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Message: [QUOTE="Mr. Daddy, post: 143208, member: 250953"] [CENTER]Dynamite Thor is fantastic, and probably one of the most weirdly named superheroes out there. And my main gripes with the Ultimate Universe really do come down to a specific small handful of things that just happen to be particularly frustrating to me. The Ultimates are a very complicated mixed bag, but moments like that and this infamous bit here: [IMG size="598x738"]https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/5f0/022/96189ef01320062a381d5b0793997187cf-01-bryan-hitch.w710.jpg[/IMG] Are a pretty big part of what frustrates me about that line. There definitely is some good though, Ultimate Thor is actually one of my favorite things from the whole universe. I'll also always be baffled by what they did with Dr. Strange. I actually really liked the direction they were taking him, but then they just kinda... threw him away in Ultimatum. Hulk is also another one I just always kind of felt like they never really knew what they were doing with him and he never really felt right to me. Ultimatum itself is also something I have very complicated feelings on, though I will still die on the hill that it's generally overhated. I don't think it's good overall by any means, but I do think it just falls into this weird grey area of being just kinda flat out confusing why it would be written the way it was.[/CENTER] [automerge]1742606874[/automerge] Marvel didn't want to undo decades worth of continuity for those that had been following those heroes for an extended period of time, but they also didn't want to turn away people who wanted to get into the comics without having to read all of that continuity to understand things. Their solution? Make a new universe, where the main spin was that all of these heroes were largely showing up around "now" (which at the time was 2000) instead of in the 60s. Most of them are made slightly different with a variety of twists to reflect how they would be different if made in a more modern (at the time) context. [/QUOTE]

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