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4	The ''Ultimate Galactus Trilogy'' is a three-part comic book miniseries that adapted ''ComicBook/TheComingOfGalactus'' to the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe. Those three parts are ''Ultimate Nightmare'', ''Ultimate Secret'' and ''Ultimate Extinction''.
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6	''Ultimate Nightmare'': A broadcast showing images of death and destruction is suddenly seen all across the world, in all types of media, causing a small-scale wave of mass suicides. S.H.I.E.L.D. locates the source of the broadcast to be from Siberia, so Nick Fury goes to investigate with Captain America, Black Widow, and the Falcon. The X-Men also notice it, and Xavier sends Wolverine, Colossus and Jean Grey. Both teams, unaware of each other, enter into an abandoned military bunker. After dealing with several weird things including leftover Soviet experiments, they find the Vision, an alien robot who warns them about the coming of Gah Lak Tus.
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8	''Ultimate Secret'': An alien invasion by the Kree tries to destroy an experimental spaceship. Dr. Philip Lawson, the creator of the ship, manages to stop them. It turns out that Lawson is a Kree himself, Captain Mahr Vehl, who had been sent to infiltrate Earth to examine humanity to see if they posed a threat to the Kree, but he actually came to like humanity's culture over time and wants to help them stop Gah Lak Tus. With his help, the heroes infiltrate the ship of commander Yahn Rgg and steal their info about Gah Lak Tus.
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10	''Ultimate Extinction'': It's discovered that Gah Lak Tus is not really a single creature but rather a HiveMind - a sentient swarm of millions of machine beings. As it arrives to Earth, Xavier and Jean Grey try to make psychic contact with the swarm, repulsing it and distracting it. Meanwhile, the Ultimates deal with Gah Lak Tus' army of Silver Surfers terrorizing the streets. With that, Reed Richards is able to use his new weapon against Gah Lak Tus, a cannon channeling the raw power of an alternate universe's big bang. This destroys 20% of the entity, who flees.
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12	This story had a sequel, ''ComicBook/UltimateVision'', centering on the robot found in the first issue.
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14	Note: If you are looking for the time when the Galactus from the mainstream universe visited the Ultimate Universe, see ''ComicBook/CataclysmTheUltimatesLastStand''.
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17	!!Tropes:
18	* AccidentalMisnaming: Lawson's Kree name is Mahr Vehl, and he has a rank of pluskomander, the analogous thing to a Captain. Everybody then calls him "Captain Marvel", except for Thor and Sam Wilson, the only ones who bothered to get the name right.
19	* AccidentalPun: After arranging the action with Xavier, Nick Fury tells him to "hop to it" (as in "let's do this, now!"). Then he remembers that he's in a wheelchair, so he adds "or whatever".
20	* AchillesInHisTent: Sam Wilson was enjoying the solitude of the Amazon jungle, but will gladly go back and help Nick Fury with his crisis.
21	* AdaptationNameChange
22	** Galactus is renamed as Gah Lak Tus.
23	** Captain Marvel is a mispronunciation of "Mar-Vell". Here, he was renamed as "Mahr Vehl" (but the misunderstanding as "Captain Marvel" stays).
24	** His Kree superior, Yon-Rogg, was renamed as Yahn Rgg.
25	* AdaptationSpeciesChange
26	** Gah Lak Tus is not a universal cosmic being, but just a robot hive-mind.
27	** The Sentry is adapted as a high detail telescope.
28	** Ultimate Vision, to an extent. She is still a robot, but unlike the original universe version (who was created on Earth by Ultron), she was made by aliens.
29	* AdaptationalVillainy
30	** In the main continuity, the Silver Surfer was working for Galactus and betrayed him in the first adventure, siding with humanity. Here, his equivalents are the actively homicidal Silver Wings, who never change sides.
31	** Red Guardian, Russia's version of Captain America, is usually portrayed as a good man who tends toward MyCountryRightOrWrong. Here he's a deranged madman wielding a shield made from human remains.
32	** Moondragon is a hero in the main universe (at least, that's the basic idea). Here, she's a sniper that worships Gah Lak Tus and attacks both the Silver Wings and the Ultimates.
33	** The Big G himself. In the main continuity, Galactus is a [[NecessarilyEvil regrettable part of the cosmic balance]], who doesn't enjoy being constantly hungry. Here, Gah Lak Tus is deliberately going around exterminating entire species because it hates them.
34	* AnalogyBackfire: When Reed says he works alone, Fury mentions that it's team work, and compares the situation with playing ball at school. Surely Reed played football at school, right? Reed points that no, he didn't play much ball at school, he was the nerd reading books inside... and that's how he got to be a genius, with the guy who played lots of ball at school now asking for his help. And he's not going to get a damn thing until he starts treating Reed and his friends with ''respect''.
35	* ApocalypseCult: One springs up worshiping Gah Lak Tus. Actually, at least two:
36	** The one set up by the Silver Surfers, who encourage people to mass suicide in Gah Lak Tus' name.
37	** A seemingly human one that believes only they should be allowed to contact Gah Lak Tus, and to that effect create an army of clones of a homicidal mob hit-woman, to take out anyone else trying to communicate with it (we barely learn anything about this group).
38	* ArcWords: The "Take two things that work and nail them together" takes a new spin when they find out what has been going on at the bunker all those years.
39	* ArtificialLimbsAreStronger: The bald sniper is cornered by Misty Knight, and she throws her knife at Misty's hand. Fortunately for Misty, her arm is an artificial one.
40	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Tunguska Event took place in 1908, not 1904. Warren Ellis knew this, but moved the year so that it happened a whole century before the comic release (2004).
41	* AscendedFanboy: Ben, Johnny and Sue are in full fanboy mode when they hear they will be working with the Ultimates.
42	* AssholeVictim: The X-Men announce that they intend to liberate all those Russian prisoners who had been experimented on and then left abandoned in the bunker. One of those guys, who could turn into a giant, thanks in full SarcasmMode the heroes who came to liberate them, and gets enraged, thinking that it's just psychological torture.
43	* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: ''Ultimate Extinction'' # 1 and 3.
44	* AtrociousAlias: Mahr Vehl thinks that "Captain Marvel" is a terrible mispronunciation of his name.
45	* AttackAttackAttack: When facing the clone army, Iron Man asks what the plan is. "All the people coming out of the water? Kill them".
46	* BadassBoast: "Humans can kick the [censored] out of anything!"
47	* BadassNormal: Moondragon can give Misty Knight a run for her money.
48	* BaldOfEvil: Moondragon
49	* BatFamilyCrossover: The story has crossovers of just 2 comics at a time, and Spider-Man is left out of this.
50	* BecauseISaidSo: Reed may like to work alone, but Fury wants him to work with Sam, Tony and Mahr Vehl. Because he says so.
51	* BeleagueredBoss: Superpositioning coordinates? That was not your job! Richards wants a stress test on the gate walling, to make sure that it doesn't flex on the given coordinates! If you need more men, call Fury and get more men!
52	* BigDamnHeroes: When the clone army attacks, Xavier summons the X-Men to contain them.
53	* BlasphemousBoast: One of the more famous quotes from Ultimate!Nick is from ''Ultimate Extinction'', wondering if he gets to heaven if God will put up a fight or let Nick sit on his throne.
54	* BlatantLies
55	** Lawson says that he created the suit as a hobby, based on Iron Man's tech. The invisibility is SHIELD's "light sensitivity mode", which he does not have clearance for, but he got it with HollywoodHacking. Danvers dosn't buy it for a second. Then he says he's an alien.
56	** Before joining the Ultimates' meeting and explaining who Misty Knight is, Tony is talking with some girl on the phone. "...I need to help out an old friend here. No, of course she's not female. He. He's not female. Gotta go. Call later. Love you".
57	* CallBack: Reed mentioned the Fantastic Four's adventure in the Negative Zone, where they met the alien Nihil. The knowledge they got there is crucial for Reed to develop the weapon that's key to victory. Also, they let Johnny name the shuttle again. Cut to name ''Awesome II'' on the side of the craft.
58	* CanNotSpitItOut: Danvers has to report the results of her interrogation of Lawson. She's visibly ashamed to open her mouth and say "His name's Captain Marvel and he's a spaceman from the Cree Indian tribe, sir"
59	* CassandraTruth:
60	** Played for drama. Xavier agrees that the vision of the aliens dying (that he got in a dream, as well as Jean) was not a made-up montage, but thought that it was just a visual metaphor of loneliness and abuse from some new mutant. It turns out that the visions were completely what they appeared to be.
61	** Mahr Vehl telling Danvers and Fury he's on their side isn't believed at first, which he's indignant about.
62	-->'''Mahr Vehl:''' Are you people so far gone you can't tell when someone's trying to help?
63	* ChekhovsGun: Why would they bother so much to make Dr. Phil Lawson go through the ID tests?
64	* TheChosenWannabe: Heather Douglas, considering that only she and her clone sisters are capable of having first contact with Gah Lak Tus, and try to destroy Xavier's array because he will do it instead of them.
65	* ClassifiedInformation
66	** After retrieving the Vision, everything about her and Gah Lak Tus was made classified information of the highest level.
67	** Sam has to call the woman "Black Widow", because he's not cleared for real names.
68	** The Kree also have it. Only the Supreme Intelligence fully knows about Gah Lak Tus, and this knowledge is only passed to high-ranked Kree military leaders on a need-to-know basis. [[TheWorldIsNotReady The Kree are not ready]] for this knowledge, and they would all go mad if they knew the full details.
69	* TheComicallySerious: Carol Danvers turns into this, since she cannot stand all the crazy stuff going on.
70	* CompositeCharacter: The Vision takes over the role of Uatu the Watcher from the original Galactus arc, an alien being who warns worlds of the approach of Galactus.
71	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Captain America lands in the middle of an unending army of deadly Heather Douglas clones, all of them armed to the teeth. Of course, they do not stand a chance.
72	* ContinuityNod: Mahr Vehl's interrogation brings up a few factoids from over in the first volume of ''Ultimates'', namely that there are eleven known alien species on Earth (the Kree aren't in that number because they're not ''on'' Earth, just watching), and he even compliments Fury on the Chitauri business. Later on, Hawkeye grumbles about Captain America's famous line from the conclusion of that fight.
73	* CosmicHorrorStory: Just like the original Galactus story. A massive swarm of alien robots decides to stamp us out like ants, our insignificance in the grand scheme of things is a recurring theme, and ultimately Gah Lak Tus isn't destroyed, just driven off. Still, the story ends with the Vision being loaded up with the plans for the dimension cannon, and the characters noting that if the next worlds on Gah Lak Tus' route get organised, they may be able to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu actually kill the thing one day]].
74	* CoversAlwaysLie: ''Ultimate Extinction'' #2 features Wolverine, who isn't in the comic.
75	* CrazyPrepared: Basic NASA engineering doctrine, meaning they've got a nice backup ASIS to lure the Kree troops in.
76	* CrisisOfFaith: Captain America has a big one about Gah Lak Tus. How can God allow such a creature to exist? He always thought that God allowed evil to exist because he also allowed virtuous and good men to stand against evil, but how can men stand against something so big and far removed?
77	* DeadlyEuphemism: "Disavowed" is a Kree euphemism for "turned into protein sludge".
78	* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone. Creator/WarrenEllis is writing, after all. Carol Danvers, in particular, is a veritable fountain of snark on her own.
79	-->'''Thor:''' You, military-industrial drone woman, fetch me a beer.
80	-->'''Danvers:''' Certainly, sir. [[AssShove How far up your ass do you want it?]]
81	-->'''Thor:''' Well, I was thinking a keg, so...
82	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Xavier's telepathic contact and Reed's doomsday device are not enough to cause Gah Lak Tus any real harm, but it is scared off by the unexpected resistance and leaves.
83	* DistractedByTheSexy: Subverted. The scientists are taking their seats, but Lawson is taking his sweet time to do so, because he's "just looking at her". Carol Danvers? No, the ASIS ship, in the window right behind her.
84	* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The warning released by Vision is seen all across the world, in all forms of media.
85	* DownerBeginning: The video of the dying aliens that starts everything.
86	* DramaticUnmask: Captain Marvel removing his alien armor, and revealing himself as Phil Lawson. In-universe, at any rate. The readers already know who he is.
87	* EpicFail: Ton Stark, rich billionaire Casanova, tries flirting with Sue Storm. She completely brushes him off.
88	-->'''Iron Man:''' Some people think my armor is... cool.
89	-->'''Sue Storm:''' You should definitely find someone like that, then.
90	-->'''Iron Man:''' ''(slumping)'' I'll just be going over there.
91	* EyePoke: What can Sam, a mere human being, do against Colossus, a man of living steel? Well, take advantage that his eyes are not made of steel, [[LogicalWeakness otherwise he shouldn't be able to see]].
92	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: The "Silver Wings" actually look like Angels, complete with wings, but their purpose is to help Gah lak Tus to destroy planets.
93	* FantasticRankSystem:
94	-->"My name is Geheneris [=HalaSon=] Mahr Vehl, rank of Pluskommander, officer of the Kree Void Navy. Pluskommander is a rank roughly analogous to Captain."
95	* AFatherToHisMen: Nick Fury has a habit of calling Reed "son". And when he asks to use the Sentry system some day, Reed asked him to make it sound less as if he was asking his dad to borrow the car for the weekend.
96	* GenderFlip: Vision is a male robot in the mainstream universe, but female in the Ultimate universe.
97	* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: After WWII, the Russians increased their work on this in the secret bunker housing Vision, trying in vain to make some viable super soldiers from it. Captain America was dead (or so it seemed at the time), but they had no guarantee that the US could not eventually replicate the process and create more like him.
98	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The Kree in general [[TheWorldIsNotReady are not ready]] to learn about Gah Lak Tus. Only high-ranked officials may, after extensive training. And yet, Yahn-Rgg went mad anyway after reading the Gah Lak Tus files.
99	* AGodIAmNot: "Hala was not a god. Hala was a Kree that thought that innocent life was worth saving."
100	* GodzillaThreshold: Reed figured out a way to hurt Gah Lak Tus, perhaps even kill it, but it is incredibly risky and a crime against nature. [[spoiler:The idea is to open a portal to an alternate universe that is having its Big Bang, let it get out like a death ray, and attack Gah Lak Tus with it]]. It works.
101	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Xavier uses the improved Cerebro system to attack Gah Lak Tus with all of humanity's thoughts.
102	* HeroicBSOD: Captain America is so shocked by the details of Gah Lak Tus, that he has a brief religious crisis.
103	* HopelessSuitor: Tony tries to flirt with Sue, but she only has eyes for Reed.
104	* HumansAreWarriors: After the victory against Gah Lak Tus, Fury proudly declares that humans can defeat anyone.
105	* ImpliedAnswer: Nuck Fury wants Reed to work in the Triskelion with the others, but Reed works better alone. Fury insists, Reed reminds him how much they need his help... and Fury gives some orders, ordering to have a ship in the Baxter Building, ready to bring to the Triskelion at any moment of need.
106	* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Tony and Reed would like to reverse-engineer Marvel's armor so badly... he offers to let them do so when everything's over.
107	* InterspeciesRomance: In ''Extinction'', it was pointed out that Mahr Vehl and Danvers became a couple. This was completely ignored by later works.
108	* IntriguedByHumanity: Why Mahr Vehl decides to help us. We've got ''Series/{{Lost}}'', and Music/PearlJam and Krispy Kreme donuts!
109	* ItMakesSenseInContext: After discussing with Charles Xavier how to make contact with Gah Lak Tus, a robotic hive mind, Nick Fury complains that "I just ordered a mind reader to make contact with a mechanical brain floating in space".
110	* ItsPersonal: Captain America will not shy away from saving the world, but taking down a cult of aliens that pervert the idea of God... that's something else.
111	* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Mahr Vehl has to suffer one of those after being captured, when Nick Fury refuses to believe him.
112	* {{Jerkass}}: Hawkeye spends all of ''Ultimate Secret'' moaning and sulking about these stupid superheroes and aliens and kids and how they're all going to get him killed. Sue Storm eventually gets fed up with his attitude, and tells him to shove it.
113	-->'''Sue:''' We're not professionals, and if being professionals means being like ''you'', we don't want to be!
114	* JustThinkOfThePotential: Johnny and Ben took parts of Reed's particle accelerator... to make a still?
115	* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Captain America has no qualms about kicking alien villains while they are down. It's the best moment to kick them.
116	* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: The Silver Wing tries to kill Misty Knight to keep his existence a secret. But she proves to be a resourceful fighter, and then the Ultimates show up, so he has to flee.
117	* KillerRobot: Kree Killforms.
118	* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: Thor is not impressed at all by Reed and Sue. But Ben and Johnny... those are real warriors!
119	* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Mahr Vehl just loves all of human pop culture, to the point that he talks like characters from TV series, thinking that real people talk that way.
120	* LateArrivalSpoiler: When "Ultimate Nightmare" was first released, it was not marketed as a story about Galactus in any way, so when the Vision says what was it all about, it was a genuine surprise for the audience. Now, with the three miniseries sold as the "Ultimate Galactus Trilogy", it is no surprise that it involves Galactus.
121	* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: In ''Ultimate Extinction'', the Ultimates and the Fantastic Four are preparing for the arrival of Gah Lak Tus... and then we change focus to Misty Knight, private investigator, and a client whose wife joined a cult. What does that have to do with anything? Of course, later on, both plots ''will'' be related. [[spoiler:The cult leader is actually an alien working for Gah Lak Tus]].
122	* LightIsNotGood: Paul Maitreya looks like an angel and glows. He's here to help Gah Lak Tus to destroy the planet.
123	* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: The Ultimate Marvel universe has seen many alien species visiting earth, but somehow the Drake equation and the Fermi paradox still apply. Mainly because SHIELD hasn't been telling people about them, and Gah Lak Tus has been killing anything it can find.
124	* LudicrousPrecision: Nick Fury tells Xavier that he has resources and a bottomless budget to improve Cerebro and help him use it to make contact with Gah Lak Tus. Xavier asks Jean how much money they would need. She replies it would be near the Gross National Product of Germany. Xavier then asks, "Define 'bottomless'".
125	* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Discussed, during ''Ultimate Nightmare''. The small Ultimate force would need a science guy, but Fury cites many reasons for '''not''' calling Tony Stark this time. Fortunately, he has other science guys in the payroll, such as Sam Wilson.
126	* AMatchMadeInStockholm: In the first arc we see them, Carol Danvers conducts the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on Mahr Vehl. Unsure how to take him out of his armor, she places a plastic explosive on his neck, and was ready (and ''willing'') to proceed with an alien autopsy if needed. By the time of ''Extinction'', they are a couple.
127	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Sam is explaining that the captured Heather Douglas is a clone, and she suddenly says "I'm a priestess" inside her cell. Does she have mind reading powers, as mainstream Moondragon? Or are the cells not as soundproof as they should be?
128	* MistakenForRomance: Sue asks Lawson to see him without clothes. Stark is confused, he's in the room, and she wants ''him'' to get naked? Reed clarifies: he's an alien, and she's only interested in his biology.
129	* MrExposition:
130	** Wolverine doesn't know what had happened in Tunguska a century ago, so Colossus explains it to him.
131	** Phillip Lawson explaining the idea of zero point energy to the SHIELD scientists (and also the audience).
132	** Reed Richards explains to the audience the nature of the Drake Equation and Fermi Paradox, in the guise of explaining it to a massively disinterested Sue.
133	* MurderBySuicide: Gah Lak Tus's heralds thin the population of worlds by inspiring mass suicides.
134	* MythologyGag: Professor X attacks Gah-Lak-Tus with the mental might of all humanity behind him, much like how his mainstream counterpart drove off the Z'nox in the 60s.
135	* NightmareFetishist: Sue Storm accuses Reed of ''enjoying'' the thought of something going around killing civilizations in the crib.
136	* NightmareFuel: The video of the dying aliens is an in-universe example.
137	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
138	** Captain Mahr Vehl stops the Kree killbot and saves the prototype of the ASIS... and gets locked in an interrogation chamber as a result, with plastic explosives strapped to his neck just in case he tries something.
139	** Misty Knight is attacked in her own office by a Silver Wing, who wants to kill her to keep his existence a secret. She blows a fire extinguisher on him, and the explosion brings Captain America and the Falcon to the scene. They drive him away, and try to detain her for the whole incident.
140	* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Yahn-Rgg messes with Marvel's armor, and he's incapacitated by pain. Hawkeye wants to go on and leave him behind, but Reed and Sue help him to his feet and bring him with them.
141	* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Subverted. The killbot destroys the ASIS, but there is a back up unit.
142	* NoSell: Misty Knight blows a fire extinguisher on the Silver Wing. He gets up as if that was nothing.
143	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Reed completely ignores Sue's very vigorous attempts at getting his attention away from lecturing her on the Fermi Paradox.
144	* NotMeThisTime
145	** When a random mom sees the video of aliens dying, she thinks it's a HeavyMetal video. [[MoralGuardians They shouldn't allow this stuff on TV]]!
146	** Before taking Misty Knight out of trouble, Tony has to explain to some girl on the phone that it was a friend, not a fling. Always the Casanova, nobody would believe him, so he had to lie that he was about to help a "male" friend.
147	* OhNoNotAgain: Nick Fury did not go through the Cold War, and in fact end the Cold War, to accept a massively destabilizing terrorist communications attack emerge from Russia!
148	* OminousMultipleScreens: SHIELD has several screens, but when the Heather Douglas clones show up, they all go into "Red Alert" mode.
149	* OrcusOnHisThrone: Yahn Rgg sends killbots and soldiers to attack, but he does not do much of anything by himself. By the time the heroes get to him, he's locked himself into a escape pod, ready to start the self-destruct behind him.
150	* PlugNPlayTechnology: The Russian bunker has an 80s keypad stuck on a 60s computer system. According to Sam, the Russians did that stuff all the time. "Take two things that work and nail them together".
151	* PointOfNoReturn: When he calls Nick Fury to inform him about his project that may kill Gah Lak Tus, Reed accepts that he has crossed this point and that it cannot be undone.
152	* PoorCommunicationKills: Sam Wilson openly calls the X-Men "morons" for charging into investigating Vision's broadcast on the belief it was a mutant psychic without even bothering to ''turn on the TV'' and see if anything else was happening in the world. Wolverine concurs and chides Jean that she and Xavier and are so tied up in the mission of protecting mutants that it never occurred to them there's more to the world.
153	* PowerFloats: Jean Grey levitates while she takes down the door bunker all by herself, thanks to her Phoenix power.
154	* PragmaticAdaptation
155	** Ellis redesigned Galactus as a HiveMind because he thought that a giant man with a purple helmet would not fit the grounded tone of the Ultimate universe.
156	** Captain Marvel's suit is the original suit (the least known one, white and green Kree military uniform) with TronLines.
157	* ProperlyParanoid: Mahr Vehl points out Carol never trusted him when she thought he was human. As Carol retorts, she didn't trust him because she thought he was a flake, not an alien spying on mankind.
158	* PunyEarthlings: Yahn-Rgg talks this way non-stop.
159	* RedAlert: S.H.I.E.L.D. got in this mode when the Heather Douglas clone army started attacking the Triskelion.
160	* SirSwearsAlot: Misty Knight hurls insults at Captain America when he wants to detain her. He retorts that in Iceland they had a bottomless well for dames like her.
161	* SlasherSmile: Carol Danvers looks ''way'' too enthusiastic about handing Mahr Vehl over to the scientists for an old fashioned vivisection.
162	* SovietSuperscience: The Soviets tried to make their own super soldier by grafting bits of [[spoiler: an alien robot]] onto human test subjects. Not only did the subjects go nuts, but it almost doomed the planet because that [[spoiler: robot]] was our best warning of Galactus.
163	* StarfishAliens: The Kree are nowhere near human beings (they barely even qualify as humanoid). Mahr Vehl has gone through extensive surgery to look like one.
164	* StartsWithASuicide: The broadcast of the dying aliens causes a wave of mass suicides.
165	* SupernaturalFearInducer: One of the weapons of Gah Lak Tus, a psychic attack that can turn whole worlds mad with fear.
166	* TemptingFate: Misty Knight thinks that her mission will be super easy. Spy on the Paul Maitreya guy and his cult from the other building, takes some photos and a video, and that's it. Easy money! Yeah, no.
167	* ThouShaltNotKill: Discussed by Hawkeye, to Reed Richards, when boarding the Kree vessel. ''He'' kills, Tony kills, Mahr Vehl almost certainly kills, but Reed and Sue do not. Later on, Nick mentions that Johnny and Ben only beat up the Kree soldiers they fought, as opposed to everyone else. So he'll have them burnt once the Fantastic Four aren't looking.
168	* ToMakeALongStoryShort: After the Sentry system provides the first view of Gah Lak Tus, Nick Fury asks how big is it. The scientist starts giving the reasons for the estimations, until Nick interrupts him: get to the point!
169	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Kiss my black butt, Captain Whitey. Misty Knight, ex-NYPD, licensed private investigator, attacked in my own office by a guy who disappeared because you didn't hit him hard enough, and your flying Stepin Fetchit missed with two guns! Count'em! '''Two guns'''!"
170	* ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts: We have seen how deadly the Heather Douglas clone can be. What about an army of them?
171	* TheTunguskaEvent: It was caused by Vision landing on Earth.
172	* VaguenessIsComing: The video of the dying aliens really knows how to get a point across, but does not really say much that might be actually useful. "No. No escape. No escape. It comes. And there's no escape. All the stars got out. You are already dead. It comes and you are all dead. We are all dead. Listen. There is only death for you. There is only small life. Then there is this. We he I send this tell this warn this. There is only horror now. There is only death now."
173	* VillainousBreakdown: Professor Xavier tries to mentally contact Gah Lak Tus, which is so utterly repulsed by the very concept of organic life that it freaks out from this minor mental contact. Xavier describes its reaction to the contact as "contamination" and "unclean".
174	* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Vision came to earth to warn humanity about Gah Lak Tus. The Russians stored her in a bunker, and tried to create super soldiers by removing parts from her and implanting them into people. All those experiments have GoneHorriblyWrong.
175	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Hawkeye refuses to see the Kree as people, and eagerly murders them with no remorse. When Mahr Vehl points out they ''are'' people, and he's one of them, Hawkeye retorts "you'll die like people too".
176	* WhileRomeBurns: Sure, Gah Lak Tus may have fired a missile at 99% of light speed directly to earth, but did anyone remember to put some vodka on Tony's armor?
177	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Nick Fury points out that they can either hear the ravings of that Russian Captain America expy, or just shoot him and get on with the mission. Cap refuses: this guy has been waiting 40 years to fight him, it would be rude to not kick his head in.

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