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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 4209722" data-attributes="member: 1288">Heh. I'm only a fan of the Ultimates, and then only the first two series. (The third took a nosedive like you wouldn't believe.) And that's partly because they lacked a lot--not all, but a lot--of the goofiness that pervades comic books in general.For instance, the Ultimates version of Captain America is an actual soldier, not a boy scout. He's still a good guy overall, he's still got the whole "All America" thing going, and he's still got the old-fashioned sense of right and wrong. But he's a much more ruthless combatant, and a lot quicker to solve problems with fists than words--basically, exactly what you'd expect from a so-called Super Soldier.My favorite Ultimates version is Thor, though. As described above, most people assume he's just a crazy guy with super powers and his heart in the right place, who thinks he's the god of thunder. He's also a rabid environmentalist to the point of almost being hippy-esque, and politically active. Which doesn't mean he won't cave in your skull and call down the lightning on your twitching corpse if need be. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I actually hope they not only take that approach in the Thor movie, but leave the question at least vaguely hazy.I dunno. Overall, I just thought the Ultimates really presented the characters in a more real-world paradigm than their original versions. (Note I said "more real world," not just "real world." There's still plenty of comic bookiness.)</blockquote>

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