Rewatching The Fantastic Four: First Steps Convinced Me That It Confirms How The Team Comes To The MCU

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While The Fantastic Four: First Steps didn’t send the team to another universe, a second viewing suggests it laid the groundwork for how they’ll join the main Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Fantastic Four are set to play a crucial role in both Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, and their involvement in these upcoming movies is particularly interesting.

The end of The Fantastic Four: First Steps hinted at a connection to the Avengers movies by bringing in Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. He visited the Baxter Building to see Franklin Richards, the son of Reed and Sue. The Fantastic Four ultimately saved their world from Galactus, but did so in a way that differed from what was shown in Thunderbolts – they didn’t use their ship. The movie also subtly suggested the possibility of them traveling through the multiverse.

The MCU Fantastic Four Had A Major Plan To Stop Galactus

Before the Fantastic Four movie came out, most fans thought Galactus would destroy Earth, forcing the team to join the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe. But Reed Richards, played by Pedro Pascal, devised a plan to stop him. Although it didn’t go perfectly at first, the Fantastic Four ultimately succeeded.

The Fantastic Four created teleportation bridges linking Earth to distant parts of the galaxy, allowing them to evade Galactus for centuries. Although the Silver Surfer dismantled many of these portals, she ultimately teamed up with the heroes to successfully send Galactus through the one in New York, thereby saving the planet. Revisiting the film The Fantastic Four: First Steps has prompted a closer examination of these teleportation bridges.

I’m Convinced Reed Richards’ Teleportation Bridge Will Become Multiversal Like In The Comics

Reed Richards, also known as Mister Fantastic, explores alternate universes in Marvel comics, hoping to find solutions to all problems. This research led him to create the Bridge, a device that lets him observe and travel to these different realities. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the Bridge is established as a teleportation system that functions within their own universe.

Now that Doctor Doom has entered the Baxter Building and is expected to play a large role in upcoming Avengers films, it’s possible he’ll be the key to Reed Richards improving his teleportation technology to travel across the multiverse. Director Matt Shakman has stated that Jonathan Hickman’s work on the Fantastic Four comics was a major inspiration for the MCU movie.

Shakman specifically highlighted “The Bridge,” which strengthens my belief that the teleportation technology could be expanded to connect different universes. This seems like the simplest way to introduce the Fantastic Four into our main universe, potentially paving the way for characters from other franchises like the X-Men from the Fox movies and Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man to join as well. The story in “Fantastic Four: First Steps” appears to be the beginning of that process.

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2025-11-22 18:39