History Characters / TheUltimates

** [[ExxageratedTrope Exxagerated with Valkyrie, who first had a costume that looks so inmodest it wouldn't be out of place in a stripclub.
** [[AdvertedTrope Adverted]] with Nighthawk, Son of Satan and the Black Knight, who all wear normal [[BetaOutfit (if lame)]] costumes.

* DecompositeCharacter: Cash is effectively the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of Grey Hulk's "Joe Fixit" persona, but even more morally bankrupt and a Crime Lord rather than a mere Enforcer.

** In the mainstream Marvel universe, Bruce Banner became the Hulk after being exposed to radiation from an experimental gamma bomb while trying to save a teenager who'd accidentally wandered onto the blast site, and was CursedWithAwesome since then. Ultimate Bruce Banner managed to get the Hulk out of his system, but reinjected himself with it, fully knowing the potential consequences, to solve his self-esteem problems. His rampage in New York was a 9/11-like disaster, and afterwards he continues to spend more time as an antagonist to the team than he does as an ally. Unlike the mainstream verse, Banner also fully acknowledges the Hulk and himself are the same instead of distinct personalities, and even learns to embrace the Hulk's darker aspects as his own.
** Hulk himself. Usually the Hulk's rages are because someone's attacked him, and he just wants to be left alone, and even the more temperamental Hulks (such as the Green Scar) usually have a reason for attacking someone. Here, the Hulk is openly murderous and cannibalistic, acting out all of Bruce's worst impulses and vices.

* BadassInCharge: Became this after taking over S.H.I.E.L.D. until her death.

* EvilOldFolks: Pushing sixty by the time he shows up.

* NoNameGiven: He's never refered to by any name other than "Red Skull." Though given his 616 counterpart, his name "might" be John Smith.

* {{Tykebomb}}: He was brought up to be [[spoiler:the next Captain America]] and taught to serve his country no matter what. He instead rebelled and became one of the most feared terrorists in the world.

* BareYourMidriff: Her suit in the first two arcs.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: A whole team made up of evil foreigners.

* OldSoldier: He has served in Vietnam, South America, Kosovo, Gul War One and any modern war to care to number.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Ultimate universe version of {{Mjolnir}} has an axe attached to it.

* HotScientist: Despite her airheaded and superficial tendencies, she's still got a double-Ph.D. Lampshaded and mocked where she first distracts the Hulk by flashing her breasts at him despite her educational credentials.

* HotScientist: Very much so.

* MythologyGag: He uses a {{BFG}} like the one from ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', and he also did not know what does it actually does before using it.

* BecomingTheMask: Hulk's personality has increasingly overwritten Bruce's as the series has gone on, making the [=unHulked=] Bruce more and more like his monstrous alter-ego. In turn, Hulk grows more eloquent (like when he offered Wolverine a cup of tea in the Tibetan Mountains) as time goes one, but is still prone to murderous rampages.

Tony Stark is a brilliant and enormously wealthy weapons manufacturer who gets brain cancer and decides to spend whatever time he has left saving the world. He's known for being eccentric, a playboy and almost perpetually drunk. Like Giant Man, his "powers" are replicated eventually giving the team multiple armored soldiers.

* AchillesInHisTent: Initially, Tony Stark only minded about his own business, but he suddenly accepted Fury's requests and joined the Ultimates. He later revealed to Cap and Thor that he's Secretly Dying, that he has an inoperable cancer tumor in his head.

* CharacterExaggeration: Mainline!Tony is a recovering alcoholic who struggles with his addiction. This Tony frequently drinks (albeit to help deal with his cancer).

* TheHedonist: Spends most of his time drinking, partying, and sleeping with various women, but he acts as a deconstruction of the trope when it's shown he's using all the debauchery to cover his pain over having an inoperable cancer that no amount of money or technology can fix.

* GrumpyBear: Much of his dialogue through his team-up with the Fantastic Four is muttering and complaining about how everything's gone to crap and the "dumb kids" are going to get him killed.

Augmented by a unique supersoldier formula that has so far only worked on him, Captain America has peak human physical abilities and fighting skill. He gets pulled out of the ocean in 2002 instead of 1963, thinks it's a Nazi trick, and breaks out of SHIELD's secure holding facility despite Bruce Banner's insistence that he shouldn't be able to move. Joining ComicBook/TheUltimates, Captain America proceeds to show everyone how to be a true badass: dropping a tank on the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, beating a 60-foot-tall Giant Man barehanded, and kicking seven shades of piss out of a regenerating alien before convincing the Hulk to take over. And while he does cleave to certain [[DeliberateValuesDissonance less-than-admirable 1940s values]], he still stands for [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream the Dream]]. In volume 2, he and the Ultimates even split off from working for the U.S. government after some [[AuthorTract questionable assignments]] in the Middle East almost led to America's downfall. A lot of his personal arc in the first two volumes has to do with him adjusting to the realities of 60 years suddenly passing, from culture shock to finding his friends old or dead.

!![[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner/The Hulk]]

** In the mainstream Marvel universe, Bruce Banner became Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk after being exposed to radiation from an experimental gamma bomb while trying to save a teenager who'd accidentally wandered onto the blast site, and was CursedWithAwesome since then. Ultimate Bruce Banner managed to get the Hulk out of his system, but reinjected himself with it, fully knowing the potential consequences, to solve his self-esteem problems. His rampage in New York was a 9/11-like disaster, and afterwards he continues to spend more time as an antagonist to the team than he does as an ally. Unlike the mainstream verse, Banner also fully acknowledges the Hulk and himself are the same instead of distinct personalities, and even learns to embrace the Hulk's darker aspects as his own.

* CombatSadomasochist: Since he's driven purely by id, there's not really that much difference to him separating sex and violence. He considered getting beaten to a pulp by [[Comicbook/SupremePower Princess Zarda]] to be ''foreplay''.

* SuperiorSuccessor: [[SubvertedTrope Horrifically subverted.]] Bruce drew up the initial plans for the Hulk Formula using his old mentor's notes and research and set about to improve it by adding in an AdaptiveAbility (to survive anywhere) and to become as [[GeniusBruiser smart as he is strong]]. Egged on by Hank Pym, Bruce skips testing it on animals altogether and went straight for a human trial... ''[[ProfessorGuineaPig on himself]]''. He transforms (killing [[Comicbook/UltimateSpiderMan two fellow researchers]]) and goes on a mindless rampage before the serum wears off, stronger than Dr. Williams' initial projections but driven by pure id. Even worse, his later solution to try and "fix" the problem (as well as giving The Ultimates something to actually fight) was to blend his original formula with the newly-returned Captain America's blood. [[ForegoneConclusion It doesn't work,]] actually makes The Hulk ''more'' difficult to deal with, and the SuperSoldier serum from Cap's blood binds the Hulk Formula to Banner [[BlessedWithSuck permanently]].
* SuperStrength: He is The Hulk, after all. With his AdaptiveAbility, he has the potential to be one of the strongest beings in the Ultimate Universe. However, it takes awhile for him to get going (his fight with The Ultimates being a good example, as the longer the fight went on the stronger he became). However, a sufficiently powerful being can thrash him if they are strong enough, as [[ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour Ben Grimm]] did in ''Ultimate Power'' or [[Comicbook/SupremePower Zarda]] did (with a lot of [[GroinAttack cheating]]) in ''Ultimate Hulk Annual no. 1''.

* CanonImmigrant: [[spoiler:''ComicBook/XMenBlue'' revealed that he somehow survived the destruction of the Ultimate universe during ''Comicbook/SecretWars2015'' and ended up in the mainstream Marvel universe.]]

* EvilutionaryBiologist: Created Nerd Hulk and The Spider (a genius-level [[Comicbook/UltimateSpiderMan Spider Clone]]) mainly to see if he could. He loans Nerd Hulk to Nick Fury for his Black Ops team and keeps The Spider locked away for a rainy day.

!!Nick Fury

!!ComicBook/BettyRoss

!! [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]]

!! Modi Thorson

* LightIsNotGood: A blonde teetotaler man in white, the man is Tony's physical opposite. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven with the reveal that he has powers of his own that turn his white suit into a pure blinding light.]]

A group of super-hero wannabes Hank Pym runs into after getting kicked out of the Ultimates. Their number includes Nighthawk, Black Knight, Power Man, Son of Satan, Hellcat and Valkyrie.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He ''is'' Samuel L. Jackson after all.

* BrokenPedesatal: Was a great admirer of Otto Octavius, and wrote a paper on him. She's extremely disappointed by him becoming a super-villain.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Invoked and later used against him by the Punisher. Clint tries to get Castle into embracing being "recruited" to work for the government by revealing that he too was once a crimimnal and was "recruited" to working with the U.S. Government. He insists that they made him into a better person and Frank can be one as well.

* BecomingTheMask: Plays a carefree playboy who grew enough of a conscience to help people. He actually admits to suffering from a terminal brain tumor and just wants to something positive so he will be remembered well. But it is during the Chiutari moment in a moment of panic that he truly becomes a superhero and helps others because he wants to.

* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He assassinate Cyclops in the final issue of ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''.]]