Ultimate Marvel Timeline / Chronology (v. 3.0)

This was a conversation from another thread that I thought I should post here:

Joe Kalicki said:
I'm beginning to think Ultimate Human takes place between Ultimates 2 and Ultimate Power.
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Joe Kalicki said:
Mainly just because Hulk is arrested back in the Triskelion at the end of Ultimate Power, which would practically make this have to take place before then. And if nothing contradicts it. . .
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Joe Kalicki said:
But Hulk was definitly stashed in the Triskelion again after Ultimate Power.

Whereas his whereabouts between Ultimates 2 11 and Ultimate Powe are unchronicled. That's why I maintain my stance.
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DIrishB said:
Good points, Joe. I'll go back and read Ultimate Power (ugh!) and the first three Ultimate Human issues (yay!) to double check.
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Anyway, my reasoning behind posting it here are obvious at first. Mainly, though, its because after going back and rereading everything, I now have to disagree with Joe's assessment. Hulk's whereabouts are unknown after Ultimates 2. At the end of Ultimate Power, it is indeed mentioned Hulk is back in prison.

However, in Ultimate Human #1, on the second page, when Bruce and Tony are beginning their meeting, Tony greets Bruce by saying:

"What do you want, Bruce? Are your government landlords not keeping you fed and watered correctly, sport?...
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I think this makes it clear Bruce is still under government wraps as of Ultimate Human, but maybe now he'd given more free reign. Perhaps this can be explained away due to his increased intelligence and control as the Hulk as shown post Ultimates 2, compounded by the fact the plot of this mini is another attempt at controlling the Hulk cells in Banner's blood and thats for everyone's greater good. And perhaps there's SHIELD security out the wazoo that Ultimate Humans isn't taking the time to show us, the readers.

Either way, I think Ultimate Humans occurs after Ultimates 2 and Ultimate Power, only a little while before Ultimates 3. I've changed the timeline back to reflect that.
 
On the other hand, where did Hulk come from in Ultimate Power? Didn't Fury just sort've have him there? Maybe he was working with SHIELD between Ultimates 2 and UP and UH reflects this.
 
Joe Kalicki said:
On the other hand, where did Hulk come from in Ultimate Power? Didn't Fury just sort've have him there? Maybe he was working with SHIELD between Ultimates 2 and UP and UH reflects this.
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Its Nick Fury. The only time he didn't have tabs on the Hulk/Banner was when he thought Banner was dead post Ultimates 2 #3 and before Ultimates Annual #1 and Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk #1. Something tells me Fury would've found a way to insert Hulk into his plans in Ultimate Power without too much effort.

I'm inclined to think it occurs after both Ultimates 2 and Ultimate Power.

If any more info comes to light in either Ultimate Human or a reference to it in another mini, I'm completely open to change my mind. But for now I'm gonna leave it (I'm kind of expecting Ultimate Human to set up or minorly explain Hulk's absence in Ultimates 3).
 
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Im confused i swear my neest issue of amazing friends said it took place beofre issue 81 of x-men.
 
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wait a second...wasn't Jean Grey in Amazing Friends? and Night Crawler, and Colossus?
and it takes place AFTER Apocalypse? ah, crap!
 
captaincanuck65 said:
wait a second...wasn't Jean Grey in Amazing Friends? and Night Crawler, and Colossus?
and it takes place AFTER Apocalypse? ah, crap!
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Yep. Like I said, apparently one of the Ultimate editors forgot to pass the note to Bendis of the results of UXM #93 (despite specifically mentioning it takes place post UXM #93). And its not like Jean, Collossus, or Nightcrawler being there was required by the story in the least. Another pointless timeline ****-up.

Thanks again, Bendis.

Ah well...

I'm hoping at some point in the near future Jean, Collossus, and Nightcrawler will rejoin the team, so I can place the USM Amazing Friends arc afterward. That'd at least solve that problem.
 
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I just want to say thanks for making this timeline. As long as there isn't an official timeline released I will be coming here to find out what issue goes where. I appreciate the time and effort you put into this as I had noticed references to the other Ultimate titles in other ones and wasn't quite sure where they fit together. I'm still not completely sure as I'm just collecting all the hardcovers and havent got enough to officially piece everything together, but I know this timeline will help me.
 
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and Night Crawler is on the cover of UXM # 95
well, maybe there's hope

we made Ultimate Power fit, after all!
 
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Good point. Maybe after 93 doesn't have to mean before 94... or 96, in this case. Don't get your hopes too high, though. If you look closely at Ultimate Power on the line, you can see DIrishB's sanity stuck amongst the mashing it took to make it fit.
 
Pearl said:
Don't get your hopes too high, though. If you look closely at Ultimate Power on the line, you can see DIrishB's sanity stuck amongst the mashing it took to make it fit.
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Ultimate Power fits perfectly, it was just hard to figure out how to make it fit so well.
 
captaincanuck65 said:
Ultimate Power fits perfectly, it was just hard to figure out how to make it fit so well.
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I'd still hardly call it perfect. There's the whole Ant-Man thing, and Fury's arm which was never explained in-book, and Kitty mentioning being on the X-Men, and I don't know, other things I probably don't even remember.
 
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