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Life Story is also a story about how the team impacts, and is impacted by, the world around them. The Women’s Liberation movement gained steam in the 1970s, thanks in part to women like Betty Friedman, and that is acknowledged here. Reed Richards continually denies or stonewalls his wife’s attempts at happiness, claiming his work is superior to hers. He continues this behavior until Sue has had enough, and she leaves him, an act that leads to the dissolution of the Fantastic Four.

While the mainstream Reed Richards has changed his views on gender over the years, the Reed of Fantastic Four: Life Story has not, and this move may spell doom for the Earth.

Sue Beats Doctor Doom in Life Story using Caps Shield!!!!!

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In The Avengers #213, published in 1981, Hank Pym commits a devastating act of spousal abuse against his wife, Janet Van Dyne. Just before the incident, Hank suffers a chemical spill that caused him to adopt the reckless, violent Yellowjacket identity. As Yellowjacket, Hank attacks a villain during a fight with the Avengers after she had already surrendered. As a result, the Avengers consider revoking Hank’s “membership status.” Instead of cooperating with the court martial hearing, Hank enters into a manic state building a powerful robot intended to attack the Avengers, which only he can defeat. After three days, Janet, Hank’s wife, enters the lab and tries to reason with him. At that moment, Hank punches her in the face.

Jan is drawn in a very sexy way as Hank slaps her.

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