THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Plot Leak Reveals Surprise Castings, AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Links, And More

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Plot Leak Reveals Surprise Castings, AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Links, And More

A supposed plot leak for The Fantastic Four: First Steps has surfaced, and it reveals who is playing who, how this movie lays the groundwork for Avengers: Doomsday, and even how the story concludes...

By JoshWilding - Apr 19, 2025 12:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four

A new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps launched earlier this week, and, well, would it be too on the nose to describe it as fantastic? It's certainly increased excitement for the movie, and we now have a potential plot leak

This was published a couple of days before the latest trailer arrived, and the sneak peek appears to confirm the validity of at least a few different claims here. 

It's said that the movie opens with a late-night talk show celebrating four years of the Fantastic Four. It recaps their origins and previous adventures, but Marvel's First Family is M.I.A. because they're busy battling Red Ghost (John Malkovich) and his Super-Apes.

Silver Surfer shows up on Halloween and things play out as we saw in the trailer; the team follows Galactus' Herald into space, but Sue goes into labour during the journey and it's revealed that her and Reed's son, Franklin, has a rare "genetic anomaly" that gives him God-like power of molecular manipulation. 

The Fantastic Four confronts Galactus, and he offers to spare Earth in exchange for Franklin as he wishes to use the boy to revive his dead universe; they refuse.

Back on Earth, the team's adoring public turns on them because they won't sacrifice one child in exchange for billions of lives and storm the Baxter Building, going so far as to attack H.E.R.B.I.E. The Fantastic Four go into hiding, and Natasha Lyonne's Sharon (likely Sharon Ventura, who, in the comics, becomes the female Thing) helps them seek refuge in Subterranea. 

Mole Man (played by Paul Walter Hauser) has become an ally to the team since clashing with them years earlier, and Sharon convinces him to send his Moloids to rescue people while the Fantastic Four battle Galactus on the surface. 

With the Silver Surfer's help, the team beats the World Eater and saves the day. Mole Man and Sharon become an item, the public adores the team again, and a year later, that same talk show celebrates five years of the heroes. However, they miss it again because they're busy saving the world. 

If this leak is accurate, then this sounds like a really fun movie and a comic-accurate take on the characters. 

It's also apparent that the heroes are still on their Earth when Avengers: Doomsday begins. However, between Galactus searching for a dead reality and Franklin's God-like powers, it's not hard to see how important the team will be to what happens there.

Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they face their most daunting challenge yet.

Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.

The movie is set to be released in theaters on July 25, 2025.

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vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 4/19/2025, 12:20 PM
Whay a horrible plot if true
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 4/19/2025, 12:22 PM
so Galactus is sorcerer supreme now and can see the future of their kid? Does he have this kind of power?
SonOfOdor
SonOfOdor - 4/19/2025, 1:27 PM
@vectorsigma - Franklin, even as a fetus, probably just had an insanely high level of cosmic energy bc his powers. Galactus can probably just sense/feel that and is attracted to it vs. some kind of future seeing ability.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/19/2025, 2:47 PM
Why would Galactus not:

• Approach The Fantastic Four in a friendly way and ask for help to restore and return to his own reality

• Wait till Franklin Richards is older and convince him to help.

• Send his heralds after the baby as opposed to going himself, if Shalla-Bal refuses then appoint another herald instead, especially if the population have turned on the Fantastic Four - plenty of options.

Seems like they turned Galactus into an idiot.

dragon316
dragon316 - 4/19/2025, 3:30 PM
@vectorsigma - how can it be horrible same as all other comics movies good vs bad
AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 4/21/2025, 5:28 AM
@Scarilian - Why would Galactus: Even give them the chance to give up the kid. He is the eater of worlds.
True Galactus would steal the kid, eat the world and go on about his day.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/22/2025, 5:26 AM
@AgentofSH1ELD -
In this version while he has the ability to eat worlds, his primary motivation is to return home above all else.

"True Galactus would steal the kid, eat the world and go on about his day."

True, but we're not dealing with Galactus here, we are dealing with Cucklactus.

He's immature and won't do anything intelligent in this movie and he's going to be beaten the same way Malekith was in Thor: The Dark World. Heroes stab him with sci-fi rod. We see Reed Richards holding it in the trailer.

AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 4/23/2025, 10:39 AM
@Scarilian - lmfao. Thank you for this. I laughed quite a bit.
J0RELLC00LJ
J0RELLC00LJ - 4/25/2025, 4:48 PM
@SonOfOdor - He has a naturally high Midichlorian count...
DarkTanicus
DarkTanicus - 5/22/2025, 10:43 AM
@Scarilian - "...True, but we're not dealing with Galactus here, we are dealing with Cucklactus....

🤣🤣🤣
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 4/19/2025, 12:24 PM
I always hoped to see Franklin and I love to see the Hickman run done in Liverpool action
PatientXero
PatientXero - 4/19/2025, 12:24 PM
Sounds like shit
PatientXero
PatientXero - 4/19/2025, 12:24 PM
Jk jk. Lol lol
Alucard28
Alucard28 - 4/19/2025, 12:24 PM
I don't like this tbh.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 4/19/2025, 12:25 PM
im not reading that sh1t
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 4/19/2025, 12:27 PM
Everyone turns on them because they won't sacrifice their infant child? Are you serious? Who the frak signed-off on THAT major plot point???

This movie deserves to fail for that alone. What a bleak, ugly, Far Left worldview bunch of bulls--t. Have everyone willing to sacrifice ANY life for the "greater good" is some kind of Maoist evil.
Fogs
Fogs - 4/19/2025, 12:37 PM
@HistoryofMatt - Yeap. So much for such an advanced society, huh? Materialistic, just like our own.
PatientXero
PatientXero - 4/19/2025, 12:27 PM
Idk how feel about Franklin being introduced so early, and being god like. I know it’s comic accurate. I would also expect some reference to Dr. Doom in there, somewhere.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 4/19/2025, 1:19 PM
@PatientXero - he's just a macguffin. Basically their relevance to the greater MCU is solely due to Franklin.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/19/2025, 2:19 PM
@PatientXero -
"I would also expect some reference to Dr. Doom in there"

Doctor Doom is not from this universe. They make it clear that only the Fantastic Four went into space and got the powers - only the four of them. This means Doctor Doom cannot have gained his powers from the same accident.
PatientXero
PatientXero - 4/19/2025, 3:10 PM
@Scarilian - What are you talking about? You are confusing the Fox movies with the comics. Dr Doom doesn’t have powers. He’s basically an evil Iron Man. Genius level intellect, skilled at hand to hand combat and a suit that grants him abilities. Plus he’s a very highly skilled sorcerer.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/19/2025, 3:22 PM
@PatientXero -
The Fox movies are the only thing the general audience have familiarity with in their desire to see Doctor Doom adapted. They know Doctor Doom only as getting his powers from the same accident the Fantastic Four did.

You think they'd have time or desire to develop his comic origin in this movie that skips origins because the audience already knows them?

The comics are irrelevant, especially to Disney, but more so because Marvel stopped making them during Fox owning the Fantastic Four, so none of the younger audience know Doctor Doom as anything other.

Also, it'd be the Sam Wilson affect. In that movie he had the helmet of Ant-Man, the suit of Black Panther, the wings of Falcon and the shield of Captain America.

If the MCU tries to portray Doom as per the comic, then he'll just be Doctor Strange Iron Man - made worse by the casting of RDJ. They were going to make such a joke in Endgame and decided against it because it'd be really stupid to have a characters identity defined by two separate characters - and once you do the notion that anyone can have magical power armor to buff themselves you devalue each individual hero or villain who wears it.

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PatientXero
PatientXero - 4/19/2025, 3:35 PM
@Scarilian - I think you are over thinking it. Those movies are like 20 years old. I’d bet dollars to donuts they aren’t trying to make it anything like the prior movies. You’d be silly to think they would. Also, while they aren’t focusing directly on the origin, they will cover it. As far as the devaluing the meaning of a suit that is infused by magic, also silly. Not just anyone can do magic. And not just anyone can do magic on the level of Dr Strange, or Dr Doom.
PatientXero
PatientXero - 4/19/2025, 3:37 PM
@Scarilian - That wasn’t serious concept art. They make all sorts of different concept art, not only to see if something cool comes up, but to leak shit intentionally to throw people off.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/22/2025, 5:48 AM
@PatientXero -
"That wasn’t serious concept art."

Yes it was, the one on the right is from the rescue scene on the Q-Ship. Originally Tony Stark was going to save Doctor Strange by giving him the suit, Doctor Strange would then blast the hole in the wall and Tony Stark would be saved by Spider-man (revealing Spider-man was still onboard)

The one on the left is them figuring out designs for how Doctor Strange would look in the suit.

"Those movies are like 20 years old."

The comics are older, yet you are trying to vouch that they are going to be doing that instead.

"Not just anyone can do magic."

In this universe anyone can do magic, that was the entire point of Doctor Strange. It is just difficult to learn - up until Spider-man: NWH which redefined a majority of the magical items as technology anyone can use with practice.
Irregular
Irregular - 4/19/2025, 12:28 PM
Eh. Seems okay. A lot better than the other F4 movies though.
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