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Fantastic Four
Reed Richards
Reed Richards
"I'm no good to you, to anyone. This is all my fault."
Played By: Miles Teller
The leader of the team, who gained his powers (along with the others) during an accident on Planet Zero. His power is Elasticity.
- Adaptational Heroism: In regards to the inspiration Ultimate Fantastic Four, as this Reed hasn't become The Maker.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Purely superficial, but
the creators confirm that instead of stretching, he's manipulating local spacetime due to micro-black holes integrated into his body. The effect just makes him look like he's stretching anyways. Makes you wonder why this was even changed in the first place. - Adaptational Jerkass: To the point that it's Lampshaded by the characters, and resulting in the caption quote. The original Reed was a good person, and after the accident, he brings the team together. Here, he abandons his friends and becomes a wanted fugitive after the accident.
- Adaptation Personality Change: It takes him a while to shape up to his leadership role here, while in the comics, he's already an astounding leader.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Downplayed, but the original Reed is downright handsome, and has a slight heroic build. Here, he's slimmer, and is more average looking, and he also has scars. That said, he's Younger and Hipper, and receives an Adrenaline Makeover.
- Body Horror: A notable recipient, with Power Incontinence meeting Rubber Man in what could only be made worse by him melting.
- Dirty Coward: Receives this sentiment for fleeing upon awakening with his powers, leaving the rest to track him.
- It's All My Fault: Said almost verbatim.
- Reed: (To Ben) I'm no good to you, to anyone. This is all my fault.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Combined with It's All My Fault, Reed feels guilty over abandoning his friends. He makes amends with them in the climax.
- Power Incontinence: The only member of the team to avert it by the end, managing to control himself when his spring-suit is destroyed by Doom in the climax.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Zig-Zagged. He takes a teleporter to a high-school science fair, which gets overlooked by the staff but does land him a gig on a high-end government project. That said, a lot of what his teleporter could do was Achievements in Ignorance, him having no clue he made a gate to another dimension and better than the government's attempt. He thought the objects were going to the Sahara. He plays it straight when he abandons the team, his solo work accomplishing nothing in curing the mutations.
- Rubber Man: Although this one apparently distorts spacetime to do so. Still means he has to wear springs to control it.
- Tall Poppy Syndrome: Probably why his speech, and later tangible proof, of teleportation being possible is ignored by a teacher who follows him through elementary school to high school.
- Teen Genius: Built a teleporter to another dimension and entered it in a high school science fair.
Sue Storm
Sue Storm
Played By: Kate Mara
A young, blonde scientist and Johnny's adopted sister who served as mission control when the team went to Planet Zero. When the team returned, she got caught in the ensuing accident. Her powers are invisibility and flyrokinesis (A.K.A force field generation).
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: She becomes jaded when Reed abandons them after the accident.
- Adaptational Nationality: This version is adopted from Kosovo, and the only white member of a mixed family.
- Adaptational Wimp: The Chickification variant. She is quite powerful in the comics, but here, she gets overpowered by Doom, and she stays behind as mission control while the others go to Planet Zero.
- Adaptation Personality Change: A more somber and closed-off, less matronly take on the usual Team Mom Susan Storm.
- AM/FM Characterization: Less any specific type of music, though she leans towards classical, but her interest in the subject establishes her skill at finding patterns.
- Barrier Warrior: Though she only mounts an offense with her force fields against Doom.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Plays the responsible to Johnny's foolish.
- Flight: Not only can she fly, she can cart around Reed and Ben while Johnny flies on his own.
- Invisibility: Cast on both herself and others.
Ben Grimm
Ben Grimm
Played By: Jamie Bell
Reed Richard's school friend who helped him construct his teleporter. Venturing to Planet Zero upon invitation from a drunk Reed permanently encased him in a golem-esque rock form.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While less is made about the day-to-day angst of being an unsettling rock man, thanks to his seclusion in a Black Site, he gains an abusive Big Brother Bully.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: No Monster Modesty here, nothing to cover.
- Body Horror: Concept art shows that Ben's human self is still inside those rocks.
- Character Catchphrase: He picks up "It's clobberin' time!" from, of all sources, a Big Brother Bully.
- Full-Frontal Assault: Tights are just a bit too Jack Kirby for this rock man.
- Military Superhero: Background details confirm that Ben follows his father's footsteps in playing this role. He's the only member who gets to be deployed, with 55 confirmed kills.
- Use Your Head: One-shots Reed in this manner.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gives this sentiment towards Reed for abandoning them. Leads to a literal case of Headbutting Heroes later.
Johnny Storm
Johnny Storm
"I'm just doing this till I get my car back."
Played By: Michael B. Jordan
Susan's hotheaded adopted brother. He's an irresponsible gearhead who gets pyrokinesis and flight.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: The lone aversion in his group. He's the only one to address himself as "The Human Torch", and Ben as The Thing for that matter, though it was already a military callsign for Ben.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He's eager to be a Military Superhero against his family's reservations towards the idea, and is introduced wrecking his car in a street race.
- Jerkass: While he's the only team member not to blame Reed for his condition, he spends the rest of the movie mocking Victor for being Romani, by calling him Adolf, no less, or mocking Ben for being a rock man. That or blowing off his father.
- Jumped at the Call: Alone among his teammates, he adores his superpowers and relishes the day he'll get to use them in the field.
- Logical Weakness: Doom uses dirt and rocks to smother Johnny and keep him from igniting.
- Playing with Fire: Demonstrates Flying Firepower on some drones and on Doom.
- Race Lift: Johnny Storm is White in the comics. Here, the Storms are a Black family, with Sue being adopted.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Brash as he is, he really does want his father's approval.
Victor Von Doom
Victor Von Doom
Played By: Toby Kebbell
A reclusive genius who's brought on the project after having previously left. He gets left behind on Planet Zero after the empowering accident, and gains enough power to destroy the planet.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: All he has in common is coming from Latveria, working on a portal with Reed and getting deformed by it, and that's it. No mention of his mother, he never again sees Latverian soil and he gets superpowers the same way the Fantastic Four did.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Goes from a Powered Armor wearing mage to having vague but near-godly Psychic Powers.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Goes for Reed's springs in the hopes of making him lose control of his powers, but in the end it only helps Reed learn to control them.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: The whole group besides Sue and Ben, but it's notable that Doom brought the drinks.
- Basement-Dweller: Or perhaps Hikikomori, but he's an ill-groomed shut-in with a messy array of high-end tech when we first meet him.
- Body Horror: His spacesuit melts into his body, and then he gets a dose of otherworldly power to create what looks like a broiled Silver Surfer with green highlights.
- Conspiracy Theorist: Has some rather far out ideas of what the government would use Planet Zero for, and initially left the team for this reason.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: He causes the whole teleporter accident with drunken arguments about Klingon Scientists Get No Respect. Not particularly well-researched ones, mind you.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: Gets a shower and a haircut before joining the project.
- In Name Only: No Doombots, no leadership of Latveria, no powered armor, no insecurity about his deformities, no magical proficiency and in the original script, he wouldn't even be in name.
- Insufferable Genius: Makes it known at every chance that any attempts at science done by anyone else are inferior. Even after being told that a teenage Reed got closer to their goal than he did.
- In the Hood: He makes a cloak on Planet Zero, likely from the American Flag left there, with a hood and general ragged appearance to it.
- It Is Beyond Saving: Decides that his new home is worth paving over Earth for with this reasoning.
- Logical Weakness: Uses these to shut down the F4 in the final battle. He put pressure on Sue's forcefield to strain her, coated Ben in large immobilizing rocks, smothered Johnny's flame with dirt and breaks Reed's containment suit.
- Jerkass: Demeans Reed at every chance he gets during the portal project, and carries Insufferable Genius to a degree his comic self would call unearned. It seems that he and the team might graduate to Vitriolic Best Buds but the accident kills any chance.
- Physical God: While his powers are ill-defined, once he's back in Planet Zero he's explicitly a threat to the entire planet.
- Superhero Movie Villains Die: Has to be killed to stop his black hole, and gets clobbered into his own Pillar of Light.
- That Man Is Dead: "There is no Victor. There is only Doom."
- Villainous Crush: On Sue, but it's Played With. It doesn't really come up once he's a villain, but he's still a slimy jerk who joined the project, against his principles, to get to her.
- Your Head Asplode: His hallway massacre sees him demonstrate this as his main offense. Not against the F4 though.
