{"id":145602,"date":"2019-07-25T20:59:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T20:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=145602"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:38:18","slug":"fantastic-four-mcu-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/fantastic-four-mcu-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s last chance to save the Fantastic Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel shared a ton of news with us at Comic-Con last week: A handful of new TV series, some of the upcoming movies in Phase 4, and a bunch more<\/a>. One promise that raised some eyebrows was the announcement of another Fantastic Four reboot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yes, another one.<\/p>\n

We’ve had three movies with these guys in the past 15 years, and they were all pretty … well, they weren’t fantastic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> has been ridiculously successful of late, even toppling long-standing box office giant<\/a> “Avatar<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

One of their more remarkable feats is time and again bringing long-forgotten characters into the glorious spotlight. Who could have foreseen the popularity of Iron Man over a decade ago? The same can even be said of the Avengers. How many people had even heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy before 2014 (seriously, comment below if you had; kudos to you)?<\/p>\n

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If you told a Marvel fan back in 2005 that the Guardians of the Galaxy would rake in more cash than the Fantastic Four, he’d laugh in your face through his vintage issue of Alpha Flight<\/a>. That’s because the Fantastic Four weren’t a long-lost offshoot in the overlooked annals of comic book history – they were at the epicenter of the Marvel universe<\/strong>, and had tie-ins to virtually everything involved inside it.<\/p>\n

Why the Fantastic Four are so important<\/h3>\n
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These guys have been on more adventures than anyone else in the Marvel Universe!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Historically the Fantastic Four were the group that propelled the Superhero genre into the modern era. It did so by capitalizing on what were, at the time, very atypical angles of narrative<\/a>: Though they got their start in space, the problems they shared were very down-to-earth.<\/p>\n

The four teammates did not get along like the members of the original Justice League; The Thing despised his monstrous appearance and wished he’d never gotten his super powers; and Reed Richards struggled with decidedly non-super problems – overspent budgets, stock market crashes, failures in his personal projects, and struggles to lead his team. Instead of an unapproachable hero figure, Lee and Kirby created a relatable family of misfits:<\/p>\n