- "Next time, fantastic fools, the Puppet Master will not fail."
- ―Puppet Master
Puppet Master (Phillip Masters) is the stepfather of Alicia Masters.
Biography[]
Fantastic Four[]
The Thing visited Alicia's lab and saw some puppets one the wall. When he asked her about them, she replied that they belonged to her stepfather.
Fantastic Four (2005 Video Game)[]
He sent several exhibits at a museum (ex. mummies and dinosaurs) after the heroes to protect Alicia. In the end, after the heroes destroyed the statue of Horus, he escaped to the back door. The heroes aren't aware that he was responsible for the disaster, believing it instead to be a side-effect of the cosmic rays that gave them their powers. He uses radioactive clay to control whoever he chooses. This is probably how he made the exhibits in the museum come to life and attack the Fantastic Four.
Relationships[]
- Alicia Masters - Stepdaughter
- Fantastic Four - Enemies
Trivia[]
- The late Don Payne (writer of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, who would later go on to write Thor: The Dark World) mentioned that while he never discussed a sequel, he did have a love for the Puppet Master, among many concepts from the comics. According to Michael Chiklis, Alicia Masters would have more screen time and her and Ben's relationship would've had a bigger focus in the sequel to Rise of the Silver Surfer, so the Puppet Master would have likely been featured.
- It's unclear if the Puppet Master would have been African-American like Alicia was.
- A popular fan theory of the 2005 film is that he made the man try to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Similar to what he did in his first comic book appearance.
External Links[]
Puppet Master on the Marvel Wiki
Puppet Master on Wikipedia