Line #6 ComicBook/UltimateAdventures


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody YOU'RE not Quantum and HE'S not Woody!]]]]
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4	'''Ultimate Adventures''' was a six-issue Creator/MarvelComics miniseries created by Ron Zimmerman and Duncan Fegredo. Part of Marvel's 2002 "U-Decide" campaign, it told the story of Hank Kipple, an orphan who is taken in by eccentric billionaire Jack Danner -- who moonlights as the costumed vigilante Hawk-Owl - and his transformation into teenaged sidekick Woody, set in the ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' universe.
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6	Plagued by chronic lateness, the final issue came out sixteen months after the series began, and it's since faded into obscurity, overshadowed by its fellow "U-Decide" competitors, the ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel\|MarvelComics}}'' reboot and ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}''.
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8	Jack and Hank would largely remain forgotten outside of their series, although they made a small cameo in the first issue of the second volume of ''Ziggy Pig-Silly Seal Comics''.
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11	!!This series includes examples of:
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13	* AffectionateParody: This series has a lot of fun at Batman's expense.
14	* BirdPoopGag: When Hank stumbled into Hawk-Owl's secret hideout and started making fun of Toliver, an owl flew by and shat on his head.
15	* BrattyHalfpint: Unlike [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} the character he's parodying]], Hank Kipple is an obnoxious little shit, though he does get better about this over the course of the series, or at least with regards to whom he directs his brattiness towards.
16	* CanonDiscontinuity: Possibly, given outside of the aforementioned ''Ziggy Pig-Silly Seal'' cameo, the only other book to reference them is the ''Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 4 #16''...which is basically an encyclopedia. Even ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'', which featured pretty much every Ultimate Marvel book at the time, didn't reference the series at all[[note]]they didn't even get mentioned as having been KilledOffscreen, despite the fact that the book was more than happy to give a large number of Ultimate Marvel heroes that treatment[[/note]]. Presumably, this was due to a combination of its creation (as part of the aforementioned "U-Decide" campaign), its nature as a rather obvious ''Batman'' parody, and the fact that, tone-wise, it clashed with Ultimate Marvel as a whole (see LighterAndSofter below).
17	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Unlike [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the character he's parodying]], Jack doesn't really have any horribly traumatic past driving his efforts to fight crime. It's hinted that his parents and uncle might have been murdered, but he seems to think that they just died in an accident.
18	* EccentricMillionaire: Jack spends his free time running around in a costume and fighting crime to compensate for his social ineptitude.
19	* {{Expy}}: Most of the main cast are expies of characters from the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' mythos:
20	** Hawk-Owl is, of course, Batman.
21	** Woody is ComicBook/{{Robin}}.
22	** Daniel Toliver is Alfred Pennyworth.
23	** The Principal is ComicBook/TheJoker (with a dash of ComicBook/TwoFace thrown in for good measure).
24	** Ms. Willow is ComicBook/HarleyQuinn.
25	* FreakOut: The Principal goes through this over the course of the series until he finally snaps. Conversely, Ms. Willow was always shown to not quite right in the head and gleefully encourages and enables the man's insane behavior.
26	* InsistentTerminology: Daniel insists on being called Jack's butler, and is annoyed when Jack tries to call him a "personal assistant".
27	* LighterAndSofter: Despite being set in the grim and gritty Ultimate Marvel universe, the story is quite light-hearted and irreverent.
28	* SecretTestOfCharacter: In the first issue, when Jack is deciding which orphan he's going to adopt, he allows the kids to ask him questions. Most of the kids try too hard to be cute and charming, whereas Hank gives Jack a hard time. Naturally, Jack ends up picking Hank. Over the next couple of issues, they throw a few more tests Hank's way, some more secret than others.

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