The Fantastic Four: First Steps is officially one month away (at the time of publication) from being released on July 25. And, to celebrate the countdown to launch, Marvel has debuted one final trailer that makes it look even more *ahem* fantastic than I already expected it to be.
Unveiled on June 25, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movie’s new trailer puts the titular team’s efforts to save their world from the planet-devouring cosmic entity known as Galactus front and center. Check it out below:
Excited though I am for one of 2025’s most anticipated new movies, it’s only served to heighten my concerns about the possible fate of the group’s strongest individual: Sue Storm.
Storm, aka The Invisible Woman, is considered to be one of the most powerful beings in Marvel Comics. If she’s been adapted as authentically as possible for this flick, she’ll be just as potent in the MCU, too.
Okay, but why would that mean she could die in First Steps? After all, Vanessa Kirby, who’s playing Storm in the MCU, was among the 27-strong initial cast for Avengers: Doomsday, i.e. the next Marvel Phase 6 film that’ll arrive after this movie. So, Storm must survive the events of First Steps to appear in that film, right?
Not necessarily. Given she’s the matriarch of Marvel’s First Family and the mother of Franklin Richards (the baby we see in the latest trailer) who, if rumors are to be believed, is who Galactus is after, she’ll do what any mom would do and lay her body on the line to save her first-born.
It’s possible, then, that Storm could sacrifice herself to not only protect Franklin and the rest of the team, but also defeat Galactus – or, at the very least, prevent him from taking Franklin. That could be a good way to set up part of Avengers: Doomsday‘s story, especially if Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom persuades Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic to help him if it means Richards gets his wife back. Hey, stranger things have happened!
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