5/5/2023 0 Comments Uatu the watcher![]() ![]() He liked the idea of Owen Reece, the Molecule Man, just being a normal, if neurotic, man who happened to be one of the most powerful beings in the universe. ![]() The Molecule Man was a fairly obscure Fantastic Four villain before Jim Shooter took a shine to him when he was writing "The Avengers" in the early 1980s. Reed was so out of touch that he didn't even realize that it was just Uatu being nice to them. He just happened to take them in for observation right after their home was destroyed and forgot to return them until after their new home was finished. After investigating, it turns out that Uatu had taken them in for "inspection," which he does as part of his observation. In the aforementioned annual (by Gruenwald and artists Tom Morgan and Mike DeCarlo), Reed and Sue Richards discover all of their old stuff pop up in their new home. ![]() They then built a new headquarters called Four Freedoms Plaza. Towards the end of John Byrne's run on "Fantastic Four," the FF's headquarters in the Baxter Building was destroyed by Doctor Doom's heir, Kristoff. In "Fantastic Four Annual" #22, he did one of his little continuity explainers and it also showed Uatu getting actively involved for a curious reason - sentiment. There's a reason that he spearheaded Marvel's "Official Guide to the Marvel Universe" during the 1980s, after all. Marvel writer and editor Mark Gruenwald was a master of what you would call "continuity minutiae." He was the kind of guy who liked to give explanations for everything. ![]()
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