| Maker | |
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:The_Maker_(Reed_Richards_-1610).png) The Maker as seen on a panel of Ultimate Comics Ultimates #8 (March 2012). Art by Esad Ribić. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 (Feb. 2004; as Reed Richards) Ultimate Fallout #4 (Aug. 2011; as Maker) |
| Created by | Brian Michael Bendis Mark Millar Adam Kubert (based upon the original character by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Reed Nathaniel Richards |
| Species | Human Mutate |
| Team affiliations | W.H.I.S.P.E.R. Fantastic Four (Ultimate Marvel version) Children of Tomorrow Dark Ultimates |
| Notable aliases | Mister Fantastic |
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The Maker (previously Mister Fantastic, also known as Ultimate Reed Richards) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writers Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar and artist Adam Kubert, while his Maker identity was created by Jonathan Hickman.
He is Ultimate Marvel's version of Mister Fantastic, initially presented as a heroic, morally altruistic and scientifically driven superhero and a younger, modernized alternate version of Reed Richards, who later turns into the villainous Maker, after enduring a series of tragedies and immense mental trauma; he eventually becomes part of the regular Marvel Universe, serving as an enemy and evil foil to his parallel universe counterpart, the New Avengers, and Eddie Brock/Venom, serving as an example of what his Earth-616 counterpart could have been had he used his powers and intellect for evil and malice. However, during the "Absolute Carnage" and "King in Black" storylines, the Maker revealed he had been coordinating with the Council of Reeds (a group of other alternate counterparts of Mister Fantastic) and had utilized the many Symbiote Codexes he had extracted from the various heroes and villains who had been previous hosts as a means to repeat his long-standing goal: restoring his native dimension (not knowing that it has already been restored as revealed during the events of Spider-Men II storyline), which he sets out to enact in the 2023 miniseries Ultimate Invasion, resulting in the creation of the new Ultimate Universe after altering the timeline of another universe.
The 2015 film Fantastic Four adapts the origin story of Ultimate Fantastic Four to its version of Reed Richards, primarily portrayed by Miles Teller.[1]