Ultra Car
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| Ultra Car |
| First Appearance: It's Walky! July 7, 2004 |
| YOB: 1995 |
| YOA (Year of Awakening): 2004 |
| Relatives: Joe, Rachel ("parents") |
| Seats: 5 (SUV body), 4 (hybrid body) |
Ultra Car is a grouchy sentient car with a superiority complex. He's high tech, he's state-of-the-art, he's valuable property, and he knows it and proclaims it. Ultra Car won't miss any opportunity to verbally assault the meat people, yesterday's evolutionary news, who surround him. He's not above physical assault, either. He's apathetic to others' pain.
Unfortunately, the downside to being valuable property is that you're valuable property. The begrudging realization of this existential problem is probably what's stuffed up his exhaust pipe.
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History
Just an SUV
In 1995, Danny Wilcox's dad bought a red SUV. His first documented use of it was driving Danny and Joe to freshman orientation at Indiana University, and also to pick up Danny and Joe at the end of every year of college.[1] [2] Danny would later borrow the SUV when he, Joe, Billie, and Mary went on a road trip to Mount Rushmore.[3] Mr. Wilcox passed ownership of the SUV to Danny on his twenty-first birthday, after his driving license was no longer revoked due to a drunk driving accident.
Sentient car
Ultra Car was created by Joe and Rachel from Danny's SUV just before the Martian Invasion.[4] Intending to use Ultra Car to get into the Martian mothership, Joe and Rachel built him using no Martian parts so as to help evade their scanners. Together with Danny and Howard, after nearing the Martian mothership parked in orbit, they went intangible in a similar manner to The Cheese (or Shadowcat) and snuck into it. There, they fought the zombie crew of the USS Destiny and destroyed the mothership.
Later on, Joe and Danny fought Monkey Master in Ultra Car, leading to Danny being severely injured. Ultra Car was badly hurt as well, providing an opportunity for Monkey Master to offer Ultra Car a place at his side, as they were both AI machines forced to do man's bidding. Ultra Car refused, ensuring his place as Monkey Master's enemy.
In order to keep up with Rosenthal Robotics' public image, Ultra Car was transferred into a hybrid car. Originally opposed to the idea, he changed his mind when he realized being an environmentally-friendly car would give him yet another thing to be smug at people about.
Back in April, Ultra Car mailed himself to Shortpacked! to help Robin DeSanto, who requested Joe's services in finding the missing Drama Tag she found a year prior. However, his scanners didn't pick it up, thus making the trip effectively pointless. He now works there as stock manager. Apparently he wears the same size shirt as the previous one.
Since he became stock Manager he so far sold Transformers movie toys to a scalper for fifty dollars ont top of the retail price, thus ticking Ethan off to the point of trying to throw him. When Ethan tried to buy them back, Ultra Car notice that he could have got more than $50. He's now a Spider-Man fan and recently made a failed attempt at web-swinging. [5]
In recent events, he's trying to take Mike's place as Resident Asshole and went so far as to drop him off in the Amazon with Ethan. But that proved to be "oddly unsatisfactory."
Trivia
- In his first fight with Monkey Master, Joe told him that his witty entrance cry needs some work.
- Apparently, also being a robot brought to life, Ultra Car is a fan of the Short Circuit series of films, in particular Short Circuit 2 [6]
- He doesn't think that his creator will ever see past the memories of him originally being "that car that he and his friends used for road trips"[7]
- If you count him as a character back when he was Just an SUV in Roomies, Ultra Car is the second character to make appearances in all four series in the Walkyverse. The other being Joyce, if the cameo of one of her plushies in SHORTPACKED! counts.
- If you drive him without his permission, he'll dump you off in the Amazon
- He's the third character from It's Walky! to join the cast of Shortpacked! The other two being Robin and Mike
- In Shortpacked!, it said that he cannot get through human size doors. However, he can phase through motherships, so it is unknown whether he just can't use that ability or is just being emo. [8]
- He's also your friendly neighborhood Spider-Car
- He feels that nobody else knows what it's like to have no sex drive
Creative prehistory
- Like many of the characters in Roomies! and It's Walky!, Ultra Car is based upon a character designed by David Willis during his younger years. He's actually the earliest creation of Willis to survive to the present day; Danny, Joe, and Howard were created afterward to be Ultra Car's supporting cast.
- Ultra Car was created in 1987, originally a multi-hued nonsentient vehicle that converted from car to jet to submarine. (Early apocryphal designs also included a battlestation and a robot.) The reason for all the various colors was that each colored area was intended to be camouflaged in a specific environment -- the blue tires were disguised in water, the brown rear would be disguised in the mountains, the orange front would be disguised in... uh... orange places, the yellow headlights and hubcaps would be disguised in the desert, and the green periscope and top hatch would be disguised in the forests. The main body was red because, dammit, red was awesome. The horrible illogic of this setup did not occur to the author at age 8.
- Ultra Car's new stealth system is powered by Science instead.
- In "Ultra Car #1" Joe built Ultra Car out of Danny's red Jeep so that they could investigate the disappearance of the space shuttle Destiny. They quickly found out that the remains had floated through a black hole, turning its crew into Obsticons, green zombies bent on destroying Earth! Sound vaguely familiar?
- In "Ultra Car #20" (not all twenty stories were written; the author liked to jump around) it was revealed that during an electrical storm in the previous (unwritten) issue, Ultra Car was suddenly alive. He now liked to throw "car-made" sweet pickle pies and steal frozen pizzas out of Danny's freezer. Ultra Car also thought it was hilarious to violently eject his passengers out of his bottom hatch at twenty-thousand feet.
- He fought Monkey Master a lot.
