Going from zero to one-hundred rather quickly, and it's time to mention one of the Fantastic Four's lowest moments. During Mark Waid's run on Fantastic Four, the group head to Latveria to take down Doctor Doom for good. Everything goes swimmingly for a while, until Reed Richards seats himself on the throne of the country and everything turns upside down.
Inviting the unwanted attention of foreign governments with his practices, Reed unwittingly unleashes Doom's spirit from Hell. Doom then jumps between the bodies of each of the four before settling on Ben, and with Reed growing increasingly incensed with each passing moment, the leader of the Four picks up a special weapon and fires it at The Thing, killing him in the process.
Reed would soon devise a way of bringing Ben back, but his temporary absence hammered home the animosity shared between Mr. Fantastic and Victor. It's the kind of moment that could only be made possible with decades of history between them, so while this act itself is fairly horrific, the implications of Reed's violence are just as sobering.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
