Nathaniel Richards (Marvel Comics)

Nathaniel Richards is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Fictional character biography

He is a time traveller and the father of Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic of the Fantastic Four and is the namesake of his descendant, the futuristic villain known as Kang the Conqueror. After leaving his family when Reed was a teen to work for the secret Brotherhood of the Shield, an incident with Nikola Tesla's quantum core gave him the ability to travel through time. He sparingly visits Reed in the present to aid his son and his family, often with knowledge of the future and alternate timelines.

His accident with Nikola Tesla had also affected his multiversal selves. Tolerating only one of them, Immortus forced them to kill each other and this Nathaniel is purportedly the last one in the Multiverse.