40 Fun Facts About Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

Which two video game icons were cut as playable characters from the Wii version of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance?

Link and Samus Aran were planned for the Wii launch port, but both Nintendo characters were removed before the game's release.

In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, which team bonus pairs Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman with Black Panther and Storm?

Double Date nods to two famous comic-book romances, and it speeds up the health regeneration of all four heroes.

Which Asgardian villain poses as Nick Fury in Ultimate Alliance to trick the heroes into freeing the Destroyer armor?

Loki, Thor's adoptive brother and the god of mischief, wanted the Destroyer armor freed for his own ends, and the heroes then have to defeat both him and the armor.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus is earned by fielding Ms. Marvel, Storm, Elektra and Invisible Woman together?

Femme Fatale raises the squad's damage by 5%, and Spider-Woman can stand in for any one of the four.

Ultimate Alliance 2 bases its story on which Marvel Comics event that splits heroes over a superhero registration law?

Civil War sets Iron Man's pro-registration camp against Captain America's resistance, and the game makes players pick a side once the registration act passes.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus is earned by fielding Human Torch, Ms. Marvel, Storm and Thor together?

Air Force rewards four heroes who can fly with 15% more maximum health, and it has no spare members: all four must be on the squad.

Which building serves as the heroes' first headquarters in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance?

Stark Tower is lent to the newly formed team by Iron Man, until mystical threats prompt a move to a second base later in the story.

Which villain leads the Black Order against the heroes in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3?

Thanos and his five lieutenants chase the six Infinity Stones in a 2019 reboot whose story ignores the continuity of the first two games.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus is triggered by a squad of Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Hulk?

Think Tanks rewards Marvel's scientific minds with 15% more maximum health, and Doctor Strange is the fifth hero who counts toward it.

Which kingdom do the heroes visit in Ultimate Alliance to rescue Namor from the usurper Attuma?

Atlantis is explored with nanotechnology that lets the heroes breathe underwater while Attuma controls the minds of its people.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus is earned by Black Panther, Thor, Storm and the downloadable Doctor Doom?

Marvel Royalty also admits Doctor Strange, so the bonus can be earned without buying any downloadable characters.

Which studio developed the main console versions of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, released in October 2006?

Raven Software had already made two Marvel action role-playing games, and it kept their formula of building a four-hero squad from a large cast.

Doctor Doom leads which supervillain alliance against the heroes in the original plot of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance?

The Masters of Evil open the story by attacking the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, which prompts the distress call that brings the heroes together.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus is earned by putting Blade, Ghost Rider, Luke Cage and Wolverine on one squad?

Bad to the Bone returns 5% of the damage its members inflict as health, and the downloadable Hulk and Sabretooth also count toward it.

Which sea monster do the heroes of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance defeat by toppling pillars onto it?

The Kraken is unleashed on the heroes right after they defeat the usurper Attuma, in the game's underwater chapter.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus is unlocked by Ghost Rider, Human Torch, Storm and Thor on one squad?

Scorchers needs all four of its heroes, and Ghost Rider cannot join until the squad rescues him from Mephisto.

Which building becomes the heroes' second headquarters in Ultimate Alliance once magic enters the plot?

The Sanctum Sanctorum is offered by Doctor Strange as a temporary base after Nightcrawler and a U.S. senator are kidnapped.

A squad of Storm, Wolverine, Iceman and Colossus raises which stat by 15% as its Ultimate Alliance team bonus?

Max energy is the reward for the game's mutant team, and the downloadable villains Magneto and Sabretooth count as members too.

What name does Ultimate Alliance 2 give the combined attacks that any two heroes can perform together?

Fusion was once part of the sequel's announced title, and every playable character has a unique one with every other character.

Which publisher released Marvel: Ultimate Alliance in 2006 and later saw its Marvel games license expire?

Activision's Marvel license ran out in 2014, so the third game arrived in 2019 from a different publisher.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus mixes heroes and villains: Mr. Fantastic, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom and Venom?

Arch Rivals needs all four of its members, so it exists only on versions that offer Doctor Doom and Venom, who arrived as downloadable villains.

Whose godly power does Doctor Doom steal late in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, putting the whole universe at risk?

Odin gets his own back in the finale, blasting Doom with lightning once the heroes have weakened the villain with two cosmic artifacts.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus is earned by teaming Doctor Doom, Magneto, Sabretooth and Venom?

Rogues Gallery is reserved for Doctor Doom, Magneto, Sabretooth and Venom, the four villains who arrived together in a 2007 downloadable Villain Pack.

From which cosmic being do Ultimate Alliance's heroes steal the Muonic Inducer while he attacks the Skrull homeworld?

Galactus vows revenge for the theft in the closing scene, leaving a threat to Earth hanging over the end of the story.

Which comics imprint lends its name to an Ultimate Alliance team bonus that includes Luke Cage and Black Panther?

Marvel Knights adds six points each to body, strike and focus, and Daredevil, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange are also eligible.

Which villain do the heroes of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance confront in his palace in the Valley of Spirits?

The Mandarin admits after his defeat that he tried to take command of Doom's alliance, failed and walked away from it.

The Assassins team bonus in Ultimate Alliance, earned by Blade, Deadpool, Elektra and Wolverine, boosts what by 60%?

Credit drops pay out S.H.I.E.L.D. credits, the in-game currency that players spend on levelling up each costume's perks.

Baron Mordo diverts the heroes of Ultimate Alliance to which lair of the villain Arcade on their way to Castle Doom?

Murderworld pits the squad against Rhino, Shocker and a mind-controlled captive before Arcade himself attacks in a mech.

Which comic-book team names the Ultimate Alliance bonus for Doctor Strange, Hulk, Silver Surfer and Iceman?

The Defenders bonus returns 5% of the damage a squad deals as health, and Luke Cage is the fifth hero who qualifies for it.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus depends on costumes, needing four heroes in their original or classic outfits?

Flashback counts looks such as Captain America's WW2 uniform and Iron Man's classic armor, and it raises maximum health by 15%.

Which Ultimate Alliance team bonus rewards the muscle of Thing, Luke Cage, Colossus and Captain America?

Bruisers adds 15 points to the Striking stat, and Ms. Marvel is the fifth powerhouse who counts toward it.

Above the Infinity Vortex in Ultimate Alliance, players must save either Nightcrawler or which other captive mutant?

Jean Grey returns as the Dark Phoenix in the epilogue if she is the one left to fall, seeking vengeance on those who did not save her.

Which being rescues the heroes from Doctor Doom in Ultimate Alliance and later presents the epilogue's outcomes?

Uatu the Watcher carries the squad to the Inhumans' base on the moon, then explains which artifacts can stop Doom.

Which dragon leads the Ultron sentries that attack the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier at the start of Ultimate Alliance?

Fin Fang Foom falls in the opening mission, and defeating him unlocks an achievement called Dragon Slayer.

Which earlier series by the same studio gave Marvel: Ultimate Alliance its four-hero action role-playing formula?

X-Men Legends and its sequel shared the same combat, though Ultimate Alliance simplified the role-playing elements by upgrading character stats automatically.

Which hero was added to the PSP version of Ultimate Alliance alongside Black Widow, Captain Marvel and Hawkeye?

Ronin arrived with six exclusive comic book missions, an extra prequel mission and three new single-player modes.

Which studio developed Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, the 2019 reboot published by Nintendo?

Team Ninja, the Koei Tecmo studio behind Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, built the game exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.

Dragonfang, a sword found in an optional Ultimate Alliance quest, belongs to which Asgardian warrior?

Valkyrie helps free Asgard if she gets Dragonfang back, and without it the epilogue says she dies in the battle.

Which U.S. senator can players free in an optional Ultimate Alliance task tied to a Mutant Aid Bill?

Robert Kelly sponsors the bill, which supports schools like Professor X's, if freed; left alone, he backs re-education camps for mutants instead.

The Game Boy Advance version of Ultimate Alliance swaps the action RPG for which style of game?

The side-scrolling beat 'em up fields squads of three plus a non-playable "striker" who can be summoned for one powerful attack.