Marvel’s Fantastic practice is a super team that is done all with the respective heads of this family group, Reid Richards AKA Mr. Fantastic, and Su storm AKA, The Invisible Woman, acting as the glue that holds everyone together whether out in the field or home safe in the Baxter Building. But how exactly does their decades-long superhero story end? Fortunately for fans, Marvel has already revealed how Reed and Sue go out, and it’s absolutely perfect for their characters.
Introduced alongside The Human Torch and The Thing in 1961s The Fantastic Four #1Reed and Sue began as friends, eventually married, had two children, Franklin and Valeria, and somehow still found the time to save the world when needed, making them one of the few comic characters with a progressive story that reflects their evolution as a Family and like heroes.
in Fantastic Four: The Wedding Special #1It is revealed that at the end of their lives, The last act of Reed Richards and Sue Storm is to leave Earth in one final walk into the unknown.
The story of Reed Richards and Sue Storm ends with them going to explore the Universe
Fantastic Four: The Wedding Special #1 – 2005 (Karl Kesel and Drew Johnson)
Following Today’s Reid and Sue When they attend a surprise “engagement” celebration populated by Reeds and Sues plucked from across the time stream, the event was put together by an older version of the characters, with this story they discuss what their last years have been like. Can stop. toasting to their younger selves, Old Reed and Sue explain that they have no idea where or when their next “big adventure” will take them or if they’ll even return from it.And by the end of the issue, they make good on it by disappearing into a portal to complete their “fantasy life.”
In the years after 2015 secret warsThe Fantastic Four as a team and a comic series are on hiatus, with the canon reason being that they’re off rebuilding and exploring the multiverse, solidifying Reed and Sue’s need to discover new and cosmically significant things when their superhero responsibilities allow. Make complete sense that in the twilight of their lives, they would do it again, and this issue showed Reed and Sue end their story by doing the one thing they lived for – explore the uncharted depths of what the universe and multiverse hold – It cannot be supported.;
Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman’s ending makes perfect sense for the scientific adventurers
It may still be a while before Reed and Sue get their final in-continuity send-off, but the fact that they made exploration, science and being together a priority even at their ages says a lot about who they are as people and what they I mean in the grand scheme of ​​the Marvel Universe. The Fantastic Four They’re primed to make their MCU debut next summer, so hopefully by the time this iteration of the team makes its final bow, both Reid Richards And Su storm Will get the ending they’ve always deserved, an ending Marvel already gave them.
Fantastic Four: The Wedding Special #1 is available from Marvel Comics.