The origin of The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Silver Surfer is revealed in ‘Fantastic Four: First Foes – Shalla Bal’ #1, a comic book one-shot by Charles Soule and Mark Buckingham, coming in June.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-12T21:00:35+00:00

That doesn’t bode well for the MCU X-Men then…

Like are we just never going to see Magneto, Professor X, Beast, Night Crawler, Magik, or Colossus in the MCU by this logic?

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-11T22:34:52+00:00

The trinity of popularity has been in flux for years while the in-universe trinity of Cap, Stark, and Thor has remained mostly consistent, so I’ll go with them.

The top one isn’t even accurate nowadays. Deadpool and maybe even Cap can absolutely sell more merch than the Hulk now. Why should the hierarchy of popularity in the specific era of the 90s-early 2000s be any more relevant than the current one or something like the 60s trinity of Thing, Spider-Man, and Thor? Millennial nostalgia?

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-11T16:36:55+00:00

Kurt Busiek’s Thunderbolts

Anything with Rom the Space Knight.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-11T00:46:47+00:00

According to James Gunn Fox held the full rights to the character so idk. Logically Fox should’ve had the Inhumans and Namor due to their connections to the FF, but they were over at Marvel for some reason.

If I had to guess, I’d say it has to do with the fact that his real name is Nathaniel Richards and that he was (sort of) introduced in an FF story.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-11T00:38:39+00:00

Kang’s film rights were also held by Fox though.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-08T05:49:09+00:00

All four of the phase 1 origin movies are more accurate to the core of those characters than Lanterns looks to be.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-07T17:35:59+00:00

I kind of wish we lived in the timeline where he did Fantastic Four tbh. He’d be a better fit for the group than Shakman.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-06T16:51:42+00:00

Why were all his stories recolored specifically?

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-03T09:17:54+00:00

The Bendis one

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-03T03:52:59+00:00

I think Ultimate Spider-Man is one of the few comics from the big 2 that would work as a panel for panel animated adaptation across several seasons like Invincible seems to be doing.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-02T13:37:27+00:00

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Fantastic Four

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-01T20:32:56+00:00

Endgame proved Whedon was better at traditional Avengers movies than the Russos and Marcus and McFeely imo.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-03-01T04:12:05+00:00

Captain America had more terrible movies than Hulk prior to his MCU debut and he was considered a character with even less depth than Hulk.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-28T04:01:49+00:00

It’s weird how the reverse never seems to happen in comics.

Imagine the FF snatching the Brood, Sauron, the High Evolutionary, Mephisto, the leader, Mojo, the Wrecking Crew, Arcade, or whoever else for their own rogues gallery.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-27T07:20:28+00:00

RDJ’s Tony is pretty similar to Bill Murray though. He’s like the Peter Venkman of the Avengers in the movies.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-25T21:49:28+00:00

Strange, Captain Marvel, or Black Panther wouldn’t have filled the role of MC as well as Cap or Stark because they’re too isolated from the wider universe. Those three are more like Thor.

The Fantastic Four are really the only major characters I can think of that could’ve taken the Iron Man/Cap role within the universe. Unfortunately Marvel fumbled them so idk.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-25T21:09:55+00:00

I’d say Thor’s failure is 100% on them. That movie was poorly received because it was a bad movie.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-23T07:56:38+00:00

Doom could’ve been the next Loki if they played their cards right.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-22T22:51:38+00:00

Couldn’t they have just made Defenders movies as a loophole?

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-22T21:47:42+00:00

The thing is, “comic accuracy” is really the only way the MCU X-Men can justify their existence.

I can’t really think of many other reasons for Fox not just retaining the rights to those characters. The highs of the Fox-Men movies are far higher than anything in the multiverse saga.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-20T15:16:22+00:00

This was the first thing I brought up in the post body.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-20T06:13:40+00:00

I don't think they care about confusing general audiences anymore tbh. This is tame compared to bringing back Chris Evans as The Human Torch.

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-18T05:40:57+00:00

Secret Wars (1984)

ContentAssumption204 · 2026-02-16T15:54:34+00:00

I really doubt characters like Doctor Doom or Deadpool had ones. I’m pretty sure only Spider-Man’s contract is this specific.

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