Invisible Woman (Sue Storm) — Marvel Rivals

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Invisible Woman

Fantastic Four member and playable Strategist

Invisible Woman is Susan "Sue" Storm Richards, a founding member of the Fantastic Four and a Strategist in Marvel Rivals. Transformed by cosmic rays, she can disappear from sight and shape force fields that shield allies and control dangerous space. During the Timestream Entanglement, Sue puts those powers to work in New York, rescuing people threatened by the vampire outbreak and holding her family together amid a multiversal crisis.

Biography

A hero shaped by cosmic rays

Susan "Sue" Storm is a founding member of the Fantastic Four in Marvel Rivals. An interstellar expedition exposed Sue, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm to cosmic rays, changing their bodies and giving each a different power. Sue can vanish from sight and generate force fields that stop attacks, hold enemies back, and shelter other people. Her powers make her as valuable on a rescue mission as she is in a fight.

The Fantastic Four’s steady center

Sue is known as the family’s stabilizing presence, not merely its stealth specialist. She works beside her husband, Reed Richards, and the other members of the Fantastic Four, combining calm judgment with powers that can protect a whole team. Marvel Rivals presents that combination as the basis of her Strategist role: she keeps allies in the fight while denying enemies easy access to them.

An impossible night in New York

The Timestream Entanglement fractures the larger Marvel Rivals setting. During the crisis known as Eternal Night Falls, Dracula and Doctor Doom help bring New York under supernatural darkness, and vampires roam its streets. While Reed works with Tony Stark on a scientific means of repairing the disrupted timestream, Sue confronts the consequences for people trapped in the city.

The rescuer nobody sees coming

Sue uses invisibility to reach locations too dangerous for ordinary rescuers, seeking civilians trapped by the creatures of the night. She also gathers intelligence. During Eternal Night Falls, H.E.R.B.I.E. reports that she is scouting Central Park to learn how Dracula’s vampire army is organized. The assignment puts her near the enemy while the rest of the Fantastic Four handles research, rescue patrols, and supply runs.

Personality and Motivations

Sue is composed under pressure without being emotionally distant. The game’s hero introduction stresses her calm in battle, while her own story shows her observing people closely and acting when someone needs help. Her instinct is to shield others, though she can also make difficult tactical calls and enter a hazardous area alone.

She is direct with Reed, whose fascination with an experiment can draw his attention away from the immediate problem. Sue can be sharp when exhausted and troubled by the demands on her family, but she is equally willing to own a mistake and repair a strained conversation. Her authority comes from practical judgment and accountability rather than demands for deference.

Sue treats protection as more than creating an indestructible wall. She notices vulnerability, respects the efforts of people who are underestimated, and recognizes when teamwork is more effective than one powerful hero trying to do everything. That perspective grounds both her leadership of the Fantastic Four and her game role as a support-focused Strategist.

Appearance

In her default Marvel Rivals design, Sue is a fair-skinned adult woman with shoulder-length, wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. The stylized character model has a confident, athletic bearing, reflecting the game’s expressive superhero art direction.

Her signature game costume is a futuristic fitted suit in white and deep blue, with armored-looking segmented panels, matching gloves and boots, and a prominent Fantastic Four emblem on the chest. Translucent blue energy effects depict the shields and force constructs she generates. The description refers to her default design, not the game’s many alternate costumes.

Quick facts

Civilian identity: Susan "Sue" Storm Richards
Organization: Fantastic Four
Game role: Strategist — protective support and battlefield control
Power origin: Cosmic-ray exposure during an interstellar accident
Signature powers: Invisibility and force-field projection
Marvel Rivals debut: January 10, 2025, in Season 1: Eternal Night Falls

Abilities

Invisibility

Sue can disappear from sight. Her Covert Advance game passive activates after she disengages from combat and also grants self-healing; Veiled Step lets her propel herself into stealth with a force-field platform.

Limitations: In Marvel Rivals, taking offensive actions or being hit can interrupt stealth, subject to the limited protection of Veiled Step. In the game story, vampires may still detect her by smell.

Force-field construction

Sue creates barriers, containment fields, and solid platforms from projected force. In her hero story she uses these constructs to intercept vampires, control their movements, and reach an elevated position beside a damaged Stark Sentinel.

Limitations: Holding off growing numbers of attackers strains her concentration and stamina; even her protective fields cannot be maintained indefinitely.

Orb Projection

Her basic Marvel Rivals attack sends returning force-field orbs through the battlefield, harming enemies while healing allies along their outward and returning paths.

Limitations: The orbs follow projectile paths and must connect with targets to have an effect.

Agile Strike

Sue can use a three-hit close-range melee combo; the finishing strike launches enemies upward. This is a separate game attack from her returning force-field orbs.

Limitations: It operates at close range, unlike her main ranged attack.

Guardian Shield

Sue projects a shield in front of a selected ally or herself. It blocks incoming damage, heals nearby allies over time, and slows enemies who cross it. She can reposition or recall the shield.

Limitations: The shield has finite durability and a recovery or cooldown cycle after heavy damage.

Psionic Vortex

She launches concentrated psionic energy that unfolds into a vortex, drawing enemies inward and dealing damage within the affected area.

Limitations: The field has a limited radius and duration and is not a permanent containment device.

Force Physics

Sue can manipulate psionic energy to push enemies away or pull them toward her, changing their position during a fight.

Limitations: The effect operates over a defined area and has a cooldown in gameplay.

Invisible Boundary

Her ultimate game ability establishes an unseen zone that conceals allies from enemies, provides healing over time, and slows hostile intruders.

Limitations: The zone is temporary and localized rather than a permanent protection for an entire city.

Fantastic Four team-up abilities

Marvel Rivals has featured several team-up interactions for Sue. Fantasti-Force fortifies Mister Fantastic; United Siblings enhances a protective Flame Shield with Human Torch; and First Family can briefly grant nearby allies invisibility, healing, and increased movement speed, with an enhanced effect when paired with Mister Fantastic.

Limitations: Team-up effects require the appropriate hero partnership, and the available combinations can change between game updates.

Relationships

Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic

Husband and fellow Fantastic Four member

Sue and Reed are married and work together as heroes. His relentless scientific focus can contrast with her immediate attention to family and people in danger.

Johnny Storm / Human Torch

Younger brother and fellow Fantastic Four member

Johnny shares Sue’s cosmic-ray origin and is one of her three Fantastic Four teammates. Their sibling bond is reflected in the team’s collective identity.

Ben Grimm / The Thing

Fellow Fantastic Four member

Ben is a long-standing member of Sue’s team, trusted to take on dangerous field assignments while the group responds to the entanglement crisis.

H.E.R.B.I.E.

Fantastic Four robotic assistant

H.E.R.B.I.E. assists the Richards household during the New York emergency and helps care for the family while Sue and Reed are occupied with rescue and research.

Interesting facts

Sue and Reed Richards joined Marvel Rivals at the beginning of Season 1, while Human Torch and The Thing were scheduled for the season’s second half.

The team was introduced in stages rather than all four members joining the playable roster at once.

The update that made Invisible Woman playable on January 10, 2025, also introduced her Malice costume.

Players could access an alternate interpretation of Sue’s appearance from the outset rather than waiting for a later cosmetics update.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Invisible Woman in Marvel Rivals?

She is Susan “Sue” Storm Richards of the Fantastic Four, a playable Strategist whose powers combine invisibility, force fields, team healing, and battlefield disruption.

Is Sue Storm the same character as Susan Richards?

Yes. Susan Storm is her family name and Susan Richards is her married name; Marvel Rivals uses both in official material.

What role does Invisible Woman play?

She is a Strategist, the game’s support class. She protects and restores allies, conceals teammates, and controls enemy movement rather than relying only on direct damage.

Can Invisible Woman heal teammates?

Yes. Orb Projection heals allies it passes through, while Guardian Shield and Invisible Boundary provide healing within their effects.

How does Sue become invisible?

Exposure to cosmic rays gave her the ability to manipulate visibility. In Marvel Rivals gameplay, she can also use abilities such as Covert Advance and Veiled Step to enter stealth.

What is happening in New York during her Marvel Rivals story?

The Timestream Entanglement has destabilized reality, and Dracula’s forces threaten a New York trapped under supernatural night. Sue uses stealth and force fields to protect people caught in the crisis.

Does Invisible Woman have the same story as the Marvel movies?

Not exactly. Marvel Rivals has its own game storyline involving the Timestream Entanglement and the Fantastic Four. Details from film and comic continuities should not automatically be treated as events from the game.

Major story spoilers below.

The strain behind the shields

In the in-game story Built to Last, Sue stands at a window of the Baxter Building after nearly seven days without a proper break, looking out at a city still trapped beneath the Blood Moon. H.E.R.B.I.E. has been caring for her children, Franklin and Valeria, while she and Reed respond to the emergency. When he says the world currently needs the adults more than their children do, Sue lashes out. Almost at once she realizes that her exhaustion and guilt have hurt someone who was trying to help, and she sets out to apologize.

H.E.R.B.I.E. goes into the dark

Reed explains that H.E.R.B.I.E. has become close to Tony Stark’s artificial assistant F.R.I.D.A.Y. and wanted to accompany her on a dangerous expedition using a Stark Sentinel. Reed refused, without explaining clearly how much H.E.R.B.I.E. means to the family. An emergency signal then arrives. Sue insists on handling the rescue herself, finds H.E.R.B.I.E. near a damaged Sentinel at Grand Central Station, and learns that he came to save F.R.I.D.A.Y. after the machine was shot down. He fears a backup might not contain the memories of their friendship.

Not every danger can be avoided by disappearing

Sue conceals herself while traveling through vampire-infested Manhattan, but the creatures can still smell her blood. Along the way she encounters Bats, Doctor Strange’s ghostly dog, who can also detect her despite her invisibility. At the damaged Sentinel, Sue keeps vampires away while H.E.R.B.I.E. attempts to recover F.R.I.D.A.Y.’s data. Under mounting strain, she receives unexpected help from small Spider-Bots that also answered the distress call; H.E.R.B.I.E. identifies their probable creator as Peni Parker. The rescue is a reminder that Sue’s own defenses are powerful but not limitless.

What makes someone family

Once the attack is over, Sue tells H.E.R.B.I.E. that she and Reed have underestimated him. He is not a replaceable tool but part of their family. She conceals them both as they leave the scene and plans to restore F.R.I.D.A.Y.’s memory files and return them to Tony. She also offers to discuss upgrades with Reed; H.E.R.B.I.E. says he is content as he is, although a few lasers might be useful. The rescue gives Sue a chance to make amends through what she says and what she does.

A route into Dracula’s castle

Elsewhere in the Eternal Night Falls storyline, Johnny Storm describes a more direct role for his sister in the fight against Dracula. Sue has found a way into the vampire ruler’s castle and is planning to lead a squad inside. Johnny intends to push his own flames to a supernova-like intensity to draw the enemy’s attention and give her team an opening, despite the danger to himself. His account establishes Sue’s planned infiltration and her brother’s proposed diversion; it does not depict Sue completing the assault.

Riann Landau and the ESU resistance

During the Season 7 crisis in Lower Manhattan, Mayor Wilson Fisk imposes martial law and has unsanctioned super-powered people arrested in evacuation zones. White Fox’s Tiger Division establishes a covert base at Empire State University and assigns false identities to heroes evading Fisk’s crackdown. Sue enters campus life as Riann Landau, a standout on the ESU debate team. Reed adopts the identity of Dr. Danum Ket, a visiting astrophysics lecturer. Sue’s undercover role is part of the resistance’s preparations, not a new origin or the resolution of the conflict.

Additional story facts

During the Grand Central Station rescue, a force construct Sue sends into a vampire strikes a damaged Stark Sentinel arm, which then seems to repair itself as though time has reversed.

The moment links Sue’s rescue to the story’s wider chronal anomalies. H.E.R.B.I.E. suggests Chronovium may be involved, but the vampire attack prevents her from investigating.

Spoiler questions

Why does H.E.R.B.I.E. leave the Baxter Building?

He goes to Grand Central Station after F.R.I.D.A.Y.’s Stark Sentinel is shot down, hoping to preserve her consciousness and recent memories. Sue follows his emergency signal and helps protect him during the attempt.

What does Sue realize after rescuing H.E.R.B.I.E.?

She recognizes that she and Reed have underestimated him and tells him that he matters as a member of the family, not because he is a useful machine.

Who is Riann Landau in Marvel Rivals?

Riann Landau is Sue’s cover identity at Empire State University during the Season 7 anti-Fisk operation. She joins the debate team while Tiger Division coordinates undercover resistance.

What part does Sue plan to play in confronting Dracula?

Johnny Storm says Sue has found a way into Dracula’s castle and intends to lead a squad through it. He plans a spectacular diversion to create her opening; that account describes the plan rather than showing the infiltration itself.

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