10 Things You Need To Know About The Fantastic Four

2. The Other Members

Fantastic Four
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If you were asked who the members of the Fantastic Four were, you'd be correct for stating Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm. You'd also get a bonus point if you included Franklin and Valeria Richards. But the ranks of the FF have included far more people that just that over the years.

As mentioned elsewhere, Storm and Black Panther took up roles with the Fantastic Four following the events of Civil War. It doesn't stop there, though. Spider-Man, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Luke Cage, She-Hulk, Ant-Man, Namor's cousin Namorita, and the Inhumans Crystal and Medusa are just some of the others to have at one point in time been a paid-up, card-carrying member of the Fantastic Four.

In the case of Spider-Man, it was particularly poignant when he joined Marvel's First Family. This being due to how the Human Torch had requested in his will that ol' Web-head be his replacement should Johnny die. After being killed by Annihilus, Storm's place was indeed taken up by Spidey. Well, until it was revealed that Johnny Storm wasn't actually all that dead at all, beacuse, well, because comics.

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