Invisible Woman
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The Invisible Woman (Dr. Susan "Sue" Storm-Richards) is a
Sue Storm received her powers by being exposed to a cosmic storm, and was known as Invisible Girl. She possesses two powers: invisibility and
the Sub-Mariner for a time, and they remain close friends.Invisible Woman has been described as one of Marvel's most notable and powerful female heroes.[2][3][4][5]
Invisible Woman was portrayed by
Publication history
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Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961).
Since Stan Lee wanted The Fantastic Four to be driven by familial connections rather than action, the primary impetus for Susan Storm's creation was to not only be a full member of the team, but also the female lead (with Reed Richards a.k.a. Mister Fantastic being the male lead) of the series.[6] He eventually emphasized this to readers explicitly, with a story in which the Fantastic Four read fan mail denigrating the Invisible Girl's value to the team, and respond by enumerating some of the occasions on which she played a key role in their victories.[7] Teammate Johnny Storm a.k.a. the Human Torch being Sue's little brother became one of several sources of tension within the group,[6] and she also served as the center of a love triangle with Reed and the Fantastic Four's sometime ally, sometime enemy Namor.[8] Sue was initially presented as the sole reason for Ben Grimm, a bad guy, remaining on the group, which was significantly toned down in the published series.[citation needed]
Lee did not want Sue to have super strength, "to be
Invisible Woman has primarily appeared in issues of Fantastic Four. In issue 22 (January 1964), the creators expanded Sue's abilities, giving her the powers to render other objects and people invisible and create strong force fields and psionic blasts. Under
In April 2019, Marvel Comics announced that it will publish Sue Storm's first solo miniseries, Invisible Woman. It was written by Mark Waid, drawn by Mattia De Iulis with covers by Adam Hughes.[12] It was later confirmed by Tom Brevoort, editor at Marvel Comics, that the miniseries was produced for trademark purposes.[13]
Fictional character biography
As detailed in The Marvel Saga: Official History of The Marvel Universe #16, Susan Storm, and her younger brother, Jonathan grew up in the town of Glenville, Long Island, children of the physician Franklin Storm and his wife Mary. The parents left their kids alone one night to travel to a dinner honoring Dr. Storm. On the way, a tire blew out and Mary was injured. Franklin escaped injury and insisted on operating on his wife. He was unable to save her. After his wife's death, Dr. Franklin Storm became a gambler and a drunk, losing his medical practice, which led him to the accidental killing of a loan shark. Franklin did not defend himself in court, because he still felt guilty over Mary's death. With their father in prison, Susan had to become a mother figure for her younger brother.
While living with her aunt, Susan, at the young age of 17, met her future
to attend college, where she pursued an acting career and encountered Richards again. They began to become romantically involved with each other.Reed Richards, working in the field of aerospace engineering, was designing a spacecraft for interstellar travel. Everything was going well until the government stopped the funding of his project. Richards, wanting to see his project through, decided to make an unscheduled test flight. It was only going to be Reed and his best friend, Ben Grimm, involved, but Susan was instrumental in persuading Reed in letting her brother and herself join them on the dangerous space mission. In space, the quartet was exposed to massive amounts of cosmic radiation. As a result, they had to abort the mission and return to Earth. After the crash landing, they realized that they gained superhuman powers; hers was the ability to become invisible at will. Realizing the potential use of their abilities, the four of them became the Fantastic Four, for the benefit of mankind.[14] Susan adopted the code name Invisible Girl.[14]
Invisible Girl
As the Fantastic Four, the team set up their first headquarters in the Baxter Building in Manhattan. The Fantastic Four encounter many villains in the early part of their career, but none of them contend for Susan's affections more than Namor the Sub-Mariner. Sue feels an amount of attraction to Namor, but her heart belongs with Reed,[15] a situation that has been called the Marvel Universe's first love triangle.[16]
Initially, her powers are limited to making herself invisible. However, before long Sue discovers she can make other things invisible as well as create force fields of invisible energy.[17] After Susan is injured in battle with the Mole Man, her father escapes from prison and operates on her to save her life. Franklin makes amends with his children before returning to prison; however, the Super-Skrull finds a way to kidnap Dr. Storm, mimic his appearance, and then fight the Fantastic Four as the Invincible Man. In the process of defeating the Super-Skrull, Dr. Storm sacrifices his own life to protect the Fantastic Four from a Skrull booby trap.
Reed and Sue's relationship progresses, with the two of them deciding to get married. The
Susan's cosmic ray irradiated blood cells serve as an obstacle for her in carrying the unborn child to term. Knowing this, Reed, Johnny, and Ben journey into the
Invisible Woman
Susan eventually becomes pregnant for a second time. However, this second child is
During
After the apparent death of Reed, Susan becomes a capable leader. Susan keeps searching for Reed, feeling he is still alive, despite romantic advances from her old flame, Namor the Sub-Mariner. The Fantastic Four eventually rescue the time-displaced Reed, who finds himself temporarily losing confidence in his leadership skills, since Susan is also a capable leader.
Following their return to their Earth of origin, the Fantastic Four encounter
Sue, the Human Torch
Zius, leader of a group of Galactus refugees, kidnaps Susan. His intent was to use her powers to hide planets from Galactus. Reed finds a way to fool Zius, by switching Susan and Johnny's powers. Susan assists in an adventure where Johnny becomes a herald of Galactus. Wielding a cosmic version of her powers, Johnny is able to see through people to the very cores of their personality.
Both Sue and Johnny gain a newfound respect for each other and how they deal with their powers. Soon, Reed tries to switch the powers back. The entire FF's powers are granted to four random civilians before being restored to their rightful wielders.
This parallels an earlier torture by Doom, where Sue was given an extremely painful version of Johnny's pyrokinetic ability.
Anti-registration movement
During the 2006–07 storyline "
The Storm siblings narrowly escape a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents bent on capturing them in Civil War #5. The two further elude detection by operating under fake husband and wife identities provided by Nick Fury, becoming members of Captain America's Secret Avengers. Before storming the Negative Zone prison, Sue visits Namor to plead for assistance. He refuses and indicates she is still attracted to him, an accusation she does not deny.
During the final battle depicted in Civil War #7, as Susan is nearly shot by
World War Hulk
In the second issue of World War Hulk, the Fantastic Four confront the Hulk. Reed has designed a machine that recreates the Sentry's aura. The Hulk, only momentarily calmed, discovers the ruse. Sue deploys her force fields to defend Reed against the Hulk, who shatters her protective fields with such force that she collapses, leaving Reed vulnerable. Reed suffers a vicious beating at the hands of the Hulk; Sue telephones the Sentry for help.[34]
The Hulk transforms Madison Square Garden into a gladiatorial arena. Sue and the other defeated heroes are held captive in a lower level. The heroes are outfitted with the same obedience disks that were used to suppress the Hulk's powers and force him to fight his companions on Sakaar.[35]
Death
Some time after World War Hulk, but before Secret Invasion, the Richards family has hired a new nanny for their kids, Tabitha Deneuve. At the same time, a mysterious new group, calling themselves the New Defenders, commits robberies, and one of their members, Psionics, starts a relationship with Johnny. After a bad break-up, Johnny is kidnapped by the Defenders, along with Doctor Doom and Galactus, to power a massive machine that is designed to apparently save the people of the future 500 years from now, a plan orchestrated by Tabitha, who is revealed to be Susan Richards from 500 years in the future. Eventually, the present Fantastic Four are able to save both the present Earth and the future Earth by sending the future inhabitants to the Earth Trust's private duplicate Nu-Earth, but after freeing Doctor Doom, the future Sue goes to apologize to him and is electrocuted by Doom.[36]
Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four
While Susan is on a lecture tour in Vancouver, British Columbia, a Skrull posing as Mister Fantastic ambushes her, applying pressure to her skull with an invisible force field and knocking her unconscious. Then, a Skrull infiltrates the Baxter Building disguised as Susan and opens a portal into the Negative Zone, forcing the top three floors of the building into the Negative Zone, and in turn trapping herself, Johnny, Ben, and the two Richards children there. The Skrull impersonating her is later revealed to be Johnny's ex-wife Lyja,[37] who once infiltrated the Fantastic Four by impersonating Ben Grimm's love interest Alicia Masters.[38] The real Susan Richards is recovered alive from a downed Skrull ship after the final battle of the invasion.[39]
Future Foundation
Reed started the Future Foundation for the benefit of the world and for science.[40] When the Human Torch died, the Fantastic Four was dissolved and Sue's heroic exploits were moved entirely under the banner of the Future Foundation.[volume & issue needed] It is later revealed that Johnny was revived and is still alive.[41]
Secret Wars
Sue and the rest of the Fantastic Four create a life raft that will save them from the coming death of the universe. However, right before the final incursion between their universe and the Ultimate Universe, Sue's part of the ship becomes separated. Reed and Black Panther plan to get her ship back, with Sue holding her part together with her force field. However, the death of the universe proves too much, even for her, and she, Ben, and her children die at the hands of Oblivion, with Reed screaming in agony at the death of his wife and children. Captain Marvel tells him they need to go, and they leave Sue's destroyed part of the ship behind.[42]
When Molecule Man transfers his power to Reed, Reed used it to resurrect his family including Sue, and they began to rebuild the entire Multiverse.[43]
Invisible Woman was later with Mister Fantastic and the Future Foundation when they were confronted by the Griever at the End of All Things.[44]
Powers and abilities
The Invisible Woman received her powers after cosmic radiation had triggered mutagenic changes in her body. Originally only able to turn herself invisible, Sue later discovered she could render other things invisible as well and project an invisible force field. It has been said on numerous occasions, including by the Fantastic Four's greatest opponent, Doctor Doom, that Susan Storm is the most powerful member of the quartet and one of the few beings able to rupture the shell of a Celestial.[45][46]
Invisibility
As the Invisible Woman, Susan can render herself wholly or partially invisible at will by bending light around her.[47] She can also render other people or objects fully or partially invisible too, affecting up to 40,000 cubic feet (1,100 m3) of volume. According to the Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook, Sue's retinas don't function conventionally and instead of just registering objects using reflected light, the retinas in Sue's eyes also interpolate shapes based on reflected cosmic rays, which in the Marvel Universe are always present in the atmosphere, granted usually only in small concentrations. This anomaly apparently allows her to perceive invisible people and objects, though she does not see them in color since the cosmic-ray reflections bypass her eyes' rods and cones; her vision may also be monochromatic when she herself is invisible since her eyes do not reflect light in that state, though she otherwise seems to possess a full range of vision while she is invisible.[48] She can also sense people or objects made invisible by scientific means, and can restore them to a visible state at will.
Force-field projection
Sue can also mentally generate a field of invisible psionic force (drawn from hyperspace), which she is able to manipulate for a variety of effects.[49] For example, Sue can shape her fields into simple invisible constructs or generate a nearly indestructible invisible force field around herself or her target. She can vary the texture and tensile strength of her field to some extent, rendering it rigid as steel or as soft and yielding as foam rubber; softer variants on the field enable her to cushion impacts more gently, and are less likely to result in psionic backlash against Susan herself. She is also able to make her shields opaque or translucent like milk glass to effectively block variations of light such as laser-beams, or make them semipermeable to filter oxygen from water though the latter is mentally taxing. She can generate solid force constructs as small as a marble or as large as 100 feet (30 m) in diameter, and her hollow projections such as domes can extend up to several miles in area.
By generating additional force behind her psionic constructs, Sue can turn them into offensive weapons, ranging from massive invisible battering rams to small projectiles such as spheres and darts. By forming one of her force fields within an object and expanding the field, Sue can cause her target to explode. She can also travel atop her animated constructs, enabling her to simulate a limited approximation of levitation or flight.[50][4] She can manipulate the energy of her force fields around other objects to simulate telekinetic abilities as well. She is capable of generating and manipulating multiple psionic force fields simultaneously. This power is only limited by her concentration; once she stops concentrating on a psionic force field, it simply ceases to exist.[citation needed]
Sue's force fields can also counteract or interact with other forms of psychic energy. For instance, when battling against Psi-Lord, an adult version of her own
Miscellaneous abilities
Susan is an excellent swimmer and capable unarmed combatant, having been trained in
Cultural impact and legacy
Critical reception
George Marston of
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw of
Accolades
- In 2011, Wizard ranked the Invisible Woman 99th in their "Top 200 comic book characters" list.[62]
- In 2011, IGN ranked the Invisible Woman 66th in their "Top 100 comic book heroes" list.[63]
- In 2011, Comics Buyer's Guide ranked the Invisible Woman 85th in their "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.[64]
- In 2012, IGN ranked the Invisible Woman 40th in their "Top 50 Avengers" list.[65]
- In 2015, Entertainment Weekly ranked the Invisible Woman 75th in their "Let's rank every Avenger ever" list.[66]
- In 2017, The Daily Dot ranked the Invisible Woman 27th in their "Top 33 female superheroes of all time" list.[2]
- In 2018, Paste ranked the Invisible Woman 2nd in their "20 Members of the Fantastic Four" list.[56]
- In 2020, Scary Mommy included the Invisible Woman in their "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list.[67]
- In 2021,
- In 2021, Screen Rant ranked the Invisible Woman 2nd in their "10 Most Powerful Members Of The Fantastic Four" list.[69]
- In 2022, Newsarama ranked the Invisible Woman 5th in their "Best female superheroes" list.[3]
- In 2022, Bustle ranked the Invisible Woman 21st in their "35 Best Female Marvel Characters Who Dominate The MCU & Comics" list.[70]
- In 2022,
- In 2022, Screen Rant ranked the Invisible Woman 5th in their "10 Most Powerful Members Of The Lady Liberators" list[72] and included her in their "10 Female Marvel Heroes That Should Come To The MCU" list.[73]
Parodies
- In the The Four.[74] The Sue Storm analogue is Kim Suskind, who has exactly the same powers as the original, except that she has to wear a pair of goggles to see while invisible. The daughter of a Nazi scientist and lover of The Four's leader, Randall Dowling, Suskind destroys her opponents by rapidly expanding a force field inside their heads.[volume & issue needed]
- Invisible Woman appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Monstourage", voiced by Emmanuelle Chriqui. In the fight against Doctor Doom, she turned invisible only to be hit and dragged by a car. None of the other Fantastic Four members found out about this.
- Rugrats introduced a parody character, Miss Invisible, in the episode "Mega Diaper Babies"; Lil also creates a similar superheroine form in the same episode, calling herself "Dotted-Line Girl".
- In The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XIV" segment titled "Stop the World, I want to Goof Off!", there is a moment where the family is turned into members of the Fantastic 4. Maggie is the Invisible Woman.
- Pamela Anderson appears as the Invisible Girl in Superhero Movie, in which she has an affair with Professor X.[75]
Literary reception
Volumes
Captain Universe / Invisible Woman - 2005
According to Diamond Comic Distributors, Captain Universe / Invisible Woman #1 was the 111th best selling comic book in November 2005.[76][77]
Invisible Woman - 2020
According to Diamond Comic Distributors, the Invisible Woman trade paperback was the 72nd best selling graphic novel in January 2020.[78][79]
Issue 1
According to Diamond Comic Distributors, Invisible Woman #1 was the 15th best selling comic book in July 2019.[80][81]
Joe Grunenwald of
Issue 2
According to Diamond Comic Distributors, Invisible Woman #2 was the 81st best selling comic book in August 2019.[84][85]
Jamie Lovett of
Other versions
A number of alternate universes and alternate timelines in Marvel Comics publications allow writers to introduce variations of the Invisible Woman, in which the character's origins, behavior, and morality differ from the mainstream setting. In some stories, someone other than Susan Storm is the Invisible Woman, and in others, Susan Storm is someone other than the Invisible Woman.
Age of Apocalypse
In the alternative reality known as the Age of Apocalypse, Susan never became the Invisible Woman, but instead helped her boyfriend Reed Richards in his attempt to evacuate a large group of humans from Manhattan when Apocalypse came into power. Along with Ben Grimm as the pilot and her brother Johnny as crew, they used one of Reed's prototype rockets to fly off the island. However, a mutant sabotaged the launch and both Reed and Johnny sacrificed themselves to let the others blast off safely.[87]
Susie and Ben join the Human High Council as hired muscle. They are sent to the Eurasian Security Field Command Center to retrieve Bruce Banner, the scientist who worked on the nuclear warhead project that made the Council's
Age of Ultron
In the Age of Ultron storyline, Invisible Woman is the only surviving member of the Fantastic Four, and joins a group of surviving heroes.[89] The group goes to the Savage Land to find Nick Fury, with a plan of going forward in time to destroy Ultron in the future, where he is coordinating his attack. Wolverine, however, believes they should go back in time and kill Hank Pym before he creates Ultron, arguing Pym would see a warning not to create the robot as a challenge, and create Ultron regardless.[90]
The group decides against this, and several members go to the future.[91] Wolverine then goes to the past, with the intent of assassinating Pym. Invisible Woman stows away with him in hopes of convincing him otherwise. When Wolverine attacks Pym, Invisible Woman creates a force field to stop the killing blow. Torn between Hank's pleas for help, and Wolverine's reminders of what will happen if he lives, Sue allows Wolverine to kill Pym.[92] After the consequences of this decision were realized, Wolverine went back to this point again and convinced his past self to stand down. The Wolverines and Sue manage to help Pym create a backdoor in Ultron's programming that will stop him before he can launch his attack in the first place.[93]
Age of X
In the
Counter-Earth
On
Exiles
Various versions of Sue have appeared many times in the pages of Exiles:
- Queen Susan Boltagon, who was married to Iron Man.[96]
- Queen Susan McKenzie, who was married to Gambit and Valeria Fen, having been the only survivor of the test flight that endowed her with her powers.[100]
Marvel 1602
In the miniseries Marvel 1602, Susan Storm is a member of the Four from the Fantastick, in reference to the ship upon which she and three others gained their powers in the Sargasso Sea. Unlike in the Marvel Universe, she is weightless and cannot become visible. She is related to the alchemical element of air as stated by Neil Gaiman.
At the start of Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four, Susan is visibly pregnant with Sir Richard Reed's child. He forbids her to join him in his pursuit of Otto von Doom while in this condition, but she goes anyway. Much to Miss Doris Evans' shock, Sir Richard and Susan are not married. She displays the ability to create force fields but becomes visible when doing so.
Marvel 2099
On the Marvel 2099 reality of Earth-928, the Invisible Woman of 2099 is a clone of Susan Storm. She and her fellow Fantastic Four clones were created by the 2099 version of Uatu the Watcher.[101]
The Earth-96943 version of Invisible Woman also has the same history.[102]
Marvel Apes
In the alternative universe of Marvel Apes, the Invisible Girl is an ape who unwillingly turns human after gaining her powers.[103] This causes her great distress. She reaches out in friendship to another human named Charles Darwin who was also stranded in the ape-verse.[104] Later, she assists in the defense of her universe against zombie invaders. She is flash-fried and consumed by her zombie 'brother'.[105]
Marvel Mangaverse
In the alternative universe of the Marvel Mangaverse, the Invisible Girl is Sioux Storm. Her half-sister is Jonatha Storm. Sioux has near psychosis-level emotional detachment and may suffer from Borderline personality disorder. In order to get her to fight or show any interest, Reed has programmed her battle suit to inject near-overdoses of battle stimulants and aggressor hormones into her bloodstream. She is a member of the Megascale Metatalent Response Team Fantastic Four. The team uses power packs that allow them to manifest at mecha-sized levels. Sioux projects a 200 ft (61 m) tall "invisible friend" constructed from her invisible force fields. The team fights Godzilla-sized monsters from various alien xenocultures that attack Earth in order to put an end to experiments that endanger all of reality. In Mangaverse volume 1 the team destroys a mecha-like Annihilus.
In New Mangaverse Sioux is murdered by ninja assassins dispatched by the
Marvel Zombies
The
MC2
In the
Mutant X
In the darker reality of Mutant X, Sue does not have superpowers, but wears a high tech "stealth" suit.[107] She is shown dead along with several other super heroes who attempted to stop the Beyonder.[108]
Spider-Gwen
On
Ultimate Marvel
The
This version of Sue Storm is an accomplished scientist in her own right. Reed even describes her as "just a teeny bit smarter than him",[111] but when Reed once mentioned this to Ben, Susan responded with "Reed is an idiot," as she always envies Reed's abilities and considers him the "king of physics".[112] (See Ultimate Fantastic Four Quotes) It is Sue who does research into the biomolecular basis of the Fantastic Four's powers and she manages to understand how Reed's and her brother Johnny's powers as Mister Fantastic and the Human Torch work.[volume & issue needed]
Kang the Conqueror
A future version of the Ultimate Marvel Sue appears as
What If?
Marvel's What If? comic book series featured several alternative versions of Sue Storm and the Fantastic Four.
Fantastic Five
On the world designated Earth-772, in What If?, Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four, but his presence resulted in Sue feeling increasingly sidelined in favour of the four male members of the team, resulting in her leaving the team to marry the Sub-Mariner.[114] Although Reed was briefly driven insane and declared war on Atlantis, he eventually recovered[115] and the two apparently reconciled, resulting in the 'Fantastic Five' reforming once again in time to confront Annihilus in the Negative Zone to help Susan give birth.[116]
Ultra Woman
In What If? #6 (Dec 1977), after the team are exposed to cosmic rays, they develop powers based on their personalities. Sue Storm gains the ability to stretch and reshape her body, because her personality caused her to try to fit in with the more dominating friends, while Reed Richards vast intellect causes him to become a giant floating brain. Sue takes the name Ultra Woman in this reality.
This version of the Fantastic Four reappeared in the Volume II story arc 'Timestorm', summoned by the Watcher to persuade the man who would become Kang/Immortus not to become a threat. Sue, along with the other members of this alternative Fantastic Four, are killed by Immortus.[117]
Flo Steinberg
In What If? Volume 1, #11 (May 1978), an alternative universe is shown wherein the original 1960's staff of Marvel Comics are exposed to cosmic rays by
Vol. II #11
In What If? vol. 2 #11 (March 1990), the origins of the Fantastic Four are retold, showing how the heroes lives would have changed if all four had gained the same powers as the individual members of the original Fantastic Four.
- Fire Powers: In this alternative history the cosmic rays give the four the powers of the Human Torch. They decide to use their powers for good, and become the Fantastic Four. They battle such menaces as the Skrulls. During a battle with the mystic Miracle Man, the villain brings to life a statue advertising a monster movie called "The Monster from Mars." When the heroes set fire to the statue, the fire spreads to a local apartment building, killing young Angelica Parsons. Feeling responsible for Parsons's death, the team disbands. Sue, troubled by Angelica's death, becomes a nun.
- Elastic powers: In this alternative history, Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben develop the ability to stretch. Deciding not to become superheroes, Ben and Sue discover their love for one another and settle down to raise a family, never using their stretching powers again.
- Monstrous forms: The cosmic rays in this alternative history transform the four into monstrous creatures, with Sue taking on a mindless form similar to Man-Thing. When the public reacts with fright at their appearances, they choose to leave civilization and live on Monster Isle.[118]
- Invisibility powers: In the final What If? story, Ben Grimm, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, and Sue Storm gain different aspects of the mainstream Sue Storm's power. Sue can turn invisible, Reed can project invisibility, Ben projects invisible force-fields, and Johnny can become intangible. They join Colonel Nick Fury's new C.I.A. unit, codenamed S.H.I.E.L.D. The story retells their initial encounter with Doctor Doom under these circumstances.[119]
In other media
Television
- Invisible Woman appears in Fantastic Four (1967), voiced by Jo Ann Pflug.[citation needed]
- Invisible Woman appears in The New Fantastic Four, voiced by Ginny Tyler.[citation needed]
- Invisible Woman appears in Fantastic Four (1994), voiced by Lori Alan.[120] This version was already married to Reed Richards when the titular group got powers.
- Invisible Woman appears in the Spider-Man episode "Secret Wars", voiced by Gail Matthius.[120] She and the Fantastic Four are among the heroes Spider-Man summons to a planet to help against the villains the Beyonder brought there.
- Invisible Woman appears in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, voiced by Lara Gilchrist.[120] This version, unlike other adaptations, is not already married with Reed Richards.
- Invisible Woman appears in The Super Hero Squad Show, voiced by Tara Strong.[121]
- Invisible Woman appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, voiced by Erin Torpey.[120]
- Invisible Woman appears in the Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. episode "Monsters No More", voiced by Kari Wahlgren.[120]
- Invisible Woman appears in Marvel Super Hero Adventures, voiced by Lauren Emily Jackson.[120]
Film
- Sue Storm is portrayed by Rebecca Staab in the 1994 film adaptation The Fantastic Four.[122][123] This film portrays Sue very much as she was in the original comics; shy, reserved and infatuated with Reed. The film concludes with Reed and Sue's marriage.
- Sue Storm is portrayed by Mister Fantastic is interrupted by the arrival of the Silver Surfer, who initially serves as a herald to the planet-consuming Galactus, but soon decides to oppose Galactus' attack upon Earth because Sue reminds him of the womanhe loved back on his homeworld. While attempting to shield the Silver Surfer with a force field, Sue is killed by Doctor Doom, but the Silver Surfer uses his cosmic powers to resurrect her. After the Surfer successfully defeats Galactus, Sue and Reed marry.
- Invisible Woman appears in Fantastic Four (2015), portrayed by Kate Mara.[125][126][127] This version is Albanian from Kosovo, and the adopted daughter of Franklin Storm.[128][129]
- The Fantastic Four.[130]
Video games
- Invisible Woman has appeared in numerous video games, usually accompanied by her brother and teammates, such as the 1997 video game for the original PlayStation.[120]
- Invisible Woman appears as an assist character in Spider-Man (1995).[citation needed]
- Invisible Woman appears in Fantastic Four (2005), voiced by Jessica Alba while her "classic" form is voiced by Grey DeLisle in bonus levels.[120]
- Invisible Woman appears in the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer video game, voiced by Erin Matthews.[citation needed]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, voiced by Danica McKellar.[120]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, with Danica McKellar reprising her role. Her classic design is her default costume and her Ultimate design is her alternate costume.
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in the Marvel Super Hero Squad video game and Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet, voiced by Tara Strong.[120]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, voiced again by Grey DeLisle.[120]
- Invisible Woman is available as downloadable content for the game LittleBigPlanet, as part of "Marvel Costume Kit 3".[131][132]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat, voiced by Tara Strong.
- Invisible Woman appeared in the virtual pinball game Laura Bailey.[133]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.[citation needed]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel Heroes.[134] However, due to legal reasons, she was removed from the game on July 1, 2017.[135]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes,[136] voiced by Kari Wahlgren.
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel: Future Fight.[137]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel Puzzle Quest.[137]
- Invisible Woman appears in the "Shadow of Doom" DLC of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, voiced again by Kari Wahlgren.[120]
- Invisible Woman appears as a playable character in Marvel Super War.[138]
Collected editions
Title | Material collected | Published date | ISBN |
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Captain Universe: Universal Heroes | Captain Universe/Invisible Woman and Captain Universe/Hulk, Captain Universe/Silver Surfer, Captain Universe/Daredevil, Captain Universe/X-23, Amazing Fantasy (vol. 2) #13-14 | February 2006 | 978-0785118572 |
Invisible Woman: Partners in Crime | Invisible Woman #1-5 | February 2020 | 978-1302916978 |
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External links
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- Ultimate Susan Storm on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki
- Invisible Woman on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
- Fantastic Four movie featurette - Sue Storm
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