Ultimates #1-4 Annotated

[The Republic is Burning]

Ultimates #1 - "That One Thing You Don't See Coming"

• In northern Germany, Reed Richards and the Children of Tomorrow engage the Dome. Here they can build...
• Nick Fury's morning is met with three fronts of battle. This is a segway from that sequence in #5 of Ultimate Fallout.
• Above Europe, Asgard descends, and apparently some of the Asgardians stole a shit ton of beer. In retaliation, the EUSS employs the Excalibur super soldiers led by Captain Britain Jamie Braddock.
• So SEAR is Southeast Asian Republic, good to know. Bangkok is in flames, but Hawkeye is on the way to deal with it.
• Uruguay/Argentine war is exploding: Argentine fleet is approaching Montevideo. Security council asks SHIELD to deal with it, so a task force led by Iron Man prepares to defuse the conflict.
• However, Tony is in Tokyo partying, and his new assistant William tries to pull him out. Tony keeps calling him Jarvis, what a douche. Tony plugs in remotely into his armor, leading the rocketmen against the Argentine fleet.
• Braddock and his gang storm Asgard in the middle of a feast, and declines a drink from Thor, pouring it out. Of course, he gets bitch slapped. Fury sends a group of Giant-Men to break up the fight.
• Iron Man enters one of the battleships only to find that it's completely empty...
• Braddock punches Thor out of Asgard, and he lands right in front of the Dome in Germany.
• Hawkeye talks to Nick, who tells him that the POTUS wants them to help SEAR in peacekeeping efforts. They deploy a Heli-carrier from the SEAR Triskelion.
• They suddenly lose contact with Hawkeye and the Heli-carrier; apparently the SEAR Triskelion is under attack. Fury sends an attack group out of Okinawa.
• Stark tells Fury about the ghost ship and breaks off shielding to find out what's up with the controls, only to discover a stark industries nuke ready to blow. The bomb goes off, and Tony is knocked unconscious from the feedback to his remote control.
• One of the Excalibur super-soldiers touches the outside edge of the Dome and is yanked in. We see that there is a bunch of crazy sci-fi shit going on with the COT, mechs and ships and wings and crap.
• Everything has gone wrong. Where is Cap when you need him?
• Black Widow, Spider-Woman, and the Hulk protocol on the back burner, but Fury doesn't know what to do...

Ultimates #2 - "Last Day of Legend"

• A new Ragnarök!
• In literally five minutes, the Dome closes and a thousand years pass within...
• Artificial children, collective hive minds, numeric designation naming conventions!
• The City gains sentience and a desire to expand.
• Reed now calls himself The Maker, and the First Speaker leads Tomorrow's Children against Thor and the Super-Soldiers.
• Tony is revived by William, activating a spare Iron Man suit.
• The COT analyze the super-soldiers as they fight, seeing that Thor is different.
• Giant Men are on the way as SHIELD still can't reach Hawkeye. Nick Fury makes contact with Tony, who believes the Kratos Club is behind the nuke detonation. Fury tells him to go to Germany.
• The COT analyze Thor, and Maker explains that he remembers him. COT discover that his god-energy is linked to Asgard, and Maker unleashes them to destroy the city.
• Braddock and super-soldiers leave to warn the world, while Captain France and Thor go to stop the invasion.
• Gods are getting killed left and right, so Thor takes his son Modi, gives him Mjolnir, and puts him in the room without doors. Odin is killed, but Loki and Thor fight on as Yggdrasil is destroyed. Loki dies too.
• Tony catches Thor, and the COT continue their genocide on the Asgardians.

Ultimates #3 - "There's No Win Here"

• Tony builds Thor a new suit and a new hammer that can teleport.
• One week after the fall of asgard, shit looks pretty dire. The excalibur supes have failed, and the giant men as well. The City overtakes a good part of Germany.
• It's a big fight in the sky against the COT.
• Nothing works out. Not even nukes.
• They escape after losing a couple of heli-carriers.
• Thor tells Tony his vengeance must be had, and goes alone to take on the COT.

Ultimates #4 - "The Man Behind The Mask"

• Thor attacks the City and discovers its genetic experimentation to artificially grow children.
• He frees Jamie Braddock, but is then ambushed by Maker and his rook, the Knife. Knife messes Thor up pretty bad.
• Maker lets him live, but reveals his true face as a warning. The City has reached current potential and will stop expanding, so long as the Republic and its heroes do not intervene.
• Thor is pissed, but communion with the spirits of his father and friends get him back on track, Thor has all of Valhalla in him now, he is the remnant of Asgard.
• "Do you lack faith brother... or do you believe?"
• Thor comes back to the Heli-carrier and tells everybody what happened, revealing that the Maker is in fact Reed Richards!