accidentally created the Venom symbiote while trying to develop an organism that could cure cancer. The key difference being that this time, his unscrupulous employer was ComicBook/NormanOsborn instead of Bolivar Trask.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' stars ComicBook/MilesMorales, the Spider-Man from a world where Peter Parker has died. Other Ultimate elements, such as the Prowler being Miles Morales' uncle and the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] being a gigantic, [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] monster instead of guy in a costume, are also used.

* In ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'' the X-Men use the black & gold suits of ComicBook/UltimateXMen, with the classic ones as unlockable content. This extends to characters who had not appeared yet in the comic, who just got a similar black & gold suit. Most of the members of the Brotherhood use their Ultimate suits as well. ''X-Men Legends 2'' also features appearances from a few Ultimate [=NPC=]s, such as Nick Fury.
* Captain America, Thor, ComicBook/{{Blade}}, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and ComicBook/{{Colossus}} have their Ultimate costumes as their default outfits in ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'', while Wolverine, ComicBook/DoctorDoom, ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, ComicBook/MoonKnight, ComicBook/{{Elektra}}, Hawkeye, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, Venom, Cyclops, Nick Fury, ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}, and the Thing's Ultimate designs are all available as alternate looks. ''Ultimate Alliance 2'' drastically cut back on this, with only Magneto having his Ultimate costume as his default, while Captain America, Deadpool, the Juggernaut and the Fantastic Four had them available as alternates. ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance3TheBlackOrder'' broke from tradition and used Ultimate Nick Fury, despite the previous two games having used Fury's classic appearance.
* Storm, Thor, Hulk, Deadpool, Elektra, ComicBook/ScarletWitch and the Invisible Woman all have their Ultimate designs as alternate costumes in ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes''. Meanwhile, Nick Fury's Ultimate-inspired appearance is his default design, while his alternate costume gives him his trademark leather trench coat.

* Creator/{{Hasbro}}'s Marvel Legends line has featured a fair amount of Ultimate characters, including Spider-Man (both Peter Parker and Miles Morales), Captain America, Iron Man, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/WarMachine, Green Goblin, Nick Fury, Vulture, ComicBook/SpiderWoman and Beetle.

* Regardless of the name, the animated series ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' is not a direct adaptation of the comic book ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', but it features many things from it, such as the designs of the Green Goblin, the Beetle, Nick Fury, etc. In one episode Peter Parker and Wolverine have a FreakyFridayFlip, as in an arc from the comics. It also featured ComicBook/MilesMorales, the Spider-Man from an alternate universe where Peter Parker had died (as in the origin story of Morales).

** Nick Fury started off with a design that split the difference between his classic and Ultimate designs: Ultimate Fury's African-American ethnicity, but Earth-616 Fury's full head of hair, gray temples, and iconic Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} jumpsuit. In the second season, however, he shaved his head and began wearing a BadassLongcoat like Ultimate Fury, which soon became the standard depiction of the character in all of Marvel's Adaptations.

** They used the Ultimate ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}, instead of the classic one (note that we are talking about Mahr Vehl, not ComicBook/CarolDanvers, who became Captain Marvel in the comics during the show's second season). The second season also heavily featured a Skrull infiltrator who impersonates ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and the impostor's outfit was the Ultimate Cap costume.

** The first scene of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' is Captain America jumping from a plane without parachute. That trick was the opening salvo of ComicBook/TheUltimates, to show that Ultimate Captain America was manly. The film also features the Triskelion, the team's headquarters from the Ultimates. Additionally, Comicbook/TheFalcon has his Ultimate design, as well as his backstory of being a former soldier. SHIELD had also been infiltrated by WWII villains in the first ''Ultimates'' arc, although the ending of the story was not the same one.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' stars ComicBook/MilesMorales, the Spider-Man from a world where Peter Parker has died. Other Ultimate elements, such as the Prowler being Miles Morales' uncle and the [[Comicbook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] being a gigantic, [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] monster instead of guy in a costume, are also used.

* ''VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan'' is a close adaptation of the comic book, up to the time of release (the arc with Venom). It can be played by either Spider-Man or Venom, and has cameos of the Human Torch and Nick Fury. The comic would eventually grow further, deviating itself from the link with the video game.

** The first scene of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' is Captain America jumping from a plane without parachute. That trick was the opening salvo of ComicBook/TheUltimates, to show that Ultimate Captain America was RatedMForManly. The film also features the Triskelion, the team's headquarters from the Ultimates. Additionally, Comicbook/TheFalcon has his Ultimate design, as well as his backstory of being a former soldier. SHIELD had also been infiltrated by WWII villains in the first ''Ultimates'' arc, although the ending of the story was not the same one.

** Some of Spidey's villains are [[CompositeCharacter combinations]] of their mainline versions mixed their incarnations from the Ultimate comics. A good example is Kraven the Hunter who starts as a normal human before gaining powers via [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetic modification]] just like his Ultimate counterpart. Another example is Rhino whose identity is the American Alex O'Hirn instead of the Russian Aleksei Sytsevich, but he has the fused suit of Aleksei instead of the PoweredArmor of O'Hirn.

** Some of Spidey's villains are [[CompositeCharacter combinations]] of their mainline versions mixed their incarnations from the Ultimate comics. A good example is Kraven the Hunter who starts as a normal human before gaining powers via genetic modification just like his Ultimate counterpart. Another example is Rhino whose identity is the American Alex O'Hirn instead of the Russian Aleksei Sytsevich, but he has the fused suit of Aleksei instead of the PoweredArmor of O'Hirn.

** Some of Spidey's villains are [[CompositeCharacter combinations]] of their mainline versions mixed their incarnations from the Ultimate comics. A good example is Kraven the Hunter who starts as a normal human before gaining powers via genetic modification just like his Ultimate counterpart, and Rhino whose identity is the American Alex O'Hirn instead of the Russian Aleksei Sytsevich, but he has the fused suit of Aleksei instead of the PoweredArmor of O'Hirn.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': Kong, Flash's usual friend, has been added to the cast. Eddie Brock is not an adult journalist in a rival newspaper to the ''Daily Bugle'' (the ''Daily Globe''), as in the mainstream comics, but a childhood friend of Peter and lab assistant of Curt Connors.
** Some of Spidey's villains are based on their incarnations from the Ultimate comics. A good example is Kraven the Hunter who gains powers via genetic modification just like his Ultimate counterpart.

The ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe was conceived as a modern and grounded take on the Marvel Comics superheroes, focused on usual cinematic tropes that are often ignored in the genre. As a result, it is not surprising that many adaptations of Marvel Comics drew elements from the Ultimate line, in addition to the mainline Marvel Universe continuity of Earth-616.

** In ''TheUltimates3'', Hawkeye dons a new costume and adopts a more violent, DarkerAndEdgier personality after the death of his family. ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' loosely adopts this plotline, with Hawkeye becoming the brutal vigilante Ronin after his family dies when ComicBook/{{Thanos}} wipes out trillions of beings across the universe.

** In ''Ultimates3'', Hawkeye dons a new costume and adopts a more violent, DarkerAndEdgier personality after the death of his family. ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' loosely adopts this plotline, with Hawkeye becoming the brutal vigilante Ronin after his family dies when ComicBook/{{Thanos}} wipes out trillions of beings across the universe.

** In ''Ultimates 3'', Hawkeye dons a new costume and adopts a more violent, DarkerAndEdgier personality after the death of his family. ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' loosely adopts this plotline, with Hawkeye becoming the brutal vigilante Ronin after his family dies when ComicBook/{{Thanos}} wipes out trillions of beings across the universe.

* Regardless of the name, the animated series ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' is not a direct adaptation of the comic book ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', but it features many things from it, such as the designs of the Green Goblin, the Beetle, Nick Fury, etc. In one episode Peter Parker and Wolverine have a FreakyFridayFlip, as in an arc from the comics. It also featured ComicBook/MilesMorales, the Spider-Man from an alternate universe where Peter Parker had died (as in the origin story of Morales).

** They used the Ultimate ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}, instead of the classic one (note that we are talking about Mahr Vehl, not Comicbook/CarolDanvers, who became Captain Marvel in the comics during the show's second season). The second season also heavily featured a Skrull infiltrator who impersonates Comicbook/CaptainAmerica, and the impostor's outfit was the Ultimate Cap costume.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' has the main team as teenagers with some adults around, as the Ultimate one. Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} uses his Ultimate suit from season 3 onwards with the montage of the future Xavier saw in the series finale featuring the whole team in ''Ultimate''-inspired costumes.

** ''Film/IronMan'' is the first one in the series. The lead character, played by Creator/RobertDowneyJr, is closer to the jovial and irreverent Ultimate character, rather than the troubled and workaholic one from the mainstream comics (at least before AdaptationDisplacement redefined him). And remember Ultimate Comicbook/NickFury, modeled after Creator/SamuelLJackson? In TheStinger, we have Jackson himself, playing Nick Fury!

** When Film/{{Thor}} shows up on Earth, his claims about being a God are met with huge skepticism, until he can reveal it as true in the finale. This has also been done in the first two volumes of ComicBook/TheUltimates. However, the comic played with the MaybeMagicMaybeMundane trope, whereas in the film the truth about Thor was clear from the let go. The film also introduced Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}, who ignored the purple mask and spandex in favor of his tactical spy gear from the Ultimate universe.
** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' has the team organized and directed by Comicbook/{{SHIELD}}, with Fury working as MissionControl from the Helicarrier, fighting against the Chitauri (an alien race that originated in the Ultimate universe). They are the Avengers, but had ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' feel all over it.

** In ''Ultimates 3'', Hawkeye dons a new costume and adopts a more violent, DarkerAndEdgier personality after the death of his family. ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' loosely adopts this plotline, with Hawkeye becoming the brutal vigilante Ronin after his family dies when Comicbook/{{Thanos}} wipes out trillions of beings across the universe.

* ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' is heavily based on the first arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''. In addition to the heroes being younger than their classic comic counterparts, the movie also adapts other aspects of the ''Comicbook/UltimateFantasticFour'' comics, such as the Baxter Building being a think tank for [[ChildProdigy young prodigies]], Reed and Ben being childhood best friends, and Reed, Sue, Ben, Johnny and Victor getting their powers from an ill-fated jaunt to an alternate dimension instead of encountering cosmic rays during a space flight.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', Comicbook/{{Venom}} was reimagined as a science experiment by Peter Parker's dad to cure cancer, rather than an alien symbiote. It grants superpowers, but destroys the person's body, unless it eats other people (though cannibalism itself isn't new, as even during his original time with Eddie, it showed a desire for brains). The film ''[[Film/Venom2018 Venom]]'' keeps the alien symbiote origin from the mainstream comics, but adds the Ultimate twist of the body decay and reason for the cannibalism (because the symbiote slowly eats it unless it eats someone else). And the "cure for cancer" was mentioned as a decoy to conceal the lab's actual experiments with the alien symbiotes. Also, much like the Ultimate version of Eddie, this version lacks the white spider symbols.

** Richard, Peter's deceased father, was a scientist instead of a spy. The revelation in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' that Richard was working on advanced bio-genetic research that he feared his employers would weaponize also came straight from the Ultimate comics, where, as mentioned above, he accidentally created the Venom symbiote while trying to develop an organism that could cure cancer. The key difference being that this time, his unscrupulous employer was Comicbook/NormanOsborn instead of Bolivar Trask.

** Leaked emails from the 2014 Sony hack also revealed that prior to the series being rebooted with ''Homecoming'', there were brief discussions about possibly adapting the ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' arc where Gwen Stacy was resurrected as Ultimate Comicbook/{{Carnage}}.

* Captain America, Thor, Comicbook/{{Blade}}, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and Comicbook/{{Colossus}} have their Ultimate costumes as their default outfits in ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'', while Wolverine, Comicbook/DoctorDoom, Comicbook/{{Magneto}}, Comicbook/{{Storm}}, Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}, Comicbook/MoonKnight, Comicbook/{{Elektra}}, Hawkeye, Comicbook/DoctorStrange, Comicbook/{{Sabretooth}}, Venom, Cyclops, Nick Fury, Comicbook/{{Nightcrawler}}, and the Thing's Ultimate designs are all available as alternate looks. ''Ultimate Alliance 2'' drastically cut back on this, with only Magneto having his Ultimate costume as his default, while Captain America, Deadpool, the Juggernaut and the Fantastic Four had them available as alternates. ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance3TheBlackOrder'' broke from tradition and used Ultimate Nick Fury, despite the previous two games having used Fury's classic appearance.
* Storm, Thor, Hulk, Deadpool, Elektra, Comicbook/ScarletWitch and the Invisible Woman all have their Ultimate designs as alternate costumes in ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes''. Meanwhile, Nick Fury's Ultimate-inspired appearance is his default design, while his alternate costume gives him his trademark leather trench coat.
* One of Magneto's alternate color schemes in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11/113509/6737666-ultimate+magneto+costume.jpg is his design]] from the ''Comicbook/UltimateXMen'' comics.

* Creator/{{Hasbro}}'s Marvel Legends line has featured a fair amount of Ultimate characters, including Spider-Man (both Peter Parker and Miles Morales), Captain America, Iron Man, Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/WarMachine, Green Goblin, Nick Fury, Vulture, Comicbook/SpiderWoman and Beetle.

** They used the Ultimate [[Comicbook/CaptainMarVell Captain Marvel]], instead of the classic one (note that we are talking about Mahr Vehl, not Comicbook/CarolDanvers, who became Captain Marvel in the comics during the show's second season). The second season also heavily featured a Skrull infiltrator who impersonates Comicbook/CaptainAmerica, and the impostor's outfit was the Ultimate Cap costume.