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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The World's Greatest Team. Marvel Comics' First Family.The Fantastic Four are a classic Marvel Universe superhero team, consisting of: Mister Fantastic (Dr. Reed Richards), Omnidisciplinary Scientist who can stretch and bend any part of his body at will. The Invisible Woman (Susan "Sue" Richards [née Storm]), who originally could only become invisible, she later developed special force field powers, as well as abilities to make invisible/visible her team-mates, objects or anything else she wishes. The Human Torch (Jonathan "Johnny" Storm), who can cover his body in flames and fly, as and when he chooses to "Flame on". The Thing (Benjamin "Ben" Grimm), who is superhumanly big and strong that comes with a measure of invulnerability — but also remarkably monstrous, and unlike the others, can't switch it off.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The characters first appeared in "Fantastic Four" vol. 1 #1 (November, 1961), created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The four were connected even before the same Negative Space Wedgie gave them all their powers — Reed and Sue were sweethearts and eventually got married, Johnny is Sue's younger brother, Ben is Reed's best friend since college (previously Reed's buddy from World War II, until Comic-Book Time forced a Retcon) — and are as much a family (if occasionally a dysfunctional one) as a team. Reed is the World's Smartest Man, and his genius is often at least as useful as the powers he got from the accident. The royalty payments from all his inventions fund the Four's adventures, despite the fact that they never get implemented in the world around them, and lets them live in high style in the time between.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The Fantastic Four are at heart a team of scientists and explorers, and they build vehicles, devices and portals in their penthouse dwelling atop the Baxter Building. The adventures of the Fantastic Four have taken them across the world, across time, to the far depths of space, and the bowels of the earth. The FF have investigated, explored and mapped out more dimensions and alternate universes than you can fathom. In the course of their many adventures, the Four have faced a great assortment of rogues — the Mole Man, the Skrulls and the Kree, Dr. Victor von Doom, the Puppetmaster, the Molecule Man, the Red Ghost, the Trapster, the Frightful Four, Annihilus, among many others. Likewise, it was in the pages of the Four that the Marvel Universe and its greater world building was first fixed. The first appearances of Black Panther and Wakanda, The Inhumans of Attilan, and the Silver Surfer were in the pages of the Four. Their number one recurring enemy Doctor Doom has gone on to become the great Marvel-wide villain of the entire universe. The Fantastic Four as such both literally and figuratively founded the Marvel Universe as we know it. In the wake of the success of the Four, titles like Spider-Man, the X-Men, The Avengers followed. They also created many tropes; the FF were the first superheroes without a Secret Identity, the first super-team where the members fought each other as much as the villains, and the first place that Kirby Dots appeared, among others.The Marvel Universe officially marks the beginning of Comic-Book Time to be the event that gave the Fantastic Four their powers. Multiple handbooks and reference guides insist that at best only 14 years have passed since then in the entire verse, and fourteen years will be all that ever passes in the Marvel Universe if editorial can continue getting away with it. The Timely era comics and events which transpired during World War II — the adventures of Captain America the original Human Torch, and Namor the Sub-Mariner — were famously welded into continuity in Fantastic Four #3-4 where Johnny Storm runs into an amnesiac hobo and gives him a shave only to reveal him to be Namor, reviving his memory and restoring him as an anti-hero/anti-villain.The flagship title continues to be Fantastic Four but recently the series spun off another book FF, meaning Future Foundation. In addition, Marvel Two-in-One a team-up series featuring The Thing and other heroes ran regularly in The '70s and even when the the core title was cancelled between 2015-2018, this team-up title was revived by Chip Zdarsky as part of Marvel Legacy. Originally a temporary replacement for the regular Fantastic Four book, the Foundation is a scientific organization working for the betterment of mankind. The book features Reed and Sue's children, Franklin and Valeria; and notably includes Spider-Man and Doctor Doom as members. With the Marvel NOW relaunch the new volume of the Future Foundation stars Scott Lang, She-Hulk, Medusa and Johnny Storm's current girlfriend, Darla Deering, while the main family is on an intergalactic vacation. The series ended in 2015 with issue #645. However some characters appeared in other titles separately. In the aftermath of Secret Wars (2015), Johnny Storm appeared in Uncanny Inhumans and Uncanny Avengers and the Thing joined the Guardians of the Galaxy. As for Reed and Sue Richards, they went off with their kids rebuilding The Multiverse, which was destroyed in the lead-up to Secret Wars. In 2017, Johnny and Ben reunited in Marvel 2-in-One and began searching for their missing family, leading into the team finally returning in 2018 after a three-year (real-time) absence. Future Foundation continues the adventures of the titular Foundation in the multiverse without them.In 1999, Lee and Kirby's original run was ranked #31 in The Comics Journal's list of the Top 100 Comic Books of the 20th Century, honored alongside the works of such greats as Carl Barks, Al Capp, Charles M. Schulz and Bill Watterson. It was one of only a few mainstream superhero series to make the list (alongside Jack Cole's original run on Plastic Man, C. C. Beck and Otto Binder's original run on Captain Marvel and fellow Marvel trailblazer, Lee-Ditko Spider-Man) and it was the highest ranked of any them. Also see Ultimate Fantastic Four, an (obviously) Ultimate Universe version set in the Ultimate Marvel universe.Notably, all four members of the team had been members of different factions of The Avengers at one point or another, with Reed and Sue being part of the original team, Ben being part of both the west coast team and the New Avengers, and Johnny being part of the Avengers Unity Squad. | |
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Elemental Baggage: For Johnny's power source in creating flame. Occasionally justified by him feeling tired or very hungry after using extremely hot flames. And then there's the part about his body and his powers both needing oxygen to function. There have been times when he's been trapped in airtight spaces, causing him to pass out when his flame powers used up all the oxygen. The Thing's rocky exterior makes him incredibly heavy, to the point where he has to use an elevator by himself to avoid overcoming the max lift weight and everything meant to accommodate him has to be built very large and reinforced. | |
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Spike Shooter: Thorn, a member of the Salem Seven, is able to do this, with the added benefit that his spines are Made of Explodium. | |
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Anyone Can Die: The focus of the Three storyline. It was Johnny — but of course he got better. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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In one story 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. At the end of the story, about five issues later, 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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Comic-Book Time | |
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Comic-Book Time: Perhaps more visibly in force here than in any other comic. Franklin was born in 1968, and had yet to reach puberty for many decades of comics despite the fact that he really ought to be older than many, many Marvel Comics characters that are older than him despite having been born decades later. Best reflected in the fact that Kitty Pryde in one issue of Uncanny X-Men mused about offering to babysit Franklin to work off unwitting vandalism to the Fantastic Four's lab (It Makes Sense in Context). Going by her introduction year of 1980, and her stated age at the time of 13, she's actually only one year older than Franklin (to be 13 in 1980 meant she was born in 1967). However, as of Dan Slott's run (which began in 2018), Franklin has finally grown enough to be a teenager. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Sue Storm's relationship with Reed Richards. | |
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Playing with Fire | |
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Johnny Storm has flight and Playing with Fire, with a side order of Wreathed in Flames. | |
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Dagwood Sandwich: Ben Grimm loves these. | |
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Papa Wolf: Reed masks Franklin's mutant gene to Krakoa to prevent him from going to Krakoa. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: A memorable moment in Issue #10, from a series not known for breaking the fourth wall on a regular basis. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, struggling to write a plot for that issue, reflect on the mistake of sending Doctor Doom into space. Then, almost as if on cue, Doom barges into their office and threatens the pair to call Mr. Fantastic to "discuss a new plot". Then, at that moment, Johnny answers the phone, telling Reed that it is Lee and Kirby, wanting to discuss a new plot, to which Richards questions it, stating that they just discussed working on a plot the previous day. | |
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Stripperiffic: Unusual for a comic series in that the team's main female member only rarely falls under this trope, preferring a modest blue bodysuit identical to the ones Reed and Johnny wear, but it does happen - like when she wore this costume for a few years in the 1990s. The change was widely panned by fans and removed. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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The title was relaunched as "FF" following Johnny's death, with the team retiring the Fantastic Four name and uniforms out of respect, renaming themselves the Future Foundation and donning black and white uniforms, having Spider-Man join, the addition of Reed's time traveling deadbeat dad and Doctor Doom coming along for the ride thanks to a deal Valeria made with him. | |
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Alternate Company Equivalent: Jack Kirby originally reworked his old DC Comics Challengers of the Unknown to create the Four. | |
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Deadly Training Area | |
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Deadly Training Area: Lots of the training areas that would be lethal for ordinary man (e.g Bens weights being 1,000 of tons). Is completely normal for the 4. | |
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Alliance of Alternates | |
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Alliance of Alternates: The Interdimensional Council of Reeds, led by three versions of Reed Richards with Infinity Gauntlets. Earth-616's Reed quickly discovers that their For Science! attitude clashes with his own morality and sense of family. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Downplayed. Sue met Reed when he was 19 and she was 12, getting a crush on him at first sight. Thankfully, they got together much later in life. | |
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Ironic Echo: Reed's insistence that Franklin's situation with Krakoa would have sorted itself out is quoted back at him by Xavier. | |
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Mysterious Parent | |
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Mysterious Parent: Nathaniel Richards has had a very interesting life. Helping to found S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't even the least of the things he's done (which includes no small amount of time-travel). | |
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Funny Background Event: During Hickman's run, in FF issue 14, Bentley is seen saying something to Katie Powers. Whatever it is he said, she slugs him for it. | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: The overall ethos of the Fantastic Four is that the universe(s), the multi-verse(s) and the many other crazy places visited by the Four was awesome, or at least it is awesome to them. The famous moment when Reed Richards enters the Negative Zone cements this: | |
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Guile Hero: Invisible Woman should be portrayed as this. She shamed Ben Grimm into piloting the ship during the first issue. She was also told to distract many of the Silver Age male supervillains. After Psycho Man temporarily turned her into Malice she used her knowledge of Reed and Psycho Man's personalities to track him down and take revenge on him. When Dr. Doom stole the power cosmic from the Silver Surfer, she tricked him into flying into outer space when he couldn't. During the Civil War, she spied on Reed. As any real chessmaster/manipulative bastard/guile hero would tell you, the greatest achievements in theses tropes is to make certain that your opponents don't realize you are a social expert. Valeria Richards is this too, especially when written by Jonathan Hickman. She seems to have inherited her dad's smarts - and her mom's wits. | |
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Artifact Title: The original family of four — Reed, Sue, Johnny, Ben — enlarged with the arrival of the children — Franklin and Valeria. But they still call themselves the Fantastic Four. At different times in the past, and different adaptations, the Four included in its roster (in replacement for the family) the likes of HERBIE, Kristoff von Doom, She-Hulk. This was especially noticeable at the end of the "Fantastic Five" Flash Forward series where the team expanded at the end to include eight members. The Future Foundation or FF became a sub-franchise in part to address their expanding roster and in part to maintain the alliteration. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Benjamin Jacob Grimm, until it became canon a few years back; and he undertook a second Bar Mitzvah to commemorate the occasion of his 13th Anniversary of turning into The Thing. His very look is loosely inspired by the Jewish folktale of the Golem. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Johnny generally acts like a teenager on hormonal overdrive, but he's generally portrayed as a skilled mechanic at the very least, and a competent planner at his best. As for the rest of the team: The Thing is likewise a very intelligent ex-fighter pilot. On his worst days, he's needy, pessimistic, and pushy; on his best, he is braver than Captain America. Sue is the most powerful member of her team and on her best day the Team Mom, but she's got self-esteem issues and doubts Reed's devotion to her and to the family. Most interesting of all is Reed: he's brilliant, he's rich, he's famous, he's got a great family and the name of every other superhero on his rolodex, and he's even easy on the eyes, but every so often he admits his deep guilt over causing the accident that made the Fantastic Four in the first place - even guilt over what happened to Victor Von Doom, even though he didn't have a damn thing to do with it. | |
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¡Three Amigos! | |
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¡Three Amigos!: Reed, Ben and Sue. Later, during John Byrne's run, also Ben, Johnny and Alicia (carried over into the MC-2 universe with Ben, Johnny and Lyja). | |
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Artifact of Death | |
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Artifact of Death: The Ultimate Nullifier. | |
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Mistaken Age | |
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Mistaken Age | |
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Chest Insignia | |
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Chest Insignia: The "4" symbol. | |
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Legend Fades to Myth | |
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Legend Fades to Myth: In one arc, they come across a town suffering from Decade Inside Second Outside; inside the town the Fantastic Four are considered legendary heroes (even more so than in Earth-616 Real Life) and the inhabitants are quite upset when they find out about what they're really like. | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: Doom and Reed, one of the most strongly It's Personal pair of nemeses in all of comics, although in practice the enmity extends to the rest of the team as well. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_37fcf16 | comment |
Death Is Cheap: Happens quite often, most recently Johnny Storm. | |
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Crisis Crossover | |
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In the Crisis Crossover event, Secret Wars (2015), Doctor Doom gains nigh-omnipotent power and uses it to fuse what's left of the destroyed multiverse into Battleworld, where he rules as God. While he's at it, though, he takes the opportunity to throw as many Take Thats at Reed Richards as possible, including rewriting history so that he was Sue's husband and the father of Franklin and Valeria instead of Reed. Reed is clearly upset about this when he finds out, but due to what's at stake, he doesn't act on it immediately. However, it should also be noted that we're never informed if Doom's marriage with Sue was intimate or not, and that Reed doesn't consider this Sue the same one he knew, so the trope may be averted in that regard, but Reed was on the verge of tears nonetheless. | |
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Something Completely Different | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_3b4773de | comment |
Something Completely Different: The Fantastic Four Roast from February 1982 was a one-shot all-humor issue where virtually the entire Marvel universe shows up at a fete for the FF to give some good-natured ribbing to them. It was written and laid out by Fred Hembeck with finishes and inks by many of the staff. It has the splash page title "When Titans Chuckle!" | |
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Noodle Incident | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: In the 2018 relaunch, it's idly revealed that Iceman became a member of the Fantastic Four. Though the editor's note says that it's a story for another time, all that's known about it is that it was a spur of the moment thing and that Johnny considers it "non-canon". | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: The Thing, who has been permanently transformed into a superstrong but hideous rock monster. | |
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Powered Armor | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_3d59c9a0 | comment |
Powered Armor: Somewhere early 70's The Thing lost his powers, so he wound up using a Powered Armor version of his previous body. | |
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Accidental Kidnapping | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_3e353a08 | comment |
Accidental Kidnapping: Kate and her Marauders. | |
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FauxActionGirl | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_40217655 | comment |
Faux Action Girl: The Invisible Girl, originally; though she slowly got better over time, it wasn't until the John Byrne run in the 1980s that she toughened up into a real Action Girl. | |
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The Bermuda Triangle | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_403ad150 | comment |
The Bermuda Triangle: A recurring foe, Mole Man, has a home on Monster Island, which is suggested to be either somewhere in this region or off the coast of Japan, Depending on the Writer. The latter is a bit of a universal artifact, considering that back when Marvel held the license, it was probably made to be the Monster Island. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_4160410d | comment |
For the first twenty (or so) issues, the Invisible Girl can't, or at least doesn't, make force-fields. Her only displayed power was invisibility, which in the earliest comics she primarily used to...hide. Just hide, so the bad guys wouldn't get her. It was only starting with the third issue that she started using her power for espionage as well, and even then she tended to be given away by things like dogs barking at her, and was generally the Damsel in Distress for the other three. | |
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Just Ignore It | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_45bdaa0e | comment |
Just Ignore It: The first time they fought the Impossible Man. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_4604fd4d | comment |
Worthy Opponents: Ben Grimm and Incredible Hulk to each other. Banner himself has said that if Hulk ever really cut loose, Ben would probably be the only hero on Earth with even a chance of slowing "ol' Jade-Jaws" down. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: The Trapster, despite being one of their longest recurring villains, is almost always treated as this. He was once defeated by the Baxter Building's automated defences when the FF were out. The fact that he used to call himself "Paste-Pot Pete" doesn't help. | |
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Personality Powers | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_4bf3d8d7 | comment |
Personality Powers: Justified Trope via Retcon when it's revealed that their powers were, in fact, based on their personalities, as Reed gave them their powers during a Timey-Wimey Ball. Especially noticeable with the hot-headed Human Torch and the solid and stubborn Thing. Also originally Sue was a shy, almost invisible to people woman and Reed had an elastic mind. In "What if the Fantastic Four had different super powers?" (What If? v1 #6), Johnny became a robot due to his being a skilled mechanic, Ben became a Winged Humanoid with dragon-like wings for his passion about flying (on jets), Sue had elastic powers being a very conciliatory woman and Reed became a bodiless brain because of his peerless intelligence. | |
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President Evil | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_4c554daf | comment |
President Evil: Doctor Doom, who seized control of the Ruritania-esque Eastern European nation of Latveria. | |
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All of the Other Reindeer | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_4c8e8078 | comment |
All of the Other Reindeer: A Marvel staple... which is actually usually averted. The Fantastic Four are one of the more beloved heroes in the Marvel universe. Though on occasion, either thanks to Skrulls, or a Hate Plague, or just the average Marvel citizen, it is played straight. | |
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Power Perversion Potential | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_4d070ee3 | comment |
Power Perversion Potential: Reed Richards can stretch any part of his body — and yes, it has come up in subtext that this is why he and Sue are so Happily Married. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early Installment Weirdness: Lots, but the earliest issues are rife with it: Ben gets called "Thing" almost all the time. Before too long, the other three members called him "Ben" and "The Thing" was more or less just his call-sign. For the first two issues, the team just wears street clothes. And yet, Reed is able to make the clothes stretch with his body, and Johnny does not incinerate his clothes whenever he uses his powers. Even after they get uniforms in the third issue (designed and sewn by Sue, of course, as it was the sixties and only women did stuff like that), it's mainly to promote team spirit than to accommodate their powers. During this time, they also operated out of Central City instead of New York City—which is still canon as Reed's hometown. For the first twenty (or so) issues, the Invisible Girl can't, or at least doesn't, make force-fields. Her only displayed power was invisibility, which in the earliest comics she primarily used to...hide. Just hide, so the bad guys wouldn't get her. It was only starting with the third issue that she started using her power for espionage as well, and even then she tended to be given away by things like dogs barking at her, and was generally the Damsel in Distress for the other three. | |
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Body Horror | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror. Johnny getting revived by worms, after he died in the Negative Zone.◊ EW!◊ | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Considering that Reed had absolutely nothing to do with Doom's experiment failure or his injuries, Doom's grudge is completely unwarranted in the first place; but the sheer lengths that Doom goes to in his search for vengeance frequently go way beyond 'excessive'. What's amazing is Doctor Doom's quest for revenge is often as petty as it is insanely over the top. For instance, he's actually tried to break up Reed Richards' marriage as often as kill him. | |
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Not Wearing Tights | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_520680ca | comment |
Not Wearing Tights: For the first two issues. They only started wearing them because of fan demand. | |
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Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_52600ad6 | comment |
Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: The Last Defenders, a group of heroes from one Bad Future recount to Johnny how they caught Galactus. Johnny is understandably dubious, since there's only six of them. Their Hulk mentions that there used to be a lot more of them. During the Mad Celestials arc, the Future Foundation manages to fire off a super-weapon made by the Council of Reeds at them, killing one, but Reed notes if they fire it again, they'll crack the Earth like an egg. | |
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All Your Powers Combined | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_5288f02 | comment |
All Your Powers Combined: The Super Skrull has all the powers of the Fantastic Four. When Marvel vs. Capcom 3 came out, the Super Skrull was on the roster as their gameplay equivalent. | |
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Last-Minute Baby Naming | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_52c6a4d | comment |
Last-Minute Baby Naming: Franklin went nameless for a while after being born, until he was named after the deceased Franklin Storm. | |
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Book Dumb | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_53136954 | comment |
Ben Grimm is overlooked, but is almost as nerdy and smart as Reed. They don't let Book Dumb bruisers become test pilots and astronauts (in Real Life you have to have at least two Master's degrees or a PhD to be considered for space missions), and apparently Reed found him qualified to fly an experimental spacecraft. He also can follow Reed's Technobabble well enough to translate it into Layman's Terms, | |
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Minor Injury Overreaction | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_570f2124 | comment |
Minor Injury Overreaction: Dr. Doom, to Reed, as explained above. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_598513bb | comment |
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Susan is the responsible to Johnny's foolish. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Kl'rt the Super-Skrull has the powers of all four members of the Fantastic Four. Originally purely a villain but has often found himself in Enemy Mine situations with assorted Marvel characters. | |
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Friendly Enemy | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_5aa8d3d8 | comment |
Friendly Enemy: Johnny and Spider-Man have a friendly rivalry with each other; so do Ben and Wolverine. Encounters of the two duos are common in crossovers; usually Hilarity Ensues. To say nothing of the rivalry between The Thing and The Hulk, which is born of equal parts hatred, admiration, and respect. Whenever they meet they refer to each other almost exclusively as "Grimm" and "Banner." | |
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Finger in a Barrel | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_5ff71094 | comment |
Finger in a Barrel: When the Fantastic Four first encounter Prince Namor, the Submariner is preparing an invasion of New York to combat "the human filth." At one point, some Atlantian soldiers are preparing a large gun for firing when Ben Grimm stuffs his whole arm down the barrel, causing the weapon to explode. Ben then brings four dazed and unconscious Atlantians to Reed's laboratory, saying, "Hey, Reed: I found ya four volunteers." | |
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Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_5ff71094 | |
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Clock King | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_60665480 | comment |
Clock King: The Mad Thinker. | |
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No Such Thing as Space Jesus | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_60f40963 | comment |
No Such Thing as Space Jesus: In one issue, a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Walt Disney 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. Subverted the second time Galactus attacks Earth. 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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NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Ben Grimm, Victor Von Doom. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Johnny does this to save his niece and nephew. He succeeds, but dies in the process]]. (Don't worry, kids, this is a comic book). | |
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Goo-Goo-Godlike | |
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Goo Goo Godlike: Franklin Richards, who at the age of... uh... we'll get back to you on that is already capable of throwing down with Celestials, or even creating miniature universes. Also, Infant Terrible, a Silver Age alien antagonist. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Reed is Melancholic, Susan is Phlegmatic, Ben is Choleric, and Johnny is Sanguine. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: The series was brought about, according to one version, by Stan Lee's wife Joan suggesting to him that he write something he'd like to read as opposed to his editor or the readers. | |
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OrpheanRescue | |
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Orphean Rescue: To save Ben. | |
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Elite Four | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_68357614 | comment |
Elite Four: The eponymous group are four humans that made a daring venture into space, where exposure to cosmic radiation gave them superpowers. Reed Richards, "Mister Fantastic," is the team leader and also The Smart Guy; Ben Grimm, "The Thing," is The Big Guy; Johnny Storm, "The Human Torch," is the Lovable Rogue / wildcard of the group; and Susan Richards, "The Invisible Woman," used to be The Chick, until John Byrne's run on the series promoted her to The Lancer. | |
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Sacrificial Planet | |
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Sacrificial Planet: The planet-eating Galactus came to Earth a few times to devour it after spending centuries feeding on other planets without much trouble. Galactus's opposite number Abraxas was introduced as having destroyed a number of parallel Earths before heading to the "main" one. | |
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Kirby Dots | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_68a650d0 | comment |
Kirby Dots: Made their first appearance in the comic. | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: You know, the invisible woman can turn people… invisible… | |
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Draconic Humanoid | |
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Draconic Humanoid: Dragon Man is an android built in the shape of one of these. | |
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No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine | |
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No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Subverted with Dr. Doom. | |
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When I Was Your Age... | |
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When I Was Your Age...: Regularly muttered by The Thing. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: Reed feels responsible for what happened to the others, particularly Ben. | |
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I Gave My Word | |
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I Gave My Word: Doom. | |
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The Thing That Would Not Leave | |
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The Thing That Would Not Leave: During Hickman's run, Johnny invites himself to live with Peter Parker. Peter gets increasingly irritated by Johnny's antics over the next few weeks, finally reaching his breaking point and kicking Johnny out when he finds Annihilus sitting on his toilet. | |
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Dressed Like a Dominatrix | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_710e51e0 | comment |
Dressed Like a Dominatrix: Invisible Woman's evil Sexier Alter Ego Malice wore a very skimpy black leather costume, a spiked collar, opera gloves with spiky bracelets, thigh-high high-heeled boots, a spiked gimp mask, and a cape. Combining the two, in an Alternate Universe Sue Storm became Madame Hydra (Empress Hydra, to be exact). She rocked a green thigh-cut evening dress, a green choker, opera gloves, high-heeled boots, and a whip. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
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You Can't Fight Fate: A theme of Hickman's run. Despite everything Nathaniel and Valeria can think of, the Mad Celestials always end up killing the Fantastic Four. Much of the run is spent with Val trying to find a way to Screw Destiny. | |
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Once More, with Clarity | |
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Once More, with Clarity!: During "Three", Valeria has a flashback to when she went through The Bridge, but it comes without dialogue. Several months later, she explains what happened to Reed, and we get to hear what's said this time. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Hickman's run has "solve everything" and "all hope lies in Doom" | |
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Best of All Possible Worlds | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_77b282d3 | comment |
Best of All Possible Worlds: Jonathan Hickman's run shows that while Reed has made many a bad decision, and isn't necessarily the best person in the world, he's a severe step-up from all the other Reed Richards out there, who without a father turned into cold manipulators, willing to do all manner of things in the name of the greater good, and eventually left their families. | |
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"Fantastic Voyage" Plot | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_78cdd5f6 | comment |
"Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Fantastic Four #606 had the FF doing this to cure Willie Lumpkin of an inoperable brain tumor. | |
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Brooklyn Rage | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_7a163538 | comment |
Brooklyn Rage: The Thing. In a good-guy type of way. | |
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Who You Gonna Call? | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_7d12f7b1 | comment |
Who You Gonna Call?: When Earth faces world ending threats, the Four is usually the first resource the authorities call upon to stop them. | |
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Vague Age | |
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Franklin Richards, who at the age of... uh... we'll get back to you on that is already capable of throwing down with Celestials, or even creating miniature universes. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: In issue 518 of the 1998 series: | |
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LargeHam | |
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Large Ham: TREMBLE WITH FEAR BEFORE DOOM'S TITANIC MONOLOGUES! Ben and Johnny tend to ham it up when they're bickering, particularly Johnny's fire-based pranks, Ben's threats that he hardly ever follows through with, and his endless fire-based insults (match-head, flame-brain, etc.) IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME! | |
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Pals with Jesus | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_835f53f3 | comment |
Pals with Jesus: All four are friends with Uatu The Watcher, one of the most powerful beings of this universe. Even better: Galactus, a freakin' embodiment of a cosmic force, has said that the Fantastic Four are the only beings in the Universe that he can call his friends. In fact, in one issue we see an older version of Franklin promise Galactus that he'd be with him at the end of the universe. They share a moment floating above the Earth. | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_83ea0763 | comment |
Rouge Angles of Satin: Volume 1 #19 keeps spelling the word Pharaoh as "Pharoah". This was pointed out in the "Fantastic Four: The Legend" special. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8409a385 | comment |
Issue #1: Mole Man's massive army that he managed to train while on Monster Isle. | |
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Alternate Universe | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8430699a | comment |
Combining the two, in an Alternate Universe Sue Storm became Madame Hydra (Empress Hydra, to be exact). She rocked a green thigh-cut evening dress, a green choker, opera gloves, high-heeled boots, and a whip. | |
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Superhero | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8448fdd0 | comment |
Super Hero: The earliest Marvel ones. | |
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Story-Breaker Power | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8712e4c9 | comment |
Story-Breaker Power: Franklin is a major case of having this, which is why he can never be allowed to permanently grow up in-story. He also keeps having his powers nerfed after doing anything sufficiently cool. This is because his full power is well beyond most characters who are considered gods; perhaps the only Earthling who compares to him is Scarlet Witch (who also has her powers reined in by something or other most of the time.) | |
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Fire/Water Juxtaposition | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_87bc9c07 | comment |
Fire/Water Juxtaposition: The Sub-Mariner's rivalry with the first Human Torch carries over into his characterization in this series, where he's a proud, stoic monarch who serves as a frequent dramatic foil to the compassionate, fun-loving daredevil Johnny Storm. | |
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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 | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Mind Rape: A notable example when 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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Deconstruction | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: The series as a whole, especially in the early days, lampshades and subverted common superhero tropes like secret identities, team unity and family issues, and even a secret base. Instead of a cave or fortress and masks, the team was out and proud. Later writers, like Mark Waid, have made this a purposeful event in the team's creation: Reed made them celebrities to atone for the accident that robbed them of a normal life. Mark Waid's run also throws a dark mirror on the Reed-Doom relationship. Both have always been shown with varying levels of Not So Different but Waid accentuates it. Reed takes over Latveria and gets as obsessed with the then-dead Victor as Victor gets with him. Overall it's a fairly chilling look at how isolated and driven two intelligent men are, and how defined by each other they have become. | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: Where do you think they got the name? Not completely, however. If it weren't for unstable molecules, 3/4 of the Fantastic Four would be running around like this◊. Averted in issue #9. Johnny mentions Reed patented all his inventions and became incredibly wealthy, which is how he paid for the Baxter Building and his lab space, but lost it all in the stock market crash of 1962. Similarly, Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome. | |
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Sudden Humility | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8bb3ac7b | comment |
Sudden Humility: In one issue, Sue and Johnny swap powers. Sue constantly loses control over her new powers and notes how she constantly "Flames On!" by accident whenever she gets excited or emotional. She's utterly amazed that a Hot-Blooded person like Johnny was able to keep this much power under control, and she gained a newfound respect and appreciation for her brother because of how difficult it was for her to remain in control at all times. | |
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Mr. Exposition | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_8cb844c6 | comment |
Mr. Exposition: In their early appearances the Inhumans come across as an entire race of these. This is partly because they have to speak for their mute by choice leader Black Bolt, and partly because they would appear Once per Episode as part of a story arc and have to recap everything for casual readers. | |
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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 and Secret Wars II) a few issues later. | |
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Heroic Spirit | |
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Heroic Spirit: Thing saves the world once just from showing how he wouldn't give up. | |
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Superpower Lottery | |
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Superpower Lottery: Franklin Richards, the omnipotent toddler. | |
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JustifiedTrope | |
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Justified Trope via Retcon when it's revealed that their powers were, in fact, based on their personalities, as Reed gave them their powers during a Timey-Wimey Ball. | |
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Five-Man Band | |
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Johnny dying a year before the FF's 50th anniversary. Yeaaaah, that'll stick. Then becomes a subversion when instead of simply coming back to life he ends up in the Negative Zone leading a Five-Man Band to overthrow Annihilus and gains control over the Annihilation Wave. Took a Level in Badass indeed. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
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The Bus Came Back: The Richards family and the Future Foundation were absent from the Marvel universe in the three years of publication after Secret Wars (2015). Then came Dan Slott's run. Mark Waid's run had Doom cast into Hell (well, a Hell. Marvel's got a lot of 'em.) He returns during Strazinsky's run. Kristoff, Doom's protégé / heir just sort of vanished after a while. Hickman's run brought him back with the mention that Doom had sent him in to exile for whatever reason. The same with Nathaniel Richards. | |
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Mighty Glacier | |
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Issue #4: A massive whale-like creature with legs called Giganto, summoned and controlled by Submariner. | |
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Cuckold | |
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Cuckold: Played with in lots of stories: Susan Richards née-Storm is constantly been sought after by Namor, The Submariner, and several stories have demonstrated that they share a mutual attraction. However, she is faithful to Reed and has never strayed during their relationship. That hasn't kept Namor from trying. In the "What If?" tale, "What if Invisible Girl married The Submariner", you get Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Sue marries the Submariner and later gives birth to his child. There is this panel◊ which really drives the point home. However, Sue later separates from Namor and then marries Reed, whom she also has a child with. In the Crisis Crossover event, Secret Wars (2015), Doctor Doom gains nigh-omnipotent power and uses it to fuse what's left of the destroyed multiverse into Battleworld, where he rules as God. While he's at it, though, he takes the opportunity to throw as many Take Thats at Reed Richards as possible, including rewriting history so that he was Sue's husband and the father of Franklin and Valeria instead of Reed. Reed is clearly upset about this when he finds out, but due to what's at stake, he doesn't act on it immediately. However, it should also be noted that we're never informed if Doom's marriage with Sue was intimate or not, and that Reed doesn't consider this Sue the same one he knew, so the trope may be averted in that regard, but Reed was on the verge of tears nonetheless. | |
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MonsterModesty | |
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Monster Modesty: Even though the Thing has been horrified by his monstrous appearance, he often runs around in blue short-pants and nothing else. | |
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Layman's Terms | |
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Layman's Terms: Ben usually dumbs down the complex explanations Reed Richards comes up with for the people around him. When Reed starts speaking too Star-Trek even for him, it's also Ben who normally snaps at him to "Speak English, Stretcho!" | |
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Egocentric Team Naming | |
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Egocentric Team Naming | |
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Medium Blending | |
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Medium Blending: Some of the Jack Kirby-drawn issues featured photographed models of objects in place of drawings. | |
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Not So Different | |
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Not So Different: Although they're on opposite ends of the good vs. evil thing, both Reed and Doom are insanely intelligent, somewhat condescending, and often only care about completing whatever task at hand will best benefit whatever, tossing aside everything else. | |
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Been There, Shaped History | |
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Been There, Shaped History: Blackbeard is actually Ben. | |
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Broke Episode | |
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Broke Episode: Issue #9, and the first 12 issues of their Marvel Knights series. FF # 9 had a bit of Ripped from the Headlines going on, as it was written shortly after the stock market crashed in 1962. Reed lost most of the team's money to bad investments, forcing them to participate in a humiliating and hilarious movie-making scheme put together by Namor. | |
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EvilCounterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: Quite a few - The Frightful Four, with varying line-ups, but almost always including the Wizard as Reed's particular counterpart. Most recent line-ups have also included Hydro-Man as a counterpart to Johnny. Kl'rt the Super-Skrull has the powers of all four members of the Fantastic Four. Originally purely a villain but has often found himself in Enemy Mine situations with assorted Marvel characters. The U-Foes have a similar origin, line-up and powers, but are criminals. They have also never fought the Fantastic Four, being primarily Hulk villains. They are probably best known as the guys Volstagg fought at the start of Siege. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Susan, once The Chick with the next to useless power of become invisible, to nowadays where she is one of the most powerful superheroes in all of the Marvel Universe, along with the forceful personality guaranteed to mess up even Doctor Doom's day. Oh, and she's got kids. There's a reason why she's the page image for this trope. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: During Hickman's run, when Valeria recounts what happened when she went through The Bridge, one of the alternate Reeds comments after their lucky escape from the Mad Celestials that it's lucky they didn't combine. Toward the end of the arc, guess what happens. | |
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Team Hand-Stack | |
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Team Hand-Stack: Used in the origin story, when the team and members are named. And in multiple repeat variations of the origin story. And on the cover of Issue 524. | |
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Robot Me | |
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Subverted the second time Galactus attacks Earth. 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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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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Action Mom | |
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Action Mom: Invisible Woman, mother of two and still telekinetic butt-kicker supreme. | |
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The Notable Numeral | |
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The Notable Numeral: The eponymous heroes and their enemies The Frightful Four, headed by the Wizard. | |
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Big Little Brother | |
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Big Little Brother: Naturally, Johnny is taller than his older sister, Sue. | |
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MetaFiction | |
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Meta Fiction: The Fantastic Four: True Story miniseries involves the four exploring the Ideaverse after everyone becomes inexplicably adverse to fiction. The ideaverse is a metaphysical plane where all fictional characters reside, where inhabitants are shaped by the perceptions of readers and readers are shaped by them once there. The problem turned out to be an author recalling Nightmare enough to recount him as a novel. Thus rendered as a fictional character, he becomes like an invasive species and creates an army of monsters pushing further into older stories corrupting the whole thing inside out. The four are perceived by Dante Alighieri as American comic book superheroes to their surprise. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: The Thing gets turned into a human about once every few years, but always gets turned back, usually because he needs to help someone out. It's something of a running gag. Sometimes when it happens he actively tries to regain his powers as he feels useless and naked without them. In one story arc, Reed tried to remove Ben's mutation and add it to his own elasticity, but Ben refused to let him. "You're you an' I'm me, an' that's the cosmic plan." Johnny dying a year before the FF's 50th anniversary. Yeaaaah, that'll stick. Then becomes a subversion when instead of simply coming back to life he ends up in the Negative Zone leading a Five-Man Band to overthrow Annihilus and gains control over the Annihilation Wave. Took a Level in Badass indeed. | |
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Hidden Elf Village | |
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Hidden Elf Village: The Fantastic Four discovered Attilan, a hidden city, which was the retreat of the Inhumans, hidden in the Himalayas (they've moved since). | |
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Flying Firepower | |
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Flying Firepower: Johnny Storm has flight and Playing with Fire, with a side order of Wreathed in Flames. The android Dragon Man can fly and breathe fire. Nova, Johnny girlfriend. Though Richie does qualify for this trope as well) also had this power set, before becoming a Herald of Galactus. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: The Thing. Johnny likes to think he's one too. | |
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Shrink Ray | |
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Shrink Ray Volume 1 Issue #10. Doctor Doom develops a shrink ray device with the intent of using it on the Fantastic Four, but he ends up getting Hoist by His Own Petard and shrunk down to nothingness. Volume 3 Issue #65. Using Doctor Doom's shrink ray device, Reed Richards shrinks The Thing down to half size so he can travel through the Baxter Building's ventilation ducts in search of intruders. Issue #606, the team shrunk down to microscopic size to remove an inoperable brain tumor brain tumor from their postman and very good friend Willie Lumpkin. | |
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The One Who Made It Out | |
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The One Who Made It Out: Ben Grimm is a former member of the Yancy Street Gang, and they resent him for forgetting his roots. | |
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Runs on Ignorance | |
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Runs on Ignorance: In one arc, Reed Richards was helpless against Doctor Doom's magical prowess, so he had to learn magic from Doctor Strange, however he kept trying to analyze it scientifically and logically, making his results less than impressive. He only managed to use his magical skills to defeat Doom once he admitted that he had no idea what he was doing. | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come: Franklin's special dreams. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!" "FLAME ON!!" | |
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Retool | |
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Retool: The title was relaunched as "FF" following Johnny's death, with the team retiring the Fantastic Four name and uniforms out of respect, renaming themselves the Future Foundation and donning black and white uniforms, having Spider-Man join, the addition of Reed's time traveling deadbeat dad and Doctor Doom coming along for the ride thanks to a deal Valeria made with him. And then with the return of Johnny about a year later, "Fantastic Four" was relaunched and the team began using the name with redesigned FF uniforms; whilst the "FF" series began focusing on Franklin, Val & the rest of the kids at the Baxter Building. With Marvel NOW, in "Fantastic Four" the Richards family took an intergalactic vacation for a year, whilst in "FF" Scott Lang, She-Hulk, Medusa and Johnny Storm's most recent girlfriend, Darla Deering, were recruited to serve as the heads of the Future Foundation & the Fantastic Four in the absence of the Richards family. | |
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They Do | |
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They Do: Reed and Sue. As of Issue #5 of Dan Slott's run, Ben and Alicia. | |
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Deaf Composer | |
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Deaf Composer: Alicia Masters is a blind sculptress. More impressive because she makes lifelike statues based purely on description. | |
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What Have I Become? | |
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What Have I Become?: Ben Grimm had this come up a lot in the early years, but by this point now he's pretty much over it, although he has his good days and his bad days. The "bad days" that happen to him are usually caused by someone (most of the time a kid or kids) who're not used to seeing him up close get freaked out. Sometimes accompanied with a scream like "Mommy! It's a monster!" or some variation thereof, and he gets reminded of his hideous appearance. The real reason for this, however, is because True Art Is Angsty and writers sometimes want to do wangsty stories centered around him. For long-term fans who've followed FF stories through the years, it's getting a bit old. | |
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Floating in a Bubble | |
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Floating in a Bubble: Sue attacks Magneto this way. | |
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What If? | |
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What If?: Marvel's What If? comic line does have stories of these kinds about the Fantastic Four, but most interesting is What If? Vol. 2 #11, which told four stories about the team all having the same power. These stories are designated in the Marvel Encyclopedia Vol. 6 as Earth-9031 (all flaming), Earth-9032 (all stretchy), Earth-9033 (all monsters), and Earth-9034 (all with invisibility powers). | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser/Gentle Giant: The ever-lovin', blue-eyed Thing, Ben Grimm, although his smarts are usually overshadowed by super-genius Reed. Ben lampshades this as he assembles a cosmic ray device, musing that he's watched Reed long enough to play Mad Scientist himself. There is also the fact that Grimm was a highly qualified test pilot before he became The Thing; no mean feat brain-wise. The idea of The Thing being simultaneously physically strong, ugly, and smart was seen as revolutionary in comics. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: They're a family, and harming any of them is a bad idea. | |
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Weirdness Magnet | |
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Weirdness Magnet: The Four tend to meet or attract various aliens, interdimensional beings... whether intentional, or by accident. | |
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Deception Non-Compliance | |
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Deception Noncompliance: In one issue, 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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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Reed Richards, Susan Storm. In fact, Stan Lee has commented that he used this to help keep the names straight. Eventually, Sue's name would cease to be alliterative, although the hyphenate Sue Storm-Richards is sometimes used. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Reed and Sue, most of the time. | |
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Game of Nerds | |
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Game of Nerds: Reed Richards makes the occasional baseball analogy. Heck, Ben had a baseball-nerd moment as well: he once realized he was in a slightly-different parallel universe when he read a newspaper and found that the local sports trivia didn't match the stats he'd carried around in his head. | |
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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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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Spider-Man is one of the most trusted allies and friends of the Four. After the Torch's supposed death, Spidey temporarily became a member of the Future Foundation. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Quentin finds it ironic that Kate can walk through walls, but not through Krakoan portals. And then Franklin's masked x-gene lets him walk through one as though it was just a topiary loop, whereas the same portal was closed to Kate the way a solid wall is to most people. Ben finds it ironic that the only people in need of diplomatic immunity are the ones doing something wrong, but this is an inversion. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Reed Richards happens to be not only elastic, but the biggest nerd on Earth. Ben Grimm is overlooked, but is almost as nerdy and smart as Reed. They don't let Book Dumb bruisers become test pilots and astronauts (in Real Life you have to have at least two Master's degrees or a PhD to be considered for space missions), and apparently Reed found him qualified to fly an experimental spacecraft. He also can follow Reed's Technobabble well enough to translate it into Layman's Terms, | |
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Kaiju | |
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Kaiju: The Fantastic Four fought a lot of these within the first issues of the series. The list so far: Issue #1: Mole Man's massive army that he managed to train while on Monster Isle. Issue #2: A giant snake, a massive, spike-covered golem made of iron, and an enormous bird, all of which were actually Skrulls in disguise. Issue #3: A papier-mâché statue of "The Monster From Mars", which was brought to life by Miracle Man. Lampshaded during the Fantastic Four's cameo in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men when they helped the X-Men battle one of Mole Man's monsters: Issue #4: A massive whale-like creature with legs called Giganto, summoned and controlled by Submariner. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: During the early days of the series' run, Ben would periodically revert back to his old human self for a few minutes before turning back into The Thing again. Not only did this give Ben hope that the power of the cosmic rays were weakening on him, but it gave the rest of the four hope it might do the same for their powers. | |
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Tulpa | |
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Tulpa: An alternative and fantastical origin story for Doctor Doom had Mr. Fantastic create him as one of these. | |
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Appropriated Appellation | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_c4842ab1 | comment |
Appropriated Appellation: In the first story, Sue was the first person to call Ben a "Thing". | |
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Grand Theft Me | |
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Grand Theft Me: Doctor Doom forcefully switches bodies with Reed Richards in Volume 1, issue 10. | |
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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. Tintin managed to have a cameo in volume 3, issue #1 of the series, drawn by Scott Lobdell and Alan Davis where Reed and Sue (in disguise) meet the reporter during a protest march, where he is addressed as French, but quickly points out: "For the record, I'm Belgian.". Later in the story he is seen again fleeing, while shouting Haddock's catchphrase: "Billions of blistering blue barnacles". [1] | |
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The Nicknamer | |
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The Nicknamer: Ben. Some of his nicknames include "Stretcho" for Reed, "Bic-head" and "Matchstick" for Johnny, "Suzie-Q" for Susan, "Jade-Jaws" for Hulk, etc. | |
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And You Were There | |
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And You Were There: Ben does this at the end of the seminal comic book issue "Fantastic Four Annual 1998". | |
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Magic Pants | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_c949edd4 | comment |
Not completely, however. If it weren't for unstable molecules, 3/4 of the Fantastic Four would be running around like this◊. | |
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Legacy Character | |
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Legacy Character: The Human Torch is loosely based on the Golden Age Human Torch. | |
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One Extra Member | |
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One Extra Member: Not normally but for short periods of time or in alternate universes. This is occasionally lampshaded, such as in the Fantastic Five stories of Marvel Comics 2 which at one point had the team with six official members and a good number of their children (And Ben's ex) as acting members. | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The FF probably has more moments like this than anyone else in the Marvel Universe, but one of the most notable examples was when Sue killed (or at least disincorporated) a Celestial (thanks to some handy advice from Uatu). | |
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Fakeout Escape | |
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Fakeout Escape: There's a sequence in Fantastic Four #2 where Sue turns invisible when government officials come to check on her, then runs out the doorway during their confusion; this was enough of an Establishing Character Moment that it gets repeated in both the Ultimate and filmed versions. | |
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Pro Wrestling Is Real | |
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Pro Wrestling Is Real/Pro Wrestling Episode: The Thing, as well as several other super strong characters are a part of a superhuman wrestling federation called Unlimited Class Championship Wrestling. | |
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Sexier Alter Ego | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_cf68da0c | comment |
Invisible Woman's evil Sexier Alter Ego Malice wore a very skimpy black leather costume, a spiked collar, opera gloves with spiky bracelets, thigh-high high-heeled boots, a spiked gimp mask, and a cape. | |
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MostCommonSuperpower | |
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Most Common Superpower: For a time during the mid-90s, the Invisible Woman wore a skimpy costume with a cut-out "4" on her cleavage. This was before writers and editors realized that they didn't have to dress Sue up in a slinky costume to make her sexy — she was already a MILF. | |
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Creating Life | |
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Creating Life: In Issue #15, Reed had created a primitive, single-celled lifeform that lived for a few seconds. The Mad Thinker's Awesome Android is a Mechanical Lifeform created from Reed's notes. | |
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Detachment Combat | |
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Detachment Combat: The Fantasti-car separates into four smaller vehicles for each of its passengers. | |
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MundaneMadeAwesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: A recurring joke about the characters is that they'll go into space or another universe for picnics, or for coffee. | |
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Beauty to Beast | |
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Beauty to Beast: Ben, and possibly Doom. | |
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Teen Genius | |
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Teen Genius: Reed already had doctorates when he was twenty. Valeria, his and Sue's daughter, is currently building rooms that are Bigger on the Inside. At the age of four. What do you expect from the daughter of Doom and Reed (long story). | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Volume 1 Issue #10. Doctor Doom develops a shrink ray device with the intent of using it on the Fantastic Four, but he ends up getting Hoist by His Own Petard and shrunk down to nothingness. | |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate | |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Dr. Doom never actually finished his doctorate, but he sounds scarier with a "Doctor" in front of his name. Reed Richards, who finished several doctorates, chooses to go by Mr. Fantastic. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Johnny and Ben, and Johnny and Spidey whenever they team up. | |
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Barrier Warrior | |
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Barrier Warrior: Invisible Woman pretty much is the archetype. | |
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Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow | |
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Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow: The Watcher, who does some acting from time to time. | |
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Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_da163a71 | comment |
Similarly, Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome. | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Good smoking. Reed and Ben were both smokers for decades in the comics, Reed smoking a dignified pipe, Ben smoking thick cigars. They were both clear heroes and their smoking reflected that (Reed's made him look wise and paternal, Ben's made him look good-natured and friendly). They both were forced to quit when Marvel issued a blanket ban on smoking in its comics. | |
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Sixth Ranger | |
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Sixth Ranger: The Fantastic Four has frequently throughout the years have had other heroes fill-in whenever one of the core members were temporarily Put on a Bus. In a few notable instances: Black Panther and Storm took over Reed and Sue's spots on the team for a brief spell post-Civil War, and this was long after T'Challa formerly bankrolled some of the Four's operations in the past She-Hulk is one of the most recurring supporting allies the FF has had, first joining to replace a depowered Thing, and later coming on as additional muscle. Spider-Man's close relationship with the Fantastic Four has had him serve as this multiple times well before being inducted into the group proper as the Future Foundation. He would later lead a modified incarnation of the team (simply referred to as the "New Fantastic Four") comprised of himself, Incredible Hulk, Wolverine and Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch)* Was replaced with Iron Man in a modern-day "What If?" story., which in turn saw some of their successors and counterparts (like X-23, Amadeus Cho, Gwen Stacy and Robbie Reyes) form their own variants for certain occasions. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Invisible Woman, and there have been two female stand-ins for Ben Grimm: She-Hulk, and Sharon Ventura, who was transformed into a Distaff Counterpart of The Thing. Crystal of the Inhumans also once filled in for Sue. So did Medusa, Crystal's sister. | |
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Lightning Bruiser | |
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Lightning Bruiser: The Thing is just as agile and well-trained in martial arts as he was before his transformation, lots of people forget that. Woe on them. To quote Ben himself from an issue of Marvel Knights 4: | |
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? | |
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Susan used to have only invisibility in the early stories until Lee and Kirby realized that it was next to useless compared to the male members' powers. As a result, they gave Susan her force field powers, but it was only later under John Byrne's period that she learned to really make it a kick ass power set, using it with a new aggressiveness in battle. Since then, different writers have her being considered not only the most powerful member of the team, but one of the most powerful heroes, period. To give an example, she's used those forcefields to knock out the Hulk. It's further implied that if Sue didn't adhere to the rule of heroes not killing their enemies she could easily defeat most of her opponents by simply generating force field bubbles in their bodies and/or vital organs and making said force fields expand. In Enemy Of The State, Wolverine admits she's the only one of the four that scares him. Sue actually demonstrates how dirty she can fight if she wants to, by turning his retinas invisible, thus blinding him, then wrapping force fields around his lungs and threatening to crush them. That Wolvie was under HYDRA's mind-control at the time didn't stop her from subverting the "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight to hell and back, and she even hammers this in with something along the lines of: "I don't care who's controlling you, you come into my home, threaten my children, did you think I'd go easy on you?" | |
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The Von Trope Family | |
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The Von Trope Family: Doctor Doom's real name is Victor Von Doom. Reed and Sue's daughter Valeria could also fit here, since in one alternate future she was Doctor Doom's daughter, but Sue was still her mom. | |
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Psychic Nosebleed | |
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Psychic Nosebleed: Often, when Sue Storm is holding a forcefield against a particularly strong opponent. | |
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Bad Future | |
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The Last Defenders, a group of heroes from one Bad Future recount to Johnny how they caught Galactus. Johnny is understandably dubious, since there's only six of them. Their Hulk mentions that there used to be a lot more of them. | |
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Didn't See That Coming | |
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Didn't See That Coming: The Mad Thinker's main flaw. Reed and Doom are occasional sufferers as well. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
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Historical In-Joke: What was Blackbeard's true identity? Find out in Fantastic Four #5! | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Sue gets protective about Franklin being her son before being a Krakoan citizen – and she gets equally mad upon hearing that Krakoan leadership isn't as interested in the safety of her human daughter. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: The Thing seems to be on a permanent last-name basis with Bruce Banner (possibly having to do with his main rival being Bruce's alter-ego, and when he gets sufficiently pissed at Reed he'll start referring to him exclusively as "Richards". See also Doom, whose cries of "RICHARRDSSSSSSSSSSSS!" are almost as well-known as his talking about himself in the third person. | |
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Ability Mixing | |
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Ability Mixing: The Super Skrull has all the powers held by the Fantastic Four at the time he was created, in addition to his natural shapeshifting abilities. While less experienced with his individual powers than the Four, and lacking the forcefield abilities which Sue later manifested, some writers have him make up for this by combining his abilities in unusual ways. E.g. he once combined Reed's stretchiness, Ben's Super Toughness and Sue's invisibility to turn parts of his body into invisible Razor Floss. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: The Thing. The Champion declared him Earth's greatest hero, because even if he's not the most powerful, he will not yield. | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Galactus. He even provides the image for this trope's page. | |
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Deadly Force Field | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_e83c4c85 | comment |
Deadly Force Field: Sue Storm is the poster girl for Took a Level in Badass precisely because of this trope. In the original comics, she had a more passive role, often playing the Damsel in Distress. The writers gave her invisibility powers a force field aspect to make her more active and useful, other writers gave her more creative ways to use them, and now "lil Suzie" is one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, period. Notably, she can deal out all four main manners of death this trope describes: cutting, crushing, popping, and internal blockage. | |
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Science Hero's Babe Assistant | |
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Science Hero's Babe Assistant: Sue was basically this for Dr. Reed Richards. While not the only non-scientist on the team, she existed primarily to need rescuing and be ignored by Reed in favor of whatever experiment he was obsessed with at that moment. This was before taking so many levels in badass she's now one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel universe. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: In an early storyline, Mr. Fantastic, Thing, and Torch are sent back in time to retrieve Blackbeard's treasure or Doctor Doom will kill Sue. Mr. Fantastic decides to dupe him, saying technically they promised to bring back the treasure chest, so even if it's a chest filled with chains they've fulfilled their word. Reed likes doing this. In the second issue of Dan Slott's run, the Griever defeats Reed, Sue, and the Future Foundation and gloats that she thought it would be harder. Reed responds by saying that if the Fantastic Four were fully assembled they would have beaten her. Being a good sport, she agrees to let Reed summon the rest of the team for a rematch. Instead of just beaming in Johnny and Ben, however, Reed brings every past member of the Fantastic Four, including people who were only on the team for a handful of issues like Luke Cage and Ghost Rider. The resulting team contains most of Marvel's heavy hitters (Hulk, She-Hulk, Black Panther, Wolverine, Storm, Spider-Man, etc). | |
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Honorary Uncle | |
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Honorary Uncle: Ben Grimm, to Franklin and Val. Much more than honorary as Ben is also Franklin's godfather and the closest thing Reed has to family (before Sue and Johnny came into his life). And Ben always refers to Franklin and Valeria as "nephew" and "niece"; it's likely all four have forgotten they're not related by blood. Valeria also tends to address Doctor Doom as "Uncle Doom", which he appears to actually like. Spider-Man sometimes takes this role for Franklin. Notably when he consoled Franklin after Johnny Storm's death. In a Video Will he left behind, one of Johnny's reasons for asking Spider-Man to take his place in the team line-up was because he knew Franklin would be thrilled. | |
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A Hero to His Hometown | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_ebdb0292 | comment |
A Hero to His Hometown: Doctor Doom, Gladiator and Mole Man all have good reasons to be hated by the outside world, yet are loved by their citizens | |
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Evil-Detecting Baby | |
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Evil-Detecting Baby: In one issue, Doctor Doom walks the streets of New York in civilian clothes (with a less ornate mask replacing his usual one). He passes a baby boy, who begins screaming and crying uncontrollably. Doom apologises to the boy's mother for frightening the child; the mother replies that the baby is blind. | |
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Flash Forward | |
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At different times in the past, and different adaptations, the Four included in its roster (in replacement for the family) the likes of HERBIE, Kristoff von Doom, She-Hulk. This was especially noticeable at the end of the "Fantastic Five" Flash Forward series where the team expanded at the end to include eight members. | |
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Leave Him to Me! | |
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Leave Him to Me: Happened in an old comic, as shown here. Mr. Fantastic tells The Thing to leave Namor to him. | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: Given the domestic feel of their comics, this also happens a lot - most obviously, Reed using his stretching powers to use multiple workstations at once. | |
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Bachelor Auction | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_f0c41e30 | comment |
Bachelor Auction: Fantastic Four Volume 3, #50 backup story "In The Eye Of The Beholder". | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: After Susan and Johnny's father, Franklin Storm, turned to gambling and ended up being sent to prison for manslaughter, Sue was responsible for raising Johnny. To the point where Johnny has stated that he doesn't even remember his mother, and believes his father to be dead. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Reed might likely be the Trope Codifier. | |
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Flaming Emblem | |
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Flaming Emblem: Johnny often creates fire in the shape of the "4" logo, usually as a flare for the rest of the team to come to his aid. Sometimes, he does it on covers and other promotional material as well. | |
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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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Super Family Team | |
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Super Family Team: One of the first and longest lasting in comics. | |
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Rage Against the Author | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_f2a6d76d | comment |
Rage Against the Author: Author Avatars of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby attended the wedding of Reed and Sue... and were expelled by Nick Fury. | |
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SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She-Hulk was a member of the team for a while when the Thing went solo. Having the same powers let her fill the role effectively. Earlier, Luke Cage had filled in for Ben for a few issues during a period when Ben was depowered. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Ben and Sue. | |
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Battle Strip | |
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Battle Strip: Ben Grimm, in the very first issue, had the habit of ripping off a trenchcoat, pair of pants, sunglasses, and a fedora every time he went into battle. | |
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Romantic False Lead | |
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Romantic False Lead: Namor, Depending on the Writer. | |
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Doomy Dooms of Doom | |
| Fantastic Four / Comicbook / int_fb1fb07f | comment |
Doomy Dooms of Doom: Doctor DOOM! | |
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Team Mom | |
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Team Mom: Sue. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: Several robots based on HERBIE from The Fantastic Four (1978) have shown up from time to time. | |
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Master of Disguise | |
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Master of Disguise: Mr. Fantastic has infrequently used his stretching powers to assume a different face. | |
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Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe | |
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Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Reed Richards used to smoke a pipe from time to time, before the dangers became more well-known. | |
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Depending on the Writer | |
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Depending on the Writer: Reed's disposition varies from series to series. Sometimes he's nice but a bit unnecessarily gruff, sometimes he's a complete Jerkass, sometimes he's just absent minded. | |
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