Phase 6 The Fantastic Four: Getting Started May Finally Recreate an Iconic Previous Marvel Cover Fantastic Four the films avoided it. Matt Shakman's next film The Fantastic Four: Getting Started will feature a new live-action iteration of Marvel's First Family, born in a different MCU timeline than the Avengers' Earth-616. Pedro Pascal's Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby's Sue Storm, Ebon Moss-Bachrach's Ben Grimm, and Joseph Quinn's Johnny Storm will be an active team of superheroes in their own universe before they meet the rest of the MCU heroes, possibly in Avengers: Judgment Day and Avengers: Secret Wars.
Given that The Fantastic Four: Getting Started'The titular team will have their own universe in their debut film, it's likely they'll also get their own rogue's gallery. A universe far removed from the MCU's Avengers offers countless possibilities for an extensive backstory that doesn't interfere with the chronological history of the MCU's Earth-616. While the MCU's Fantastic Four will likely end up crossing paths with the heroes of Earth-616 alongside characters from other timelines, their home universe could be filled with unique takes on Marvel characters who have and haven't appeared in the MCU's main continuity.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Mole Man Lair Set Tease Hints the FF Will Fight Multiple Villains
The Mole Man Will Likely Appear in Fantastic Four: First Steps as Secondary Antagonist
In December 2024, explorers discovered what appeared to be a setting for the Mole Man's underground lair in The Fantastic Four: Getting Started. Paul Walter Hauser has also been cast in a mystery role, which suggests that Mole Man could debut in The Fantastic Four: Getting Startedpossibly as a secondary antagonist. The Fantastic Four: Getting Started it already has two confirmed antagonists: Ralph Ineson's Galactus and Julia Garner's Silver Surfer, who could serve as Doctor Doom's apocalyptic Herald before teaming up with the heroes. Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom Could Also Appear in The Fantastic Fourhow will he be Avengers: Judgment Daymain villain soon after.
Taking advantage of your independent schedule, The Fantastic Four: Getting StartedThe 1960s-inspired universe could feature a wide variety of classic Fantastic Four villains such as Wizard, Terrax, Annihilus, Psycho-Man and, of course, Mole Man. Whether in an opening montage or throughout the film, The MCU's Fantastic Four could face and defeat lesser villains like the Mole Man as they try to stop Galactus from devouring their world. The Fantastic Four could also put aside their differences with these villains to protect their Earth together.
The Fantastic Four: First steps could recreate the team's first comic book cover
The MCU's Fantastic Four Could Pay Homage to Their Comic Book Debut in Phase 6
At Marvel Fantastic Four #1Dating back to 1961, Marvel's First Family comes together for the first time in the comics to stop the furious monster Giganto, who was unleashed on New York by the Mole Man to drive the Fantastic Four away from their territories. The Fantastic Four struggle to contain Giganto at first, but manage to stop the beast and track down the Mole Man in his lair on Monster Island. If the Mole Man appears in The Fantastic Four: Getting Startedhe could cast Giganto over the MCU's Fantastic Four, who could recreate his iconic Fantastic Four #1 live-action cover.
The Fantastic Four: Getting StartedThe standalone timeline could easily feature locations like Giganto's Monster Island and the Mole Man's lair, also known as “Subterranea,” since their existence wouldn't contradict any information established by previous MCU installments. The Fantastic Four: Getting Started it can also reimagine events and characters from the MCU for the same reason. For example, the Phase 6 movie could reveal that the Deviants were not wiped out by the Eternals, allowing the Mole Man to recruit Deviant mutants like Giganto.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is already different from the previous films in one fundamental aspect
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the Least Grounded Live-Action FF Adaptation
Despite their starkly different approaches to the source material, all Fantastic Four the films grounded Marvel's First Family in realism, to varying degrees. All live action Fantastic Four The adaptations placed a strong focus on the titular heroes' origin story and early days as a superhero team, with Doctor Doom as the main antagonist. The Fantastic Four: Getting Started promises to spring into action with the Fantastic Four facing villains as extraordinary as Galactus and Silver Surfer — all with a retrofuturistic setting.
The Fantastic Four: Getting Started This will mark the first time that the Devourer of Worlds will have an anthropomorphic appearance faithful to the comics
Since The Fantastic Four: Getting Started While it apparently won't take long to establish the team's origin stories, the Phase 6 film will have more room for a wide variety of comic book-accurate villains. While Fox Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer presented the first live-action adaptation of Galactus, The Fantastic Four: Getting Started This will mark the first time that the Devourer of Worlds will have an anthropomorphic appearance faithful to the comics. This is a good sign that The Fantastic Four: Getting Started it will also feature characters like Mole Man and Giganto.
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