romantic ups and downs as the Avengers in the comics.
Strange romance has been an aspect of the Fantastic Four from the very start. The team is built around the marriage of Reed and Sue Richards, but it wasn't long before other suitors showed up, and the rest of the team had their own strange adventures in love.
Invisible Woman And Namor
Reed Richards and Sue Storm were a couple pretty much from the start in the comics, but right away, there was a third wheel - Namor, Prince of Atlantis. It isn't strange that Sue would find him appealing, given his good looks. But he made a habit out of kidnapping her, starting in Fantastic Four #4. This right away makes him not an ideal romantic candidate, but Sue confesses an attraction to him. He's also a jerk, which never really changes, and the strange tension between them has carried into the modern day.
Johnny Storm And Medusa
Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, is a bit of a player in the comics. But his relationship with Medusa, one of the Inhumans, and one of the strongest Marvel female characters led to some serious friction. The biggest problem is that she was still technically married to Black Bolt, the leader of the Inhumans. They were on the outs, and Black Bolt and Medusa's marriage is largely one of political convenience, but it was still very scandalous and when it became public, they broke up.
Doctor Doom And Scarlet Witch
It's not just the Fantastic Four that have strange love lives. Their villains do, too. One of the absolute strangest concerns Doctor Doom, one of Young Avengers Wiccan and Speed discover her in Latveria as the bride of Doom.
They quickly discover she is the victim of a spell by Doom and not really in love with him. They help free her from his magical hold and also reveal the truth of their identity to her - they're actually the reincarnated souls of her children, Billy and Tommy.
Namor And Sandy
Namor's romance with Sue Storm is odd, but maybe not as much as his with Sandy. Sandy Pierce was the daughter of an oil baron in the '20s. She met and befriended Prince Namor on a beach and they fell in love. What's strange about it is no one really knows what happened to her.
Sandy eventually ed Namor under the sea after she learned her father's drilling was polluting Atlantis. Whatever came of her has never been explained. It's likely she died of old age, but it feels like a glaring omission in his story, especially considering her resemblance to Sue.
She-Hulk And Hulk
One of the most disturbing Fantastic Four romances involves She-Hulk and her cousin the Hulk. Thankfully it takes place in the alternate dystopian future of Old Man Logan. She-Hulk ed the Fantastic Four in Fantastic Four #265 in April 1984, during the long and celebrated run by writer and artist John Byrne. Her future fate was more or less suggested, as she isn't seen on the . It's revealed that she was the mother of the Hulk's many children, all of whom exhibit deformities of one kind or another.
The Thing And Tariana
The Thing has had a bumpy road with romance, though his big heart always shows through his rocky exterior. The warrior Tarianna numbers among his strange romances over the years. She-Hulk replaced Ben Grimm on the team when he stayed behind on Battleworld in the first Secret Wars event in 1985. There he met Tariana, a warrior out of the Norse legends it seemed. It was strange in the end because it turned out she was actually a figment of his imagination, as nearly everything on Battleworld was.
The Thing And Ms. Marvel
There are a number of Ms. Marvel story arcs the Disney+ streaming series could adapt. None of them are likely to involve Sharon Ventura. Sharon was Ms. Marvel for a time in the 80s, after Carol Danvers. She and Ben hit it off from the start, but it gets strange when they both re the Fantastic Four. She is mutated into becoming the She-Thing, and Ben is mutated further into a much more spiky version of his usual self. That didn't stop them from trying to make it work though.
Johnny Storm And Lyja
It was during this period that Ben's ex-girlfriend, Alicia Masters, was dating Johnny Storm. Or so it seemed. It was revealed in Fantastic Four #357 that Alicia had actually been a Skrull in disguise for years. The strange part is that Lyja and Johnny remained close after the reveal. She later gave birth to their child, which was really just Skrull bio-weapon in disguise.
Lyja was mostly a victim herself and genuinely conflicted about her secret mission, which made Lyja is like to be a character in the Secret Invasion.
Invisible Woman And Black Panther
Sue Storm has happily been in love with Reed Richards for a long time, but he's a workaholic who often forgets about her. She appreciates attention when she gets it and one time, it came from T'Challa, better known as Black Panther. The two openly flirted in the 4 comic book series, with their mutual attraction very obvious while they were both swimming naked together in a lake. It was strange only in how obvious the two were in their attraction and fierce resistance to doing something about it.
Invisible Woman And Doctor Doom
The strangest romance for Sue Storm by far is her marriage to Doctor Doom. Becoming the Baronness Vom Doom was by far the strangest episode in Sue's life, but was even weirder than that. When they two married in Fantastic Four volume 3 #27 in 2000, it wasn't really Doctor Doom but the consciousness of Reed Richards in Doom's body. Everybody on the team was in on it, but they went along with the ruse to prevent World War III. Sue and Doctor Doom were also married, sort of, in the 2015 alternate reality Secret Wars event.
