When The Fantastic Four: First Steps premieres next July, it’ll deliver the MCU’s First Family in a way that fixes Marvel’s obvious problem. The Earth-616 universe doesn’t have a Fantastic Four team of its own, and that’s because Marvel didn’t have the rights to the characters while it was building the previous phases.
The purchase of Fox gave Marvel access to the Fantastic Four, and we’ve seen the first ones already. The multiverse made it happen. Fan-favorite for the Mr. Fantastic role...