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Agatha Harkness
Agatha Harkness
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #94 (January 1970)
An old witch from the Salem Witch Trials, she became a significant figure in Marvel continuity, protecting Franklin Richards as his nanny and notably mentoring Wanda Maximoff (the Scarlet Witch) in real magic. She was eventually killed by Wanda, who went insane. She also had a familiar named Ebony, a weird cat-like creature that could sense the presence of mystical beings.
- Amazon Brigade: She's become a member of the Daughters of Liberty alongside Sharon Carter, Toni Ho, Misty Knight and Peggy Carter.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Her son Nicholas is an enemy of her and the Fantastic Four.
- Been There, Shaped History: Claims to be a survivor of the Salem Witch Trials.
- Burn the Witch!: By the people of Salem (not during the witch trials).
- Bystander Syndrome: During his journey to the Realm of Death during The Next Big Thing, Ben Grimm is granted visions of points of interest across the Marvel universe, including Agatha's home. Whereupon she gives him a cheeky wave, but otherwise doesn't assist him during his adventure.
- Cool Old Lady: Awesome old lady who's willing to help the Fantastic Four and babysit.
- Cool Teacher: First introduced as Franklin Richards' governess. She later became Wanda Maximoff's mentor.
- Creepy Good: She lives in a creepy gothic mansion in the middle of nowhere, and gives off majorly sinister vibes a lot, but she is (usually) good.
- Death Is Cheap: Has died more than once. As of 2019 she is alive again.
- Fountain of Youth: Her 2019 resurrection also comes with an age lift, going from elderly looking to "Kathyrn Hahn."
- The Gadfly: Is not necessarily above messing with heads, such as in her first appearance, where she kicks the butts of the Frightful Four while the other FF are oblivious, then pretends she never heard a thing.
- Good Witch Versus Bad Witch: She's very much a good witch. Her son Nicholas Scratch... isn't.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her outfits are usually purple and she's a very skilled witch.
- Unexplained Recovery: After her first death, she just sort of turned up again.
Alicia Masters
Alicia Masters
Alter Ego: Alicia Reiss Grimm, nee Masters
Notable Aliases: Alicia Clay
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four #8 (November 1962)
Ben Grimm's Love Interest and confidant, Alicia Masters is a blind sculptor capable of creating incredibly lifelike representations of real people by touch and memory alone. Also happens to be the Puppet-Master's daughter.
See: The Thing.
Devlor
Devlor
Notable Aliases: Devlor the Deadly
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #391 (August 1994)
See The Inhumans
Franklin Storm
Franklin Storm
Alter Ego: Dr. Franklin Storm
Notable Aliases:
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #31 (October 1964)
Franklin Storm is the father of Johnny Storm and Susan Storm-Richards.
- Dead Guy Junior: His grandson Franklin was named after him.
- Disappeared Dad: His death was a very important event in the lives of his children.
- Good Parents: Very much loved his children.
H.E.R.B.I.E.
H.E.R.B.I.E.
Alter Ego: Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-Type, Integrated Electronics
Notable Aliases: Highly Engineered Robot Built for Interdimensional Exploration
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #209 (August 1979)
Originally a replacement for the Human Torch in the 1978 Fantastic Four animated series. H.E.R.B.I.E. often provided comic relief with interactions with the Thing. He has since become an indispensable part of the Fantastic Four in the comics.
- Canon Immigrant: Originally took the place of the Human Torch in the The Fantastic Four (1978) cartoon.
- Fun with Acronyms: Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics.
- Hidden Disdain Reveal: In Incoming!, as soon as Valeria removed his inhibitor chip, H.E.R.B.I.E. betrayed the Fantastic Four and joined Machine Man's gestating robot revolution, but not before giving them a profane "The Reason You Suck" Speech on their treatment of him over the years.
- The Mole: The first incarnation of H.E.R.B.I.E. was taken over by a villain named Doctor Sun, who tried to take out the Fantastic Four within the Baxter Building. When he eventually left H.E.R.B.I.E. to take over the building's computers, it sacrificed itself to destroy them both.
- Robot Buddy: A robot and ally of the Fantastic Four.
Huntara
Huntara
Alter Ego: Tara Richards
Notable Aliases: Warrior-Princess of Elsewhen
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #377 (June 1993)
Huntara is one of the various children of Nathaniel Richards, an inventor that has traveled to several timelines and dimensions. Tara is a half-sister to Mr. Fantastic.
- Action Girl: She was trained by Warlord Kargul of Elsewhen to be a warrior. She had intensive training in hand-to-hand combat and various forms of weaponry.
- Chainmail Bikini: Has a golden Breast Plate, shoulder-pads, but her legs and midriff are bare.
- Combat Stilettos: Her boots are noticeably heeled, which make her look even taller.
- Primary-Color Champion: What little clothes she wears are mostly red and golden.
- Signature Headgear: Her red tiara-like headset.
- Sinister Scythe: Huntara has the psionic ability to generate a scythe. The scythe can damage foes mentally and can form teleportational rifts.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's listed at 6"/183cm tall. She's barely shorter than her older half-brother Reed.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Other than an off-handed mention as a potential recruit for The Initiative during Civil War, she hasn't been seen in person since the dissolution of the Fantastic Force in 1996.
Impossible Man
Impossible Man
Notable Aliases: Imp, Impy
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #11 (February 1963)
A shape-shifting alien from the planet Poppup, The being who would be dubbed "The Impossible Man" searched the cosmos for beings he could play with. This eventually leads him to Earth and an encounter with The Fantastic Four. That said, he's not really a bad guy, and in fact, later befriended the four, becoming something of an ally.
- Adaptive Ability: The Impossible Man's shape-shifting ability really boils down to this. It's a natural ability of his race, and it's explained that his planet had so many dangerous lifeforms that the Poppupians evolved to consciously adapt to pretty much anything.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: To Mister Mxyzptlk. The two have met, and after his initial excitement of meeting a fellow cosmic prankster, he later discovered that he disliked him, due to Mxy's genuinely malicious pranks as opposed to his (relatively) harmless pranks, and that Mxy lied to him.
- Amusing Alien: A very amusing alien who exists as a form of cosmic comic relief.
- Anti-Villain: He antagonized the Fantastic Four, until Mr. Fantastic figured out his pranks only continue when he receives their attention. So he has the Fantastic Four ignore him, and he shortly leaves Earth in a puff. He returns, and he later befriends the team, and becomes a one-time member.
- Appropriated Appellation: The Thing witnessing his abilities called him impossible. So the name "Impossible Man" basically took from there.
- Attention Whore: Wants lots of attention and tries to steal the spotlight so he gets it.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: He may have originally been considered a menace, but his motivations are primarily amusement. If he gets bored, he'll simply leave for another part of the universe.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: He fairly regularly interacts with creators Stan Lee, and other Marvel writers and editors around the era his stories are in.
- Character Overlap: In one issue of Superman from the 90s (the one where Clark Kent and Lois Lane got engaged, oddly enough), it was indicated that Mxy actually was the Impossible Man, spending some downtime in an alternate universe
playing with his "four Fantastic new friends" (the team even makes a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo). - Decomposite Character: Although DC used to hint that Impossible Man and Mxyzptlk were the same person, a crossover comic between Superman and the Silver Surfer had them meet eachother.
- Fish out of Water: His interactions with earth.
- Great Gazoo: Extremely wacky alien who can fix nearly any problem if he could be bothered.
- Hive Mind: The Poppupians are practically this. It's also why he doesn't have a real name: All individual Poppupians are, if you go deep enough, one in the same. So what use would he have with a name?
- Morphic Resonance: Usually the things he changes into have the same green-and-purple color scheme as his normal form.
- No Need for Names: See Hive Mind. He actually scoffed at the notion of a name when asked for one in his first appearance.Impossible Man: Name? We Poppupians have no names. We know who we are!
- Perpetually Protean: Shapeshifts very frequently for the sake of his own amusement; in some issues, he changes in almost every single frame.
- Reality Warper:
- Loosely in the 616 he's capable of using alien technology to do things like fuse the Hulk and Red Hulk together.
- In most alternate realities and adaptations he's fully capable of changing reality as easily as he changes himself.
- In one reality he's considered by Galactus to be nearly as dangerous as the Phoenix, having populated a dead Earth with bizarre copies of superheroes on a whim.
- Silver Surfer/Superman has him warping reality on Parr with Superman for, Mxyzptlk.
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens: He's a green man with a pointy head and ears. What more could you say?
- Self-Duplication: His shapeshifting ability allows him to split into copies of himself.
- Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The common explanation for some of the things he does.
- Superpower Lottery: He may seem ridiculous, but often people come to find that his shape-shifting ability is not a joke: He can change into anything from a bucket of waternote , to freaking Galactus. That said, when he transforms into an object of a superhero with unique properties (e.g. Thor's hammer Mjolnir, Captain America's shield, etc.) he can't mimic the properties that make them special.
- Teleportation: Disappears in a pop.
- Troll: Perhaps his biggest character trait, is his ability to do this to anyone.
- Truly Single Parent: Seeking companionship, he once gave 'birth' to a female Poppupian dubbed the Impossible Woman, who he took as his mate. Later he produces children (a notable one being Adolf Impossible), and even his own pet dog.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: A really powerful one. To the point that he resembles a Reality Warper, and can travel through space unaided. Oddly, the one thing he apparently can't do is change colors — all of his transformations are still some shade and combination of green and purple. This is how he lost a shapeshifting competition with the otherwise less powerful shapeshifter Warlock, who though he usually doesn't bother can change color.
The Inhumans
The Inhumans
Alter Egos: Black Bolt, Medusa, Karnak the Shatterer, Gorgon, Triton, Crystal, Lockjaw
Notable Aliases: Earthbound Inhumans
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #45 (December 1965)
See The Inhumans
Jo-Venn and N'kalla
The Chronicle (Jo-Venn) and The Requiem (N'kalla)
Jo-Venn
N'kalla
Notable Aliases: The Chronicle, The Kree Chronicle of Blood note ; Nickie, Nicki, The Requiem, The Skrull Requiem of Shapeless Souls note
First Appearances: Empyre: Fantastic Four #0 (September 2020)
A Kree boy and a Skrull girl who were imbedded with the collective history of their respective races. Purchased by the Elder of the Universe the Profiteer and made to fight each other for the entertainment of the masses, they were freed by the First Family and essentially adopted by them.
- Affectionate Nickname: After being adopted by Ben and Alicia, Jo-Venn and N'kalla are referred to as the much more Earth-friendly "Jo" and "Nicki" by their friends and family.
- Badass Adorable: When they're not fighting, they are rather cute, and even Ben can't help but think so. They still gave Johnny and Ben a run for their money.
- Child Soldiers: Trained since birth to fight and hate the other, despite seriously injuring the other on occasion, the Profiteer wouldn't let them die.
- Designer Babies: They were embedded with the collective history of their respective races, especially the Kree-Skrull war at birth.
- Fire-Forged Friends: At first they couldn't help but argue and fight despite having no reason to, but after being saved by Franklin, Valeria, Wolverine and Spider-Man, they now see each other Like Brother and Sister.
- Happily Adopted: At the end of Empyre by Ben and Alicia Grimm.
- Hate Plague: The Priests of Pama tried to use the history within them to make both Kree and Skrull armies to turn on each other. The New Fantastic Four manage to save them and turn the hatred into conciliation.
- Meaningful Name: Jo-Venn is a kid. "Joven" means "young" in Spanish.
- Put on a Bus: The first thing Ryan North does in his run is have them shoved onto a bus.
- True Companions: With Franklin, Valeria, Wolverine and Spider-Man.
- Volleying Insults: Even when they no longer have to fight, they still throw each other insults like two siblings fighting on the back of their parents' seat.
Lyja
Lyja
Notable Aliases: Alicia Masters Storm, The Lazerfist, Bridget O'Neil, Laura Green
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #265 (April 1984) note ; Fantastic Four #357 (October 1991) note
A Skrull who possesses the body armor which gives her power to shapeshift into both animal and human form. She is well-known for her marriage to Johnny Storm, the Human Torch.
- The Bus Came Back: She momentarily returned during Secret Invasion for the Fantastic Four's tie-in, then got right back on that bus.
- Capture and Replicate: She pretended to be Alicia Masters for a long time. During Secret Invasion, she did the same with Sue Storm.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Her true form is not bad looking, although with all the characteristics of a Skrull.
- Hand Blast: Lyja was artificially endowed with the ability to fire blasts of energy from her fists that she could use to cause damage as well as propel herself through the air.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can shape-shift like almost every other Skrull.
- Winged Humanoid: She can use her powers to appear wings that allow her to fly.
Namor the Sub-Mariner
Namor the Sub-Mariner
Alter Ego: Namor McKenzie
Notable Aliases: Namor the First, The Avenging Son, Imperius Rex, The Sub-Mariner
First Appearance: Marvel Comics #1 (October 1939)
See Sub-Mariner
Nathaniel Richards
Nathaniel Richards
Notable Aliases: Scarlet Centurion, Doctor Doom, The Warlord, St. Nathaniel, The Beast, Kane
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #272 (November 1984)
Time travelling father of Mister Fantastic, he often has mysterious plans and ulterior motives.
- Badass Bookworm: Yep. He even was part of a team which involved time-traveling Badass Bookworms. Where do you think Reed got it from?
- Disappeared Dad: To Reed. Not entirely by choice, though.
- Parents as People: He had a reason for what he did, he admits he wasn’t the best dad, and of course he has the typical superhero parent issues.
- He’s also been this to Reed’s half-siblings Huntara, Arthur, Joanna Jeffers and possibly Kristoff Vernard. Joanna notes Reed is in fact the only one of his children he would at least occasionally come back to.
- Founder of the Kingdom: Nathaniel found himself in an alternate Earth devastated by war, and used his scientific knowledge to rebuild it, eventually creating a new utopia.
- Hero with an F in Good: Pretty much everything he does.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Subverted with Reed, who knew who he was, but there was an arc were he was apparently to play this straight with Doctor Doom. It was later ignored note .
- Mysterious Parent: What he was to Reed.
- One-Man Industrial Revolution: He tries to do this singlehandedly and it doesn't work out.
- Poor Communication Kills: Kidnapped his grandson Franklin, sent him and raised him in the future, trained him in the usage of his powers and didn't even tell his own son/Franklin's father Reed why until he returned with Franklin as a teenager to the time just moments after he did so. He eventually revealed its so prevent the deaths of the Fantastic Four by a Conqueror from the Future who turned out to be Franklin's own Kid from the Future grown up.
- Second Love: His first wife and Reed's mother, Evelyn, died when Reed was young. In his travels through time, he ended up in a timeline where he found a new wife, Cassandra It's too bad she loved power more than him.
- Wild Card: He’s neither fully good or evil; he does what he does for his ideal of a utopia.
Roberta
Roberta
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #239 (February 1982)
The Baxter Building's robot receptionist.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Roberta is an upper torso fixed to the reception desk. Unlike most examples, she was designed that way.
- Robo Romance: Though the canonicity is iffy, she's sometimes portrayed in a relationship with the formerly-giant Silver Age robot Elektro.
- Robot Girl
- Superpowered Robot Meter Maids: Has combat skills beyond what you'd expect from a receptionist, but probably around what's required to be the Fantastic Four's receptionist.
Silver Surfer
Silver Surfer
Alter Ego: Norrin Radd
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966)
Spider-Man: Why the surfboard? I mean, don't you think it's kind of, I dunno...hokey?
Silver Surfer: It is not a surfboard. It is—There is a human phrase that covers it. "Form follows function." I need no air, no food, no water. I do not need a ship to sustain me. I need only something that will carry me where I must go.
Silver Surfer: It is not a surfboard. It is—There is a human phrase that covers it. "Form follows function." I need no air, no food, no water. I do not need a ship to sustain me. I need only something that will carry me where I must go.
— Silver Surfer: Requiem, Issue #2, written by J. Michael Straczynski
Originally Norrin Radd, a man from the planet Zenn-La. He became Galactus' herald in exchange for his sparing Zenn-La from being eaten. However, Galactus decided to seal away the Surfer's emotions after transforming him, to keep them from interfering with his mission, until Alicia reawakened them. As punishment for turning against Galactus, he was exiled to Earth.
See: Silver Surfer.
Sky
Sky
Alter Ego: Kaila
Notable Aliases:
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Vol 6 #15 (December, 2019)
Spyrican mutate gifted with feathered wings and a sonic scream, Sky was a member of the Unparalleled on the planet Spyre. She accompanied Johnny Storm when the Fantastic Four returned to Earth.
- Because Destiny Says So: According to the laws of her world, she and Johnny are now Soul-mates, which is why she follows him back to Earth. She didn't seem amused to find out Johnny have had other soul mates before.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Normally speaking to birds wouldn't be that impressive, but when Mole Man attacks using a tyrannosaurus, she and Johnny discover dinosaurs are related close enough to birds to communicate with them and convince the T-rex to stop.
- Human Aliens: Spyrans look practically identical to humans, and she was not an exception before getting her powers.
- Ignorant of His Own Ignorance: When she first saw N'kalla and Jo-Venn fighting and was told about the Kree and Skrulls, she was shocked the universe had four sentient species. Alicia can't help but think she will be in for a big shock when she finds out the Marvel Universe has Loads and Loads of Races.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: Cosmic rays also gave her a sonic scream, which is useful to stun enemies.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Besides flying she can also communicate with birds, even animals related to birds, like Earth's dinosaurs.
- Winged Humanoid: Like Angel and Icarus, Sky has wings that allow her to fly.
- You Didn't Ask: Turns out her father is fellow Unparalleled Sidearm, which the Fantastic Four didn't know until she mentioned it.
Thundra
Thundra
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #129 (December 1972)
From the alternate 23rd century of Earth-715, Thundra is the mightiest warrior from the United Sisterhood Republic, a country populated and ruled by the Femizons, a matriarchal society of Amazon-like women warriors. Thundra is the strongest person of her world.
- Abhorrent Admirer: She was this to the Thing for a time when she insisted that the two were destined to be together.
- Amazonian Beauty: She’s as beautiful as she is strong and tall.
- Chain Pain: Thundra originally carried around a length of chain as a weapon, but rarely used it. She later added spiked balls to the end of it and began to use it more.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Her signature outfit only has one sleeve on the right side.
- Fiery Redhead: A very fiery woman with red hair.
- Heel–Face Turn: A former member of the Frightful Four, but left them and became one of the heroes.
- Lady Land: Thundra hails from one; though men exist there, females are the dominant ones.
- Lightning Bruiser: Hits like a freight train and is as fast as one too.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Had this going with The Thing for a time, since he was "the strongest man on Earth" and only she was fit to defeat him.
- Parental Abandonment: Didn't happen to her, but is in effect when it comes to her daughter Lyra, since she mostly leaves her to her own devices.
- Primary-Color Champion: Her signature outfit is red and yellow, and she now fights on the side of the heroes.
- Signature Headgear: The wing-shaped tiara she's almost always seen wearing.
- Statuesque Stunner: Stands canonically at 7'2'' tall and, unlike some examples of this, she's consistently drawn to look this way.
- Wonder Woman Wannabe: On occasion, has served as Marvel's equivalent to Wonder Woman, including in 2015's Squadron Supreme when Marvel's actual Captain Ersatz of Diana was suffering a case of depowerment.
- World's Strongest Woman: In her timeline.
Uatu the Watcher
Uatu the Watcher
Notable Aliases: Watcher
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four #13 (April 1963)
Uatu is a member of the Watchers, an extraterrestrial species who in the distant past stationed themselves across space to monitor the activities of other species. Uatu is the Watcher assigned to observe Earth and its solar system. In his spare time, he also serves as the narrator of What If?.
- Alien Non-Interference Clause: He's supposed to watch, and not get involved. And he did, up until Galactus appeared.
- All-Powerful Bystander: Subverted in that Uatu, despite his constant claims otherwise, breaks his non-interference rule all the damn time. In fact, this happened so much that the other Watchers eventually put him on trial for numerous violations of their ethics code. Though ultimately they didn't do much other than making him promise to stop.
- Character Catchphrase: He will tell you he is the Watcher, and that he is sworn never to interfere.
- The Gadfly: As it turns out, Uatu is not necessarily above messing with people's heads if need be. When Black Panther once threatened to kill him (just to get into Uatu's house), Uatu complied... but only after mentioning how important T'Challa and Storm's kids would be one day.
- Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow: Uatu is the Watcher, and he is sworn never to interfere! Yeah, about that? He interferes pretty much whenever the Earth faces a major crisis. His most common method is to simply show up to observe in person, which is a clear and present warning to the Earth's heroes that something big is happening and doesn't technically break the rules, but he's not above actually getting his own hands dirty if the situation merits it.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": His showing up anywhere will cause this.
- My Brain Is Big: In his first appearance, his head was only slightly out of proportion with the rest of his body, but his design evolved until he was a tall skinny man whose head made up half his body mass.note
- Neutral in Name Only: Despite his and his own race's mandate of only observing events and never interfering, he has done so time and again in direct support of the superheroes of Earth against cosmic threats. According the comics, Uatu has broken his pact of non-interference almost 400 times.
- Plot-Triggering Death: At the beginning of Original Sin, with Nick Fury as his killer.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The reason he keeps breaking that oath, starting with the arrival of Galactus.
- Seen It All: Uatu and his race are ageless and effectively immortal. Various stories have hinted that he is billions of years old. From his position in the Moon he has observed all of Earth's history. He also observes other locations of the Universe, and can observe events in other realities. Surprising Uatu is difficult.
- Vagueness Is Coming: At the end of Empyre he seemingly comes back from the dead to warn Fury that a reckoning is coming.
- The Watcher: The Trope Namer. He lives on the Moon, watches everything in every comic, and occasionally pontificates to the readership about it. He always loudly proclaimed "Yes, it is I the Watcher, who is always watching, but must not interfere", roughly every other sentence as if people were going to forget it. Which to be fair is probably a valid concern because quite notably, in spite of this expression, he almost always ended up interfering anyway. A hilarious example of him actually not interfering comes when the Red Hulk, who punched Uatu while on his
Villain Sue trip, appears about to die. Uatu shows up and tells him "Sadly I am forbidden to intervene" and stands there so he can watch him get sucked into a black hole.- As Uatu is no doubt well aware, his mere presence is a degree of interference. Earth's heroes long ago learned that Uatu only shows up in person when something really big is about to happen, so just by allowing himself to be seen he gives them a passive warning without technically breaking the rules.
- In Original Sin #0, new Nova Sam Alexander asks Iron Man and Captain America why Uatu watches everything. After a beat, Cap admits that they have no idea. Nova later learns that Uatu is looking for a world where his father (who was the cause of the Watcher's "no-interference" policy) was right.
Vibraxas
Vibraxas
Alter Ego: N'Kano
Notable Aliases: Master of Vibration, NFL (Nappy Fro Lad)
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #391 (August 1994)
The self-titled "Master Of Vibration" & the son of a Wakandan aristocrat & Wakanda scientist.
Willie Lumpkin
Willie Lumpkin
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #11 (February 1963)
Willie Lumpkin is a fictional supporting character in the Marvel Universe, who is best known as the mailman of the Fantastic Four in their self-titled comic book.
- Canon Immigrant: First created for a syndicated comic strip Stan Lee wrote in The '50s.
- Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving: Played for Laughs when he jokingly suggests that he should join the Fantastic Four because of his special ability to wiggle his ears.
- The Grinch: At the end of one story, he admitted that he hates Christmas. On that occasion, he had been visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past- apparently he'd been looking for J. Jonah Jameson, but couldn't find his address.
- Legacy Character: In recent years, he's retired and his niece Wilhelmina "Bille" Lumpkin has taken over his mail route.
- Unfazed Everyman: Just a reminder. This is an elderly civil servant who interacts on a daily basis with aliens, mutants, and self-empowered science heroes, and almost never bats an eye.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He would often (jokingly) suggest that he join the team, because he had the power to wiggle his ears.
Wyatt Wingfoot
Wyatt Wingfoot
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #50 (May 1966)
A long-time friend of the Fantastic Four, Wyatt has saved the team on several occasions and shared many adventures with them.
- Badass Native: Wyatt is a member of the fictional Keewazi Native American tribe.
- Badass Normal: Despite having no superpowers, Wyatt was never a liability to the FF, and was frequently able to hold his own against foes far out of his weight class.
- Chick Magnet: Downplayed example; while Johnny is portrayed as the perpetual chick magnet, when he's with Wyatt, Wyatt's the one all the girls want.
- Jack of All Trades: As a member of the (fictional) Keewazi Native American tribe, Wyatt has acquired many skills such as hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, tracking, animal training, and horsemanship.
- Genre Refugee: Of more conventional, wunderkind, science heroes from the pulp era preceding the superhero Silver Age boom.
- Heroic Build: To fit his Badass Normal reputation. He was an athletics star in college.
- Mr. Fanservice: He's a muscular man who is often seen in tight fitting jeans. In Sensational She-Hulk #38, he gets a Shirtless Scene so She-Hulk's female audience has something pretty to look at.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jack Kirby based him on Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe.
- Ship Tease: With She-Hulk during Byrne's run. The two clearly had the hots for each other, and were very open and colorful in their flirtations, they never managed to take their relationship to the next level. Lampshaded in FF when the two, after years apart, try to go on a date together and spend the whole night wondering why they didn't manage to make it work beforehand — only for the answer to crash right into their laps. They decide to be Just Friends for the time being, though the attraction is still clearly there.
- Stumbled Into the Plot: How he first became a part of the FF-family. Originally just Johnny's college roommate, Wyatt tagged along with the team on a trip to the mysterious African nation of Wakanda where they first met King T'challa. Despite having no powers to speak of, Wyatt managed to hold his own against the Wakandan forces and managed to help the four escape.
- Token Minority: Wyatt was the sole non-white cast member of the Fantastic Four and The Sensational She-Hulk books.
Yancy Street Gang
Yancy Street Gang
Alter Egos: "Dictionary" Dawson, "Lugwrench" Lubowski, "Rhythm" Ruiz, Carlos Hernandez, Douglas Ray, Jack, Jason Carter, Larry "Little" Lee, Manny "Smooth" Merengues, Petey, Stan, Tommie "Two-Fisted" Boyd, Tony
First Appearance: Fantastic Four #15 (June 1963)
A street gang that Ben was part of in his youth. Portrayed as mostly harmless and maybe even with their hearts in the right place, they never the less taunt Ben relentlessly for making it out of the slums and making good with his life, albeit turning into a weird-looking rock creature in the process.
- Badass Bystander: They once intervened in a fight with the Hulk when he attacked the FF.
- The Ghost: They're always juuuust off-panel, usually only showing their hands at most. We finally see them on-panel in a tie-in issue with Civil War (2006).
- Hypocritical Heartwarming: They'll torment and mock Ben Grimm all the live long day, but only they can do so. Anyone who tries to hurt Ben will face the wrath of Yancy Street.
- Sitcom Archnemesis: To Ben Grimm. They spend a lot of their time pranking and taunting him. Unlike most Marvel examples, it's not Bullying a Dragon… mostly, and Ben'd never do anything horrible to them.
- Under New Management: A one-off scene in Hickman's run has Ben and Johnny meet the new Yancy Street Gang - a bunch of failed stockbrokers who've set up there and taken to mugging people. They try to mug Ben and Johnny.
