The new origin of the Fantastic Four is Reed Richards’ darkest moment of all time

The Fantastic practices iconic origin is just horribly rewritten, turned Reid Richards From the leader of a beloved superhero family to the broken heel survivor of a botched experiment. Marvel’s new Ultimate Universe depicts a warped version of Marvel’s timeline – one in which Reed Richards became the Doctor Doom of this reality. Now, fans get to see the horrifying events that led to his transformation.

in Final #4Readers finally get to see Doctor Doom’s past. Reed’s story starts as usual, with him, Susan Storm, her brother Johnny, and Reed’s college friend Ben Grimm stealing an experimental craft after the government rescinds funding for Reed’s maiden voyage. However, in this world, Johnny burns alive and Sue is damaged on the cellular level, killing both of the Storm siblings… and they’re the lucky ones.

The new timeline was created by the Maker – a super-genius villain with a huge grudge against Reed Richards. While fans knew Reed’s family died, they didn’t know until now just how dark things got.

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	Writer: Deniz Camp Artist: Phil Noto Writer: Travis Lanham Cover artist: Dick Ruan

The Space Voyage of the Fantastic Four kills them in a new continuity

Reed Richards is destroyed, while the other heroes die tragically

The Ultimate Universe was created in 2023 Final invasion By Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch. The series saw the Evil Maker escape Marvel’s main reality (Earth-616), use time travel tech and his knowledge of history to conquer a new dimension (Earth-6160) and rewrite his history to give himself total control of human civilization. The Maker killed many of Marvel’s most iconic heroesCorrupt others, and prevent those left from ever gaining their powers. Fans knew from that series that the Fantastic Four were dead and that the Maker used their deaths to break Reed Richards, turning him into a genius servant of the Maker’s regime.

now, Final #4 Shows exactly what Maker did to Reed Richards. Sabotaging the Fantastic Four’s space flight through unknown means, the Maker allowed Reed to think he was responsible for the deaths of his girlfriend Sue and her brother. The theft of the spacecraft finally shamed Ben Grimm, who took his own lifeAnd earned Reed life in prison. Each of the Fantastic Four gets an ironic death that references the powers they have Should Have been given – the human torch burns alive, the invisible woman fades away to illness, the thing jumps onto rocks that resemble the rocky skin of the original, and Reid’s body is mangled by the Maker, who takes custody of him from the government .

Desperate for his family, Reed is then tortured by the Maker, who uses time travel to extend his pain indefinitely. The Maker methodically breaks down Reed’s identity, deliberately turning him into the new Doctor Doom by telling him that he ‘dooms’ everyone he loves. Of course, Maker knows that Doctor Doom Should They were Reed’s nemesis, and forces Reed into the villain’s image as sadistic punishment for the Original Reed Richards of Earth-616 imprisoned him earlier in Marvel’s study.

The manufacturer secretly undermined Reed Richards to break him

The new Doctor Doom has a heartbreaking origin

Thankfully, Tony Stark’s father rebelling against the Maker finally freed Reed, and he joined Tony’s Ultimates team as Doctor Doom. however, Ultimates #4 Makes it clear that he was experimenting with time travel in an attempt to change his past. It’s something the Ultimates have sworn off, since going back in time and giving various superheroes the powers they ‘should’ have earned has caused multiple deaths, with heroes like Captain Marvel unable to control their powers without years of experience.

While the new Doctor Doom is on the side of the angels, fighting to destroy the Maker’s power base, it’s clear that he has his own agenda in trying to rewrite his tragic beginnings. The issue exposes Doom’s experiments with “Project: Practice,” In which he gave four mice the powers of P”P, but they should humiliate themselves and die. It seems that Doom intends to bring back his family and give them the powers that the Maker prevented them from.

As much as Doom’s mission is understandable, it’s also a potential problem for the Ultimates. Meanwhile, each month that passes brings them closer to the creator’s return from his forced exile. There is no time for Doom to right personal wrongs when the Ultimates need to build a worldwide coalition of superhumans. Even though the new Doctor Doom is Reed Richards, that’s no guarantee he’ll remain a hero, and if he has to choose between fighting the Maker and getting his family back, it’s possible he’ll side with Tony. There is also the dark question of what he might do if his experiments go wrong.

The Ultimate Universe has always been hell for the Fantastic Four

The maker represents the last time things went bad for Reed Richards

The current Ultimate Universe is actually Marvel’s second imprint with the name, with the first Ultimate Universe starting publication in 2000. In that continuity, the Fantastic Four has a similarly dark ride, with the Thing’s trauma over being trapped in rock form being a Main focus. however, The story became much darker when Reed Richards (whose brain grew as a result of his powers) became an amoral villainWanting to engage in extreme human experimentation, without any boundaries. That Reid killed his parents, destroyed Asgard, and plunged America into a vicious civil war as part of his plans.

The Reed’s crimes broke the Fantastic Four as a family, with the Invisible Woman and the Thing even entering into a relationship in the aftermath. Having completely rejected his heroic ‘future,’ This Reid remade himself as the villain maker – The Same Maker who is now the ruler of Earth-6160. The creator’s hatred of other ‘Reeds’ comes from the fact that he is one of the rare versions of Reed in the multiverse who did not become a hero, and his destruction of Doctor Doom’s life and identity is a terrible mix of revenge and myself. – Flagellation. After breaking up his own family, the Maker made sure to destroy the Fantastic Four in his new reality, and put extra effort into making the world’s Reed Richards suffer.

So far, Marvel’s new 2023-launched Ultimate Universe has echoed the original in fascinating ways. However, the most interesting is the transformation of Reid Richards into Doctor Doom. That’s because the character he’s echoing isn’t just an old variant from a 2000s-era comic — he’s the main villain of Marvel’s all-new Ultimate line, who personally destroyed his life and legacy. It’s fascinating to see a broken heroic Reid in Doctor Doom A broken villain Reed in the Maker, as two super-geniuses go to war in a clash that redefines what it even means to Be ‘Reid Richards.’

Unfortunately, just because he opposes the Maker doesn’t make Doctor Doom the ‘good’ Reed. After what was done to him, he is severely traumatized and more focused on getting a second chance at the past than working towards a better future. hope, ReedBravery is intact and he may remain on the side of the Angels, but fans should not be surprised to see his desire to save the Fantastic practice Corrupt him, and it’s even possible that he could replace the Maker as the Ultimate Universe’s big bad at some point in the future.

Ultimates #4 is available now from Marvel Comics.