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Ulti

Ulti (Rablóulti), Hungary's national three-player trick-taking card game, played with a 32-card Tell pack and a passed talon; namesake bid wins the last trick with the trump 7.

Ultima (series)

Ultima: Richard Garriott's computer RPG series (1981-1999), set in Britannia, made by Origin Systems, later EA; spawned Ultima Online, influenced Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy; rights reportedly reverting to Garriott.

Última Hora

Última Hora was a Brazilian newspaper launched in Rio de Janeiro in 1951 by journalist Samuel Wainer, a leading voice for Getúlio Vargas's government and pioneer of Brazilian popular journalism.

Ultima Lingula

Ultima Lingula, a tonguelike lobe of Mars' south polar ice cap in Mare Australe quadrangle near 76S 143E; IAU-named 2006; 551 km across; studied via MARSIS radar for basal topography and low-reflectivity zones.

Ultima Online

Ultima Online (UO), launched September 24, 1997 by Origin Systems, is the pioneering graphical sandbox MMORPG set in Britannia: skill-based progression, simulated ecology, player housing, the 2000 Trammel/Felucca PvP split, ~250,000 peak subscribers, and ongoing Broadsword operation.

Ultima RS

The Ultima RS is a British sports car from Ultima Sports Ltd of Leicester, produced since 2021 with a Corvette-derived V8 and a 250 mph top speed.

UltiMaker

UltiMaker is a desktop 3D printing company formed in 2022 by the merger of Dutch Ultimaker and American MakerBot, headquartered in the Netherlands and New York.

Ultimate analysis

Ultimate analysis is a laboratory method that determines the elemental composition of solid fuels like coal and biomass, reporting carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, ash, and moisture.

Ultimate Avengers

Ultimate Avengers: The Movie is a 2006 direct-to-DVD animated superhero film adapting Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's The Ultimates, with Captain America revived after 60 years.

Ultimate Beastmaster

Ultimate Beastmaster, also known as Ultimate Beastmaster: No Surrender and Survival of the Fittest, is a Netflix obstacle-course competition series created by Dave Broome with Sylvester Stallone, running three seasons (2017–2018, 29 episodes) with localized versions for six to nine countries.

Ultimate Endgame

Ultimate Endgame, also known as Ultimate Endgame (2025), is Marvel Comics' five-issue limited series by Deniz Camp, Terry Dodson, and Jonas Scharf that ended the Earth-6160 Ultimate Universe line in a final battle with the Maker.

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi is a Japanese supernatural action comedy manga by Shoichi Usui, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 2024, about a shy 16-year-old exorcist named Kiyoshi Harai.

Ultimate fate of the universe

The ultimate fate of the universe, also called the death of the universe, ranges from eternal cold expansion to Big Crunch collapse or Big Rip, decided by dark energy.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), founded 1993 in Denver, is the premier American mixed martial arts promotion, owned by TKO Group since 2023, fought in the trademarked Octagon under the Unified Rules of MMA.

Ultimate Force

Ultimate Force is a British ITV1 action drama (2002–2006, final episodes 2008) about the SAS unit Red Troop, created by Rob Heyland and ex-SAS soldier Chris Ryan, starring Ross Kemp as Staff Sergeant Henno Garvie across 21 episodes.

Ultimate frisbee

Ultimate frisbee (ultimate): non-contact, self-refereed seven-a-side disc sport invented 1968 at Columbia High School, Maplewood NJ; WFDF-governed, played to 15 goals under Spirit of the Game.

Ultimate L program

The Ultimate L program is a research program in mathematical logic led by W. Hugh Woodin, seeking an inner model compatible with all large cardinal axioms.

Ultimate Marvel

Ultimate Marvel is a Marvel Comics imprint reimagining Marvel heroes in a separate continuity: the original Earth-1610 line (2000-2015) launched with Ultimate Spider-Man and created Miles Morales, while the 2023 Earth-6160 line by Jonathan Hickman runs to a planned 2026 end.

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (UMvC3) is Capcom's November 2011 update to Marvel vs. Capcom 3, adding 12 characters, air X-Factor, and balance changes; delisted over Marvel licensing, re-released 2016, Evo mainstage 2011–2017 and 2023.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (UMK3), Midway's 1995 arcade update of Mortal Kombat 3, restored Scorpion, Kitana, and others, added 2-on-2 and 8-player modes, and spawned 16-bit, Saturn, N64, XBLA, and mobile ports plus the lost WaveNet edition.

Ultimate Note (终极笔记)

Ultimate Note (终极笔记, The Lost Tomb 3) is a 2020 iQiyi Chinese adventure web series, 36 episodes, adapting four Daomu Biji novels; highest-rated franchise adaptation at Douban 8.2, no sequel due to expired rights.

Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend

Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) is a humanoid robot free-combat league launched 9 February 2026 by EngineAI (Zhongqing Robotics) in Shenzhen; T800 robots fight BO3 bouts in an octagonal cage for a 10-kg gold belt worth ~RMB 10 million.

Ultimate Spider-Man

Ultimate Spider-Man names two Marvel Comics series: the 2000-2011 Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley Earth-1610 series that launched Ultimate Marvel and introduced Miles Morales, and the 2024-2026 Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto series with an adult married Peter Parker, ending at issue 24.

Ultimate Spider-Man (2024)

Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) is a Marvel Comics series by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto, the debut title of the new Ultimate Comics line on Earth-6160, where an adult married Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man; it ran 24 issues from 2024 to 2026.

Ultimate Spider-Man (TV series)

Ultimate Spider-Man (Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man) is a Disney XD animated series (2012–2017) in which Nick Fury trains Peter Parker with Nova, White Tiger, Power Man, and Iron Fist; 4 seasons, 104 episodes, the longest-running Spider-Man cartoon.

Ultimate Spider-Man (video game)

Ultimate Spider-Man (2005) is a Treyarch/Activision open-world action-adventure game for GC, PC, PS2, Xbox, GBA, and DS, based on Bendis and Bagley's Ultimate comics, letting players play as both Spider-Man and Venom; Metacritic 77.

Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion

Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion is Marvel's 2025 five-issue limited series, the first crossover of the relaunched Ultimate Universe (Earth-6160), in which Miles Morales enters that world to rescue his sister Billie after she uses the Maker's key; written by Deniz Camp and Cody Ziglar, drawn by Jonas Scharf, collected as Ultimate Incursion in 2026.

Ultimate Team

Ultimate Team (FIFA Ultimate Team, Football Ultimate Team) is EA's collectible squad-building mode in FIFA and EA Sports FC, built around packs, the Transfer Market, Chemistry, and modes such as Division Rivals, Squad Battles, and FUT Champions.

Ultimate tensile strength

Ultimate tensile strength (UTS), often shortened to tensile strength, is the maximum engineering stress a material sustains in a tension test, marking the onset of necking.

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, also called Super or Nine Board Tic-Tac-Toe, is a variant with nine 3x3 boards in a 3x3 grid where each move dictates the opponent's next board; first player has a proven win in at most 43 moves.