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Ep. 116. Who is Sue Storm, AKA The Invisible Woman, in Marvel Comics?! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hi guys, it's Megan with vigilante vibes and I'm coming
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  to you with another character breakdown that has to do with
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  Fantastic Four First Steps. And of course I am talking about
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  no other than the matriarch of The Marvels for Family, Sue
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  Storm, who will be played by Vanessa Kirby and sometimes goes
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  by the Invisible Woman. Sue Storm is a powerhouse in her
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  own right, with the ability to turn herself and others
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  completely invisible after being hit with cosmic rays that mutate
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  her DNA. She helps form the Fantastic
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  Four, Earth's first superhero team, and naturally steps into a
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  carrying, grounding role as the team's heart and maternal
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  figure. I have always said that Sue
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  Storm is the backbone of the Fantastic Four.
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  First of all, she's the strongest one.
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  No argument there. Ow, no arguments there.
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  Second, she's the one that brings them all together.
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  She is Ben's friend, she is Reed's woman, she is Johnny's
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  sister. She is the thing that ties them
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  all together. So yes, I'd say she is the most
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  important person in the Fantastic Four.
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  But moving on, Sue Storm, also known as the Invisible Girl
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  slash woman, first appeared in comic book series Fantastic
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  Four. Her first appearance was in
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  Fantastic Four Number One. Like every other member of the
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  Fantastic Four. In the 1967 animated series
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  Fantastic Four, she was depicted as the Invisible Girl, not the
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  Invisible Woman. So born Susan Storm, Sue had a
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  happy early childhood with her younger brother Johnny, until
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  tragedy struck. Their mother, Mary, died in a
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  car crash. Their father, Doctor Franklin
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  Storm, a respected surgeon, survived but spiralled into
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  grief. He gave up his career, fell into
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  drinking and gambling, and eventually ended up in prison
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  after accidentally killing a loan shark in a desperate
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  moment. After that, Sue took on a
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  protective role for Johnny. The two went to live with their
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  kind hearted aunt, who ran a boarding house.
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  While there, a teenage Sue developed a crush on one of her
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  aunt's borders, a young genius named Reed Richards, a college
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  student at the time. Years later, they reconnected in
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  California, where Sue was chasing an acting career and
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  Reed was deep in his Space Research.
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  When funding for Reed's Space Flight project was suddenly cut,
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  he rushed to launch a test mission before it was shut down
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  for good. He convinced his buddy and pilot
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  Ben Grimm to fly the ship, and Sue and Johnny insisted on
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  coming along, determined to face the danger together.
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  During the flight, the ship was hit by a cosmic rays that
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  changed them at all at a genetic level.
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  After crash landing back on Earth, they discovered their new
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  powers, Sue's being the ability to turn invisible.
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  She originally took the name Invisible Girl and helped form
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  the Fantastic Four, dedicating their abilities to hero work in
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  scientific discovery. Later, after our run in with the
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  villain Psycho Man, Sue evolved both in power and confidence,
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  officially changing her code name to The Invisible Woman.
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  Sue Richards had the power to make herself completely or
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  partially invisible whenever she wants.
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  She can even extend that invisibility to others or
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  objects, covering up to 40,000 cubic feet.
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  Basically, she bends light around whatever she's targeting,
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  and she does it so smoothly that there's no weird visual
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  distortion, distortion, or any kind of giveaway.
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  Interestingly, Sue's eyes are wired a bit differently than
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  most. She can see things that are
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  invisible to others because her vision also picks up cosmic rays
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  which are floating around the atmosphere.
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  It's not full color vision when she's in that mode, but she can
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  still make out invisible shapes and people.
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  Even when she's invisible herself, she can still see just
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  fine, though it might be more of a grayscale.
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  She can also cancel out other people's invisibility if it
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  wasn't created by her, and she has the option to make something
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  only partially invisible, like revealing the insides of a
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  machine and or even someone's organs for medical reasons.
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  Her first impressive ability though is her control over
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  invisible force fields. These things are insanely tough,
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  basically indestructible, and she can use them in all sorts of
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  ways. She can surround herself or
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  others with them for protection and expand them inside objects
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  to make them explode, or even use them inside someone's body
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  to knock them out or do more serious damage.
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  She can fine tune how solid or soft they are, making them rigid
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  or for defense or cushioning for impact, and she can juggle
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  multiple force fields at once. She can also shape her force
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  fields into just about anything, from tiny marbles to massive
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  constructs over 100 feet wide. She's created Dome shaped fields
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  that stretch for miles, and even built a structure strong enough
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  to hold something the size of the Empire State Building.
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  She's pulled off things like shielding the entire buildings,
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  scaffolding, foundations, and all kinds of large scale
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  defenses. Beyond that, Sue's powers give
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  her some bonus features like blocking telepathic attacks,
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  tracking people or objects using sort of invisible radar pulse,
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  and sensing or redirecting mental energy in her area.
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  Most light just passes through her Shields like normal, which
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  means she's still vulnerable to light base attacks, but she can
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  shape a force field to trap light and use it like a
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  flashlight or even block UV rays to avoid getting sunburned.
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  Like I said, she is the strongest one in the Fantastic
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  Four. For a while she swapped powers
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  with her brother Johnny and could control fire like he does,
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  showing she's pretty adaptable. Outside of her powers, Sue has
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  some experience in acting and teaching and is a solid hand to
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  hand fighter and swimmer and speaks both English and
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  Latverian. Like the rest of the Fantastic
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  Four, she wears a costume made of up of unstable molecules
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  which adapts to her body and powers on the fly.
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  As one of the original members of the Fantastic Four, Sue plays
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  a major role in the team to protect Earth and sometimes the
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  entire universe from super villains and cosmic threats.
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  On top of her superhuman duties, she also handles a lot of the
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  business sides of things. Through their company, Fantastic
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  Four, Inc Sue helps manage the team's finances and overseas
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  branding, licensing, merchandise and media projects as the
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  Creative Chief Officer of their Enterprises division.
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  Outside of work and saving the world, Sue is married to her
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  teammate Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic, and is Johnny Storm's
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  older sister the Human Torch, and is a long time friend and
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  teammate to Ben Grimm, The Thing.
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  Sue's also part of other groups over the years including the
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  Friends of Miss America, the Secret Avengers, The Initiative,
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  and even The Avengers for a while.
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  She was also captain of her high school's girls varsity swim
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  team, and even stepping back from The Avengers, she stayed
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  close to members like the Wasp and She Hulk, who spent a
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  significant amount of time on the Fantastic Four when Ben took
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  a break from the team. Like the rest of the Fantastic
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  Four, Sue has been involved in several massive superhero team
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  UPS, including the original Contest of Champions.
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  In that event, she was grouped with Iron Fist and some fire to
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  face off against Daredevil Dark Star Australia's own hero
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  Talisman as part of a cosmic game between powerful beings.
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  So that's a brief background on Sue Storm.
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  She has such a rich background. Once we get closer to the
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  Fantastic Four first UPS, I'll make a full breakdown of her
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  background. It's just, it's just such a,
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  it's so much. It's so it'll be a huge episode
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  and I don't have it in me this week.
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  If you can't tell by my voice, I am sick because that's life.
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  So in short, and to say it again, Sue Storm is the backbone
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  of Fantastic Four strongest member.
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  No offense to Ben, Johnny and Reed, but she's what brings them
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  together. She is the life force behind
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  them and they all have a different kind of connection
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  with her that that's irreplaceable.
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  I guess you could replace Reed's.
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  It's just his wife, but whatever.
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  I'm not a big fan of Reed, but I'll get to that on a later
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  date. So I have comics like usual that
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  you could check out to get to know Sue Storm a little better.
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  If you have any comics that I did not name, please let me know
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  in the comments because I'd like to check them out.
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  Starting off Fantastic Four 381 through four O 7, this is when
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  you see her as the team leader when dealing with Reed's death.
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  Mark Wade's Invisible Woman run Fantastic Four number 266 shield
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  #4 Both the Jonathan Hickman and Ryan N runs on Fantastic Four do
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  a lot to flesh out every character, Sue included.
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  They're both just incredible comics to check out in general.
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  So anything Jonathan Hickman and Ryan N, you're on the right
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  page. So great.
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  So be sure to like and subscribe.
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  And with that being said, have a marvelous day.