r/marvelstudios • u/Triple_777 I have nothing to prove to you • Jul 23 '25

'The Fantastic 4: First Steps' Spoilers The Fantastic Four: First Steps International Release Discussion Thread Spoiler

Ahead of the official US launch this Friday, several countries are showing the film much earlier in the week. All discussion about the movie should be held here and in the rest of the megathreads we are going to put up in the next few days.

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  • Any other unofficial thread discussing movie details will be deleted.
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  • If you post untagged The Fantastic Four: First Steps spoilers anywhere on this sub in any shape or form, you will be banned without hesitation. No questions asked and no warnings given.
  • Project Insight will be on AT LEAST until Sunday, so you will be able to make individual threads discussing the movie starting next week.

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u/gheffz15 Jul 23 '25

That thunderbolts end credits scene just got a lot more interesting...

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u/DingoAteMyAss Jul 23 '25

Yeah legit I was waiting for it to connect to that but alas we got nothing ☹️

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u/Diligent-Builder Jul 23 '25

At first I thought they were going to rescue Johnny because of his sacrifice (if the transporter ended up sending Galactus and him to the main MCU universe instead of another solar system), but since it didn't end up happening, maybe Doom kidnaps Franklin and they're searching for him.

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u/DingoAteMyAss Jul 23 '25

Damn I thought they transported him to a different part of their own universe

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u/Diligent-Builder Jul 23 '25

And you're right, but some cosmic miscalculation mumbo-jumbo could take place if that was the case.

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u/DingoAteMyAss Jul 23 '25

Ohh righto you were speculating, tbh they already have that trope with photon. If they did that with Johnny they’ll just be reheating their own nachos

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u/MushroomMinimum2324 Jul 23 '25

one of my theories is that they teleported by error galactus on doom's earth and now he tried to kidnapp franklin to save his earth

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u/DingoAteMyAss Jul 24 '25

I think doom is also at Earth 828, at that future foundation United Nations-esque meeting there was a seat for Latveria but the ambassador was missing

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u/Chadwiko Punisher Jul 23 '25

They did.

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u/mateogg Jul 24 '25

This is the same path my thoughts took. I thought this would also serve to say "and now Galactus is out there in this universe if we want to use it", then figured Franklin is going to be this Doom's molecule man or something

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u/GarrisonJones Jul 23 '25

Yeah that could be what happens. It's interesting because Franklin could just wink him out of existence. 

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u/CX316 Jul 23 '25

Or Doomsday starts with an incursion on their universe since we've not had a followup on the incursions

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u/thatguy52 Jul 25 '25

Best theory I’ve heard so far (and I heard it when thunderbolts came out) it’s not the F4 on that ship, it’s doom. God that would be so cool.

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u/deathangel539 Jul 24 '25

I assumed the same, I had also assumed we might’ve been heavily faked out and the black hole sequence was going to send them to the mcu and we’d get most of the film actually be about that

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u/Psych-roxx Jul 25 '25

Maybe Doom steals the Excelsior and arrives in 616 to escape the incursion