Sean Marshall Kevin Feige caused shockwaves during San Diego Comic Con when he announced the Phase 5 & Phase 6 lineup, which included a release date for the Fantastic Four film. Fantastic Four will hit the big screen on November 8, 2024, & as of right now, we have no cast or plot for the film, but this won’t stop us from coming up with some ideas as to how Marvel should introduce moviegoers to Marvel’s first family.
Feige confirmed that Marvel wouldn’t be doing an origin story for the Fantastic Four, which means they will already have their powers when we see them on the big screen. How? Well, I believe we’ll see the Fantastic Four for the first time in either next year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania or their solo film that will take place in another universe.
Rather than having the Fantastic Four gain their powers after being exposed to cosmic rays during a scientific mission to outer space, the MCU can have it that Reed Richards, Sue Richards, Johnny Storm & Ben Grimm were working with Hank Pym to rescue Janet Van Dyne from the Quantum Realm & somehow got stuck in the Quantum Realm which ultimately gave them their powers. If Richard, Sue, Johnny & Ben were trapped in the Quantum Realm without their suits, they could’ve got their abilities from being exposed to the energy within the Quantum Realm.
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We’re set to meet Kang in the next Ant-Man film, which is why I believe we’ll be introduced to the Fantastic Four here. For those that aren’t too familiar with the comics, Kang (Nathaniel Richards) is a 31st-century scholar & descendant of Reed Richards. To have Kang & not introduce the Fantastic Four in this film would be a missed opportunity. Now, I am not saying that they need to have the Fantastic Four play a central role in the upcoming Ant-Man film, but I am saying that they should at least show up in the quantum realm or at least in a mid or post-credit scene.
As for Doctor Doom, I think we’ll see him for the first time at the end of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but he’ll possibly be pulling the strings behind the war between Wakanda & Namor. Doom has to be a powerhouse in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so I believe they will do something vastly different from the comics & go with Doom being a variant of Kang. Yes, Marvel can have Doom as one of the many variants of Kang we’ll see in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Of course, some will say that Johnathan Majors playing all of the Kangs & Doom will be too much, but the person that plays Doom doesn’t have to be Majors as the Council of Kangs didn’t all look like the original. In fact, Giancarlo Esposito recently revealed that he did speak with Marvel Studios about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although Esposito said that he wants the role of Professor Charles Xavier, leader of the X-Men, I think he would be better suited to play Doom, especially if they go down the road of Kang being a descendant of Doom.
One exciting thing about Doom & Kang is that the two were thought to have been related at one point in time in the comics. In Super Heroes Secret Wars #1, written by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck, & John Beatty, Kang thought that Doom was an ancestor of his due to their villainous & intellectual similarities; however, this was dismissed later on in Fantastic Four #273, when it was revealed that Kang was a descendant of Reed Richards. Even though most fans are looking forward to Kang’s big reveal of being a descendant of Reed Richards, I feel Marvel should go the route of having Doom be an ancestor of Kang since Stan Lee wanted this to be a thing back when he wrote Avengers #24 with Don Heck & Dick Ayers.
How would you prefer for Doom to be introduced? Let us know!
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