Ok, enough time has passed that everybody who is going to read Ultimatum already has or knows what happens. Also, the first round of Ultimate take 2 books ahs already dropped and promo art is flooding the internet. Everyone knows who is alive and dead, but *SPOILERS!* anyway for you farkin tards. What I'm doing here is counting down the top 10 deaths in Ultimatum. A lot of critics panned the hell out of the series for selling based on shock value. Honestly there were a few points when I wondered if they were purposely playing it as a comedy. Nonetheless, this epic storyline had some appropriately epic deaths. Here are what I consider the best.

Honorable mention: Angel - killed and partially eaten by Sabretooth.
Sabretooth is a bad-ass. No question about it. He dives on angel from behind and tears his wings off, then begins chowing down on the poor boy. How is this not top 10 material? PARTIALLY eaten! Don't waste your food, Victor!

10) Juggernaut - His in the eye with poisonous dart.
How do you bring down an unstoppable force. Hit him in the one place the poison will sink in. Not only does it suck to get hit in the eye (trust me, as a professional sexual harasser, I know.) but the panel where the eye goes through ultimate Juggy's ridiculous helmet is beyond funny. I'm the dude with way too good of aim, bitch! Check out my pimp dart.

9) Magneto: Head blown off by Cyclops.
The last issue was kind of a letdown, I know. However, the death of the series' main antagonist was at least satisfying. Getting your head asploded by Cyclops's force beam isn't the most entertaining thing, but the chucks of brain and skull fragments that appear hovering in the air like a vomit-inducing, M rated Wylie Coyote cartoon really is.

8) Wasp: Eaten by Blob
Now we're talking! Wasp gets eaten by Blob, but not in the way you'd expect. And not in the dirty way either. He has her cut open at the torse like a high school dissection, chowing down on the insides. You almost expect him to have a napkin tied around his neck or to be using chopsticks (oh, wait! She isn't Asian anymore. And why not?)

7) Blob: Head bitten off by Hank Pym
After finding his wife eaten by Mr. Dukes (and presumably furious for not getting invited to Chinese buffet night) Pym grows to gargantuan proportions, picks up the Blob (immovable my ass) and bites off his head, spitting it at a nearby building. Luckily we didn't have two instances of cannibalism in a row. IF you want some more though, check out Pete Milligan's The Eaters one-shot. Good book.

6) Cyclops: Shot in the head by Quicksilver.
Ok, not so much shot. Quicksilver runs the bullet through Cyclops's head. It was in front of the Capitol, like Captain America's death (other universe) his head snapped back like Kennedy's (John, of course, because brain cancer doesn't make for interesting poses) and, most intriguingly, it shows a frightening level of power for Quicksilver. Ultimate Pietro could rival DC's Flashes with that kind of ability.

5) Hank Pym: Blown up by Madrox.
Several people were blown away by Multiple Man's suicide bombings, sure. However, few images can match the epic moment where hundreds of multiple men hang off of a sixty foot tall Pym, as he leads them away from S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ. I wonder which parts got blown up last?

4) Professor X: Neck snapped by Magneto.
In all honesty, Xavier is a douche. He compares Magneto to Bin Laden. Ouch, but Eric lets it slide. Compares him to Pol Pot: furious, naturally, but chill as the grave. Then he compares Magneto to Hitler. That was it. Lensherr, being a concentration camp survivor, killed his friend in cold blood. Where was Reagan on that list, though? He and Satan would have been the logical progression from there.

3) Doctor Doom: Head crushed by the Thing.
Not really part of the story, and none too complex either. Ben Grimm puts his hand around Doom's face and squeezes. Imagine the metal from that mask bending, crumpling into wavy little points and entering the guy's eyes and brain. Anybody hungry?

2) Wolverine: Ummm . . . wow.
Wolverine gets blasted by an optic blast, has the flesh flayed from his bones by Iron Man's repulsor rays, has his adamantium skeleton removed through his pores and then has what's left of him snuffed out by Magneto. Remember when getting ripped in half by the Hulk was the most horrible thing he endured?

1) Thor: Surrendered his soul to Valhalla.
Thor dies of his own volition, goes quietly into the night with a whimper not a bang. Simply surrenders his existence to Hela. However, it was the games Hela played with him that made this the high point of the Ultimatum series. After main squeeze valkyrie and best buddy Captain America are killed, Thor goes to the underworld to bargain for their souls. He his allowed to trade his life for both of theirs (he is the Thunder God, after all) but only after he fights his way through Undead viking zombies! Thousands of them! Where is this video game? Who wouldn't buy that? Anyway, Cap shows up for the assist and they both get the zombie genocidest achievement several times over. Then Thor surrenders his soul to save those closest to him. A truer hero there has never been.