10 Insane Alternative Versions Of The Fantastic Four You Won't Believe
The Marvel Multiverse is filled with crazy versions of the Fantastic Four, but these are insane!
Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grim, the Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing, may be well-known around the world as the Fantastic Four, but over the years, there have been some strange alternate versions of the team printed in the pages of Marvel Comics.
"The Greatest Comic Magazine in the World" has been around since 1961, and like other characters in the Marvel Multiverse, the FF has been altered, reimagined, and reformed numerous times over the years. There have been zombie versions, super-intelligent ones, and many, many more.
Still, those aren't the strangest versions of the FF that have shown up in the comics. Thanks to Marvel's What If...? books, every possibility has been imagined and told in a one-off story, which means there are more than enough versions of the Fantastic Four than most fans realise.
Because there are so many different makeups of the team from numerous realities, picking the strangest ones is no easy task.
These ten insane versions of the Fantastic Four are some of the most unusual the House of Ideas has come up with, but there are plenty more where these came from...
10. The New Fantastic Four
One of the things that made the Fantastic Four one of the best superhero teams ever is their close ties through friendship and family. They bonded together after receiving their powers, and have since become one of the most important teams in the Marvel Universe.
That's the normal team, but things are a bit different for the so-called "New Fantastic Four," which debuted in Fantastic Four #347. Unlike the original team, there's no real reason that makes sense for this group to be together outside the fact that they make up Marvel's most popular characters at the time.
In the issue, the Fantastic Four are captured by De'Lila, a Skrull, who convinces Spider-Man, the Hulk, Wolverine, and Ghost Rider that Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben were all killed by the Mole Man. Hearing the news, the heroes band together to avenge the deaths of their pals as the New Fantastic Four.
The regular FF is a powerful team, but with this new roster, it was massively OP, especially when going up against Mole Man. When the FF was revealed to be just fine, the new team was disbanded, and while it was just for a single issue, this insane grouping was far too powerful to work in a monthly comic.