New The Fantastic Four: First Steps Trailer Reveals Baby Franklin Richards — and Yes, They Say the Thing

Marvel has released a caller The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer that shows babe Franklin Richards for the archetypal clip and yet sees THAT enactment fans person been waiting for.

Much of the trailer, designed to beforehand the merchandise of summons income for the upcoming MCU movie, we’ve seen before. But we bash get a changeable of Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic and Sue Storm / Invisible Woman lying successful furniture with babe Franklin Richards successful what is our archetypal look astatine the character.

Why is this significant? In a caller interrogation with Empire Magazine, Vanessa Kirby, who plays Sue Storm, dropped an absorbing tease that acceptable tongues wagging wrong the MCU fandom: “It’s not conscionable adults that person superpowers.”

Kirby’s Storm is large successful The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the trailer confirms we spot Franklin astatine slightest arsenic a babe successful the film. This is simply a immense woody for the MCU, arsenic IGN has explored. As we said successful April:

Anyone acquainted with the Fantastic Four comics volition cognize that this is simply a large woody for the team. Marvel Studios is astir to present arguably the astir almighty mutant successful existence. And possibly his super-genius sister for bully measure? Let’s instrumentality a person look astatine wherefore Sue’s gestation has large implications for the MCU and the Marvel movie multiverse.Franklin is easy 1 of the astir almighty beings successful the Marvel Universe. He has the quality to warp world and substance astatine will, a powerfulness that adjacent allows him to make full pouch dimensions retired of nothing. This powerfulness besides manifests successful different ways, giving Franklin everything from telepathy and telekinesis to the quality to task his consciousness crossed the astral plane.Essentially, Franklin is the 1 being connected Earth whose powerfulness is truthful large it rivals that of cosmic entities similar the Celestials and Galactus. And he’s destined to lone turn much almighty with age. The FF person met aggregate big versions of Franklin from the future, suggesting that he’ll 1 time turn to go an immortal defender of the full Marvel Universe.

So, with this successful mind, could Franklin property accelerated successful the movie and yet assistance The Fantastic Four fend disconnected the mightiness of Galactus? Does this each suggest the events of The Fantastic Four: First Steps hap implicit the people of a twelvemonth oregon more? Kirby’s remark surely suggests we’ll spot the quality show his powers to immoderate degree.

Franklin is 1 of the astir almighty characters successful the Marvel universe.

Meanwhile, we perceive Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Ben Grimm / The Thing respond "hell yeah!" erstwhile Joseph Quinn's Johnny Storm / Human Torch asks: “Is it clobberin’ time?" Finally!

Things are heating up successful the satellite of The Fantastic Four arsenic the movie’s July merchandise day approaches. This week manager Matt Shakman commented connected whether Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom would marque an appearance, seemingly confirming the quality volition beryllium absent. However, fans inactive powerfully fishy Doctor Doom volition amusement up successful the movie, possibly successful a post-credits scene.

Last month, we got a confirmed runtime for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is the longest MCU movie since 2023's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. We besides got our champion look yet astatine the film's mentation of Galactus, arsenic played by Ralph Ineson, via a Snapple promo that leaked the character's design. That followed a revealing Funko Pop! spoiler for The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

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