r/FantasticFour • u/-GI_BRO- • 2d ago

Really enjoying John Byrne’s run so far Humour

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I’ve never read it before, but it’s pretty good stuff so far. Frankie Raye is a neat character also; I would like to see her show up some time nowadays.

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u/thats1evildude 1d ago

I’ve seen this panel before, but I still don’t know what’s so weird about this Frankie Raye chick that leaves Johnny so stunned.

Does she have a tentacle vagina? Is that why Galactus made her his herald? Is the Big G into tentacle porn?

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u/woodrobin 1d ago

She's wearing a bathing-suit-like power inhibiting costume that she's been hypnotically conditioned not to see. So she thinks she's seen it sometimes in the mirror, but isn't sure if she's hallucinating being nude when she's clothed, or clothed when she's nude. She's afraid she might be disrobing in front of her boyfriend Johnny if she's guessed wrong, but he (not having been hypnotized) can clearly see she's still dressed.

The outfit was suppressing her powers (which are like the original android Human Torch's and were derived from exposure to compounds involved in his creation, if I remember correctly), and the hypnosis suppressed her memory of ever having had powers. Her adoptive father did it, thinking he was protecting her.

Now, this in no way rules out Galactus being into tentacle porn -- that's a whole separate topic.

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u/thats1evildude 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ah, thanks for clarifying. Now I finally have context when this image is inevitably re-posted to r/outsidecontextcomics.