The New Fantastic Four: Meet The Silver Surfer - Page 3
Sounds really nice, except as this new being took shape he became Galactus, g*d-like creature who consumed worlds, or actually planets for fuel. This brings us to the Silver Surfer (played by Doug Jones).
The Silver Surfer's real name is Norrin Radd and he began life as a "humanoid" from a distant planet called Zenn-La. A unique being among his people, Radd was not satisfied with his world's seemingly perfect existence. His skeptical and restless nature poised him to be the only member of his world to be prepared for the arrival of Galactus. Norrin pleaded with his planet's highest council for the means to travel and face this planet eater and hopefully spare his precious Zenn-La the horrible fate of being robbed of all its energy. Gads, that would suck!
With this convergence of Norrin seeking to fulfill his inner quest, and Galactus' needing to find sustainable food in an ever-expanding universe, the Silver Surfer was born. Galactus transformed Norrin into the universe exploring herald we now know and in return, Galactus spares Zenn-La.
It's a win-win situation, Silver Surfer finds planets for our hungry Galactus and Galactus can sit back and enjoy the cosmic buffet - that is until Earth becomes the next target of Galactus.
I will try to summarize the rest in brief order. Silver Surfer shows up, Fantastic Four set out to find out what's up. They discover that whenever this sleek metallic guy appears, shortly there after a planet dies. They plead with Silver Surfer to help them prevent this tragedy and we assume this works, tragedy avoided. Neat special effects and standard funny lines not withstanding.
Now, if they stick with the comic-book story line, Alicia Masters (remember her, she's Ben/Thing's blind girlfriend) is the one who does all the convincing by showing the Silver Surfer all of the Earth's inherent beauty, and that despite some of our less worthy humans (like Paris Hilton and Joe Francis) humans as a race aren't all bad. Deep down Silver Surfer is a noble guy doing some pretty noble work, but even he has been jaded by his galactic travels and must be convinced that Earth is worth saving.
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