What is your opinion on the retcon of Molecule Man? (SPOILERS)

[Random4]

of him being a singular being across all universes created by the beyonders as a time bomb

no other marvel character in the multiverse is like him

what do you think

[t hedge coke]

Like Owie doesn't have enough to be neurotic about?

[Ite]

He was always a very important character well at least in the original Secret Wars so I have no objection.

[xcoijoi]

That one trait - of being the same in all universes - is what I imagined after the first Secret Wars. Many of us like to think "How would I write this character or a sequel" for our favorite fictional series. That was one of mine.

So, yes, it's fine. It's better than being a fragment of a cosmic cube. And his fractured nature at times, explains some events like being humbled by Sentry.

Yep. This retcon is workable.

[Iron Maiden]

I do wonder if the Molecule Man that first shows up in the Fantastic Four was created by the intervention of the Beyonders though as in the NA reveal. Is he the original that the others sprang from? Or was Owen Reese a myth?

[JLS Comics]

I wouldn't trust molecules - they make up everything

[xcoijoi]

I do wonder if the Molecule Man that first shows up in the Fantastic Four was created by the intervention of the Beyonders though as in the NA reveal. Is he the original that the others sprang from? Or was Owen Reese a myth?

It sounds like his actual origin was Beyonder-related, and that it applies to all of the projections of his self, through the multiverse. They are all him, Owen Reese.

And the myth part, was the incomplete & sometimes false origin stories, over the years & from individual universe perspectives.

That's the best I can figure. Was that the question?

[Random4]

I wouldn't trust molecules - they make up everything

lol amazing

[fin5]

Reece was briefly merged with the Beyonder in order to take part in the creation of the complete Cosmic Cube
I was reading up on him and found this. Maybe when he was Merged, the Beyonder placed a bomb in him so when someone killed him. Thats how this started maybe
what issue was when he was merged

[Bad Wolf]

I can't remember what his old origin was. I know he used to need that wand, and whoever picked it up would be "possessed" by the Molecule Man. I guess it's okay.

[MyriVerse]

There's really nothing at all I like from the whole story, least of all how it ended.

[ZNOP]

I wouldn't trust molecules - they make up everything

LL Good one

BTW... Sweet looking avatar

[Iron Maiden]

It sounds like his actual origin was Beyonder-related, and that it applies to all of the projections of his self, through the multiverse. They are all him, Owen Reese.

And the myth part, was the incomplete & sometimes false origin stories, over the years & from individual universe perspectives.

That's the best I can figure. Was that the question?

Sort of. In his origin in the Fantastic Four, he was just a lowly factory worker in a nuclear energy plant and got powered up by accidental exposure, which was how a lot of characters got their power in the Silver Age. So I was wondering if this was a cover story or myth and he was altered by the Beyonders.

This is some of the scans I have of FF #320 where Owen talks about how he got his powers but not being forme into a 6 sided cube.



Then he returns to Earth the reunite with Marsha aka Volcana from Battleworld

[ZNOP]

I'm currently thinking of Secret Wars II -- in particular the time when Owen and Sliver Surfer combined powers to heal the Earth from the Death gash torn in the Earth's Mantel by the original Beyonder... That said, this retcon (similar to Jean Grey's) is highly plausible. My only hangup is -- how is it that while among nearly all of the cosmic beings, Abstract, and a (rogue?) Beyonder, that none of them gleaned through Cosmic Awareness the true nature of Owen Reese?

[jphamlore]

That one trait - of being the same in all universes - is what I imagined after the first Secret Wars. Many of us like to think "How would I write this character or a sequel" for our favorite fictional series. That was one of mine.

So, yes, it's fine. It's better than being a fragment of a cosmic cube. And his fractured nature at times, explains some events like being humbled by Sentry.

Yep. This retcon is workable.

Molecule Man has been depicted working on / juggling some sort of energy cubes in New Avengers #29 and #33, so the Cosmic Cube business might not be forgotten. My speculation is that Doom siphoned the energy of the killed Molecule Men to the 616 Molecule Man to reshape into nascient Cosmic Cubes that would serve as prisons for the Beyonders. Although admittedly that plan almost literally blew up in Doom's face.