Ioan Gruffudd credited as playing...
Reed Richards
- Reed Richards: I'm trying to figure out why we each ended up with different symptoms.
- Johnny Storm: Oh, well that's easy: I'm hot. You're... well, you're a little limp. Sue's easy to see through. And Ben's always been a hardass.
- Susan Storm: It's got to be the cloud! It's fundamentally altered our DNA!
- Reed Richards: Now, let's not jump to conclusions. We need a massive amount of evidence before making that leap.
- Johnny Storm: Hey, guys!
- [his thumb is on fire. He snaps his fingers, and it goes out. He snaps it on again, then off again]
- Johnny Storm: Now picture that... But everywhere! I mean... Everywhere! *What*?
- Reed Richards: The cloud has fundamentally altered our DNA.
- Johnny Storm: [smiles, laughs hysterically] Cool!
- Victor Von Doom: [proposing to Sue Storm] Four words, Sue. Four words that will change our lives forever...
- Reed Richards: [interrupting] The cloud is accelerating!
- Ben Grimm: You know, living through something like this you really appreciate having the right woman in your life.
- Reed Richards: Yeah, you and Debbie are perfect.
- Ben Grimm: I'm not talking about Debbie.
- [indicates to Sue]
- Reed Richards: What? Come on! She's got a good thing with Victor. He's smart, he's powerful, he's successful...
- Ben Grimm: [coy] Well, maybe *you* should date him, then!
- Reed Richards: [smiles] Ben, she ended up with the right guy. Everything's worked out for the best.
- [Reed walks away]
- Ben Grimm: [shakes his head] Do I have to do everything myself?
- Reed Richards: How many times have I ever asked you to do something that you said you absolutely could not do?
- Ben Grimm: Five times.
- [walks off]
- Reed Richards: I had it at four.
- Ben Grimm: [from offscreen] Well, this makes five!
- Susan Storm: Johnny, you were at 4,000 Kelvin! Any hotter, and you're approaching supernova!
- Johnny Storm: Sweet!
- Susan Storm: No, not sweet! That's the temperature of the sun!
- Reed Richards: And not only could you kill yourself, but you could set fire to Earth's atmosphere and destroy all human life as we know it.
- Johnny Storm: Got it. Supernova, bad.
- [gives two thumbs up]
- Johnny Storm: All right, I'm here, let's make this quick, I've got a lot of places to go today. Oh wait - I don't go anywhere!
- Reed Richards: Johnny, it's imperative that we stay inside for the foreseeable future.
- Johnny Storm: I know, I know, but when you said that last time my brain hurt a week.
- Susan Storm: Johnny, it's too dangerous for you to be in public.
- Johnny Storm: You've been saying that for years.
- [Susan's invisibility has worn off and she's now standing in front of a crowd in her underwear]
- Reed Richards: I see you've been working out.
- Susan Storm: Shut up!
- Reed Richards: [Talking about his home] So what do you think?
- Johnny Storm: I don't know Reed, I think you might be taking you work home with you.
- Reed Richards: [extends his arm, stretching it under a metal door, and bringing his hand up to the window on the other side]
- Johnny Storm: That's gross!
- Reed Richards: Exposure to a high energy cosmic storm could advance our knowledge of planetary life.
- Victor Von Doom: Same old Reed, always stretching, reaching for the stars.
- Reed Richards: [while fighting Victor Von Doom] Johnny! Supernova!
- Johnny Storm: I thought we agreed that was bad!
- Reed Richards: Now!
- Ben Grimm: [complaining about Johnny] No! I cannot take orders from the underwear model.
- Reed Richards: Come on now, Ben.
- Ben Grimm: That wingnut washed out of NASA for sneaking two Victoria's Secret wannabes into a flight simulator.
- Reed Richards: Youthful high spirits.
- Ben Grimm: They crashed it into a wall. A flight simulator.
- [Johnny has engulfed Dr. Doom in a huge fire cone that has just burned away Doom's clothes and outer skin]
- Victor Von Doom: Is that the best you can do? A little heat?
- Reed Richards: Time for your lesson - Chem 101. What happens when you rapidly cool hot metal?
- [the Thing smashes a water hydrant and soaks Dr. Doom, solidifying his metal form and immbolizing him]
- Johnny Storm: [to Reed, after the fight with Ben] What?
- Reed Richards: You need to control yourself, and think before you act.
- Johnny Storm: Yeah, but you see, that's your problem; you always think, you never act! What if we got these powers for a reason? What if it's like some higher calling?
- Reed Richards: A higher calling? Like getting girls and making money?
- Johnny Storm: Is there any higher? You know what Reed - this is who we are. Accept it. Or better yet, enjoy it.
- [first lines]
- Ben Grimm: Typical of Victor Von Doom to build a thirty-foot statue of himself.
- Reed Richards: Well, it's obviously aimed at first-time visitors to create feelings of smallness, inadequacy.
- Ben Grimm: Good thing it ain't working. Reed, what are we doing here? This guy's fast-food, strip-mall science.
- Reed Richards: This wasn't our first stop, in case you forgot. Besides, Victor's not that bad. He's just a little - larger than life.
- Victor Von Doom: [after he turns Ben to normal] Take a good look Ben. This is what a man looks like who embraces his destiny.
- [punches Ben and sends him crashing]
- Victor Von Doom: One down - three to go.
- Reed Richards: [appearing on the landing] Vic?
- Victor Von Doom: Right on cue!
- Reed Richards: Ben, I've been crunching the numbers on the machine. I think if we can rework the power settings...
- Ben Grimm: [casually] Forget it, egghead. I'm good as is.
- Alicia Masters: [approaches and hands Ben a large metal mug of beer] Better than good, baby.
- [they clink glasses causing hers to shatter]
- Alicia Masters: You just... need to work on your touch.
- Ben Grimm: [hugging her and smiling widely] I like the sound of that.
- Susan Storm: Remember our first date here? God, I was nervous!
- Reed Richards: You know, I'd bribed the projectionist ten bucks to keep the place open late.
- Susan Storm: Really?
- Reed Richards: Mm.
- Susan Storm: I gave him twenty!