Mr. Fantastic

Mr. Fantastic
Background information
Feature films	The Fantastic Four: First Steps (upcoming) Avengers: Doomsday (upcoming) Avengers: Secret Wars (upcoming)
Portrayed by	Pedro Pascal
Inspiration	The Marvel Comics character of the same name
Character information
Full name	Reed Richards
Other names	Mr. Fantastic
Occupation	Superhero Professor Businessman
Affiliations	Fantastic Four Future Foundation
Home	Baxter Building, New York City
Powers and abilities	Ability to stretch his body
Status	Active
Family information
Other relatives	Johnny Storm (brother-in-law)
Partner(s)	Susan Storm-Richards (wife)
Children	Franklin Richards (son)

“This equation not only confirms alternate dimensions, it suggests that parallel Earths exist on different dimensional planes.”

―Reed Richards

Mr. Fantastic (real name Reed Richards) is a Marvel Comics character who is the leader of the Fantastic Four, and one of the most brilliant scientific minds.

Mr. Fantastic was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Background

Reed Richards is the patriarch of the Fantastic Four. Reed is a scientific genius who uses his incredible knowledge to create new technology and study outer space. With the combined powers of his mind and body, Reed fights to defend Earth with the Fantastic Four.

Powers and abilities

• Elasticity: Reed possesses the to bend, stretch, and extend his body parts across far distances, allowing him to easily outmanoeuvre his opponents.

Appearances

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Reed Richards will appear in the film along with his wife Sue Storm and their family.

Trivia

• Rahul Kohli was originally in the running to portray Reed Richards before Pedro Pascal got the role.
• This incarnation of the character is the fifth live action version of the character, following Alex Hyde-White, Ioan Gruffudd, Miles Teller, and John Krasinski, who played a variant of the character, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, who lived on earth-838.
• In the comics, Reed and Sue have two children, Franklin and Valeria.
• Reed's powers were inspired by DC's Plastic Man.
• This is the fourth live-action incarnation of Mr. Fantastic (but if one counts the character in the 1994 unreleased film, that would make this technically the fifth).

See also

• Mr. Fantastic (Earth-838)
• Mr. Fantastic (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)

External links

• Mr. Fantastic on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
• Reed Richards (Earth-828) on the Marvel Database

• The Fantastic Four
• Avengers

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