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Was looking up Franklin Richards on Wiki this morning, and saw this bit about his age towards the bottom. It references the sliding Marvel timeline - a phenomenon we all try to get to grips with in order to establish how old our favourite heroes are and where they fit in. I've heard of the one in four theory before, but some of the examples they use here really seem to nail its definitive nature:
Various theories on character aging have been proposed, such as a sliding timescale, so that the 1961 origin of the Fantastic Four occurred a perpetual "ten years ago."[2] However, Marvel Editor Joe Quesada put the number at "maybe 7 years" ago into the 1980s. "Eventually, this increased to 10 years in the 90s, and then about 12 or 13 years, which is what we kind of go by today." [1]
Franklin's most recently stated age was 9 years in 2004 (in Marvel Knights 4 #1); if he was born in 1968 then he aged at a rate of one year for every four real years. This is fairly consistent with other characters who have been clearly shown to age, such as Cassie Lang (Stature) (who was 9 in 1978 and is now about 15), Spider-Man (who has aged from 15 in 1962 to his late twenties in the present day), and the original X-Men (who were teenaged students in the 1960s and are now teachers themselves).
The only one that doesnt quite add up for me is Beast. Cos the 1 in 4 (as he was 18 when he joined Xavier) makes him approximately 29. But he was saying back in the early to mid 90's that he was almost 30. So a couple years out there.
Various theories on character aging have been proposed, such as a sliding timescale, so that the 1961 origin of the Fantastic Four occurred a perpetual "ten years ago."[2] However, Marvel Editor Joe Quesada put the number at "maybe 7 years" ago into the 1980s. "Eventually, this increased to 10 years in the 90s, and then about 12 or 13 years, which is what we kind of go by today." [1]
Franklin's most recently stated age was 9 years in 2004 (in Marvel Knights 4 #1); if he was born in 1968 then he aged at a rate of one year for every four real years. This is fairly consistent with other characters who have been clearly shown to age, such as Cassie Lang (Stature) (who was 9 in 1978 and is now about 15), Spider-Man (who has aged from 15 in 1962 to his late twenties in the present day), and the original X-Men (who were teenaged students in the 1960s and are now teachers themselves).
The only one that doesnt quite add up for me is Beast. Cos the 1 in 4 (as he was 18 when he joined Xavier) makes him approximately 29. But he was saying back in the early to mid 90's that he was almost 30. So a couple years out there.
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