Mr. Fantastic (real name Reed Richards) is a Marvel Comics character who is the leader of the Fantastic Four, and one of the most brilliant scientific minds.
He is portrayed by Ioan Gruffudd in the Fantastic Four duology.
Mr. Fantastic was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, George Klein and Christopher Rule.
Biography[]
Fantastic Four (2005)[]
Reed Richards is a scientist who believes that evolution was triggered by cosmic clouds that hit the earth millions of years ago and believes that the cloud is coming back to Earth. He and his friend astronaut Ben Grimm go see his old friend and MIT classmate Victor Von Doom. He explained his theory to Victor, who reveals about how he knows that that his believed of this theory has made him bankrupt and how NASA doesn't trust him. Reed explains to Victor about how the shields on his space station could protect them from the cosmic storm. Reed's girlfriend, Susan Storm then came into Victor's office, who is now the chief genetics researcher for his company and Victor's girlfriend. Victor then agrees to help Reed for 75 percentage for the profit if he proved right. When they left to Earth for the space station, with Sue's show-off younger brother Johnny, Reed discovered that the cosmic cloud were arriving showing then he calculated.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer[]
Accustomed to being pulled in different directions, Mr. Fantastic works to realize his potential as boyfriend to Sue, scientist to humanity, and leader to the Four. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, the Fantastic Four unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom.
Appearances[]
Marvel Cinematic Universe[]
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness[]
Reed Richards is a founding member of the Illuminati, a collective of the most powerful and intellectual superheroes alive on Earth-838, a universe outside of the prime MCU reality (Earth-616).
When Doctor Strange of Earth-616 is arrested and brought forth before the Illuminati for risk of incursion, Richards shrugged aside Strange's warnings about the Scarlet Witch. He insisted that the greatest threat to the universe remained to be Doctor Strange of Earth-838, as he had caused an incursion while searching for a quick method to defeat Thanos. But when the Scarlet Witch of Earth-616 invaded the facility, Richards attempted to reason with her, noting of his own children that he loved. He only resorted to combat after witnessing her kill Black Bolt, but Richards was quickly shredded up and disposed of.
Fantastic Four[]
Seven years later, an adult Reed and Ben at a High School science fair showed the judges their redefined teleporter. Also in attendance were Dr. Franklin Storm and adopted daughter Sue. Turning on the machine and using a child's plane the teleporter brought back the plane but also destroyed the school's basketball hoop. Dr. Storm revealed to Reed and Ben that their machine had been sending the objects to another dimension. Storm recruited Reed to the Baxter Institute, a think tank for talented young prodigies.
Soon after Reed met Victor von Doom the man who started the project and Sue's younger brother, Johnny. Together the group finally built a Quantum Gate and successfully teleported a chimp. However scientist Dr. Harvey Allen told them that NASA would take over and that they would not be going on the excursion.
After getting intoxicated with Johnny and Victor, they decided to take the Quantum Gate and go to the dimension themselves. Reed contacted Ben not wanting to do this without him and the four successfully teleported to the dimension. As Victor touched the green energy of the planet it started to become unstable. Reed, Johnny and Ben escaped with the help of Sue while Victor was seemingly killed. While returning, the four were affected on a molecular level with Reed gaining the ability to stretch his limbs.
Waking up in government custody, Reed escaped his restraints and located Ben who has been turned into a rock like creature. Reed promised Ben that he would fix him and escaped the facility and for one year worked on trying to rebuild another Quantum Gate so he could cure Ben and the others, in this time Reed built a suit to help keep his body together. The Military located Reed with Sue's help and sent in Ben who captured him and brought him back. On the way back Reed tried to apologize and ensured Ben he would fix him but Ben refused to listen to him. Sue confronted Reed and asked him to help them rebuild the Quantum Gate so they could fix themselves. Reed agreed and easily fixed the machine.
Dr. Allen sent a team in, discovering Victor who somehow survived. The team brought him back only for Victor to claim that he wanted to go back to the other dimension and killed Dr. Allen and Dr. Storm in the process. Reed, Ben, Sue and Johnny follow him. The team faced off against him but Doom proved too powerful and easily outclassed the group and disabled Reed suit. However Reed managed to pull himself back together and told the others that to stop Victor they must work together. Working in tangent the team defeated Victor by knocking him into the energy link between the dimensions killing him and saving the Earth in the process.
Later, the team demanded the government to give them a facility to continue their scientific endeavors and decided to work as a team with the ultimate goal of using their powers to help others.
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes[]
Reed first appears helping Henry Pym analyze Princess Ravonna, seeking a way to save her.
When the Avengers Iron Man and Wasp come to visit at the Baxter Building, Doctor Doom kidnaps Sue and Wasp. The Avengers and Fantastic Four go to Latveria to rescue them, and after a fight Doom just lets them go. What Reed and the others don't know is that Doom has discovered Sue isn't the real one, but a Skrull imposter.
Reed and the rest of the Fantastic Four almost fell victims of the Skrull Sue imposter, but the real Sue somehow saves them.
Some time later, he was part of the Avengers' expanded team against Galactus.
Gallery[]
Fantastic Four (2005 film)[]
Trivia[]
- Ioan Gruffudd came up with the idea for Reed regularly taking notes.
- Gruffudd reprised his role in the 2005 game, with Robin Atkin Downes voicing him in bonus levels.
- Reed was originally going to ask “What happens when you supercool hot metal?” Gruffudd instead asked in the film “What happens when you rapidly cool hot metal?”
- His dialogue with General Hager was based on Ultimate Extinction, where he said that monologue to Nick Fury. General Hager was originally going to be Nick Fury but didn’t happen because of licensing issues.
- During the pier conversation between Reed and Sue, not only were the actors not together (which is relatively common in filmmaking), they weren't even in the same country. Jessica Alba was filmed in New York City, while Ioan Gruffudd was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Ioan Gruffudd's efforts to keep an American accent continually were hampered by the fact he would receive new script pages on a regular basis, forcing him to learn new lines at short notice.
- Ioan Gruffudd was very excited about showing off to his Welsh parents that he was working on a major Hollywood production. Unfortunately, the day they came to visit him on set, he was filming an elevator scene.
- In this film, the cosmic rays that give the Fantastic Four their powers also create the white streaks in Reed Richards' hair. In the comics, Reed just has white streaks naturally.
- The scene where Reed stretches his arm under the door was the first visual effects scene that was completed.
- The animators made a system of tools for Reed Richards' stretching abilities.
- Cash Warren hitting an animator named Mark with a pylon served as a visual guide for the shot where Reed Richards dodges the lightning bolt.
- Reed was mentioned in Deadpool & Wolverine by the Human Torch, whom said, that Reed called the Void “a metaphysical junkyard”. Thus, it's currently unknown if Mr. Fantastic was pruned just like the Human Torch and killed by Cassandra Nova's Crew or if he remains safe in his universe.
- Mr. Fantastic marks the first time Dee Bradley Baker voiced a Marvel character since Marvel was purchased by Disney, he had previously voiced Young Keene Marlow in the 1990s Spider-Man TV series.
- John Krasinski is a fan of Marvel Comics and had lobbied to portray the character in Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four. He also hoped his wife, Emily Blunt would also portray Susan Storm/Invisible Woman in the film.
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