An intrepid group of astronauts: Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm originally received their powers after being exposed to an immense amount of cosmic radiation during a trip into space. Mutated and given strange powers by this exposure, they became the Fantastic Four and dedicated their abilities to the good of humanity.
That was pretty funny! This is something I've thought about for a while too. I ind of like what Warren Ellis did with the code names in Ultimate Fantastic Four: there were none! They would come up with joke codenames on the fly like Invisible Ninja Girl, Asbestos Thing, Human Matchstick, etc. The Thing and Mr. Fantastic aren't cool codenames and I don't see why the FF need codenames anyway. The media would probably call them the Fantastic Four though.
The video would have been funnier if Sue decided she should be called Mrs. Fantastic, Ben wanted to be called Captain Fantastic, and Johnny wanted to be called , but Reed wouldn't allow it. :D
Anyhoo, all this talk about Fantastic-this and Fantastic-that reminds me of--
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