Superman and Fantastic Four: First steps

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James Gunn Superman And the MCU Fantastic Four: First steps Have fun (and surprising) elements in common. The two were released in July and have already become two of the biggest films outings in 2025, respectively. However, there are greater parallels between the two films.

Naturally, both Superman And Fantastic Four: First steps are superhero films, although distinct franchises and cinematographic universes. This means that superpowers, villains and threats at the end of the end of the world abound in the two films. However, there are more specific pieces of DNA shared between Superman And Fantastic Four which are quite remarkable and which are worth highlighted.

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Mr. Super-Génius “Insert-Adjective”

In James Gunn Superman, Monsieur d’Edi Gathegi, Terrific is presented as a member of the Gang Justice, a team of metahumans funded by the CEO of LordTech, Maxwell Lord. Considered one of the most intelligent men in the world, the main source of power to Mister Trerific is its impressive intellect and technology.

As such, Mr. Terriquic is a key ally of his teammate colleagues as well as the steel man, especially after having managed to undo the rift in time and the space created by the unstable pocket universe of Lex Luthor.

Vice versa, Fantastic Four: First steps To Mr. Fantastic by Pedro Pascal, another super-genius “Adjective Monsieur” whose main source of power is also his mind. However, it also has its impressive elastic powers. Anyway, the Fantastic Mister Mister / Mister connection is one of the best things that the new DCUs and MCU have in common.

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Super babies

Superman And Fantastic Four: First steps Both have super babies. In SupermanThe man of steel meets the baby Joey, the metamorpho’s young child of Rex Mason whose life is threatened by Lex Luthor to force Rex’s cooperation, keeping Superman inaptive in his cell by continuously producing kryptonitis via his powers.

Fortunately, Superman saves both Joey and Rex, which leads Metamorpho to help the gang of justice as we see in Superman END. In the comics, Joey is a very powerful DC character with the ability to transform any object into different elements (a notable difference in the power of his father, who can transform his own body into different elements).

Likewise, the MCU makes its debut Fantastic Four: First steps. Son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, Franklin is a literal cosmic god with infinite power, now one of the most powerful beings of all the MCU (who reflects the original universe of Marvel comics).

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Third -person jokes

Hilarious, both Superman And Fantastic Four Share a very similar joke about speaking in the third person.

During the interview with Lane and Clark Kent, Clark comments that “Superman does not have time for selfies. “” Laws then laughs at its third person use. Likewise, Johnny Storm uses the third person in Four fantastic, that Ben Grimm’s thing is also kidding:: “”Johnny loves space, Johnny loves women. Johnny meets a literal space woman … and Johnny thinks they had a moment.“”

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Great eminent teams with four heroes

The two superhero films have teams of four people. Obviously, Fantastic Four: First steps At the first family: Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm. Likewise, Superman Includes the trio known as the justice gang, which comes using Superman. At the end of the film, Metamorpho was recruited by Green Lantern and Hawkgirl of Guy Gardner, making four members of the DCU team.

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Classical Archs in Superman and Fantastic Four

Superman And Fantastic Four: First steps also offers arcs. In SupermanLex Luthor is the main antagonist, orchestrating a multilayer plan to kill Superman with the approval of the world, because he does not want to allow the public to love the steel man longer. Played by Nicholas Hoult, the new iteration of Lex Luthor by the DCU is quite impressive and incredibly dynamic.

While Galactus is the main antagonist of Fantastic Four: First stepsThe film presents the classic family arc in Fantastic Four’s Post-Credit scene. Kneeling to face the young Franklin, Doctor Doom made his debut at the MCU, probably played by Robert Downey Jr., although hooded and facing the scene as a key tease for next year Avengers: Doomsday.

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Jump from the origins of classic superheroes

The two new superhero films also ignore the classic origins of their titular characters.

James Gunn Superman Do not start with Kal-el Child sent from a dying krypton by his parents. Instead, Superman has already been a superhero in Metropolis for three years by the opening of the film. Given the widespread popularity of the superhero, the story of Superman is already quite familiar, so it was pleasant to see the film jump directly in the action.

In the same way, Fantastic Four: First steps Largely subcontracts the origins of the first family. Showing brief images of sequences and launch audio which gave them their powers of a cosmic storm, the montage of opening of the film shows key moments of the first four years of the Fantastic Four as a hero, leading to their present on Terre-828.

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Beloved animated sidekicks (herbie / krypto)

Naturally, both Superman And Fantastic Four: First steps presents the adorable animated acolytes (which are both massively marketable). James Gunn Superman Krypto Le Superdog, a superpowers of Krypton, temporarily favored by Superman and held by his Cousine Supergirl. Although it was not very trained at home, Krypto is always very faithful and a good boy where it counts the most.

Fantastic Four: First steps In Herbie, a nice little robot help at the first family. Expressed by Matt Wood, Herbie perfectly represents the retro-futuistic aesthetics of Terre-828, and is always ready to help cooking, piercing the Baxter building, collecting extraterrestrial samples and helping the fantasy oven elude the silver surfer while they approach a neutrron star that collapses.

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Colossal threats / evacuations on the city level

The two films also present threats and colossal evacuations on the city scale. In James Gunn SupermanA giant monster of the fire of the late Kaiju is unleashed by Lex Luthor as a means of distracting Superman while he enters the fortress of loneliness. Later, the whole city of Metropolis had to be evacuated due to the incoming flaw caused by the universe of pocket of Luthor.

Likewise, the imminent arrival of Galactus saw Sue Storm to convince the Taupinière of Harvey Elder (Paul Walter Hauser) to offer a sanctuary to the citizens of New York, evacuating the whole population towards the underground kingdom of Subterranea before devoting the imposing world seeks Franklin and its infinite power.

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Brand new universe

The two James Gunn Superman And Fantastic Four: First steps Introduce new universes on the screen.

Superman is the first live film of the new DCU, a largely restarted cinematographic universe allowing DC studios to start again after the DCEU, while keeping some projects passed in the established cannon, mainly Gunn The suicide team And Peacemaker.

In addition, Fantastic Four: First steps is completely placed on Terre-828, a retro-futuristic world still in the 1960s apart from the reality and the chronology of the main MCU, which takes place on Earth-616.

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Fresh sockets on existing cinematographic heroes

Another key shared element between Superman And Fantastic Four Is no film the first that we saw these characters on the screen.

There have been several live versions of Superman, and the same goes for Marvel’s first family. However, it can certainly be said that these new iterations are among the best to date to hit the big screen. In addition, it is very exciting that these new versions have confirmed the future in their respective universes in the future.

Superman And Fantastic Four: First steps are both currently in theaters.