The New Fantastic Four: Meet The Silver Surfer - Page 2
In the film, Dr. Victor von Doom is along for the ride, as he is the financier for the project and the fiancee of Sue Storm. While Ben is taking a space walk, Reed discovers that they are encountering the cosmic cloud earlier than anticipated and he, Sue and Johnny attempt to retrieve Ben and get them all to safety behind the spaceship's shield. Alas they fail, and they are all blasted with radiation, Ben more than anyone (which may be why he can't change his form at will like the others) and once they return to Earth they each discover that they have acquired some strange, but very cool powers. Dr. Doom's transformation is less benevolent ('cuz deep down he's a big douchebag) and despite receiving the least amount of radiation, he becomes the most powerful and is able to absorb electrical energy and shoot powerful balls of electrical death. He's really quite an a-hole.
OK, so that brings us up to speed essentially fot the second film. Reed and Sue are back on, Ben has come to terms with his powers and is beginning a relationship with blind sculptress and friend to the FF, Alicia Masters, Johnny's still a smartass who likes to get with the ladies and Dr. Doom has been temporarily defeated. So who's this Silver Surfer character?
I haven't seen the film yet, so I am not privy to the storyline in the movie, but I do know a thing or two about the Silver Surfer - and he is by far one of the most enigmatic and alluring characters in all the Marvel series of comics.
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Before we can discuss the Silver Surfer, we must first be introduced to another character, Galactus, for without him, the Silver Surfer would have no purpose. Galactus existed before the universe as we know it. Prior to the "big bang" the pre-universe was a coagulated grouping of "primordial stuff" that was on the edge of becoming too dense to sustain itself, and thus causing the massive explosion that began the expansion of galaxies hither and yon. It was in this time that Galactus, then Galan, lived with his race of "people" in a world beyond our comprehension. Galan attempted to save his people by escaping in a spaceship to the center of all matter, but his people began to die from radiation poisoning and their spirits all collected into one and somehow saved Galan the same fate. Galan became some sort of ethereal spirit unaffected by the radiation and was essentially blown into the expanding universe.
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