Nerd Rage - Reed Richards is a Fantastic Jerk
by Bryan Scheidler
A quick disclaimer: There have already been many articles talking about how much a dick Reed Richards is in the comics. Those tend to focus on panels taken out of context or really bad scenes that show how awfully he has treated Susan. That is not what this article is. This article is about how much damage has has done to the current Marvel universe. Enjoy!
Marvel’s latest event, Secret Empire, has just kicked off and
it did so with quite a splash. In the the #0 issue, Marvel doubled down on
Captain America being an agent of Hydra. More than just making him a cosmically
brain washed hero, they have made the bold claim that this is how he always was
and it was the Allies and SHIELD that brain washed him with the cosmic cube
first. This revelation has many fans up in arms; Marvel’s symbol of freedom,
justice, and all that is good in the world has been transformed into something
evil. The sad truth about all of this is that this and every other garbage
thing that has happened in Marvel’s comics since the Secret Wars event in 2015 is
all the fault of Reed Richards.
If you haven’t been reading Marvel’s comics over the last
year then there may be a few things you may not be familiar with. Starting back
with the Incursion events the Marvel multiverse was collapsing. Reed Richards,
Tony Stark and the rest of the Illuminati were doing whatever they could to put
off the end of everything as long as they could, but it was a loosing battle.
While they were busy doing that Captain America was doing everything he could
to hunt them down and stop them because as far as I can tell his feelings were
hurt. Needless to say everything did come to an end. However, thanks to a last
minute save by Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange and a life raft full of heroes all
hope was not lost. This is when Marvel’s big crossover event Secret Wars took place, it is a good
read so you should check it out, but it all wraps up with Reed Richards and his
son Franklin recreating the multiverse, and here in lies the problem. Franklin, reeds son was imagining every universe in the multiverse and Reed would use his recently obtained god-like powers to make them real. Kids can imagine and do some crazy messed up things, that is why adults are there to correct them and teach them. They are definitely not there to bring any nightmare fueled version of reality to life.
Reed Richards was well aware of the state of things in his
world before it was destroyed and yet when he was given the chance to recreate
the world what did he do? The answer is he allowed things to become as screwed up as humanly
possible. Don’t believe me? The list of Reed’s handiwork is long and criminal. Mutants
are still hated and at the start of this new universe, the air is literally
poisonous to them. The x-men are forced to relocate their base to Limbo, and
about to go to war with the Inhumans. Norman Osborne, the Green Goblin, has
returned as an illegal weapons dealer. The entire Spider-man/Jackal story arc
with loved ones of heroes and villains coming back from the dead just to loose
them all over because they were cheap clones. The cosmic entities are all in
chaos with Eternity, the physical manifestation of the multiverse, in chains.
And of course the fate of Captain America, the apparently long time bad guy and
leader of Hydra.
Maybe it is a little unfair to lay all of this at the feet of
Reed Richards, but he was the one who had the power to set things back to
normal. Instead of using that power to make things better, to help the people
of the multiverse what does he do? He makes life a living hell for former
friends, allies, and the entire multiverse. Of course maybe Reed just has a
flair for the dramatic or maybe this entire time we have been seeing things
happening on a different universe? Whatever it is, it really doesn’t matter,
Marvel gave Reed Richards the power to create the multiverse however he saw
fit. So everything that has happened in it so far is on him, thanks a lot Reed.Author: Bryan Scheidler
Editor: Trisha Quezada
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