The Fantastic Four First Steps’ ending and post-credits scenes explained. Doctor Doom's MCU debut teased as Robert Downey Jr sets up Avengers Doomsday. Franklin Richards' powers revealed.

First Steps” is the third Marvel movie to hit theaters this year, but it packs way more hidden references and nods than “Captain America: Brave New World” or “Thunderbolts.” It’s not on the same level of Easter eggs as last year’s “Deadpool and Wolverine,

This iteration of the Fantastic Four has a standalone adventure without all the burden of the MCU's history and cast of characters.

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It's exactly why we should be welcoming the fact that The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the last MCU movie for an entire year.

Marvel's Fantastic Four is heading for a box office opening north of $100 million as the MCU provides an antidote to universe fatigue.

No, silly, superhero movies aren’t dead. The second comic-book movie in the last two weeks, Disney/ Marvel Studios ‘ The Fantastic Four: First Steps is conquering around $23M in previews tonight that began at 2PM. Domestic outlook was $100M-$110M, but the Matt Shakman directed movie is bound to shoot higher.

First Steps is an alternate-universe Marvel movie that uses its parallel universe not to complicate but to separate, shedding the narrative labyrinths of its predecessors. Thanks to the multiverse, its heroic,

First Steps brings Franklin Richards into the MCU, a character who has shaped Marvel's past and may shape the future of the cinematic universe.