The Fantastic Four is the very first group of Marvel superheroes and it is quite notable around popular culture.
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Comic Strips
- The title panel of the January 5, 1997 strip of Garfield depicts Garfield, Odie, Arlene and Nermal as the Fantastic Four, with Garfield being The Thing, Nermal being the Human Torch, Odie being Mr. Fantastic and Arlene being the Invisible Woman.
Films — Animation
- The Incredibles: Every member of the team (sans Dash) has the exact same superpowers as the Fantastic Four.
Films — Live-Action
- Deadpool 2: In a deleted and unfilmed scene, Deadpool would encounter the Human Torch.
- Jingle All the Way: Jamie has a Fantastic Four blanket.
- Kick-Ass: Dave says that he envies the Fantastic Four.
- Star Wars: A New Hope: Darth Vader's appearance is inspired by Doctor Doom.
- Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Orange says that Joe looks like the Thing.
- Step Brothers: In an alternate take, Brennan says "Holy Thing from the Fantastic Four shit".
Literature
- The Dresden Files: In "Bigfoot On Campus" River Shoulders' dramatic arrival at the dorm, and battle with Barrowill's ghouls, displays his strength so vividly that it has Harry making references to The Six Million Dollar Man and quoting the Catchphrase of Marvel's The Thing.
Live-Action TV
- Arrested Development: Season 4 has Tobias meet the actress that played the Invisible Woman in the 1994 The Fantastic Four film, becomes his boyfriend, gets a costume of The Thing, and tries to start a Fantastic Four musical. All while the lawyers of Marvel Comics follow them, reminding them that the unauthorized use of those characters and their likeness is a crime.
- Seinfeld: In "The Bizarro Jerry", George yells "flame on".
Music
- "Nothin' On You" by B.O.B. and Bruno Mars had Mr. Fantastic mentioned in the lyrics.
- MF Doom’s persona was based on Doctor Doom.
Video Games
- In Crash Tag Team Racing, Dr. Cortex may say "Flame on!" when he destroys another character's car.
- In Infinite Craft, "Human Torch" can be crafted by combining "Fire" and "Superhero".
Western Animation
- Atomic Betty: The main character's Arch-Enemy once made a trio of Evil Knockoffs of her who had the same powers as Mr. Incredible, the Human Torch, and the Thing, though the third voluntarily shifted in and out of her rock form instead of staying in it all the time.
- Codename: Kids Next Door: In "Operation N.A.U.G.H.T.Y.", a group of villains is named the Faculty 4.
- Family Guy: A Cutaway Gag showed that the Thing lost his "thing".
- The Simpsons:
- In "I Am Furious (Yellow)", Stan Lee jams an action figure of the Thing into a kid's Batmobile toy.
- In "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off" of "Treehouse of Horror XIV", the Simpsons become the Fantastic Four, as shown in the page image.
- In "What to Expect When Bart's Inspecting", Homer, Carl, Lenny and Barney are dressed up as the Fantastic Four.
- South Park: In "Fishsticks", Cartman's warped recollection of coming up with the titular joke involves him becoming the Human Torch and righting an army of robotic Jews.
- The Venture Bros.: Professor Richard Impossible is basically Reed Richards with few to zero morals. All the other expies of the team got worse powers; his wife Sally has to use all her concentration to keep her skin visible (making for a pretty gross sight if she loses said concentration), and her brother and cousin lack the Required Secondary Powers to keep their powers from hurting themselves — and to top it off, the former spends most of his time in a stasis chamber because contact with oxygen causes him to catch fire. As a result, Richard kept them locked up so they wouldn't embarrass him.
