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Does the Champions Universe have something similar to the Marvel Ultimate Universe?
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Pen and Paper rpgs don't tend to have strong continuity between editions - nowhere near as strong as the marvel universe had. And I don't think any official sources ever created a version of the Champions universe where almost everyone was a jerk.
On the other hand, Champions Online itself has made enough alterations to the universe that you could call THIS the Ultimate Champions Universe.
Champions PnP was first published in 1981, but while numerous adventures, villain compendia, and other types of supplement were published over that decade, there was little attempt to tie it all into a single continuity. In the early 1990s the then-editors made some effort to unify and codify a lot of that material into a more coherent whole, with the publication of the first edition of Champions Universe.
In the mid-'90s there was a change of ownership for Hero Games, which switched the game system engine from Hero System to something called Fuzion, and launched a revised official Champions Universe designated "the New Millennium." This setting would probably be the closest to an "Ultimate" version of the CU. It used many of the same names for characters and organizations, but very often altered their backgrounds, personalities, even powers. Stylistically it was probably a little "darker" and "edgier" than what had gone before, in line with what was popular during the Iron Age of comics.
The current official Champions Universe (and there are very few continuity differences between the PnP and MMO settings, particularly in books published after the IP purchase) is another setting reboot launched by other new owners in 2002, along with a new edition of the Hero System. It's closer in style and substance to the pre-NM setting, but made much more internally consistent, and part of an overall Hero Universe timeline extending many millennia into the past, and a thousand years into the future.
All of the above is separate from superhero settings using Hero System under license which were published by other game companies over the decades, including San Angelo: City of Heroes by Gold Rush Games; The Algernon Files by Blackwyrm Games; and Strike Force, the decades-long campaign run by the late great Aaron Allston. It should also be noted that the now-defunct Guardians of Order, Inc. joined with Hero Games in publishing an official crossover adventure between their supers game setting, Silver Age Sentinels, and the Champions Universe, titled Reality Storm: When Worlds Collide. Although the characters from SAS aren't part of the Champions IP, the events of that adventure are now noted as part of the official CU timeline in the latest edition of Champions Universe.
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Also, about once every year, Steve Peterson or Bruce Harlick posts " guy you wouldn't believe goes fanboy on him" story. It's cool to see the influence of the line.
If your adventures in Champions Online have included fighting VIPER or journeying to Canada, you've encountered stuff based on Scott's work.