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Fantastic Four (Earth-9997)

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History

Early Years

Much of the Fantastic Four's early history is mirrored by that of their Earth-616 counterparts.

In a bid win the space race, Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Benjamin Grimm and Johnny Storm performed an unauthorized launch of a space-shuttle, despite the warnings of the pilot Ben Grimm in regards to the dangers of cosmic rays and the ship's untested shielding. The shuttle crashed, but not before the group were exposed to a sizeable dose of cosmic radiation, causing all of them to mutate. Together they formed the superhero group known as the Fantastic Four and would go on to have countless adventures. Reed eventually married Susan Storm, and they had a son by the name of Franklin.[1]

Mutation of Humanity

When all of humanity suddenly began to mutate, global anarchy erupted. The Fantastic Four's headquarters the Baxter Building became a fortress, as all the greatest minds in the superhero community gathered there to try and reverse the mutations.[2]

When the last unmutated human, a child by the name of David Jarrett was found by Ghost Rider, Reed Richards took him in and began running experiments on him. Due to the machinations of Norman Osborn and the fact that many in New York City blamed the Fantastic Four and other heroes for what had happened to them, the Baxter Building was stormed by a mob of mutated humans. Despite doing their best to hold the mob at bay and defend David, he was killed in the fighting, before order could be restored.[3]

By now, Reed and Sue's son Franklin had grown to adulthood and had begun joining the Fantastic Four on missions. One such mission brought the Fantastic Four to the United Nations to stop Namor and Doctor Doom from slaughtering the delegates there. Namor was protesting the UN's refusal to recognize Atlantis and humanity's dependence on aquatic life as a source for food in light of a global meat shortage.[1]

During the ensuing battle, the Human Torch was killed by Namor, causing Franklin to lash out with his immense powers. He cursed Namor, making it so that half of his body would forever burn while out of water, prompting Namor to retreat. Doom had plotted to kill Reed using a bomb that was wired into his armor, and planned to teleport his body away leaving his foes to believe both Reed and Doom were killed. But Doom was chased away by a maddened Invisible Woman. Doom detonated his bomb, and due to a malfunction in his armor both he and Sue perished in the blast. [1]

With Johnny and Sue dead, the Fantastic Four disbanded. Shortly thereafter Franklin and Reed traveled to Wundagore Mountain. The High Evolutionary, the Silver Surfer, and Adam Warlock had become aware that Reed's turning Galactus into a star had upset the delicate balance of the universe. Franklin agreed to allow the High Evolutionary to use his equipment to accelerate his mutation, allowing him to be shaped by the perceptions of others. Accompanied by the Silver Surfer, Franklin lost his real identity and came to believe that he was Galactus, leaving Earth to carry on his grim task.[4]

Tormented by the loss of his family, Reed retired to Castle Doom, donning the armor of his old nemesis Doctor Doom and taking his place while trying to figure out how the planet had been mutated. Ben Grim meanwhile retired from superheroing and settled into domestic life with his wife Alicia Masters and their sons the Brothers Grimm.[1]

Earth X

The remaining members of the Fantastic Four were brought together years later, when Ben Grimm was sought out by the Inhuman Royal Family, who had come looking for Reed. The Inhumans sought Reed's help in finding their dispersed people, among them the crown prince Ahura.

Together with Ben, Reed traveled to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and collected Professor Xavier's Cerebro machine. Using his own stretching powers to stretch his brain to match Xavier's own and modifying Cerebro, Reed then used the device to try and track the missing Inhumans. He soon found out that everybody on the planet had Inhuman physiology.[5] Reed would learn that Black Bolt had secretly set off a Terrigen Bomb to protect his people, triggering the mutation of humanity.[6]

Soon afterwards, Reed was confronted by X-51, who had been watching the Earth on behalf of Uatu, the Earth's former Watcher who had been blinded by Black Bolt years ago. X-51 revealed to Reed that the Celestials had manipulated the human race to mutate into super-beings in order to defend the Celestial embryo in the core of the Earth that would destroy the planet upon its birth. Furthermore, he revealed that the Final Host of Celestials was en route to scour Earth of all life, as the premature mutation of humanity endangered their embryo.[6]

While Reed convinced Black Bolt to contact Galactus for help, Ben Grimm aided Captain America in stopping the Skull, a young mutant with the ability to completely control those nearby him, from conquering the USA.[7]

After Galactus defeated the Celestials in New York Harbor, Reed himself asked Galactus to spare the people of Earth and destroy the Celestial embryo growing in the planet without eradicating everyone on the surface. By making Galactus believe that the people of the universe believed him to be compassionate and merciful, he succeeded in making it so. Galactus destroyed the embryo, and Reed resisted the temptation of revealing the truth to his son.[8]

Soon after, Reed and the Earth's heroes began construction of what would be called the "Human Torches", built out of his old Vibranium relay towers. These torches would burn the Terrigen Mists from the air so that Reed could find a way to reverse the mutations. Just as the first Human Torch was unveiled to the public, an exhausted Reed fell asleep and encountered deceased hero Captain Mar-Vell. Mar-Vell revealed his part in saving the Earth from the Celestials, and told Reed he was returning from the dead to save everyone. He asked Reed to hide him upon his return.[8]

Reed returned to Castle Doom, now joined by Ben and his family, as well as Adam Warlock and Eve, who was pregnant with child. This child would be the reincarnation of Mar-Vel.[8]

Universe X

Mar-Vell's rebirth as an unmutated human made him the _target of fearful mobs, who viewed the unmutated child and Reed's plans to burn away the Terrigen Mists as a threat to their newfound superpowers. Desperate to hide Mar-Vell, Reed contacted the one person he believed no one would suspect him of working with; Prince Namor. Mar-Vell was sent to Atlantis, where he was protected by Namor and cared for by Agatha Harkness. [9]

After 3 years it became apparent that the death of the Celestial embryo in Earth's core had destabilized the planet's polar axis causing the poles to shift and ecological disasters across the planet. Most of humanity (in part thanks to the propaganda created by Immortus and Mr. Church -- whom was really Mephisto in disguise) believed this was due to the Torches leading to constant attempts to put them out.[9]

Ben Grimmw was sent to retrieve the three-year old Mar-Vell, who gave the pair a gift. Following his rebirth, Mar-Vell now existed as a binary being, both in the Land of the Dead and in the world of the living. Using Adam Warlock's Soul Stone, Alicia Masters' powers and Reed own arm, Mar-Vell was able to resurrect Sue Storm, reuniting the Fantastic Four with their dead teammate.[9]

An invigorated Reed turned his attention to solving the ecological disasters plaguing Earth. However, mounting pressure from the mutated humanity prevented Reed from being able to find a solution to the problem as he and the Fantastic Four spent most of their time defending Latveria's human torch. When the castle was stormed by mutated humans, it took the aid of Ransak the Reject and other deformed mutates known as the Monster Generation to save the Torch from falling. However during the course of the battle the Tong of Creel stole the piece of the Absorbing Man that Reed was safeguarding and Mephisto stole Dr. Doom's time machine in hopes of tricking Immortus into using it to change history, and thus create yet another parallel world for him to escape into.[4]

After the battle, Reed reached the conclusion that Earth was beyond rescue and began loading the Fantastic Four, the Monster Generation and the Inhumans into the Inhumans' own ship in hopes of escaping the planet before it was destroyed by its own repolarization. However, this was not meant to be, as the newly resurrected Absorbing Man sacrificed his own life in order to prevent the planet from destroying itself. During this time in the Realm of the Dead, Mar-Vel also succeeded in killing Death and setting up his own Paradise in this realm for those who had died.[10] [11]

Paradise X

The destruction of Death would have great ramifications for the living. With Death's passing nobody on Earth was able to die, and with Mephisto mortally wounding people the world over, soon the Human Torches were converted into giant hospitals. Castle Doom was converted into a waiting room for the would-be dead.[12] Calling together the greatest minds of the planet, Reed argued in favor of the need to find a new Death.[13]

They soon found themselves traveling to the Florida Everglades , in serach of Jude the Entropic Man whom the Thing and Captain America had fought years ago. Reed with the help of others managed to capture Jude and come up with a way to synthetically duplicate his entropic touch in order to use it to ease the suffering of the dead.[14] However, Mephisto plotted to use Jude as a tool of revenge against the heroes and set Jude free, with the understanding that Jude would kill Susan[15]

Narrowly escaping Jude, the Fantastic Four and the world's heroes became aware that Mar-Vel's new Paradise was threatening to swallow the Negative Zone, and all points beyond, and decided to investigate. With Mar-Vell's living, human form having become separated from his deceased Kree self, doubts about Mar-Vell's intentions began to mount.[13] [16]

Reed jumped into the giant anti-mater star that was the gateway to Paradise and was lost to all waiting for him. The heroes sent Hyperion after Reed, but Hyperion was killed when he tried to follow Reed into the black sun that orbited over Paradise and soon found himself involved in the battle there against the Kree.[17]

Inside the star, Reed was confronted by Mar-Vel who explained that Paradise wasn't destroying everything in it's path, but instead shielding it from the influence of the Elders of the Universe and the Celestials. He revealed that the chaos that had been unleashed onto Earth and Paradise was Mar-Vell's way of ending the cycle of violence once and for all, before ending the Kree's attempted invasion. Mar-Vell chose to pass his omniscience to Reed, making him the new Eternity. Freeing his brother-in-law Johnny from his own paradise-gone-bad, Reed announced his intentions to save his son..[18]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

In the past, they presumably had the same equipment as their Earth-616 counterparts. In present time, the FF had access to all the devices in the Baxter Building (Which was now a museum), and Dr. Doom's castle.

Weapons

In the past, they presumably had the same weapons as their Earth-616 counterparts. In present time, the FF had access to all the devices in the Baxter Building (Which was now a museum), and Dr. Doom's castle.

Transportation

In the past, they presumably had the same transportation as their Earth-616 counterparts. In present time, the FF had access to all the devices in the Baxter Building (Which was now a museum), and Dr. Doom's castle.

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