Psychic Kids Club: Nate Grey and Franklin Richards

[auggie18]

Back in the 90s, Nate Grey was doing his new character tour of Marvel Universe and he hit the Fantastic Four stage. He ended up having bro-time with Johnny Storm and hanging out with the cosmic kid himself, Franklin Richards.





I don't think that they met again before Nate died. But he's back now, so he might as well hang out with his future brother-in-law.

 

Comments

[jaybee3]

I love how everyone ages in Marvel except Franklin who goes up and down - is he a pre-teen, teen, toddler, what? depending on the artist. I fully expect Valeria to be drawn as older than Franklin at some point.

[donnblake]

I like that the origins of Nate's psi-armor was that he thought Iron Man was pretty cool.

But about the in-law comment, which world were Franklin and Rachel (I assume) married in?

[his_spiffynesss]

As for Franklin's age, I have an explanation for it. The local gravity field of Four Freedoms Plaza is wonky.

Considering all the times the various FF buildings have gotten blasted into space, Reed naturally had the building built with that expectation. There is a backup gravity field generator going at all times, even under normal circumstances.

Nobody notices the artificial gravity field going within normal gravity field of the planet, but local spacetime continuum does. Since gravity bends spacetime, the two field's stack up the effect. As as result, everyone loses several minutes a day within the field. Which has the most cumulative effect on the youngest family members.

[alschroeder3]

You know who I always thought would have been the PERFECT teacher for Franklin?

Someone who is a close friend of the Fantastic Four.

Someone who has immense power but practice in patience in reigning it in, whose cultural code of non-interference would be of immense help with a kid who can create alternate realities and face down Celestials.

Who has devices and options that REED has envied.

Unfortunately, they just got through KILLING him.

Yes, Uatu the Watcher would have been the PERFECT teacher for Franklin, teaching him how to be careful with his powers, not to overwhelm or destroy those who haven't anywhere near the same level of power. I don't think even Uatu was as powerful as Franklin, but he was a lot closer than anyone on Earth, and his ages-long knowledge and array of devices would have helped even the odds.

I often wondered if Uatu could have glimpsed a little of the future, or had some genetic predictor to forecast the possible child of Reed and Sue, and what powers they had---and the Watchers might have ordered Uatu to keep a close watch on the FF, knowing the child of Reed and Sue would be a being of immense cosmic power that would be best raised in the tradition of the Watchers---beings of immense power, but who don't interfere.

Thus dies a favorite theory/scenario. Oh, well...