Over time, the Improbable 4 has mellowed out (give or take the occasional story about Reed creating an off-reality black web site jail) and their squabbles now play extra like familial bickering, issues that they all the time resolve by the top of a narrative arc. In fact, it helps that writers who adopted Lee developed Sue right into a three-dimensional and succesful character. In most trendy Improbable 4 tales, together with First Steps, Sue isn’t just an equal associate to Reed, however she’s typically the chief of the staff.
That’s not fairly as true of Namor. Namor first correctly appeared in Marvel Comics #1 from 1939, and his Golden Age adventures typically discovered him destroying ships within the Navies of the Axis forces. He was haughty and violent, however not more than most Golden Age heroes, and like different heroes of the period, Namor disappeared from comics shortly after World Battle II. Nevertheless, when Lee and Jack Kirby revived Namor in Improbable 4 #1, they saved each his vanity and his propensity for violence. That story established Namor as an antihero, somebody simply as more likely to assault floor dwelling heroes as he was villains, if he thought of them a risk to his undersea kingdom.
Over time, writers have added to Namor’s vanity by making him not simply highly effective, but in addition extraordinarily engaging. Between his bodily look and his standing as a monarch, Namor believes that he’s irresistible to any lady he wishes… and more often than not he’s proper!
Thanks to those developments, Namor’s pursuit of Sue Richards has turn into a key function of the character’s interactions with the Improbable 4. So prevelant is the trope, in reality, that it seems in nearly each alternate actuality takes on the characters. In Grant Morrison and Jae Lee’s 1234, the false actuality created by Physician Doom entails Sue leaving Reed for Namor. The quilt of Final Improbable 4 #25 from 2005 includes a sultry Sue posing subsequent to a grinning Namor. Extra lately, the miniseries Improbable 4: Life Story by Mark Russell and Sean Izaakse sees an obsessed Reed ignoring Sue so badly that she abandons him to stay with Namor.
But, as prevalent because the love triangle is in alternate realities, it’s extremely uncommon in mainline continuity. Certain, women and men will make passes at Sue (and Reed, for that matter), and, sure, Reed or Sue will generally entertain the concept. However it by no means goes previous transient entertaining. For all of his attraction and energy and beauty, Namor by no means actually convinces Sue to depart Reed.
Which brings us again to Avengers: Doomsday. Most frequently, troubles within the Richards’ marriage happen when Reed will get too obsessive about a specific drawback or challenge, and Dr. Doom’s machinations will definitely demand his consideration. However for all that actor Tenoch Huerta did proper when portraying Namor in Wakanda Perpetually, his model of the character isn’t almost as amorous as his comedian ebook counterpart. Between the MCU Namor’s common seriousness and the calls for of the issue at hand, it’s onerous to imagine that Doomsday will dedicate that a lot time to the Improbable Love Triangle.
