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<b>The Ultimen</b> are a fictional [[superhero]] group featured in the [[animated]] series ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. Based on original characters from the ''[[Super Friends]]'', they are a group of young heroes who used their gifts to not only help people, but also to gain [[media]] attention. 

== Team history ==
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[[Image:ultimen.jpg|thumb|250px|The Ultimen (from left to right: Juice, Long Shadow, Wind Dragon, Shifter, and Downpour).]]
First appearing in the episode "Ultimatum", the Ultimen assisted the [[Justice_League|Justice League]] in saving an off-shore oil platform from a group of lava monsters.  Near the end of the fight, Wind Dragon created a cyclone of arctic wind that froze the remaining creatures solid, a power he had never displayed before.  Concerned, but not willing to dwell on it, he turned his attention to the media, giving such a wholehearted speech that it even made Superman groan.  Though they were given the chance to join the Justice League, the Ultimen declined, saying they would rather do things their way.

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) who the people could relate to.  Lord also justified the use of marketing their images and likenesses through toys and merchandise as a way to fund their crime fighting careers.  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 told 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. 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.  Neither Long Shadow or any of the other Ultimen make additional appearances in the series, and it is very likely that their bodies simply deteriorated on 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 automations 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 has not been revealed how or even if they were disposed of afterward.

== Members ==
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