I think we all owe this guy an apology

I think we all owe this guy an apology

He might be a grumpy, racist, chauvinist, bullying jerk who got Peter Parker killed, but at least he's not a Nazi

That's not Nick Fury.

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It's weird, I think I unintentionally skipped all the stuff where Ultimate Cap was especially horrible, so I've always been fairly fond of him. He's like some wimpy kid trying to play John Wayne, and that's oddly charming.

Have a moment of vulnerability from the macho bastard.

Wait, how did he get Peter killed? Also Sam Wilson is more racist than Steve Rogers, he attacked white men for trying to turn back illegal immigrants.

Is Hydra still Nazi n 616?

I thought they were just using Nazis for their cause or was that only MCU

Man, the status of Hydra in the comics is way more complex than it should be, but currently Red Skull controls them so they're just nazis

RIP best cap.

Hyrda and Leviathan were both modern revivals of order of the S.P.E.A.R. an ancient organization that was the Eastern counterpart to that of the order of the S.H.I.E.L.D. in the west. The turmoil in Europe leading up to WWII served as the catalyst for this revival with the Nazi Party providing the ideal incubation chamber for Hydra while communist Russia did the same for Leviathan.

Unlike the order of the SPEAR the order of the SHIELD had never died out and still continued on as a secretly society in Europe before transitioning into the global peace keeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D. following WWII.

It should also be noted that the order of the SPEAR was formally resurrected (apart from Hydra and Leviathan) recently by China as the organization S.P.E.A.R. as their answer to S.H.I.E.L.D. of the West.

Where the fuck is SHIELD 5 and 6.

They were suppose to be out last year.

weren't they released in the trade of S.H.I.E.L.D. vol.2?

I'm in the same boat as this user I think. I know the thing about DO YOU THINK THIS A STAND FOR FRANCE because it gets thrown out a lot as a single panel but what else did he do?

I (vaguely, it was a while ago) remember Ultimates v1 and 2 which at the time I thought did a fairly cool thing; that Captain American WOULD be a bit of a jerk since he was from the 1940s and back then even progressives would have certain mindsets, and adjusting to the modern day WOULD probably make a dude like that fairly prickly. Did he eventually just turn into a huge jackass?

Basically, once Ultimates 3 came out it all went to shit and the characters just started being written as '616, if they were assholes'.

I find it difficult to take the Nazi thing seriously anyway.

This morning after breakfast I will take a leisurely shit because it's my day off and I have that luxury today.
By the time I am done taking a shit, Cap will not be a Nazi anymore. Instead he'll be an alien, a clone, a woman, Sam Wilson, Bucky, gay, a lesbian woman, a Muslim, Isaiah Bradly, or all of the above.

Whichever Marvel thinks will boost sales and make guys like you click on clickbait for the time it takes me to finish my leisurely shit.

There's not a trade of S.H.I.E.L.D. vol.2, because it hasn't been finished yet.

I'm talking Hickman/Weaver's run

FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK ULTIMATE CAP IS NOT MOTHER FUCKING RACIST!!!

There is a ENTIRE fucking annual with him & Falcon that heavily shows his experience with Blacks and shows him being sympathetic to black soldiers in the 40s & him referring to the blacks that Zola experimented on as "your betters" to Zola himself.

His talking down to the French is faint Jingoism not racism.

And he isn't even that Jingoistic, he is the first to demand the Ultimates stop working under Shield's direction.
He strongly praised Russian soldiers in Ultimate Nightmare.
He calls Nick out on the overprepping for war that sets the war into motion in Ultimate six. See pic related.

And him not wanting Wasp to cheat on him makes him a chauvinist? Are you fucking serious?

And who did he bully? Banner who had just intentionally set the hulk loose to kill or EAT EIGHT HUNDRED PEOPLE?
Hank Pym who was a cronic wife beater who almost murdered her days before?

OP YOUR FULL OF SHIT!

Ultimates vol 3 was when Millar turned into his Final Form.

This. Until Ultimate turned into the jerk universe, Ultimate Cap was only a bad person if you compared him to his 616 equivalent, who was basically a saint.

Remember that time when Cap was a Deathlok?

Remember that time when Cap was a Werewolf?

Remember when Cap renounced the United States and became Nomad?

Remember that time when Cap became Spider King?

Remember that time when Cap was awakened in 2099 and turned into a drug addicted psychopath to run against Dr. Doom for President?

I feel like the next logical thing is for every comic to begin actively insulting the reader by having characters break the fourth wall once or twice per issue.

Imagine it; after Cap is no longer a Nazi, the next arc begins with him turning to face the reader in a splash page and just saying
>"Good work soldier! You bought this book like the obiediant little faggot you are. It's probably even on your pull list. You're going to talk about it online too and boost my circulation through the roof and I can repeat this speech to every little bitch who sees this page, all because of you. I am in fact insulting you in this very page but you will STILL do it. You're probably not even going to drop me from the pull list even, maybe pick up the trade when it comes out too if you're into that."

And then that's it.
That's the issue, it ends in that page.
The hype generated would be enormous, the rage overwhelming, the amount of web traffic and attention drawn would be huge, and Marvel would thrive off the controversy and anger and increased sales.

Yeah vol 3 was where I dropped Ultimates. I think the change from vol 2 to vol 3 was the first time I really started caring about writer credits rather than basing purchasing decisions on what character was inside, because that switch wasn't so much "this is going in a slightly different direction" as "this is an entirely different thing painted to look like the old thing".

Was there any kind of behind-the-scenes drama behind that? The shift seemed too insane to just be Loeb wanting to go a different direction from Millar.

Nice try, Loeb, but I know that's you.

But he was never a bad person at any point in the universe.

>Remember that time when Cap was a Werewolf?

Aaaah CapWolf.
What a glorious time.

FOUR-WAY BATTLE ROYAL

CAPTAIN WOLFMERICA CABLEWOLF WOLFERINE AND LADYWOLF

LORD OF THE WOLVES

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

That's Feral from X-Force.
I think. I dunno, there were a lot of those guys running around during that period.

>that mini wolverine

Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum came soon after Loeb lost his son to cancer, which made him go a bit crazy, not to mention no one wanted to criticize his work too harshly or tell him to take a break because again, he had a dead kid.

Add in on top of that he didn't really read any of the Ultimate comics before working on them, so he just assumed that the continuity was 'edgy 616' and ran with it.

And that's how we got Blob eating Wasp.

When is Ulti-Mate doing Ultimates?

>the continuity was 'edgy 616'
That's not wrong

That's not a mini Wolverine. He's normally that short.

>CAPTAIN AMERICA AS LORD OF THE WOLF

What does S.P.E.A.R. stand for?

What does that have to do with racism?

Give me some Ultimate Cap recommendations.

Read the first two volumes of The Ultimates.
Don't read the third volume of the Ultimates.
Maybe read the first volume of Ultimate Comics Avengers.

Can we all agree that Ultimate Tony and Thor were bros?

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And in Captain America #1 or whatever the one before this outrage was, Captain equates Hydra to an ideological war. Basically he turned them into ISIS/Boko Haram/whatever. He separated them from the Nazi origin and called them ideologs who recruit people young with all the tactics religious extremists use. Don't know how I feel about that new Hydra, but it does fit the name. Stomp out one branch like ISIS and two more seem to pop up.

>who got Peter Parker killed

HE didn't ask peter to swing past the punisher several hundred meters just so he could take the bullet with his gut. Peter's death was fucking stupid.

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