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Who Or What Is Ultimate X? Shadow Reveal 1

We get to see one of the characters from the shadows.

I love Marvel's marketing team.  Yesterday we saw our second image of Ultimate X.  This new image had some figures in the background that were shadowed out.  Call Marvel a tease if you want but today they reveal one of those hidden characters:

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The fact that Marvel is being coy about this brings a new line of thinking.  We had the question, "who or what is Ultimate X?"  Since we only had the image of the dude with claws, we naturally assumed "Ultimate X" was the name of that character (a pretty bad name for a character).  Now we're lead to believe that maybe "Ultimate X" will refer to an actual team, hence the "what" part in the question.
 
Unfortunately this new character in the background doesn't really answer much.  To me, she looks like she could be Ultimate Psylocke.  But, if I remember correctly, Ultimate Psylocke was older and had some sort of past relationship with Professor X.  Is this female character and the one we've seen just simply brand new characters or are they Ultimate versions of other existing characters?

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SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
 
 
 The boy is Logans son. But the chick, I'm not sure. She seems to have the phoenix behind her, so she might be psychic.
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@DEGRAAF: Danke! :)
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@DEGRAAF: Has it been announced yet?  I know it's out this week... I just want to know where to move the covers to :)
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@ryanpadd14 said:
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the idea that jean and the other mutants went underground is a pretty cool one, im thinkin that Jean goes off by herself and makes a brand new team because the other x men are scared or just want to remain hidden...either way the new team of ultimate x men i think that would work the best would prolly be: 
Jean Grey (leader) 
Wolverine Clone / Imposter / SUCCESSOR??
Firestar  
Storm 
Kitty (get the fuck back to x men skank, wtf?) 
Rogue 
Iceman (u too bitch, get off kitty's intangible dick)
Collosuss 
Northstar (wow...just to kill him off again)
 
the other shadow x's are prolly Firestar and Ultimate Mimic, my guesses...also why not just have the remaining Alpha Flights join the team? i mean sunfire, jubilee, aurora and rahne sinclair are / were xmen at some point, why not? thats what this universe and line of books in general was for anyway

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so The blonde guy in the center is Jimmie Hudson (Logans son that he handed over to someone else to take care of)
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the idea that jean and the other mutants went underground is a pretty cool one, im thinkin that Jean goes off by herself and makes a brand new team because the other x men are scared or just want to remain hidden...either way the new team of ultimate x men i think that would work the best would prolly be: 
Jean Grey (leader) 
Wolverine Clone / Imposter / SUCCESSOR??
Firestar  
Storm 
Kitty (get the fuck back to x men skank, wtf?) 
Rogue 
Iceman (u too bitch, get off kitty's intangible dick)
Collosuss 
Northstar (wow...just to kill him off again)
 
the other shadow x's are prolly Firestar and Ultimate Mimic, my guesses...also why not just have the remaining Alpha Flights join the team? i mean sunfire, jubilee, aurora and rahne sinclair are / were xmen at some point, why not? thats what this universe and line of books in general was for anyway

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judging from how the onyl dead body shown close up is cycolps', im guessing that the black haired telepath is Jean with a new look...idk she could still be haunted by her guilt for not saving her dead teamates like in the requiem book. im hopin this will be a frsh start and show Jean leading her own team of Xmen and, maybe, have her go up against Mystique and the brotherhood considering Mystique's treatment so far in the ultimate universe has either been in flashbacks, or plot hole ridden scenes that just don't make any sense... i mean y go thru all the trouble to set up the fact that mystique was xavier's ex lover thru flashbacks to not even have a scene with him before he died? and in ultimatum, it made no sense at all to me that Piotr knew mystique by name and knew her well enough to question why she would help Magneto, when it had never been shown on panel that the other x men knew she even existed?????? to me thats really lazy    
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@Jor-el Zod:
he died
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@RalfvdH:
I think the fire figure is cannonball
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@dbluejays1990 said:
" this shit look interesting but marvel is pulling the 3.99 on this book,so i guess i wont even bother. "
I agree with you on the $3.99 thing.  I've dropped a LOT of my regular Marvel books due to their pricing.  There are many other books, that are just as good & interesting, that I now find I have the room to explore. When Marvel starts charging more than independents, you know something's not right.
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The winged character's leg doesn't look right... i think there are three more characters to be revealed. 
 
- - - - - - - - 
Okay, maybe not.  But the angle of his left leg seems really off in that silhouette.  I thought maybe he could be holding someone else at first.

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I can't wait. I just love the Ultimate universe.

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i guess your rite
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@mitchell_707 said:
"@War Killer: she could be staring at polaris or emma frost it doesnt show her staring at just scott "

There's a close-up on Scott
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another thing to think about, the firey figure could be jean grey. shes still alive.
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@War Killer:
she could be staring at polaris or emma frost it doesnt show her staring at just scott
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@AngelFrost said:

" @sora_thekey said:
" She can't be Psylocke!!! 
Check out this page announced on the Diamond Summmit!  

 
 
Psylocke is dead right next to Beast... So no she can't be Psylocke "
She looks alot like 'Wicked'   an X-Men character that can see Ghosts.   "

I like that, but why is she looking just at Scott? 
 
and on a side note: It's not Daken! He's to new to be made into an Ultimate character.

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dakens hair and claws are different
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Dakken and Wicked
 
i see a firey-bird person. so ultimate Rachel Summers?

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@sora_thekey said:
" She can't be Psylocke!!! 
Check out this page announced on the Diamond Summmit!  

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Psylocke is dead right next to Beast... So no she can't be Psylocke "
She looks alot like 'Wicked'   an X-Men character that can see Ghosts.  
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@xerox-kitty said:
" Perhaps she's an Ultimate Future Daughter Of Cyclops... like how Rachel first appeared at a time when Jean was thought to be dead? "
Those were my exact thoughts lol
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In fairness to the wiki article, his claws don't look as shiny as Wolverine's. In fact the colouring is rather bonelike.

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I rarely read Marvel, let alone the Ultimate comics but this looks intriguing to say the least.

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i don't think marvel would make up a whole new bunch of characters. that's not what the  ultimate universe is about

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pale white skin, black hair, seems to be around and have powers about death, never been introduced before. my best bet that its ultimate Selene.

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The one possibility that I haven't really heard yet is that these are all brand new characters. Mutants lend it self for something like that and introducing brand new mutants into the Ultimate books might be interesting. There are no baggages with the 616. Loeb I think could use this as a way to tell a new story, create characters and not have to worry about various things including the old X-Men. I think thats what it will be, just brand new characters, mutants, dealing in this new Ultimate world.

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U might be right Raziel3024, but she looks so different. It looks like someone is communicating with her
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@ArtJoker said:
" Im prob wrong but i think the girl looks like ultimate wicked(son of M), just cause it seems like shes communicating with the dead, prob wrong though... "
I agree with you.  
 

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Im prob wrong but i think the girl looks like ultimate wicked(son of M), just cause it seems like shes communicating with the dead, prob wrong though...

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@iLLituracy said:
" @War Killer said:
" @viper52 said:
"just found this on wiki 
   A new series called Ultimates Comics X will be released in 2010. Marvel released an image of the first issue that shows a teenager with bone claws.

This version also possesses a much greater healing factor, allowing him even to survive decapitation. Nick Fury notes that while speaking to his head that Logan is breathing through his skin since he was lacking lungs, hinting that his mutation can alter his physiological composition.

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Wolverine is dead, Loeb said that himself in his video with G-Man a few months back, and don't trust wiki, they don't have all of their facts right. "
I think he put that together. The healing factor bit was something that Ultimate Wolverine did in Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk. "
Yeah, I know I have that book. But that does sound like something you'd find on wiki.
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@War Killer said:
" @viper52 said:
"just found this on wiki 
   A new series called Ultimates Comics X will be released in 2010. Marvel released an image of the first issue that shows a teenager with bone claws.

This version also possesses a much greater healing factor, allowing him even to survive decapitation. Nick Fury notes that while speaking to his head that Logan is breathing through his skin since he was lacking lungs, hinting that his mutation can alter his physiological composition.

"
Wolverine is dead, Loeb said that himself in his video with G-Man a few months back, and don't trust wiki, they don't have all of their facts right. "
I think he put that together. The healing factor bit was something that Ultimate Wolverine did in Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk.
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@viper52 said:
"just found this on wiki 
   A new series called Ultimates Comics X will be released in 2010. Marvel released an image of the first issue that shows a teenager with bone claws.

This version also possesses a much greater healing factor, allowing him even to survive decapitation. Nick Fury notes that while speaking to his head that Logan is breathing through his skin since he was lacking lungs, hinting that his mutation can alter his physiological composition.

"
Wolverine is dead, Loeb said that himself in his video with G-Man a few months back, and don't trust wiki, they don't have all of their facts right.
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just found this on wiki 
   A new series called Ultimates Comics X will be released in 2010. Marvel released an image of the first issue that shows a teenager with bone claws.

This version also possesses a much greater healing factor, allowing him even to survive decapitation. Nick Fury notes that while speaking to his head that Logan is breathing through his skin since he was lacking lungs, hinting that his mutation can alter his physiological composition.

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@sora_thekey said:
"@Queen's Halo said:
"@sora_thekey said:

" She can't be Psylocke!!! 
Check out this page announced on the Diamond Summmit!  

 
 
Psylocke is dead right next to Beast... So no she can't be Psylocke "
Going on this picture and that she focuses on Scott maybe she's Jean gone goth. "
When Scott was shot Kitty screamed at Bobby "You can't leave me... Not like everybody else does"  Maybe it is Kitty, just a traumatized Kitty... Which is why she's focusing on Scott "
I disagree with the Kitty idea, she's in Ultimate Spidey anyways. But the way she's looking at Scott does make me think it's Jean, and the black hairs easy, the whole world hates Mutants, so they all have to go undercover.
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my best guess is that its ultimate Selene. in a different picture it shows all these dead bodies around the girl with the black her and Selene's powers are about death and they kinda have the same look. For the fire person it most likely is Firestar since shes still alive. there's three more shadows, the fire person the cloaked wing person and some figure with a tail if u look closely. for all we know ultimate x could be this team since they say who or what is ultimate x. Maybe havok comes back!!!

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ok this may seem like a dumb question. but lets say Uatu or one of the other cosmic enititys seen what happend on earth and decided to try and help. and thus was able to reasimble wolverine with a small strand of dna. but sense it was only a small bit was only able to generate him as a teenager. and thus this is wolverine on the cover. the newest girl i would want to bealive is either jeans lost sister or a daughter of jean and cyclops. that was never reveiled do to some reasoning of profesor x. mabe she wasnt reveiled becouse she was too dangerous. and now that everyone els is gone she now is free.. mabe im way off base but. u never know what kinda plot twists there could be. exp after such an event as the one this follows. this would make sense in the fact that wolverine has lived through soo much and we have seen allot of hiim as an older man. but never seen him through his teens. 

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This book is looking more interesting, I like Loeb's writing, and will pick up this first issue if I get a chance.

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this shit look interesting but marvel is pulling the 3.99 on this book,so i guess i wont even bother.
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who's the guy in the middle panel with a bullet straight through the noggin? are y'all sayin that's cyclops? i gave up on ultimate while they were doin that awful banshee storyline where angel had a bird head.
 
Maybe she's Hellion (although it seems seeing dead people would have something to do with telepathy....or m. night shamalan...) or that goth chick from the last run of excalibur, Wicked, or maybe Negasonic Teenage Warhead...i'm not sure the extent of her powers were fully explored.
 
As for the fire person, Firestar seems the obvious choice, but i feel like they're starting totally fresh.....someone mentioned Icarus....what if Ultimate X is Young X-Men with all the sexes reversed? Then the fire person would be Match, Icarus the winged figure, X-23, Hellion and i believe another figure down on the far right (maybe a male Mercury)
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@iLLituracy said:
"It's Ultimate Dead-Girl. "

I think your right lol
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The blonde guys wolverine after he EVENTUALLY pulls himself back together from a random strand of DNA on Wolvie arm buried in the mass grave?  I dont think the adamantium liquification shoulda been enough to put him down permanently but thats just me.. As for the rest the only thing I think that looks like from here is Phoenix...Dark Phoenix.. maybe Jean traumatised (christ..understandably wouldnt u think? I know I sure am!!!) after the recent harrowing events succumbs to the Phoenix force.. 
 
Thats all I can offer but whoever they are if its NOT wolverine I think its a LITTLE bit too early to come with some lame wolvie knockoff  soeother way ill keep my ears open but im REALLY not interested until someone runs up to me laughiin & cryin tears of joy &tells me  this was all a big dream & it dint happen or Cable or somebody  "deus ex-time machinas" the shit outa this WHOLE entire Ultimatum storyline.

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Perhaps she's an Ultimate Future Daughter Of Cyclops... like how Rachel first appeared at a time when Jean was thought to be dead?

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What is Ultimate X? Well, it's a Jeph Loeb Marvel project. I think I'll pass.

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@John Valentine: How does this picture show she has psychic powers? and this could be a dream!
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@Surrender Monkey said:
" I think she's Wicked. "
Good call.  
 
@sora_thekey said:
" @Queen's Halo said:
"@sora_thekey said:

" She can't be Psylocke!!! 
Check out this page announced on the Diamond Summmit!  

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Psylocke is dead right next to Beast... So no she can't be Psylocke "
Going on this picture and that she focuses on Scott maybe she's Jean gone goth. "
When Scott was shot Kitty screamed at Bobby "You can't leave me... Not like everybody else does"  Maybe it is Kitty, just a traumatized Kitty... Which is why she's focusing on Scott "
Why would it be Kitty? She doesn't have psychic powers. 
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It's Ultimate Dead-Girl.

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this is the girl from genosha you know the one that can control the dead people 

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@Queen's Halo said:
"@sora_thekey said:

" She can't be Psylocke!!! 
Check out this page announced on the Diamond Summmit!  

 
 
Psylocke is dead right next to Beast... So no she can't be Psylocke "
Going on this picture and that she focuses on Scott maybe she's Jean gone goth. "

When Scott was shot Kitty screamed at Bobby "You can't leave me... Not like everybody else does" 
 
Maybe it is Kitty, just a traumatized Kitty... Which is why she's focusing on Scott
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I think she's Wicked.

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@sora_thekey said:

" She can't be Psylocke!!! 
Check out this page announced on the Diamond Summmit!  

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Psylocke is dead right next to Beast... So no she can't be Psylocke "
Going on this picture and that she focuses on Scott maybe she's Jean gone goth.
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