Reed Richards (Flashpoint)

Dr. Reed Richards is a scientist and inventor, better known as Mister Fantastic, who has been considered the smartest man on Earth. In this timeilne, he became the leader of team called the Fantastic Four, due to the Cosmic Train's attempts at destroying the universe. After the death of his team members and wife, he became a member of the Illuminati.
== History ==
=== Forming the Fantastic Four ===
After coming home from a deep space mission, Reed, his wife, her brother and longtime friend Ben Grimm were all experiencing side effects due to cosmis rays. They all began to develop superpowers, each varying in different ways. The four agreed to not use their powers until they had a better understanding of how to use them. They had to go back on this, when Earth Prime was destroyed by the Cosmic Train, and their own universe was now in peril.
New Earth needed as many heroes as possible, so Reed formed the Fantastic Four to help the Avengers and X-Men fight the Cosmic Train. This ended up backfiring in the coming months, as the entire team besides Reed were killed in action by the Cosmic Train. 
=== Joining the Illuminati ===
Not long after the death of his family, Reed met Peter Venkman, who was displaced in the multiverse, after escaping the death of his home dimension. Venkman and Reed got along very well, and eventually met Doctor Strange, who explained his idea to the two. They agreed to join the Illuminati, as New Earth's last defense against the Cosmic Train. 
A month after this, during an Illuminati meeting, an Iron Bot was alerted to a presence outside the Sanctorum. The Iron Bot brought in the two people that it had detected, and Strange saw who it was. It was Magneto and the Flash, both of which were dead in the Flashpoint timeline. Strange questioned how they were alive, but Magneto and Flash didn't understand. Captain T told them that they had been killed by the Cosmic Train, and that New Earth was in jeopardy too.
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Powers ===
* Plasticity
* Dense Flesh
* Elongation
=== Abilities ===
* Super-Genius Intellect
* Martial Artist
== Trivia ==
* Reed failed his driving test five times.
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