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word of advice : SPOILERS forFantastic Four#17
Almost 60 year after they were create , Marvel Comicshas finally revealed the true origin of theFantastic Four . It ’s a report everybody should love by now ; that a distance flight went horrifically wrong ( or , perhaps , fabulously correct ) when Reed Richards inadvertently flew his team into a Cosmic Ray bombardment . Their ship came crashing back down to Earth , with all four aboard dramatically transmute by the experience . At least , that ’s what we think .
Writer Dan Slott is presently telling a enthralling tale that rewrites this famous origin tale . He ’s bring out thatRichards was actually do work on an data-based faster - than - sparkle drive , with the Cosmic Ray barrage a precursor to making the jump . This is why Reed always blame himself ; because he take for granted that he ’d somehow miscalculated the necessary shielding needed to keep the passengers safe . This week’sFantastic Four#17 finally let out the truth .
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Reed had n’t miscalculate at all . Rather , they had been seen coming by the Overseer , the out-and-out rule of the major planet Spyre - and Richards ' destination . The Overseer seems to be drive by a form of xenophobia , and he feared the founding of four humans would contaminate Spyrian order . He had learned how to manipulate Cosmic Rays , and he used them as a weapon , amplifying them in an attack upon the Four ’s trade . The Overseer had assumed this would destroy the ship ’s inhabitants , and the tragedy would discourage humanity from pursuing FTL technology and make another attempt to reach Spyre . What he ’d not reckoned on , however , was the possibility that the rider would not only survive , but be transform .
Far from deal with the perceived " threat " of the Fantastic Four , the Overseer had inadvertently overstate it . No longer were the Fantastic Four just four humans who intended to give Spyre a visit ; now they were the Fantastic Four , some of Earth ’s most powerful beings . presumptively , at firstthe Overseerthought the Fantastic Four would patch up down , but he ’d shortly learn otherwise as he view from a distance and learned of Reed ’s innate peculiarity . It could only be a topic of time before the Fantastic Four made another attempt to hand Spyre , he realized . As a result , the Overseer set about preparing his people for their coming , bombarding Spyrians with Cosmic Rays to make beings who he believed could match the Fantastic Four .
It ’s a bewitching retcon , and it effectively rewrites the history of the Fantastic Four . No longer was the team create by a tragical chance event ; rather , they were given their powers after they were assault by an foreign force . And Reed Richards can at long last stop guilt - actuate himself for the Thing ’s fate because now he knows his calculations were right all along . The Overseer is responsible for for everything that has happen , all the good and all the bad , and without a xenophobic tyrant the Fantastic Four would never have been create .
Fantastic Four#17is on sales event now from Marvel Comics .
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