Hyperstorm
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Fantastic Four #406 (November 1995) |
| Created by | Tom DeFalco Paul Ryan Dan Bulanadi |
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| Alter ego | Jonathan Reed Richards |
| Team affiliations | Zarrko the Tomorrow Man |
| Abilities | Dynamokinesis Matter and energy manipulation Telekinesis Telepathy |
Hyperstorm is a fictional supervillain from the Marvel comics universe. Also known as Jonathan Reed Richards, Hyperstorm is both the future descendant and enemy of the Fantastic Four.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
The Fantastic Four first encountered him when Reed Richards and Doctor Doom were ripped out of the timestream by Hyperstorm and ended up in his future, after which he sent Reed thousands of years into the past and kept the crippled Doom as his tortured prisoner. The rest of the Fantastic Four managed to track down Reed and then together travel back into Hyperstorm's timeline to confront him. His real name and parentage was revealed in Fantastic Four #414 by Nathaniel Richards, who had through extensive time travelling learned that Hyperstorm was born as the son of Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers with his sister Dream Summers who had telepathy/empathy, in an alternate version of the Days of Future Past timeline. The point of divergence between his particular timeline and the original DoFP timeline must be assumed to be Franklin Richards surviving the attack by Sentinels instead of perishing, as seen in Uncanny X-Men #141. Once grown up, Hyperstorm used his vast powers to destroy all opposition in his timeline and gradually became corrupted by such unparalleled powers and became a heartless tyrant set on nothing less than complete universal domination and blind obedience to his will. In time he had conquered great portions of the known universe, and purposed to extend his dominion to other timelines as well.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Hyperstorm possesses immeasurable psionic power which he draws from hyperspace, the source of the primordial energies which form the fundamental forces of the Marvel Universe. Hyperstorm displayed telepathic, telekinetic, and energy and matter manipulation abilities both as Hyperstorm (Fantastic Four Unlimited #12) and as his otherworld counterpart David Richards. For the latter, his powers are described as an amalgam of the powers of Professor X, Magneto and The Phoenix Force. Hyperstorm displayed the ability to teleport through hyperspace from one point in the universe to another with no known limitations. He was able to counter the Invisible Woman's forcefield with one of his own making in one display of his mastery over hyperspatial energies. He is also an extraordinary genius, possessing an intellect on par with Reed Richards', evidenced by his ability to create devices such as a time machine, a brain disarrator which he employed on Doctor Doom to disrupt any chance of him forming coherent thoughts, and his nigh unstoppable mechanical constructs known as the Destructoids. He was able to outwit Reed Richards, Nathaniel Richards, and Doctor Doom for an extended period. Reed Richards eventually bested Hyperstorm, however, by manipulating him into making an appearance before a starving Galactus. Galactus began to feed on Hyperstorm's energies, and Hyperstorm appeared powerless to interrupt the process. It is known that Galactus has since returned to his normal habits and dimension, however Hyperstorm's current whereabouts in his own future and in the 616 timeline remain to be seen. Hyperstorm is likely an Omega-Level Mutant, since both his parents Franklin Richards, Rachel Summers, his granduncles X-Man and Vulcan, as well as his grandmother Jean Grey, were Omega-Level mutants. Hyperstorm's power level is generally compared to that of cosmic entities rather than that of other Omega-Level mutants.
[edit] Other versions
The reality-hopping team known as the Exiles encountered a younger alternate timeline analogue of Hyperstorm called 'David Richards' instead of Jonathan, though it seems that they are otherwise genetically identical and has the same powers. In yet another variation of DoFP, Franklin and Rachel instead had a daughter, Dream Summers. In Fantastic Five #4, the Fantastic Four of the MC2 universe battled Hyperstorm (or possibly another similar counterpart to the one who showed up in the 616 continuity) a confrontation which ended with Psi-lord (Franklin Richards) stalemating Hyperstorm in power and, after a very even fight, putting his would-be son into a coma while only barely surviving himself. This battle seems highly dubious since Hyperstorm, for all his apparent scientific genius, had obviously not understood that such a fight could create a possible grandfather paradox which might threaten his own existence, considering that Hyperstorm hadn't even been born at the juncture of the fight. However, this Hyperstorm might have originated on a different Earth than the one on which MC2 takes place, in which case the possibility of creating a paradox would not come into play. An alternate explanation is that in the Marvel Universe, altering the events of the past leads to the creation of a separate timeline in which those events were not altered.
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