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This is a character page for the Marvel Comics Ultimate Universe setting launched in 2023, described in-universe as Earth-6160.
Earth-6160 is a world where a single villain from another world, armed with knowledge of the superheroes destined to arise, managed to Make Wrong What Once Went Right. By the time he's defeated, events take a very different path to the main Marvel Universe.
All tropes for other versions of these characters should go on their respective pages.
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Iron Man (Howard Stark)
Howard Stark
Alias: Iron Man
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
A billionaire industrialist who uses a powered suit of armour.
- Age Lift: Originally, he's an adult man when he disappears, when Tony Stark is a teenager, who would typically go one to be one of the more senior heroes in the superhero community. Here, he looks to be in his 30s or 40s, which makes him a bit older than 6160 Peter Parker, who is usually always Tony's junior.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Played with. While he's Iron Man and a badass, Earth-616's Howard Stark was part of the Brotherhood of the Shield that defended the world from apocalyptic threats and would go on to join S.H.I.E.L.D., while this Howard plays catch up behind the Maker for the most part and is something of a Failure Hero. While he's more physical and overtly badass, that's about it.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: What Obadiah Stane accuses him of being, and given what he manages to do when properly motivated, such as make a working time machine, Obadiah was right.
- Everyone Has Standards: He may be a boozy show-off (albeit an incredibly brilliant one), but he's disgusted and horrified by the violence he witnesses.
- Failure Hero: In the end, he learns who Kang is and the defeat on his face says it all. The story implies everything he did just ended up turning Tony into Kang.
- Heel Realization: In his letter to Tony, Howard admits that Maker's revelations to him have made Howard realize that he and Obadiah's war profiteering and reckless inventions aided and abetted the Maker's corrupt system that denied Earth-6160 of its freedom, turning its people from humans into "consumers" caged by propaganda from governments that serve only themselves and not their citizens. He declares that the one truly good thing he ever made was Tony and begs his son to fix Howard's mistakes and heal the wounded planet by being what Howard should have been; a superhero.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Howard and Obadiah are inseparable and for all they bicker and squabble, it's clear the two men love one another as brothers. Obadiah's death utterly shatters Howard and nearly pushes him past the Despair Event Horizon. Then things get worse.
- Uncertain Doom: Ultimate Invasion ends with him stuck in the City, with his armor busted, stuck between two armies of superpowered beings who now have no reason not to attack him. Reed, when asked, can only admit he has no idea whether Howard's alive or dead.
- What If?: He doesn't die here, but becomes Iron Man himself, as opposed to Tony.
Obadiah Stane
Obadiah Stane
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Adaptational Heroism: While still manufacturing weapons, he's a hero in this universe rather than an a supervillain, being essentially the War Machine of Earth-6160.
- Black Dude Dies First: The one and only named casualty of the time travel attack in issue 2 is Obadiah Stane.
- Composite Character: He's got the Black Best Friend and armour of James Rhodes, but is otherwise a heroic Obadiah Stane, with the look of the MCU version albeit with a change in race.
- Race Lift: The Obadiah Stane of Earth-6160 is a black man.
Jarvis
Jarvis
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Gender Swap: Jarvis is a woman in this universe.
- Race Lift: Jarvis in this universe is Indian, however, she's still British.
Iron Lad (Anthony "Tony" Stark)
Anthony "Tony" Stark
Alias: Iron Lad
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
The teenage son of Howard Stark. After receiving a message from his father, he takes on the mantle of Iron Lad in his honour, and carries on the fight against the Maker, with the aid of Doom.
- Age Lift: This Tony is a teenager when he becomes a superhero, while the other prominent comic Tonys (616 and 1610) started as adult men. Plus, he's younger than his cohorts, being a teenager when Peter Parker is in his 30s.
- Future Badass: It's implied that he'll become Kang.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: He wants to free his world from the Maker's clutches, but is framed for a terrorist attack on New York, and is forced to go into hiding as a result.
- Legacy Character: He takes on a modified version of his father's armor to become a hero, although he becomes Iron Lad, not Iron Man.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: His main strategy while in hiding is to restore the heroes whose origins were negated by the Maker.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: There are hints that he wants more trust from his father, who brushes him off until he's about to die.
The City (Latveria)
The Maker
Reed Richards
Alias: Mister Fantastic, The Maker
First Appearance: Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 (January 2004)
The Reed Richards from the previous Ultimate Universe, and the one who altered the course of Earth-6160's history as an experiment. He secretly rules the world from the shadows, and has altered the trajectory of those who would have become the world's heroes.
For tropes pertaining to him, see Ultimate Fantastic Four.
The Maker's Council
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #3 (August 2023)
A gathering of superpowered beings from across the planet, who assist the Maker in controlling the world behind the scenes. Their members include the Hulk, Sunfire, Silver Samurai, Viper, Captain Britain, Khonshu and Ra, Magik, Colossus, Omega Red and Emmanuel da Costa.
- Dragon Ascendant: With the Maker sealed within The City, his absence has left an Evil Power Vacuum and his council have taken to tightening their grip on the world for their own gains.
- Legion of Doom: The Maker's assembly of underlings on Earth-6160 consists largely of characters who are villains on Earth-616, and are in on his plan to control the world. The Hulk stands as the seeming Token Good Teammate, horrified by what they do but feeling there's no alternative. Howard Stark disagrees.
- Point of Divergence: Almost all of the members are noticeably different from their 616 counterparts in some way, from Hulk being much more zen to Captain Britain now being French.
- Two Girls to a Team: Of the eleven of them, there are only two women present, Viper and Magik.
Land of Fire (Hi No Kuni)
Sun Emperor (Shiro Yoshida)
Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian)
Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada)
Eurasian Republic
Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)
Piotr Rasputin
Alias: Colossus
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Adaptational Villainy: Maker's toxic influence has resulted in him being a part of a ruthless conspiracy manipulating the world and willing to do anything for "the greater good".
Magik (Illyana Rasputina)
Illyana Rasputina
Alias: Magik
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Adaptational Villainy: Maker's toxic influence has resulted in her being a part of a ruthless conspiracy manipulating the world and willing to do anything for "the greater good".
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the Maker's meddling, Magik is just... the same as her 616 counterpart, it's just that all her bad tendencies are now directed at good people.
Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich)
Arkady Rossovich
Alias: Omega Red
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- President Superhero: He's one of the leaders of the Eurasian Republic.
Upper and Lower Kingdoms
Ra
Khonshu
European Coalition
Captain Britain (Henri Dugarry)
Henri Dugarry
Alias: Captain Britain
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #3 (August 2023)
- Canon Foreigner: Captain Britain is a man named Henri Dugarry, rather than the typical Brian and Betsy Braddocks.
- Captain Geographic: The French Henri Dugarry operates through the whole of Europe as Captain Britain.
- Eye Scream: Is blinded in one of his eyes during a fight with Tony Stark.
- French Jerk: Even if he were not a willing part of a coalition of supervillains secretly controlling the world, he's just generally pretty smug and arrogant.
- Take a Third Option: The usual origin stories of Captain Britain (and their multiversal equivalents) is choosing between the Sword of Might or the Amulet of Right, with the Sword being the "wrong" choice. Somehow, Duggary chose both.
Children of Eternal Light
Hulk (Bruce Banner)
Bruce Banner
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Genius Bruiser: Thanks to the Maker's interventions, this Hulk retains his intelligence which still in his Hulk form, and indeed seems to stay in it permanently.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the many things the Maker did to Earth-6160's history, he couldn't prevent Bruce Banner being hit by the Gamma Bomb... so instead he just ran with it.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: If the montage in Invasion #2 is any indication, Bruce was trying to prevent Rick Jones getting struck by his own invention and got turned into the Hulk for it.
- Token Good Teammate: Subverted. While he initially seems quite regretful at the thought of the power games necessary to maintain the Maker's system of control over the world, when it looks like it might be threatened he has no problem causing the deaths of hundreds of innocents and framing Tony Stark for it.
The Society of South America
Emmanuel da Costa
Emmanuel da Costa
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #3 (August 2023)
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Earth-616 Emmanuel da Costa is a portly man of somewhere past middle age. His 6160 counterpart is a younger man in much better shape.
Asgard
Thor
Thor Odinson
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Break the Badass: The Maker's machinations have left Thor a ruin of the man he should be, doubting everything about himself and convinced he belongs in a cell. Iron Lad and Reed springing him, and discovering that he's still worthy of Mjolnir, helps rekindle his spark.
- Play-Along Prisoner: He was willing imprisoned by Loki, but easily escapes once asked.
Volstagg
Volstagg
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Adaptational Villainy: He's an ally of Loki in this universe.
Hogun
Hogun
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Adaptational Villainy: He's an ally of Loki in this universe.
Loki
Loki
Alias: Loki Laufeyson
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- The Ghost: Besides a one-panel appearance in Ultimate Invasion, he isn't seen, even when Thor is busted out of prison.
- The Usurper: Thanks to the Maker, he's taken the throne of Asgard via killing Odin and imprisoned Thor.
Lady Sif
Lady Sif
Alias: Sif
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Adaptational Villainy: She's an ally of Loki in this universe, although just follows orders. She just happens to be siding against the heroes initially.
- The Jailer: She's Thor's prison guard during his imprisonment.
- Keeping the Enemy Close: Downplayed, as she follows Thor to Earth to keep an eye on him.
Others
Ben Grimm
Ben Grimm
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Killed Offscreen: He is mentioned as deceased in The Maker's files.
Sue Storm
Sue Storm
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Killed Offscreen: She is mentioned as deceased in The Maker's files.
Johnny Storm
Johnny Storm
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
- Killed Offscreen: He is mentioned as deceased in The Maker's files.
Doom (Reed Richards)
Reed Richards
Alias: Doom
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #2 (July 2023)
Originally destined to gain superpowers and found a superhero team, the Maker altered his destiny and made him into the image of Earth-616 Reed's archnemesis.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Compared to the original Ultimate Reed. Seemingly out of pure spite, the Maker tries to break him and turn him into his own version of Doctor Doom... and it doesn't work. While he looks like Doom, in the end, this Reed is just as noble as Earth-616's Reed, and is able to use his position as the Maker's prisoner to help Howard defeat him and then usher in an age of superheroes.
- Composite Character: He's Reed Richards, but has the look of Doom. He doesn't have magic or stretchy powers, but his intelligence is still there.
- Fate Worse than Death: The Maker imprisoned him and toyed with him so much that he lost track of all time. This was also after faking his death.
- Good Counterpart: The Maker is often described as Reed Richards if he were Doctor Doom. Here, the Reed Richards of Earth-6160 literally becomes Doctor Doom due to pure pettiness on the Maker's part. However, he maintains his heroism rather than allow himself to be broken like the other Reed was, turning him into an outright heroic version of Doom who opposes the Maker's meddling with his universe.
- Man in the Iron Mask: It's not quite clear is Reed can't or just won't remove the mask.
Kang
Unknown
Alias: Kang
First Appearance: Ultimate Invasion #3 (August 2023)
The time-travelling opponent of the Maker, from the future of Earth-6160. He leads an army of Avengers clones. He's heavily implied to be Tony Stark.
- The Ageless: Claims to be as such, though whether he means it literally or metaphorically is a little unclear.
- Ambiguously Evil: Has the look and name of one of the biggest foes of Earth-616's Avengers, but in Ultimate Invasion his only attacks are focused solely on the Maker, who has turned Earth-6160 into his personal petri dish. Exactly what Kang plans to do after he kills the Maker goes unspecified.
- Broken Pedestal: If he is Tony, somewhere along the way he grew to hate Howard, as he speaks to him with disdain when they meet.
- Composite Character: He's your usual Kang, but his costume is Iron Man armour and the ending of Ultimate Invasion implies he's Tony Stark, with Tony taking on the Iron Lad moniker (616 Iron Lad is Kang) and Howard's look of dejection after removing Kang's mask, while Kang also refers to the events of the series as his "origin".
- Death by Origin Story: He lampshades his battle against the Maker as his origin, and he dies in it.
- Everyone Has Standards: The first time his forces attack the City, his troops have orders to only hit "acceptable" targets; namely those who are affiliated with the Maker or who attack them. By Invasion issue #4 he foregoes this, and standing orders become attack everyone but one.
- Palette Swap: Notably, his armor turns out to be a direct copy of Tony's Iron Lad armor, just in green and purple.
- Taught by Experience: His second attack on the Maker, throwing a massive clone army at him in broad daylight, is thwarted and the ancestors of his clones killed via killing their ancestors. Kang sits back for a few thousand years and builds himself a bigger army.
- Time Travel: He's from the future and the Maker ran into him when visiting it. Kang himself time travels, but his timeline is affected by changes in the present, likely a reason for his secret identity.
- The Unfettered: By the end of Invasion, he tells his troops there is no cost too high to pay if it gets rid of the Maker.
