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[kit27kit]

CIVIL WAR SPOILER:

Mr. Fantastic is an idiot.

In fact, screw it: Mr. Fantastic, you are officially on notice.

Okay, yes, Mad Thinker says he's brilliant (which is a coup in and of itself, yes, fine). And yes, Mr. Fantastic did manage to invent Asimov's psychohistory (wiki-link), but damn it, he continues to ignore the things he's saying and

Comments

[xenosauridae]

How on Earth can Reed predict anything in the Marvel Universe? This is a world where people routinely visit from the future to mess up the entire main timeline. Where cosmic entities and aliens regularly and at random intervals come to earth to shit things up. Where Namor can be evil one day and a hero the next. Where DOOM, a character who has always been a rational scientist, suddenly becomes a master of black magic to escape hell.

It is totally unpredictable.

[captainstekimal]

Of course, Hari Seldon cleverly used the fact that you could take into account a fixed limited amount of foreknowledge, for example "Psychohistory says that we will rule the galaxy in 1000 years."

[decades-old spoiler alert!]
But of course, Psychohistory didn't work because of a mutant named Mule, since you can't predict random mutations anyway. Therefore Mr. Fantastic's version must be way more kickass.

[kit27kit]

Not necessarily. There's only 198 mutants left in the world, and the X-Men have decided they're taking a strict neutral stance, so mutants are a much less available factor in the Marvel universe at this point.

[captainstekimal]

But there's certainly a decent chance in the Marvel universe that a new and powerful mutant will show up and impact something, or at least, certainly more likely than in Seldon's universe.