After Thunderbolts* is launched onto the 2025 films schedule in two weeks, MCU followers can stay up for The Incredible 4: First Steps as this yr’s third and ultimate upcoming Marvel film. The primary trailer for the brand new Incredible 4 film dropped in February, and now there’s a brand new First Steps trailer to soak up, which repackages the footage proven at CinemaCon earlier this month. There’s loads to soak up on this new preview, together with our first have a look at Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer, however I’m right here to speak about how there appears to be a giant tipoff about how First Steps will tie into the broader Multiverse Saga.
Like 2007’s Incredible 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Incredible 4: First Steps will see Marvel’s First Household clashing with Silver Surfer and her lord, Ralph Ineson’s Galactus, who intends to devour Earth. On this case, although, apparently, Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards drew these beings to our World reasonably than them simply arriving right here randomly. He’s heard telling his spouse, Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm, within the trailer:
It’s my fault. I stretched the bounds of house they usually heard.
Since I’m a longtime Marvel Comics fan who’s learn a good quantity of printed web page Incredible 4 tales, I briefly thought that this is likely to be a tease in regards to the Damaging Zone, an antimatter universe that Reed, Sue, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm regularly go to. However given how a lot the MCU has invested into the multiverse during the last a number of years, and the way it’s all coming to a head in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, I’m betting that is what Reed was speaking about as an alternative. Sooner or later in First Steps, he’s going to attempt to open the universe, and never solely will it go badly, it’ll put Earth on Galactus’ radar.
Why is Reed Richards making an attempt to entry the multiverse? Realizing him, it in all probability simply boils all the way down to pure scientific curiosity. The Incredible 4: First Steps takes place on a Sixties retro-futuristic Earth the place Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny have been the primary astronauts to enter house, and Reed has invented issues like flying vehicles and robots. If the person has gotten an inkling that there are different universes on the market, he’s going to strive his damndest to determine a technique to attain them. However simply because Reed is the neatest man on this Earth doesn’t imply he’s excellent, and apparently his first try to succeed in the multiverse doesn’t go the way in which he supposed.
All this isn’t to say that the multiverse will issue closely into First Steps’ plot. Frankly, I can’t see a means it could for the reason that superhero staff might be occupied making an attempt to cease Galactus from destroying Earth. As an alternative, as soon as this risk is in some way neutralized, I anticipate Reed will proceed his analysis into the multiverse. This may pave the way in which for the Incredible 4 to seem in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.
What I’m not so positive about but is that if Reed will efficiently open a portal into the multiverse throughout Doomsday or if he and his teammates might be dragged by it by Robert Downey Jr.’s Physician Doom or another drive, however that’s a query that may be answered later. For now, I stay up for seeing if my idea about The Incredible 4: First Steps is right as soon as it opens in theaters on July 25.