Maker (Reed Richards)
Maker ("Ultimate" Reed Richards and previously Mister Fantastic) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the Ultimate Marvel's version of Mister Fantastic, initially presented as a heroic, morally altruistic and scientifically driven superhero and a younger, modernized alternate version of Reed Richards, who later turns into the villainous Maker, after enduring a series of tragedies and immense mental trauma; he eventually becomes part of the regular Marvel Universe, serving as an enemy and evil foil to his parallel universe counterpart, the New Avengers, and Eddie Brock/Venom, serving as an example of what his Earth-616 counterpart could have been had he used his powers and intellect for evil and malice. However, during both the 2019 to 2020-21 Absolute Carnage and King in Black storylines, the Maker revealed he'd been correlating with the Council of Reeds (a group of other alternate counterparts of Mister Fantastic) and had utilized the many Symbiote Codexes he'd extracted from the various heroes and villains who'd been previous hosts as a means to repeat his long-standing, but now altruistic goal: restoring his native dimension, the Ultimate Universe, which he sets out to enact in the 2023 miniseries Ultimate Invasion.
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The Maker as seen on a panel of Venom vol. 4 #7 (Dec. 2018). Art by Iban Coello. | |
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Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 (Feb. 2004; as Reed Richards) Ultimate Fallout #4 (Aug. 2011; as Maker) |
Created by | Brian Michael Bendis Mark Millar Adam Kubert (based upon the original character by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) |
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Alter ego | Reed Nathaniel Richards |
Species | Human Mutate |
Team affiliations | W.H.I.S.P.E.R. Fantastic Four (Ultimate Marvel version) Children of Tomorrow Dark Ultimates |
Notable aliases | Mister Fantastic |
Abilities | Super-human levels of elasticity, malleability, durability and immortality Genius-level intellect, expert inventor, expertise in physical sciences and extensive knowledge of physics and genetics |
The 2015 film Fantastic Four adapts the origin story of Ultimate Fantastic Four to its version of Reed Richards, primarily portrayed by Miles Teller.