Ultimate Fantastic Four (2004-2009)

In the Baxter Building, high school prodigy Reed Richards has initiated a private experiment. He has recruited his closest friends—Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm—to participate. The resulting energy discharge from their unauthorized test does not merely cause an accident; it triggers a fundamental, cellular-level transformation in all four individuals. Each now manifests a distinct and uncontrollable physical ability, binding them together in a new, unstable state of being. They are no longer students, but something else entirely, forced to navigate a world that views them with equal parts awe and terror from the moment of their public emergence.