Fantastic Four #642

[flint_marko]

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[sanctaphrax]

In the context of the original comics, Reed exploring the Negative Zone instead of fighting diseases made plenty of sense even to a smart and pedantic reader. Plenty of smart people go into space exploration and not medicine, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But over the years, things have changed. There are more superheroes now, they've done more things, and it doesn't make sense that none of them have addressed non-fantastical problems in an at least moderately successful way.

I know people don't want to change the status quo too much, but would it really be problematic to say that many forms of cancer have been cured by superheroes in the Marvel-verse? Or that global warming won't be a problem, because of some superheroic energy generation method? Or that Marvel American police don't murder so many unarmed black people, because of superheroes pushing them to act better?

Wouldn't make any stories impossible. In fact, it'd open a bunch of doors.