History Film / TheFantasticFour

* TruerToTheText: Perhaps ironically, aside from a few artistic licenses,[[labelnote:*]]such as Doom accidentally giving the four their powers in an experiment, which in itself seems ironically like a reversal of what would happen in both the 2005-07 and 2015 films, in which the four get their powers in an experiment they make that also gave Doom his,[[/note]] this film is more faithful to the Fantastic Four comics than any of the officially-released films that followed.

* TruerToTheText: Perhaps ironically, this film is more faithful to the Fantastic Four comics than any of the officially-released films that followed.

** The space suits that the group wear vaguely resemble early space suits worn by astronauts in the early 60's. At the time of this film's production space suits were given a drastically different re-design to allow for safer travel in space.
** The footage of the house blowing up to establish the power of Dr. Doom's laser cannon is StockFootage of a house being obliterated by an atomic bomb from 1955. This would have been especially obvious to 90's audiences given the clip's notoriety in the media during the Cold War.

Not to be confused with [[Film/FantasticFour2005 the 20th-Century]] [[Film/FantasticFour2015 Fox films]] (on which Constantin also produced). Or the inevitable Creator/MarvelStudios-produced film, set to be a part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

* ActuallyADoombot: Seems like one, or else Doom's gloves are living beings.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Doom accidentally gives the four their powers with his Colossus Ray.
** In addition, the accident that disfigured Victor back in college was an earlier attempt at the same experiment that would later give the Fantastic Four their powers.

* TheCameo: He is hard to make out through the VHS bootleg fuzziness, but the professor who tells the class to "Bring your imaginations" to the viewing of Colossus (no, not [[Film/{{Deadpool}} that one]]) as it passes by is ''Film/PoliceAcademy'''s own [[DaChief Commandant Lassard]] himself, George Gaynes.

* {{Cyborg}}: Doom.

* MirrorReveal: Subverted. The future Human Torch convinces the guy who we know to be the one who turns into The Thing that something terrible and irreversible has happened to his face. He slowly lifts the mirror, and he looks totally normal.

You can see the movie on Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrbFLJHeX8w here]]. More information can be found [[http://www.teako170.com/ffmovie.html here]] from Website/TheAgonyBooth.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Ben and Alicia, touch in the latter's case since she's blind.

* ThreatBackfire: The Jeweler tries to get Doom to back off by threatening to kill Alicia. Doom, who has never even heard of her before and has no particular reason to care whether she lives or dies, is not impressed.

* TheCameo: He is hard to make out through the VHS bootleg fuzziness, but the professor who tells the class to "Bring your imaginations" to the viewing of Colossus (no, not [[Film/{{Deadpool}} that one) as it passes by is ''Film/PoliceAcademy'''s own [[DaChief Commandant Lassard]] himself, Creator/GeorgeGaynes.

You can see the movie on Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrbFLJHeX8w here]]. More information can be found [[http://www.teako170.com/ffmovie.html here]], [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_Fantastic_Four_1993.aspx here]] at Website/TheAgonyBooth, or [[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/fantastic-four/ here]] at Website/IMockery.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Doom's giant laser oddly moves much ''slower'' than light speed, taking several minutes to reach it's target, when, in reality, traveling at light speed to the opposite of the planet would only take about 1/15 of a second. And one can't just say we're seeing it in slow mo as the Human Torch is able to ''outrun it and intercept it''. There's also the problem of how a laser could go around corners.

* PersonalityPowers: The reasoning behind their powers.

* MilkingTheGiantCow: Doctor Doom gestures with no shame, even punctuating "you have twelve hours" by writing "12" with his fingers!

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Kragstadt and Trigorin.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Kragstadt and Trigorin.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Kragstadt and Trigorin.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Kragstadt and Trigorin.

* TruerToTheText: While the film may have been obscure and had the cases of AdaptationOriginConnection and SparedByTheAdaptation, it is more faithful to the source material than the 2015 film at least.

According to some fans and critics who got their hands on the movie (circulated via bootleg video at comic-cons and such), not getting released was the best thing about it. Other viewers exhibit rabid devotion to it and demand an official DVD release. Most people (outside of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' fans) are unaware that the film even exists.

* AdaptationalBadass: Doom is a cyborg here, instead of relying on PoweredArmor to fight the Four.