Fantastix (Earth-616)

Fantastix
Name	Fantastix
Members
Current Member(s)	2-D, Hope, Iceberg, Ms. Fantastix
Affiliation and Identity
Identity	Public
Allies	Fantastic Four Formerly Brenda Bannicheck
Enemies	Wrecking Crew, Skrulltastic One, Cormorant
Origin and Status
Status	Active
Reality	Earth-616
Base of Operations	Formerly Baxter Building, Manhattan, New York City, New York State, United States of America
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Dan Slott, Valerio Schiti
First	Fantastic Four (Vol. 6) #4 (November, 2018)
First	Fantastic Four (Vol. 6) #4 (November, 2018)

The Fantastix are a super hero team who briefly occupied Baxter Building alongside the Fantastic Four.

History

The Fantastix were a newly created team of super heroes consisting of 2-D, Hope, Iceberg, and Ms. Fantastix who were formerly members of the team the Liberteens. The four members of the Fantastix moved from Philadelphia to New York City in order to obtain ownership of the famous Baxter Building, headquarters of the superhero team the Fantastic Four, at a time when the Fantastic Four appeared to be missing. The group of young heroes hoped to hoped to become "the next Fantastic Four".

The Fantastix hired a teenager named Brenda Bannicheck as their manager and publicist, and their first mission as a team consisted of stopping the evil Wrecking Crew from robbing Wilkinson's & Sons Jewelry right across the street from the Baxter Building. During the battle, however, the original Fantastic Four returned to Earth and the Fantastix learned that Brenda Bannicheck had actually staged the robbery situation in order to garner the team publicity. The Fantastix fired Bannicheck, but the Fantastic Four allowed the teenage Fantastix to retain their new ownership of the Baxter Building.

Despite initially seeing themselves as a knock-off Fantastic Four team, the Fantastix decided to create their own identity through being heroes in whatever ways they could. They performed many small acts of service, helping citizens with their problems, and even fought a new minor supervillain calling themself the "Skrulltastic One". The Fantastix saw little action subsequent career, mostly due to being stand-ins for the Fantastic Four while the Fantastic Four were around. When the powerful alien Cormorant scoured the Earth in search for a mysterious artifact, he unceremoniously destroyed the entirety of the Baxter Building to unearth a hidden lockbox called Container Zero. When the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom, and Victorious arrived to confront the Cormorant, the Fantastix joined the fight. After the destruction of Container Zero ended with the creation of a portal dubbed the Forever Gate and the Cormorant left, Mister Fantastic decided to reclaim what was left of the Baxter Building so his team could guard the portal. Despite being offered to help carry this duty, the Fantastix decided to leave it all to the Fantastic Four.

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Trivia

• The Fantastix had an action figure line, but it did not generate enough revenue to be profitable.

See Also

• 3 appearance(s) of Fantastix (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Fantastix (Earth-616)
• 5 image(s) of Fantastix (Earth-616)
• 4 member(s) of Fantastix (Earth-616)