Reed Richards (Ultimate Marvel)
Reed Richards is a male comic character that features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Reed Richards was the son of Gary and Mary Richards with him having a younger sister named Enid Richards.
When he was 11 years old, he discovered another dimension and told his best friend Ben Grimm. Enid, however, overheard their talk and demanded that she be taken with them to the new dimension otherwise she would tell their parents about Reed experimenting in the garage again. Thus, he was forced to promise his sister that when the time came to explore that dimension that he would take her with him.
Fantastic Four
Maker
Cataclysm
Secret Wars
He later managed to meet his counterpart Reed Richards with the two allying on how to defeat God Emperor Doom. (Secret Wars v1 #6)
Afterwards, he managed to come to the main reality version of Earth where he operated as the leader of W.H.I.S.P.E.R. (New Avengers v4 #1)
Despite that, he later returned where he joined a gathering of likeminded and powerful individuals who formed Project Oversight. The Maker became interested in acquiring a sample of the void god Knull and the Symbiote with him that Eddie Brock had attempted to destroy. The Symbiote had commandeered Brock's body and used it to go on the run along with taking the remaining fragment of Knull with him leading to the Maker's forces being dispatched to capture them. They disguised themselves as part of the Anti-Symbiote Task Force where they successfully recovered Brock at his fathers hope but he retained no memory of the last five weeks nor the location of the stolen fragment. (Venom v4 #7)
Afterwards, a new crisis emerged when Cletus Kasady sought to free Knull from his imprisonment by acquiring the genetic codex fragments that resided in former Symbiote hosts. To stop him, Eddie Brock consulted with the Maker who created a machine to safely remove the codex from the targeted people. Among these included Dylan Brock and Normie Osborn but the laboratory came under attack from a group of Symbiotes. During this time, Richards himself came to be infected by a Symbiote thus making him into an aspect of Carnage's will where he chased after the two kids for their codex fragments. This brought him into battle with Avengers where with the aid of the Symbiote Sleeper they set the Maker on fire thus extinguishing the creature possessing him. Richards himself managed to survive and escaped into the sewers. (Venom v4 #19)
Meanwhile, another aspect of Richards had was involved in killing Rikki Barnes whereupon he was captured and detained at the prison on L'ar Gath 5. Once there, he made an alliance with several of the alien prisoners there where they agreed to join him in forming an empire. At the time, the prison was infiltrated by Alex Power and the Future Foundation who were seeking out the scattered shards of the Molecule Man. This saw them free the Maker after mistaking him for their reality's version of Reed Richards. (Future Foundation v1 #3)
Completing his work on his artificial Symbiote, the Maker was then ready to complete his transition back to his Earth and built a portal for the journey. The hidden laboratory was found by Eddie Brock who wanted the Maker's help to examine his son Dylan to find the reason for his nightmares. Richards, however had no interest in helping him and a brief fight erupted where the Maker used his artificial Symbiote to separate Brock temporarily from his other. The laboratory was then attacked by a supervillain named Virus who wanted revenge against Brock. The resultant explosion damaged the portal and sent everyone through it with them being scattered across the Multiverse. Despite this being the case, the Maker found himself back on Earth-1606 as he intended and was ready to enact his new scheme. (Venom v4 #26)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
After his encounter with the Molecule Man, his body was split into numerous pieces each of which formed into a new version of the Maker. As a result, this Reed Richards became a being with a thousand bodies yet had one mind that was connected across realities. (Future Foundation v1 #2) One of these incarnations came to breed an artificial Symbiote from his own universe and enhanced it for his purposes. This being was bonded to his body where it could form weapons as needed by the Maker including autocannons. (Venom v4 #26)
The City later took a name for itself which was the Organo-Mechanic Nexus-Iterated Techno-Radical Organizational Networked Intelligent Computer Unity System (O.M.N.I.T.R.O.N.I.C.U.S.) (New Avengers v4 #5)
Notes
- This version of Reed Richards was created by Mark Millar, Brian Michael Bendis and Adam Kubert where he made his first appearance in Ultimate Fantastic Four v1 #1 (February, 2004).
- The character was based on Reed Richards created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Alternate Versions
- In Ultimate Fantastic Four/X-Men Annual v1 #1 (2008), an alternate future was shown where Sue Storm after the birth of her child Franklin betrayed Reed and abandoned him in the N-Zone. Whilst trapped there, he adopted the armor of the slain Nihil and operated as Nihil as he sought his escape. This timeline was averted when the time travelling future Sue Storm was stopped from initiating her plan to eliminate all Mutants.
Appearances
- Ultimate Fantastic Four v1: (2004)
- Secret Wars v1:
- New Avengers v4:
- Ultimates:
- Venom v4: (2019)
- Future Foundation v1: (2019)
- Absolute Carnage v1:
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