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I'm Reed Richards. The ultimate Reed Richards. The one who's finally going to solve everything.
—The Maker
Onerous Childhood
Gary and Mary Richards had their first child, a son named Reed and almost immediately, the Richards suspected that there was something special about Reed, who displayed his curiosity from the day he was born. As a child, he demonstrated remarkable intelligence, well ahead of that of his peers. While other children engaged in sports or played games, Reed devoted himself to the sciences. His father often found him cannibalizing household appliances in an effort to create something never before seen by man—an act that often earned him his father's ire and would lead to physical abuse. Reed's heightened intellect naturally made him the subject of ridicule at his school. Fortunately, he managed to become friends with the school's star linebacker, Ben Grimm. Ben generally associated with Reed in order to get help with his trigonometry homework, but he valued him enough to help him against the school bullies. When Reed was only ten years old he began developing schematics for a device that could transmit matter across the dimensional plane. He displayed his work at the Midtown Middle School Science Fair, where he successfully teleported a toy car into an alternate dimension. This garnered him the attention of the Director of Mainland Technology Development. An agent named Lieutenant Lumpkin, who was present for Reed's Science Fair experiment, recommended him for induction into a special government think tank—a program that recruited young geniuses in the hopes of creating the scientific leaders of the future. Lumpkin approached Reed's parents for their permission, and explained that the government would pay them a nominal fee for allowing them to take Reed under their care.
Think Tank
Lumpkin brought Reed to the Baxter Building, the central hub for the Mainland Technology Development consortium. He began working under the auspices of noted scientist Dr. Franklin Storm. Storm introduced Reed to his "greatest achievements", his daughter, Susan, and her younger brother, Johnny. Reed's father was relieved to get rid of him, so Reed rarely saw his family thereafter. His only close contacts were his fellow students and his dog Einstein. Missing his family, Reed covertly constructed a "Fantasti-Car," a fuel free vehicle with the capacity to fly at MACH-7, but never used it. For the next several years, Reed continued to work on his teleportation technology. The Baxter Building provided him with all of the resources at their disposal and they even developed an oscillating window that could peer into an otherworldly plane of reality known as the N-Zone. During this time, Reed met a fellow student named Victor van Damme. Victor was a brash and arrogant student, known for his enmity toward his fellow students. One day, Reed caught Victor in his room rifling through his notes. Victor had taken it upon himself to read Reed's research, adjusting various calculations along the way. Reed was furious, but soon discovered that Victor was equally brilliant. He invited him to work alongside him on the N-Zone project. Over the next five years Van Damme helped Reed with his N-Zone math, while Reed aided Victor's work in miniaturized robotics.
The Fantastic Four
By the time they reached adulthood, the young geniuses were ready to test their N-Zone transmitter technology on biological matter. The think tank erected a large platform in the Nevada desert for their first major testing phase. Reed's old school chum, Ben Grimm, showed up at the testing site to visit him. He was on college holiday and wanted to see how his childhood pal was getting along. Accompanied by a bevy of military officers and scientists, Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Victor Van Damme stood at the control panels of the transmit platform. What the other four didn't realize, however, was that Victor had surreptitiously altered the coordinates on the transmitter device. They activated the machine hoping to teleport an apple into the N-Zone. Instead, they tore open a dimensional breach in space and all five disappeared in a blinding flash of light. Reed awakened several yards away. As he rose to his feet, he discovered that he now possessed the ability to stretch and remold his body into any variety of shapes. Ben, Sue, and Johnny had also developed powers of their own. They soon encountered the clay-based creations of Dr. Molekevic, subsequently foiling his plot. Only one member of the group affected by the N-Zone accident remained unaccounted for: Victor Van Damme, the man responsible for the Fantastic Four's failed assassination. Victor established a small community in Denmark under his control using neural implants, and when the foursome arrived he took down each of them until only Reed stood in his way. Reed fought Victor, winning until he unleashed his "subjects" upon them. Unable to convince Van Damme to help him reverse the changes, and unable to force him as he had diplomatic immunity, Reed returned his focus to science by perfecting his N-Zone transporter and adapting it to both time travel and accessing parallel dimensions. After the team went public battling the extra-dimensional alien Nihil in Las Vegas, Reed began craving the public approval of being a superhero, perhaps compensating for his father's disapproval. He balanced his obsessive love of science against his romantic relationship with Sue Storm and his new celebrity hero status.[citation needed] When the Ultimatum Wave hit New York, Reed soon realized that Victor would continue to destroy the world if he wasn't stopped, and prompted the Thing to go to Latveria and kill him. After the funeral of Franklin Storm, Reed's marriage proposal was rejected by Sue, and the Fantastic Four disbanded. Reed moved back in with his biological family as he pondered what to do next.
Powers
Elasticity: Reed's cells have been replaced with "pliable bacterial stacks," single cells which duplicate most of the larger functions of the human body. This allows Reed to stretch his body in myriad ways without disrupting the necessary functions of internal organs such as the heart, kidneys, muscles, or even brain. Reed can stretch any or all of his body parts long distances; assuming non-human shapes such as a sphere or parachute; or creating extra appendages and even linked bodies capable of holding conversations with himself. According to Sue's mother, Reed's abilities allow him to stretch his brain in order to accommodate and solve almost any problem, thus making him effectively a human computer.[citation needed] Immortality: According to Reed himself, his biology is not based on the principle of entropy causing him to have unnatural longevity. Furthermore, he states he neither has to take in nourishment or excrete waste, lacks any need for a vascular system or oxygen, has survived in vacuums like the N-Zone, and possibly fails the definition of being alive. All this allowed him to spend close to one thousand years inside the Dome without outward signs of physical aging. Multiversal Omnipresence: Due to the Molecule Man's tampering when the Multiverse was reborn as the Eighth Cosmos, the Maker exists in every universe at once, with each body in every universe sharing the same single consciousness. He has used this condition to pass objects from one universe to another, such as when he teleported immediately to his body in the Marvel Universe a weapon taken from Earth-7918. However, to what extent is unknown as several of his bodies have been destroyed. Artificial Enhanced Symbiote: After bonding to the improved artificial Venom symbiote from his universe, Maker possessed: •Constituent Matter Generation •Superhuman Strength •Superhuman Durability •Superhuman Agility •Superhuman Reflexes •Weapon Generation Former Powers Composite Symbiote Costume: As a result of physically bonding with the composite Hybrid symbiote, Reed possesses various superhuman attributes: •Advanced Constituent Matter Generation •Advanced Constituent Matter Manipulation •Metabolic Acid Generation •Metabolic Chemical Absorption •Superhuman Strength •Superhuman Durability •Superhuman Agility •Superhuman Reflexes •Immunity to Spider-Man's spider-sense •Wall Crawling •Web Slinging •Shapeshifting •ESP
Abilities
Super-Genius Intelligence: Reed Richards is a child prodigy and possesses a keen scientific intellect, decades ahead of his time. This intelligence has recently been augmented by his new powers. Reed holds multiple doctoral level degrees in theoretical and applied physics fields. Richards' IQ is 267, and he was stated to be a "Level Twelve Intellect" by Tony Stark. However, when Reed centered his operations in the Prime Marvel Universe, he discovered the subtle differences in composition between this reality and his home universe impaired his intellect, on account of differing laws of science that he identified as more "flamboyant" and more "fantastic". Enhanced Memory: Richards was able to vividly remember events in his childhood a thousand years after they had happened.
Equipment
Impact Suit: Reed, like the rest of the Fantastic Four, wears an impact suit that can adjust itself to his abilities. To this end, whenever Reed stretches or compresses himself, the suit takes on the same malleability his body possesses. Gravity Belt[citation needed] As he was once a lead scientist at the Baxter Building, Reed had access to enormous governmental resources. While there he developed technology such as: •The N-Zone Transporter. •Fantasti-Cars: Flying vehicles powered by zero-point generators. •A decommissioned NASA Space Shuttle (Named Awesome by Johnny Storm) uniquely modified for travel through the N-Zone. •Chrono-tunnel enabling time travel.
Transportation
Former Transportation Fantasti-Car and The Fantastic-Jet Boat.
•Numerous references to a famous adult scientist version of Reed Richards occurred in the Ultimate Universe before Marvel finalized their plans for Ultimate Fantastic Four, making them incompatible with later continuity. Ultimate Marvel Team Up #9 even had a full appearance of a Lee/Kirby style Fantastic Four. These references continued until Ultimate Spider-Man #38, a mere nine months before Ultimate Fantastic Four debuted an entirely different take on Reed Richards.
•Seed Nineteen identified Reed's powers as being that of someone who is 'trans-fleshed'
•Reed's age has fluctuated up and down when it is directly mentioned. In Ultimate Power #1, Reed states that he is eighteen-years-old, however, Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 establishes that he is at least twenty-one years old and Ultimate Vision #0 states that he was nineteen. He has also been referred to as a teenager on multiple occasions by others and himself. His age is even harder to pinpoint when taking into account the fact that he spent hundreds of years inside The Dome.
•When operating in the Marvel Universe, the Maker noticed its natural laws make it so "Everything's less... practical [there]. More flamboyant. (...) More fantastic."
•The term "Level Twelve Intellect" is a reference to DC Comics, where a 12th Level intellect is considered the highest possible IQ and the apex of genius intellect.
•The reason why the Maker was featured in Venom (Vol. 4), was because Donny Cates liked the relationship between Peter Parker and Reed Richards, and wanted an evil Reed for the evil Spider-Man, Venom.
•201 appearance(s) of Reed Richards (Earth-1610)
•2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Reed Richards (Earth-1610)
•8 minor appearance(s) of Reed Richards (Earth-1610)
•32 mention(s) of Reed Richards (Earth-1610)
•5 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Reed Richards (Earth-1610)
•234 image(s) of Reed Richards (Earth-1610)
Reed Richards, also known as The Maker, is a genius scientist and a member of the Fantastic Four in an alternate reality. He has the power to stretch and reshape his body and is the ultimate Reed Richards in the Marvel Multiverse.
Maker is a supervillain based on Mister Fantastic, who becomes evil after suffering tragedies and trauma. He uses his scientific genius and elastic powers to threaten the Ultimates and the Marvel Universe.
Oct 15, 1994 · Learn about the origin, lyrics, and covers of "The Maker", a spiritual song by Daniel Lanois that Phish and Dave Matthews Band often perform together. See videos of different versions of the song by various artists and bands.
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