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Quotes by Reed Richards (Earth-616)Edit

We took the Infinity Gems out of circulation. ... For safekeeping. Because every time someone tried to put them together -- to create the Infinity Gauntlet -- Earth, our existence, held on by a thread. We simply took that option off the table.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

This was the world that I had created. I know what I have to do to fix it...to make things right. There's no problem that can't be solved.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

After all these years... All our adventures... We're still together... We're still a team! The Greatest Team Ever!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

It is the first time I have found it necessary to give the signal! I pray it will be the last!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

After all these years... All our adventures... We're still together... We're still a team! The Greatest Team Ever!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

I have the power within my own body! The power to stretch -- to alter my shape! The reason they call me -- Mr. Fantastic!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Safe Medusa? That's a word I haven't understood in years.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

We're not "in the black" anymore -- so I'm selling out!!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

...having one afternoon to whip up a device to defrost an entire rampaging glacier isn't exactly my idea of child's play.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

The Fantastic Four has never given up hope before ... We're not stopping now. If there's a way out of this, so help me - - I'll find it.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

When the Skrull ray made us younger -- our powers somewhow increased!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Oh what's the use? Just leave me alone! Go to bed and leave me alone!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

... I think it's time for an outing to the library!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

I'd lay down my own life before I'd let a villain like Scratch harm a hair on Franklin's head.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

The decision to fight must always be the final option.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

For once I am at a loss of words.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

We've got to get to the bottom of his strange powers -- learn how to control them... After all, Sue, He's our only son.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

... You and your fiery ally have seriously underestimated the Fantastic Four!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

This time Doom, you've gone too far!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

We may be calling our friends at Marvel Comics and telling them to start publishing Fantastic Five!'

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

The French have an expression called enfant terrible! It means a child who does dreadful things! But this child is so powerful, that anything he does could cause a catastrophe!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

You'll have to do better than that, Doom. You'll find Mr. Fantatic more than a match for you every time.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

We are undeniably in dire straights. I beg you to keep a cool head until I can calculate some way of alleviating the situation.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

How else can I plead but ... guilty!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Benjamin, why don't you take up a hobby? Something that will keep you out of here while I'm working?

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

I still need you to pilot my experimental star-drive rocket.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Why must we always fight among ourselves? What's wrong with us?

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Marriage is not easy, John -- it takes more love, effort, and understanding than you may think you have. But making it work is an experience greater than you could imagine!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

I think I hear my microchips calling, Sharon.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Hold it, Hulk! The only way you'll get to her is over my dead body!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Stop sounding like a wife, Sue! I still make the decisions for this team!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Lack of understanding leads to fear. That fear is already there, festering. Without the law, what comes next is too horrible to -- the law is absolutely necessary.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

But now, it's my turn to attack! And I've got powers you haven't even dreamed of!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

His preoccupation with computers-- his detailed, seemingly foolproof plan-- his knowledge of scientific programming-- his complex, yet brilliantly executed moves-- It all adds up to one diabolically dangerous figure... The Mad Thinker!!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

We're about to become-- the first human Micronauts!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

And now, by the authority vested in me – by nobody in particular – I most warmly welcome you to the rollicking ranks of the fabulous free-wheeling Fantastic Four!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

It's a strange paradoxical world we live in... a man can be arrested for illegal parking... but there's actually no law against trying to conquer the planet!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Knowing the Watcher as we do, there are devices in his collection which may make the Kree unbeatable. Which is why we have to stop him -- whatever the cost!

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Because maybe by turning his friends into celebrities... he could be forgiven for taking their normal lives away. Someday.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

All my life I've explored the wonders of the universe, yet what could be more wondrous than life itself?

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

You have cancer, Mr. Sykes. In your pancreas, lungs, stomach...it's spreading too rapidly for treatment. I believe you had it prior to the accident, but the poisons you ingested...it has mutated. It's just...it's like nothing I've seen. ... Hard to be sure [you have] one month [left]...maybe two.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

You always said you wanted to be left alone. May you finally find peace.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Time and time again, your anger and power have threatened the entire planet. So when we learned that Fury sent you into space, we had to seize the opportunity. I have always thought of us a friends, Bruce, so I am truly, genuinely sorry. But for your sake and ours, we're sending you away. It's the only way we can be sure.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Good Thing I saved some unstable molecules for the towels.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Each one of us will have a gem. And never ever shall we use them. You will hide them from everything and everyone. We will be their protectors. None of us will know where the others have hidden them. It is the only way to keep them safe.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

We'll say farewell under the eye of the sun, where he will now rest for all eternity. Some souls burn brighter than others. Sometimes with the power of a million exploding suns. But in the end, the sun sets for us all. It always sets for each and every one of us. But the sun always rises. And every time it does, Sentry... I will always think of you.

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

You know... I wonder at times... is he right? Has man gone mad?

--Reed Richards (Earth-616)

Conversations with Reed Richards (Earth-616)Edit

Spider-Man	Where you need to be?
Mr. Fantastic	The door understands your desires. If you want to, it'll take you not just where you think you should be, but to where you need to be.
Spider-Man	Can it take you back in time?
Mr. Fantastic	And erase your sins... Stop yourself from making the horrible mistakes we've all made?
Spider-Man	Yes.
Nathaniel Richards	Only one way to find out.

— FF #9

Sue	Is that Lindsay Lohan?
Reed	Thank goodness she's on our side.

— Fantastic Four: True Story #4

Reed Richards	Johnny, we can use a smoke screen.
Johnny Storm	I dig you, Reed, FLAME ON!

— Fantastic Four #114

Reed Richards	No Ben! You're no match for him!
Ben Grimm	SHADDUP! Ya wanna give me a complex?

— Fantastic Four #121

Invisible Girl	You can't blame yourself, darling!
Mister Fantastic	Of course I can! As the leader of the F.F. I'm responsible for everything!

— Fantastic Four #41

Silver Surfer	Truly, there is a spark of divinity in all who live, and think... and strive!
Mister Fantastic	A spark that will one day ignite... and illuminate the universe!
The Thing	Sheeesh! Billy Graham's got nothin' on you!

— Fantastic Four #72

Mister Fantastic	The Silver Surfer reached Galactus in time! Earth is saved!
The Thing	Sheeesh! We may haveta start collectin' unemployment insurance!

— Fantastic Four #78

Mister Fantastic	It's hopeless, Johnny!
Human Torch	Never thought you'd say that, Reed!
The Thing	You know Stretcho, kid... if he can't do somethin', he figgers nobody can!

— Fantastic Four #83

Mad Thinker	TOTAL VICTORY IS MINE!
Reed Richards	NOT QUITE! You made one miscalculation!

— Fantastic Four #96

Reed Richards	Johnny, There's only one thing to do -- !
Johnny Storm	Don't say it! I'm way ahead of you Boss Man! FLAME ON!

— Fantastic Four #98

Mr. Fantastic	Hurry! No telling how long the X-Men can hold out!
Spider-Man	Yeah! Where's the rest of the alphabet when you need it?

— Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #9

Hank Pym	Dr. Richards?
Reed Richards	Hank?
Hank Pym	It's on, bitch.

— Mighty Avengers #25

Dr. Nemesis	I've isolated the coordinates for the dimensional gateway. This proved especially tricky as they exist at the crux of a spatial and temporal intersection. You'll let me know if I'm too fast for you.
Mr. Fantastic	I did discover unstable molecules.
Dr. Nemesis	Yeah. We're very impressed.

— X-Men Vol 3 #17

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Stop sounding like a wife, Sue! I still make the decisions for this team!

--Reed Richards

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