Set in the 1960s but hidden from modern history, Fantastic Four: First Steps tells the origin story of a brilliant but idealistic scientist, Reed Richards, his fearless partner Sue Storm, her hot-headed brother Johnny, and Reed’s gruff best friend Ben Grimm—ordinary people on the brink of scientific revolution. During a space mission to study a mysterious cosmic anomaly—one connected to the secrets of the multiverse—their ship is bombarded by cosmic radiation, granting each of them extraordinary powers. But their return to Earth is anything but triumphant. Not only are they physically transformed—Reed can stretch, Sue turns invisible, Johnny bursts into flame, and Ben becomes the monstrous Thing—but they find themselves displaced in time, arriving in the present-day MCU, decades after they vanished. As they struggle to adapt to a future they don’t understand, Reed becomes obsessed with understanding the cosmic storm that changed them—one that may have ties to Kang, the collapsing multiverse, and an even greater looming threat. Meanwhile, the group faces growing public fear, government distrust, and a charismatic but secretive scientist named Victor Von Doom, who has his own vision of harnessing cosmic power to “fix” the world. Torn between being heroes or anomalies, the Fantastic Four must learn to trust each other, master their powers, and take their first steps into a world that desperately needs them—just as a tear in reality threatens to unleash forces far beyond Earth’s control.