Headscratchers / Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

• The Silver Surfer technobabbles Johnny's powers, and he swaps powers with his teammates. At the climax of the film, Johnny combines all of the Fantastic Four's powers to take on Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom, who, in the films, got powers in the same accident that created the Fantastic Four. Why doesn't Johnny trade his full set for Doom's Shock and Awe powers?
  • Maybe Doom's metal skin and armor protect him from the effects. Johnny's seen swapping the powers when he touches either the skin of one of the other members of the Four, or their Unstable Molecules outfits.
    • Doom doesn't have metal skin in the movie, he's actually wearing a full suit of armor. Combine that with wielding the power cosmic (stolen from the Silver Surfer) and Doom was probably well-protected against that sort of thing happening. Besides, I fail to see how Doom getting the combined powers of the entire Fantastic Four stops him from being a threat.
    • Watch it again. He does get metal skin from the first movie, though it never covers his entire skin.
    • The point is that the Silver Surfer cured Doom of his mutation when they first confronted each other.
• The Fantastic Four swap powers, and hilarity often ensues as a result, such as the scene where Sue Storm got Johnny's power of fire, and Johnny got Sue's power of invisibility. However, in the scene where that happened, Sue's supersuit - which was designed to turn invisible when she turned invisible - was burnt by her fire, while Johnny's suit turned invisible when he turned invisible, when it was actually designed to be fireproof and light up when he lights up. Sure you could make an argument that the Fantastic Four's suits were all designed the same way and all of them could somehow accommodate for each member's powers. But why the hell did Johnny's fireproof suit turn invisible while Sue's suit burnt up.
  • Because she wasn't wearing her uniform, she was wearing normal civilian clothes◊.
• We see Saturn get obliterated by The Devourer of Worlds. Presumably other planets in our solar system met the same fate. Um.... wouldn't this greatly effect the Earth's gravitational pull with the sun, or screw up its orbit?
  • Yes, but this is also a movie where cosmic rays grant people superpowers instead of horrific cancers. Allowances for scientific plausibility must be made.
  • Generally Galactus can only feed on specific planets to sustain himself, hence why he actually needs a Herald instead of just treating the universe as one big buffet where he can feed on any world he passes by. He may have simply passed by Saturn rather than actually "eating" it.

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