First Steps is coming in lighter than projections in its first box office weekend with $117.6 million. Still records were broken.

There are so many great villains and so many great characters in the Fantastic Four [comics], and there are hopefully other opportunities down the road to include them.” Malkovich’s Red Ghost appeared in the first Fantastic Four: First Steps teaser trailer that debuted back in February,

First Steps reveals Galactus' intention to make Franklin Richards his heir, while hinting at Doctor Doom's potential plan to save the Multiverse.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps has kicked off Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an impressive $118 million domestic box office haul from its opening weekend. That’s the fourth biggest domestic opening of 2025, behind A Minecraft Movie ($162 million), Lilo & Stitch ($146 million), and Superman ($125 million).

Galactus and the Celestials as cosmic rivals could be explored in a potential sequel to 2021’s Eternals, which introduced the latter to the MCU. Moreover, the ending of The Fantastic Four sees Galactus being teleported to a different part of the universe without his Worldship.

First Steps sets up a surprising twist for Avengers: Doomsday by proving the MCU movie's biggest theory completely wrong.

Similar to how Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm went through a massive physical transformation after being subjected to cosmic rays during a space mission, Sue's giving birth to Franklin radically changed the mental and emotional structure of the core characters’ brains.

Fantastic Four' actress Vanessa Kirby hopeful that Marvel Studios will allow her to explore Sue Storm's dark side with the villain Malice.