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Astroarnav wrote: At long last! Here it is!

Marvel's The Fantastic Four

Distributor: 20th Century FOX, Marvel Studios (It's one of those deals)

Reality Designation: Earth-199999 (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Cast:

Miles Teller as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic

Kate Mara as Susan Storm/Invisible Woman

Jamie Bell as Johnny Storm/Human Torch

Erik Knudsen as Ben Grimm/Thing

Freddie Pinze Jr. as Nathaniel Richards/Kang

Toby Kebbel as Victor Domashev/Doctor Doom.

TBA as Harvey Elder

Ewan McGregor as Franklin Storm

WARNING: This plot needs a lot of Wikipedia-like improvement.

DISCLAIMER: You might notice that the first portion (and a few other parts) of the plot is very similar to the 2015 movie. Don't worry about it, I'll explain why.

We open the story to a young Reed Richards getting up in the middle of the night, calling his friend Ben Grimm over to test a teleportation machine. The machine works, and in a bright flash of light, we jump to the next scene. Ten years later, Reed and Ben are presenting their finalized version of the teleporter at the science fair. It wins them first place, getting the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm (and his daughter Susan). He tells the two that he and his university have been eyeing Reed's experiments for years, and that they believe that wherever Reed is teleporting his stuff to is another dimension they call "the Negative Zone". Storm gives both Reed and Ben scholarships to the Baxter University, inviting them to help with their teleportation project.

There, they meet lead designer Johnny Storm, Franklin Storm's (hothead) son. Reed is told that the point of traveling to the Negative Zone is to harness Cosmic Radiation, a strange form of power with unknown effects. Over the course of months, Sue studies the cosmic radiation, while Reed, Ben and Johnny successfully build the teleporter and prepare for their trip to the Negative Zone...until they are told by the university's projects developer Harvey Elder that the group cannot go there as they haven't tested what will happen if cosmic radiation was to bombard them, or if anything were to happen in general. The four, frustrated by the government's fear, decide to go in themselves without Elder's consent. Sue pulls out specialized "environment suits" that can protect themselves from any unknown gas/atmosphere. The group finally makes the trip to the Negative Zone.

After a little bit of looking around, they see a strange figure in the distance, and this figure begins walking eerily towards them. He then abruptly starts attacking the four, forcing them to retreat. The figure then sends a shockwave of cosmic radiation as they are teleporting away, coming through to Earth and altering the four in strange ways. Reed can now warp the space around him, and use it to elongate his very molecules. Sue can bend light around her body without distortion (thus rendering her invisible) and can convert psionic forces into physical constructs (force fields). Johnny can generate flaming plasma from his skin molecules and use it to engulf his body in fire. Ben's skin has the ability to change forms, each one with a different cosmic ability.

The four are kept under quarantine by S.H.I.E.L.D. at an unknown facility, where they adjust to their newfound abilities. The organization plans to make a government-sponsored team almost as if it is a backup group should the Avengers get killed in action. Franklin and Sue are against the idea, whereas Johnny is onboard with the idea, saying that these powers are gifts and should be used to help others. Reed blames himself for what the experiment did, and tries to escape, but is almost immediately subdued and taken back. Meanwhile, an S.H.I.E.L.D. representative is reviewing the camera footage from the teleporter, where she sees the figure that attacked the four. She then authorizes the four to go back into the Negative Zone, find the figure, and find out what he was doing. The four, having no other choice, do so, despite Franklin's protests.

When the four arrive, they find a strange rock formation that almost resembles a castle. Unsatisfied with their already abnormal discovery, they head back, and find the same figure unconscious. He wears strange green and purple garments, with a strange helmet. They bring him back, he regains consciousness, and reveals his name to be Nathaniel Richards, a time/space traveler who intends to preserve the evolutionary status of the human race, or so it seems. When Reed interrogates him, Nathaniel tells him a story about four astronauts who were accidentally mutated by cosmic rays. They, using their abnormal abilities, became a group of adventurers known as the "Fantastic Four". Nathaniel (who still doesn't know who Reed is), ends up telling him that he actually has a grudge against this group, because he (apparently) believed that humanity couldn't evolve if heroes were around to protect them at every step. A montage then reveals that Nathan has in fact killed several versions of this team, including the ones from the previous movies. When Reed's name is revealed to Nathan, he realizes that he has just created another Fantastic Four. He escapes the facility, killing Franklin along the way. He uses the teleporter to escape back to the Negative Zone. Ben tries to stop him, but Nathan sends a small wave of radiation out of self-defense, trapping Ben in his rock form. Nathan then returns to the Negative Zone, leaving the four broken and defenseless.

After he leaves, Ben gets into a fight with Reed over dragging him into this mess, and turning him into a "monster". Eventually the fight stops, and the four mourn the death of Franklin, and their defeat at Nathan's hands. Johnny is distraught about the fact that his powers were nothing more than an accident, rather than the "gift" his counterparts before him received. Reed and Ben have a heart to heart talk, and the two reconcile. Sue then tells them that she has found something, the sand sample they collected (and showed to Reed at the Science fair) was not unique, but somewhat aged. Realizing that something in the Negative Zone can manipulate time, the four realize why Nathan was even there all along. Meanwhile, Nathan extracts a green gem from the ground of the N-Zone, it's the time stone. The four pinpoint where Nathan will unleash the Negative Zone and the time stone upon, which happens to be New York...again. Before they go, the four find prototype suits with light armor padding. Johnny, feeling better, comes up with an idea that will intimidate Nathan: carving a 4 on each suit.

Nathan comes back to Earth, and uses all his cosmic powers to open a "sealed portal" to the Negative Zone, just in case someone tries to get in his way. Everyone in the city gazes in awe and terror. Just then, Nathan senses four people nearing him, and he screams in anger as he sees his worst fear coming to stop him. Nathan declares that "Kang" will not be defeated, and sends a blast of radiation at them, but it doesn't work. Knowing that the Negative Zone's toxins won't kill them, Kang shuts the portal down, takes the stone, and tries to escape. The four chase him down into the park and a huge fight takes place. Kang is almost able to defeat them, and readies the time stone, and continues to stop the four. Ben, manages to get up and wake his friends, and then throws Kang to Reed, Sue and Johnny. They manage to defeat Kang, but Ben is unable to shut the time stone off without sacrificing himself, an option that he plans to take. Reed pulls him out before he can Ben can do it, aging him a little and turning his sideburns white. Sue and Johnny use their powers to render the time stone in a dormant state, foiling Kang's plan. They send him flying to a forest, where they see Kang as he makes his last stand and desperately channels as much Negative Zone toxins he can to subdue the four. Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben manage to overcome the toxin, and use the combined strength of their powers to send Kang into oblivion.

The four, after their battle, meet with representatives of the UN, saying that the Sokovia Accords prevent them from becoming an established superhero team, Reed states that the Earth is most likely unsafe from extraterrestrial or inter-dimensional threats that the Avengers can't handle. The UN are then "persuaded" by Johnny and Ben. The four ask to use the Baxter Building for their activities, and the UN reluctantly agree. There, they decide on names. Johnny begins calling himself "the Human Torch", and Sue decides on "the Invisible Woman". Ben, after a harsh insult from Johnny, decides on "the Thing" (he says he was originally aiming for "Quasar", but it was taken). Reed calls himself "Mister Fantastic", and then realizes that these names they picked were the same ones Kang said in the interrogation, realizing that fate had this planned all along, and they were meant to be given these gifts one way or another. The group ponders on a team name, and Reed, in homage to his counterparts before him, decides on "the Fantastic Four".

In a post-credits scene, a snowy city is overlooked by a hooded man, he calmly expresses his beliefs to himself. He says that the heroes of this universe are doing no good and are leading the world to a devastating future. As the camera turns, we see his face is covered in a metal mask. He then says that only he can stop it, and he must eliminate those in his way, and that the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., these "Fantastic Four", will soon meet their "Doom". AMAZING.Thats actually pretty good.