Ultimates 2 #4

What an insufferable bastard. Mark Millar has turned the usually lovable Captain America into an arrogant, self-righteous prick. And the man who should really be the one with all the ego, the man who believes himself to be a bloody God, for crying out loud, is the peace-loving, quite one. And he is about to pay.

The Ultimates have been ordered to take down Thor for his refusal to toe the line. The Ultimates and what army? Now lets see, who all does the Ultimates comprise of at this point?
The WASP, who can shrink down to the size of a wasp, and sting. Ok, next.
BLACK WIDOW, a Russian superspy, with no superhuman powers. A walkover. Less, even. Next.
HAWKEYE, expert marksman, with a bow and arrow. He might just about squeeze in a dirty shot when he's being totally ignored, but I really doubt it.
QUICKSILVER, superspeedster. Naah, Thor already got him. So his speed does jack for him.
The SCARLET WITCH, apparently with powers of chaos magic. Now this is a wild card. I haven't been reading the Ultimate X-Men series, so I don't know if she's displayed any of her abilities there, but if it really is magic, then frankly, she'd be unstoppable.

On to the heavy hitters. IRON MAN is included here rather reluctantly. His armour isn't nearly as powerful as it looks. Plus he needs a 100-man support crew everytime he deploys. Way to go to totally destroy any effectiveness the armour might have had. It's more of a joke really, a super-powered toy that the filthy rich would play with.
GIANT MAN. No wait, he's out. Heck, he was even taken down by the Cap, albeit in a totally unbelievable fashion. What, growing 10 storeys high make you slower than a turtle with arthritis??
Finally, CAPTAIN AMERICA. The Ultimate Cap is much, much stronger than his 616 counterpart. He's also much more ruthless. But he's still human. Lightning will kill him.
So THOR has no competition. Ofcourse, we know absolutely nothing about the European Super-Soldiers, and neither, I'm betting, does Thor. This should definitely be interesting. I can't wait to see the Norse Thunder God beat the snot out of the Cap, and everyone else too.

So what actually happened in #4? Well, Tony proposes to Natasha (who gets an Iron Woman armour), Thor intervenes when peaceful protestors are about to be brutalizes by armed forces, the Ultimates meet the Super-Soldiers from the European Defence Initiative, and we learn of Thor's supposed origin as the Norwegian candidate for the program.

On a side note, anyone see the parallel here with Black Panther #2? The Ultimates are slowly being manoeuvered into a political tool, to be used as a weapon against those, who go against the interests of the American Government. In Black Panther #2, Klaw and his villainous partner are sanctioned to take out the Black Panther, just because the Government "perceives" a threat to American Interests from the regime change in Wakanda. Scary.