The Thing Is Fighting His Last Battle, and He Will Lose
Warning! Contains a preview for Fantastic Four #41
Mrs. Grimm's bashful, blue-eyed boy Benjamin, widely known as the Fantastic Four's Thing, might be fighting his last battle ever. In a preview for Fantastic Four #41 — by Dan Slott, Rachael Stott, and Erick Arciniega — Ben comes face to face with the enemy who is destined to kill him: Rapture.
Rapture is a member of the Reckoning, the Marvel Universe's latest villains who resemble an evil and twisted version of the Watchers. The inhabitants of planet Prosilicus are one of the oldest species in the universe. When they were still young and underdeveloped, they were visited by the Luminous, known today as the Watchers, powerful creatures who traveled the universe to share their «gifts» of knowledge and science with others. The Prosilicans, however, turned these gifts into instruments of war, becoming ruthless galactic conquerors and unleashing a weapon of mass destruction that turned nine-tenths of the universe into a toxic wasteland. The Luminous erected a barrier around what was left, sealing the Reckoning outside and taking their famous oath of never interfering again with other species, thus becoming the Watchers.
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Back in Fantastic Four #28, Marvel's First Family faced a deadly villain known as the Griever at the End of All Things. This cosmic embodiment of entropy made the team live through their future deaths time and time again as a form of torture. What Ben saw in those moments was his fight against an alien warrior called Rapture, a fight that ended with his death. Ben did not stand a chance at winning, despite the hundreds of thousands of times the battle played out, so he was understandably
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