The Ultimate Alliance is a team of super-heroes assembled by Nick Fury to defend the world from any evil threats such as Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil in the Original Timeline, and Thanos and The Black Order in the Reboot Timeline.
Team History[]
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
After the new Masters of Evil attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier in the name of Doctor Doom, Nick Fury decided to create a superhuman task force called "the Ultimate Alliance" in order to defeat Doctor Doom and the Masters.
Because of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier being very damaged, the first headquarters was the Stark Tower. As their missions continued, they had to move to Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum as they had to travel to Hell. When Loki (one of the Masters) attacked Asgard, they had to move to Valhalla. After defeating Loki, who was controlling the Destroyer Armor, Doctor Doom reveals to have stolen Odin's power and uses it to kill the entire Alliance. But it's revealed that Uatu, the Watcher, saved them and made Attilan their new base. He revealed the heroes that the only way to stop Doom was to find the M'Kraan Crystal and steal the Muonic Inducer from Galactus, who was attacking the Skrull home world at that moment. After getting those items, the heroes returned to Earth, where Doom used his powers to twist reality slowly, and they fled to Latveria in order to defeat Doom once and for all.
Using the M'Kraan Crystal and the Muonic Inducer, the heroes managed to steal a portion of Doom's power and use it against him. Finally, when he was weakened enough, Odin recovered his powers and teleported Doom for his punishment. Finally, Nick Fury disbanded the Ultimate Alliance as they are not needed again, yet.
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
A year later, Nick Fury found out that Latveria's current prime minister, and Doom's right-hand woman, Lucia von Bardas had been secretly carrying Doom's legacy such as reforming the Masters of Evil, rather than rebuilding the country and help the people. Because the President and the U.S. government didn't take measures, making their oblivious nature for making the world to its even worst state, Fury gathered the Ultimate Alliance for an undercover mission to overthrow the Latverian government and to either get her to surrender or die. Due to the heroes defeating one of Tinkerer's superpowered machines, an explosion consumed Doom's Castle with Bardas apparently dying while still in the castle as it exploded. Next year, the Ultimate Alliance discover that Lucia becomes a cyborg and enacts a revenge by destroying New York. Unfortunately, due to the U.S. government keeps disbelieving the evidence Nick Fury gathered so hard, they pinned the blame on the Ultimate Alliance for the previous assaults that cause Lucia's army to assault New York, at the same time Fury disappeared.
On the next day after an incident on New York, the U.S. government opens the Superhuman Registration Act. Despite a terrorist attack led by Titanium Man at Washington, he warns the Ultimate Alliance that the SRA will torn them apart into two factions, which then happens three days later after Nitro kills everyone including New Warriors but one (Robbie Baldwin) at Stamford, Connecticut: the Pro-Registration and the Anti-Registration because of the Superhuman Registration Act, which caused the Civil War. But this war ended when the Fold has begun taking over the world and infected superheroes and supervillains with nanites under its control. And the remaining heroes and villains have to work together to stop this. Working together The Ultimate Alliance was able to defeat the Fold.
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3
- Main Story
It all started during the Guardians of the Galaxy's venture across space, which ends them stranded at a Kree Ship where Nebula and Ronan are. When the Kree is revealed to have been guarding the Infinity Stones from Thanos and his Black Order, the Guardians had been used by the latter faction into unknowingly tracking the stones, leading Star-Lord using the Space Stone to not only transported them to Earth, but also preserve the rest of them from falling into the wrong hands of Earth's dangerous super villains. This caught S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention to summon all available Earth's heroes (barring Fantastic Four) to create a superhuman task force called "the Ultimate Alliance" with the Guardians in order to prevent the stones from falling into the wrong hands.
As there is no safe place from Thanos and his Black Order, the heroes must fasten their quest to preserve the stones, while also temporarily stayed at the likes of Avengers Tower and Attilan. During their journeys, the heroes also acquire a temporary alliance with Venom (Eddie Brock), the Brotherhood of Mutants, and lastly Loki, though unable to recruit Green Goblin, following his trauma of seeing a possible future where Thanos reign supreme. At Attilan, they acquire an aid from Thanos' illegitimate son, Thane, before he regretfully asks the heroes to surrender the stones for their survivals, allowing Thane to potential get close on Thanos.
Though there is a minor backfire when Proxima Midnight transported the heroes to Hel, the heroes survive thanks to Valkyrie, and Odin Borson, with the latter transported them to Knowhere where the Nova Corps wage war against the Black Order. Thane, who is now completely corrupted by the stones' power after being injured by Thanos behind his back, took the stone equipped Infinity Gauntlet to summon the Infinity Armor, and transported himself, his father and the heroes to the Heart of Infinity. As Thanos knows the risk of using the full armor will potentially kill even godlike such as Thanos himself, the heroes aided him before he sacrifices himself to stop Thane. With Thane and Thanos are gone, each selected hero safekeeps the respective stones they held to prevent them from falling to the wrong hands again.
- Epilogue Expansion
During Black Panther's conference with the heroes who kept one of the other five stones, Doctor Doom and his Doombot army invaded Wakanda to steal the Soul Stone from Black Panther, and transported the heroes to the Negative Zone, as he did to the Fantastic Four. The heroes reunite with the Fantastic Four and are able to escape from Negative Zone led by its leader, Annihilus.
Instead of returning to a safe haven, Mister Fantastic instead activated the Negative Zone portal to Doom's home country, Latveria, which recently have none of its inhabitants live there because they are absorbed into the Soul Stone by Doom. Doom uses the Soul Stone to awaken one of the Celestials, and transforming himself into a God Emperor, but was defeated. However, Reed asks his fellow allies that they still need Doom because the Latverian ruler detected that a worst threat from the result of Thane and Thanos' deaths, which will invade the Earth soon.Team Members[]
- Nick Fury Sr. (Core Member/Leader)
- Captain America (Core Member/Field Leader; Anti-Reg leader (MUA2))
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Core Member; Pro Reg (MUA2))
- Thor (Core Member (MUA1); Pro Reg (MUA2))
- Wolverine (Core Member; Anti-Reg (MUA2))
- Storm (Core Member (MUA1); Anti-Reg (MUA2))
- Iron Man (Core Member; Pro Reg leader (MUA2))
- Deadpool (Core Member - Pro Reg (MUA2))
- Mister Fantastic (Core Member - Pro Reg Second In-Command (MUA2))
- Invisible Woman (Core Member - Anti-Reg (MUA2))
- Human Torch (Core Member - Anti-Reg (MUA2))
- Thing
- Iceman
- Colossus (Core Member - Anti-Reg (MUA2))
- Cyclops
- Magneto
- Daredevil (Core Member - Anti-Reg (MUA2))
- Luke Cage (Core Member - Anti-Reg Second In-Command (MUA2))
- Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) (Core Member - Pro Reg (MUA2))
- Spider-Woman (Core Member - Anti-Reg (MUA2))
- Black Panther (Core Member - Anti-Reg (MUA2))
- Blade
- Black Widow (Core Member (MUA1); Pro Reg (MUA2))
- Hulk
- Jean Grey
- Gambit
- Psylocke
Allies
- Hank Pym (Core Member (MUA1, as himself); Pro Reg (MUA2, as Yellowjacket))
- Odin Borson
- Namorita Prentiss - Deceased in MUA2
- Quicksilver
- Elektra Natchios (Core Member)
- Nightcrawler
- Sabretooth
- Doctor Strange
- Ghost Rider
- Silver Surfer
- Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
- Ronin (Maya Lopez)
- Moon Knight
- Venom (Eddie Brock)
- Doctor Doom
- Namor McKenzie
Alternate Costume Associates
- U.S. Agent
- Scarlet Spider
- Beta Ray Bill
- War Machine
- Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell)
- Venom (Angelo Fortunato)
- Venom (Mac Gargan)
- Yelena Belova
- Kristoff Vernard
- Quan-Yin Xorn
Allies
- Vision (Core Member)
- Wyatt Wingfoot
- Dum Dum Dugan
- Jubilee
- Captain Britain
- Gabriel Jones
- C.B. Cebulski
- Wong
- Clea
- Ancient One
- Professor X
- Beast
- Robert Kelly
- Mystique
- Valkyrie
- Sif
- Hermod Odinson
- Balder Odinson
- Tyr Odinson
- Heimdall
- Vola
- Uatu
- Black Bolt
- Medusa Amaquelin
- Crystal Amaquelin
- Karnak Mander-Azur
- Triton Mander-Azur
- Gorgon Petragon
- Lockjaw
- Emma Frost
- Shadowcat
Alternate Costume Associates
- Venom (Eddie Brock)
- Hobgoblin
- Bei Bang-Wen
- Red Hulk
Allies
- Justice (Core Member - Anti-Reg)
- Stan Lee
- Maria Hill (Core Member - Pro Reg)
- Patriot (Core Member - Anti-Reg)
- Hercules (Core Member - Anti-Reg)
- Havok (Core Member - Anti-Reg)
- Lucas Bishop (Core Member - Pro Reg)
- War Machine (Core Member - Pro Reg)
- Wonder Man (Core Member - Pro Reg)
- Multiple Man
- John Madrox (Core Member - Pro-Reg)
- Jamie Madrox (Core Member - Anti-Reg)
- Prodigy (Core Member - Anti-Reg)
- Firestar (Core Member - Anti-Reg)
- Officer Swanson (Core Member - Pro Reg) - Deceased
- A-Bomb
- Black Widow
- Black Panther
- Captain America (Field Leader)
- Falcon
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
- Hulk
- Iron Man
- Thor Odinson
- Wasp
Allies
Alternate Costume Associates
- Yelena Belova
- Red Hulk
Overall
Defenders
Midnight Sons
Allies
Alternate Costume Associate
- Ghost Racer
- Base
- Infinite
Overall
X-Men
Allies
Trivia[]
- The Ultimate Alliance has some characters who were cut (found on game disk data files) from the final release or/and remains non-playable (including GBA version's Striker). Among the lists are:
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Raven Software):
- Captain Britain, Gambit, Howard the Duck, Iron Fist, Longshot, Psylocke, Punisher, Namor McKenzie (Striker in GBA), Jean Grey (Striker in GBA), Vision
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (n-space):
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3, Green Goblin was originally being offered to join the alliance, but his traumatized condition after losing control of Time Stone which showed him Thanos’ reign supreme over the universe cause him to be hospitalized at the Raft.
- Not counting team bonuses or Thanos. The character select slots in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3 categorizes which teams/series/organizations the characters are/were in, including the debut. Some are in mixed categories:
- On the right edge side, which represents Marvel Knights category, the top rows often represents Defenders category, while bottom rows represents Midnight Sons category
- Hulk is categorized as a Marvel Knight (Defenders section) and Avenger character
- Scarlet Witch, Cable, Deadpool and Wolverine are categorized as Avengers and X-Men characters. Scarlet Witch's case because she first appeared in X-Men series Vol. 1 where she and Quicksilver initially believed to be mutants prior to retcons in original comic continuity.
- Carol Danvers is categorized as a Guardian of the Galaxy, a Daily Bugle officer, Marvels Team and Avenger character, due to being below Drax, and between Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (left, a Bugle) and Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) (right, a Marvel)
- Crystal Amaquelin is categorized as an Inhuman (alongside Kamala), Avenger, and Marvel Knight character
- Captain America has two categories he represents as:
- One of the biggest Avenger names in Marvel Universe alongside Iron Man, Thor Odinson and Hulk
- Recognizable S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents alongside Hawkeye, Black Widow and Falcon. Primarily based on Marvel Cinematic Prime and Ultimate universes
- Storm is categorized as Wakanda and Avenger (both of which share with Black Panther), and X-Men (X-Force section) character
- Other than Storm, as with the team bonus, the right side of X-Men category represents X-Force members consisting also Wolverine, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Deadpool and Cable
- Iron Fist and Doctor Strange are categorized as Defenders and Midnight Sons characters
- Despite unlike Magneto, Deadpool and Venom, who are categorized in certain primary hero team(s) based on team bonuses, Loki Laufeyson, Punisher and Doctor Doom still count as two Marvel Knights (a Defender and a Midnight Son) and a Fantastic Four character respectively.
- Similarly Psylocke, Magneto, and Gambit still count to be categorized as 20th century's All-New X-Men character, despite not being categorized in team bonuses, due to post-original member recruits only occurs in 1970s - 90s.
- On the right edge side, which represents Marvel Knights category, the top rows often represents Defenders category, while bottom rows represents Midnight Sons category