Small theory regarding The Ultimates #6: I believe that the character that has been hinted to be killed off in the issue will be Thor.
This theory doesn't have much going behind it, but I do have a little bit of evidence to prove this idea.
Firstly, I feel like if a character is going to be killed off, it's going to likely be a character that's been on the time for longer than the others. If a character that joined the Ultimates more recently like Hawkeye or Jim Hammond dies, the audience won't feel as much of the weight behind their death, and robs potential future moments they may have in the story.
To pull this off best, I believe it would have to be one of the 7 members that were part of the first issue. Tony Steve and Doom are obviously the book's three main characters, so one of them probably isn't going to die just yet, leaving Thor, Sif, Hank and Janet.
As a follow-up to this, these four also fit the bill due to essentially both being "pairs" of powers. Thor and Sif both being gods and such and Hank and Janet both being size changers. If one of them were to die, their collective role would be carried on by another member of the team.
As a more personal pick, I'm going to narrow it down further to Thor and Hank because if Sif or Janet were to die, it would be a blow to the number of female members of the team, which right now are roughly only a third of the roster.
The reason I'm choosing Thor over Hank however is specifically because the villain of issue six is Hulk. In the mainline 616 universe, Thor and Hulk fighting has been a longstanding tradition. Both of them are the heaviest hitters of the Avengers, so which is the heaviest? This question has been asked again and again and again, and I believe that this time, the Ultimate Universe will ask this question again, but with a darker twist to it, and with Thor not making it out of the issue alive.
