"I’ve been told — by someone who knows these things — that I’m going to be the only one to survive the end of this universe. The only one who’ll cross over into whatever comes next. And honestly? I just want to be a kid first."
— Franklin Richards

Franklin Richards isn’t just the son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm — the legendary duo from the Fantastic Four — he’s a cosmic anomaly in the shape of a boy. Born with the power to warp reality itself, Franklin was once counted among the most powerful beings in the universe… while still learning his times tables.

After the catastrophic collapse of the Multiverse during the incursion crisis, it was Franklin who stepped up — reshaping existence and helping to restore what was lost. But that heroic act seemed to come at a cost: the depletion of his powers. Or so it appeared.

In truth, Franklin made a choice — one not born of fear, but of yearning. He wanted to experience life, not rule over it. He wanted scraped knees, summer breaks, awkward crushes, and quiet nights with nothing to save. So he did what only he could: he rewrote reality.

After defeating the alien Cormorant, Franklin subtly rewove the fabric of his own being, suppressing his powers, erasing even his memory of them — save for one day each year. Down to his DNA, he made himself believe he was a depowered human mutate. In doing so, he relinquished his mutant identity and, with it, his claim to Krakoan citizenship.

But beneath it all, behind the veil of normalcy, lies a god who just wants to grow up before he grows omnipotent.

 

History

The Early Years of Franklin Richards

Long before Franklin Richards reshaped realities and walked cosmic paths, his story began in peril.

Even before his birth, the universe seemed to tremble at his arrival.

For reasons science couldn’t fully explain, Susan Richards — the Invisible Woman — developed a strange, dangerous energy within her blood just before giving birth. It wasn’t just any complication. This energy threatened the lives of both mother and child. The same cosmic radiation that once gave her the power to bend light and generate force fields was now endangering everything she loved.

With no time to lose, Reed Richards — Mister Fantastic — did what only a desperate genius and devoted husband could: he entered the Negative Zone. Alongside his teammates, the Human Torch and the Thing, Reed risked everything to retrieve the Cosmic Control Rod from one of the most dangerous beings in that dimension — Annihilus.

Against the odds, Reed succeeded. Using the Rod’s energy, he stabilized Sue’s condition just in time. And from that battle between science, sacrifice, and survival, a child was born: Franklin Benjamin Richards — named after Sue’s late father and Reed’s closest friend, Ben Grimm.

But Franklin wasn’t just a baby born of love and cosmic energy. He was something… more.

From the very beginning, it was clear that Franklin Richards was no ordinary child. The same radiation that had transformed his parents had subtly rewritten his genetic code. Franklin was born a mutant, and unlike most mutants whose powers awaken during adolescence, his abilities surfaced in infancy. The first spark of his incredible psionic powers came when, still a toddler, he roused the Thing from defeat, helping turn the tide against the Frightful Four.

But even this glimpse was only the beginning.

As Franklin grew, so did the danger. During a later confrontation with Annihilus, Franklin was trapped in a machine that forcefully triggered his latent potential — unleashing his full, godlike psionic powers far before his mind was ready. Reed, seeing no other way to prevent his son from accidentally destroying all life on Earth, made an impossible choice: he put Franklin into a coma to stop the surge.

The peace was temporary.

Months later, during Ultron-7’s attack on the Fantastic Four and other heroes, a blast of energy from the villain awakened Franklin. In an instant, the child unleashed a torrent of psionic force that overwhelmed and defeated Ultron — saving everyone. His powers, though dialed back to earlier levels, remained very real and very present.

In time, Franklin’s own curiosity and power grew bolder. He once used his abilities to age himself into adulthood, becoming a powerful being known as the Avatar. Yet despite possessing a fully realized body and immense abilities, his mind was still that of a child — emotionally unprepared to handle such vast power. Realizing this, Franklin reversed the transformation, willingly becoming a child again. He even implanted psychic dampers in his mind to keep his powers in check until he was ready — not just in body, but in spirit.

Not even darkness could claim him.

When the alien symbiote escaped from the Baxter Building and tried to bond with Franklin, it nearly succeeded — until, with the help of his father and Spider-Man, Franklin resisted. Even in his young form, his will proved stronger than the parasite’s pull.

And through it all, through battles cosmic and emotional, one truth remained:
Franklin Richards was born into the heart of the impossible…
And he was only just getting started.

 

Power Pack & the Rise of Tattletale

Even as a child trying to live a life somewhere between the ordinary and the cosmic, Franklin Richards never stopped evolving.

While his parents believed his powers had quieted, Franklin’s mind was still reaching — across timelines, across realities. He began to dream of things that hadn’t happened yet, glimpses of alternate futures, fragments of what could be. These weren’t just dreams. They were warnings. Premonitions. Truths hiding in the folds of sleep.

And so, without the knowledge of Reed and Sue, Franklin found his own tribe — one that understood the weight and wonder of being young and powerful. He joined Power Pack, a team of gifted children navigating their own heroic journey. Among them, Franklin found belonging. Not as a Richards. Not as a mutant messiah. But as Tattletale — the boy who could see what was coming, even before it arrived.

Under this new identity, Franklin didn’t just tag along — he soared.

In one unforgettable adventure, he and the Power Pack journeyed beyond Earth, beyond even imagination, all the way to the throne world of the alien Snarks — and made it back alive. For someone his age, outer space should have been a bedtime fantasy. For Franklin, it became just another chapter.

But the dreams didn’t stop. They deepened. Shifted. His powers were quietly evolving, becoming more intricate, more mysterious. He was no longer just seeing possible futures — he was dancing along the edges of them, shaping them in ways even he didn’t fully understand.

Tattletale wasn’t just a name anymore.
It was a promise — that even the smallest voice can echo across the stars.

 

Fantastic Force & the Rise of Psi-Lord

Not all journeys move forward. Some bend through time — looping between possibility and purpose.

Years after his earliest adventures, Franklin Richards’ life took yet another extraordinary turn — one shaped not by heroes or villains, but by family and the unrelenting fear of fate.

Nathaniel Richards, father of Reed and grandfather to Franklin, saw what others couldn’t — a future where Franklin's presence might unravel everything. Fearing the immense power his grandson would someday wield — and perhaps what it could cost the world — Nathaniel abducted Franklin, spiriting him away into the far future.

But this wasn’t abandonment. It was training.

In a world decades ahead of his own, Franklin was forged into a warrior. Under Nathaniel’s guidance, he learned to command his vast psionic abilities and embrace the discipline needed to carry their weight. The boy who once wanted to be a kid... became something else.

When he returned to his original timeline — not as a child, but as a teenager — he reintroduced himself with a new name: Psi-Lord. Clad in confidence and purpose, Franklin arrived at the very moment he had once disappeared, creating a seamless loop in time.

Though still far from the limits of his potential, Psi-Lord was powerful — and determined. With his father, Reed Richards, imprisoned by the cosmic tyrant Hyperstorm, Franklin refused to let the world go unprotected. In his father’s absence, he founded the Fantastic Force — a new generation of heroes built to carry the torch of the Fantastic Four.

But time is rarely linear… and never merciful.

Without warning, Psi-Lord vanished. In his place, the child Franklin returned — exactly as he had been before Nathaniel first took him. The timeline had reset itself. Nathaniel believed Hyperstorm had orchestrated this shift, erasing the teenage Psi-Lord from existence as though he had never been.

The cruel twist? Hyperstorm, the being who tore through futures and held Reed captive, was said to be the child of Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers — born from yet another timeline, another “what if.”

In the end, Franklin’s future — like his power — remains unfixed.
And for every version of him erased… another waits, just beyond the horizon.

 

Onslaught: The Child Who Saved a Universe

At the heart of one of the darkest chapters in Marvel history stood a child — small in stature, infinite in potential.

When Onslaught, a malevolent fusion of Professor X’s suppressed psyche and Magneto’s rage, tore through the fabric of reality, his hunger wasn’t just for destruction — it was for control. And to reshape the world in his twisted vision, he sought a conduit: someone with the power to bend reality itself.

He found it in Franklin Richards.

Onslaught abducted Franklin, intending to exploit the boy’s latent abilities as a reality-warper — a being capable of creating entire worlds with a thought. But Franklin wasn’t just a tool to be used. He was a force too vast to fully understand, even by Onslaught.

As the final battle escalated, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and Earth’s mightiest defenders made the ultimate sacrifice — diving headfirst into Onslaught’s seething energy form in a last-ditch effort to destabilise him from within. With their assault, and the X-Men striking from without, Onslaught was seemingly destroyed.

But the cost was catastrophic.

To the world watching, it seemed the heroes had perished in a brilliant flash of selfless defiance. Monuments were raised. Grief spread like wildfire. The Earth mourned its legends.

But the truth was far more incredible.

In the split-second before their apparent deaths, Franklin — frightened, instinctual, and powerful beyond comprehension — unconsciously acted. Reaching deep into the well of his psionic might, he created an entire pocket universe, a self-contained reality stitched together from his imagination and will.

Into this new world, he placed the fallen heroes — reborn, with no memory of who they once were. Within this alternate existence, the Fantastic Four and the Avengers lived radically different lives, unaware of their sacrifice, their legacy, or the boy who saved them all.

Franklin didn’t just survive Onslaught.
He outcreated him.

And in doing so, he gave Earth’s heroes a second chance — not through battle, but through the quiet, cosmic miracle of a child's love.

 

Daydreamers: Worlds Born from a Child’s Imagination

After surviving cosmic collapse and rewriting the fate of Earth’s greatest heroes, Franklin Richards took a different kind of journey — not one of battles or destiny, but of dreams, friendship, and self-discovery.

He became the heart of an unlikely crew: a swamp-born guardian known as the Man-Thing, a sharp-tongued interdimensional duck named Howard, the enigmatic alien Tana Nile, and two fellow gifted children — Artie Maddicks and Leech, mutants who, like Franklin, lived between worlds of power and childhood.

Together, they became the Daydreamers — a ragtag group drifting across the tapestry of alternate realities, where the strange was routine, and the impossible, commonplace. Each world they visited felt like a reflection of a storybook — vivid, surreal, and oddly familiar. There were monsters. There were mysteries. There was wonder.

But there was something deeper beneath the adventure. A truth that slowly began to unravel.

These worlds — these breathtaking, bizarre dimensions — weren’t stumbled upon. They were created. Each one born not from science or sorcery, but from the subconscious mind of a child with the power of a god.

It was Franklin who had shaped them all — spinning entire universes into being through instinct alone, crafting realms out of dreams, fears, and fleeting desires. His companions began to understand: they weren’t just travellers…
They were walking through the imagination of a boy still trying to make sense of his place in a universe far bigger than anyone should ever face alone.

In the end, Daydreamers wasn’t just an adventure. It was a glimpse into Franklin’s soul — fractured, hopeful, and unimaginably vast.

 

Counter-Earth: A God’s Dilemma in a Child’s Hands

Even gods fear choice.

After surviving Onslaught and creating an entire universe to save Earth’s fallen heroes, Franklin Richards carried with him more than just memory — he held the universe he’d made… inside a blue globe no larger than a child’s toy.

But it wasn’t just a sphere. It was a living world — a new Earth, unknowingly created by his subconscious, kept safe in his tiny hands.

Then came Ashema, a Celestial — a being of unimaginable scale — who brought Franklin face-to-face with a truth even he hadn’t dared grasp: his parents, and Earth’s greatest heroes, were alive… inside that globe. But with their return came a cruel decision: only one Earth could survive.

Presented with this unbearable ultimatum, Franklin did the only thing his childlike soul could process — he ran. Fled from the impossible choice. He plunged off a cliff, nearly dying. To save him, Ashema did the unthinkable — she merged with Franklin’s consciousness, allowing herself to see life through human eyes, through the fragile lens of emotion.

That changed everything.

Together, child and god struck a third path — both worlds would live, but Earth’s heroes would leave Franklin’s creation and return to their original home. That world, now free to evolve, was later transported into orbit on the far side of the sun by none other than Doctor Doom. There, it became known as Counter-Earth — a mirror world born from a child’s will.

Family, Valeria, and the Fragility of Childhood

Reunited with his family, Franklin moved into Pier Four, the Fantastic Four’s new waterfront base. Life began to feel almost… normal.

He got a pet — a strange, loveable creature named Puppy, reminiscent of Lockjaw. His nanny became Caledonia, a warrior displaced from another dimension. And then came Valeria — a time-displaced girl claiming to be the daughter of Susan Richards, and somehow, Franklin’s sister.

But peace never stayed for long.

Sensing catastrophe ahead, Reed and Sue sent Franklin, Puppy, Caledonia — and eventually Valeria — to a distant school called Haven, hidden deep in the universe. There, Franklin dreamed of Valeria’s death at the hands of Abraxas, a cosmic threat tied to the very fabric of reality. He returned to Earth, determined to stop it.

When Abraxas finally struck, Franklin and Valeria combined their powers in a last desperate act to resurrect Galactus, the only being capable of defeating him. In doing so, Franklin burned out the last of his powers. With a final gift, he restored Valeria — now understood to be the sister he had once banished away — to his mother’s womb… giving her a second life as an infant.

Ordinary Human: The Weight of Being Small Again

In the wake of this cosmic clash, Reed Richards used the Ultimate Nullifier to destroy Abraxas. The cost? Franklin’s remaining powers vanished. He became what he'd never truly been before — a normal child.

But normal didn't mean simple.

With the birth of Valeria, Franklin felt pushed aside, his once-glorious role replaced by a crying newborn. Lonely and aching for attention, he unintentionally created a living equation — a cold, calculating entity called Modulus — in a desperate bid to be noticed.

Then came Doctor Doom.

Seeking ultimate magical power, Doom made a pact with the Haazareth Three, and during the chaos of his attacks, Franklin was pulled into Hell itself. There, the boy who had once forged galaxies was tormented and broken. It took every ounce of love from his mother and Ben Grimm to bring him back — body, mind, and soul.

He recovered. But scars remain, even on gods who’ve forgotten they were gods.

Secret Invasion

During the Skrull invasion of Earth, the Skrull agent Lyja, disguised as Sue Richards, trapped Franklin, Valeria, and Johnny Storm by sending the entire Baxter Building into the Negative Zone.

Despite the chaos, Franklin and Valeria didn’t panic. They teamed up with Johnny and The Thing to fight off the Skrulls. During the mission, they approached the Tinkerer, an imprisoned genius, for help. The Tinkerer initially refused — still bitter over being arrested while spending time with his grandchildren.

But Franklin and Valeria reminded him of his own family. Their words got through. Moved and regretful, the Tinkerer agreed to help, in return for his freedom and a chance to see his grandkids again.

Around this time, Franklin asked a painful question:

“Do people hate me because I’m a mutant?”
A reminder that, for all his powers, he was still just a kid trying to understand the world.

Dark Reign

Later, Franklin and Valeria were caught alone in the Baxter Building when Norman Osborn, Venom, and a swarm of H.A.M.M.E.R. agents attacked. The rest of the Fantastic Four were either off-world or unreachable.

Valeria cleverly distracted the agents with red tape and tricked Osborn into isolating himself. Franklin, wearing a Spider-Man mask, tried to confront him. Osborn chased them through the building.

Eventually, Sue Storm arrived and warned Osborn to back off. When he didn’t listen, she slammed him into a wall with her force fields. Osborn retaliated and aimed a gun at Reed Richards — but Franklin fired first.

What shocked everyone was that Franklin's gun was just a toy… but somehow it still worked. Osborn was hit, raising questions:

Were Franklin’s powers returning?

Return of His Powers

That night, a future version of Franklin visited his younger self, told him to “remember who you are,” and then vanished. Moments later, lying in bed, Franklin quietly created an entire universe — confirming his reality-warping abilities had come back.

Fear Itself

When Ben Grimm was possessed by a powerful Asgardian force and transformed into Angrir, Franklin ignored his father’s warning and used his powers to bring Ben back to normal. It proved Franklin could still change reality — but now he was making mature, responsible choices with that power.

Future Foundation

After Johnny Storm’s apparent death, the Fantastic Four disbanded and reformed as the Future Foundation, bringing together the world’s smartest minds — including kids like Franklin and Valeria.

Franklin developed a mysterious “imaginary friend” who helped him control his powers. The team faced major threats — a Kree invasion, the return of Johnny, battles with the Council of Reeds, and even a war with the Mad Celestials.

When no one else could stop them, Future Franklin returned and teamed up with Galactus to destroy the Celestials, saving the universe again.

Multiverse Collapse

As the multiverse began to fall apart due to incursions, the Illuminati asked Franklin to use his powers to create a pocket universe to save Earth. But it didn’t work — he wasn’t ready, or simply couldn’t do it anymore.

Later, when the final incursion happened, Franklin was on a life raft with his family and the Future Foundation. The ship was damaged, and Franklin and most of the team were killed — except for Reed Richards, who survived.

Years later, Reed returned with the powers of the Beyonders. He resurrected Franklin and the others, and together they started rebuilding the multiverse, one universe at a time.

Losing His Powers

Eventually, Franklin’s powers began to fade. He could no longer create new realities. That’s when the cosmic being known as The Griever appeared, destroyed many of the universes Franklin had created, and challenged the Foundation’s mission.

Reed Richards called every past member of the Fantastic Four to help fight back. They defeated the Griever, but Franklin was left without his powers.

Mutant Identity Questioned

Around this time, Charles Xavier invited Franklin to join Krakoa, the mutant homeland. But when Doctor Doom offered to fix Franklin’s powers, things got messy. The X-Men intervened, and Franklin tried to stop the fight — but the procedure was interrupted, and his powers remained broken.

Eventually, Xavier revealed something shocking: Franklin had never really been a mutant. His reality-warping powers had altered his own DNA to appear as one. Now, without powers, he couldn’t access the Krakoan gates and was no longer considered a mutant.

In truth, Franklin had chosen to suppress his powers. He placed mental blocks on himself, allowing access to them only one day each year, and making everyone — even himself — believe they were gone.

Still, Franklin kept visiting Krakoa and remained close to mutants like Kate Pryde, even attending the Hellfire Gala.

Return to Earth and New Life

In a last-ditch strategy to counter a Negative Zone invasion, Reed Richards sent Franklin and the other kids one year into the future. For the children, only a moment passed. When they returned, the family had moved away from the Baxter Building and into a quieter life at the Fantastic Farmhouse in Benson, Arizona.

Now enrolled in a new school, Franklin tries to live a normal life again — even though deep down, he still remembers the truth.

He’s not just a boy.
He’s a Richards.
And one day a year, he remembers what he’s truly capable of.

 

Wounded Childhood and the Threat of Onslaught Reborn

With the danger ever-present at the Baxter Building, even Child Welfare began to question if any place was safe for Reed and Sue’s children. The family agreed to set up a fake safehouse and make the press believe the children had already been relocated. But someone — possibly an enemy… or even Reed himself — staged an attack convincing enough to satisfy the authorities.

Just when things seemed stable again, reality twisted once more.

In the wake of the Scarlet Witch’s reality-warping breakdown, the combined power lost by Magneto and Xavier reformed Onslaught, whose consciousness had never truly died. His goal? Eliminate Franklin Richards — the boy who had once defied and outwitted him.

Onslaught infiltrated Earth once more, even possessing the Human Torch and Mister Fantastic to get close to Franklin. But the Invisible Woman and the Thing intervened.

Franklin fled to the only place he thought he might be safe: Counter-Earth.

But Onslaught followed.

There, the heroes of that world — unfamiliar, unknowing — struggled to believe this boy was the son of Sue and Reed Richards, who weren’t even married in their timeline. After a skirmish, heroes and villains united, understanding that Onslaught threatened them all.

In the final confrontation, it was Rikki “Bucky” Barnes who stopped Onslaught — driving him and herself into the Negative Zone using a Fantasti-Car, sealing them behind the barrier.

Franklin returned home.
Bucky landed in Earth-616.
And Onslaught was left floating, lost and furious, outside Prison 42, somewhere deep in the Negative Zone.

Franklin Richards is a child of contradictions — born to stretch the very edges of reality, yet always pulled back by the most human of things: family, fear, and love.
He creates worlds. He saves gods. He loses himself.
But again and again, he returns — not as a god, not as a weapon…
…but as a boy who just wants to live.

 

“Immortal. God. Omega-level Mutant.”

For just one day a year, Franklin Richards remembers who he truly is — and regains the full extent of his god-like powers.

On one of those rare days, while the world slept peacefully, Franklin quietly saved it. A series of invisible asteroids were silently hurtling toward Earth, undetected by any system. With his restored powers, Franklin acted swiftly and calmly, diverting them before disaster could strike.

But in the shadows of his own room, a hidden enemy watched.

Nicholas Scratch, ever manipulative, secretly reversed Franklin’s work, setting the asteroids back on their path — threatening to destroy the Earth all over again.

In the end, it took the full strength of the Fantastic Four, united and at their best, to stop the catastrophe and destroy the asteroids for good.

Even as a near-omnipotent being, Franklin is reminded he can’t save the world alone — not all the time. Sometimes, family is the only real safety net.

 

Franklin Richards – Powers & Abilities

Franklin Richards is one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. As the son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, and a former Omega-level mutant, Franklin’s abilities stretch far beyond what most beings—even gods—can comprehend.

Psionic Reality Manipulation

Franklin’s primary power is reality manipulation on a universal scale, fuelled purely by imagination and thought. He can:

• Create pocket universes from scratch.

• Alter matter and energy at the molecular level.

• Bring people back from the dead.

• Reshape space, time, and even probability.

• Create entirely new planets or dimensions.
  The Celestials, beings of cosmic scale, once labelled him a Universal Shaper—a rare title reserved for those capable of reshaping existence itself.

Cosmic Feats

Franklin’s power has been compared to, and even surpassed, the Celestials and Galactus:

• His future self helped revive Galactus by restoring his essence hidden within Eternity.

• Together with his older version, Franklin empowered Galactus to destroy two Mad Celestials—a feat no one else had accomplished.

• Even as a child, Galactus once fled Earth to avoid facing Franklin.

• The Celestials have considered Franklin a threat to cosmic balance.

Mutant Classification

Franklin was considered an Omega-level mutant, once said to be beyond Omega. Although he later lost this status when his powers altered his own biology, he remains one of the most powerful beings ever born on Earth.

Energy & Matter Control

Franklin can:

• Fire devastating energy blasts.

• Create force fields and complex energy constructs.

• Stabilize stars and alter cosmic phenomena (like reversing entropy or bending time).

• Convert dangerous attacks (like Celestial assaults) into harmless forms.

Telepathy & Telekinesis

Franklin is a formidable telepath and telekinetic:

• He can read minds, project thoughts, and mask his presence.

• Capable of full mind control, memory alteration, and even mental possession.

• Has telekinetic flight, object manipulation, and energy shaping abilities.

• Resistant to psychic intrusion, even from telepaths as powerful as Professor X.

Other Abilities

• Precognition: Franklin has prophetic dreams that often come true.

• Astral Projection: He can send his consciousness across space and dimensions while his body remains at rest.

• Teleportation: Franklin can move across the Multiverse at will.

• Dimensional Travel: He has interacted with and manipulated realms like the Astral Plane and the Nexus of All Realities.

• Gestalt Merge & Duplication: Under unique circumstances, he’s shown the ability to duplicate or merge with others into a shared consciousness.

Durability & Combat

Even as a child, Franklin has:

• Survived Celestial-level attacks.

• Defeated or damaged cosmic beings like Mephisto, even within their own realms.

• Endured multiversal threats and remained largely unharmed.

Power Highlights

• Created entire universes.

• Revived Galactus.

• Destroyed Mad Celestials.

• Withstood attacks from beings that challenge reality itself.

• Helped rebuild the multiverse after its destruction.

Limitations

Despite his near-limitless potential, Franklin has occasionally:

• Suppressed his powers intentionally (sometimes only using them one day per year).

• Required guidance (e.g., from his older self or Reed Richards) to fully unlock his abilities.

• Struggled with the emotional maturity needed to wield his power responsibly.

 

Weaknesses

Self-Imposed Power Suppression

Franklin Richards' greatest limitation isn’t an outside force — it’s his own choice.

At some point, Franklin used his vast powers to reprogram his own DNA, suppress his abilities, and erase his memory of doing it. The result? He now appears — to everyone, including himself — as a completely depowered human mutate, much like his parents.

This self-alteration even rewrote his genetic markers, meaning Krakoan gates no longer recognize him as a mutant, effectively cutting him off from the mutant nation and its community.

But the truth is: Franklin's powers aren’t truly gone.

He designed a failsafe — one day each year, he regains full access to his abilities and the memory of what he did to himself. On that day, he could remove all the limits he placed on himself. He just chooses not to.

For now, Franklin wants to live a normal teenage life — to grow up without the weight of godlike power on his shoulders. It's not weakness in the traditional sense, but a deliberate pause. The world may one day need him at full strength again — and when that time comes, he’ll remember what he is.

 

Franklin Richards isn’t just one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe — he’s also one of the most human. For all his cosmic might, world-shaping abilities, and multiversal feats, Franklin’s greatest struggle has always been choosing when — and if — to use it.

He could be a god.
But he’d rather be a kid.

He carries the potential to shape entire realities, yet seeks something far more elusive: a normal life, friends who know him for who he is, and a chance to figure out who he wants to be without the pressure of saving the world.One day, when the moment demands it, Franklin Richards may become the hero only he can be.

But until then, he walks the world quietly — not as a mutant messiah or a universal architect, but as a boy who just wants to live, grow, and dream.

And maybe, that’s what makes him truly extraordinary.