Ultimate Fantastic Four / YMMV

Complete Monster:
- "God War" & "Four Cubed" arcs: This version of Thanos retains the goals of his 616 counterpart, but none of the redeeming qualities. Ruler of the Endless Resurgence, he is a horrific tyrant—as well as a horrendously Abusive Parent—who runs his empire with an iron fist. Having come into contact with the Cosmic Cube, or Tesseract, long ago, Thanos tested it by killing countless innocents or leaving them literally frozen but eternally alive and aware. Thanos also allows himself to experience death at times, using the souls of many innocents to revive himself. Heading to Earth, Thanos intends on wiping out all he sees until he finds Reed and when he has the Tesseract and ultimate power, he plots on a universal-scale Mind Rape until every living thing is his slave, trapped in a deathless hell while death itself exists only for the tyrannical Thanos.
- Reed Richards himself, post-Ultimatum. See this page for details, under the Marvel Universe folder.
Funny Moments:
- When Reed uses a machine that lets him materialize anything that he thinks of in order to fight Namor, what appears is a giant version of his girlfriend's mother in her underwear.
  Giant Mary Storm: Don't worry, Reed! Your subconscious mind can handle things from here!
  Random Scientist: Oh my God. Is that...?
  Franklin Storm: If Johnny sees this he'll be ruined for life.
  Mary Storm: Reed! Stop thinking about be in my underwear, you dirty little snot! Think of something else or I'm coming down there to rip out your throat!
  Reed: Sorry. It just happened. I'm sorry, Doctor Storm.
Harsher in Hindsight: In "Ultimatum: Requiem", Reed tells Ben that he's calculated that the only way to prevent a future of "Death. Destruction. Genocide. Blood. All on my hands." was to kill Doctor Doom before he could perpetrate it, but despite knowing this he simply can't bring himself to kill a man in cold blood, something Ben tells him isn't something he should be ashamed of, before going off to do it himself. Considering that when Reed commits his Face–Heel Turn he effectively becomes the new Doctor Doom and directly commits atrocities as The Maker far in excess of whatever he saw Doom himself committing...
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- This Superdickery-style cover given Reed becoming Doctor Doom in the Ultimate Universe.
- Given this version was the (loose) basis for Fantastic Four (2015), the relationship between Ben and Sue post-Ultimatum ended up mirrored by Jamie Bell and Kate Mara dating and eventually getting married.
- The "President Thor" arc introduced the Ultimate Skrulls with a fake-out about them being more benevolent than their 616 counterparts. The Marvel Cinematic Universe ended up doing an inverse of this years later by giving the first live action Skrulls in Captain Marvel (2019) a healthy dose of Adaptational Heroism, but also seem ready to introduce properly villainous Skrulls with Secret Invasion (2023).
Ho Yay: Lampshaded when Ben and Reed go to face Thanos:
Oh, this is just pathetic. This laconic, heroic, tragicomic— garbage!!! Walking off to certain death with your heads held high! You might as well hold hands, because that's how homoerotic it is!
I Knew It!: Issue #20 ends with the Reed Richards from the mainstream universe making contact, which would lead to a crossover. But, wait a moment. That would be the first crossover between the Ultimate and the mainstream universes... and it is not in a miniseries or Crisis Crossover of its own? There's not even any publicity about it? Many fans correctly guessed that the story would be something else.
Moral Event Horizon: Reed begins his supervillain career by murdering his entire family. He follows up by trying to murder Sue. If he hadn't crossed it by then, his killing all the Asgardians in Ultimates sure did.
Narm:
- Even for Brian Bendis and / or Mark Millar, making Mole Man a man covered in moles called Arthur Molevik, rather than the regular Mole Man just being a short, blind man, is a ludicrous step too far.
- You know you're in for some awkward and silly artwork once you see that Greg Land is on art duties.
Older Than They Think: The Fantastic Four had already appeared in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, an issue that would be eventually ignored as an Early-Installment Weirdness. Still, that version included two departures from the classic version that would be used by the ultimate version of the Ultimate Fantastic Four: they get their powers during an experiment involving the Negative Zone, and Sue is a capable and recognized scientist on her own right.
Squick: Mole Man's mole-y condition is one thing. Dramatic close-ups giving readers a good long look at it, complete with nose hair and pustules is another thing entirely.
The Woobie:
- The Thing, even more than in the mainstream continuity; whereas mainstream Ben has long ago accepted his transformation and even embraced it, Ultimate Ben is so depressed by his transformation that he's attempted suicide. And each one fails because his body is nigh-invincible.
- If not in the present, then when he was a kid, Little Victor just needed a hug.

YMMV / Ultimate Fantastic Four

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