Susan Storm-Richards - also known as the Invisible Woman - was a member of the Fantastic Four on Earth-2149. She and her brother Johnny, along with Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, were once astronauts who gained superhuman powers after being exposed to cosmic rays. For many years, they helped to defend the world from various threats, but after the arrival of the Hunger Gospel, they contributed to their world's end as they were transformed into flesh-craving zombies.
History[]
As the zombie plague spread, the Fantastic Four found themselves trying to fend off their former friends and allies who had succumbed to the infection. An infected She-Hulk had entered the Baxter Building and killed Reed and Susan's two children, Franklin and Valeria, before Susan immobilized She-Hulk and killed her by generating a force-field bubble inside her skull. While devastated by her loss, Susan continued to help the surviving heroes fight back against the growing undead horde. However, Reed had become fixated on the zombies and began to consider them as the next phase in human evolution.
As the global situation deteriorated, Reed called Susan, Johnny and Ben back to his lab and explained his revelation and how he believed that they would be better off as zombies. Susan dismissed Reed, but then Reed revealed that he had infected his teammates as they entered the lab, noting that they may had felt a sharp scratch on the way in. Surely enough, Ben, Sue and Johnny succumbed to the infection and turned right before Reed's eyes. Reed happily submitted as his family attacked and bit into him, infecting him as well.
After the majority of Earth's population had been devoured, the zombified Fantastic Four turned their attention to devising a means of travelling across dimensions so that the zombies could find new sources of food. Reed soon completed a teleporter device and discovered a new parallel Earth suitable to invade: Earth-1610 (the Ultimate Marvel universe). Reed established a line of communication with his counterpart from Earth-1610, creating a holographic projection of himself as he was before his infection. He convinced the other Reed to visit his world and gave him the technical information to build a teleporter device of his own. Of course, when Reed-1610 arrived in Earth-2149, it became obvious that he had been tricked.
The zombified Fantastic Four greeted Reed-1610 and told him what had happened to their world and the reasons behind their deception. At that point, they pursued the younger Reed through the sewers, intent on devouring him and then invading his Earth after. Reed-1610 was able to escape and the Frightful Four broke off their pursuit, heading back to the Baxter Building to use the teleporter and invade Earth-1610.
The Frightful Four encountered their Fantastic Four counterparts who manage to seal them inside a nuclear containment area. With the zombies contained, the Ultimate FF tried to find a way to save their Reed, but he was fortunately saved by Earth-2149's version of Magneto. With the teleporter on Earth-2149 destroyed and the Frightful Four trapped on Earth-1610, no other zombies from the ruined Earth could follow and had no way of building another teleporter.
The zombified FF were kept in confinement which they saw as merely temporary accommodations since Reed-1610 refused to kill them. Zombie Reed informed his healthy counterpart that they fully intended to escape when the time was right and spread the zombie virus across the planet. A week after their confinement, the Frightful Four enacted their escape plan, fooling the guards into believing that the zombies had a working teleporter device made from a pen and hair. Of course that was impossible, but Reed Richards was well-known for his uncanny intellect and outlandish inventions. In reality, the zombie Sue had turned them all invisible with her powers, but the guards nonetheless opened the doors to investigate. The zombies then killed the guards and broke out, killing and eating dozens of people on their way to the Baxter Building's lab where they intended to build a new teleporter.
In order to stop their undead counterparts, the Ultimate FF sought help from their arch-enemy, Victor van Damme (Doctor Doom). Doom assisted the FF and singlehandedly defeated each of the zombies. Using his magic, he extinguished Zombie Torch's flames, snapped off Thing's arm, necrotized Sue completely and conjured a swarm of maggots to eat Reed. Doom then used the completed teleporter to dump the Frightful Four's remains back on to the street of their native New York.
Personality[]
Before becoming a zombie, Susan was a level-headed, even-tempered woman who frequently acted as the voice of reason among the Fantastic Four, encouraging her teammates when they were at their low points and defusing conflicts among them. She had a better understanding of Reed's scientific obsessions than most and was tremendously patient. As well as a dutiful wife to Reed, Sue was also a loving mother to their children, Franklin and Valeria.
After their children were killed, Reed was driven insane by the loss and knowingly infected his teammates with the Hunger Virus. Since becoming a zombie, all of Sue's noble personality aspects have vanished and her only concern is killing and devouring living people to satisfy her hunger. She has developed a considerable sadistic streak, taking delight in people's fear right before she consumes them.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Invisibility - Sue is capable of bending light around herself, rendering herself totally invisible to the naked eye. She can extend this invisibility to anyone in physical contact with her.
- Force Projection - Sue is able to generate invisible force fields of varying size and shape. This includes forming barriers around herself and others to deflect attacks, creating invisible force projectiles, and even creating invisible platforms to ride upon that make her appear to be flying or levitating.
- Zombie Physiology - As a zombie, Sue is impervious to pain and can essentially "live" forever so long as her brain remains intact. She can infect others with the zombie virus through fluid transmission, eg. bites.