THE ULTIMATES #4 Reveals Horrifying Fate Of The Fantastic Four In The Maker's New Ultimate Universe

THE ULTIMATES #4 Reveals Horrifying Fate Of The Fantastic Four In The Maker's New Ultimate Universe

The Ultimates #4 went on sale today and finally revealed why the new Earth-6160 has no Fantastic Four. Brace yourselves, though, because the fate of Marvel's First Family is truly horrifying. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Sep 04, 2024 03:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics

A diabolical genius known as The Maker used time travel to create his ideal Earth by systematically preventing anyone from ever becoming a superhero and by establishing a secret council of supervillains, The Maker's Council, that rules the world from the shadows.

But now the Maker is gone, locked away for the next sixteen months by inventor Howard Stark, this reality's Iron Man. Howard's teenage son, Tony, has taken on the codename Iron Lad and begun recruiting a network of heroes to fight back against the Maker's Council and prepare for the Maker's return.

Instrumental in sealing away the Maker and forming this new team with Iron Lad is Doom, the broken shell of the man once known as Reed Richards, who was kept inside the Dome and uncovered the Maker's secrets, though not that the Maker is himself the Reed Richards of another universe.

As you may recall, The Maker was the original Ultimate Universe's Mister Fantastic who, rejected by Sue Storm and traumatised by Ultimatum, became a villain.

In today's The Ultimates #4, we finally learn how The Maker's machinations ensured the Fantastic Four would never form on this new Earth-6160. 

We learn that Reed's ambitions to travel into outer space got the better of him and, after going over budget and failing safety expectations, his project was shut down (all The Maker's doing, of course). Despite that, he convinces Ben, a reluctant Sue, and her younger brother Johnny, to travel into a cosmic storm with him. 

It never comes and an explosion burns poor Johnny to death. Disgraced, Ben takes his own life by jumping into a quarry and Sue dies due to being exposed to radiation on that flight.

Reed remains in prison before he's aged up and tortured by his doppelganger. Electrocuted and facially disfigured, he's experimented on and even attacked by rats before Doom's burning hot mask is placed on his face. With that, Reed finally gives in and declares himself Doom.

Traumatised by The Maker, he's now trying to do the right thing alongside Iron Lad but there's a darkness in him and we see that this twisted Reed is attempting to recreate the Fantastic Four with experiments which have, thus far, failed.

Check out some panels from The Ultimates #4 below.

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THE FATE OF THE ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR! Doom's years of torture at the hands of the Maker finally catch up to him in this secret history of the real Reed Richards! And tensions rise among the Ultimates when Doom might be more fixated on re-creating the life he should have had than the life he's got...

THE ULTIMATES #4
Written by DENIZ CAMP
Artwork by PHIL NOTO
Cover by DIKE RUAN

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0bstreperous
0bstreperous - 9/4/2024, 3:18 PM
Too complicated the original Ultimate universe was about simplicity
dagenspear
dagenspear - 9/4/2024, 3:39 PM
@0bstreperous - I know when I think simplicity I think incest, sex tapes, aggressive numerous disgusting amount of adultery by Nick Fury with seemingly about all his wife's family members and cannibalism.
0bstreperous
0bstreperous - 9/4/2024, 4:00 PM
@dagenspear - that was all from later stuff I'm talking the original Ultimates, spiderman and X-Men even the FF great stories subversive without 75 years of continuity at the time
DTor91
DTor91 - 9/4/2024, 4:23 PM
@0bstreperous - Well, it’s not the same Ultimate line. The original Ultimate line inevitably tripped on itself once it ran into its own continuity problems and the 616 line started to find more jumping on points.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 9/4/2024, 5:00 PM
@0bstreperous - But that is what it ultimately became.
0bstreperous
0bstreperous - 9/4/2024, 5:52 PM
@DTor91 - They could have kept it special if they respected it’s impact and potential
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/4/2024, 10:08 PM
@0bstreperous - kinda is these fantastic four people died out in space some made it died on earth while reed mr fantastic who face became deformed into rubber became doom nick name he’s trying to succeed make powers killed ben sue Johnny give to four people what I got reading few pages
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/5/2024, 12:57 AM
@dagenspear - you ain't wrong
RolandD
RolandD - 9/4/2024, 3:21 PM
Always do something shocking instead of creative.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 9/4/2024, 3:25 PM
@RolandD - This has all been enjoyable, tbf. But it’s spearheaded by Hickman, so that’s to be expected
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 9/5/2024, 6:25 AM
@RolandD - Honestly this twist on the F4 is pretty cool imo. You can't say this isn't creative.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 9/4/2024, 3:23 PM
And I still think The Maker ain’t got shit on an evil 616 version of Reed because let’s be honest, that Reed is the most dangerous man in comics.
BraxtonHicks
BraxtonHicks - 9/4/2024, 3:34 PM
Watch, RDJ is a dude disguised as dude playing a other dude... (Tony variant is Doom but is actually The Maker in a doom mask).
hainesy
hainesy - 9/4/2024, 5:31 PM
I love the new Ultimate Spider-Man and have liked the Ultimates so far. But this issue was a bit too weird for me. Still, curious to see where they are going with it.
QuietMagician
QuietMagician - 9/4/2024, 5:49 PM
the first three paragraphs of this post are lifted word-for-word from the recap page of this issue, if anyone’s wondering why Josh briefly comes across as a competent writer.

i know you’re not an actual journalist, so familiarity with this concept would be a high expectation that you assuredly wouldn’t meet, but most people in the various fields of the written medium would call that plagiarism.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/5/2024, 12:58 AM
@QuietMagician - GIT EM!

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