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Team Background:
Ultimate Fantastic Four (or FF) is the Ultimate Marvel version of the superhero family,
the Fantastic Four. While the characters may bear resemblance to their normal Marvel
Universe counterparts, they differ in aspects. The origin of their powers is different
and the team is much younger.
THE TEAM:
Reed Richards aka Mister Fantastic - Reed is a child genius who displayed his
curiosity from the day he was born. At the age of 11, following a demonstration
of his research on the field of teleportation at a school science fair, Reed was
recruited for a government program which sponsors young geniuses' research.
He continued his research at the government research facility located
in Manhattan's Baxter Building. At the age of 21 his research was realized
as he and several others attempted to teleport organic material through an
alternate plane of existence called the N-Zone. The experiment went awry giving
Reed and several others super powers. His powers enable him to stretch his body
parts to incredible lengths and endow him with enhanced durability. 
Susan Storm aka Invisible Woman - Susan was another child recruited for the kid
genius program. Her specialty is biotechnology. She is the daughter of Dr. Storm,
who is the overseer of the program. Since their meeting, Sue has developed romantic
feelings for Reed and they are now romantically involved. Her powers allow her to
become invisible and project invisible force fields. Wielding force fields in
complex ways demands a great amount of willpower from Sue.
Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch - Susan Storm's younger brother is a short-tempered
teen, who is merely enamored to good-looking girls and a rock-star attitude.
The obvious cool factor of his powers only serve to heighten these personality traits:
Johnny's powers engulf him in flame which enables him to fly and shoot flaming projectiles.
Benjamin Grimm aka The Thing - Ben is Reed's childhood friend. When they were in school together,
Ben would protect Reed from bullies and Reed would help Ben with his homework.
Ben moved on to college and was invited to watch Reed's teleportation experiment.
The experiment gave Ben a rocky hide which boosts his strength and makes him
nigh-invulnerable to physical damage and physiologically stressful conditions
(such as a toxic breathing environment).
THE VILLAINS:
Victor Van Damme aka Doctor Doom - Victor Van Damme was likewise a member of the youth
research project that recruited Reed and Susan. Unlike them, Victor saw the project
as a means of achieving personal power. Van Damme is a descendant of Vlad Tepes, better
known as Dracula, ruler of Wallachia during the fifteenth century. As such, Van Damme
is a member of European aristocracy, as well as a secret society bent on achieving covert
world domination. Victor has been indoctrinated by the society since his youth. Victor
worked with Reed Richards on his device to teleport organic matter to the N-Zone. Van
Damme reprogrammed the coordinates of the device which led to the accident where the
Fantastic Four got their powers. Like the Fantastic Four, Van Damme was affected by the
experiment with most of his body transformed into metal, his legs assuming the form of
cloven hooves, and his internal organs converted into a toxic substance. Van Damme
established a micronation named The Keep, located in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark,
where he turned the other inhabitants into mind-controlled slaves.
Dr. Arthur Molekevic aka Mole Man - Dr. Molekevic was performing forbidden experiments
when he was expelled from the Baxter Building. It is suggested those experiments involve
the creation of artificial sentient life forms from plant tissue. Molekevic was revealed
to be schizophrenic, hearing voices in his heads that he refers to as "they". After he was
expelled, Molekevic disappeared into an underground realm where he established himself as
the ruler.
Nihil aka Annihilus - Nihil is the transliterated name of the magistrate of a small alien
community from within the N-Zone. The N-Zone is in a state of slow entropic heat death,
and Nihil's community consists of aliens who have gathered their spacecraft close to a
dying sun for warmth. Nihil's unidentified species is apparently long-lived and he is,
as such, frustrated that his universe will die long before he will reach the limits of
his life expectancy. He wants to flee the dying N-Zone and claim the young new universe
that Reed and his friends hail from.
Rhona Burchill aka Mad Thinker - Rhona was a genius from birth, displaying an incredible
intellect but severe mental problems. Whichever school she went to, while being extremely
bright, she would always cause trouble. Rhona was tested as an applicant for the Baxter
Building's young think-tank, but did not pass the test, and Reed Richards was welcomed
instead. Desiring to prove her worth, Rhona experimented with accelerating her neurons
to make her much smarter than the average man. The experiment proved to be a success but
horribly deformed Rhona's appearance.
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