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Warning : Contains spoilers forFantastic Four # 17 !
TheFantastic Four’sReed Richards is one of the smartest minds in the Marvel Universe . Sometimes that intelligence is the only thing keep him from being an fabulously grievous villain , and a face-off with aKangvariant testify just how morose his idea can get . To discontinue Rama Tut from change all of human history , Reed introducesa “ worldly recoupler ” - a machine able of brutally killing any time traveler .
antic Four#17 – by Ryan North , Carlos Gómez , Jesus Aburtov , and Joe Caramagna – post Sue and Reed Richards back into early human chronicle , where they witnessRama Tut attempt to destroyprimitive humans .
The two immediately think up a architectural plan to stop him , which Reed Richards ' late invention , the " temporal recoupler . " Reed claims the twist can have " crying demise " in a metre traveller by rapidly aging their torso into the local sentence frame . It ’s a horrible concept , one demonstrates just what I. A. Richards could be capable of if he was n’t a hoagy .
Mister Fantastic often bank on his star intellectual , but his stretch abilities do a good deal of threatening lifting - sometimes with horrify results .
Mr. Fantastic’s New Gun Could Stop Any Time Instantly
If He’s Willing To Use It
Although the worldly recoupler promises a straightaway decease , the automobile mechanic of it show just how misrepresented Reed Richards ’ head can be . Defeating a clip traveller is no easy project ; the machine would basically push them back into a individual time inning . As fast as that may seem , accomplishing it would be a flagitious process . It ’s also an idea that Reed seemingly came up with in a pinch , meaning it took very little planning to dream up something that would destroy even the most gifted ofMarvel ’s sentence travelers .
It ’s not unheard of for Mister Fantastic to make some morally refutable decisions , and other timelines have also shown how dangerous villainousvariations like the Makercan be . That bestow further credence to the idea that leaving heroism behind would make Reed Richards one of the most serious man in the universe . fortuitously for Kang inFantastic Four#17 , Reed generally leans toward outsmarting his foes , rather than killing them . Ultimately , they use the temporal recoupler only as a distraction , to let them swap in fake body . Neither Reed nor Sue designate to defeat Kang , and their actual plan was cagey enough to forestall that from being necessary .
Reed Richards Doesn’t Need Violence To Win Every Fight
But He Is Always Prepared
Though the account for the gas pedal ’s design inclination toward technobabble – intentionally so , given that Reed is trouble Rama Tut – but he sums it up by allege : " It ’s instant death ; the only way to beat a time traveller . " Though he admits to being " loathe to take any life story , " Reed acknowledge that he is prepared to , and he almost certainly means it , though in this case the billet does not amount to that . In any example , at the conceptual level , the temporal recoupler is one of Marvel ’s most ugly ideas .
As long as Reed can consider his way out of a problem , there ’s piddling demand to resort to graphic fierceness . Even though he peril to use the temporal recoupler to deliver human history , killing Kang would have pushed him over a personal line of credit that is dangerous to cross . Mr. Fantastic does n’t ask to resort to slaying to win , especially when he has the Invisible Woman on the same wavelength . InFantastic Four#17 , Reed Richards proved that he could devise a artillery to kill Kang , but with his brainy intellect and theFantastic Fourat his back , he does n’t ask to .
howling Four#17is available now from Marvel Comics .
FANTASTIC FOUR # 17 ( 2022 )
Custom Image by Robert Wood (from Carlos Gómez)
