1st Steps Sees Reed Richards Make Stupid Mistakes
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A new Avengers: Doomsday theory explores how the Fantastic Four might travel to Earth-616. It suggests Reed Richards uses Galactus’ ancient ship tech, combined with his own inventions, to build multiversal transport and rescue Franklin Richards from Doctor Doom’s grasp.
Curious how Franklin Richards ended up with one of Marvel’s most powerful forces in The Fantastic Four: First Steps? The newborn wields the Power Cosmic, an energy so immense it once sustained Galactus and now fuels Franklin’s reality-shaping abilities.
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In Fantastic Four comics, Reed Richards is always trying to save the world, but he has also almost destroyed it more than once.
In a 1982 arc by John Byrne, Franklin gets frustrated trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube and uses his powers to age himself into an adult body, though he couldn’t actually gain more emotional maturity. He winds up going back to being a kid, placing restrictions on his own abilities to allow him to have something of a normal childhood.
Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby lead an impressive acting ensemble, but the film doesn't exactly achieve greatness.
First Steps makes a bold move in stripping a superhero of their defining characteristic, but shifts the team's hierarchy.
First Steps, a new character has begun to make waves in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): Franklin Richards. This baby, born to the
Production designer Kasra Farahani took that and ran with it, turning London’s Pinewood Studios into a retro-futuristic Manhattan by drawing influences from Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” and architects including Eero Saarinen and Oscar Niemeyer.