Final ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Trailer Reveals The Thing’s New Beard
The final trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps has dropped. It contains a lot of brand-new footage revealing unforeseen details, one of which leaves us with some questions.
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The big takeaway from the new trailer is, for the first time on screen, The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) has a beard. It’s a feature that has a precedent in the comics (fleetingly), but it’s so unusual, it takes our minds off the fact Johnny (Joseph Quinn) can propel Ben through the air. Since when did The Human Torch have increased strength?
Back to the beard, Thing can be seen in the background of a few shots with it, but the rocky facial ‘hair’ is clear as day in the last sequence of the trailer. Johnny is flying like a rocket and suspending Ben with both hands while prodding him to say a line. It’s never uttered but you know what the line is.
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In a gag that plays like a motif through the trailer, people beg The Thing to say it and he refuses as he isn’t the habit of using “It’s clobberin’ time” as a catchphrase – yet. He also makes reference to “the cartoons,” indicating one of the FF’s animated series exists in this pocket of the MCU.
Marvel seems eager to inject more of the film’s levity into the marketing at a late stage, possibly in an attempt to counterbalance the negative reactions to Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards and the quality of the CGI used to bring Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer, which isn’t exactly lifelike, to some facsimile of life.
Beyond the spotty visual effects, putting a beard on The Thing (in his craggy form, not as a normal human) is an odd choice. It’s harmless compared to all the other weird facts and complaints, but still is so random.
Some are pointing out the beard’s existence in the comics (such as in this Instagram reel) and yet again, like the female Surfer, it’s a deep cut that appeared on a few pages in a minor run or two. Most will overlook it because not many can call it to mind.
Ben’s beard also raises questions about the passage of time in First Steps. If he can grow it, how long does it take? And why would he grow it in the first place? Maybe it has something to do with the infant Franklin Richards and looking less scary to the newborn. Or, if toy leaks are indicative of anything, maybe it has something to do with whatever ages Frankie by a few years.
Any answer is a theory until we get to the end of July.
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