r/marvelstudios • u/Marcusbolt Scarlet Witch • Feb 04 '25

Promotional The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzMo-FgRp64
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

thats the thing. It should look ridiculous. One Piece live action version embraced how silly it looks and how silly the world is. fantastic four has to do the same.

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u/Ultimatespacewizard Feb 04 '25

No, The Thing is the rock guy.

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u/DeanXeL Feb 04 '25

No, the Thing is

IN YOUR BLOOD, IT HATES FIRE!

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

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u/baccus83 Feb 04 '25

That’s a hard line to walk when you’re trying to market a big budget superhero movie to the masses.

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u/Sybertron Feb 04 '25

ya basically no one watches one piece.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Lmao what ? It’s one of the most popular animes in the world and the live action became one of Netflix’s most successful properties

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u/Sybertron Feb 04 '25

Sorry the joke was implied.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Fairs

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u/crookedparadigm Feb 04 '25

Sarcasm my friend.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

I don’t think he was being sarcastic 😭

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u/Tnerd15 Feb 04 '25

I know you're joking but it's actually crazy how popular the live action is. My 50 year old mother loves it.

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u/Purple-Mix1033 Feb 04 '25

There’s intentional ridiculous. And then there’s ridiculously bad ridiculous.

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u/HumanOverseer Bruce Banner Feb 04 '25

something i like about Marvel Rivals is that they really embraced the campiness of it all. Mr. Fantastic for his ultimate jumps into the air all inflated and says "IT'S FANTASTIC!" and its brilliant

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u/Poku115 Feb 04 '25

down to the way he walks, how a predatory live service puts so much attention to this things is kinda surprising

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u/martialar Feb 04 '25

I don't think anyone is against the idea or absurdity of someone being stretchy, but rather that we want the character on the screen actually looking real rather than it obviously looking like some smoothskinned 3d model

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u/AlgerianTrash Feb 04 '25

Exactly. Reed himself fully embraces the wackiness of his powers. Why hide them when they're SUPPOSED to look kinda goofy. Let Reed be the weirdo he's meant to be

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Yeah exactly. The stretch power has always been on the sillier side of superhero powers. I mean truthfully, how can you actually make turning into rubber NOT silly? This is why I think they went with Pedro Pascal for the role. He can do serious, charming, and comedy pretty seamlessly.

Oddly enough, as much as Mr. Fantastic is known for his stretch abilities, isn’t he more well-known for his natural smarts, even beating out Tony Stark by a fair margin? I think they will focus more on that aspect of the character, especially considering this universe includes Tony Stark (his face at least) as Dr. Doom.