Mister Fantastic

“	I learned that the difference between living and dying is managing fear. Not being afraid so afraid of losing the things you love that you hold them too tight. I used to believe in universal contraction. Entropy and the end of all things. Well, I changed my mind. I'm letting go. Because now I believe in expansion. I believe we endure. Don't you see? Everything lives.	„
	~ Mister Fantastic

Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is a founding member of the Fantastic Four. Richards possesses a mastery of mechanical, aerospace and electrical engineering, chemistry, all levels of physics, and human and alien biology. BusinessWeek listed Mister Fantastic as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics. He is the inventor of the spacecraft that was bombarded by cosmic radiation on its maiden voyage, granting the Fantastic Four their very own powers, strengths, skills and even, abilities. Richards gained the ability to stretch his body into all forms of shapes and sizes he desires.

Mister Fantastic acts as the leader and father figure of the Fantastic Four, and although his cosmic ray powers are primarily stretching abilities, his presence on the team is heavily defined by his scientific acumen, as he is officially acknowledged as the smartest man in the Marvel Universe. This is particularly a point of tragedy in regards to his best friend, Ben Grimm, who he has constantly tried to turn back into his human form but typically remains a large, rocky creature called the Thing. He is the loving husband of Susan Storm, father of Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards, and mentor of his brother-in-law, Johnny Storm.

The character was portrayed by actors Alex Hyde-White in the 1994 The Fantastic Four film, Ioan Gruffudd in the 2005 film Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Miles Teller in the 2015 film Fantastic Four. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, John Krasinski portrayed Richards in the 2022 film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Pedro Pascal will portray him in the 2025 film The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the 2026 film Avengers: Doomsday, and the 2027 film Avengers: Secret Wars.

Powers and abilities

• Genius-level intellect
• Exceptional engineer, physicist, biologist, and chemist
• Superhuman elasticity, malleability, and durability
• Limited shapeshifting

Idea Wiki appearances

Iago PUC's ideas

• Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic is a supporting character in the continuity of Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion.
  • He first appears as a major supporting character in the show's Disney+ sequel miniseries Rising Legend, voiced by Alan Tudyk. Appearing in "Brand New Day", Richards is shown to have become a benefactor and guest teacher of Horizon High School along with Sersi (on her guise of Professor Celeste Wang). He is also mentor for Peter Parker and his friends.
  • Mister Fantastic returns in the Disney+ TV film Marvel's Superhero Adventures: Infinity War, voiced again by Alan Tudyk.
  • Mister Fantastic returns in the sequel miniseries Marvel's All-Star Multiverse, voiced again by Alan Tudyk. First appearing in "Return of the Legends", Richards and his wife Susan Storm entrust Peter Parker and his friends to look after their children Franklyn and Valeria in the Horizon Star, while they go with the rest of the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and the Legendary Warriors on their mission to stop Thane.
• Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic is a major supporting character in Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles, voiced by Alan Tudyk. Along with being the leader of the Fantastic Four and Susan Storm's husband, Richards is also one of Peter Parker's most praised idols (in both heroics and science) and is also the creator and headmaster of Baxter Institute, an advanced high school of science and technology for gifted young geniuses like Peter and his friends.
• Mister Fantastic is also a DLC playable character in Marvel/DC Heroes Unite!, voiced by Alan Tudyk.
• Mister Fantastic appears in the kart racing video game Marvel Superhero Adventures: Intergalactic Grand Prix, voiced by Wally Wingert. He is playable alongside the rest of the Fantastic Four, with whom he shares the same karts.

MarvelDCandFantasyFanBoy12's ideas

• Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic is one of the main antagonists in Marvel Zombies: The Video Game, voiced by C. Thomas Howell. Having been mutated into a zombie like most of Earth's superheroes, Richards miraculously kept most of his intellect, yet his mind got twisted in a terrifying hungry way. His tragedy begun when he lost his sanity following his teammates' and children's infection, and soon became a zombie himself at the hands of his own family.

Moon Silvight's ideas

• Many of his very own legitimate appearances (whether his involvement for all of the following legitimate Storylines themselves are either Major or Minor) are provided by none other than the one and only, Dee Bradley Baker as his definitive English-language Voice Actor as Baker himself would legitimately reprise the role in a legitimately lionhearted majority of them.
• He also appears as one of the following main Characters who would definitively, supremely, swiftly, sweetly, heavenly, crisply, tightly, smartly and literally appear in Emman's very own legitimate projects that are mainly based and heavily focusing around the Fantastic Four mythos.
• He also shows up as a Playable Fighter in one of the following Fighting Video Games involving the Fantastic Four such as the likes of Disney vs. Capcom: Warriors of Weirdmageddon.

Joint ideas

• Reed/Mr. Fantastic himself also appears in other kinds of projects in varying formats in any legitimate form or shape along with his fellow Fantastic Four teammates and even, fellow Superheroes, Superheroines, Heroic Giant Monsters/Kaiju and non-Superpowered Human Beings who play the bigger, larger, broader, more vast, more delish, wider, meatier, yummier, tastier, beefier, larger, more mouthwatering, sweeter and even, much more broader parts of the entire Heroes, Redeemed Villains and Anti-Heroes' side who have clearly close ties to the Fantastic Four in all forms of available capacities (including a genuinely good number of Ensemble-based ones) such as Multiverse Unity: Kingdom Hearts: Symbiotic Darkness, with Dee Bradley Baker voicing him within the English language, once more. Other kinds of legitimate projects that can get made in between such as future Kingdom Hearts installments can even end up becoming a gorgeously genuine given as well.
• TBD

Gallery

John Krasinski as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Reed Richards of Earth-838 with the Illuminati in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

See also

• The Maker, Mister Fantastic's twisted counterpart from Earth-1610 (Ultimate Marvel)

External links

• Mister Fantastic on Wikipedia
• Mister Fantastic on Marvel Database

Marvel Comics media

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Marvel Superhero Adventures: Intergalactic Grand Prix