I read Marvel Zombies before I started watching Fantastic Four, so my first impression of Mr.Fantastic, was 'that jerk who zombified the helicarrier', but now, I totally get it.
Richard Reeds seriously can't help being a jerk sometimes, I probably wouldn't want to be trapped on a boat with him, but I totally get how he doesn't seem to get that he's a jerk, and it might be unintentional. He's a nerd. Back when he told Sue, that "wives should be kissed and not listened to", or something along that, I think he was trying to quote some romance novel and it came out horribly wrong.
He probably has a lot of problem with emotional connections, Sue might be one of the only people he has ever slept with, consistently at least, and he loves her very much, he defended her at the end of Civil War. Reeds doesn't know how to deal with emotional connections, he might be surprise at how nice it feels with Sue, and he won't be able to deal when it isn't nice.
Like, in Marvel Zombies, his children was killed by She-Hulk, that hurts, and Reeds, being Abnormal, COULD NOT deal with it. He handled the lost the only way his insanity could, save the rest of his family from being killed by zombies, by making them into zombies first.
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I had no idea you felt that way about Reed!
Date: 2008-11-21 10:32 pm (UTC)I read Marvel Zombies before I started watching Fantastic Four, so my first impression of Mr.Fantastic, was 'that jerk who zombified the helicarrier', but now, I totally get it.
Richard Reeds seriously can't help being a jerk sometimes, I probably wouldn't want to be trapped on a boat with him, but I totally get how he doesn't seem to get that he's a jerk, and it might be unintentional. He's a nerd. Back when he told Sue, that "wives should be kissed and not listened to", or something along that, I think he was trying to quote some romance novel and it came out horribly wrong.
He probably has a lot of problem with emotional connections, Sue might be one of the only people he has ever slept with, consistently at least, and he loves her very much, he defended her at the end of Civil War. Reeds doesn't know how to deal with emotional connections, he might be surprise at how nice it feels with Sue, and he won't be able to deal when it isn't nice.
Like, in Marvel Zombies, his children was killed by She-Hulk, that hurts, and Reeds, being Abnormal, COULD NOT deal with it. He handled the lost the only way his insanity could, save the rest of his family from being killed by zombies, by making them into zombies first.