Ultimate rebirth

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00:00What's going on here YouTube, and welcome back to another comic book video.

00:05This is the channel where we sit down and cover different comic book stories from Marvel, DC, and any other comic book company out there.

00:15Now, today, we are going to jump back over to Marvel Comics because over the last couple years, we have been covering the Ultimate Marvel Universe.

00:25Well, last week, we covered the death of Spider-Man, the death of Peter Parker in the Ultimate Marvel Universe.

00:34Well, today, we're going to sit down and cover Ultimate Fallout.

00:39This right here is basically a soft reboot.

00:44What I mean is that, with this book here, we learn the aftermath of Peter Parker's death in the Ultimate Marvel Universe.

00:52But, this book also sets up the future of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, or what I call Phase 3.

01:02Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Ultimates.

01:06Three new titles that we are going to begin covering after this video.

01:12So, I do hope you like today's video, and if you do, please hit that like button down below.

01:18But, here we go.

01:19The story opens up with a reminder that Spider-Man is dead in this universe.

01:25This is a huge thing because it is on the front page of today's newspaper.

01:31Then, we see how some of the characters are handling this situation.

01:35Where we pick up with Gwen Stacy first, and she tells us that she feels like she is cursed.

01:41Because, again, someone close to her had died.

01:45Peter Parker, her friend, someone she loved, is now dead.

01:50J. Jonah Jameson is another character who is having a hard time dealing with the fact that Peter Parker is now dead.

01:58Because, he learned a while back that Peter Parker was Spider-Man, and saw him as a hero at the tail end of the relationship.

02:06But, now, he hears that Spider-Man is dead.

02:10Johnny Storm, who became a close friend of Peter Parker, is also having a hard time dealing with the fact that his friend is dead.

02:18All he can do is let out a high-level amount of flames to show how angry he is at the fact that Peter Parker is now dead.

02:28We then see a bunch of thugs who are trying to steal a bunch of TVs from a random warehouse.

02:35Except, that is when we see someone appear to beat down on these thugs, and this person is able to beat them down very quickly.

02:44Where we learn that it is Kitty Pryde.

02:47Remember, in this universe, she was an ex-girlfriend of Peter Parker, who she still loved, and now he is dead.

02:55And, she is not taking it well at all.

02:58We do get a page of Flash Thompson, but honestly, it is not that important at all.

03:03Because, it is him just finding out that Peter Parker was Spider-Man.

03:09Then, we proceed to Mary Jane, where we see her at the bridge, where the Avengers and the Ultimates had their big battle.

03:17But, it is also the spot where Spider-Man was shot at by the Punisher.

03:21She is there looking for proof to show the world, that it is thanks to Nick Fury, Spider-Man was killed.

03:28Except, she is caught by some of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, where of course, they go after her and capture her.

03:34This leads into her being confronted by Nick Fury.

03:38And, this is very important because she blames him for the death of Spider-Man.

03:44Except, Nick Fury is already blaming himself for the death of Spider-Man.

03:50And, so he lets her go.

03:52But, he is having a hard time processing the death of Spider-Man on his own.

03:57Picking up the next day, it is time for the funeral.

04:01Where we see Gwen Stacy and Aunt May riding in a limo that is owned by Tony Stark.

04:07Where Tony Stark tells her that he is paying for everything.

04:11But, also, we see Aunt May having a hard time going through this.

04:15When they arrive in front of the church, they all see a crowd of people outside of the church.

04:21Who want to mourn with Aunt May and Gwen Stacy.

04:24This is showing how much Spider-Man meant to the city of New York.

04:30To see him die, it is something the city cannot handle at all.

04:35But, she has to go through the process of the funeral.

04:40This leads into a heartfelt moment where you have Gwen Stacy and Aunt May walking towards the church until a little girl stops them.

04:49When she asks if Aunt May was Spider-Man's mother.

04:52At first, she says no.

04:55Until the girl points out that she was.

04:59The little girl goes on to say that Spider-Man saved her from a fire.

05:04And, that put a smile on Aunt May's face.

05:08Finally, we have Aunt May and Gwen Stacy sit down in the church.

05:12Where Aunt May is confronted by Captain America.

05:16This is a huge moment because you have Captain America tell her that he feels responsible for the death of Spider-Man.

05:26This leads into one of my favorite Aunt May moments in this universe.

05:31Because, you have Captain America tell her that it was his fault for Peter's death.

05:37That he told Peter Parker before he died that he was not ready to be a hero.

05:44That he has not earned the right.

05:46But, the bullet that was meant for Captain America instead was taken by Spider-Man.

05:52And, with that being said, you have Aunt May just snap and go off at Captain America.

05:59She pointed out that Spider-Man looked up to the heroes and wanted to be a part of their group.

06:07That Captain America had no right to come in and say that Peter Parker was not ready to be a hero after he has proven time and time again that he was ready.

06:20So, she slaps Captain America right in the face and runs out of the church.

06:27After she runs outside the church, she sees a crowd of people outside where it makes her freeze in place.

06:35And, she somewhat passes out on the ground.

06:38Where really, she becomes lightheaded.

06:41That is when she is greeted by J. Jonah Jameson.

06:44Who helps her up and we see him take her back inside as someone to help her go through the process of the funeral.

06:53Now, the story shifts over to focus on Thor.

06:57Where we have Thor sitting at the funeral of Spider-Man.

07:01This is where we learn that Asgard is back in this universe.

07:06And, we learn in the origin of Thor that Asgard was killed off.

07:11But, it will one day come back to Earth for Odin to change Earth in his image.

07:17We see that Asgard is now on Earth again.

07:21And, this is going to be seen in future stories down the road.

07:26This will be very important in later books.

07:29With the return of Asgard, that also means that we see the return of everyone who died on Asgard back in the origin of Ultimate Thor.

07:41This is including Odin, Balder, and any of the other gods that died.

07:47They're all back.

07:49And, this is including Loki himself as well.

07:53He's back on Asgard.

07:54We are also being reminded about Modi, the son of Thor, who is hanging out with his mother, Hela.

08:03This goes into the fact that Thor talks about the afterlife.

08:07That for the heroes who died, they're in a place where they're having a blast and having fun.

08:14Which is Valhalla.

08:16And, again, this makes the afterlife of Valhalla even more confusing in this universe.

08:23But, then we focus on Rogue.

08:26And, we have not seen Rogue in a very long time.

08:29Matter of fact, we haven't seen her since Ultimate X number 5.

08:34Which was also only a brief moment.

08:37We see that she's on the road trying to hide from the law.

08:42Because, remember, that if you are a mutant, it is illegal.

08:47Meaning that you can be shot on sight or thrown into a camp.

08:51Now, by this point, we learn that Rogue has gone full religious.

08:57And, honestly, this was something we started to see all the way back in Ultimate X-Men number 40, I want to say.

09:05The beginning of the new mutant storyline.

09:08But, in that book, she had early signs of being religious.

09:12But, this is her leading towards that path even more.

09:17Now, the next chapter we focus on is Tony Stark.

09:21And, if you remember, in our Ultimate Avengers and New Ultimates video, Gregory Stark, the brother of Tony Stark, died.

09:30And, so, you see Tony having a flashback.

09:33Which is him thinking about the funeral until he is confronted by Jonathan Blackhaven.

09:39And, he tells Tony about how Gregory, in him, had something in the works.

09:46Gregory wanted Tony to take his place if something ever happened to him.

09:51Which, of course, something did.

09:54And, so, Tony flies with Jonathan to see what he wants to talk about.

10:00This is where we get introduced to the Kratos Club.

10:03And, this is a secret cabal of industrial multi-millionaires composed of 50 members.

10:11Their main goal is to use their influences to ensure that whatever is the right thing to them gets done.

10:19No matter what it is.

10:21Which is, of course, use their money to make sure those things happen.

10:26This is an organization you will only see a couple more times in future books.

10:32But, they just use their money to make things happen because, to them, they know what the world needs and no one else does.

10:42But, we pick up with Kitty Pryde.

10:44And, this is an important section because, this is the moment that set up the next Ultimate X-Men series, in a way.

10:53Where you have her at the funeral of Peter Parker.

10:57And, she can't stand being here at this funeral.

11:00And, so, of course, she leaves.

11:02With her character, it is her hating the fact that Peter is dead.

11:07Because, he was trying to be a hero.

11:11Something, she has been trying to run away from ever since she left the X-Men in Ultimate X-Men.

11:19With Peter's death, it is her coming to the conclusion that it is better for her to hide to survive.

11:26Now, this is the moment where she runs into Bobby Drake, aka Iceman.

11:32And, remember that after Ultimatum, Iceman and the Human Torch moved in with Peter Parker.

11:39Well, now, with Peter's death, Iceman left the home of the Parkers.

11:43So, Aunt May would not get arrested for hiding him.

11:48Since, being a mutant is illegal.

11:51But, you have Kitty Pryde tell him that she knows a place that they can hide at, but they can no longer be superheroes anymore.

11:59But, then, you have Bobby Drake ask her if the Human Torch can come with them as well.

12:06And, so, now, we know they'll be going somewhere to hide from the law.

12:12Now, picking up with Karen Grant, who is Jean Grey.

12:15She is using the name Karen Grant as a way to hide from the world.

12:20But, we see her right now having a therapy session with Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk.

12:26Now, remember, in the Ultimate X storyline, at the very end, we saw Karen Grant able to recruit the Hulk to join her mutant team.

12:36That works for S.H.I.E.L.D., except for to make sure the Hulk helps her, she has to use her powers to control the Hulk.

12:46Now, we did not learn how she did that in the Ultimate X book.

12:51But, in this one, we see her locked away the Bruce Banner persona and let the Hulk persona be the one in control of the body.

13:01But, with her controlling the Hulk's mind.

13:03But, to close, we see Nick Fury walk in and this is just him telling Jean Grey that he has a mission for her and her team.

13:12And, so, we see her leave the room.

13:14But, we know Nick Fury must have a very important mission for her.

13:20Now, with the fourth chapter, you have Brian Michael Bendis begin the process of introducing the new Spider-Man in this universe.

13:29Of course, that person being Miles Morales.

13:33This is the first appearance of Miles Morales.

13:37It is him fighting against Ultimate Kangaroo.

13:40Kangaroo is a character who I think only has super strength and also the ability to jump far distances.

13:48Really, he only appears in about four books total in this universe.

13:53This time, he is just around to be used to give Miles Morales someone to fight against in his first fight.

14:02Where, the first fight for Miles Morales ends with him winning.

14:07But, when he is around being the new Spider-Man, a lot of people don't like it.

14:12To the citizens of New York, it is too early for a new Spider-Man to appear.

14:20Also, the fact that he is wearing a similar Peter Parker Spider-Man outfit.

14:25That's just bad taste.

14:27But, the story shifts its focus on Reed Richards.

14:31And, we have not seen him since Ultimate Doom.

14:33But, we saw him just floating in the negative zone after being defeated by the Ultimate Marvel Heroes.

14:42Except, here, we see him working to find a way to get back home to the Ultimate Marvel Universe.

14:49And, honestly, it just shows how resourceful Reed can be to be able to teleport back to the Ultimate Marvel Universe.

14:59Now, with him coming back here, it is just setting up the future Ultimate's book.

15:06And, there is a good reason why I say that.

15:10Because, you have Reed Richards built the city.

15:13And, this city is, again, going to be the main point in the next Ultimate's book.

15:20But, we see that this city's goal is not just to grow.

15:24The main goal is for the city to constantly evolve.

15:30The city and the people of this area to constantly evolve and never go extinct.

15:37You will actually explore more of this, again, in the Ultimate's book by Jonathan Hickman.

15:44Now, the final part of Chapter 4 focuses on Valerie Cooper, the new government official.

15:52Well, more of a special advisor to the president.

15:55She handles all of the superhuman and mutant affairs.

16:00Where she is having a late night dinner with a character named Brett.

16:04Now, this is the only book we are going to see Brett in.

16:08Where she tells Valerie about how she met with a mutant that talks about being experimented on years ago.

16:17This is very important because, in this universe, mutants were man-created.

16:23Because, Weapon X found Wolverine.

16:26The first mutant.

16:28They found his X gene and released it into the world as an airborne virus.

16:34And, that is how we got a full world of mutants.

16:39Well, Brett is here to tell Valerie that the world is about to find out that mutants were man-created.

16:47Not the next step of evolution.

16:50This is huge because this is a big government secret about to be told to the whole world.

16:57And, the public is going to start not to trust their president.

17:03With the 5th chapter, we focus on Quicksilver.

17:06Remember, we found out that he did not die like we thought he did in Ultimates 3.

17:12Instead, he was hiding out.

17:15We also learn that he has been speaking to the Scarlet Witch as well.

17:20Who we thought was killed off in Ultimates also.

17:24Except, right now, he is meeting up with Philip Hanstead.

17:28Now, this meeting was only put together thanks to Quicksilver knowing the assistant of Philip Hanstead.

17:36Devin.

17:37Now, this is us kind of getting an idea what Quicksilver is planning to do.

17:43Because, he is not trying to take the same path as his father.

17:47But, in the last few books, it's been complicated to see if his goal is to help mutants or turn against him.

17:56See, the reason why he is meeting up with Philip is to point out that the mutant race could be used to help lead the world in the right direction.

18:06Or, well, make people a lot of money by using the mutant race for their powers.

18:12See, what Quicksilver says about how great it would be to use a teleporter to teleport a shipment.

18:20A telepath to read someone's mind to see what their game plan is for their company.

18:26Or, even using someone to control the weather to help the farm industry.

18:31Because, this is Quicksilver telling Philip that he is going to hand over a small amount of mutants to help Philip make money.

18:40Philip agrees to the deal, and everything is going as planned for Quicksilver.

18:47We finally pick up with Nick Fury, the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D., once again.

18:52But, this is him getting updates on what is happening across the world.

18:56From Hawkeye.

18:58Will you have Hawkeye open up and tell us that Europe has restarted their Super Soldier program?

19:04The main reason why is because of Asgard being back on Earth.

19:08Also, there is a new Captain Britain now, which is Jamie Braddock.

19:14There is also a war going on between Uruguay and Argentina that has gotten worse,

19:21and the United Nations are asking for the Ultimates to step in.

19:26Finally, SEER, which is the Southeastern Asian Republic, has also made bioweapons and metahumans.

19:33And so, Hawkeye is being sent there to see what is going on.

19:38After the briefing, you have Nick Fury leave for his office.

19:42This is where Fury learns from a guy named Jasper Sitwell, who is from Washington, working alongside the President.

19:49The only reason why he is here is to tell Nick Fury that they are cutting down the S.H.I.E.L.D. budget by 30%, which is a lot.

20:00For Nick, that is too much because they are now building new Triskelans in areas that have gained democracy in their countries,

20:09making weapons as well.

20:11So, with those budget cuts, it really slows everything down.

20:15Finally, to close on the 5th chapter, we see Quicksilver meeting up with Devin again.

20:21Well, more of them getting their freak on, and that is it.

20:25Except in the middle of them making out, his eyes play a game on him.

20:30When he doesn't see Devin anymore, he actually sees his sister, the Scarlet Witch.

20:36Now, again, we thought she died, but to him, she is here, telling him that he needs to go to Egypt.

20:45But also, she says something about how he is working to fix his soul.

20:50That they are both working for their father, who was Magneto.

20:55And we saw him killed off in Ultimatum.

20:58And so, the question is now, is Magneto still alive?

21:03Now, the final chapter of this book is really a way to close this book on a nice note.

21:09Because we pick up with Aunt May and Gwen Stacy.

21:13We see that Aunt May is still struggling with the fact that she is having a hard time dealing with the death of Peter Parker.

21:22Also, the fact that there is a crowd of people who work for different news channels outside hoping to get an interview with her.

21:31We also learn she lost her job because they believe she is too dangerous to have around because of her connection to Spider-Man.

21:41Now, she tells us that Iron Man offered her and Gwen to move them somewhere else where they decide to move to France.

21:51And so, you have Gwen and Aunt May leaving to move to France to get away from everything.

21:58We also get a couple more pages of Kitty Pryde, Human Torch, and Iceman.

22:05We see that they are in the sewers looking for something down there.

22:09Somewhere to be their new home.

22:11Which, of course, it is them finding the old home of the Morlocks.

22:16The Morlocks were mutants who used to live in the sewers.

22:20Nightcrawler actually used to run the Morlocks for a period of time.

22:25And so, with him dead, Kitty was able to grab the key to the place.

22:31And the three of them are going to live down there from now on.

22:36We skip back over to Nick Fury.

22:38And this is a very important moment for the book.

22:43Because you have Nick Fury talking to one of his agents.

22:47Where you have Nick Fury informing us that Captain America had resigned from the Ultimates.

22:53The guilt from being the sole reason for the death of Spider-Man made him take a step back from being a hero.

23:03Finally, to close, we see Nick Fury go to the home of Mary Jane.

23:09Where you have him see the story that she has been working on.

23:12A story she was going to share to the world that would state that S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Ultimates were at fault for the death of Spider-Man.

23:23You have him agree on the fact that he is at fault.

23:28He tells Mary Jane how he knew Peter Parker's parents.

23:33When they died, he was hoping to do right by them.

23:36By helping Peter in life.

23:39And so, when he got his powers, it was the right time for Nick Fury to step in to help.

23:45Except, he did not do enough like he should have.

23:51And now, Peter is dead.

23:54And so, you have the book closed with Nick Fury crying.

23:58Saying that he is at fault for Peter's death.

24:02And he loved Peter as a son.

24:06Now, this is part of the video where I sit down and give my thoughts on about the book.

24:14To be honest, I like this book because it is a soft reboot for the Ultimate Marvel Universe.

24:23And the reason why I say that is because, remember, after Ultimatum, Marvel struggled to get the Ultimate Marvel Universe out of the hole it dug itself in thanks to Ultimatum.