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  • Complete Monster: Jedediah Stringfellow is the leader of the Enclave, a group of rich elites that control 23rd century Earth. Stringfellow hordes the Earth's resources for the Enclave, and his security forces, the Scaredy Men, kill any of the poor, starving people who tried to take any resources for themselves. Stringfellow grows bored with ruling over a dying planet and commissions a time machine to be built. Stringfellow intends to send agents into the past to pretend to be refugees who want to prevent a disaster in the present, but really plans to neutralize the Ultimates so Stringfellow's force can travel to 21st century Earth and conquer it. When Iron Man travels to the 23rd century, Stringfellow captures him and orders his men to fire laser beams at Iron Man until he is cooked in his own armor.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The story expands the love relation between Iron Man and Black Widow as Star-Crossed Lovers. It was a legitimate way to continue the plots from the first miniseries, and of course, it was not canon once Mark Millar resumed his work. Still, it feels uncomfortable to read it if we remember how would things pan out in canon. Their love story continues, all right... but it was ultimately just a ruse of Black Widow to launch an invasion of the US. She tried to kill him once the plan was put in motion, he incapacitated her, and Hawkeye would find and kill her later because she killed all his family.

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