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.

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.

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

Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars are poised to be the next great entries in the MCU, hoping to reshape the universe like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame did years ago. While the specifics will certainly be different, the two movies will likely follow the same basic plot as the comic book story Secret Wars from 2015.

Vanessa Kirby and Pedro Pascal star as married couple Reed Richards and Sue Storm in 'The Fantastic Four: The First Steps.' The duo reveal their characters' wedding song and how they grew close amid filming the latest Marvel film.

This story discusses major plot developments, including the ending and post-credits scenes, in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” currently playing in theaters. From the very first scene, the question of what will become of the child of Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) and Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) looms over “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

First Steps director Matt Shakman has clarified his recent comments about Mr. Fantastic (Pedro Pascal) being the man to "lead the Avengers."

After a number of false starts, the Fantastic Four have another feature adaptation in the retro-pastiche Fantastic Four: First Steps. This isn’t the first time Mr. Fantastic and co. have appeared onscreen; They were last seen in Josh Trank’s Fantastic 4 (stylized as Fant4stic) and Tim Story’s Fantastic Four films for Fox.