Squeege63
01-25-2008, 02:36 PM
What I think would be a really interesting story would be that of Ultimate Kang. I would play him kind of like Biff in Back to the Future II. Kang would be his last name. He wouldn't be from the future, he would be from maybe 40 or so years in the future - leave it open to the idea that he is alive at this time as his younger self. I'm not sure what I would do for his first name. Instead of coming back to the past and bringing armies, etc. he comes back and uses his knowledge of the future to manipulate the stock market, maybe bring a piece of technology that revolutionizes the world that he makes obscene amounts of money with. his goal is to take over the world but he is doing it in a systematic fashion by controlling the worlds money - maybe a power play for Stark Enterprises, taking over SHIELD contracts, getting scientists from the baxter building to defect to him, etc. Basically as a semi bloodless war. It would be a giant game of chess.
I would also play it similar to Ultimates vol 1 and 2 where we weren't sure if Kang really is from the future or just delusionally brilliant because he believes he is and he "created" this technology that is advanced beyond anything currently on earth.
He will have a small group of shock troops designed to deal with the super human population as he sees them as an unpredictable threat. They will have advances technology from the future. I would call them the Masters, as a nod to the Masters of Evil, but in the real world, few believe themselves to be evil. I would use this to introduce a bunch of Avengers villians like Klaw, Graviton, the Grim Reaper, the Taskmaster, etc. Maybe even some heroes like Wonder Man, Songbird. Kang would be also be the Scarlet Centurion and would be the leader of the Masters. This could also lead into crossovers with other Ultimate books as other characters from the rogues galleries of the different heroes in the Ultimate U could appear and be created by Kang and be tasked with eliminating said heroes.
He would also utilize his massive resources to launch a PR campaign to make the Masters the new premier super team, while also disgracing the Ultimates and making them appear to the public as the bad guys. Maybe use Taskmaster to frame a few of them for crimes by imitating their fighting moves (cap/hawkeye/Black Panther). Tony Stark would go into a deeper spiral with the corporate take over of his company.
About halfway through the arc i would have someone (maybe Vance Astrovik as Justice, as a nod to the Guardians of the Galaxy and the future) travel back in time to try to stop Kang. This is the first time that the Ultimates realize what is really going on. Up until this point, they just thought that Kang was this corporate power broker who was asserting himself, and that the Masters were actually a separate entity. They organize a strategic assault on Kang. A surgical strike with members like Cap, Wasp, Black Panther, Hawkeye, while the big guns take on the Masters to occupy them.
At the same time Nick Fury goes on a hunt to find Kang as a child because he believes that he can neutralize him, then he can alter the timeline and this won't happen. Fury finds the kid but he is being protected (unknowingly) by someone - not sure who yet, maybe the Sentry or something like that. (maybe I'll have kid Kang be a student at Midtown High, which is always fun because I could bring in Spider-Man and his relationship with Fury is great. could lead to a huge misunderstanding.)
The Avengers defeat the Masters. Kang is also defeated maybe using some temporal displacement technology or something. could have Justice sacrifice himself to get it to work. Kang is lost to the time stream. The Masters are defeated, Ultimates exhonerated and their public image returned. Some of the Masters, who were based on 616 heroes realize what happened and realize they were on the wrong side - defect to the Ultimates. Others are sent to prison, etc. Kid Kang is taken by Fury and locked away in the Triskelion or something, never to be released, but its not like he can really be killed since he hasn't done anything yet. The last scene is of kid kang in his cell and someone appears. It is an aged version of Kang and he calls himself Immortus, and he offers to get kid Kang out of jail. Kid kang accepts and they disappear. End.
Thoughts.
I would also play it similar to Ultimates vol 1 and 2 where we weren't sure if Kang really is from the future or just delusionally brilliant because he believes he is and he "created" this technology that is advanced beyond anything currently on earth.
He will have a small group of shock troops designed to deal with the super human population as he sees them as an unpredictable threat. They will have advances technology from the future. I would call them the Masters, as a nod to the Masters of Evil, but in the real world, few believe themselves to be evil. I would use this to introduce a bunch of Avengers villians like Klaw, Graviton, the Grim Reaper, the Taskmaster, etc. Maybe even some heroes like Wonder Man, Songbird. Kang would be also be the Scarlet Centurion and would be the leader of the Masters. This could also lead into crossovers with other Ultimate books as other characters from the rogues galleries of the different heroes in the Ultimate U could appear and be created by Kang and be tasked with eliminating said heroes.
He would also utilize his massive resources to launch a PR campaign to make the Masters the new premier super team, while also disgracing the Ultimates and making them appear to the public as the bad guys. Maybe use Taskmaster to frame a few of them for crimes by imitating their fighting moves (cap/hawkeye/Black Panther). Tony Stark would go into a deeper spiral with the corporate take over of his company.
About halfway through the arc i would have someone (maybe Vance Astrovik as Justice, as a nod to the Guardians of the Galaxy and the future) travel back in time to try to stop Kang. This is the first time that the Ultimates realize what is really going on. Up until this point, they just thought that Kang was this corporate power broker who was asserting himself, and that the Masters were actually a separate entity. They organize a strategic assault on Kang. A surgical strike with members like Cap, Wasp, Black Panther, Hawkeye, while the big guns take on the Masters to occupy them.
At the same time Nick Fury goes on a hunt to find Kang as a child because he believes that he can neutralize him, then he can alter the timeline and this won't happen. Fury finds the kid but he is being protected (unknowingly) by someone - not sure who yet, maybe the Sentry or something like that. (maybe I'll have kid Kang be a student at Midtown High, which is always fun because I could bring in Spider-Man and his relationship with Fury is great. could lead to a huge misunderstanding.)
The Avengers defeat the Masters. Kang is also defeated maybe using some temporal displacement technology or something. could have Justice sacrifice himself to get it to work. Kang is lost to the time stream. The Masters are defeated, Ultimates exhonerated and their public image returned. Some of the Masters, who were based on 616 heroes realize what happened and realize they were on the wrong side - defect to the Ultimates. Others are sent to prison, etc. Kid Kang is taken by Fury and locked away in the Triskelion or something, never to be released, but its not like he can really be killed since he hasn't done anything yet. The last scene is of kid kang in his cell and someone appears. It is an aged version of Kang and he calls himself Immortus, and he offers to get kid Kang out of jail. Kid kang accepts and they disappear. End.
Thoughts.