Nathaniel Richards

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Nathaniel Richards
Aliases:	Kang The Warlord
Continuity:	Marvel Universe
Notability:	Recurring character
Occupation:	Scientist
Gender:	Male
Race:	Human
Location:	Earth-6311
Associations:	Brotherhood of the Shield
Relatives:	Evelyn Richards Cassandra Richards Reed Richards Franklin Richards Valeria Richards
Status:	Alive
First:	Fantastic Four #272

Nathaniel Richards is a fictional adventurer and time traveler and a recurring character featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is associated with the Fantastic Four line of titles and first appeared in Fantastic Four #272 in November, 1984. The character is unique as there have been multiple iterations of him, hailing from alternate realities. In some of these realities, Nathaniel Richards has been retroactively attributed to various time traveling characters such as Kang and Rama-Tut.

Biography[]

Nathaniel Richards was a brilliant scientist, expert in several fields. He became very wealthy and respected in the scientific community. He met and married Evelyn and together they lived in Central City, California. They had a son Reed who, like his father before him, was a child prodigy with special aptitude in mathematics, physics, and mechanics. Evelyn died when Reed was seven. Nathaniel encouraged and guided young Reed in his scientific studies, and He fostered in his son an insatiable love of science, exploration, and discovery, as well as a respect for the consequences of such science.

He was approached by a mysterious organization called the Brotherhood of the Shield who had appointed themselves the protectors of Earth. The group had protected the human race from threats for centuries. Back in 1953, just after the death of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, two prominent S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, billionaire industrialist Howard Stark and scientist Dr. Richards were recruited a mysterious young man named Leonid who possessed amazing superhuman powers. They took the powerful young man to the Brotherhood of the Shield High Council in the Immortal City under Rome. The High Council made them aware of "The Final Fate of Man", and appointed themselves the task of protecting the Earth until that event. They revealed to Leonid his destiny to help in their endeavor

Leonid met Leonardo da Vinci, who had apparently traveled through time to use his device to save the world. Da Vinci's return was met with resistance from Isaac Newton who saw it as a threat to his reign as leader of the organization. This eventually leads to the organization splitting into two factions; one led by Newton and one led by Da Vinci. Richards, Stark and Night Machine travel to the Immortal City and try to stop the two battling factions by putting the decision of leadership in to Leonid's hand on whom is right, he chooses Da Vinci over Newton, while he escaped into the future. As a result of his period with them, he was present at the death of a quantum-powered superhuman. As a result, he gained the ability to propel himself through time.

Abilities[]

Genius-level intellect: He's a super-smarty.

Notes & Trivia[]

The character of Nathaniel Richards was created by writer and artist John Byrne.

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Appearances[]

All-New, All-Different Avengers 13
Fantastic Force 1 (In flashback only)
Fantastic Four 272 (1st appearance)
Fantastic Four 273
Fantastic Four: Atlantis Rising 1
Fantastic Four: Atlantis Rising 2
Uncanny Inhumans 0

As Iron Lad

She-Hulk Vol 2 1 (On a comic book cover)