Marvel announces one of the Fantastic 4 will die.

[Flarecobra]

http://omg.yahoo.com/videos/comics-fantastic-four-will-be-no-more/12931?nc

Well, this could be quite interesting... will it have similor effects to the death of Captain America, or the first time that Superman was killed?

To be honest, I'm not too sure, I don't follow superheroes as much as some of the others here, who I bet has a better grasp as to what this could mean.

[Fifthfiend]

One of the Fantastic Four dies every few years. I guess it was Johnny's turn?

[Jagos]

How old these mutants are I welcome this. FFS, they need to have new series! How about four other characters other than the original?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Don't all superheroes die at some point? And then come back a few years later because the writers are all hacks who can't live without X superhero? And then a few years later they kill them again because SHOCK the first time wasn't dramatic enough? And then they bring them back again because they're all stuck in an endless cycle and it's the only way they can keep selling comics?

[phil_]

Fantastic Four,

minus one,

what's the point?

[Fifthfiend]

Fantastic Four,

minus one,

what's the point?

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/368/1295989449748.jpg

[POS Industries]

One of the Fantastic Four dies every few years. I guess it was Johnny's turn?
What's hilarious is that, before I even clicked on the thread, I knew it was going to be him.

[Bells]

I really feel that it looses all point the second they announce it, like it was an event... it takes all punch out of the thing... the point now being not who will die, but how and why... and how and why are usually so stupid and lame that it never, ever, holds water properly... thus, it gets reversed back in a few months.

[Jagos]

I really feel that it looses all point the second they announce it, like it was an event... it takes all punch out of the thing... the point now being not who will die, but how and why... and how and why are usually so stupid and lame that it never, ever, holds water properly... thus, it gets reversed back in a few months.

Maybe they think this is a Roman tragedy or something. The buildup and suspense of the event will cap anything else they've ever done.

...

HAHAHAHA!!! I couldn't say that with a straight face!

[Dracorion]

But guys...

What happens if they want to ride a roller coaster?! (http://www.the-gutters.com/comic/52-alan-patrick)

[EVILNess]

I wonder if Reed will rip space-time to meet God and reverse the death again.

[Fifthfiend]

Nah in this story we're gonna pretend that story didn't happen so we can pretend this death is meaningful.

[Seil]

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/4/1/3/36413.jpg?v=1

Oh yeah, the Torch died too. (http://marvel.wikia.com/Captain_America_Vol_5_48)

[Fifthfiend]

I'd say I was (http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2011/01/again-but-that-trick-never-works.html) posting this because of the fantastic four's many and varied departures from mortality but really I'm just posting it to say how much I always loved Sue's Shitty Nineties Comics costume.

With a boob-window 4 and everything!

[Marc v4.0]

Reed seriously needs to die to keep the world safe from him.

Seriously, like 90% of every What If? story that ends in the world being destroyed is because Reed's super fucking Ego gets bruised and he throws a bitch fit and fucks everything up.

Or he attempts to commit genocide on some other race of people or some stupid bullshit like that.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

My Impression of Writer's Attitudes Towards Death in the Superhero Genre

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc230/Shyria_Dracnoir/RESPAWN__LOL__by_martegodpopo.jpg

[Aerozord]

I liked how Gurren Lagann put it, I am bad at quotes but it was along the lines of
"yes we could bring them back, but then their sacrifice, the pain and agony we went through, all of that, would become meaningless"

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Hasn't this happened enough times to basically turn into the punch line to a joke?

Marvel's just doing it for kicks now.

[Jagos]

-snip-

There is a Deadpool for everything isn't there?

[krogothwolf]

Will Luke Cage or She-Hulk replace the member?

Will the New Fantastic Four save the day?

Could the children of Sue and Reed take the reigns of the team and lead it to a glorious future?

Tune in next month, same fantastic thread, same fantastic, same fantastic comic.

[Fifthfiend]

Reed seriously needs to die to keep the world safe from him.

Seriously, like 90% of every What If? story that ends in the world being destroyed is because Reed's super fucking Ego gets bruised and he throws a bitch fit and fucks everything up.

Or he attempts to commit genocide on some other race of people or some stupid bullshit like that.

It wouldn't help because basically every single possible Marvel Universe future is a horrifying dystopia ruled by EITHER whichever given hero's arch-nemesis OR whichever given hero's evil future self.

Get rid of Reed and you just end up with a world ruled by the Mandarin, or Apocalypse, or Evil Hulk, or Evil Tony Stark, or Evil Tony Stark and the Mandarin but really the Mandarin brainwashed Tony into being evil.

Hell this is all assuming that killing Reed isn't what causes the future where we're all the brainwashed slaves of Doctor Doom. WHICH IT IS.

[Amake]

Every time I hear from Marvel comics, it makes me want to not read them more. I'm already not reading any of them, but now I wish there was some way to make them twice as not read.

Fascinating, my desire to not read this comic is too great to be expressed with proper grammar. I guess at some point of ultimate disinterest language just breaks down.

[Fifthfiend]

In fairness the story in which Johnny dies is actually pretty decent. I mean it's still Another Trivial Comics Death but the story doesn't treat it as anything more than that, like you don't even actually see Johnny die on-screen, they won't even have to resort to any particularly exotic bullshit to bring him back.

The whole thing is like, one plot beat in a pretty decently told story with a decent amount of fairly interesting Fantastic Foursy shit going on (Sue Storm becomes queen of a race of prehistoric mutant Atlanteans, Reed leads an enraged Galactus to a counter-Earth populated by timeline refugees that killed his future self, Ben Grimm feels bad about being a rock-person).

For whatever reason the Marvel marketing team decided to seize on this particular plot point and make An Event out of it but in this case I'm not gonna say that's the fault of the actual comic or the story it's telling.

[Magus]

They only need three members anyway, haven't they seen Batman Beyond (http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Terrific_Trio)?

[Aerozord]

It wouldn't help because basically every single possible Marvel Universe future is a horrifying dystopia ruled by EITHER whichever given hero's arch-nemesis OR whichever given hero's evil future self.

Get rid of Reed and you just end up with a world ruled by the Mandarin, or Apocalypse, or Evil Hulk, or Evil Tony Stark, or Evil Tony Stark and the Mandarin but really the Mandarin brainwashed Tony into being evil.

Hell this is all assuming that killing Reed isn't what causes the future where we're all the brainwashed slaves of Doctor Doom. WHICH IT IS.

I prefer the "all eaten by zombies" one personally. Get alot more closure when its universal genocide

PS and yes Reed is one of the main reasons this happens