Hyperstorm
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Hyperstorm is a fictional
supervillain
from the Marvel comics
universe
. Also known as Jonathan Reed Richards, Hyperstorm is both the future descendant and enemy of the Fantastic Four
. He's also descended from X-Men.
first encountered Hyperstorm when Reed Richards
and Doctor Doom
were ripped out of the timestream by him and ended up in his future, after which he sent Reed thousands of years into the past and kept the crippled Doom as his tortured prisoner. The rest of the Fantastic Four managed to track down Reed. Then, together they traveled back into Hyperstorm's timeline to confront him. His real name and parentage was revealed by Nathaniel Richards, who had through extensive time travel
ling learned that Hyperstorm was born as the son of Franklin Richards
and Rachel Summers
with his sister Dream Summers who had telepathy/empathy, in an alternate version of the Days of Future Past
timeline.
The point of divergence between his particular timeline and the original DoFP timeline must be assumed to be Franklin Richards surviving the attack by Sentinels instead of perishing, as seen in Uncanny X-Men #141. Once grown up, Hyperstorm used his vast powers to destroy all opposition in his timeline and gradually became corrupted by such unparalleled powers and became a heartless tyrant set on nothing less than complete universal domination and blind obedience to his will. In time he had conquered great portions of the known universe, and purposed to extend his dominion to other timelines
as well. He was last seen being trapped by Reed Richards in a sub-dimension, being fed upon by the exiled Galactus
. His current whereabouts now that Galactus is free are unknown.
, telekinetic
, and energy and matter manipulation abilities both as Hyperstorm (Fantastic Four Unlimited #12) and as his otherworld counterpart David Richards. For the latter, his powers are described as an amalgam of the powers of Professor X
, Magneto
and The Phoenix Force. Hyperstorm displayed the ability to teleport through hyperspace from one point in the universe to another with no known limitations. He was able to counter the Invisible Woman
's forcefield with one of his own in a display of his mastery over hyperspatial energies. He is also an extraordinary genius, possessing an intellect on par with Reed Richards', evidenced by his ability to create devices such as a time machine
, a brain disarrator which he employed on Doctor Doom to disrupt any chance of him forming coherent thoughts, and his nigh unstoppable mechanical constructs known as the Destructoids. He was able to outwit Reed Richards, Nathaniel Richards, and Doctor Doom
for an extended period.
while only barely surviving himself. This battle seems highly dubious since Hyperstorm, for all his apparent scientific genius, had obviously not understood that such a fight could create a possible grandfather paradox
which might threaten his own existence, considering that Hyperstorm hadn't even been born at the juncture of the fight. However, this Hyperstorm might have originated on a different Earth than the one on which MC2 takes place, in which case the possibility of creating a paradox would not come into play. An alternate explanation is that in the Marvel Universe, altering the events of the past leads to the creation of a separate timeline in which those events were not altered.
Fictional character
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supervillain
Supervillain
A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the villain character type, commonly found in comic books, action movies and science fiction in various media.They are sometimes used as foils to superheroes and other fictional heroes...
from the Marvel comics
Marvel Comics
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universe
Marvel Universe
The Marvel Universe is the shared fictional universe where most comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Entertainment take place, including those featuring Marvel's most familiar characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, and the Avengers.The Marvel Universe is further...
. Also known as Jonathan Reed Richards, Hyperstorm is both the future descendant and enemy of the Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...
. He's also descended from X-Men.
Fictional character biography
The Fantastic FourFantastic Four
The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...
first encountered Hyperstorm when Reed Richards
Mister Fantastic
Mr. Fantastic is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero and a member of the Fantastic Four. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 ....
and Doctor Doom
Doctor Doom
Victor von Doom is a fictional character who appears in Marvel Comics publications . Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #5 wearing his trademark metal mask and green cloak...
were ripped out of the timestream by him and ended up in his future, after which he sent Reed thousands of years into the past and kept the crippled Doom as his tortured prisoner. The rest of the Fantastic Four managed to track down Reed. Then, together they traveled back into Hyperstorm's timeline to confront him. His real name and parentage was revealed by Nathaniel Richards, who had through extensive time travel
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
ling learned that Hyperstorm was born as the son of Franklin Richards
Franklin Richards
Franklin Richards is a fictional comic book character appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, usually as a supporting character in Fantastic Four.Franklin is an Omega-Level mutant with vast psionic and reality-manipulating powers...
and Rachel Summers
Rachel Summers
Rachel Anne Summers is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne for Marvel Comics....
with his sister Dream Summers who had telepathy/empathy, in an alternate version of the Days of Future Past
Days of Future Past
"Days of Future Past" is a popular storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book The Uncanny X-Men issues #141 and #142, published in 1981. It deals with a dystopian alternate future in which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps...
timeline.
The point of divergence between his particular timeline and the original DoFP timeline must be assumed to be Franklin Richards surviving the attack by Sentinels instead of perishing, as seen in Uncanny X-Men #141. Once grown up, Hyperstorm used his vast powers to destroy all opposition in his timeline and gradually became corrupted by such unparalleled powers and became a heartless tyrant set on nothing less than complete universal domination and blind obedience to his will. In time he had conquered great portions of the known universe, and purposed to extend his dominion to other timelines
Parallel universe (fiction)
A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...
as well. He was last seen being trapped by Reed Richards in a sub-dimension, being fed upon by the exiled Galactus
Galactus
Galactus is a fictional character appearing in comic books and other publications published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Jack Kirby, the character debuted in Fantastic Four #48 , the first of a three-issue story later known as "The Galactus...
. His current whereabouts now that Galactus is free are unknown.
Powers and abilities
Hyperstorm is a mutant with the power to tap into the extradimensional realm of hyperspace and draw virtually limitless amounts of energy for any effect. He can control all forces of matter (electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear forces, gravity) which, in his fictional universe, emanate from hyperspace which he "is one with." Hyperstorm displayed telepathicTelepathy
Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...
, telekinetic
Psychokinesis
The term psychokinesis , also referred to as telekinesis with respect to strictly describing movement of matter, sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term...
, and energy and matter manipulation abilities both as Hyperstorm (Fantastic Four Unlimited #12) and as his otherworld counterpart David Richards. For the latter, his powers are described as an amalgam of the powers of Professor X
Professor X
Professor Charles Francis Xavier, also known as Professor X, is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero known as the leader and founder of the X-Men....
, Magneto
Magneto (comics)
Magneto is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the central villain of the X-Men comic, as well as the TV show and the films. The character first appears in X-Men #1 , and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby...
and The Phoenix Force. Hyperstorm displayed the ability to teleport through hyperspace from one point in the universe to another with no known limitations. He was able to counter the Invisible Woman
Invisible Woman
Susan "Sue" Storm Richards is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superheroine created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 in November 1961, and was the first female superhero created by Marvel in the Silver Age of Comics...
's forcefield with one of his own in a display of his mastery over hyperspatial energies. He is also an extraordinary genius, possessing an intellect on par with Reed Richards', evidenced by his ability to create devices such as a time machine
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
, a brain disarrator which he employed on Doctor Doom to disrupt any chance of him forming coherent thoughts, and his nigh unstoppable mechanical constructs known as the Destructoids. He was able to outwit Reed Richards, Nathaniel Richards, and Doctor Doom
Doctor Doom
Victor von Doom is a fictional character who appears in Marvel Comics publications . Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #5 wearing his trademark metal mask and green cloak...
for an extended period.
Exiles
The reality-hopping team encountered a younger alternate timeline analogue of Hyperstorm called 'David Richards' instead of Jonathan, though it seems that they are otherwise genetically identical and have the same powers. In yet another variation of DoFP, Franklin and Rachel instead had a daughter, Dream Summers.MC2
The Fantastic Four battled Hyperstorm (or possibly another similar counterpart to the one who showed up in the 616 continuity) a confrontation which ended with Psi-lord (Franklin Richards) stalemating Hyperstorm in power and, after a very even fight, putting his would-be son into a comaComa
In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
while only barely surviving himself. This battle seems highly dubious since Hyperstorm, for all his apparent scientific genius, had obviously not understood that such a fight could create a possible grandfather paradox
Grandfather paradox
The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel first described by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent . The paradox is this: suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the traveler's...
which might threaten his own existence, considering that Hyperstorm hadn't even been born at the juncture of the fight. However, this Hyperstorm might have originated on a different Earth than the one on which MC2 takes place, in which case the possibility of creating a paradox would not come into play. An alternate explanation is that in the Marvel Universe, altering the events of the past leads to the creation of a separate timeline in which those events were not altered.
Known relatives
- Parents
- Franklin RichardsFranklin RichardsFranklin Richards is a fictional comic book character appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, usually as a supporting character in Fantastic Four.Franklin is an Omega-Level mutant with vast psionic and reality-manipulating powers...
(father) - Rachel SummersRachel SummersRachel Anne Summers is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne for Marvel Comics....
(mother)
- Franklin Richards
- Grandparents
- Susan Richards/Invisible WomanInvisible WomanSusan "Sue" Storm Richards is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superheroine created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 in November 1961, and was the first female superhero created by Marvel in the Silver Age of Comics...
(paternal grandmother) - Reed Richards/Mister FantasticMister FantasticMr. Fantastic is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero and a member of the Fantastic Four. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 ....
(paternal grandfather) - Jean Grey/PhoenixJean GreyJean Grey-Summers is a fictional comic book superheroine appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and Dark Phoenix and is best known as one of five original members of the X-Men, for her relationship with Cyclops, and for her...
(maternal grandmother) - Scott Summers/CyclopsCyclops (comics)Cyclops is a fictional character, the leader of the X-Men superhero team in the . A mutant, Cyclops emits a powerful energy beam from his eyes...
(maternal grandfather)
- Susan Richards/Invisible Woman
- Great-Grandparents
- Nathaniel & Evelyn Richards (paternal great-grandparents)
- Dr. Franklin & Mary Storm (paternal great-grandparents)
- Christopher Summers/CorsairCorsair (comics)Corsair is a fictional character, a star-faring hero in the Marvel Comics universe. He leads the space-faring team the Starjammers and was best known as the father of X-Men superheroes Cyclops, Havok, and Vulcan...
(maternal great-grandfather) - Dr. John Grey & Elaine Richards (maternal great-grandparents)
- Aunts and Uncles
- Johnny Storm/Human TorchHuman TorchThe Human Torch is a fictional character and superhero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, he is a member of the superhero team the Fantastic Four, debuting in The Fantastic Four #1...
(paternal granduncle) - Tara Richards/HuntaraFantastic ForceFantastic Force was a superhero team in the Marvel Universe, a spin-off of the Fantastic Four. The team had its own title, which lasted for eighteen issues from November 1994 to April 1996...
(paternal alternate-reality half-grandaunt) - Valeria RichardsValeria RichardsValeria Meghan Richards is a fictional character of Marvel Comics, the daughter of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman , husband and wife and two original members of the superhero team the Fantastic Four. She is the younger sister of Franklin Richards...
(paternal alternate-reality aunt) - Valeria Doom (paternal alternate-reality aunt)
- Alex Summers/Havok (maternal granduncle)
- Gabriel Summers/Vulcan (maternal granduncle)
- Nathan Christopher Summers/CableCable (comics)Cable is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared as an infant in Uncanny X-Men #201...
(maternal uncle) - StryfeStryfeStryfe is a fictional character, a supervillain in the . The character was created by Louise Simonson and Rob Liefeld, and first appears in The New Mutants #87...
(maternal uncle's clone from alternate future timeline) - Tyler Dayspring/GenesisGenesis (comics)Genesis is a fictional character in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a mutant and foe of Cable and Wolverine. He first appeared in a flashback in X-Force #1...
(son of maternal uncle, adopted son of uncle's clone from deleted future timeline) - Nate Grey/X-ManNate GreyNathaniel "Nate" Grey is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, in particular those related to the X-Men franchise...
(alternate reality maternal uncle) - Ruby SummersRuby SummersRuby Summers is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe first appearing in the one-shot X-Factor: Layla Miller.-Fictional character biography:Ruby is the daughter of Scott Summers and Emma Frost from the dystopian alternate future Earth-1191....
(maternal alternate-reality version of half-aunt)
- Johnny Storm/Human Torch