Susan Storm (Earth-21399)

Early Life
Susan Victoria Storm was born in 1949 in Long Island, New York, to renowned physician Franklin Storm. Tragedy struck the family when Sue's mother, Marilyn, died in a car crash just two years after the birth of Sue's brother, Johnathon, forcing her to act as a mother figure for Johnny while their father was away at work.

Franklin was a cold, distant workaholic embittered by his own inability to save Marilyn following the crash, and who viewed his own children as utter disappointments. Johnny was a hothead who “wasted” his considerable gifts as a mechanic on the racing circuit when he wasn't out partying; while Sue was considerably more mature, she intended to pursue a career in show business, which Franklin dismissed as superficial and irresponsible - he wanted her to pursue medicine.

Meeting Reed Richards
In 1968, when Sue was in college, Franklin was hired by NASA as a chief medical consultant for the astronauts in the Apollo space program. It was here that she met the man who would change her life – child prodigy and head researcher Reed Richards. Despite the fact that Sue was seven years Reed's junior, the two were enamored with each other and began a romantic relationship that Franklin disapproved of.

When Reed mysteriously disappeared during the voyage of Apollo 13, Sue was heartbroken; at that point, they had been dating for two years and she was considering proposing to him once he returned. Sue's relationship with Franklin deteriorated even further to the point that Sue started blaming him for what may have happened to Reed... but then, when Franklin transferred to the Baxter Institute, Sue started getting suspicious.

Disappearance
With Johnny by her side, Sue infiltrated the Baxter Institute with the intent to find out what Franklin was up to and what had happened to Reed. Instead, they found the Institute researcher and Reed's former college roommate Viktor Domashev losing control of his latest experiment. Sue and Johnny were both zapped out of this realm in the ensuing commotion.