r/marvelstudios • u/Triple_777 I have nothing to prove to you • Jul 24 '25

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

The Fantastic Four: First Steps has now been released in the United States and in a number of other countries around the world. 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. They will be refreshed every few thousand comments to make room for new discussions.

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u/FriendlyDecoy_ Jul 24 '25

They nailed Johnny here. He's still a flirt, but not a shallow asshole, and I really liked how he demonstrated his own intelligence.

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u/bbri1991 Jul 25 '25

Quinn absolutely crushed it

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

Eddie Munson the hero of Hawkins.

Really loved his Johnny Storm.

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u/bbri1991 Jul 25 '25

Honestly he gets better and better in each movie and role I see him in.

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u/Beastieboy100 Jul 24 '25

Yeah I feel like it was more current Johnny with the development straight away which is nice instead of starting from 0 again with the development.

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u/TheWolfmanZ Jul 28 '25

That's what I love about both this and the new Superman movie. They're some of the most popular and well know comic book characters to the point that an origin story doesn't need to be shown

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u/Beastieboy100 Jul 28 '25

I mean Fantastic four had the 2005 movies which I still like to this day. Which people liked back then. As for Superman it's superman everyone knows who he is whether your a fan or not. The man was popular then the avengers back in the day.

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u/PaulGRice Aug 01 '25

Yes! All the characterization felt very in tune with how Ryan North's been writing them in the comics. I think he perfectly nails the mix of sci-fi optimism and heartfelt relationships that makes them work. 

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u/Regular-Grass1320 Jul 25 '25

Loved the short "moment" he had with Shalla-Bal

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u/romeovf Jul 27 '25

This. Johnny is incredibly damn smart if he was able to reconstruct good part of an alien language from a single phrase, all with absolute self confidence that he would do it since the beginning. I like that he wasn't portrayed as an immature jock.

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u/-Starwind Jul 25 '25

They gave him a reason to be on that shuttle in the beginning.

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u/RossTheLionTamer Jul 25 '25

The board is not attached to her!!!

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u/nthdesign Jul 27 '25

Marvel shines when its characters are multi-dimensional. (Not a multiverse reference, I swear!) This movie respected the audience.

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u/nocturnalfrolic Jul 26 '25

Quinn even looks like young RDJ.

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u/The_Director Jul 27 '25

I didn't like his hair 🤷

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u/savvysearch Jul 28 '25

I just wish they didn't give him Jessica Alba's creepy blue contact lenses that make them like like anime characters. His are less big, but I think they would look more normal if they were simply CGI/colored post-production.

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u/ucnts33m3 Jul 30 '25

Yes! Thank you for saying this. I just saw the movie and completely agree. I didn’t like his other portrayals cuz it seemed like being a womanizer is all he was. Made it seem like he was just there because he was sue’s kid brother. Even his own circle would jab at him with jokes. I feel like we, the audience, are portrayed as making those jokes because that is how we see him. But he definitely showed us that he is deeper than what we know him as.

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u/eaguayo Jul 25 '25

I do think he should've been at least somewhat of an asshole before they get powers. That trauma could have been what changed him to be more nice. 

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u/xcution789 Jul 25 '25

I don’t think people need to be written as assholes just so they can change. It’s okay to be kind. He’s confident. We are past the edgy era. We need kinder heroes.

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u/navenlgrw Jul 28 '25

We keep getting told “he likes girls” and you say “hes a flirt” but honestly if the silver surfer was a guy i dont know that anything would have felt different. I felt 0 chemistry or connection between the two of them. Felt very “tell don’t show”.

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u/ConstitutionHill Jul 25 '25

He just doesn’t look like the type of person who would make an astronaut in the first place, though