History
The Flb'Dbi are a short, semi-arachnoid alien species that live on the planet Jhb'Btt, orbiting in the star system known as Beta Lyrae[4][2][3] on Earth.[3] The Flb'Dbi are 3'8"-tall creatures[2][3] with brown skin fur that is covered around their faces and in the rears with tufts of red hair.[4][2][3] 3'8" at the shoulder,[2][3] they move on four hind, four-toed legs, which leaves four tentacle-like limbs (the two upper ones far longer than the others) to manipulate the enviornment. Their faces are dominated by two huge, reflective, red gloves that look like the eyes, and a very similar globe in the place of the mouth, the latter surrounded by for more tentacles.[4][2][3] This mouth is not required to speak, as the species evolved to communicate telepathically.[2][3] The telepathy allows for conscious communication between two willing people (including Fld'Dbi and Earth-born humans), and also to invasively enter another person's mind to see their memories (thou the Fld'Dbi are cautious because they can be tricked during this process by accessing false memories). It can also be used by several Fld'Dbi to triangulate the position of a conscious being they can not see.[4]
The Flb'Dbi are also a very long-living species, with a lifespan of many thousands of years from the perspective of Earth.[2][3] Flb'Dbi do not wear clothes, but pendants have been seen to identify a group's highest-ranking membercalled "First-Among-Equals".[4]
Drone plastoids in the foreground; in the background, combination of plastoids to fight the Fantastic Four.
Flb'Dbi starship.
While the Flb'Dbi have enemies, their identities have not been revealed. The Fld'Dbi claim that their telepathic access to someone else's memories can lead to deception, suggesting that it has happened in the past. However, even knowing that there are foes, the Fld'Dbi are a very moral species who will immediately stop any activity if it threatens other sentient beings.[4]
Earth colonization effort[]
The solution to all the Flb'Dbi's problems went through digging a huge hole in the ice.
Once the drones had the technology available,[4][1] they woke up the Fld'Dbi (who failed to notice how much time had passed or that the Earth had an intelligent, civilized species at that point),[4] and activated their machinery, which caused worldwide havoc[1] due to a short-lived electromagnetic dysfunction everywhere, that affected unprotected electronic devices everywhere. This cuased several disasters, but luckily no known casualties. Scientist and superhero Mr. Fantastic was asked to investigate, and he correctly deduced a force was altering the planet's magnetic fields from one of the poles. He travelled to investigate, along with his team the Fantastic Four,[5] through Canadian territory,[5][6] to find the drones operating machine on their hole, and raising in a moment a one-mile-tall christaline tower[5] which Mr. Fantastic theorised could destroy mankind. The Fantastic Four tried to approach the tower for analysis, but the drones detected the intruders and tried to stop them with no little success: The Thing was surrounded by drone goop that hardened around him, then fell under the icy water, while Mr. Fantastic and the Human Torch found that their enemies adapting to their powers while exhausting them. However, the Invisible Woman escaped from them, finding and entering the underwater ship, and making first contact with the Fld'Dbi. Interesting in this being unknown to them, the Fld'Dbi used their telepathy to enter the Woman's mind and, wary to some extent in case she could be tricking them, explained their plight. The Invisible Woman then told the Fld'Dbi that they had been in hypno-sleep for 500,000 years and, in that time, the civilization had progressed. Primus understood that they had endangered the locals and, with his peers and the Woman, left the ship to order the drones to stop their attack (although at that point Mr. Fantastic already had a plan to use against the drones) and save the Thing.[4]
![Flb'Dbi, Susan Storm (Earth-616) from Fantastic Four Vol 1 220 001](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/5/50/Flb%27Dbi%2C_Susan_Storm_%28Earth-616%29_from_Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_220_001.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20230712155403)
Fist contact between Fld'Dbi civilization and Earth's, represented by the Invisible Woman.
Further activities[]
Nowadays, Flb'Dbi are in contact with other interstellar species, and one Fld'Dbi was seen as a member of the Society of Higher Interstellar Education and Logistical Development (SHIELD), onboard their ship Shield Orbiter, devoted to study, experimentation and ensuring that their activities would not endanger other civilizations. SHIELD apprehended Earth-born superhuman Firebird, correctly assuming that her powers had been caused by one of their own experiments, and painfully studied her in a meeting attended by a Fld'Dbi. They discovered that the unauthorized experiment of SHIELD pupil Yoof had caused her mutation. Firebird released herself and confronted SHIELD, threatening the Flb'Dbi and the others with her powers; SHIELD Prime Theoretician Chlreee explained the situation and returned her to Earth.[7]
At a later point, a Fld'Dbi was seen among the audience in the finish line of the Galactic Marathon, a sports event to find the fastest single individual in the Milky Way. Earth-born Eternal Makkari won the race, the audience cheering him; but soon afterward, the whole race was deemed null due to one racer having cheated.[8]
Alternate Realities[]
Earth-610102[]
On Earth-610102, the Flb'Dbi were one of the alien species affected by the cumbersome Apostrophe Plague, as described by Galacta on Twitter.[9] It is unclear whether this event happened also in Earth-616 and other realities.Powers and Abilities
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![Flb'dbi from Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 2 15 001](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/d/d8/Flb%27dbi_from_Official_Handbook_of_the_Marvel_Universe_Vol_2_15_001.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20160517154816)
A Flb'Dbi with only six limbs instead of the typical eight, from Official Handbook Vol 2.
- Species name revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #3.
- The image of a Flb'Dbi in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #15 shows it with only six limbs, even if the description in that same book says each Fld'Dbi has eight limbs.
- Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #15 says that Primus' ship had crashlanded on Earth. In Fantastic Four #221, the ship seems to have landed properly without emergency situation, but was damaged afterward while on Earth.
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- 3 appearance(s) of Flb'Dbi
- 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Flb'Dbi
- 1 mention(s) of Flb'Dbi
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Flb'Dbi
- 4 image(s) of Flb'Dbi
- 1 representative(s) of Flb'Dbi
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References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Marvel Encyclopedia #Fantastic Four ; Primus' profile
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #3 ; Flb'Dbi profile under Alien Species
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #15 ; Flb'Dbi profile under Alien Species
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 4.29 4.30 4.31 4.32 4.33 4.34 4.35 4.36 4.37 4.38 4.39 Fantastic Four #221
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Fantastic Four #220
- ↑ Marvel Atlas #2 ; Canada's profile
- ↑ Avengers Spotlight #24
- ↑ Quasar #58
- ↑ Galacta: Daughter of Galactus #1