First Steps Is Going To Break A Grim MCU Trend: The Fantastic Four
First Steps marks the Marvel family's MCU debut and prepares the squad to buck a shockingly negative trend by film's end. Officially joining the MCU in 2025's The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the Fantastic Four can buck a troubling MCU pattern with Marvel's First Family. Audiences have long yearned for the MCU release of The Fantastic Four. Although the gang has starred in three films before under the Fox Marvel banner, moviegoers thinking Marvel to produce a spectacular picture starring The Fantastic Four were left with mediocre to bad reception for these Movies. Though only in limited capacity, phases 4 and 5 have so far hinted to the presence of the gang.
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John Krasinski visited Reed Richards in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Although the actor is portraying a variation of the hero rather than the primary Reed in the MCU chronology, this nevertheless makes a fantasy fan-casting a reality. Chris Evans brilliantly reprised his Johnny Storm character from 2005's Fantastic Four and 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Although both cameos pay good homage to The Fantastic Four, their looks also set a startlingly negative pattern that the forthcoming Marvel film may avoid.
Through surviving their first movie, the Fantastic Four can buck an MCU trend.
For The Fantastic Four thus far, the MCU hasn't been particularly friendly. Although audiences adored watching Mr. Fantastic and Human Torch in their little roles, their camebacks concluded in graphic deaths. Scarlet Witch transformed Reed into spaghetti in Doctor Strange 2's Illuminati bloodbath; before he became a puddle of bones and blood, Cassandra Nova tore off Johnny Storm's skin. First Steps offers the team a perfect chance to break this pattern. The movie will feature all four team members, and chances are they will all survive. The MCU's future depends on the team, hence it would be quite sad for viewers if the squad got only one film before they are all dead. Luckily, another Comic-Con announcement indicates the squad very certainly will survive First Steps.
The characters confirmed to show up in Avengers 5 and 6.
Kevin Feige revealed The Fantastic Four would return in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars at Marvel Studios' San Diego Comic Con Hall H panel Screen Rant attended. Pedro Pascal's Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby's Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn's Johnny Storm, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach's Ben Grimm are therefore poised to join the Avengers not too far off. It's ideal timing as, in the battle against Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom, a villain mostly connected with Marvel's First Family, they should be absolutely vital. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is set in an other universe, hence Doctor Doom might be Tony Stark's variation living on Earth. It's also rather likely he would show up in First Steps, so the movie might straight forwardly enter the start of Armageddon. But before confronting Galactus, The Fantastic Four seem to have to live, therefore their debut will still be dangerous in many respects.
Future MCU Film
date of release
Captain America in Brave New World
February 14, 2025
Storms
May five, 2025.
The Fantastic Four: Initial Directions
25 July 25, 2025
blade
November 7, 2525
Avengers: Apocalypse
March 1, 2026
Secret Wars: Avengers
On May 7, 2027
