Fantastic Four (Comic Book)/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

==How old was Sue originally supposed to be?==

* In FF V1 #81, Crystal says "I'm no younger than Sue herself was - when your team was first formed!" and in issue #82, Reed calls Crystal a minor. Does that mean Sue was jailbait when Reed first dated her?

== Why has nobody revoked [[Diplomatic Impunity|Dr. Doom's diplomatic immunity]]? ==

* Or made an attempt to invade Latveria and remove him from power? I know there's the excuse, [[Depending on the Writer]], that Doom is a great leader and takes care of his own people, but the man is constantly attempting to kill certain private American citizens and openly conspires to conquer the world. There's no arguing it- the man makes long, hammy speeches about these things. The UN isn't the least bit bothered about granting this man diplomatic immunity even after he's used it to commit crimes while avoiding arrest on foreign soil multiple times? SHIELD never sits down and decides to invade Latveria to arrest Doom? Reed Richards can't just go to both groups and ask them to just do this as a favor for all those times he and his family fought off Galactus?

** The same reason other nations with nuclear weapons aren't invaded: deterrence. Only in Doom's case, the potential threat level includes things next to which the contemporary nuclear arsenal of the United States looks like popguns. Reed Richards & SHIELD both ran simulations/projections once of the maximum amount of firepower Doom could unleash if he stopped fighting like a supervillain and instead devoted his resources to an actual full-on war: it ''began'' with light-speed anti-matter city-killers fired from orbit and only got worse from there. It's entirely comprehensible why the US government takes no official objection to Doom's ongoing vendetta vs. the Fantastic Four; that is, quite literally, one of the least dangerous things Doom could be doing with his time.

** The above post sums it up quite nicely, but there are additional reasons as well: many countries in the world are highly reliant on Latveria economically and technologically. It's like the USSR, only functional.

** When Doom was recently sent to Hell the FF swooped in to take over the country. IIRC, it didn't end well for them.

** The FF did aid the Latverian resistance once, and they overthrew Doom (I think that was FF #200.) Unfortunately, his replacement was a nutcase and the FF eventually let Doom take over again during John Byrne's run on the series. The message was rather clear: Latveria is better off under Doom. Byrne's interpretation seemed to be "Doom is megalomaniacal supervillain to the outside world, but he really does love Latveria.

** You might ask 'but can't Doom invent a new type of time machine that gets around this problem?' And you'd be right: at one point, Doom discovered a method of time travel that would sidestep the "many worlds" problem. And then Reed Richards immediately countered by building a "a time traveler is trying to kill me at some point in the past" alarm device, sending them both right back to their original stalemate.