Talk:Reed Richards

message: *Profile: Mister Fantastic
*Alter Ego: Reed Richards 
*Occupation: Scientist, Professional Adventurer
*Place of Birth: Central City, California
*Base of Operations: Baxter Building II, New York City
*Costume: Dark blue bodysuit. White "V" neck, gloves, boots, & belt. Circle on left side of chest with a "4" insignia. (Made of unstable molecules).
*Identity: Publicly known 
*Nickname: "Stretcho"
*Age: Early to mid thirties*
*Height: 6'1"
*Weight: 160 lbs. (73 kg) 
*Eye Color: Brown 
*Hair Color: Brown (graying at the temples)
:A note on Reed Richards' Age: An ubiquitous trend in superhero comics is that towards retarding the age of characters. The Marvel convention is that roughly ten years have passed since Fantastic Four #1. Reed's gray temples don't imply that he's in middle age, because one story revealed that he went gray at the age of nineteen. In the days before the longevity of Marvel's properties necessitated time compression, Reed graduated from university as a teenager, and he met Sue, a few years his junior, for the first time. Ben was a few years older than Reed, thus making him in his late thirties/early forties today. Therefore, Reed was at least in his early to mid twenties as of his first appearance. He is estimated to be approximately thirty four.
Assigning ages to various points in the character's history is problematic; lacks sufficient citation and smacks of original research. Recommend removal. Gbsrd (talk) 15:27, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Vital stats

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message: Two words--Plastic Man.  He should be metioned somewhere in the article.204.80.61.110 16:00, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What about this character?

message: The official Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer webpage states that he is a brilliant physicist and mathematician, humble genius, and gifted idealist. He claims to be one of the greatest minds of the 21st century in that movie. He was educated at MIT like Victor von Doom and geneticist Susan Storm, and won a top science prize as a child and an international prize as an adolescent. In the first movie, Dr. Richards reveals that cosmic clouds passing near earth can cause evolutionary changes and perhaps aid humanity. Victor von Doom says Reed is always right. Mr. Fantastic is working on an equation for a suit of unstable molecules, but Dr. Doom invents it before him, with Susan noting that "great minds think alike." He apparently has knowledge of spacecrafts, as indicated in his discussion with Ben Grimm, his talk with NASA, and his work on the shuttle. Reed checks Susan's medical chart, monitoring her health and advising the physician looking after her. Susan states that unless something is stated in terms of quantum physics, he doesn't understand it. His Baxter Building loft-turned laboratory shows several devices he has invented and machines he maintains for his research. When he investigates Thing's fundamentally-altered DNA, he shows an advanced knowledge of genetics. He writes chemical equations on a chalkboard. He designs a device to reverse the Four's mutations. Doom notes Richards and himself are both doctors. In the end of Fantastic Four, he uses his skill in chemistry to stop Doctor Doom, as Doom had done to him. In the second movie, he gives an exposition on the Big Bang, designs a satellite sensor and constructs the rocket-like Fantasticar, which is of his own design. When he initially refuses to build the sensor to detect the Surfer, he refers the military to a colleague, the head of the physics department at Brown University, to serve as a replacement. Mr. Fantastic discovers that the Silver Surfer destroys any world he visits and how to separate him from his board — through the application of a tachyon pulse. When Doom works on the device to control the Silver Surfer's board behind the military's and Four's backs, he tells Richards to keep up with him. Dr. Richards determines that Johnny Storm's molecular structure is unstable after Silver Surfer affects him. --68.224.247.53 22:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Films

message: I put up the "unverified claims" part because this section needs a lot of references. 130.241.18.31 11:12, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Powers and abilites

message: According to Scans_Daily, Reed's Mom is shown in 'Marvel Knights 4' (whatever that means) as being a big-brain scientist also. Lots42 22:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reed's Mom 

message: Any one got any ideas?Phoenix741(Talk Page) 16:38, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ok, we NEED a new main image. 

message: According to BusinessWeek, Mr. Fantastic is listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics. Smartest Superheroes Bookkeeperoftheoccult (talk) 10:04, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top Ten most intelligent fictional characters 

message: :Image:Señor Fantastico2.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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message: :Image:Reed1.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Reed1.jpg

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message: Not in the beginning at any rate.  In Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964) (and, I think, Fantastic Four #11), it says he went to State University, not Empire State.  And in Fantastic Four #35 (Feb 1965) Reed actually goes there and the university is obviously not anywhere in the city of New York.  In some edition of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, State University is identified as being in "Hegeman, New York."  I'm perfectly willing to believe that later writers have identified his alma mater as "Empire State", but I don't know where or when that might have happened; and I think we should go with the original statements in the comics.  Ford MF (talk) 05:50, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just read both the F.F. Annual #2 and F.F. #35. In the annual, Doctor Doom is invited to "State U" to study and, after spurning Reed Richards for a room mate, enacts the fateful experiment that scarred his face. To my knowledge, after the early appearances of "State U" in Fantastic Four, it's never referenced again, and Doom is always said to have been scarred at ESU. Also, in FF 35, when Reed Richards goes to State U as an alumni lecturer, he encounters Peter Parker, who is looking to enroll after he graduates. Fast forward to Spidey #31, and we have Empire State University. I'm thinking the name just got lengthened. If not, then the reference to Doom's face being scarred at ESU should be removed from the ESU article and corrected in the Victor Von Doom article.HXcGeek (talk) 10:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Reed Richards did not attend Empire State University

message: Which is it? The article alternates without explanation. It's his name, not an honorific, surely it must be one or the other. If the usage changes in the comics, that needs to be mentioned. Lectio difficilior potior supports Mister. Spicemix (talk) 00:21, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mister or Mr.? 

message: Looking at Michael Gough in the film Konga which came out before Fantastic Four # 1, I can't help wondering if Reed Richards was based on him? He plays a scientist (evil) and had the grey hair over both ears, as Reed did. The slim figure, hairstyle and face are similar too.(88.22.225.93 (talk) 16:35, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Michael Gough

message: I would like to request that Reed Richards is added to this category, given that he self diagnosed with autism in "Fantastic Four: Season One". It was also mentioned in "Fantastic Four: 1234". David A (talk) 04:13, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Fictional characters on the autistic spectrum

message: Hi there. I note that in the Mister Fantastic page it is stated that "When 19-year-old Reed continued his education by attending Columbia University in Manhattan, he rented a room in a boarding house owned by the aunt of a young girl named Susan Storm. To his embarrassment, the girl, who was 13, instantly fell in love with him.". However, this doesn't match up with the information on the Invisible Woman page where it says "While living with her aunt, Susan, at the young age of 17, met her future husband, Reed Richards, a house guest who was attending college.". A quick search up on the Marvel Wikia gives an age of 12 for when Invisible Woman first met Mister Fantastic. Can someone who actually knows about Marvel shed some light on the matter? 
(Chilokver (talk) 02:22, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrepancy Between Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman Pages 

message: I added a fact tag for this, I'd like to know when that was introduced into Marvel canon, it isn't clear.
http://www.cbr.com/the-abandoned-an-forsaked-did-mr-fantastic-really-first-meet-the-invisible-woman-when-she-was-twelve/ includes this letter column from Tom Breevort which shows Reed as a "college freshman" being significantly taller than Sue Storm when she was 12 years old.
It doesn't really appear to be accountable by a 2-year age difference, and Breevort refers to Reed as a "college-age man" in it. ScratchMarshall (talk) 20:18, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Where does it say Reed started college at 14

message: like this one is so bad Cordelia Van Allen (talk) 20:49, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Main Image