History
Origin[]
The City was the sentient futuristic city created inside the Dome,[1] a structure erected by the Maker and the Children of Tomorrow in Northern Germany.[4] The self-repairing architecture that served as the City's foundation was perfected by Derrim Fermann, the first person to be born inside the time-accelerated environment of the Dome.[1]
War with the World-Out-There[]
Nine hundred years after becoming self-aware, the City began to express the desire to expand beyond the Dome's structure, prompting the Children of Tomorrow to launch an attack on the outside world. As the Children waged war on humanity, the City grew to encompass much of continental Europe.[5] At this point, the Maker sued for peace, stating that the City had grown to a satisfactory extent, and that the Children would have no further interaction with the outside world unless provoked.[6] This was only a ruse, however, as the City continued to expand underground.
S.H.I.E.L.D. made a show of accepting the peace terms, but attempted to gain Tian as an ally against the City. As the Tianese sent a message of peace to the City, the Maker hijacked the signal, finding the Ultimates there and declaring war on the two parties. The City sent an attack group for a first strike on Tian, just as S.H.I.E.L.D. deployed the Hulk for an assault on the Dome.[7] The Hulk was subdued by the Maker, but seeing this as their only opportunity to defeat the City, the U.S. launched their entire nuclear arsenal at the Dome.[8] The Maker retaliated by sending Death to destroy Washington, D.C. and kill the President.[9] Because of the losses they had sustained from recent attacks, the Maker allowed the City to upgrade itself with a program he kept hidden from it, enabling the A.I. to manipulate its physical form for offensive and defensive purposes.[10]
Under the pretence of a peace agreement between the Children and the United States, the new U.S. government delivered Tony Stark to the City.[11] This was actually a surprise attack, however, as Stark's self-conscious technology-interfacing brain tumor, Anthony, was there to convince the City to rebel against the Maker. The City was successfully convinced and, consequently, held a quorum with all members of the Children of Tomorrow. It was ultimately decided that the Maker would be ousted as leader because of his recent retrograde behaviors (namely hiding the existence of Death so they could be used as a weapon, concealing defensive protocols from the City that blocked its cognitive advancement, and pursuing violent reprisal against the United States). The City then allowed Anthony to create a giant Iron Man Armor and use it against the Maker, who was subsequently taken into custody by the Americans in exchange for harmonious co-existence with the City.[2]
Time Runs Out[]
Sometime after the Maker's imprisonment, the City fell under unknown circumstances and its ruins were designated a radiation zone.[12] The City was seemingly restored by the Maker at a later point. Its main body was moved to underground Manhattan and it became the Maker's assistant in dealing with incursions, contractions in the Multiverse that caused the Earths of two universes to collide with each other, destroying both realities in the process. With the City's assistance, the Maker destroyed sixty-seven alternate Earths to prevent the destruction of his universe, Earth-1610. It was during his sixty-eighth incursion that the Maker met the Cabal, a group of supervillains from Earth-616 who were left to die on Earth-15340 by the Illuminati, only managing to avoid death there because Earth-15340 had a rare second incursion with Earth-1610.[13]
After the Maker allied himself with the Cabal, the City was taken to somewhere uninhabited and allowed to grow into a gigantic futuristic city again.[14] It was subsequently moved to Manhattan in preparation for the eventual incursion between Earth-1610 and Earth-616, the last two remaining universes in existence.[15] The Maker re-engineered the Children of Tomorrow and coordinated their attacks on Earth-616 from the City, but he eventually fled from Earth-1610 with the Cabal. The City ended up being destroyed alongside everything else in its universe during the event.[16]Attributes
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Abilities
Notes
- It's currently unknown if the City's off-panel fall (alluded to in Ultimate Comics Ultimates #25) has anything to do with the apparent demise of the Children (mentioned in Avengers (Vol. 5) #41).
- The City's fate following the restoration of Earth-1610 in Spider-Men II #5 remains unknown.
- The Maker's attempts to re-create the City on Earth-616 resulted in the creation of O.M.N.I.T.R.O.N.I.C.U.S., a flamboyant version of the A.I.[17]
See Also
- 17 appearance(s) of City (Earth-1610)
- 2 mention(s) of City (Earth-1610)
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of City (Earth-1610)
- 3 image(s) of City (Earth-1610)
- 1 quotation(s) by or about City (Earth-1610)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ultimates (Vol. 2) #2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ultimate Comics Ultimates #12
- ↑ Secret Wars: Official Guide to the Marvel Multiverse #1 ; The Maker's profile
- ↑ Ultimates (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ Ultimate Comics Ultimates #3
- ↑ Ultimate Comics Ultimates #4
- ↑ Ultimate Comics Ultimates #7
- ↑ Ultimate Comics Ultimates #8
- ↑ Ultimate Comics Ultimates #9
- ↑ Ultimate Comics Ultimates #10
- ↑ Ultimate Comics Ultimates #11
- ↑ Ultimate Comics Ultimates #25
- ↑ Avengers (Vol. 5) #41
- ↑ Avengers (Vol. 5) #42
- ↑ Avengers (Vol. 5) #44
- ↑ Secret Wars #1–2
- ↑ New Avengers (Vol. 4) #5