Quiet Man (Marvel)
The Quiet Man is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
The Quiet Man was a figure who lived in the modern age where he masked most of his background and even his name. It was known that he was a student at Columbia University where he met Susan Storm where he fell in love with her. Despite his feelings, she did not know of him and he did not approach her during this time. Among his fellow students was Reed Richards though the two never crossed paths. Life on the campus was said to had been very isolating for him but he sensed an opportunity be closer with Susan when the Storm house offered a room for rent. When he looked into getting it, he found that Reed Richards had already taken it and since then he came to see the two together more frequently. (Fantastic Four v5 #14)
Through his influence, the Quiet Man came to be responsible for allowing for some of the many supervillain attacks on the Fantastic Four all from the shadows without anyone knowing of his existence. (Fantastic Four v5 #14)
Later on, he came to create a new identity for himself as John Eden where he became the creator of Eden that was a city modelled on being eco-friendly with the intention of replicating this around the world. (Fantastic Four v5 #8) An imposter was made to be the public face of this endeavour whilst the Quiet Man himself disguised himself as an assistant named Cully Moore. (Fantastic Four v5 #9) Afterwards, Reed Richards and Susan Storm-Richards came to Eden after a lawsuit banned them from entering the Baxter Building following the opening of a portal to Counter-Earth that caused chaos in Manhattan. John Eden came to welcome Reed Richards to his city where he had said that the meeting as so that they could work together on new technologies. (Fantastic Four v5 #8)
In his base, the Quiet Man explained to Richards his origin, his motives and his plan, stating that he had now chosen to step out of the shadows, for the downfall of the Fantastic Four, having being responsible for many of the calamities that stormed the family, like the opening of the portal, the lawsuit on the Fantastic Four, the framing of The Thing for murder. (Fantastic Four v5 #14) the Invisible Woman's outburst of her Malice personality courtesy of the Psycho-Man. The Quiet Man also revealed the final part of his plan, the opening of numerous portals from the Counter-Earth with invading monsters. After the heroes of the Earth would fail to stop them, the Quiet Man would step out of the shadows and stop the monsters, becoming a hero, while planting evidence to point the blame to Reed Richards. (Fantastic Four v1 #642) The Quiet Man teleported away as soon as Reed liberated himself from the restrains that were holding him. He returned to New York, to watch his endgame from his headquarters. However, his teleportation left an energy trail that was followed by Mister Fantastic, who confronted the Quiet Man soon after. (Fantastic Four v1 #643) When the Quiet Man was trying to type the codes to close the portals, and leave the creatures from Counter-Earth inert, he was unable. The Psycho-Man, who had entered and corrupted the Counter-Earth as part of his alliance with the Quiet Man had betrayed him, and put a defense wall preventing the kill switch from being activated. This course of action forced the Quiet Man and Mister Fantastic to work together to find a solution. In the end, Richards was able to solve the problem with his daughter Valeria. During the commotion caused by the closing of the portals, the Quiet Man escaped by disguising himself as the Fantastic Four's long time mailman Willie Lumpkin, and disappearing into a crowd. (Fantastic Four v1 #645)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He had a real name at one point but he had decided to forget it and went by the moniker of the Quiet Man. Outside of that, he operated a variety of other identities which he used to interact with the world. (Fantastic Four v5 #14) Among these included millionaire scientist John Reed whilst another as as an assistant named Cully Moore. (Fantastic Four v5 #9)
The Quiet Man said that he was not a people's person where he felt lonely even when surrounded by other people. Whilst at university, he fell heads over heels in love with Susan Storm though he never managed to work the courage to speak to her. By just seeing her or thinking of her did he experience feelings of joy and elation. He knew that Sue liked smart people and the figure that became the Quiet Man was intelligent which he had hoped would attract her interest but instead she began to become romantically involved with Reed Richards. In that time, he came to accept that he had lost her and that she would never become his due to Richards. This sparked his enmity with Reed Richards as he believed that Mister Fantastic had taken Sue from him. Thus, he came to see himself as being alone again and that this was his lot in life. This led to him falling into the background where he gained an appreciation for true anonymity. (Fantastic Four v5 #14)
Powers and abilities
From a young age, he developed an aptitude towards the sciences where he studied to create and invent new things along with making new scientific breakthroughs which he did in the shadows. In the span of hours, he was able to learn everything he needed for operating as a barrister. (Fantastic Four v5 #14)
One invention that he kept to himself was a nanite-derived facial reconstructor that allowed him to change his appearance constantly. This allowed him to observe others and interact with his many shell companies without anyone knowing that it was him. He had been doing this for such a long time that he had forgotten his original appearance. (Fantastic Four v5 #14)
The Quiet Man had claimed that he had found the cure for cancer. (Fantastic Four v1 #642)
He had kept a distance from the public by hiring actors to play his part and operated through many shell companies. Under a variety of different faces and names, he owned businesses including Fortune 500 companies. (Fantastic Four v5 #14)
Notes
- The Quiet Man was created by James Robinson and Leonard Kirk where he made his first appearance in Fantastic Four v5 #5 (July, 2014).
Appearances
- Fantastic Four v5: (2014)
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