Ultimate Iron Man is a Dick

[cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

Context: Norman Osborn (who in this universe turns into a Goblin monster instead of dressing up like one) and his merry band of Spidey villains stage a coup on the White House. The Ultimates intervene. Needless to say, in the final stages of the fight, the Goblin's the only villain left standing. Nick Fury pulls out his trump card.

















Meanwhile, Thor has taken down Electro and the rest of the Ultimates congratulate him.



Good job, Tony, you stupid drunk. The whole point of getting Harry was to appeal to Norman's better side and make him go quietly, and just when he's in the process of turning back to normal, you blast him in the back. Then his already traumatized and mentally unstable son watches as his father is brutally taken down in front of him. And Iron Man could care less that his actions caused all this.

Comments

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

You make it sound like there's anyone other than Spidey who isn't a dick in the Ultimateverse.

[omgwtflolbbqbye.insanejournal.com]

Seriously. Ultimate Everyone is a dick.

They shoulda just have added "Dickery" to the end of every series' title.

"Ultimate X-Men Dickery!" "The Ultimate's Dickery!" etc.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

And Petey exists for everyone up to and including God (ie, the writers) to dump on.

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Any now Mephisto has him trapped in a medallion. S'tragic, it is.

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

That's Mephisto? I thought it was UltimateDormammu.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

This.

I must quote HEATHERS.

"I can't believe there was a time when I actually thought you were cool!"

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

I like Ultimate!Matty/Elektra/Foggy, but they're 99.2% identical to mainstream Marvel.

[jcbaggee.insanejournal.com]

Isn't that the secret to edgy, unique writing? Take everything you know, and just make the characters unlikeable assholes!

[tavella.insanejournal.com]

Well, at one point Thor wasn't a dick. But that's about it.

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

The universe infected him.

[ar_feiniel_.insanejournal.com]

I hope Cap refuses to return Tony's calls for a few weeks after this.

[jeyl.insanejournal.com]

"All of you. I'll kill all of you!"

But first let me enjoy this hug!

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

I'm not going to argue Ultimate Iron Man isn't a dick, but in this case I have to play devil's advocate.

From what I'm reading here, it seems like Harry was truly there on his own or Fury hadn't told any of the other Ultimates about it. It's possible he either didn't hear Norman about to break, or believed he was making a ruse (and if the Ultimate version's anything like the 616 version, he would have definately used it as a ruse).

So which comic is this? It sounds like it's a Spidey-centric arc, but it's clearly not drawn by Bagley.

[cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

It's from Ultimate Six. It was a miniseries written by Bendis that spun off from Ultimate Spider-Man because it was an Ultimates crossover.

[taggerung301.insanejournal.com]

well, I mean, Tony did screw up, but I really don't think that he was just being a dick here

I don't think that he could see that Osborn was turning back into his human form from behind - that shot was designed just for the goblin genetic sequence, and it should have just taken Osborn down temporarily

this wasn't even a kill-shot or anything

this is basically like a cop using a taser on a guy with a gun and not knowing that the guy has a weak heart

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

Considering that the next time Harry confronted his father and there was no one powerful enough to stop Norman, Norman beat his son to death...I think Iron Man's shot may have saved Harry's life here.

[cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

The situation both times were completely different. In this incident, Harry was in no danger.

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

Fuck Iron Man