Who Is Franklin Richards? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Franklin Richards is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Franklin Benjamin Richards, with over 1,778 comic issue appearances. Franklin is the son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, also known as Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four. Franklin is an Omega-level mutant with reality-warping abilities; even at a young age he is one of the most powerful beings in the Universe.

Who is Franklin Richards?

Origin Franklin Richards was born in New York City . Franklin was born a mutant but since his mom was imbued with cosmic energy he started to exhibit his powers while still in the womb. Franklin was exhibiting powers in-utero, giving the Invisible Woman premonitions and even moving objects telekinetically. During Sue's pregnancy with Franklin, she began to weaken to the point where the remainder of the Fantastic Four , traveled to the Negative Zone in order to get the Cosmic Control Rod in order to save both mother and child. After a long struggle, Reed and the rest of the team managed to salvage some of the cosmic energy from the rod and went back to their own reality where Sue gave birth to a healthy baby boy. In remembrance of her father who had perished in an act of heroism where he saved the life of the team, she and Reed named the boy Franklin Benjamin Richards. It should be noted that Benjamin is the first name of Franklin's godfather, the Thing , who was also honored. Franklin Richards would be babysat by Agatha Harkness when his parents were away.

Key facts

Franklin Richards is of mutant origin and first appeared in "Let There Be..Life!". The character is published by Marvel. With 1,778 recorded issue appearances, Franklin Richards ranks among the most featured characters in comics.