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Marvel ’s Fantastic Fourare known as " Marvel ’s First Family " – and befittingly , they were the earliest to search the Multiverse and contend with scourge from alternate realness . The Four ’s first appearance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been long overdue , and with the Multiverse taking key stage in the troupe ’s on - screen on-going narrative , one of the squad ’s early world - hopping storycould prove to be the perfect path to bring them into the MCU .
Fantastic Four ( Vol . 1)#161 – written by Roy Thomas , with artistic production by Rich Buckler – was handout in 1975 . A follow - up to a history from a decade in the first place , which feature theHuman Torch visiting a parallel attribute , this issue revisit the world from that issue , but added another wrinkle : the parallel dimension was under attack by Earth , but not the Fantastic Four ’s Earth . Rather , it was an Earth from an alternate timeline .
With a few tweaks , this story could be adjust to suit the squad ’s instauration into the MCU . What ’s more , it would enable them to join the Cinematic Universe as fully - realized heroes , dispensing with the need for an origin story .
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The Fantastic Four Were Marvel’s Multiversal Pioneers
The construct of the Multiverse that has come to define wonder storytelling in many ways , on the page and on screen , was officially stick in in 1976’sWhat If … ?#1 , which have the report , " What If Spider - Man join The Fantastic Four ? " Just over a twelvemonth earlier , the Four went on Marvel ’s early Multiversal adventure , in a three - egress discharge which tied together several earliersolo adventures the Human Torchand Thing had aim through spacetime . The thought of a " Multiverse " does n’t seem in the story , hand that the Fantastic Four only deal with a single alternating timeline – however , it shows the theme was percolating at Marvel , asWhat If … ?would debut just over a year - and - a - half afterward .
author ofFantastic Four ( Vol . 1)#161 - 163 , Roy Thomas , also wroteWhat If … ?#1 , where he was creditworthy for explicitly introducing the Multiverse to Marvel reviewer .
Adapting this story for theFantastic FourMCU movie would achieve several things . Exploring other dimensions , and the potential threats contained therein , would bring a new storytelling transmitter to the Marvel Cinematic Universe , which has already done slap-up matter narratively with eminent - concept ideas , including meter travel , and the Multiverse itself . More critically , it would offer a mechanism through which the Four could seamlessly integrate into the MCU . The movie could find the squad helping protect a parallel dimension from a terror by a different Earth than their own . The climax could entrap them on that alternate Earth – and in patented Marvel fashion , a mid - or - post - credits panorama could discover that Earth to be the MCU .
The Thing ’s 1979 time travelling adventure fromMarvel Two - In - One#50 was later retconned in 1983’sMarvel Two - In - One#100 as another example of the team ’s early skirmish with alternate continuities .
Adapting This FF Story Would Build On Reed Richards' “Strange” Cameo
bring the Fantastic Four into the MCU from an alternative timeline would build upon Mr. Fantastic ’s appearance inDoctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness , while explaining their absence from the MCU up to this tip – without having to restate their descent story on concealment once more . The Marvel Cinematic Universe has already made it well-defined that versions of the Fantastic Four exist within its Multiverse;Fantastic Four ( Vol . 1)#161 - 163provides a blueprint for bring the squad into the MCU in a meaningful elbow room , one that would tolerate them to make an straightaway impact , while also nodding to the rich history of the team , somethingMarvel ’s grotesque Fourdeserves as the ship’s company ’s " First Family . "
