History ComicBook / Ultimatum

* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason why Magneto caused the apocalypse was to get back at the Ultimates for the deaths of his children. Bit of an overreaction there, dude. It should further be noted that he was ''horribly, horribly'' abusive to said children, to the point of ''crippling'' his son at one point just for siding against him, further adding to his hypocrisy...oh, [[and he snaps his friend Charle's neck just because of his "audacity" to compare him to Adolf Hitler BerserkButton]]...because [[HeWhoFightsMonsters it's not like Magento wants to shape the world into his image oh wait YES HE DID! ALL WITH A DERPY FACE!!!]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason why Magneto caused the apocalypse was to get back at the Ultimates for the deaths of his children. Bit of an overreaction there, dude. It should further be noted that he was ''horribly, horribly'' abusive to said children, to the point of ''crippling'' his son at one point just for siding against him, further adding to his hypocrisy...oh, [[and he snaps his friend Charle's neck just because of his "audacity" to compare him to Adolf Hitler BerserkButton]]...because [[ANaziByAnyOtherName it's not like Magento wants to shape the world into his image oh wait YES HE DID! ALL WITH A DERPY FACE!!!]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason why Magneto caused the apocalypse was to get back at the Ultimates for the deaths of his children. Bit of an overreaction there, dude. It should further be noted that he was ''horribly, horribly'' abusive to said children, to the point of ''crippling'' his son at one point just for siding against him, further adding to his hypocrisy...oh, and he snaps his friend Charle's neck just because of his "audacity" to compare him to AdolfHitler...because [[ANaziByAnyOtherName it's not like Magento wants to shape the world into his image oh wait!!!]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason why Magneto caused the apocalypse was to get back at the Ultimates for the deaths of his children. Bit of an overreaction there, dude. It should further be noted that he was ''horribly, horribly'' abusive to said children, to the point of ''crippling'' his son at one point just for siding against him, further adding to his hypocrisy.

* KilledOffScreen: The Academy of Tomorrow (Emma Frost, Sunspot, Cannoball, Polaris) and Longshot, Forge, Detonator and Hardrive were all listed as dead at the start of issue 3.

* {{Gorn}}: The comic is infamous for this: Blob devouring Wasp's ripped guts, [[spoiler:Hank Pym]] getting blown up by suicide bomber Multiple Man, complete with flying guts and a skeleton being incinerated, [[spoiler:Doctor Strange]] getting squeezed by his own cape until his head graphically explodes, etc.

* GoneHorriblyRight

* InfantImmortality: Notably, the [[spoiler:mostly teenage cast of ''Ultimate Spider-Man'']] survives untouched, as do [[spoiler:the youngest members of the X-Men and all of the Fantastic Four]].

* AnyoneCanDie: And we mean '''ANYONE'''. Although it turned out that DeathIsCheap in a handful of cases, most of the characters that died in this miniseries were permanently put down for the count. [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Ultimatum Here's a full list of deaths.]] The list includes all the sacred cows of the X-Men: Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine and Cyclops.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Reed gives two explanations for how Magneto caused the tidal wave. Either he reversed the earth's magnetic poles (which wouldn't have much effect) or he reversed the axis (which he would have no power to do). Some have speculated that he could have caused the tectonic shifts necessary to create a tidal wave by moving large metal reserves in the earth's crust, but this is never stated in the story.

* BlandNameProduct: The X-Men pass near a cinema with the image of a lion and a film named "[[Disney/TheLionKing The Loon King]]"

* DisneyDeath:

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Blob]] had his head cut. [[spoiler:Magneto, Dr. Strange and Syndicate]] had their heads blown off.

* SequelHook: When the story ends, Quicksilver is starting a new Brotherhood, with Mystique, Sabretooth, and a mistery woman in the shadows.

* IdiotBall: Professor X, of all people, ''really'' should have known better than to compare Magneto, a Holocaust survivor, with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. ''To the guy's face'', no less.

** The first reaction of Pym and Hawkeye after the flood is to search for the Wasp, who was with them before it. For a brief moment [[HopeSpot it seems that Hawkeye found her]], but when we turn the page, the Blob is eating her corpse. That scene became the SignatureScene of the whole comic, more than the covers, and modern readers should have seen it coming.

* BloodierAndGorier: The series features dismemberment, people visibly exploding on panel, and in the SignatureScene, the Blob visibly eating the Wasp and Yellowjacket responding by biting the Blob's head off.

* AnyoneCanDie: And we mean '''ANYONE'''. Although it turned out that DeathIsCheap in a handful of cases, most of the characters that died in this miniseries were permanently put down for the count. [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Ultimatum Here's a full list of deaths.]] The list includes all the sacred cows of the X-Men: Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine and Cyclops. It's practically Marvel's equivalent to ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' in this regard.
** Ultimatum unintentionally makes an amazing argument against this mindset. While it was originally intended to be the conclusion of the Ultimate Universe, the brand survived and managed to limp onwards. The problems came in when the writers had to salvage the mess of dead characters, now orphaned storylines and broken continuity and somehow try and reacquire interests from readers. To the shock of no one, the vast majority of stories now involved characters no one had seen before with all the familiars gone for good.

* SequelHook
** After Dr. Strange's death, someone shows up, takes his corpse and dissapears in a flash of light. But we never got to know who was that, or what happened to the corpse.
** When the story ends, Quicksilver is starting a new Brotherhood, with Mystique, Sabretooth, and a mistery woman in the shadows.

** Angel rescued Alison, but she had drown, and died in his arms Cue a BigNo, and a LittleNo.

* AnyoneCanDie: And we mean '''ANYONE'''. Although it turned out that DeathIsCheap in a handful of cases, most of the characters that died in this miniseries were permanently put down for the count. [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Ultimatum Here's a full list of deaths.]] The list includes all the sacred cows of the X-Men: Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine and Cyclops.

* AbortedArc: Several plot threads are introduced that never went anywhere.
** After Stephen Strange is killed, a shadowed figure appears and takes his body away. We never find out who or why.
** Hank gives Jan's corpse to Hawkeye before his sacrifice and tells him to look up the Jocasta project in his notes. Jocasta being a robot based on Jan's brain in the main universe, the implication is Jan being resurrected via BrainUploading. This never happens.

-->-- '''Magneto'''

* BondOneLiner: "Glory that, you multiple jackass"

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In the aftermath, the U.S. government creates and passes a law rendering just ''being'' a Mutant illegal, to the extent anyone found being a mutant is arrested without trial. In other words, a bill of attainder, which are meant to be forbidden.

The earlier arc ''Ultimates 3'' killed the sons of Magneto, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, and left Magneto wanting revenge. For this, he altered the earth's axis with his powers, which caused natural disasters around the world. A flash flood reaches New York, and many heroes are killed by it. Some members of the Brotherhood of Mutants wreak havoc among the survivors, and Magneto kills Charles Xavier himself. The surviving heroes eventually band together and follow Magneto to his floating fortress. After another fight, Magneto is finally killed. Many characters, both heroes and villains, died in the story; either during the flash flood or the subsequent fights.

* PunBasedTitle: Except it doesn't quite work since no ultimatum is ever issued at any point in the story.

->''For what they have done, they must pay the ultimate price!''
-->--'''Magneto'''