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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Ok, at first I hesitated, thinking it was clickbait, but then I caved, annnnnnd:
...It looks legit.
True. But I thought it would be a cool way to introduce the Fantastic Four into the MCU without having them as super heroes.
They are more or less the official Fantastic Four organization. They basically do what the F4 already did regularly (both science stuff for science and super heroing) but without being limited to the four members and with a focus on the science (They also double as a "school" for super smart kids). The implementation is not perfect, but the concept is really cool. It makes the Fantastic Four officially more than just a super hero team. They are also a recognized team of scientists.
@Possible Spider-Man costume,
I like it. Seems something a teen would wear when still figuring it out their super hero costume.
Had no idea about that, I'd probably read it if such a comic was in existence. Maybe team up with Atomic Robo for super sciency stuff.
It did exist, it was called FF
and it was glorious. It featured Alex Power, Artie, Leech, Bentley-23, Ahura, Franklin and Valeria Richards, Onome (from Wakanda), Adolf (son of the Impossible Man), Vil and Wu (from the Uhari), and Mik, Korr, Turg, and Tong (moloids). And Professor Dragon Man.
Plus, there was a Doombot-H.E.R.B.I.E.
edited 10th Aug '15 3:08:13 PM by alliterator
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It had a book for a while (parallel to the main Fantastic Four), but it got canceled. I didn't follow it too closely, but the focus was a bit scattered. Sometimes it focused on the super science stuff, sometimes it focused on the kids and sometimes it went full super hero mode. I feel it could be done better but the concept was really cool. The upside is that even though the book is no more, the group still exist in the universe.
edited 10th Aug '15 3:10:25 PM by Heatth
Eh, everything's going to be put back once Secret Wars is over, so they'll exist again.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.![]()
You and me both know this won't stick past the event. This is not the current status quo of the MU, it is just a transitory period. True, we technically don't know how things will be when everything goes back, but until given evidence of contrary, I will assume it will continue as it is now. Maybe the FF will be disbanded or simply don't exist. But the last thing we heard is that they exist, so that is how things are.
edited 10th Aug '15 3:36:18 PM by Heatth
Well, post-SW, the Fantastic Four are definitely disbanded since the Human Torch is in Uncanny Inhumans and the Thing is a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, but we don't know what will happen to the Future Foundation.
Although I do have to admit that the Foundation does exist on Battleworld, kind of. It's Doom's Foundation instead and it trains kids the only way Doom knows how: by pitting them against one another and having them unwittingly kill the losers.
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I kind of like treating it as the status quo, though.
"Hey, X is still alive in the comics, right?"
"Probably not."
edited 10th Aug '15 4:10:56 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!![]()
There's also Carnage and Rhino. Technically the latter was in ASM 2 but that was a really small role.
edit: I forgot Hobgoblin.
edited 10th Aug '15 5:02:30 PM by Kostya
I'd really like to see Black Cat.
Kraven sounds like he'd be fun, but I feel like he's the kind of villain that needs Spider-Man to be well-known to encounter, making him a bit of an odd choice for what will essentially be this Spidey's first outing, even if it isn't his actual first appearance.
Vulture's one of the first Spider-Man villains - to my knowledge, only Chameleon is older than him. That said, he's not exactly the most impressive villain, at least normally.
Oh God! Natural light!

Huh. That actually looks kind of cool - I mean, it actually looks homemade, unlike all the previous movie costumes (well, aside from the first Raimi costume, which was just a sweatshirt with a spider on it). But yeah, I totally buy that as real.
Of course, he's going to leave fingerprints everywhere, so maybe not.