In Fantastic Four (Vol 3) #574, As a kid, Franklin Richards casually creates a whole pocket universe.
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In Future Foundation #23, Franklin shapes reality however he wants inside the pocket universe he created.
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Quick science check:
Reed Richards can stretch up to 1,500 feet, roughly 5 football fields. His skin, muscle, bones, and even organs are all elastic.
ALT from 'Marvel Anatomy: A Scientific Study of the Superhuman' by Jonah Lobe
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In Future Foundation Vol 1 #16, Franklin surrounds Black Bolt with a reality-warped box that lets him speak without causing destruction.
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In Future Foundation Vol 1 #17, Franklin goes back in time to teach his younger self how to create a star.
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Fun Fact: Franklin Benjamin Richards was named after two key people in his life. Franklin from his grandfather, and Benjamin from his godfather, The Thing.
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In Fantastic Four #600, 11-year-old Franklin Richards continues to bend reality with just his thoughts.
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In Fantastic Four #13, Franklin projects a force field around him to protect himself from a Celestial blast and even transforms it into flowers.
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Franklin Richards resurrects Galactus back from the dead and commandeered him as his herald.
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The significance of Ma Kent making Superman’s suit, whether she sewed it from scratch or added Kryptonian bits, is that it keeps him grounded. It’s more than a costume; it’s a reminder of who raised him and the values that shaped him. Not just Krypton, but Kansas.
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In Fantastic Four Vol 6 #2, Franklin creates an entire universe with a little help from Molecule Man.
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In Fantastic Four #6, Reed stretches to his absolute limit to grab a rocket. And he does it in space, where his powers are weaker.
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In History of the Marvel Universe #3, Franklin is said to eventually create entire multiverses.
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In Venom War: Fantastic Four, a time-displaced Reed from the early 90s stretches his vocal cords to mimic Doom’s voice.
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4. Dyxl, aka Nite-Mite
First Appearance: 2022’s Nightwing #97
Dyxl is a 5th-Dimensional imp who idolizes Dick Grayson and goes by Nite-Mite. Unlike Bat-Mite, he tries not to be a bother and that's why I consider him the coolest imp. He once helped Dick fight a herd of demons.
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In Fantastic Four 1234 #4, Reed stretches his consciousness to explore new possibilities and grows new brain structures in the process.
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Franklin disables his grandfather's powers to jump through time by denying the part of his grandfather's brain that controls his powers to function.
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In Fantastic Four #5 (2022), Reed stretches himself into a 4D shape and harnessed the energy to invert the team’s DNA, fixing them so they can exist in their own reality again.
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In Avengers #300, Reed stretches from the World Trade Center building to the west side of Manhatten.
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In Fantastic Four Vol 1 #604, Franklin casually sends the Mad Celestials into the heart of a gas giant star.
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In Fantastic Four #38, Reed turns his body into a spring to launch Thing into a ship.
Then in Sensational She-Hulk #10, he expands into a trampoline to hurl She-Hulk into the upper atmosphere.
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In Fantastic Four Vol 1 #604, Franklin destroys two Celestials: with one punch, and the other by flying through it.
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In Avengers #69 (1969), Marvel introduced the Squadron Sinister. The team was a direct pastiche of DC’s Justice League, with members based on Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Flash and Green Lantern.
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2. Bat-Mite
First Appearance: 1959’s Detective Comics #267
Bat-Mite is a troublesome former member of the Bat-Family who is both an ally and adversary to Batman. Bat-Mite is a 5th Dimensional being comparable to a god, who is also Batman's "Biggest Fan".
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In Venom War: Fantastic Four, a time-displaced Reed from the 90s reshapes his brain to match Kang’s.
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In Captain America (Vol. 12) #1, Reed changes his face to hide in plain sight. He does it again in Fantastic Four (Vol. 7) #2.
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5. The Just-Us League
First Appearance: 2022's Batman/Superman: World's Finest Annual
This is a team of 5th-Dimensional imps, each devoted to a different hero in the Justice League. They are just as cute as they are chaotic 😅
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In Fantastic Four #14, Reed stretches his body into a net. And also in Fantastic Four (Vol. 7) #6, he morphs his hand into a fishnet.
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In Fantastic Four #326, Reed morphs his hand into a key. He does it again in Fantastic Four (Vol. 6) #17.
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In X-Men #98 (1976), Clark Kent and Lois Lane made their first appearance in Marvel. They appear as reporters visiting New York.
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1. Mister Mxyzptlk
First Appearance: 1944’s Superman #30
Mister Mxyzptlk is a prankster imp from the 5th Dimension. He enjoys bedeviling Superman with magical acts of mischief. Only way to get rid of him is to trick him into saying his name backwards.
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In Fantastic Four (Vol. 3) #3, Reed stretches his eye out of his face. He does it again in Fantastic Four (Vol. 7) #6. He’s even moved his eyes to his fingertips occasionally.
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In Marvel Knights 4 #8, Reed enlarges his olfactory bulbs to heighten his sense of smell.
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Not particularly a stretching feat but an honorable mention. In Fantastic Four #283, Reed lowers his molecular cohesion until his body becomes a fluid. Then he flows out of a containment tube designed to hold him.
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3. Qwsp
First Appearance: 1962’s Aquaman #1
Qwsp is a 5th-Dimensional imp who once disguised himself as Quisp, a goofy water sprite sidekick to Aquaman.
He played along during the Silver Age, but eventually revealed his true nature and turned full villain in the ’90s.
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In Spider-Man/Deadpool #6 (2016), Spidey and Deadpool see a film parodying Batman vs Superman and the infamous “Martha” scene.
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In Fantastic Four (Vol 7) #18, Reed stretches his body into a massive dome to cover an entire town.
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In Fantastic Four (Vol 7) #21, Reed morphs his body into a massive tube to safely transfer civilians across New York City. Also, In the same issue he stretches to his limits.
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In Thor: Vikings (2003), Thor punches a zombie Viking into space. A year later, the same zombie appears in DC's The Authority: More Kev (2004). Thor quite literally punched him into another universe.
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In Quasar #17 (1990), a cosmic race is held and a stranger in red and yellow beats Quicksilver, Makkari, and Whizzer. He says his name “sounded like... Buried Alien.” Marvel’s nod to "Barry Allen".
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don't kill yourself guys
James Gunn on his next film being a #Superman sequel or not:
"What I'm working on is in some way…I mean, yes, yes, yes, yes. But is it a straight-up Superman sequel? I would not say necessarily."
(via ew.com/superman-new-man-of-s…)
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In Deadpool Vol. 5 #11 (2013), Deadpool references Batman while struggling to jump rooftops.
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I'd call myself "Fantastic" too if I could do even half of that. But it wasn’t just ego, the name came from sheer excitement about what his body could do.
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6. Zook
First Appearance: 1963's Detective Comics #311
In Arrowverse, Zook is a 5th-Dimensional imp that J'onn J'onzz played games with as a child. In the DC comics, Zook was an alien sidekick of the Martian Manhunter from another dimension.
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3/ Superman's first flight happened in the 1940s Fleischer animation shorts, where animators found leaping too awkward to animate. His first comic book flight followed soon after, in SUPERMAN #10 (1941).
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In Fantastic Four #198, Reed shape-shifts into one of Doom’s scientists to infiltrate his lab.
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Lastly, Yz, the Thunderbolt
First Appearance: 1940’s Flash Comics #1
A Fifth-Dimensional genie who lives in a magic pen. Not quite an imp, but close. He helped Johnny Thunder (and later Jakeem) fight crime with wild, often clumsy, magic. He's also a JSA founder.
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In Spider-Man Vol. 1 #611 (2009), Spider-Man wonders if he'd be scarier with Christian Bale’s Batman voice.
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Fun Fact: Most denizens of the 5th Dimension do not use common vowels in their names.
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In 1976, Marvel and DC made history with the first official crossover in Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man, featuring Lex Luthor and Doc Ock.
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1/ When Superman debuted in ACTION COMICS #1 (1938), his abilities were modest: super strength, speed, and the power to leap 1/8 of a mile. No flight, no heat vision.
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In Incredible Hulk Vol. 1 #413 (1993), Marvel takes a jab at DC’s Doomsday by having Hulk defeat a VR version of him with a single blow. A reference to the old Hulk vs. Superman debate.
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