I love getting stoned and watching these....pausing to reread each panel, and feeling like a lil kid again being so enamoured with great stories and a lil insight with the back story that Rob provides! thank you for these. I cannot tell u how much I appreciate u breaking down the story and giving us total insight to the intricacies of the story's by master story tellers! You sir are someone I'd would like to thank very very much for sharing your knowledge with us! 1 question I have is do u have an Instagram? if u don't u should look into making one and u could maybe do a facts series of posts or just kickass comic art u find especially appealing!
How Franklin got his powers is fairly simple, The FF got their powers from "cosmic" radiation/power the same stuff that Galactus and his heralds use. It manifests some trait(s) of its wielder as a power (ie. Reeds flexible mind = elasticity, Bens rough attitude = Stone body, Sues protective nature and willingness to let credit go to others = shields and invisibility, Nolan Rads pure devotion to his purpose = a solid unblemished form.) Franklin was a unborn child/infant when he was exposed and as parents have told their children thru the ages "you can be anything when you grow up" hence the ability to do anything.
+madPaulX While yes the FF exemplify the for elements, I am speeking of ALL cosmic powered character. The elements have long been associated with varrious personality traits and the iconic Four element setup is a common theme. In the case of the FF they have powers linked to the elements their personality most closely matches, but not all heralds follow the elemental pattern, while they do follow personality patterns.
Sue is air unseen but can be felt, and Reed is water able to flow around any obstacle physical or intellectual. Sue usually allows her teams more outgoing/outstanding personalities take the limelight remaining "unseen" in the background as a sort of group conscience.
@@gamecommanderswarroom6283 nah Sue's ability's property is quite literally psionic forces, nothing to do with air, your simile is all it is... a simile and while it's perfectly fine. The guy earlier dismissed a perfectly plausible comment with a comment that was very wrong in the aspect of how their powers manifest. Because it wasn't ALL based off the 4 elements. Susan storms power has literally nothing to do with air. And Mr fantastic power is elastic, he holds a solid form and isn't formless like water and cannot become liquid in anyway. The thing and Johnny are the only ones applicable.
I would think that out of all the multiple Reed Richards in all the universes, 99.9999 percent of them would be normal dudes with no super powers who just did normal science stuff, you know?
I agree with that thought. And to further that, what are the odds that his father had the ability to travel through time? I mean, the F4 got their abilities by being in the right place at the right time, and their children got their abilities because their parents were a sort of host for that immense power and it was concentrated in their offspring. THE WHOLE DAMN FAMILY DOESN'T NEED TO BE A SUPER! DAMN!
Most of them were not super powered unless being super smart is a power? But i always thought that was something that came naturally to him. The top 3 gauntlet wielders were normal guys who had just extreme success in there fields of expertise plus you were only in the council if they thought you could help. So no high school teachers here
In an infinite multi-verse, every possibility is explored. But like Rob himself said, they didn't explore absolutely every possibility in the comic (mainly because you wouldn't ever have the space or the time to depict a literal infinite amount of sets of possibilities) but they did explore the more interesting ones, like him having different powers or different versions of himself. Showing all the Reeds that turned out dumb and had no powers would have just been a boring gesture from the writers/artists perspective of creating entertaining content and keeping it entertaining the whole time. Also, if you explored EVERY possibility, 99.999% of those wouldn't end up being a non-powered Reeds. I don't know how you got that. There'd be a bunch of them non-powered, sure, but there'd be just as many exploring all the possible variants of his powers, him having different people's powers, or variants of different people's powers, etc. There's an insane amount of possibilities, more than one can imagine, so it's easy to miss out or forget certain things like that...
LORD BUMINGTON speaking of which, were ther no reeds with cosmic cube based powers, and wouldn't a reed with such powers have been able to ricky toll the mad calestials? and.... where's the counsol of evil reeds?
ntdonat Evil Reeds don't work together, they either destroy each other or one rises to dominate the rest, so no counsol, just Evil Reed and his minions.
there has to be at least a few reeds who decides to band toghether because the fact that all the infinite possible reeds have to exist in a multiverse demands it.
This story HAS to be the next Endgame level event. just seeing the panel with Future Franklin showing up when all hope seemed lost, with that piano Johnny Cash melody in the background, it gave me goosebumps man, the same kind as when i heard "on your left" during the climax of Endgame.. Make Galactus the antagonist in one of the F4 movies, hell maybe even an 'Age of Ultron' style middle Avengers movie, but by god make this the final battle, not him. Can you imagine the roar in the theater as our heroes lay dead or dying, all hope is lost, when suddenly a portal opens and you just hear, booming across the battlefield: "TO ME, MY GALACTUS", and then a can of whoop-ass the likes of which has never been seen is unleashed. god i got goosebumps again just imagining it...
Wait a minute. Isn't there a dungeon where a bunch of alternate versions of the same idiot are being kept? And they only have salvation when they meet the One, True -Morty- Doom?
Retcons kind are needed for a few things. As a lot of the times. There are issues when it comes to some stories. Where they end up contradicting each other. So either one completely trumps the other or they are both discarded and seen as just nonsense stories.
@@elguapo221 Not really ruins. A lot of times it fixes them and makes them better. One being Jason Todd. He was, in fact, retconned. As his story was nearly a carbon copy of Dick Grayson. Though some writer fixed that and he kind of became the second worse Robin but at least a Robin that hurt Batman the most.
Dude this video would be like a year of labor for someone like me, and yet it's content you regularly put out. Ur channel is awesssoooommmmeee. Love it so much. Just subbed!
Are you a musician? like is the music on your channel yours? If so where can I buy it? If not, then you have great taste. I almost listen to them just for the music. Like your voice is dope and your commentary is good too but the music is just way better lol
When I got a small taste of this story line, I went crazy and raided amazon and ebay to get the entire story arc from start to finish. One of the most fascinating and entertaining fantastic four stories I ever read. Epic.
it's a video made for people familliar with the characters and stuff,guess there is no helping it,although most of his videos are more newbie friendly,
There's a thing that I never really understood... If there are multiple reality warpers, don't they sorta cancel each other out? I mean, you either warp reality or you don't, so if 2 reality warpers both start using their powers at the same time, what would happen?
Yeah, I know, in that particular instance it would cancel each other out. I guess I meant to say, who's reality warping would take affect? These powers are just so out there that it's practically impossible to come up with a plausible answer. Just saying, that one of them is stronger than the other so their powers take affect feels so cheap.
well generally the power levels of said reality warpers would decide that,for example reality warping of the scarlet witch would be wiped by that of franklin richards or mathew malloy.
+eclipter I assume on who is more experienced and more powerful with said powers. If they were equal they would create a paradox and most likely get destroyed by a higher being for causing such mayhem. Reality warpers go through power. Like the comment above me said, scarlet witches reality warping power are dwarfed by Franklin Richards power.
If im not mistaken that was Hurt(Piano cover) Really nice background music to go with the low sultry voice lol. Great story. I've listened to tons of your videos! Keep it up.
I have a shorter version on how Franklin made Galactus his herald. Hickman threw Galactus under the bus in favor of Franklin. Making him lose a fight that he was fully capable of winning so Franklin would be more relevant at the end.
In other words, Franklin is the editors.. They can always use him to keep everything intact, in case they go to far with a story line they can undo the wrong without having to explain everything? Am I right
Well yes but they have multiple characters with excessive power but this one Is all they need never heard of this character he's basically a god then He goes across time recruiting his other selves together that's like a infinite loop till one of them becomes evil and try to kill off the others not to far from what Marvel would try to attempt to kill himself because of to much power plus the simple fact that at this point no would believe he can be killed but it's highly doubted that they would kill off a character this powerful that's were the most confusion comes it's seems that in marvel the most powerful being are suppose to be omnipresent omnipotent and omniscient wouldn't they know of Franklin and maybe try to do something whether good or bad well marvel has a lot of good stories but there are things that would be considered inconsistencies leaving more questions than answers but they like to leaves holes to keep readers interested in the characters so to speak the mystery when personally a lot of people from what I hear really don't like this idea but some put up with it anyway guess if you like marvel that much then so be this idea in general is used in multiple stories outside of marvel as itch so to speak becomes a scratch like hitting a nerve but not breaking it almost like a revenge of interest
The one above all is supposedly above every marvel character and is more look as the editors as well but he is rarely used in stories save for that spider man story and a few others, Franklin is the idea or scenario of what would happen if a person was given absolute power would it corrupt them and how they are being raised would effect them
They Live I wish they did not use him as that and explained the true order from most powerful god like beings to lesser god like beings, and had them fight something so they could not save the day. Right now they are pilled in one group "editors".
He couldn't, not even with young Franklin's conserved power (which future Franklin told him to conserve and save), they simply overpowered him. Sure his abilities are pretty op, but he does seem to have limits. Like when he re- created the marvel universe, he had MM powering him making it possible to create universes on an actual scale. Plus, the celestials were like the gods that created the Marvel multi-verse.
How the heck is someone who is basically just the son of two people who were given powers by cosmic radiation, so damn powerful? Of all the things in the marvel universe that grant power, this one seems so minor in comparison to the power he actually has.
It always bothered me that Superman was simply another alien but has super charged cells that some how make him uber powerful. He's just an alien, yet he can keep up with Shazam, who literally has the power of the Gods.
Ceb Bec Franklin is a mutant, and likely would have always been a mutant even if his parents hadn't been exposed to cosmic radiation that granted them powers. My standing theory is that, because his parents were empowered, his mutation was amplified to the levels displayed.
Ben Kenobi If I have to give one reason about why people hate Franklin is because he doesn't have any sort of downside and/or weakness to his power (And no, him being a kid doesn't count). Compared to other superheroes like... Scarlet Witch, her mental state makes her powers a danger to everyone, and even The Sentry, has agoraphobia and the Void to deal with... but that's not saying Franklin Richards should have some sort of mental state for me to like him. I feel like the "safeness" of Franklin Richard's character just makes people question why he can't fix everything. I guess it's a Marvel thing with writers trying to come up with something so that Frank's powers doesn't work for what ever reason.
For a while i've thought your videos have been less entertaining and not anything like the videos you were making a while ago. Those were the ones that made me love your channel. But this one was a great one, i loved the length and the images used. The music was perfect and not overpowering. Keep making vids like this please!
Franklin Richards is a "weaker" and less interesting character than Galactus (one of the best villains ever). Proof? Galactus is used to show other character's powers and status, Franklin is not. He just basks in the projected light of the villains he can defeat.
Just watched this video (Christmas 2018)..... thank goodness you changed your cadence to how you speak today!!! You were very in depth and thorough but daaaaaaamn it sounds depressing! Still love it though. Keep up the great work
***** Haha, Doom is so awesome. I really hope they don't screw him up again in the new movie. I'm calling it now, the next Fantastic Four will have Kang.
Doom is cool but I liked how he had powers in the fantastic movie that's what made me like the character so much the lighting metallic powers while still being super smart then I found out that's not really his true beginning but the one I liked the most this idea was very cool it was as if he was almost invincible also the way he was defeated was very creative
I've never been a F4 fan, do they ever explain why Franklin is so powerful? Just because cosmically irradiated Reed bones irradiated Sue? I'm so sick of these super powerful children of absolute nobodies on the power scale. Its highly illogical and getting repetitive. Galactus is supposedly the last being from what existed before this universe. Franklin is a child of two sub-super human beings. While the writing may be good, this concept is ridiculous. Not to mention the inconsistencies allowed just to serve the story, I know these aren't the main Celestials but in The Eternals by Gaiman Galactus is terrified of just the sleeping Celestial, So them needing to merge to beat him is outlandish.
Usually the named Celestials are more powerful than anonymous ones. The Sleeping Celestial is known and high ranked, while the Mad Celestials here are nameless and featless. Also remember that a fully fed Galan is on par with Eternity.
I think that's gay, makes him so much of a pushover, whenever galactus is going to destroy the world instead of defeating him with clever and ingenious ways they can just say "hey franklin, control him please" or "hey franklin, delete him from existence by thinking him away"
i like comics all fine and dandy. But as soon as they make a litteral all powerful being I bail out. cause seriously..yea fun..all powerful being..now ya gtta make another all powerful being or retcon their powers so they arent all powerful..fuck it...
I think the answer to your first big question is because he's a child and not God. He may have the majority of God's powers but the wisdom and perspective bit is a little out of whack.
I despise Franklin Richards. There is NO way a mutated gene could make someone more powerful than a cosmic powered entity such as Galactus. Just silly.
spykatt Consider this: what if his mutated gene was affected by the cosmic radiation his parents received their powers from? So rather than simply a mutant he's some sort of cosmic mutant.
T3slaCoil3d you are right and also the cosmic energy was from galactus. So is like they are fam . Haha. Also if you can destroy a limiter in the DNA to auto manipulate itself like a self aware DNA strings that can modify themselves that can reach the level of subatomic particles manipulation. After that point controlling matter leads to controlling gravity forces and time. There are several levels or limits that can be broken.
Agent29416 He is... well, kind of. His powers come as a result of being, you know, son of two peoples with cosmicly altered DNA, but he is recognized as a mutant by the X-Men. Which is not saying much, because Both Spiderman and Bruce Banner have been recognized as such at some point. Spidey's mutation -mixed with his current powers- were what keep making him turn into a spider moster during that weird arc, his mutation had to be represed with a special beam that Docor Curt Connors made for him. But, then again, this was written in the late 80s and early 90s, and like almost everything from that time, is now overlooked in any story that mentions if he is or not, he is now a muto, a human that got powers from biology altering sources. Bruce's banner status as a mutant was... weird. He is mentioned to be a Mutant during the infinity gauntlet event, it was almost not explored, but in a issue of X-Men it was stated that was his -very passive- power, what allowed him to absorb the gamma radiation and forever become the hulk. But just like the case of spiderman, this was late 80s-early 90s, and, while is not questioned, its also almost never mentioned. What does this has to do with Franklin Richards status as a mutant? Nothing, he is not a mutant per se, but the X-Men recognize him as such. I kinda said that in the first line.
Agent29416 Who? I talked about 3 people in my comments. The three of them ARE humans that have been considered mutants at some point by a certain group of mutant.
I'm unimpressed until Franklin Richards uses his power to move from the fox universe into the marvel/Disney universe.
***** He in both universes like quicksilver and scarlet witch because he was made after fox got the rights to fantastic four.
Was he? I swear he appeared in comics before fox got the rights
Kieran Jenkins Franklin first appeared in 1968.
***** you know, his name actually shows up in the list of mutants that William Stryker has in X2?
Wilson Kok which is still a fox property...what is your point?
Even the most powerful being in existence wears Spider-Man pajamas.
I love getting stoned and watching these....pausing to reread each panel, and feeling like a lil kid again being so enamoured with great stories and a lil insight with the back story that Rob provides! thank you for these. I cannot tell u how much I appreciate u breaking down the story and giving us total insight to the intricacies of the story's by master story tellers! You sir are someone I'd would like to thank very very much for sharing your knowledge with us! 1 question I have is do u have an Instagram? if u don't u should look into making one and u could maybe do a facts series of posts or just kickass comic art u find especially appealing!
I know this is an old comment but I do love reading comics and listening to them on here especially when I'm stoned, like right now.
Im like this too. but not high. Weed is too expensive where I am from. I drink and watch these things. hahahaha
Oil cartridges 😃
4 years later and this exactly what I still do lol
@@dreworyan5652 same mannn
I just realized The Council of Ricks in Rick and Morty is based on the Council of Reeds
Craig Noneman you are a genius
Yeah.... It is.
But wait it goes further KANG THE CONQUERER also had a council of Kangs
@@tjmatyja2220 was it a...kangcil?
@@Anthonythomas_19 lol
remember when glactus was the most powerful being in marvel now he is just middle of the road :(
+Don Killa And the middle is where he should be. He's a mid tier cosmic abstract.
+The ρнαηтσм ѕтяαηgєя yah but he so cool
Yeah, he's one of my favorite Marvel characters by far. Well, at least he gets more attention than any other abstract :)
+The ρнαηтσм ѕтяαηgєя very true
+Don Killa no because the tribunal was more powerful then galactus
How Franklin got his powers is fairly simple, The FF got their powers from "cosmic" radiation/power the same stuff that Galactus and his heralds use. It manifests some trait(s) of its wielder as a power (ie. Reeds flexible mind = elasticity, Bens rough attitude = Stone body, Sues protective nature and willingness to let credit go to others = shields and invisibility, Nolan Rads pure devotion to his purpose = a solid unblemished form.) Franklin was a unborn child/infant when he was exposed and as parents have told their children thru the ages "you can be anything when you grow up" hence the ability to do anything.
+madPaulX While yes the FF exemplify the for elements, I am speeking of ALL cosmic powered character. The elements have long been associated with varrious personality traits and the iconic Four element setup is a common theme. In the case of the FF they have powers linked to the elements their personality most closely matches, but not all heralds follow the elemental pattern, while they do follow personality patterns.
In what way do Sue and Reed relate to the four elements?
Sue is air unseen but can be felt, and Reed is water able to flow around any obstacle physical or intellectual. Sue usually allows her teams more outgoing/outstanding personalities take the limelight remaining "unseen" in the background as a sort of group conscience.
@@gamecommanderswarroom6283 nah Sue's ability's property is quite literally psionic forces, nothing to do with air, your simile is all it is... a simile and while it's perfectly fine. The guy earlier dismissed a perfectly plausible comment with a comment that was very wrong in the aspect of how their powers manifest. Because it wasn't ALL based off the 4 elements. Susan storms power has literally nothing to do with air. And Mr fantastic power is elastic, he holds a solid form and isn't formless like water and cannot become liquid in anyway. The thing and Johnny are the only ones applicable.
Nolan Rad, Norrin Radd’s lesser know brother. The Golden Surfer.
I would think that out of all the multiple Reed Richards in all the universes, 99.9999 percent of them would be normal dudes with no super powers who just did normal science stuff, you know?
I agree with that thought. And to further that, what are the odds that his father had the ability to travel through time? I mean, the F4 got their abilities by being in the right place at the right time, and their children got their abilities because their parents were a sort of host for that immense power and it was concentrated in their offspring. THE WHOLE DAMN FAMILY DOESN'T NEED TO BE A SUPER! DAMN!
Most of them were not super powered unless being super smart is a power? But i always thought that was something that came naturally to him. The top 3 gauntlet wielders were normal guys who had just extreme success in there fields of expertise plus you were only in the council if they thought you could help. So no high school teachers here
In an infinite multi-verse, every possibility is explored. But like Rob himself said, they didn't explore absolutely every possibility in the comic (mainly because you wouldn't ever have the space or the time to depict a literal infinite amount of sets of possibilities) but they did explore the more interesting ones, like him having different powers or different versions of himself. Showing all the Reeds that turned out dumb and had no powers would have just been a boring gesture from the writers/artists perspective of creating entertaining content and keeping it entertaining the whole time. Also, if you explored EVERY possibility, 99.999% of those wouldn't end up being a non-powered Reeds. I don't know how you got that. There'd be a bunch of them non-powered, sure, but there'd be just as many exploring all the possible variants of his powers, him having different people's powers, or variants of different people's powers, etc. There's an insane amount of possibilities, more than one can imagine, so it's easy to miss out or forget certain things like that...
This really is a beautiful story of multiversal proportions. Everyone deserves to have a parent or sibling that guides them and helps them.
I love stories like this.
LORD BUMINGTON speaking of which, were ther no reeds with cosmic cube based powers, and wouldn't a reed with such powers have been able to ricky toll the mad calestials?
and.... where's the counsol of evil reeds?
ntdonat Evil Reeds don't work together, they either destroy each other or one rises to dominate the rest, so no counsol, just Evil Reed and his minions.
there has to be at least a few reeds who decides to band toghether because the fact that all the infinite possible reeds have to exist in a multiverse demands it.
But again, eventually one or more would turn on the others, and they would either kill each other or one would dominate the others. So, no Council.
Anyone wanna fight me like how they fight in the comics? I want to live amoment from a comic book anyone down to do that with me?
This story HAS to be the next Endgame level event. just seeing the panel with Future Franklin showing up when all hope seemed lost, with that piano Johnny Cash melody in the background, it gave me goosebumps man, the same kind as when i heard "on your left" during the climax of Endgame..
Make Galactus the antagonist in one of the F4 movies, hell maybe even an 'Age of Ultron' style middle Avengers movie, but by god make this the final battle, not him. Can you imagine the roar in the theater as our heroes lay dead or dying, all hope is lost, when suddenly a portal opens and you just hear, booming across the battlefield: "TO ME, MY GALACTUS", and then a can of whoop-ass the likes of which has never been seen is unleashed. god i got goosebumps again just imagining it...
would give me goosebumps if i see this story in the mcu
The council of Ricks.
Wait a minute. Isn't there a dungeon where a bunch of alternate versions of the same idiot are being kept? And they only have salvation when they meet the One, True -Morty- Doom?
+Just Some Guy with a Mustache season 3 is connected to pocket morts
+Blue Army lol
+Blue Army gwub alub a dub dub
+Blue Army I wanna see a council of chimichangas...
* Boomstick voice from death battle * HOLY SHIT
lol
Thank you for this channel, I just found it and i love it! I told all my friends and shared it on facebook
I have NEVER ONCE heard of Frankin Richards and I have been keeping up with this shit for a loooong time now. Is he really THAT well known?
yes, yes it is.
it?
I barely pay attention to the Fantastic Four and I've known about Franklin Richards for years.
Yes because he's a super mutant that even Onslaught went after because he was god like in powers
That's what I was thinking.
Love the piano instrumental of Hurt in the background
If only Franklin had the power to stop retcons.....*big sigh*
hunterlegacy777 he doesnt stop them because he has created all of them
Retcons kind are needed for a few things. As a lot of the times. There are issues when it comes to some stories. Where they end up contradicting each other. So either one completely trumps the other or they are both discarded and seen as just nonsense stories.
Aye this all seems to be a stain that ruins so many comics of the characters.
@@elguapo221 Not really ruins. A lot of times it fixes them and makes them better. One being Jason Todd. He was, in fact, retconned. As his story was nearly a carbon copy of Dick Grayson. Though some writer fixed that and he kind of became the second worse Robin but at least a Robin that hurt Batman the most.
About that...
I missed the meaty videos you used to make!! It's nice to have a 15+ minute video and I enjoyed every second.
I agree!
Gotta get that ad revenue ;)
Seeing all those dooms made me think of all those tortured mortys.
doom?
thank you for a vid longer than 6 min. i enjoyed it
without a doubt one of the best video's i've watched, been waiting for some more Franklin Richards info for a long time
While I never really like the Fantastic Four, I really love this story. I love cosmic level characters and stories. They seem so interesting to me.
This is one of the best runs I have ever read... So awesome.
This was such a great story to read. You do a good job of narrating it Rob.
Solid vid man, I have always supported your 15min explanations and insight into the complexities of these stories. Take care.
14:00 hearing Johnny cash hurt in background. Gives me the feels after Logan 😭😭
I have never heard that Nine Inch Nails song done in piano. I love it!
Excellent commentary and articulated masterfully. Great job :)
have missed these long videos! it reminds me of why i originally subscribed.
very much enjoyed it! looking forward to the next one!
Dang, that was quite the story! Now if only they would make an amazing cinematic Fantastic 4 just like the comics.
And you could have it all, my empire of dirt. And I will let you down. I will make you hurt...
I thought I was going to be the only to notice it
I heard it too lol
Justin Green Good to know I'm not crazy.
Justin Green Trailers of Future Past
Free Rick
Thank you for the story man! I enjoyed every bit of it :))
Dude this video would be like a year of labor for someone like me, and yet it's content you regularly put out. Ur channel is awesssoooommmmeee. Love it so much. Just subbed!
just noticed hurt in the background in piano cover
You always have the best music 👏
music from silent hill 3. the game, not those lameass movies.
ernie garcia I KNEW IT, i knew its Silent Hill damit
Hands down my favorite one you have ever done.
ComicsExplained that was excellent. Thank you for this!!!
Only advanced fans know who Franklin is. lol. Until he shows up in a movie or cartoon, he will stay in the background.
Stephen Archer and as long as fox owns everything mutant he isnt gonna pop up in a FF movie.
Franklin can show up in Infinity war stop thanos destroy marvel fox and bring the rights back to marvel
Nooo then no dead pool movie
Facts. Jus found out his character was created in the 60s. Jus found out he existed like a week ago lol
Are you a musician? like is the music on your channel yours? If so where can I buy it? If not, then you have great taste. I almost listen to them just for the music. Like your voice is dope and your commentary is good too but the music is just way better lol
Thank you very much. The video was great. Big fan
Been watching this channel for years yet i keep stumbling on these cool videos ive never seen
I'm deeply confused with this story. I'm going to have watch this video a couple more times.
What happened to me was that I got distracted reading the panels in the video, and the comment section. Didn't catch much of what Rob said. Lol
sgtcojonez Everything written by Hickman is confusing lol but what didn't you understand?
sgtcojonez Franklin Richards is just another O.P. Marvel character.
Galactus and Franklin BFFS until the end of the universe? Stilllll a better love story than twilight
XChristmasManX every thing is better than twilight
Just too good...love the way u neatly tied everything up
I really like your videos and the way you explain things for non-readers!
Hey, Rob Explain's? May I get the names of the songs that you used for this vid. They sound great.
The Marvel universe is awesome.
Luv how u broke this story down , Please keep up the good work!
When I got a small taste of this story line, I went crazy and raided amazon and ebay to get the entire story arc from start to finish. One of the most fascinating and entertaining fantastic four stories I ever read. Epic.
It wasn't until 14:30 that I realized the music was Hurt by Nine Inch Nails in piano. Lol
ohhhh thats what it was, it was killing me.
necrofessor666 kasagra!
Who else was confused thru most the video? On who was who and who did what
So many R names.
it's a video made for people familliar with the characters and stuff,guess there is no helping it,although most of his videos are more newbie friendly,
This arc is confusing, Any story where Franklin Richards is involved heavily is like that, especially written by J Hickman.
Very well put together wise one!!!
Great story man. I've read the FF comics with the older Franklin Richards, but only now did I truly understand how it happened. Keep it up!
There's a thing that I never really understood... If there are multiple reality warpers, don't they sorta cancel each other out? I mean, you either warp reality or you don't, so if 2 reality warpers both start using their powers at the same time, what would happen?
well that would happen if the warping of one does the opposite thing of the other,
Yeah, I know, in that particular instance it would cancel each other out. I guess I meant to say, who's reality warping would take affect? These powers are just so out there that it's practically impossible to come up with a plausible answer. Just saying, that one of them is stronger than the other so their powers take affect feels so cheap.
well generally the power levels of said reality warpers would decide that,for example reality warping of the scarlet witch would be wiped by that of franklin richards or mathew malloy.
+eclipter I assume on who is more experienced and more powerful with said powers. If they were equal they would create a paradox and most likely get destroyed by a higher being for causing such mayhem. Reality warpers go through power. Like the comment above me said, scarlet witches reality warping power are dwarfed by Franklin Richards power.
I always thought there was a hierarchy of reality warpers. Some just have a better connection with the universe than others.
lol Counsel of Reeds...... OH SHIT I Get that Rick and Morty reference now, Counsel of RIcks
pyrolee17 it’s more like rick and morty referencing this than the other way around, this was made first
+Mavi that...... thats what his comment literally said. He now understands the rick and morty reference.....
I'm so glad you fleshed this out with your full vid series on jonathan hickmans run on fan 4
nice job as usual rob, love the background music
14:00 is that a piano version of Hurt?
also noticed that in fact stopped listening to him talk and started singing it in my head. woot Trent
mariotaz nice, I was about to ask the same thing
yeah i realized that
Yep, it took my halfway to figure out the song lol
I love Johnny Cash Version better.
Can you do origins of valeria richards?
Probably one of the best f4 stories.
Thanks for uploading.
If im not mistaken that was Hurt(Piano cover) Really nice background music to go with the low sultry voice lol. Great story. I've listened to tons of your videos! Keep it up.
This is the most complicated story line for a character... wtf. Kudos to you for all the research tho ma man.
I have a shorter version on how Franklin made Galactus his herald. Hickman threw Galactus under the bus in favor of Franklin. Making him lose a fight that he was fully capable of winning so Franklin would be more relevant at the end.
+Nickolas Lindberg Best answer I have heard yet!
The mad celestial siphoned most of galactus powers away so a nearly in powered galactus was beaten by Franklin Richards
Non powered galactus
You do realise that neither Franklin or Galactus could have won that fight by themselves?
Pre retcon beyonder hold my beer
Bro. Your voice is smooth as butter on ice baby! Love the channel
Best video put out in a while. You out done yourself rob. Great JOB! I need to see more like this. Thank you.
In other words, Franklin is the editors.. They can always use him to keep everything intact, in case they go to far with a story line they can undo the wrong without having to explain everything? Am I right
Well yes but they have multiple characters with excessive power but this one Is all they need never heard of this character he's basically a god then He goes across time recruiting his other selves together that's like a infinite loop till one of them becomes evil and try to kill off the others not to far from what Marvel would try to attempt to kill himself because of to much power plus the simple fact that at this point no would believe he can be killed but it's highly doubted that they would kill off a character this powerful that's were the most confusion comes it's seems that in marvel the most powerful being are suppose to be omnipresent omnipotent and omniscient wouldn't they know of Franklin and maybe try to do something whether good or bad well marvel has a lot of good stories but there are things that would be considered inconsistencies leaving more questions than answers but they like to leaves holes to keep readers interested in the characters so to speak the mystery when personally a lot of people from what I hear really don't like this idea but some put up with it anyway guess if you like marvel that much then so be this idea in general is used in multiple stories outside of marvel as itch so to speak becomes a scratch like hitting a nerve but not breaking it almost like a revenge of interest
The one above all is supposedly above every marvel character and is more look as the editors as well but he is rarely used in stories save for that spider man story and a few others, Franklin is the idea or scenario of what would happen if a person was given absolute power would it corrupt them and how they are being raised would effect them
They Live I wish they did not use him as that and explained the true order from most powerful god like beings to lesser god like beings, and had them fight something so they could not save the day. Right now they are pilled in one group "editors".
even for comics the idea of a mutant being more powerful than the fusion of the embodiment of the previous universe and a humanoid seems stupid
Well Franklin is a powerful mustang and then the solar flare mad we him even more powerful
Big fan Rob, love the new channel.
Great video. This is one of my favorite comic storylines of all time.
These videos always have the suavest soundtracks.
can anyone tell me the music that begins at 16:25
Hurt-nine inch nails
I'm still waiting...
Found it!!! Are we the same - Kikoru
Brilliant video, and brilliant version of Hurt aswell!
Thanks for making these videos. Comics are really expensive in my country. So it's always nice to have someone sort of my own story teller ha ha.
Why use galactus though? Frank is so powerful just destroy them himself, no?
Galactus needed to be revived anyway. he's essential to the universe and he an Franklin are BFFs later
also it's a good way to show ones power to have a powerhouse like galactus being your lap dog
+oceanwavedvd you know what else is a good way of showing off one's power? Destroying a bunch of celestials yourself
He couldn't, not even with young Franklin's conserved power (which future Franklin told him to conserve and save), they simply overpowered him. Sure his abilities are pretty op, but he does seem to have limits. Like when he re- created the marvel universe, he had MM powering him making it possible to create universes on an actual scale. Plus, the celestials were like the gods that created the Marvel multi-verse.
+OTKSoloBro oh ok. Good to know he isn't as OP as people make him seem
Around 14:10, was that a piano cover of Johnny cash's version of Nine inch nail's song hurt?
Yes
+Thomas Larkin nice
+Yee Macghyee anyone know where i can find a link to it?
+Thomas Larkin aayyy what's up Larkin bro
Yep, and now because of the new Logan Trailer I noticed it IMMEDIATELY.
Excellent video. Truly well done.
great work on the video.
How the heck is someone who is basically just the son of two people who were given powers by cosmic radiation, so damn powerful? Of all the things in the marvel universe that grant power, this one seems so minor in comparison to the power he actually has.
Ceb Bec Yet everyone turns a blind eye to Superman.
It always bothered me that Superman was simply another alien but has super charged cells that some how make him uber powerful. He's just an alien, yet he can keep up with Shazam, who literally has the power of the Gods.
FlashCamel23 Exactly it makes no sense but everyone just turns a blind eye.
Ceb Bec Franklin is a mutant, and likely would have always been a mutant even if his parents hadn't been exposed to cosmic radiation that granted them powers. My standing theory is that, because his parents were empowered, his mutation was amplified to the levels displayed.
T3slaCoil3d Exactly
Really like frank as a character idk why ppl hate him. Maybe cus he's Op
Huh, I didn't know people disliked him. I always liked him, though he's one of those characters you don't see often because he's basically a god.
Ben Kenobi If I have to give one reason about why people hate Franklin is because he doesn't have any sort of downside and/or weakness to his power (And no, him being a kid doesn't count).
Compared to other superheroes like... Scarlet Witch, her mental state makes her powers a danger to everyone, and even The Sentry, has agoraphobia and the Void to deal with... but that's not saying Franklin Richards should have some sort of mental state for me to like him. I feel like the "safeness" of Franklin Richard's character just makes people question why he can't fix everything.
I guess it's a Marvel thing with writers trying to come up with something so that Frank's powers doesn't work for what ever reason.
Kaizu823 cosindering the secret wars event, i wouldn't say he was safe. Hell, did he even survive the collapse of the marvel multiverse?
ntdonat no, I dont think so.
Those people are probably the same jerks who say they don't like Superman because he is "boring and too powerful".
Thankyou for all the information.
For a while i've thought your videos have been less entertaining and not anything like the videos you were making a while ago. Those were the ones that made me love your channel. But this one was a great one, i loved the length and the images used. The music was perfect and not overpowering. Keep making vids like this please!
Franklin Richards is blond hair and blue eyes and he is so powerful and superior to others...
Cookie Master Hail hydra
***** hail hard drive.
Cookie Master I think Steve Rodgers has already taken care of that issue.... well at least the majority of Hydra, Nazis, Red Skull, etc.
that's what they want u to think...
freddy333ful more hove already grown back.
Making Galactus a third tier character is just bad writing!
+Danos138 exactly....its awsome
Absolute Garbage!
Franklin Richards is a "weaker" and less interesting character than Galactus (one of the best villains ever). Proof? Galactus is used to show other character's powers and status, Franklin is not. He just basks in the projected light of the villains he can defeat.
Just watched this video (Christmas 2018)..... thank goodness you changed your cadence to how you speak today!!! You were very in depth and thorough but daaaaaaamn it sounds depressing! Still love it though. Keep up the great work
Very cool story. Thanks for retelling it.
Great video Rob. I feel so bad for all those poor lobotomized Dooms!
Matt Hellmers Doom?
Matt Hellmers One day they will rise. One day. Can you even imagine?
The revenge factor is high...they might turn on each other too tho
***** Haha, Doom is so awesome. I really hope they don't screw him up again in the new movie. I'm calling it now, the next Fantastic Four will have Kang.
Doom is cool but I liked how he had powers in the fantastic movie that's what made me like the character so much the lighting metallic powers while still being super smart then I found out that's not really his true beginning but the one I liked the most this idea was very cool it was as if he was almost invincible also the way he was defeated was very creative
I've never been a F4 fan, do they ever explain why Franklin is so powerful? Just because cosmically irradiated Reed bones irradiated Sue? I'm so sick of these super powerful children of absolute nobodies on the power scale. Its highly illogical and getting repetitive. Galactus is supposedly the last being from what existed before this universe. Franklin is a child of two sub-super human beings. While the writing may be good, this concept is ridiculous. Not to mention the inconsistencies allowed just to serve the story, I know these aren't the main Celestials but in The Eternals by Gaiman Galactus is terrified of just the sleeping Celestial, So them needing to merge to beat him is outlandish.
+Joshua Antonucci (Alloutofbblgum) He's a mutant.
That's a cop out
+Joshua Antonucci (Alloutofbblgum) exactly
the cosmic control rod gave him the power during his birth
Usually the named Celestials are more powerful than anonymous ones. The Sleeping Celestial is known and high ranked, while the Mad Celestials here are nameless and featless. Also remember that a fully fed Galan is on par with Eternity.
Franklin only weaknesses are popsicles and his 8pm curfew.
Very good narration of the stories.
This was an awesome video I just hate the fact that they down play galactus to someone who can be controlled and manipulated
+Anthony Brown But he can be by alot of prople honestly.
I think that's gay, makes him so much of a pushover, whenever galactus is going to destroy the world instead of defeating him with clever and ingenious ways they can just say "hey franklin, control him please" or "hey franklin, delete him from existence by thinking him away"
I low-key hate Franklin Richards character for the obvious reasons.
lol
bruh dude is too OP, I hate OP ass characters, especially the reality warpers
yeah he's annoying
+Johnnie Beasley He's nothing compared to the one above all
+Dr Galactus Anybody compared to The One Above All is pretty much useless. But somebody less formidable compared to Richards is a different story
Background is JC. Hurt. Couldn't listen to what you were saying. I was rocking out to that piano. Great video. :)
Loved it! Thanks. :)
i like comics all fine and dandy.
But as soon as they make a litteral all powerful being I bail out. cause seriously..yea fun..all powerful being..now ya gtta make another all powerful being or retcon their powers so they arent all powerful..fuck it...
I think the answer to your first big question is because he's a child and not God. He may have the majority of God's powers but the wisdom and perspective bit is a little out of whack.
Chris Muenstermann
Chris Muenstermann HES BASICALLY ZENO SAMA FROM DRAGON BALL SUPER EFFECTIVELY
That was beautiful. Thank you.
Excellent video
I despise Franklin Richards.
There is NO way a mutated gene could make someone more powerful than a cosmic powered entity such as Galactus.
Just silly.
spykatt Consider this: what if his mutated gene was affected by the cosmic radiation his parents received their powers from? So rather than simply a mutant he's some sort of cosmic mutant.
T3slaCoil3d I still don't care for the chap.
I don't buy him *or* Mad Jim Jaspers
Jim is dead let him be Malloy is unexisted which i still dont understand btw and franklin is blond so its k.
+7796761
"Franklin is blond so its k" lol!
T3slaCoil3d you are right and also the cosmic energy was from galactus. So is like they are fam . Haha. Also if you can destroy a limiter in the DNA to auto manipulate itself like a self aware DNA strings that can modify themselves that can reach the level of subatomic particles manipulation. After that point controlling matter leads to controlling gravity forces and time. There are several levels or limits that can be broken.
So is he just an overpowered Scarlet Witch? (They're both mutants with the power of reality manipulation).
Orion7377 is Franklin a mutant?
Yes
Agent29416 He is... well, kind of. His powers come as a result of being, you know, son of two peoples with cosmicly altered DNA, but he is recognized as a mutant by the X-Men.
Which is not saying much, because Both Spiderman and Bruce Banner have been recognized as such at some point. Spidey's mutation -mixed with his current powers- were what keep making him turn into a spider moster during that weird arc, his mutation had to be represed with a special beam that Docor Curt Connors made for him. But, then again, this was written in the late 80s and early 90s, and like almost everything from that time, is now overlooked in any story that mentions if he is or not, he is now a muto, a human that got powers from biology altering sources.
Bruce's banner status as a mutant was... weird. He is mentioned to be a Mutant during the infinity gauntlet event, it was almost not explored, but in a issue of X-Men it was stated that was his -very passive- power, what allowed him to absorb the gamma radiation and forever become the hulk. But just like the case of spiderman, this was late 80s-early 90s, and, while is not questioned, its also almost never mentioned.
What does this has to do with Franklin Richards status as a mutant? Nothing, he is not a mutant per se, but the X-Men recognize him as such. I kinda said that in the first line.
***** how much do you want to bet he will be retoconed into being a inhuman
Agent29416 Who? I talked about 3 people in my comments. The three of them ARE humans that have been considered mutants at some point by a certain group of mutant.
Really enjoying that pogo stick/hole puncher noise in the background of the music
Yeah I can't focus with that noise lol
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