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| Team Name: | Fantastic Four |
| Publisher: | Marvel |
| 1st Appearance: | Fantastic Four #1 |
| Appears in: | 1429 issues |
| Disbanded in: |
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- Dr. Doom
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- Human Torch
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The Fantastic Four is Marvel's original super-group made of family members Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Sue Storm (Invisible Girl), Johnny Storm (Human Torch) and family friend Ben Grimm (Thing). Edit
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The Beginning
The first family super team of marvel comics, the fantastic four opened up the genre to a whole new way of telling the old story of family binds above all else.Reed Richards scientist and inventor of the first spaceship capable of reaching planets beyond our moon. The government is about to cut funding for the flight. Reed sees no choice but to launch the ship before the whole thing is scraped. Reed invites his girlfriend Susan Storm along for the trip and her brother Johnny Storm decides to come along in order to keep his sister safe. Lacking a pilot for the trip Reed turns to his former college roommate Ben Grimm who was a test pilot for the United States Air Force.Everyone ready for launch Reeds gets a warning from the authorities that they unaware of the effects of the cosmic rays on human bodies so far out in space and decline Reed's request for launch.So one night at the change of the guards they sneak in and launch before any planes could be scrambled to intercept them or even be shot down by missiles.Successful in leaving the earth atmosphere halfway along in their trip they get bombarded by cosmic rays before they expected it which affect all of them and making them unable to continue the trip, so they turn back towards earth and crash land in a small opening in a forested area. Luckily surviving the crash but radically changed.Ben feels his body become heavy and finds he's turned into a monster. Reed tries to calm him down and realizes that he has wrapped his body around Ben. He now has elastic abilities. Johnny bursts into flames while Sue panics as she turns invisible. Soon they all manage to calm themselves and agree to band together as a team. Johnny calls himself the Human Torch, Sue calls herself the Invisible Girl (and later changes it to the Invisible Woman). Ben calls himself the Thing and Reed decides to call himself Mr. Fantastic. Thus the Fantastic Four are born.
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Stan Lee and Jack Kirby run (1960s)
The Fantastic Four made their public debut when a villain named Mole Man (A villain that lives underground) began attacking the surface. He attempted to destroy the human race by unleashing his army of monsters that he created through an atomic blast. The Fantastic Four, led by Mr. Fantastic, would be able to defeat Mole Man and stop his threat on the world. The Fantastic Four continued their illustrious careers as superheroes and unlike Spider-Man, they were well loved by the public and the media by appearing on television and more. The Fantastic Four would be the first to meet The Inhumans, the Kree, and the Skrull races. They also discovered the hidden country of Wakanda. During one of their adventures they would encounter their arch-nemesis Doctor Doom, also known as Victor Von Doom and was a former college classmate and rival of Reed Richards. He had always blamed Reed for one of his experiments going wrong and scarring his own face. Dr. Doom recently became the new ruler of his homeland, Latveria. Dr. Doom kidnapped Invisible Girl (She would become Invisible Woman during John Byrne’s run) and forces Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, and the Thing to use his time machine to travel back to the past and retrieve a magical stone. The three of them agree to do so and uses the time machine. However, once they finished the mission and returned, they decided to fight Doom instead and were able to defeat him and free Invisible Girl. Reed Richards also created the “unstable molecules” which are used for their costumes. This allows Reed’s costume to stretch as he does, Invisible Girl’s goes invisible when she does, and Human Torch’s doesn’t burn up when he flames on. Reed would also discovered The Negative Zone (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby shared credit for the creation of the Negative Zone and unstable molecules). The Negative Zone is a parallel universe in which all matter is negatively charged. It also has a breathable atmosphere which allows Mr. Fantastic to lead his team in adventures in the Negative Zone. The Negative Zone is mostly uninhabited and Reed was eventually able to map out most of the area.
Fantastic Four vs Galactus
Reed and Sue's wedding
John Byrne Run
During the 1970s the Fantastic Four had many artists and writers who would continue the Fantastic Four’s public career as superheroes. A roster change would come up when the Thing temporarily lost his powers. Reed decided to hire mercenary Power Man (Luke Cage) to fill in for Ben. Reed eventually finished developing an exoskeleton that mimics his strength as the Thing, and Ben returns to the Fantastic Four as an active member. John Byrne would take over the Fantastic Four in the 1980s where critics would call “the best run since Lee and Kirby.” Byrne was most celebrated for his modernization of Invisible Girl. He changed her name to Invisible Woman and made her a more confident woman and also gave Sue more control over her abilities, making her the most powerful member of the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four would participate in the Beyonder’s “Secret Wars” on an alien planet. During their time in the Secret Wars, the Thing was able to change to his human form and the Thing form at will. After the heroes were victorious against the Beyonder, the Thing decided to stay on the alien planet as he was happy to be able to change his forms at will. When the Fantastic Four returned to Earth, they recruited She-Hulk to fill-in for the Thing. Later, Sue would appear to have become pregnant with a second child but instead, Sue suffered a miscarriage. Eventually The Thing would decide to return to Earth, however upon his arrival he discovers that his girlfriend, Alicia Masters, was dating his teammate and friend Johnny Storm (Human Torch). The Thing left the team to travel to world and She-Hulk would remain on the roster in his place. During one of the Fantastic Four’s missions, they traveled to Mole Man’s realm where they discovered the Thing snooping around there. The Thing rejoined the Fantastic Four and they were able to defeat Mole Man before he destroyed California. She-Hulk left soon after for other reasons.
Fantastic Four in Heroes Reborn
Heroes Reborn
Sue and Reed would eventually decide to leave the Fantastic Four in hopes to give their son, Franklin, a normal life. Johnny would eventually marry Alicia Masters despite Ben’s feelings towards Alicia. Even with Johnny marrying Alicia, The Thing became the leader of the Fantastic Four. Crystal (Johnny’s former lover) and Sharon Ventura (who went by the alias Ms. Marvel) joined the team. The Thing met Sharon during his time away from the Fantastic Four. During the new team’s first mission they were in another shuttle accident that was exposed to cosmic radiation. It mutated the Thing even more by giving him spikes on his body, and also transformed Sharon into a female version of the Thing. Reed and Sue would eventually return to the Fantastic Four, however soon after Ben would lose his powers temporarily again and is changed back to his human form.
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Mark Waid Era
The Mark Waid era saw the Fantastic Four we see a lot of new concepts and amazing arcs come to light. His first stories on the book dealt with the Fantastic Four as Imaginauts and how they dealt with the fame that they always had their way. We also saw glimpses of Johnny as a much more responsible man, thanks to his sisters conjecture.We also witness Doom's ruthlessness in trying cause harm to the Fantastic Four at any costs. He sold his loves life, Valeria (his first love) in an attempt to gain more of the magics that were always in his blood and which he denounced for a life of science. Seeing now that having both would help him in his end, he betrayed her to demons and was able to get the magical knowledge he yearned for.To add to that, when Doom delivered baby Valeria, he cast a spell on her that would make her his magical familiar and he used the connection to carry out a devastating attack against the team. In the instant she uttered "Doom" demons kidnapped Franklin and Reed and Johnny tried desperately to save him before Johnny was burnt badly by demon fire.Sue and Ben hurry to Reed to tell him what's happened when they discovered Johnny wailing and notice his burnt flesh. The explain what happen and the team sets out to rescue Franklin and heal Valeria from this affliction Doom gave upon her. They travel to Latveria where the team is ambushed by Doom. He takes Valeria and uses his magic in order to have the team suffer through painful versions of each others powers. He gives Johnny, Reed's stretching abilities, stretching him to his limits. He gives Sue a painful version of her brother's flame power. He has Ben fight off dozens of monsters. And finally he sticks Reed in a room full of magical information.But with the help of Doctor Strange, (or should I say his astral projection), Reed escapes and saves his family. Together they defeat Doom, and rescue Franklin and Valeria. Doom was vanquished and left in Hell by Reed, but not before Doom instilled a parting gift on him and scarred his face. This encounter would have lasting affects on the team and Reed.
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Reed had invented specialized suits made of unstable molecules which could adapt to him and his teammates' powers. For him, his suit allows him to stretch to great lengths without tearing it. The costume also makes them harmless against electrical attacks. They are also computers. In them, they have something equivalent to a computer. It forms a network, keeping the team up to date. It also displays data for them and touchpad controls are available on their gauntlets. The costume is like a GPS, providing their location. It has a scanner which can scan things in their environment, being able to scan things like how many people are in the room next to them.New Fantastic Four
Hulk -in the Grey Hulk and the Professor personality in different occasions.
Wolverine
Ghost Rider -Danny Ketch version.
When a female Skrull captured the original team, she impersonated the Invisible Woman to recruit a new team to avenge the "death" of the original and to steal a weapon from the Mole Man. The team reassembled again by Doctor Strange to arrest the Human Torch for his action that destroyed a quarter of a city.
Alternate Realities
The Fantastic Four of Earth-1610
The Fantastic Four of the Ultimate universe is composed younger versions of the original four, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and Thing.The origin of these four is different than the original. Reed Richards enters a Think Tank in the Baxter Building along with Sue Storm her father Richard Storm, one of the caretakers, Johnny Storm her brother and Victor Van Dame. He started in the think tank trying to create a teleportation device and joined work with Victor to get better results. When they had finally acquired results that seemed promising they tried it out. Ben Grim a childhood friend of Reed went to see the launch.
The Ultimate Fantastic Four
Later they decided to findVictor. They found him in Latveria where he was manipulating the locals with dragon tattoos. He now had metal instead of skin. He went against the four but he could not be arrested in Latveria.When going back Reed decided to go to the N-Zone to revert the process on himself and Ben.
The four went up in space and teleported into the N-Zone where they made first contact with Ultimate Annihilus. While on the N-Zone, N-ihil pretended to be the Four's friend and explained how realities are stacked on the universe. That's when they became enemies. They returned home along with some sort of dinosaur leaving Annihilus in the N-Zone.Then they faced an old think tank jealous brainiac going by the name The Thinker. She took over the Baxter Building and started going up against Reed. Brain against brain. The better genius won and the Thinker, Rhona Burchill, escaped.Johnny went to school with Peter Parker (AKA Spiderman). Johnny fell for a girl named Liz Allen. MJ, Peter, Kong, Liz and Johnny went to the beach together. There he was seen using his powers. Liz being mutant-phobic stopped talking to him so Peter as Spidey went and cheered him up.Reed made contact with himself and the rest of the FF from another universe making them become the Ultimate Frightful Four.
Reed trying to cure Ben decided to change time. As a result Skrulls went to earth and gave them pills to give them superpowers. In the end they were betrayed by them all and they all died for the exception for Ben Grimm who didn't take the pill. He fought the Super-Skrull that used a suit to copy their powers. With no powers to be able to copy Ben took over and went back in time to stop the stopping of the accident.Again they faced the Frightful Four zombies and Doom went down along with them trying to be a hero.Spider-Man had a clone crisis and went to the FF for help. One of the clones who thought was Peter's father asked Sue to be his friend before dying. Reed cured MJ from a monster transformation she was having because of the clones. Then they gave the Scorpion clone to SHIELD.Ga Lak Tus was going to destroy the world and the FF did their part in stopping him. Teaming up with Ultimate Captain Marvel and the Ultimates they got information from the Kree.
Reed created a machine that would damage Ga Lak Tus with the help of the Ultimate Vision.The Fantastic Four then went up against Gallowglass and Ronan. They also faced their father Thanos and got out of the problem with the help of Seed.The Thinker came back stealing Cerebro's hard drive and making the X-Men believe that it was the FF's fault. In the end they teamed up to defeat her.Then they faced Diablo a guy who created a teleportation from past to present and relied on magic.
Sue then had to face Red Ghost. After the Red Ghost's defeat Reed would continue to work on developing the Cube. She went by herself to what she thought was a conference but was caught with the woman who became the Ultimate Red Ghost. With the help of the Ultimate CrymsonDynamo the rest of the FF saved Sue. Because of the actions of Reed while building the cube their relationship was broken off.When he finished the cube it automatically protected New York from an attack from Seed. Thanos's forces would spring foreword, removing a block of New York City containing the Four to take back to his home dimension. Thanos battled Reed in order to take the cube by force. While the Cube was a powerful weapon, Reed's inexperience wielding it made him susceptible to Thanos's power, and Reed was seemingly destroyed before Thanos acquired the cube. Using the power of the cube, Thanos came into our reality and took over the minds and wills of Earth's superheroes including the Ultimates, the X-Men, the remaining members of the Fantastic Four, and all solo heroes. These heroes in turn helped Thanos capture any remaining rebels. Thanos was disturbed because he could tell that he somehow didn't have full access to the Cube's vast powers as he once did.
War over the Cosmic Cube
After the Cosmic Cube event Sue went up with a new mystery. An giant egg was found along with the ex-Think Tank people now living underground. The the Ultimate Salem's Seven appeared into the picture trying to stop a flaming building and getting all the glory.
20 Years into the future a new X-Men team that consisted of Captain America, Wolverine, Shadowcat, Rouge and a male Phoenix wanted to prevent the events of Ultimatum so they traveled back in time to stop it.
Reed and Sue were going to go on a date when the future X-Men arrived trying to kill Reed. Reed not having any internal organs couldn't be killed so they kidnapped him. The rest of the Fatastic Four went to the present X-Men for help. Reed discovered that the future male Phoenix was acctually his son Franklin Richards. Then future Wolverine attempted to kill Phoenix. Then the rest of the future X-Men discoverd that future Wolverine was actually a Sentinel from the future. By the time the FF and present X-Men got there many Wolverine Sentinels had been destroyed had killed Rouge and had taken Reed into the future. Captain America was dying and Jean unmasked him revealing he was acctually Scott. He told the group that himself, Jean and the original Cap had been stripped away of their powers so he took over a s Captain America after Steve Rodgers aged 100 years, then he died. In the future Iceman was captured by the Sentinels and Reed escaped his cell when he followed a trail of fire. Thinking it to be Johnny he then saw the future Fanatstic Four: Invisible Woman, Iron Thing, Namor and Firestar.
The future X-Men, or what was left of them told the present X-Men and FF that the reson that they needed to stop it all was because the new ruler was getting rid of mutants. That new ruler was Sue. Future Sue convinced present Reed to fix a machine that would strip away people of their powers just like Cyclops´s Reed gave to her request while the present X-Men, present FF, and future X-men went into the future to find out what was going on. Ben and Firestar found out that both of them in the future were in love and Iceman found himself being killed by Namor. Sue met Nihil again then just to find out that he was acctually future Reed. Future Phoenix turned everyone in to his mother. Reed then took away future Sue´s powers since clearly she had gone crazy because of her brother´s death. Evryone let the future hero´s free from a prison in the N-Zone Sue had made to maintain the super powered heroes. The present FF and X'men went back to their own time and Sue and Reed left to be alone. Sue told Reed she was woried that would eventually happen to them, but Reed assured that it would not. Sue left and then from a drawer Reed took out a ring, sure that future would not happen.
It's Tuesday 4:12 PM. Reed Richards is about to propose to Sue. Ben Grim is working out with H.E.R.B.I.E whatching over. Johnny Storm and his father are having a heated argument on Johnny's intelligence.
It's Tuesday 4:13 PM. New York is underwater.
At the Baxter Building, Mr. Fantastic and the Invisble Girl reach the roof top. A whale enters the room with the Thing, Johnny and Franklin Storm are underwater.
At thr rooftop of the Baxter, Sue uses all her power to keep the water away from New York and then she collapses. The Thing arrives and Reed leaves Sue with him.
At 4:21 PM, Reed is already on an FF submarine and meets with Namor. Reed acuses him of the event while Namor excuses himself saying it was not him.
It's 12:31 AM in Latveria and all except Dr. Doom are frozen solid.
Then, telepathically Xavier tells all superheroes, that he knows who is responsable for this events, and that all of them have to unite against this threat, to stop Magneto.
Back in the Baxter, Ben takes over and is now alone. The Baxter Building is turning invisible and Sue isn't stable. No scientist knows how to help her, and the one scientist who might have a chance of saving her is dead, Franklin Storm is dead.
The Thing has gone out of resources and Sue´s mother then arrives. She suggest that the person who could help would be Dr. Molveick a.k.a. The Mole Man. With the help of the students from Baxter B help Ben find Mole Man and save him from fire mole men. As a result he helps the Thing figures out that the way to help Sue is to internally help her. Using Pym particles the Thing and the Mole man are going to go inside the Invisible Girl.
The Zombie Four of Earth-2149
*In the Zombie universe the Fantastic Four as most other heroes are transformed into zombies. They also crosses over to Earth-1610*
In an alternate universe Reed found himself but when he teleported there he found the Marvel Zombies. With the help of Magneto the Four escaped that reality and captured the Frightful Four.Sue's mother came into the picture asking for help locating Atlantis having the Fantastic Four face Namor. Namor fell for Sue but she fought him off. Reed using a new machine recreated superheroes to fight him but that didn't work either. In the end Namor only asked for a kiss from Susan as victorious and headed back to Atlantis.Reed went back in time to stop the N-Zone accident creating an alternate universe where Thor is president and Skrulls help humanity.
Earth-33
Here the Fantastic Four never got their powers.
Earth-717
In this reality the Fantastic Four were the Russian superhuman fighting group known as the Ultimate Federalist Freedom Fighters. The team consisted of Rudion Richards ( Mr. Fantastic) who was able to create discontinuities in his body and project limbs or parts of his body in great distances, Piotr Rasputin (Ben Grimms' replacement ) has taken on the organic steel of his Earth-616 counterpart but as a hindrance his mind slowly withers away as time goes on. ILiana colossus' sister has taken Sue Storms place as the invisible woman with her powers of camouflage. Natasha Rominoff's electro-magnetic field has increased a thousand-fold who can fly by reversing the polarity of her body and fire lethal doses of her own energy her codename is the Widow Maker who is the Human Torchs' replacement. The team is put to an end as ILiana dies of bullet wounds in a fight with the Avengers afterwards Rudion vows to cure themselves before they take over Russia after killing their Premier.
Reed Richards of Earth-721
In this reality only Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were aboard the spaceship where the original four was exposed to cosmic rays, which resulted in Reed Richards becoming Thing and Ben Grimm became Mr. Fantastic. Furthermore Johnny Storm was believed to have died in Vietnam, but he became Gaard and later Vangaard. Sue Storm married Ben Grimm.
Earth-952
The Fantastic Four of Earth-952 were Heralds of Galactus.
Earth-982
In the MC2 reality the Fantastic Four is replaced by the Fantastic Five. The team is lead by the Human Torch, and its members are Lyja, (Ms. Fatastic), the Thing, with parts of his body replaced with cybernetic prosthetics, Franklin Richards, taking the name Psi-Lord, and Reed's robot named Big Brain, which he control in The Negative Zone.
Earth-616
The Fantastic Four of Earth-616consisted of Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl, Human Torch and Spider-Man
Earth-1987
The Fantastic Four of Earth-1987 consisted of Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl, Human Torch and She-Hulk.
Earth-7712
In this reality the Fantastic Four were the original four, but with different powers and codenames: Big Brain (Reed Richards), Dragonfly (Ben Grimm), Mandroid (Johnny Storm) and Ultra-Woman (Sue Storm)
Fanatic Four
In the House of M reality, Reed Richards, Susan Storm, and John Jameson died on the experimental space ship crashed back on earth. Only Ben Grimm survived and mutated into the Thing, but his intelligence was greatly reduced. Doctor Doom took him and formed the Fanatic Four with him as team leader, with powers similar to Mercury, Kristoff Vernard as the Inhuman Torch, and Valeria Von Doom as the Invincible Woman
Earth-311
In the year 1602, The team is called the Four of the Fantastick. They are composed of Sir Richard Reed, Susan Storm, John Storm and Captain Benjamin Grimm. The galleon ship encountered a magical rift similar to that of the Bermuda Triangle, which gave them their individual powers.
Earth-187319
In this reality, the team is called the Four Fantastics, that is lead by Victor Von Doom, with members Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Bruce Banner. Their enemy is Reed Richards.Earth-9031
All four of the Fantastic Four gains Human Torch's powers.
Earth-9032
All four of the Fantastic Four gains Mr. Fantastic's powers.
Earth-9033
All four of the Fantastic Four gains The Thing's powers.
Earth-9034
All four of the Fantastic Four gains Invisible Woman's powers.
Appearances in Other Media
Animated SeriesJessica Alba (Invisible Woman)
Chris Evans (Human Torch)
Michael Chiklis (Thing)
Julian McMahon (Doctor Doom)
Kerry Washington (Alicia Masters)
Beau Garrett (Frankie Raye)
Doug Jones (Silver Surfer)
Laurence Fishburne (Surfer's Voice)
Stan Lee (Stan Lee)This film starts off quite some time after the last movie ended and focuses on the upcoming marriage between Sue and Reed and their relationship/future as well as the threat the Silver Surfer poses to the world. Once again the team finds themselves needing to work together as the Earth will be devoured if they do not, forcing them to do things like working with the resurrected Doom. Eventually they try and capture the Surfer but when they succeed they realize it was the wrong thing to do and Sue frees the alien, after creating a bond with him. She learns a lot about him and eventually it is this relationship that causes him to help the Fantastic Four by driving away Galactus, turning against his master.
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The Fantastic Four (1994)
The Fantastic Four
