The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been in quite the doldrums lately, what with disappointing releases like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Thor: Love and Thunder but fans are hoping that will change with the arrival of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The beleaguered studio just dropped the first trailer, giving us our first look at Marvel’s First Family.

Despite being foundational to the Marvel Comics brand, the Fantastic Four haven’t had much luck in the popular culture. 2005’s Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel Rise of the Silver Surfer did little to excite fans of the characters, and the 2015 reboot, laughably branded as Fant4stic, was such a colossal flop it saw the team retreat into a metaphorical Negative Zone.

Although Marvel Studios acquired the film rights to the Fantastic Four through Disney’s acquisition of Fox / 20th Century Studios, it’s taken six years to get to this. But how to retroactively introduce the First Family to a Marvel Cinematic Universe that’s already had dozens of superheroes and several world shaking events? The answer this trailer gives us is an alternate Earth with retro-future vibes.

Here’s everything we learned about The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

8. Toto, we’re not in the Sacred Timeline anymore

The first few seconds of the trailer make it clear that Fantastic Four: First Steps takes place in a very different part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Whereas the events of the Infinity Saga took place in a ‘Sacred Timeline,’ the upcoming film is set in a part of the Multiverse that has 20th-century architecture and fashion, but cool things like robots and space age décor and, of course, the Tomorrowland style skyscraper that is the Baxter Building, home of the Fantastic Four.

7. H.E.R.B.I.E. adds a Jetsons touch to the kitchen

“We make a point to do family dinner every week,” says Reed Richards while giving a tour of the Baxter Building’s living quarters. “Sunday at 7, on the dot, no matter what.” Clearly, he and Sue believe that routine and familiarity are the key to team stability. Well, dinner for busy scientists and astronauts is much easier with HERBIE at kitchen duty. The adorable robot originally debuted in a 1978 animated series, but he’s been a fixture ever since.

6. Ben Grimm looking ready to suggest microbasil

Ebon Moss-Bachrach plays Ben Grimm, the pilot of the Fantastic Four’s ill-fated space voyage. He experiences the most dramatic transformation of the four, having become a thing of orange rock with great strength and durability. Moss-Bachrach is a veteran character actor best known for his role as Cousin Richie on The Bear, which means he may have some tips on the use of herbs. This ain’t his first Marvel turn, though; he previously appeared as Micro in Marvel’s The Punisher on Netflix.

5. Reed Richards in his element with cumbersome exposition

Pedro Pascal plays Reed Richards, the stuffy, bookish leader of the Fantastic Four. Despite his status as an Internet daddy, here Pascal gets to ‘Reed out’ some clunky words about his friends and the awesome abilities they’ve gained in their first voyage to the stars. Pascal is best for several leading roles on shows like The Mandalorian and The Last of Us, but his most recent cinematic turn was in Gladiator II. We don’t see Reed’s famed stretchy powers, but that’s a very long, curved blackboard!

4. Johnny Storm has a fire burning

Joseph Quinn plays Johnny Storm, a fellow astronaut who might not have all the right stuff but can burst into flame and take to the skies. Quinn is best known for his portrayal of the eccentric but rebellious Eddie Munson in the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things and also co-starred with Pascal in Gladiator II. The trailer gives us a sense that Johnny is a listless, disaffected young man more in line with some angstier depictions in Fantastic Four history.

3. Susan Storm standing in her power

Vanessa Kirby plays Susan Storm, a scientist who finds herself the anchor for the Fantastic Four. In the comics, Susan is renowned as the most powerful and lethal member of the team, with the ability to create powerful force fields and turn invisible. Kirby is best known for her role as The White Widow in the Mission: Impossible film series, as well as three seasons on Netflix’s The Crown as Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

2. Random John Malkovich

In the middle of the trailer is an inexplicable appearance from John Malkovich, the iconic character actor from… like everything you’ve seen like Con Air? Burn After Reading? I mean, do you watch movies? Malkovich has been cast in an unspecified role, and here, all we have to go by is him looking slightly more unkempt than usual. Either he’s playing Ivan Kragoff, a Russian cosmonaut from the Fantastic Four comics, or someone a bit more far out, like a multiversal variant of Reed’s father.

1. Galactus has come to feast, table for two

One of the last things we get to see is a very, very big guy with a funny hat casting his shadow over Manhattan. Based on the tuning fork shape of his headgear, that’s Galactus, the famous world eater previously depicted as a scary-looking cloud in 2007’s Rise of the Silver Surfer. The Fantastic Four will have to come to bargain with this fella, lest he devour the entire planet. Voicing the big guy is Ralph Ineson, the deep-voiced Brit from Nosferatu and Final Fantasy XVI. He seems less purple than in the comics, though, but it could just be an overcast day.

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