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Warning : hold spoilers for Fantastic Four # 18!As Pedro Pascal heads for the MCU asFantastic Four’sReed Richards , aka Mister Fantastic , Marvel has introduced a jaw - dropping new divine revelation about the mavin torpedo ’s power . After being expose to cosmic radiotherapy , Reed ’s body became incredibly malleable , let him to stretch like rubber . However , Reed is n’t just a superhero , he’sthe smartest man in the world , and he ’s used his years of experience to prove his body and powers , devising novel mode to apply his ability . However , it turns out he ’s only fret the open .
InFantastic Four # 18 , the squad manage with a terrifying threat - a clutch of mammoth asteroids directed at Earth by the mystical baddie Nicholas Scratch . Not only are the asteroid big enough to fundamentally render humanity extinct , but they ’re also unseeable , result the Fantastic Four to have to blend their powers in new ways to protect the planet . To gun down the falling space rocks , Invisible Woman and Human Torch combine their powers , with Susan Storm focusing her brother ’s light energy into a concentrated laser .
After the threat is dealt with , the funny cuts to SHIELD HQ , whereMaria Hill is informedof the family ’s new laser power . However , it turns out that SHIELD has been study the Fantastic Four and had already forebode their powers could be combined in this way . Indeed , this is justoneprediction in awhole muckle of Modern abilities , include Reed Richards being capable of mitosis .
This issue ’s baddie Nicholas Scratch is the son of Agatha Harkness , who MCU fans will know fromWandaVision , play by Kathryn Hahn .
Fantastic Four # 18
The Fantastic Four ’s index draw on the ' God Power ' dimension , allow them to tap into cosmic power that puts no unmortgaged limit on their ability …
Reed Richards' Stretching Powers Include Creating Duplicates
SHIELD Have a File Detailing the Fantastic Four’s Hidden Powers
Mitosis is a operation of prison cell duplication which make two ' copy ' of a single cell . Applied to Mister Fantastic , this would meanReed Richards ' stretching powers ca n’t just be used to expand his body , but to duplicate it . As wild as this seems , it makes sensory faculty - Reed ’s mastery over his own consistence allows him to germinate duplicate body parts which he can use at the same time . Most ordinarily , Reed sprouts multiple arms to do complex work . Reed can also lurch his body constituent and harmonium around without affect their operation - for example shifting his eyeball to his fingertip for expert vantage . Indeed , several level have suggest thatReed ’s human form is no longer his innate state , but something he maintains for the comfort of his kinsfolk .
Fantastic Four ’s unseeable Woman is a cosmic powerhouse , but one extreme amount makes her mighty enough to beat down a Hulk .
At the same clock time , Reed is able to make people as well as simply expand his body . Reed can enhance his body to give himself mammoth muscularity and really become warm , with Reeds from other realities doing the same with their psyche . In 2020’sX - Men / Fantastic Four(by Chip Zdarsky and Terry Dodson ) , Reed revealed that he believes his family’spowers tap into the ' God Power ' dimension- a hypothetical extradimensional well of power that explains where superheroes get increased mass or DOE .
If Reed can generate extra mess and expand his organs to enhance their functioning , as well as being chic enough to use multiple limbs at once , then generating a new trunk is actually more of a formalities than a dramatic reinvention of his world power . The big jolt of the mitosis power is thatReed might be able to have two freestanding bodies , however if they ’re connect by some kind of umbilical , it ’s a exploit that ’s already within the range of his existing power . And if it twist out that the God Power surmise is existent , it makes sense how Reed could control another body via that extradimensional connection , even if not physically connected .
Giving Reed Modern powers for the MCU would be in - guardianship with how Marvel treated Ms. Marvel , swap out her amusing - exact stretching powers for the power to create crystalline conception …
Fantastic Four’s New Era Keeps Evolving Their Powers
Human Torch Already Unlocked His Own Duplicate Power
fan recently saw Reed Richards amount close to his mitosis potential inFantastic Four # 5(from North and Ivan Fiorelli . ) There , Reed was able to grow multiple heads and limbs for keep open his family . While this took place in 4D space - a property that does n’t watch over the dominion of normal reality - it showed that Reed could come close to visualize how his mitosis power would turn , and inclined fans for the trippy visual of this power .
Indeed , this sort of examination of limit has been a hallmark of the current book of the comedian . Recently , Human Torch learned his powerscould also create duplication , resulting in a fiery copy he ’s nicknamed ' Flame - O. ' And even before learning she could turn her chum ’s light into a powerful laser , Invisible Woman figured out she could turn the Sun itself invisible , draw SHIELD ’s attention as Sue Storm showed she was capable of create an extermination - level event .
The Fantastic Four ’s most recent escapade shows that the Invisible Woman ’s full ability could be used to easy ruin all life on Earth .
For a family of scientist and adventurer , it make horse sense that the Fantastic Four are always press the limits of what they can do , andit ’s particularly noteworthy how their exponent are set about to blur together . Reed and Johnny Storm both being able to make duplication , SHIELD ’s theory that Human Torch could create inconspicuous ultraviolet fervor , and Sue ’s power to ' stretch ' her conception suggest that while the family have their own elemental speciality , they may in reality exist on a exclusive spectrum of power - an estimation very in - keeping with their focus on family and teamwork , but a angry turn on what have traditionally been very dissimilar zep .
Reed ’s new power is similar to that possess by his evil doppelganger the Maker , who exists at the same time in every realism …
Mister Fantastic’s New Power Has a Disturbing Precedent
Mister Fantastic Could Become a One-Man ‘Council of Reeds’
Reed ’s raw mitosis mogul is a major change , but one with dark implications . In Marvel traditional knowledge , one ofReed ’s most vicious enemies is the Maker- an malign edition of Reed Richards from another realism . For a significant period following 2015’sSecret Warsevent , the Maker was ' sliced ' into spell and distributed across the multiverse , survive in every reality as the same connected someone . This mirror the history of Reed ’s father Nathaniel Richards , who was enamour by Immortus and squeeze into a battle royale with all his variants from across the multiverse , killing his other selves until he was unique .
There ’s also an echo ofthe Council of Reeds- an extradimensional assemblage of Reed Richardses from across the multiverse who gather together to sterilise cosmic problem . While their intention were heroic , the Council had a dark side , capturing and lobotomizing Doctor Doom across their element world . Once trammel on Earth , several Reeds tried to destroy Marvel ’s chief realness to head for the hills back to the Council , reveal that they ’d hug a ' the ends justify the substance ' approach that allowed them to cover evil on a worldwide scale .
Marvel ’s most powerful submarine reveals a Brobdingnagian secret , redefining the theatrical role in a mode that changes twelvemonth of established traditional knowledge ( for the good . )
In brusque , Marvel has a long chronicle of multiple Richardses , and it seldom goes well . It could be particularly dangerous if Reed ’s mitosis turns out to segment unlike face of his personality in unlike bodies , rather than make two selfsame transcript ( like to how X - Men ’s Multiple Man is able to utilize his power . ) Creating a duplicate Reed Richards disconnect from the original ’s moral sense would be a disaster for the Fantastic Four and the wide Marvel Universe .
have Pedro Pascal ’s Reed Richards be able to split into duplicate bodies would be a raw take on the character , as well as getting the most screentime out of such a notable face …
Will Reed Richards' New Power Make It to the MCU?
The Movies Have a LOT of Ground to Cover
WithMarvel’sFantastic Fourreboot slated for 2025 , devotee are understandably theorise about whether the strip are making change to well match Marvel ’s vision for the cinematic debut of its FF . Indeed , with Fox ’s 2005 and 2015Fantastic Fourmovies remembered so poorly , it make sensory faculty that Marvel would change up how the team ’s office are expressed , setting the MCU ’s interlingual rendition of the team apart . have Pedro Pascal ’s Reed Richards be able to break open into matching physical structure would be a new take on the character , as well as amaze the most screentime out of such a famous case . It would also be in - keeping with how Marvel treated Ms. Marvel in her self - titled boob tube serial publication , trade out her laughable - accurate stretching powers for the power to create crystalline concept .
However , while this change is potential , it ’s also unlikely . How superheroes ' powers are depicted is a big part of the intellectual place that earmark them to retain lover across different media and unlike projects . Fans know that Reed Richards dilute , and such a big change would probably be controversial . If Reed ’s mitosis powerdoesmake it into the motion picture , it ’s likely to be in sequels where Marvel wants to show fans something new , not in the squad ’s debut outing in the MCU .
For now , Reed being able-bodied to make twinned physical structure is likely to stay in the comics , and even there it ’s currently a SHIELD theory that fans are look to see come fully straight . Fantastic Four ’s latest era has exhibit huge sake in exploring the upper limit of its heroes ' powers , and withReed I. A. Richards ' genius intellect , it ’s potential those terminal point will be sky gamy .
Fantastic Four # 18is uncommitted now from Marvel Comics .
