Line #65 Toys/LegoUltraAgents


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5	LEGO Ultra Agents is a Toys/{{LEGO Theme\|s}} beginning in 2014, revolving around an elite crime-fighting force which protects Astor City from {{Super Villain}}s.
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7	In addition to the LEGO construction sets, Ultra Agents tells much of its story through a tie-in app which presents an interactive graphic novel and covers the characters and setting in much greater detail.
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9	LEGO Ultra Agents is often considered a SpiritualSuccessor to Toys/LEGOAgents, with numerous sets bearing parallels to the previous line, most notably [[BaseOnWheels 70165 Ultra Agents Mission HQ]]. However, whereas LEGO Agents and Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam were based on SpyFiction, Ultra Agents has a more fantastic and futuristic approach with barely any focus on spies; less like ''Franchise/JamesBond'', more like ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. Ultra Agents also acts as a StealthSequel to ''Toys/LEGOGalaxySquad'' and ''LEGO Monster Fighters'', featuring the return of Solomon Blaze from the former line.
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12	!!LEGO Ultra Agents contains examples of:
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14	* AcePilot: Curtis Bolt, who is also the team expert on supersonic travel and dogfights.
15	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Most of the product names, including Riverside Raid, Tremor Track Infiltration, Infearno Interception, and Hurricane Heist.
16	* AllThereInTheScript: The LEGO Group sent LEGO Stores [[https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/90203-lego-ultra-agents-2014/&do=findComment&comment=1921154 a product description for Ultra Agents]] which reveals that Lord Vampyre's moonstones are responsible for creating the RoguesGallery; however, this seems to be largely disregarded by official media. This description also confirmed that Solomon Blaze is the same character from ''Galaxy Squad''.
17	* ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire: Spyclops takes it in a different direction from [[Toys/LEGOAgents his similarly-named predecessor]]. He's a cyborg with mechanical spider limbs on his back, half of his face replaced with spiderlike cybernetics, and a few other body parts to go with the motif. He pilots a spider walker and controls robot spiders.
18	* ArtificialLimbs: Solomon Blaze's right leg appears to be prosthetic.
19	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Spyclops (who resembles a spider) only has four limbs. This is pointed out by Agent X in the app, who remarks that "Four-Arms" would be a more appropriate name for him.
20	* BadassDriver: Agent Burns, who is a 7-time world champion stunt driver.
21	* BaseOnWheels: Ultra Agents Mission HQ, following the Mobile Command Centers of ''Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam'' and ''Toys/LEGOAgents'', is the Ultra Agents' giant truck that doubles as a base of operations.
22	* BigBad: A hooded figure is seen communicating with Psyclone and Terabyte in the sets, and in the app, tries to enter the HQ. Each villain has a connection to this figure. Come Wave 2 of Ultra Agents, he is revealed to be called [=AntiMatter.=]
23	* BodyHorror:
24	** Adam Acid, a man who is being turned into and dissolved by acid. Half of his face is yellow and looks like a criminal from the City theme, while the other half is green (the minifigure's head itself is transparent green) and damaged. His eye there is red, he has an exposed nasal cavity, and his teeth are rotten and missing. A few pieces of undissolved skin are on the destroyed half. His left arm is completely green as well, and it burned through his sweatshirt sleeve.
25	** Infearno's head is on fire, and his horribly burnt skin looks extremely painful.
26	* BrainInAJar: In the third wave, Brainstein has turned into a cyborg, with a helmet topped by a jar with a brain in it.
27	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Suggested to be the case with the RoguesGallery. Tremor and Toxikita once had lives before [=AntiMatter=] corrupted them, and in Toxikita's case, she was a respected environmentalist before being turned into a PoisonousPerson. This has later been changed inside the theme to keep it self-contained.
28	* CallBack: Solomon Blaze is now a retired veteran of the Galaxy Squad and founded the Ultra Agents.
29	* BrooklynRage: Spyclops has a bit of a Brooklyn accent.
30	* TheCameo: Toxikita and Invizable make brief appearances in the Ninjago show!
31	%%* CityOfAdventure: Astor City.
32	%%* CoolBoat: The Ultra Agents Ocean HQ. The Agents Quad Bike and Invizable's flyer can turn into these.
33	* TheCorrupter: A new video on the website reveals that the villains were civilians who passed through portals set by (an unnamed) [=AntiMatter=] in each district of the city. A firefighter is shown being transformed into Infearno in this way, making the civilians the opposite of what they stood for.
34	%%* {{Cyborg}}: Terabyte and Spyclops.
35	%%* DemolitionsExpert: Caila Phoenix.
36	* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: Psyclone's HumongousMecha is designed to create tornadoes.
37	* DrillTank: Drillex sports one. His has not one drill, but two mounted on a rotating bar. The gears inside the bar allow each individual drill to spin when the whole bar does.
38	* EccentricExterminator: Spyclops is a fearsome one. He's a cyborg with two spider limbs on his back, and various body parts replaced with unnerving cybernetics. He has a spray bottle, and commands robot spiders.
39	* EnergyWeapon: The weapon of choice for most characters in this line.
40	* EvilBrit: The evil Infearno has a nasally British accent.
41	* EvilGenius: The evil Terabyte is noted for his genius-level intellect.
42	* EvilSoundsDeep: Used with many of the villains, but most jarring with Toxikita, who has a contralto. Averted with Terabyte and Infearno.
43	* EyepatchOfPower: Psyclone has a metal one. His protective mask is missing a lens where the missing eye is.
44	* ForegoneConclusion: Childrens' playtimes imagining the Agents winning for many of the sets is not canon, as the app and subsequent sets dictate that the villain succeeds in their task, like Toxikita successfully stealing the pollutonium to power her mech in the second wave of sets, or Anti-Matter's underlings managing to deliver the various Macguffins in the theme to him for his portal device.
45	* HazmatSuit: Worn by the Astor City Scientist.
46	* HelloInsertNameHere: The protagonist of the app comics is a male Ultra Agent whose "classified name" is chosen by the player from a list of predetermined names.[[note]]Names include Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Herzog, Yim, Jensen, Martin, Jones, Jackson, Allen, Gerrard, Kelly, Lee, Watson, Sesame, Bryant, Rodgers, Garcia, Nguyen, Cooper, Rhys, Zhang, Strummer, Kim, Sato, Simon, Stewart, Claybourne, Lucas, Bradley, Hamilton, Fisher, Martinez, Green, Parker, Wilson, Cruz, Tremblay, Stone, Fowler, Murphy, Watts, Wolfe, Bluth, Warner, [[GenderBlenderName Hanna]], James, and Scott.[[/note]]
47	* HollywoodHacking: The final chapter of the app (for the first wave of sets) revolves around this.
48	* HumongousMecha: Psyclone's vehicle of choice is a massive ''VideoGame/MetalGear''-inspired mech.
49	* {{Irony}}: Each of the villains was an ordinary civilian who passed through portals set by [=AntiMatter=] in the city. As a result, each one turned into a supervillain with the same base theme, but twisted toward evil.
50	** Infearno was a firefighter who turned into a literally on-fire pyromaniac.
51	** Tremor was a silver-clad local champion boxer, Louis Lightweight. He turned into a heavily-armored villain who uses fist-shaped weapons to destroy things.
52	** It is heavily implied that Toxikita was once an environmentalist. Post-transformation, she gained green hair, sometimes-green eyes, and uses pro-environment symbols for her polluting, toxic crimes.
53	** Spyclops was most likely an exterminator (he still has remnants of a uniform and he carries a spray bottle) who turned into a spider-like cyborg in command of robot spiders.
54	** Psyclone's gear and vehicle point toward his being a military pilot.
55	** The Agents' Professor Brainstein turns into a spider-legged cyborg with a brain in a dome on top of his head.
56	* KaleidoscopeHair: Agent Caila Phoenix has pink hair in the first wave of sets, but it's blue in the second wave.
57	* KidnappedScientist: Toxikita attempts to do this to Professor Brainstein.
58	* TheLeader: Solomon Blaze is the leader of the Ultra Agents.
59	%%* MadBomber: Infearno.
60	%%* MagmaMan: Infearno.
61	* MeaningfulName: Most of the villains. Infearno is a MagmaMan, Terabyte is a {{Cyborg}} hacker ("terabyte" is literally "a trillion bytes"), Psyclone specializes in creating [[DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud tornadoes]], and Toxikita, Retox, and Adam Acid are [[PoisonousPerson Poisonous People]]. Spyclops is a spiderlike cyborg with [[{{Cyclops}} one robot eye in the middle of his forehead]], Invizable is...[[{{Invisibility}} guess]], Drillex is obsessed with [[ThisIsADrill drills]], and [=AntiMatter=] can create portals of evil. Professor Brainstein sounds like a PunnyName at first, but when he turns into a cyborg with a BrainInAJar in the third wave of sets, it gains a more direct meaning.
62	* MiniMecha: Terabyte's hi-tech mech. Toxikita pilots one in the second wave. Spyclops has a variant in the form of a small spider-walker.
63	* MissionBriefing: Takes place inside the Ultra Agents Mission HQ.
64	* MonochromaticEyes:
65	** Infearno has solid yellow glowing eyes.
66	** Toxikita has green eyes, but only sometimes. Oddly, she has an alternate face depicting more normal face with standard minifigure eyes. The green eyes are used in the app, however.
67	** Spyclops has light green eyes.
68	** [=SharX=] has purple eyes.
69	* MythologyGag: There are a few references to previous themes.
70	** The names of Infearno and Spyclops are thought to be Call Backs to [[Toys/LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno and Spy-Clops]], respectively.
71	** Even if there's no canon connection, it's no coincidence that one of the villains reuses Break Jaw's helmet piece in gold.
72	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A few. Adam Acid, Psyclone, Infearno, and [=AntiMatter=] are all awesome and threatening sounding villain names. So are Electrolyzer and [=SharX=].
73	* OneWayVisor: Terabyte and Tremor have opaque visors. [=AntiMatter=]'s is transparent, but his head behind the mask doesn't reveal anything. Drillex has opaque goggles.
74	* PestController: Spyclops. The great irony of this is that he's a corrupted pest control worker, an insect exterminator.
75	* PimpDuds: Invizable. He has a red suit, a money-print shirt, a fedora, a large gold disk on a chain, and "floating" golden sunglasses printed on his clear head. He has some golden accents on his hover vehicle, and his crime? Stealing gold! Even funnier, [[Toys/LEGOSpacePolice this isn't the first time]] LEGO has made a pimp-like minifigure.
76	* PoisonousPerson: Toxikita, Retox, and Adam Acid.
77	* PowerFist: A motif of Tremor's. This comes from him once being a local champion boxer, Louis Lightweight.
78	* PungeonMaster: Psyclone literally spews a HurricaneOfPuns, most of which revolve around money and banks.
79	* PunnyName: Infearno (inferno/fear) and Psyclone (psycho/cyclone).
80	* RadiationImmuneMutants: Toxikita, since she's able to steal pollutonium.
81	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Multiple villains have red eyes:
82	** Adam Acid's damaged side of the face has a red eye.
83	** Tremor has a red visor over his eyes.
84	** Retox has red eyes.
85	** Psyclone's remaining eye is red.
86	* RobotDog: P.U.P., who closely resembles a [[Toys/LEGOSpacePolice K-9 Bot]] in an Ultra Agents color scheme in the app. He has more silver parts than black in the set he appears in.
87	* RoguesGallery: Unlike Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam and Toys/LEGOAgents, which had a single BigBad and his henchmen, LEGO Ultra Agents instead features an ensemble of {{Super Villain}}s who are causing trouble in Astor City. [[spoiler: It actually turns out there is a villain controlling each of them, due to be in the largest set of the second wave of Ultra Agents. The only visible indication of this in the sets, however, is that Spyclops, Drillex, and Invizable have [=AntiMatter=]'s symbol (a portal-like spiral) on their vehicles.]]
88	* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: Downplayed, but Toxikita wears a ripped tank top that exposes her midsection, while the agents all have full suits on.
89	* SensoryAbuse: In the app, [=SharX=]'s voice is so loud and grainy-sounding, it sounds like the recording microphone was being blown out.
90	* ShockAndAwe: Electrolyzer.
91	* ShouldersOfDoom: Worn by Infearno, Tremor, Toxikita in her second appearance (with the same armor piece as Infearno), and Drillex.
92	* ShoutOut:
93	** The graphic and model designers of the Hurricane Heist set are fans of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' and it shows. Not only does Pysclone's HumongousMecha resemble the Metal Gear mechs, but the HUD on the windshield is clearly modeled after the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' codec screen and even has the listed frequency 140.15, which is Meryl's frequency in the ''Metal Gear Solid'' games. Even better, the series' creator, Hideo Kojima is a huge fan of LEGO, so this is their way of complimenting him!
94	** To hint at his being a former boxer, Tremor quotes UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli. "Tremor floats like a butterfly..."
95	** Invizable is clearly based on Literature/TheInvisibleMan, down to having a clear minifigure head and a suit and hat.
96	** Terabyte's symbol is a [[VideoGame/SpaceInvaders Space Invader]] modified to look like a skull.
97	** Now, [[{{Music/Skrillex}} who]] does "Drillex" sound like?
98	* SicklyGreenGlow: Pollutonium, a highly toxic and radioactive mineral.
99	* SpiderLimbs: Spyclops has two robotic spider legs protruding from his back.
100	* SpiritualSuccessor: To Toys/LEGOAgents.
101	* TheSquad: The Ultra Agents.
102	%%* SuperVillain: The Ultra Agents' RoguesGallery consists of these.
103	* StealthSequel: To ''LEGO Galaxy Squad''. Solomon Blaze is a returning character from ''Galaxy Squad'', setting ''Ultra Agents'' [[TimeSkip years later]] after he retired. By extension, it's also in the same continuity as ''LEGO Monster Fighters'', since ''Galaxy Squad'' was a StealthSequel to that theme.
104	* SubvertedInnocence: Toxikita and her gang use pro-environment symbols in their crimes. Her emblem (the three-ring toxic symbol modified to look like a skull-and-crossbones) was used in an environmental rally, and the boat Adam Acid uses to pollute the river, ''The Guardian'' was used for safe chemical transport. This adds depth if you agree with her backstory being a corrupted environmentalist.
105	* TechnicolorMagic: [=AntiMatter=] and anything associated with him. His technology is purple, as are his portals, and even the flames on his oil rig hideout!
106	* ThemeNaming: Most of the Agents have last names relating to fire or light, while the others' last names are personality-related.
107	** Max '''Burns'''.
108	** Solomon '''Blaze'''.
109	** Caila '''Phoenix'''.
110	** Curtis '''Bolt'''.
111	** Morgan '''Lux''' (also known as [[spoiler:[=AntiMatter=]]]).
112	** Jack '''Fury'''.
113	** Trey '''Swift'''.
114	** Steve '''Zeal'''.
115	* ThirdPersonPerson: Tremor, as depicted in the app comics, refers to himself in the third person.
116	* TimeSkip: Remember Solomon Blaze, the young pilot from LEGO Galaxy Squad? He's now a battle-damaged middle-aged veteran leading a new team of young agents.
117	* TransformingMecha: Psyclone's vehicle can transform between a HumongousMecha and an aircraft.
118	* VocalDissonance: Toxikita, by all appearances, appears to be in her twenties or thirties. The voice she's given in the app sounds like a ''very'' deep-voiced woman in her fifties. This could be handwaved as a side effect of the portal, but, still, seeing someone dressed in a ripped tank top and spiked collar talking with that voice just sounds wrong.
119	* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:Ultra Agent Morgan Lux worked on dangerous experiments with a special weapon. The result destroyed him and left him as the being known as [=AntiMatter=], with a staff that creates portals that transform civilians into supervillains.]]
120	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The player Agent in the app has a bizarre voice, since it tries to be "neutral". The lack of any identifiable affectations makes it sound like its own weird accent, and not the neutral "guy from anywhere" they were going for.
121	* XtremeKoolLetterz: Invizable. This is oddly fitting, since he's a combination of the Invisible Man and a pimp. [=SharX=] also counts.

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