Jonathan Richards (Earth-967)

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Hyperstorm

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Real Name

Jonathan Reed Richards

Current Alias

Hyperstorm

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Bad

Affiliation

Allied with Zarrko the Tomorrow Man

Relatives

"Lady Grey" (maternal ancestor, deceased)

John Richards (paternal great-great-grandfather, deceased)
Unnamed paternal great-great-grandmother (deceased)
Philip Summers (maternal great-great-grandfather)
Deborah Summers (maternal great-great-grandmother)
Ted Richards (paternal granduncle, deceased)
Marygay Jewel Dinkins (paternal great-granduncle, deceased)
Nathaniel Richards (paternal great-grandfather)
Evelyn Richards (paternal great-grandmother, deceased)
Franklin Storm (paternal great-grandfather, deceased)
Mary Storm (paternal great-grandmother, deceased)
Corsair (maternal great-grandfather, deceased)
Katherine Anne Summers (maternal great-grandmother, deceased)
John Grey (maternal great-grandfather, deceased)
Elaine Grey (maternal great-grandmother, deceased)
Unnamed paternal half-granduncle
Huntara (paternal half-grandaunt)
Kristoff Vernard (paternal half-granduncle)
Human Torch (paternal granduncle)
Havok (maternal granduncle)
Vulcan (maternal granduncle)
X-Treme (maternal half-granduncle)
Sara Grey (maternal grandaunt, deceased)
Goblyn Queen (maternal grandmother's clone/maternal grandaunt, deceased)
Mister Fantastic (paternal grandfather)
Invisible Woman (paternal grandmother)
Cyclops (maternal grandfather)
Phoenix (maternal grandmother, deceased)
Super-Storm (1st cousin once removed)
Shatterbox (1st cousin once removed, deceased)
Scatterbox (1st cousin once removed, deceased)
Valeria Richards (paternal aunt)
X-Man (maternal uncle, deceased)
Cable (maternal uncle)
Stryfe (maternal uncle's clone/maternal uncle, deceased)
Franklin Richards (father)
Marvel Girl (mother)
Genesis (maternal cousin, deceased)
David Summers-Richards (brother, deceased)

Dream Summers-Richards (sister)

Universe

Earth-967

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Hair

Brown

Status

Citizenship

American

Origin

Origin

Hyperstorm was born a mutant, a his powers manifesting at puberty.

First appearance

Fantastic Four #406 (November 1995)

History

In an alternate future when mutant-hunting Sentinels devastated the world and interned many of the world's mutants and superhumans, Franklin Richards, a powerful mutant and son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman of the hero team Fantastic Four, had married Rachel Summers, a powerful mutant in her own right and daughter of Cyclops and Phoenix of the X-Men. The product of their union was the phenomenally powerful mutant Jonathan Reed Richards, who ultimately grew up to use his great power to take over the post-apocalyptic world he lived in, calling himself Hyperstorm. Eventually, he went on to conquer all the inhabited worlds of the explored space of his world, becoming a feared despot and heartless monster.

Having been told of the exploits of his ancestors in the Fantastic Four, Hyperstorm developed an elaborate plot to toy with them, without their knowledge of him. Learning of Hyperstorm's evil, Mister Fantastic's time-travelling father, Nathaniel Richards, tried to prevent Hyperstorm's coming into being by taking Franklin Richards into the future and raising him to become the teenage warrior Psi-Lord. Nathaniel hoped to help the team in various ways, such as showing the Invisible Woman new ways to access her power.

Nevertheless, Hyperstorm knew of Nathaniel's plan and allowed it to continue. Hyperstorm even rescued the villainous Tomorrow Man from being lost in the time-stream and set him to attack the Four, which would eventually lead to the team's alliance with their former enemy Kristoff von Doom. In his most ambitious move, Hyperstorm snatched Mister Fantastic and his archenemy, Doctor Doom, from the moment of their deaths after a battle with an unknown alien entity, imprisoning Doom and exiling Mister Fantastic to a time period without technology. Thinking that Mister Fantastic had died, the team was demoralized and Mister Fantastic's confidence was almost completely shattered.

Ultimately, the Fantastic Four were able to trace the Tomorrow Man to Hyperstorm's alternate future, confronting the villains directly. The Four were defeated and exiled, although this allowed them to rescue Mister Fantastic and return to confront Hyperstorm again. Doctor Doom had soon managed to free himself and tried to siphon Hyperstorm's power for himself. Instead, Doom was returned to his proper time period, and Hyperstorm revealed that he allowed all of this to transpire according to his own wishes, to the chagrin of a power-mad man such as Doom. Hyperstorm similarly sent the Four back to their time period, confident that they knew his power and would fear him.

Determined to defeat Hyperstorm, the Four set out to rescue Galactus, who was believed to have been nullified at the time, but was actually self-exiled to a dimensional void. Although Hyperstorm arrived to try to stop the ploy, Mister Fantastic was ultimately successful in reviving Galactus, who, hungry from his "resurrection," turned on Hyperstorm as a source of power to consume. The two battled, until Galactus was drawn back into the dimensional void again, taking Hyperstorm with him.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Hyperstorm is possibly the most powerful Omega-level mutant to ever exist, matching Mister M and Jean Grey, or maybe even surpassing them. Galactic Scale Reality Warper.

Dynamokinesis: possesses virtually infinite psionic power which he can draw endlessly from hyperspace, from which the primordial energies creating the fundamental forces of the universe, strong nuclear force, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force and gravity flow into our plane of reality. Controlling the four fundamental forces should theoretically allow him to restructure, create or destroy matter at will down to subatomic level, as well as creating electromagnetic fields and electrical currents, making matter radioactive, manipulating gravity, causing nuclear detonations, emit enormous energy blasts, use his psionic powers to increase his physical strength and generally accomplishing nearly anything he sets his mind to.

• Hyperspacial Teleportation: can teleport through hyperspace from one place in the universe to another, possibly at immeasurable distances.
• Invisibility: ability to render herself wholly or partially invisible at will. He can also render other people or objects invisible, affecting up to forty thousand cubic feet of volume. He achieves these feats by mentally bending all wavelengths of light in the vicinity around himself or the target in question and he somehow does this without causing any visible distortion effects; he also somehow directs enough undistorted light to his eyes to retain his full range of vision while invisible.

Telepathy: He can read minds and project his own thoughts into the minds of others within a radius of 250 miles (on Earth). With extreme effort he can greatly extend that radius.

• Telepathic Illusion: ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
• Telepathic Cloak: Can mask his presence from being detected by others. His abilities can at times go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities. He can extend these defenses to others around him as well.
• Mind Link: ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual
• Telepathic Camouflage: ability to mask himself, and other peoples' presence from those around him. Can telepathically disguise himself, making his appearance to those around his quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising).
• Mind Control: ability to control the minds of others upon mere concentration.
• Mind Possession: ability to possess the mind of another, and use that beings body as his own
• Mind Alteration: ability to alter the minds of others by force of will.
• Mental Amnesia: ability to cause loss of particular memories, and amnesia in another person or even in a group of people
• Psionic Shield: ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of himself and of others minds
• Psionic Blasts: can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.
• Astral Projection: ability to Astral Travel and communicate with others astrally through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the astral realm, where he can use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects. He cannot engage in long range astral projection on the earthly plane
• Mental Detection: can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.
• Mind Transferal: able to transfer both his mind and powers into other host bodies should his own physical body be somehow killed

Telekinesis: possesses telekinetic abilities enabling him to levitate and manipulate living beings, inanimate objects, and to some extent energy psionically. He can “lift” a unknown amount of weight and can enable himself to “fly” at great speed.

Vitakinesis: can heal any injury to others and himself.

Abilities

He is also an extraordinary genius seemingly possessing his grandfather Reed Richards scientific genius, and has been able to create devices such as a time machine, a brain disarrator which he employed on Doctor Doom to disrupt any chance of him forming coherent thoughts, and his nigh unstoppable mechanical juggernauts known as the Destructoids. He also outsmarted Reed and his father Nathaniel Richards, and also Doctor Doom, for most of the time, though Reed eventually bested Hyperstorm instead by causing Galactus to use him as an endless supply of raw energy, which Galactus normally obtains by consuming planets.

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: Time Machine, Brain Disarrator
Transportation: Hyperspatial Teleportation
Weapons: Destructoids

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Trivia

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See Also

• Appearances of Jonathan Richards (Earth-967) (Chronological)
• Appearances of Jonathan Richards (Earth-967) (Unordered)
• Character Gallery: Jonathan Richards (Earth-967)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Jonathan Richards (Earth-967)
• Quotations by Jonathan Richards (Earth-967)

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