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Ultimate Marvel Universe
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Publisher
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Marvel Comics
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Notable Characters
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Ultimate Spider-Man, The Ultimates, The Ultimate Fantastic Four, The Ultimate X-Men
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First Appearance
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Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 1) #1 (October, 2000)
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Aliases
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Earth-1610, Ultimate Marvel, Ultimate Comics Universe
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The Ultimate Marvel Universe (AKA Earth-1610) is an alternate version of the Marvel Universe and largely features more recent versions of traditional Marvel characters. It was recently announced that this continuity would be ended in the wake of the events of the upcoming Secret Wars crossover.
History[]
Super-Human activity on Earth of the Ultimate Marvel Universe existed in certain areas (the Inhuman community, for example) but it didn't have a direct impact on the general populace until the Second World War. In that time, the war was using a "super-soldier" as talented soldier in costume designed to rally troops. However, when he died in combat in a very public tragedy, President Roosevelt demanded an "actual" super-soldier who is greater than regular soldiers.
A year later, scientists had developed a method that would promised to turn soldiers into superhumans in order to win the war. During the battle of Sicily, three Allied soldiers are caught attempting to loot a house: James Howlett, Fisk (first name unknown) and Nicholas Fury. Soon, the military police arrest them and they are taken away to a secret unknown location. There, Fury is selected to become a part of Project Rebirth, due to the fact that his blood tests were a close match for a successful test subject named Subject 22 and is injected with a serum that gives Fury super strength. Fury uses it to free himself and the other experimented on prisoners, an action allowed by the overseers as the main goal, to see if a superhuman could be created, was accomplished.
Once it was confirmed that superhumans could be created Dr. Erskine continued Operation: Rebirth and used a young, sickly man named Steve Rogers as a test subject, turning him into a powerful superhuman. Unfortunately, Erskine was murdered by an assassin shortly after Steve became superhuman, and the details on how to recreate the experiment were lost. Steve was given the name Captain America and was given a costume to help bolster morale of both the soldiers and the American people. For years Steve fought not only against the Nazis but also against the Chitauri, an alien race who had infiltrated Earth and had been assisting the Nazis to ensure the world's downfall. During one battle in 1945, Captain America prevented a missile from destroying Washington by leaping on it and destroying it and then fell into the arctic sea. Captain America was assumed to be dead but in fact his body went into suspension due to a strange side effect of the super soldier serum, where he lay for many decades.
Some time later, Weapon X is established, an organization to create superhumans like Captain America and weaponize them. Two people who worked for the organization experimented on their own son, Erik Lenshirr, giving him strange powers over magnetism. When Erik learned about James Howlett, the first mutant, he used his powers to free him and would go on to dedicate himself to fighting against the oppression of mutants. To this end, he met with another mutant, Charles Xavier, and the two left their human wives to seek out and protect other mutants.