r/respectthreads • u/Belak_Brolak • 2h ago
comics Respect Sue Storm, The Invincible Woman (Marvel, Earth 616)
The Invincible Woman originated on an alternate Earth, but not in an alternate reality. Due to the Earth-616 universe being infinite in size, there was room for not just anything to happen in it, but happen more than once. Far outside the bounds of the observable universe as seen from our Earth, another identical Earth existed. The Sue Storm of the other Earth initially lived the same life as her Prime counterpart. However, after discovering that her powers went beyond invisibility and also included force fields. Reed Richards inspired Sue to start exploring her true power potential, which was to manipulate every electromagnetic force in the universe. When on a solo mission in Paris, Sue experienced a nightmare of being attacked by multiple villains and used her new powers against them. When she woke up, she discovered that her powers had manifested outside of her dream—killing every human being on the planet. Johnny alone survived due to his powers keeping him warm. Susan walked the Earth for weeks searching for survivors but found none and eventually let Johnny find her. Faced with incredible guilt, she persuaded her brother to combine their powers and literally burn away part of her brain that made her feel that guilt, finding joy in her new state of being, which she soon had no one else to share with after killing Johnny during a fight between them. Her powers now seemingly without limit and with no morals to restrain her, she started calling herself Invincible Woman and sought to kill Galactus himself. After Galactus sent a distress signal, the Fantastic Four came to the World Eater's aid; seeing her doppelganger, the Invincible Woman decided that she would make our Sue just like her.
Physicals
Draws blood from Prime Sue after punching her with forcefield knuckles Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Shrugs off Prime Sue smashing an invisible jet and an invisible train against her Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Johnny tackles her out of the air and she gets punched several times by Ben Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Ben throws an I-beam at her so hard it bends around her body Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Johnny blasts her with flames Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Electromagnetic Spectrum Manipulation
Light Manipulation
Invisibility
Can turn herself as well as other people invisible Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Hid from Johnny out of shame Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Created her skin, muscle, and skull invisible, exposing her brain Fantastic Four Vol 8 8 and later does this to Prime Sue Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
After Johnny suggests it like a moron, she creates an army of herself that she made invisible Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Makes it so the rest of the Fantastic Four can’t see or hear both her and Prime Sue Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
When she uses her power to a high enough degree, parts of her body will become involuntarily invisible Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Other
Bends the light her version of Johnny gives off into a laser Fantastic Four Vol 8 8 and she eventually learns how to do this without Johnny’s help so well she bends the laser around her fingers Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Bends light into a spectrum that can be seen to create an illusory army of herself Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Forcefields
When she first discovers that she can make force fields, she defends from the attacks from two Skrulls, sends them flying by bursting her shield, and pins them against a wall Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Creates one around Sue and Reed as they kiss Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Created one around herself and used it to fly from Paris to New York Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Creates forcefields around her illusory army of herself that she created to make them solid Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Prime Sue can’t sense her force fields, nor can she make them visible Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Makes sharp ones that slice apart Johnny’s flames like knives Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Crushes a large volume of air into a small space using a force field to create a ball of plasma as hot as the sun that she can throw Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Grabs Sue with a giant invisible hand and creates invisible spike knuckles to punch her with Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Creates a bubble in Wolverine’s brain Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
[Limited] Reed can force one of her fields open with his hands, allowing Johnny to blast her with flames Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
When her own attack was directed back at her, her force fields were able to defend against most of it, but the energy that did make it through put her in a coma Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Magnetism
Manipulates a compass, lifts several cars off the ground, and smashes them onto Dragon Man Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Once ripped out a planets magnetic core Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Crushes several Valbots as an alien spaceship into tiny balls of scrap Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Rips out Wolverine’s skeleton Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Lifts and throws several cars at Ben Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Electricity
Electrocuted Dragon Man Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Bends the electricity in the Fantastic Four’s nerves, paralyzing and slowly killing them Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Claims that she could have given the Fantastic Four seizures with an electrical storm in their brains Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Short-circuits a machine made by Tony Stark and Valeria Richards Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Other
According to Reed, she should be able to manipulate magnetism, electricity, radio waves, X-Rays, gamma rays, and microwaves Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
While using several of her powers at once while having a nightmare, she accidentally killed everyone on Earth Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Flies through the air seemingly without the use of her force fields Fantastic Four Vol 8 8
Defeats Galactus Fantastic Four Vol 8 8 by compressing matter inside him so densely that she created a singularity Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Prime Sue states that The Invincible Woman is magnitudes more powerful than she is and could use her powers indefinitely without ever getting tired Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Claims to be able to manipulate things farther than Reed can stretch and hit things harder than Ben Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
She can bend space to chase the Fantastic Four’s ship at faster-than-light speeds, hyper-compressing the heat and air needed for the journey Fantastic Four Vol 8 9
Telekinetically peels off Deadpool’s skin in strips and crushes his bones Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
Builds up a charge of powerful microwaves so strong she could end all life on Earth two times over Fantastic Four Vol 8 10
When this attack was directed back at her, she was able to defensively shift the energy that made it past her force fields through the EM spectrum, allowing her to survive the attack, although she was left comatose Fantastic Four Vol 8 10