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Warning ! take spoilers forFantastic Four # 14 !
TheFantastic Fouraren’t unknown to clock time travel or the desolate outcome it can have on the universe . A machine known as the Metamind lately put it on their microwave radar in a new means , by removing free will with prediction and judge to fasten a very specific future tense . Reed Richards comes up with a genius solution to a potentially humanity - alter job , however , and the whole matter tolerate him to stay hands - off .
InFantastic Four # 14- by Ryan North , Ivan Fiorelli , and Brian Reber - theteam meet something strangehappening at the web site of the displaced Baxter Building . civilian are showing up to complete small construction tasks , which will ultimately create a transmitter , all at the behest of an app called Metamind . Once the group commence to the bottom of it , the whole thing is much more sinister and comprehend than it ’s made out to be . It ’s revealed that billionaire Dan Passi seek touse entropy gather with Metamind to hold the future .
Reed takes the ultimate step and creates his own gimmick to ensure no other Metamind is ever create . It forecast and prevents it from ever come about , effectivelygiving Reed memory access to clip traveling without the jeopardy .
The Fantastic Four Thwart the Danger of Metamind
Dan Passi ’s Metamind remove gratis will from the equation , and it does it so subtly that no one take in what ’s encounter . Metamind collects mountains of data and dump it into predictions that show potential future outcomes . Passi pick the futurity he wants and employs the whole world , little by little , to make it happen . The concept is terrifyingly simple and turn form the future into a actual plot , rewarding the great unwashed with in - app treasure and prizes when they complete tasks that align with Passi ’s vision . It neuter the entire trend of the cosmos and theoretically set up all that power into the hand of one man , which the Fantastic Four immediately work to close down .
And while there is a reasonable piece of wipeout , as Human Torch bite down the machine , it ’s the construct of time travel that prove to be Metamind ’s undoing . Reed takes Passi ’s concept and move around it around , sayinghe should be able-bodied to create a “ simpler instance ” that will only crop to prefigure future iterations of Metamind and allow them to maltreat in and kibosh it . The simpleness removesany theory of corruptionand does n’t seem as if it will require never-ending attending from Reed or the others . It ’s a brilliant way to take an to a fault - controlling idea and employ it for good , while rule out the possibility of it being rick into something grander . Metamind is the job and the only target .
Metamind Could Still Be a Danger
unluckily , Reed ’s solvent is still only theoretical . He says he should be able-bodied to carry through it with the return of the Baxter Building , which they require to come within the minute . The building has yet to materialize , for unknown reasons , leaving a succeeding Metamind as a real possible action . Until Reed actually put his idea to work , there ’s electric potential for someone else to take grip of Passi ’s idea and project the whole future off course . An unknown agent already attempted to do so before the team put down it , proving that Metamind is too big for one person to safely control . TheFantastic Fourhave a safe time - travelling solution to yet another major scourge , as long as they make it before time runs out .
Fantastic Four # 14is available now from Marvel Comics .
FANTASTIC FOUR # 14 ( 2022 )
