Avengers Vol 3 21

Part of the "Ultron Unlimited" story arc Avengers Vol 3 #21 Published Released October, 1999 August 25, 1999 Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras Cover Artist George Pérez "This Evil Unveiled" Writer Kurt Busiek Penciler George Pérez Inker Al Vey Colourist Tom Smith Letterer Richard Starkings Comicraft Editor Tom Brevoort Previous Issue Next Issue Avengers Vol 3 #20 Avengers Vol 3 #22

No-- You don't know the truth-- Not the whole truth. No one does-- No one but me. It's worse-- Worse than anyone ever thought--

-- Giant-Man

Appearing in "This Evil Unveiled"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  •  Iron Man (Tony Stark) 
  •  Vision (Victor Shade) 
  •  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 
  • Firestar (Angelica Jones)
  • Thor
  • Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
  • Wonder Man (Simon Williams)
  • Justice (Vance Astrovik)

Supporting Characters:

• Black Panther (T'Challa)
• Giant-Man (Henry Pym)
• Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)
• Grim Reaper (Eric Williams)
• Edwin Jarvis

Villains:

• Ultron
• Alkhema

Other Characters:

• United Nations
  • Jack (First appearance)
  • Unnamed troops
• Jocasta (Recap)
• Tinkerer (Phineas Mason) (Recap)
• Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (On-screen)
• Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (On-screen)
• Avengers West Coast (On-screen)
  • Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (On-screen)
  • Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (On-screen)
  • Tigra (Greer Grant) (On-screen)
• Sunturion (Arthur Dearborn) (On-screen)
• Doomsday Man (Recap)
• Warbird (Carol Danvers) (Recap)
• Roxxon Energy Corporation (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Synthezoids
• Mutants
• Asgardians
• Androids
• Robots (Recap)
• Human-Kree Hybrids (Recap)

Locations:

• Germany (Mentioned)
• Slorenia
  • Tblunka
• United States of America
  • Virginia
    • Blue Ridge Mountains
      • High-security military facility
  • New York
    • New York City
      • Manhattan
        • Avengers Mansion

Items:

• Mjolnir
• Energy Shield
• Black Panther's Energy Daggers
• Iron Man Armor Model 16
• Wasp's Suit
  • Bio-Synthetic Wings (Recap)
• Ant-Man's Helmet (Recap)
• Grim Reaper's Scythe (Recap)
• Hawkeye's Trick Arrows (On-screen)
• Doctor Doom's Armor (On-screen)
• Vibranium (On-screen)

Vehicles:

• Ultron's flying warcraft
  
  

Synopsis for "This Evil Unveiled"

UN troops are being decimated by the cyborg citizens of Slorenia as the Avengers do their best in helping the soldiers advance as Captain America sends Black Panther and Firestar to search for Ultron.

Ultron-16 still holds his "family" prisoner and talks about using Hank Pym's brain patterns to create his "children", which causes Pym to start having a mental breakdown. Ultron notices Black Panther and Firestar approaching and confronts them on his war platform as Firestar signals the other Avengers to their position.

Back at the facility in Virginia, a group of robots take out security and free Alkhema while Justice researchers Ultron's past at the Avengers Mansion.

The Avengers launch attack after attack out Ultron and are unsuccessful until Captain America drives his photonic shield-turned-quarterstaff into Ultron's primary ion channel and Thor summons a powerful lightning strike that hits the same spot and destroys Ultron.

Heading into the tunnels beneath Slorenia, the Avengers encounter Ultron-17, then Ultron-23 followed by Ultron-458 before the ceiling and walls echo with the sounds of what seems like hundreds of Ultrons.

Solicit Synopsis

• To avenge a destroyed nation - and to rescue their kidnapped teammates - the Avengers' biggest guns (Thor, Captain America, Iron Man and special guest-star Black Panther) invade the devastated country to bring down Ultron!
  
  

Notes

• The "high-security military facility" might be Fall's Edge, the former base of the government-sponsored X-Factor team that was also located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but the facility in this issue is only briefly shown.
• This issue is reprinted in

See Also

• 3 Reprints of Avengers Vol 3 21

Footnotes

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