Ultimate X-Men

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Trivia

• Ultimate X-Men #1 starts with Magneto's Brotherhood committing gigantic bombings which destroy much of Washington and New York. The events of the issue, published in February 2001, contain chilling similarities with the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• Mark Millar stated that he wrote his first stories with practically no deeper knowledge of the X-Men. Additionally, he revealed that he was suffering from great pain while writing the groundbreaking Return to Weapon X, due to a potentially deadly kidney disease which kept him in hospital for months. This explains why there is so much gruesome suffering during this storyline. http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/mar02/millar2.shtml
• World Tour, the third arc, takes place in the UK and is labelled as the story with the most mistakes.
• It lists Land's End as a part of Scotland although it is a part of England.
• It puts the London Eye on the wrong side of the Thames.
• The colors of the Union Flag on Colossus' shirt are wrong.
• 15-year-old Iceman is let into a pub although English pubs prohibit entry to minors.
• When Wolverine is run over by a truck, the vehicle's steering wheel is on the left side, but vehicles in the UK have their steering wheels on the right.
• The same scene, which takes place in Scotland, is witnessed by Jean Grey, although the next page depicts her in Russia at that time.
• Finally, a sign in Berlin airport says "Dublin Airport".
• As a running gag, some vehicles have the license plate "FLHRCI" which is an acronym for a Harley-Davidson bike.
• Part 7 of Return of the King mirrors the final conversation in the first X-Men movie between Professor X and Magneto in the famous "plastic jail cell". This issue, which was also the swansong of the Mark Millar and Adam Kubert run, features also two security officers who are called "Millar" and "Kubert".
• The famous Danger Room has been used several times for in-jokes and pop culture references. Once, the junior X-Men fought the Brood, and for recreation, there were simulations of Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings.
• Corsair and the Starjammers - two well-known elements of the mainstream X-Men contunuity - appeared as a figment in the mind of Scott Summers, brought to life by Jean Grey.
• In the mainstream continuity, Mojo and Longshot have no civil names. In Ultimate X-Men, they were christened "Mojo Adams" and "Arthur Centino", a play on their creators, namely writer Ann Nocenti (No-Centi became Centi-No) and artist Arthur Adams.
• Ultimate X-Men #40 features what Marvel claims to be the first marriage proposal in a comic book letters column, which is answered in Ultimate X-Men #44 with a positive response.