King in Black The Fantastic Four Are Reliving Their Greatest Tragedies

King in Black: The Fantastic Four Are Reliving Their Greatest Tragedies

A terrifying reveal in the King In Black event shares striking similarities with previous tragedies and trauma for Marvel’s First Family.

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King in Black The Fantastic Four Are Reliving Their Greatest Tragedies

Spoilers for Marvel’s King In Black #2 below!

It looks like the Fantastic Four will once again have to come to terms with one of their members being corrupted by a malevolent force. Poor Ben Grimm. In Marvel’s second issue of the symbiote-laced King In Black event, The Thing is one of a handful of heroes infected with symbiosis and marching to the orders of Knull, the ancient deity who has promised to destroy Earth.

Marvel’s first family has sadly gone through this before. Ben went through something eerily similar in 2011’s Fear Itself event. In that story, The Thing was possessed by the spirit of a long lost Asgardian spirit. Like King In Black, he served the villain of the story, becoming a nearly unstoppable force of destruction and rage. Ben rampaged through New York City and heroes of the Marvel universe until he was finally stopped by Franklin Richards and his reality-altering powers. A few years prior, fellow FF member Johnny Storm was taken by the villainous alien Annihilus. Presumed dead by the Fantastic Four, the Human Torch was experimented upon by Annihilus and his minions.

King In Black #2 starts with Eddie Brock crashing onto the street, facing certain death. Spider-Man swoops in to save him, explaining to Eddie that he needs to get him to safety as there is no one else to help, that Knull has killed the rest of the heroes at his side. The next page reveals, terrifyingly, that they haven’t been killed by Knull… they’ve been infected with a symbiote, transformed into mindless pawns for the King In Black.

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King In Black’s Thing reveal is all the more tragic considering Ben’s history with self-doubt, self-loathing, and seeing himself as a monster. In Fear Itself, imbued with the power of Angrir, Breaker of Souls, he’s thankful for being pulverized into submission, telling Franklin and Valeria, “Don’ be sad. I deserve it after… after ev’thing. I… d’serve it all.” This is the same Ben who, bloodied and crawling up off the ground after getting pounded by his opponent, once said he was too “stupid and ugly” to know when to quit. This theme stretches all the way back to the Jack Kirby/Stan Lee days of Fantastic Four in the ’60s.

The Fantastic Four family has had to navigate and come to terms with these tragedies time and again. Assuming Ben Grimm survives King In Black, it will be interesting to see the fallout of a member of the family again succumbing to the mechanizations of a would-be Earth conqueror/destroyer. The Thing will have to process his actions in his own way, as he always does. But he is not alone of course, and the members of the FF family will have to process Thing’s symbiote-possessed actions too, collectively and individually. Marvel’s first family are always there for each other, in good times and in bad. Both the next issue of Fantastic Four (#28) and King In Black #3 drop later this month.

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