History
Little is detailed about Johnny's life before the zombie plague arrived on Earth-2149, however it can be presumed that it followed much the same path as Human Torch of Earth-616.
Johnny, and the rest of the Fantastic Four, had been out, presumably doing what they could for the city, believing Franklin and Valeria had been secure in a code-locked area of the Baxter Building. Unfortunately, on their return, they found She-Hulk, who also had the access codes, had been zombified and killed his niece and nephew. Furious, Sue blew She-Hulk's head up with a force field. Just then, they received a call from Nick Fury, informing them of the gathering resistance movement aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.
On their way to the Helicarrier in the Fantasticar, they ran into Nova and Thor, and together, they headed to join the resistance. Once there, Fury called them all together and explained that it seemed to be the end of the world, and though they may have had differences in the past, they were all on the same side now.
Later, Sue, Johnny, and the Thing, approached Reed, who was working on some zombie remains in a lab. Reed was extolling the virtues of zombification, and explained that as they entered, he pricked their skins and infected them without their knowledge. The three, turn, fell upon and infected a cackling Reed. The newly zombified Fantastic Four found Tony Stark in another lab explaining to Fury that he was working on a dimensional transporter. They attacked him, and before he could put on his Iron Man armor, he was bitten.
Nick Fury escaped and put the Helicarrier in lock-down, a thick bulkhead separating the Fantastic Four from the transporter and Fury. Thing broke his way through the bulkhead, and inside the airlock they saw Fury, Dr. Strange, Storm, Nightcrawler, and Thor, who was smashing the transporter with Mjolnir. With nowhere to run, the Fantastic Four infected the whole group. Reed then told the others to collect the pieces of the transporter and start moving it to the Baxter Building.[1]
When Beast and Reed Richards found a sizeable stash of meat in Latveria and the surrounding area, a zombified Johnny and a huge horde zombies headed off to lay siege to Castle Doomstadt. Unable to gain access to the fortress, Human Torch got attacked by the re-animated corpses of the Deadite Legion, though apparently this was more of an inconvenience than anything else.[2]
When Reed had made the teleporter operational, he attempted to con an alternate reality version of himself to open a passageway between their worlds. Completely fooled, the young Reed exited the teleporter into a dilapidated and abandoned Baxter Building, and when he stumbled out into the post-apocalyptic street, the zombified Johnny and the other Fantastic Four appear to ‘greet' him.
Reed told the younger version of himself, of how the plague began on this world, with purple lightning, and something falling from the sky, and that within 24 hours the planet was consumed. He said that now they have run out of food, and they tried to grab the young man, but he managed to get away and flee down the sewers.
Johnny gave chase down the sewer pipe, but the youthful Mister Fantastic, managed to give him the slip. Presumably, when young Reed evaded Johnny, the Fantastic Four decided they can get all the food they want by using the teleporter and went back to the Baxter Building. They arrived just as Sue, Ben, and Johnny, turned up to find out what had happened to Reed. As the zombified FF attack, Ultimate Invisible Woman protected the remaining three of the four, with a forcefield, and they managed to lock their zombified counterparts up.
They were moved to a more secure containment area, but Reed told the younger FF that this was only temporary. According to Reed, they were fed twice a day, when live animals were squeezed into the cell.[3]
Later, with the Ultimate Fantastic Four seeking help from Victor van Damme, the zombified Fantastic Four put their plan in motion. They convinced the guards outside that they have created a teleportation device from a pen, the chemicals from ink, and using a hair as a keyboard.
The guards watched as they huddled together, then faded out and disappeared. Panicking, the guards opened the doors and went into the container, but the zombified FF had gone nowhere; Invisible Woman had made them all invisible. Then the freed FF slaughtered all the guards, and when the Baxter Building was sealed from the 40th floor up, they slaughtered everybody in those levels as well.
Though Prof. Storm tried to bargain with them, the FF had access to the labs, and began to create another type of teleporter, and brought through Thor and Hulk to smash through the containment shield. Just then, alarms sounded warning the FF of an intrusion, and they went to investigate.
Confusingly finding Dr. Doom (actually Doom in Ultimate Reed's body) coming to save the day, the zombie FF attacked. Doom extinguished Human Torch; snapped off Thing's arm; and using magic, necrotized Sue's body even further. Then Reed stepped up and tried to envelope Dr. Doom, but he conjured up maggots that began to eat through his dead flesh.
Finally, the bodies of the zombified Fantastic Four were dumped through the operational teleporter back into the street of their own dimension.[4] What became of him afterward is unrevealed.Attributes
Powers
Weaknesses
- Fire Extinguishing[6]
Paraphernalia
Equipment
Transportation
- Fantasticar.
See Also
- 14 appearance(s) of Jonathan Storm (Earth-2149)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Jonathan Storm (Earth-2149)
- 23 image(s) of Jonathan Storm (Earth-2149)
- 1 victim(s) killed by Jonathan Storm (Earth-2149)