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Fantastic Four (1961) (Comic Book)
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Fantastic Four is a 1961 comic book series from Marvel Comics by Jack Kirby, with some plots of Stan Lee. The series was one of the starting points of The Silver Age of Comic Books and the beginning of the Marvel Universe.It all began when scientist Reed Richards, his best friend Ben Grimm, Reed's fiancee Sue Storm and Sue's little brother Johnny stole an experimental rocket to go into space, heedless of the risks of dangerous cosmic radiation. That radiation would give all four fantastical abilities, which they vowed to use for the protection of mankind. And on that day, the Fantastic Four were born!This run introduced or popularized a huge number of tropes to the superhero genre, mainly superheroes having problems and fighting among them. It also goes without saying that it also introduces a lot of the characters and concepts that became mainstays of the Marvel Universe as a whole. The two worked together until Fantastic Four issue #101, one of the longest shared runs between a writer and artist in the Big Two for decades, not broken until Brian Bendis and Mark Bagley's Ultimate Spider-Man. Jack quit Marvel between issues #102 and #103, which was a multi-part story.Notable creative runs include: Fantastic Four (Lee & Kirby) (1961-70)Notable storylines created during this run includes: Fantastic Four #1 Fantastic Four Annual #1 Fantastic Four Annual #2 Fantastic Four Annual #3 A Blind Man Shall Lead Them Among Us Hide... The Inhumans! The Coming of Galactus | |
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Covert Emergency Call | |
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Covert Emergency Call: In Issue #348, Mr. Fantastic is secretly being held prisoner by a Skrull infiltrator disguised as Sue. As the leave the Baxter Building together, Reed tells his robotic assistant that he and his wife are going on a day trip and that she should tell that to his "friends in the Marines." The robot, knowing that Reed has no friends that are in the Marines, looks up the phrase, discovering its history as a Covert Distress Code and realises that Reed is in trouble. | |
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Underestimating Badassery | |
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Underestimating Badassery: Somehow the Wild Pack, largely a group of mercenaries with fancy tech, think they can take Johnny Storm, who even on his slower days is a pretty formidable fighter. | |
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Actually a Doombot | |
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Actually a Doombot: Alicia, who got married with Johnny, turned out to be a Skrull. And the real Alicia still loves Ben, allowing Johnny to be single again. | |
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Stripperiffic | |
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Stripperiffic: Sue's infamous "boob window" outfit. It turns out to be Malice trying to reassert control. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: The FF find some Lost Technology in the jungle that turns people into "The Thing" soldiers and back. Works for Ben, and for anyone else just as fine. After his return, Reed is worried about a detail everybody overlooked: who built that thing? Alas, Defalco's run ended, the FF died fighting Onslaught, were recreated in another universe, then returned... meanwhile the Baxter Building was handed over to the Thunderbolts, until Zemo blew it up. By then, the machine was lost and Ben returned to his usual status. One very obvious one appeared right at the end of the run, when Cassie Lang, Franklin Richards (restored to his more familiar age) and Kristoff Vernard meet a classmate of Cassie's who is evidently being beaten by his father and lashes out when they attempt to help him; clearly a Very Special Episode about abuse was in the offing, but then an issue or two before the book was rebooted, Kristoff and Franklin ask Cassie about the classmate and she explains that the problem had been resolved off-panel and his family were in counselling. | |
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Mistaken Age | |
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Mistaken Age: Throughout the series, the Thing frequently mentioned his 'Aunt Petunia', with the implication that she was an old woman. When she finally appeared in issue #238, Petunia (she prefers 'Penny') was revealed to be his uncle's second wife and an attractive woman about the Thing's own age. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Shortly before his run came to an end, DeFalco revived Reed and Doom. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Reed Richards is killed by Dr. Doom. The Fantastic Four have to go on without him. Of course, he gets better eventually. | |
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Powered Armor | |
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Powered Armor: During Thomas' run in the early 70s, the Thing lost his powers, so he wound up using a exo-suit version of his previous body. | |
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Mr. Alt Disney | |
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Mr. Alt Disney: In issues #263-264, Alden Maas goes mad and believes himself a Messiah. To solve the problem of overpopulation he plans to use the Human Torch to reignite the Earth's core thus expanding the landmass. He dies just as he's about to push the big button. Afterwards his assistants claim the idea would never work. Queried why they were doing it, they admit they were programmed to obey him. The point being, they know the messiah stuff is rubbish but they can only do what they're told. | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: Wolverine scarred Ben's face with his claws during a fight. He called him to a bar at a later issue, to try to make amends. | |
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Self-Disposing Villain | |
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Self-Disposing Villain: Subverted. Lyja dies during Alicia's rescue... or not. Paibok rescued her, and she returned to have vengeance! | |
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No Such Thing as Space Jesus | |
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No Such Thing as Space Jesus: Subverted the second time Galactus attacks Earth in issue #120. He is preceded by his new herald Air Walker, a very impressive-looking being who just happens to be named Gabriel Lan note Technically, it's a robot duplicate of the real Gabriel Lan, who is deceased by then. and who, as a herald of Galactus, has come to announce the end of the world. Naturally, the human onlookers assume he is the Biblical Gabriel announcing Armageddon and are terrified. Air Walker is then confronted by the Silver Surfer, who makes it plain that he himself does believe in God, and that Air Walker cannot possibly be His agent, because Air Walker is acting like a bullying jerk. | |
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Lost Technology | |
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The FF find some Lost Technology in the jungle that turns people into "The Thing" soldiers and back. Works for Ben, and for anyone else just as fine. After his return, Reed is worried about a detail everybody overlooked: who built that thing? Alas, Defalco's run ended, the FF died fighting Onslaught, were recreated in another universe, then returned... meanwhile the Baxter Building was handed over to the Thunderbolts, until Zemo blew it up. By then, the machine was lost and Ben returned to his usual status. | |
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Obliviously Superpowered | |
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Obliviously Superpowered: In issue #234, Skip Collins is absolutely ordinary middle-aged man who actually happens to be a nigh-omnipotent Reality Warper. He remains unaware of this throughout the story, never realizing that the small lucky breaks and coincidences around him are caused by his power. At one point, he even speeds up time so that the weekend will arrive sooner. In the climax of the story, he spends all his power to fix the Earth when it's destroyed in a battle between Ego the Living Planet and the Fantastic Four, becoming truly an ordinary man, while everyone (including himself) remains unaware that planetary destruction has been overwritten. | |
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Otherworldly Visits Youngest First | |
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Otherworldly Visits Youngest First: In the build-up to the Onslaught story, Franklin Richards was visited by his "imaginary friend", Charlie. Charlie was a manifestation of Onslaught, who was, initially, gestating in the brain and body of Charles Xavier. Eventually, the entire Marvel Universe would be reeling from just how real he was. | |
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Facial Horror | |
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Facial Horror: The Thing gets his face sliced up by Wolverine and for a while he sports a helmet and later a scar until Hyperstorm reverses the damage. | |
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Fighting Your Friend | |
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Fighting Your Friend: After Johnny torches an entire university campus, Silver Sable and the Wild Pack go after him, and she tries getting Spider-Man in on that. Spidey points out that Johnny is his friend, and Sable's response is basically "so?" Instead, Spider-Man gathers up the All-New Fantastic Four to try talking Johnny down, and the predictable happens. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Spider-Man brings Wolverine in on his team to try and talk a rogue Johnny down. You know, Wolverine, the man with the unbreakable metal claws, bad attitude and tendency to go into berserk rages. Somehow, this decision ends with Wolverine going into a berserk rage and slicing Ben's face up. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Johnny comes under attack from Lyja, Paibok and Devos, so he uses his nova attack. Too bad he was at college at the time. | |
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That Man Is Dead | |
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That Man Is Dead: In Issue #284, when Sue gives a speech about her newfound maturity at the end: | |
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Mind Rape | |
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Mind Rape: In issue #280, the Psycho Man twisted Susan's emotions to turn her into the villain Malice. Sue explicitly compared the experience to being raped, and it was a key factor in her decision to change her name to the Invisible Woman, and take one of the biggest levels in badass in comics. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Issue #216 opens with the following disclaimer: "Warning: In this incredible issue, you'll find the one word you never thought you'd see in a Marvel comic again!" At the end of the issue, the Fantastic Four (seeking to know who the mysterious alien beings behind the Nuwali and Fortisquains were) locate a defunct Nuwalian heater in the currently frozen-over Savage Land and open it up, finding one word among the machinery: Beyonder. This is the name of a group of powerful aliens that were first mentioned back in issue 63 of the Thing's own Team-Up Series, Marvel Two-In-One. The revelation also inspires most of the Fantastic Four to visit the singular entity of the same name (from Secret Wars (1984) and Secret Wars II) a few issues later. | |
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Dangled by a Giant | |
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Dangled by a Giant: In issue #248, while the Fantastic Four are visiting the Inhumans on the moon, gravity suddenly goes haywire. The cause is a Tractor Beam that's pulling the moon into the docking bay of a gargantuan starship. As a colossal alien begins to examine the moon, Ben Grimm tries to get its attention by tearing off a huge chuck from a control panel. Well, to Ben it's a huge chunk; to the alien, it's a mere sliver. The alien dangles the sliver with Ben still gripping it before its eye, but cannot see minuscule Ben. The alien shrugs, discounts the sliver as an anomaly, and does a Blind Shoulder Toss with the sliver. It's stated that poor Ben will take hours to plummet to the floor. | |
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Casual High Drop | |
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Casual High Drop: During John Byrne's tenure, he had She-Hulk substitute for Ben Grimm. While fighting against the mask of Doctor Doom (who'd presumably died), she fell from a top-story window of the Baxter Building, and plummeted many stories to the street below. Of course, this won't hurt She-Hulk much; she instead aimed to miss the people and cars to minimize the collateral damage. How thoughtful. | |
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Totally Radical | |
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Aging-up Reed and Sue's young son, Franklin, into a Totally Radical leather-jacketed early 90s teenager with an armoured costume and the codename "Psi-Lord" (he even had a short-lived spin-off super-team called "Fantastic Force"). | |
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De-power | |
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Depower: Sharon Ventura, previously mutated into She-Thing, returns looking significantly less She-Thing-y. Turns out she got some help from Doctor Doom. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: One of the biggest ever for the team: The Alicia Masters the Human Torch married was a Skrull imposter and had been ever since the events of Secret Wars (1984). | |
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Celebrity Casualty | |
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Celebrity Casualty: In issue #343, it's revealed that an alternate President George H. W. Bush died of pneumonia. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: A famous moment, and one that got DeFalco in hot water, was Scott Lang slamming the reviled first season of Fantastic Four: The Animated Series. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Paibok takes his ally Devos to the Skrull homeworld, to celebrate the capture of the FF. Devos, who wants to destroy all alien races capable of waging war. Earth and the FF are on that list, yes, but the Skrull homeworld is an even better target. Some minutes later his ship is raining death over the unsuspecting Skrulls. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: The FF go to the Skrull world to rescue the real Alicia. Johnny gets enraged when he sees Lyja among the crew... and with a FF suit to boot! | |
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In Love with the Mark | |
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In Love with the Mark: Lyja had been sent to impersonate Alicia to woo the Thing. As fate would have it, this happened right when the Secret Wars event had Ben leaving the team for a time. Lyja thus shifted her plan to seduce Johnny instead, only to fall in love with him for real. | |
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Deception Non-Compliance | |
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Deception Non-Compliance: In issue #348, Reed Richards is going along seemingly willingly with a Skrull Sue imposter. When he passes by the robot secretary the FF used at the time, he tells her to "tell it to the Marines," which she looks up in an idiom database and discovers it means he's lying. | |
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Courtroom Episode | |
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Court Room Episode: Issue #262 is a follow-up on a story arc seen in Issues #242-244 where Galactus comes to Earth to die. Interestingly, this was spurred behind-the-scenes from Chris Claremont having the Fantastic Four make a brief appearance in Uncanny X-Men #167 to have Majestrix Lilandra of the Shi'ar Emprie call out Reed for saving Galactus from death. Not only was this appearance unauthorised by then-current FF writer John Byrne, he found the scene to come across as a "Take That!" towards his writing and complained to then-Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter about it. With Assistant Editor's Month coming up, Byrne decided to make an entire issue inspired by the X-Men appearance. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Annual #12 sees the Thing fighting an out-of-control robot and crashing into The Gong Show. | |
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Power Trio | |
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Power Trio: Ben, Johnny and Alici. This was carried over into the Marvel Comics 2 universe with Ben, Johnny and Lyja). | |
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Most Common Super Power | |
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Most Common Superpower: For a time, the Invisible Woman wore a skimpy costume with a cut-out "4" on her cleavage. | |
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Fantastically Challenging Patient | |
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Fantastically Challenging Patient: Issue #258 has Manhattan doctors discuss a peculiar patient found badly mangled with broken bones aplenty. They have the patient bandaged from head to toe, and give him a "sugar and booze" (sucrose and methanol 3% solution) intravenous drip. Some doombots abscond this patient, taking him to Latveria, where Doctor Doom (no, Not That Kind of Doctor) manages to heal him. The patient is revealed to be Terrax the Tamer a/k/a Tyros the Terrible. Doom plans to use Tyros, infused with the Power Cosmic, to soften up the Fantastic Four, then claim the coup de grace. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: In issue #196, Doctor Doom gloats to an imprisoned Reed Richards about a torture room he designed full of thousands of mirrors arranged in such a way that the myriad reflections are so incomprehensible to the human mind that looking at it without protective goggles can induce a Heroic BSoD. In issue #200, Doom and Reed's climactic battle leads to Reed chasing Doom into the aforementioned room, where Doom beats the living crap out of Reed and strangles him while screaming about how much he hates him. However, Reed manages to tear off Doom's mask just before he passes out, and the sight of his grotesquely disfigured face reflected at him thousands of times drives Doom completely insane (he gets better). | |
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Break Out the Museum Piece | |
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Break Out the Museum Piece: Where did Ben get the mask? He was in the Watcher's house, which has a museum. One of the exhibits involved Ben using a mask similar to one he only wore for a few moments when the FF first donned costumes. So he took the mask from it. | |
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The Baby Trap | |
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The Baby Trap: When she was first outed, Lyja claimed that she was carrying Johnny's baby. Reed doubted it, he thought it unlikely that humans and Skrulls could breed. And, before dying, she confessed that it was a lie. When she returned, the baby subplot resumed... and yes, it turned out to be a lie (though it would later turn out that Skrulls and humans can have kids. Just not this time). | |
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Tangled Family Tree | |
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Killing off both Reed Richards and Doctor Doom and then keeping them killed off for two years straight before bringing them back shortly before DeFalco departed the book, when they were revealed to have been exiled to the distant past by a villain called Hyperstorm, the alternate future son of Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers (the second Phoenix) from the future seen in the X-Men story "Days of Future Past" (phew!). | |
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Candids for Sale | |
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Candids for Sale: In issue #275, a sleazy tabloid takes pictures of She-Hulk sunbathing topless with the intention of selling them for a large amount of money. She-Hulk fails to stop the pictures from seeing print but is able to avoid public embarrassment thanks to the pictures being color corrected in the printing process, making the woman in the images unrecognizable as She-Hulk. | |
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Point of Divergence | |
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Point of Divergence: The Fantastic "Three" visit a world where 'The Coming of Galactus'' took place with a small alteration. Instead of sending Johnny to retrieve the Ultimate Nullifier, the Watcher sent Reed. Reed got distracted by all the science-defying amazing gizmos around, instead of going straight to the needed one, and came back too late. Galactus killed the Silver Surfernote he was about to do that in the original story, before being interrupted, dispatched the F3, and consumed the planet. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: In one of his time travel jaunts, Nathaniel fell into the European past, among some gypsies, and had sex with one of them. His other son, he said, was the legitimate ruler of Latveria! Sue is thunderstuck: Reed and Doom are brothers? No, he wasn't talking about Doom. He was talking about Kristoff, heir to the throne now that Doom is dead. | |
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Twisting the Prophecy | |
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Twisting the Prophecy: When the Overmind was introduced in issue #113, he was fond of quoting a prophecy about himself: "From out of the heavens shall come the Overmind, and he shall crush the universe." Indeed, none of the heroes can make a dent in him, even with the Teeth-Clenched Teamwork of Doctor Doom. It took the Deus ex Machina of The Stranger showing up, and summarily shrinking the Overmind to particulate size, taunting: "Now the Overmind has his universe to crush, on a nameless mote of dust." | |
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Tyrannicide | |
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Tyrannicide: Issue #247 has Doctor Doom bring the Fantastic Four to his homeland to show them how Prince Zorba has reduced Latveria to a Crapsack World where its people live in misery and fear. While the Four battle war-class Doombots, Doom seeks out Zorba and confronts him about his tyranny. | |
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Sacred Flames | |
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Sacred Flames: In issue #260, Doctor Doom gets his body obliterated during a fight between Tyros The Terrible and the Silver Surfer. Doom's mind resides in the body of a bystander, who now uses "Gypsy magic" and the "Flames of Falroth" in his Latverian castle to try and reconstruct his mortal body. When these sacred flames cannot undo the disintegration, they summon The Beyonder instead. It's an awkward moment, having recently returned from Secret Wars (1984). | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage: In issue #177, the Frightful Four (who were betrayed by Thundra and now reduced to just the Wizard, Sandman and Paste-Pot Pete) defeated the FF and kept them captive while making auditions for a forth member. They got: a guy with no powers, a guy who can make tornados but would only join if he was well paid for his services (and they expected a member that was in it For the Evulz), Thundra (who was there only to have another chance to strike them), a guy with awesome powers but with a fobia to fire, and Tigra (a new character then; she found the Wizard very attractive... because he was the nearest one to the lever that would release the FF). The Wizard then made a general call: any of those waiting outside that helps them defeat the Torch and the Thing would be accepted as a member. They all ran away. The only one to remain was The Brute, who finally became the 4th member. | |
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