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The team's money manager, [[Maxwell Lord]], used the media to make them look like selfless heroes who had nothing to hide from the public. He contested that his Ultimen, unlike the Justice League, were a group of "down-to-earth" heroes (both figuratively and literally) to whom the people could relate. Lord also justified the use of marketing their images and likenesses through toys and merchandise as a way to fund their crime fighting careers, giving the members 
impressively generous royalty checks to buttress his argument. Secretly, however, he was growing concerned with the knowledge that [[Wind Dragon]] had gained a new power, and called all the Ultimen together for testing. [[Long Shadow]], having also mutated into gaining super hearing, heard Lord speaking to their doctor, Professor Hamilton, and learned that the Ultimen themselves were actually created in a lab and implanted with false memories by members of [[Project Cadmus]]. Eventually, they interrogated the truth out of Lord, who also toldLord and forced him to tell them that they were dying and were going to be replaced by [[cloning|clones]]. Angry, the Ultimen attempted to find the woman in charge, [[Amanda Waller]], and confront her, but she and her project were long gone on her orders. When the Justice League showed up, they stopped searching for Waller and (except for Long Shadow) attacked them in hopes that they would be remembered for defeating the world's most powerful heroes. They eventually lost, and with the exception of Long Shadow (who was officially offered membership into the Justice League), were taken into Cadmus' custody to await their eventual deaths.  None of these original Ultimen make additional appearances in the series, and it is likely that their bodies simply deteriorated upon to death.

In the episode "Flashpoint", it is revealed that Cadmus has created an army of clones of all the Ultimen, to be led by [[Galatea (Justice League Unlimited)|Galatea]] (herself a clone of [[Supergirl]]) against the Justice League. This Ultimen army no longer have the personality of the originals and are, basically, mindless automatons controlled by Galatea. In the following episode "Panic in the Sky", the clone army attacks the Justice League's Watchtower while its founding members are being held on Earth. The remaining members of the Justice League are able to defeat them and Galatea, though it hwas not been revealed how or even if they were disposed of afterward.

== Members ==
* [[Wind Dragon]] – The leader of the Ultimen, who had the power to control the wind and later on create ice. (Based on [[Samurai (Super Friends)|Samurai]])
* [[Long Shadow]] - Has the powers to expand his body mass, growing into a massive [[Giant (mythology)|giant]].  Also demonstrates enhanced hearing. Has a crush on [[Wonder Woman]], much to [[Batman]]’s chagrin.  (Based on [[Apache Chief]])
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* Also conspicuous by his absence in "Ultimatum" was the only other "affirmitave action hero" from ''Super Friends'', [[El Dorado (Super Friends)|El Dorado]]. 

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