Kirby reveals the two have a song playlist for their characters. When asked what would have been Richards and Storm's wedding song, Pascal offers up a popular tune from the '60s — which makes perfect sense as Fantastic Four is set in a retro-futuristic version of that era.

This iteration of the Fantastic Four has a standalone adventure without all the burden of the MCU's history and cast of characters.

When Entertainment Weekly asked Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman if Downey Jr. filmed that post-credits scene, the filmmaker pleaded the fifth. "For others to talk about," he teased. However, Shakman did reveal that it was the Russo brothers who helmed the post-credits scene since it was shot for Avengers: Doomsday.

Speaking of connections… During one of my recent fits of insomnia, I discovered a strange factoid that connects The Fantastic Four: First Steps with Saved by the Bell, at least an early version of the popular high school-centric sitcom many of us grew up watching. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since, and I have to talk it out.

First Steps' includes two post-credits scenes. Here's how that big reveal sets up what's coming in Phase 6 of the MCU.

Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Kerry Washington and more starred in the 2005 adaptation of the Marvel comics. Catch up with the actors of 'Fantastic Four' here ahead of 2025's 'The Fantastic Four: First S

The first attempt at making a film about the superheroes was an extremely low-budget affair that was shot, abandoned and mostly forgotten about in the 1990s.

Indeed, by the 1990s, the only Marvel property with a proper theatrically released film was (checks notes) Howard the Duck. But as Tim Burton's Batman hit theaters in 1989, and another comic property, Dick Tracy, had a release in 1990, one intrepid producer knew that there were opportunities in Marvel's so-called House of Ideas.