The fantastic four

The Fantastic Four (often stylized as Fantastic Four) are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961), which helped usher in a new level of realism in the medium. The Fantastic Four was the first superhero team created by Stan Lee and writer-publisher-artist Jack Kirby, who developed a collaborative approach to creating comics under this title, which would be used thereafter in Marvel Comics..

The four characters traditionally associated with the Fantastic Four, who gained superpowers after being exposed to cosmic rays during a scientific mission into outer space, are Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards), a genius scientist and the team leader, who you can stretch your body to incredible lengths and shapes; the Invisible Woman (Susan 'Sue' Storm), who ended up marrying Reed, and can make herself invisible and later project powerful force fields; the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Sue's younger brother, who can generate flames, surround himself with them, and fly; and the Thing (or The Thing; Ben Grimm), his grumpy but benevolent friend, a former college football star and Reed's college roommate, as well as a good pilot, who possesses superhuman strength and stamina due to the rock-like nature of his skin.

As the first superhero team title produced by Marvel Comics, it formed a cornerstone of the company's rise in the 1960s from a small division of a publishing company to a pop culture conglomerate. The title would go on to showcase the talents of comic book creators such as Roy Thomas, John Buscema, George Pérez, John Byrne, Steve Englehart, Walt Simonson, and Tom DeFalco, and is one of several Marvel titles originating from the Silver Age of Comics still in publication in the 2010s.

Since their original introduction in 1961, the Fantastic Four have been portrayed as a somewhat dysfunctional, but loving family. Breaking convention with other comics archetypes of the time, they fight and hold grudges both deep and small against each other, and eschew anonymity and secret identities in favor of celebrity status. The team is also well known for their encounters with recurring characters such as the evil monarch named Doctor Doom, the planet eater named Galactus, Namor the submariner, prince of Atlantis, the tyrannical and ruthless enforcer of the Kree Empire named Ronan the Accuser; Annihilus the ruler of the Negative Zone, the space traveler named Silver Surfer, and the Skrull warrior named Kl'rt.

The Fantastic Four have been adapted into other media, including 4 animated series and 4 live-action films.

Editorial trajectory

Origins

According to an apocryphal account, in 1961, veteran comics and magazine publisher Martin Goodman was playing golf with either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of rival DC Comics, then known as National Periodical Publications, and the top executive became boasted of DC's success with the new superhero team the Justice League of America (JLA). Although film producer and comic book historian Michael Uslan has debunked the details of that story, Goodman, a follower of editorial trends Mindful of the JLA's strong sales, he instructed his comic book editor, Stan Lee, to create a comic book series about a superhero team. According to Lee, writing in 1974, "Martin mentioned that he had noticed that one of the titles published by National Comics seemed to sell better than most. It was a book called The [sic] Justice League of America and it was made up of a team of superheroes.... 'If the Justice League is selling out,' he said, 'Why don't we put out a comic with a team of superheroes?'

Lee, who had served as editor-in-chief and art director of Marvel Comics and its predecessor companies Timely Comics and Atlas Comics for two decades, felt the medium had become creatively restrictive. Determined to "carve out a real career for myself in the world of nowhere comics", Lee concluded that "just this once, I'd make the kind of story I myself would enjoy reading... And the characters would be the kind of characters I could personally identify with: they would be flesh and blood, they would have their flaws and weaknesses, they would be fallible and animated, and—most important of all—inside their colorful costumed buttocks they would still have feet of clay."

Lee narrated one of his first recorded comments on the creation of the Fantastic Four for a fanzine in 1968, at the time Jack Kirby was also working at Marvel (Kirby himself is interviewed separately in the same publication). When asked who created the team, him or Kirby, Lee replied, "Both, it was mostly my idea, but Jack created the characters visually." In the 1974 book Origins of Marvel Comics, Lee described the creative process in more detail, stating that he developed the basic characters as well as a story synopsis for the first issue's penciller, Jack Kirby, to follow. Lee noted the involvement of both Kirby and editor Martin Goodman. before preparing his synopsis: “After toying with the idea with Martin and Jack for a while, I decided to call our colorful foursome the Fantastic Four. I wrote a detailed first synopsis for Jack to follow and the rest is history." Kirby turned over his pages of drawn art to Lee, who added dialogue and subtitles. This approach to creating comics, which became known as the "Marvel Method", worked so well that Lee and Kirby used it thereafter, and the Marvel Method became the company's standard within a year..

However, Kirby remembered the events somewhat differently. In a 1970 fanzine interview he confirmed Lee's involvement in the creation of the Fantastic Four, but took credit for the main characters and ideas, stating: "It was my idea. It was my idea to do it the way it was; my idea to develop it the way it was. I'm not saying that Stan had nothing to do with it. Of course. We talked things through." Years later, when specifically questioned about Lee's version of events in a 1990 interview, Kirby responded "I would say that's a complete lie", although the interviewer, Gary Groth, notes that this statement should be viewed with caution. Kirby claims that he came up with the idea for the Fantastic Four at the Marvel offices, and that Lee merely added the dialogue after the story was drawn. Kirby also tried to establish, more credibly and on numerous occasions, that the strip's visuals were his conceptions. He regularly singled out a team he created for rival publisher DC Comics in the 1950s, the Challengers of the Unknown. "[I]f you look at the uniforms, they're the same...I always give them a tight uniform with a belt...the Challengers and the Fantastic Four have minimal decoration. And, of course, the Thing's skin is a kind of decoration that breaks up the monotony of the blue uniform." However, it is important to note that the Fantastic Four wore civilian attire instead of uniform, which was only introduced (along with headquarters in the Baxter Building) in the third issue of the series after reader comments. The original featured design was also modified to include the iconic "4" within a circle chest insignia that was designed by Lee.

Given such contradictory statements, outside commentators have found it difficult to determine who created the Fantastic Four. A typewritten synopsis by Lee exists for the introductory segment of the first issue of Fantastic Four, describing the characters and their origins, with several minor differences from the published version. However, Earl Wells, writing in The Comics Journal, points out that the document's existence does not affirm its place in the creation: "[W]e have no way of knowing whether Lee wrote the synopsis after a discussion with Kirby in which Kirby contributed most of the ideas".

It is also notable that the first adventure of the Fantastic Four, in 1961, presents a team of four adventurers (three men and one woman) led by a Professor who travel to the center of the Earth and face giant monsters while they fight a human protagonist who is also from the surface world. Although neither Lee nor Kirby ever mentioned the 1959 film Journey to the Center of the Earth as a direct inspiration, editor Martin Goodman was known for follow popular entertainment trends to drive sales in your line of comics.

Comics historian R. C. Harvey believes that the Fantastic Four were a continuation of work Kirby had done previously, and thus "more likely Kirby's than Lee's creations". Marvel allowed each man to claim credit, and that Lee's dialogue added to the direction the team took. Wells argues that Lee's contributions set the framework within which Kirby worked, and this made Lee "more responsible." Comics historian Mark Evanier, Jack Kirby's studio assistant in the 1970s, says that the considered opinion of Lee and Kirby's contemporaries was "that the Fantastic Four were created by Stan and Jack. It did not seem appropriate to further split the credit.

1960s and 1970s

The release of Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961) was an unexpected success. Lee was ready to leave the comics field at the time, but the positive response to Fantastic Four convinced him to stay. The title began receiving fan letters, and Lee began printing the books. cards in a column of cards beginning with the number 3. Also with the third number, Lee created the hyperbolic tagline "The Greatest Comic Magazine in the World!!" ("The best comic magazine in the world!"). With the next issue, the catchphrase was changed to "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine!" and became a fixture on issue covers until the 1990s, and on numerous sleeves in the 2000s.

Issue #4 (May 1962) reintroduced Namor the Submariner, an aquatic anti-hero who had been a star character in Marvel's first iteration, Timely Comics, during the period of the late 1930s and '40s that historians and fans call it the Golden Age of Comics. Issue #5 (July 1962) featured the team's most frequent nemesis, Doctor Doom. These first issues were published biweekly. With issue #16 (July 1963), the cover title dropped the pronoun "The" and became simply Fantastic Four.

Although the early stories were full narratives, the frequent appearances of these two antagonists, Doom and Namor, in later issues indicated the creation of a long narrative by Lee and Kirby that spanned months. According to comics historian Les Daniels, "only multi-issue narratives could contain its increasingly complex ideas". During the long tenure of its creators, the series produced many acclaimed plots and characters who have become central for Marvel, including the hidden race of alien-human genetic experiments, the Inhumans; the Black Panther, an African king who would be the first black superhero in mainstream comics; the rival alien races of the Kree and the Skrulls of changing forms; "Him", the person who would become Adam Warlock; the Negative Zone and unstable molecules. The story often cited as Lee and Kirby's finest achievement is the three-part "Galactus Trilogy" which began in Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966), and which it chronicled the arrival of Galactus, a cosmic giant who wanted to devour the planet, and his herald, the Silver Surfer.Fantastic Four #48 was voted number 24 in the Top 100 poll Marvels of All Time made by Marvel readers in 2001. Editor Robert Greenberger wrote in his introduction to the story that "as the Fantastic Four's fourth year came to a close, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby seemed to be just warming up.". In retrospect, it was perhaps the most fertile period of any monthly title during the Marvel Era." Daniels noted that "[t]he mystical and metaphysical elements that gripped the series were perfectly suited to the tastes of young readers in the '60s", and Lee soon found the story a favorite on college campuses. The Fantastic Four Annual was used to highlight several key events. The Sub-Mariner was crowned king of Atlantis in the first annual (1963). The following year's annual revealed Doctor Doom's origin story. The Fantastic Four Annual #3 (1965) featured the wedding by Reed Richards and Sue Storm. Lee and Kirby reintroduced the original Human Torch in the Fantastic Four Annual #4 (1966) and had him fight Johnny Storm. Sue Richards' pregnancy was announced in Fantastic Four Annual #5 (1967), and the Richards' son, Franklin Richards, was born in Fantastic Four Annual #6 (1968) in a story which also introduced Annihilus.

Kirby left Marvel in the mid-1970s, having drawn the first 102 issues plus one unfinished issue, published partially in Fantastic Four #108, with alterations, and later completed and published as Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure (April 2008). Fantastic Four continued with Lee, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, and Marv Wolfman as back-to-back writer regulars, working with such artists as John Romita Sr., John Buscema, Rich Buckler, and George Pérez, with inker Joe Sinnott adding some visual continuity. Jim Steranko also contributed some covers during this time. A short-lived series starring the team, Giant-Size Super-Stars, began in May 1974 and changed its title to Giant-Size Fantastic Four with issue #2. Jamie Madrox, a character who would later form part of the X-Men, was introduced in the fourth issue. Giant-Size Fantastic Four was canceled with issue #6 (October 1975). Roy Thomas and George Pérez crafted a metafictional story for Fantastic Four #176 (November 1976) in which Impossible Man visited the Marvel Comics offices and met numerous comic book creators. Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard created a multi-issue story involving Doctor Doom's son, culminating in issue #200 (November 1978). John Byrne joined the title with issue #209 (August 1979), doing pencil sketches for Let Sinnott finish them. He and Wolfman introduced a new herald of Galactus named Terrax the Tamer in issue #211 (October 1979).

After its creators, its best-known authors are:

• John Byrne, who revitalized the series. His best-known story is The trial of Galactus.
• Walter Simonson, at the stage of which the science fiction aspects of the series were highlighted. They highlight interdimensional travel and over time, highlighting the originality of duel between Dr. Death and Mr. Fantastic, based on leaps in time forward and backward, but in the space of a few minutes.
• Chris Claremont and Salvador Larroca, highlighting the saga in which Reed Richards passes through Dr. Death for months.
• Carlos Pacheco and Rafael Marín, stage that mixes the return to the origins (recovering the original costumes and the Baxter Building), with new details.
• Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo, rupturist stage, with a Dr. Death with demons, the Fantastic Four facing a coalition of international armies, etc.
• Jonathan Hickman, who with several artists revitalized the franchise, returning his characters to their origins of explorers, whose most famous line of argument would be the death of the Human Torch. In this period Reed Richards founded the Future Foundation, and invites Spider-Man to replace the place left by Johnny Storm (believing thus a title that would replace the original, known as FF, which would continue as a parallel title)

From the original series, other collections have come out, highlighting:

• Marvel Two-In-One: starred by The Thing and another character, which was changing in every number.
• The Thing: dedicated only to The Thing.
• Fantastic Force: ephemeral series, starring Franklin Richards, temporarily converted to adult, and his group.
• The 4 Fantastic 2099: The Fantastic Four traveled in time until 2099. It lasted 4 numbers.
• 4: framed on the Marvel Knights line, with the same protagonists as the original series.
• FF: formed first by Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Invisible Woman, Spider-Man, Dr. Doom, Reed's father, Franklin and Valeria Richards, and his friends, originally replaces the title Fantastic Four but then continues as a parallel title.
• FF (Marvel Now): its members are the Hormiga Man, Hulka, Medusa and a girlfriend of Johnny. They are the substitutes that leave the four originals while they go to a mission to unexplored spaces.

Pause in the franchise

Due to the film rights dispute between Marvel and 20th Century Fox, the Fantastic Four disappeared for about two years from the Marvel Comics publishing line, ending their series in issue 645 and each of the characters being placed in different publisher titles; Susan Storm joining SHIELD, Reed Richards being part of the Illuminati. In the Secret Wars, Doctor Doom becomes a god, taking Susan as his wife and Valeria and Franklin as children. At the end of said event, the Richards family becomes the new all-powerful along with the Molecule Man. The thing becomes part of the Guardians of the Galaxy and Johnny Storm of the inhumans.

In August 2018, the comic returned with the original members and starting with a new numbering with Dan Slott as a scriptwriter and Sara Pichelli as an artist.

Characters

The Fantastic Four are formed after four civilian astronauts are exposed to cosmic rays during an unauthorized test flight in outer space on an experimental rocket designed by Dr. Reed Richards. Pilot Ben Grimm and crew members Susan Storm and her brother Johnny Storm survive an emergency landing in a field on Earth. Upon exiting the rocket, the four discover that they have developed incredible superpowers, and decide to use these powers to help others.

In the first issue, the crew talks about Reed Richards' rocket ship flying towards the stars. Stan Lee's original synopsis described the crew's plan as to fly to Mars, but Lee wrote shortly thereafter that due to "the rate at which the communists are progressing in space, we might as well make this a flight." to the STARS, rather than just Mars, because by the time this magazine goes on sale, the Russians may have already flown to Mars!"

In a significant departure from previous superhero conventions, the Fantastic Four make no effort to keep their identities secret or, until #3, wear superhero costumes, instead maintaining a public profile and enjoying celebrity status. for their scientific and heroic contributions to society. At the same time, they are often prone to arguing and even fighting with each other. Despite their bickering, the Fantastic Four consistently demonstrate that they are "a cohesive and formidable team in times of crisis".

While there have been a number of changes regarding the members of the group, the four characters that debuted in Fantastic Four #1 remain the core and most frequent combination.

• Mr. Fantastic. (Reed Richards), a scientific genius, can stretch, turn, and re-form your body to inhuman proportions. Mr. Fantastic serves as the paternal figure of the group, and is “appropriately pragmatic, authoritarian, and boring”. Richards blames himself for the failed space mission, especially for the way the incident transformed the Ben Grimm pilot. Stan Lee said the elastic powers were inspired by DC Plastic Man, which had no equivalent in Marvel.

• Invisible woman (Susan Storm), Reed Richards' girlfriend (and finally wife), has the ability to bend and manipulate the light to become invisible to herself and others. Stan Lee didn't want Sue to have a force on humans, "who was Wonder Woman and who beat people," so he finally came to invisibility, inspired by works such as The Invisible Man. Subsequently, Sue develops the capacity to generate invisible force fields, which it uses for a variety of defensive and offensive effects.

• Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Sue Storm's younger brother, possesses the ability to control the fire, allowing him to project fire from his body, as well as the power to fly. This character is vaguely based on another character called the Human Torch published by Marvel's predecessor company, Timely Comics, in the 40s, an android that could be surrounded by flames. Lee said that when he conceptualized the character, "I thought it was a shame that we no longer had the Human Torch, and this was a good opportunity to bring him back." Unlike the teenage sidekicks that preceded it, the Human Torch in the original stories was "a typical teenager — impulsive, rebellious, and affectionately odious." Johnny Storm was killed in the 2011 "Three" argumental arch before being brought back and meeting the reformed Four Fantastic.

• Thingalso known as the Cosa or Mole (Ben Grimm), a college partner and Reed Richards' best friend, has been transformed into a monstrous humanid orange with skin that looks like rock and superhuman strength and durability. Thing is often filled with anger, self-esteem and pity for itself as a result of its new existence. It functions as "a figure of uncle, a long-standing friend of the family with a brusque personality of Brooklyn, a bad character, and a caustic sense of humor." In the original synopsis that Lee gave Kirby, Thing was conceived as "the heavy one," but over the years, the character has become "the most desirable member of the group: honest, direct, and free of pretensions." Lee said that his original presentation to Kirby said that The Thing was "someone who became a monster" and who lived bitter because, unlike the other three, he could not return.

The Fantastic Four have had several different bases of operations, the most notable being the Baxter Building, located at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. The Baxter Building was replaced by the Plaza of the Four Freedoms in the same location after its destruction at the hands of Kristoff Vernard, adopted son of the team's key enemy, Doctor Doom. (Prior to the completion of the Tower of the Four Freedoms, the team took up temporary residence at Avengers Mansion.) Pier 4, a waterfront warehouse, served as the temporary base after the Plaza de las Cuatro Libertads was destroyed by the apparent superhero team of the Thunderbolts, shortly after the revelation that they were actually the supervillain team of the Masters of Evil in disguise. Pier 4 was eventually destroyed during a battle with the supervillain Diablo, after which the team was given a new Baxter Building, courtesy of one of Reed Richards' old teachers, Noah Baxter. This second Baxter Building was built in Earth orbit and teleported to the vacant lot previously occupied by the original.

Black Panther and the 4 Fantastic.

Side characters

Allies and supporting characters

A number of characters are closely affiliated with the team, share complex personal histories with one or more members, but have never actually held official membership. Some of these characters include, but are not limited to: Namor the Submariner (formerly an antagonist), Alicia Masters, Lyja, H.E.R.B.I.E., Kristoff Vernard (Doctor Doom's former protégé), Wyatt Wingfoot, android receptionist Roberta, the father of Sue and Johnny, Franklin Storm, governess Agatha Harkness, and Reed and Sue's children Franklin and Valeria Richards.

Several allies of the Fantastic Four have served as temporary members of the team, including Crystal, Medusa, Power Man (Luke Cage), Nova (Frankie Raye), She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel (Sharon Ventura), Ant- Man (Scott Lang), Namorita, Storm, and Black Panther. A temporary lineup from Fantastic Four #347-349 (Dec 1990-Feb 1991) consisted of the Hulk (in the persona of his & # 34; Joe Fixit & # 34;), Spider-Man, Wolverine and Ghost Rider (Daniel Ketch).

Other notable characters who have been involved with the Fantastic Four include Alyssa Moy, Caledonia (Alysande Stuart of Earth-9809), the Fantastic Force, the Inhumans (particularly members of the royal family: Black Bolt, Crystal, Medusa, Gorgon, Karnak, Triton, and Jaws), Nathaniel Richards (Reed Richards' father), the Silver Surfer (previously an antagonist), Thundra, postal worker Willie Lumpkin, The Thing's rivals, the Gang of Yancy Street and Uatu the Watcher.

Author Christopher Knowles claims that Kirby's work on creations like the Inhumans and Black Panther served as "a showcase for some of the most radical concepts in the history of the medium".

Antagonists

Writers and artists, over the many years, have created a variety of characters to challenge the Fantastic Four. Knowles says that Kirby helped create "an army of villains whose fury and destructive power have never been seen before," and "whose main impulse is to crush the world." Some of the team's oldest and most frequent feuds have involved such foes as the Mole Man, the Skrulls, Namor the Underwater Man, Doctor Doom, the Puppet Master, Kang the Conqueror/Rama-Tut/Immortus, Blastaar, The Frightful Four, Annihilus, Galactus, and Klaw. Other prominent antagonists of the Fantastic Four have included the Wizard, the Trapper, the Sandman, the Impossible Man, the Red Ghost, the Mad Thinker, the Super-Skrull, the Molecule Man, Diablo, the Dragon Man, Psycho Man, Ronan the Accuser, the Salem Seven, Terrax, and Terminus.

Adaptations to other media

Television

The graphic stories of the Fantastic Four were such a resounding success that the Marvel company began looking for other ways to exploit their popularity commercially. One of them was of course to make an animated series for television. The Fantastic Four were also protagonists in the "Secret Wars" from the 1990s animated series Spider-Man, and in the episode "Fantastic Fortitude" (with a small cameo from the other members of the Fantastic Four). The 1996 series The Incredible Hulk. The Fantastic Four also appeared in the 2012 series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

• The first animated television series of the Fantastic Four was produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1967. To do this they had the collaboration of Alex Toth and created 20 chapters that were broadcast on the Saturday Morning TV children's program, broadcast by the American CBS chain.
• The second TV series was The 4 fantastics was produced by NBC in 1978. In this series, the character of The Human Torch was replaced by the H.E.R.B.I.E. robot.
• To this, they followed other series in 1994 of 26 episodes divided in two seasons and distributed by 20th Television, and Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes in 2006, a series of 26 chapters produced by Cartoon Network, thanks to the rights that Hanna-Barbera still has since the 1970s.
• They appear in the first season of The Avengers: the most powerful Heroes on Earth. The most expansive appearances are in the episode The Private War of Doctor Doomin which the Avengers join the 4 Fantastic to fight against the titular supervillain, and in the final episode of the second season, in which the groups join to fight against Galactus. The Mole becomes a member of the New Avengers in episode 23 of season 2.
• Spider-Man mentions the Baxter Building in Ultimate Spider-Man in the first season, the Episode Down The Beetle.
• The 4, appear together in the first season Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., episode, Monsters never again. SMASH agents help the Fantastic Four frustrate the Tribbitite Invasion.

Cinema

• In 1994 Constantin Film produced a low-budget adaptation but was not released.
• Films have also been produced The 4 fantastic (2005) and The 4 Fantastic and Silver Surfer (2007) produced by 20th Century Fox.
• On August 21, 2009, 20th Century Fox announced the reboot of the franchise The Fantastic Four (2015). In January 2015, the first trailer for the film was released, which was released on 7 August 2015. In February 2014, it was revealed that Michael B. Jordan would interpret Johnny Storm/Human Torch and Kate Mara would be Sue Storm/Invisible Woman. In March 2014, it was confirmed that Miles Teller and Jamie Bell would interpret Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic and Ben Grimm/Mole, respectively. In April 2014, Variety He reported that Toby Kebbell would do Doctor Doom. The film is based on the series Ultimate Fantastic Four. Four Fantastics was premiered on August 7, 2015.
• A sequel to this film was announced for July 14, 2017. However, due to the failure in the box office and the criticism of the film, the sequel became an indefinite state, while the head of household distribution at Fox Chris Aronso commented that despite the poor results the company is still committed with the characters: "although we are disappointed, we remain committed to these characters and we have much to expect from our Marvel universe." In November 2015 Fox officially eliminated the sequel to his premiere date in 2017. With the purchase of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company, the characters returned to Marvel Studios.
• On December 10 the official accounts of Marvel Studios and Disney announced as part of the #DisneyInvestorsDay that a movie of the Fantastic Four was in production and will be set in the Marvel Film Universe, with Jon Watts in charge of the direction, which he decided to resign. Matt Shakman assumed the post of director in September 2022 and it was announced that the film would be released on November 8, 2024 as part of Phase Six of the UCM.

Video Games

• In 1985, the Fantastic Four starred Questprobe # 3 The Fantastic Four, an Adventure International adventure game for the 8-bit Atari series. In 1997, the group played the video game Fantastic Four.
• The team showed up in the video game Spider-Man: The Animated Series, based on animated series Spider-Man of the 1990s for the Super NES and Sega Genesis.
• The Thing and the Human Torch appeared in the 2005 game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.
• All the Fantastic Four appear as playable characters in the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance with Doctor Doom as the main enemy.
• The members of the Fantastic Four also appear in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, although the team is separated in the course of the game, with Mister Fantastic "wrapped" on the Pro-Registration side of the game history and the Cosa becomes briefly unavailable to the player, just when he left America to protest the war, until he returns to help prevent civilian casualties during the conflict.
• The Human Torch appears in a mini-game in which the player runs against it in all versions of Ultimate Spider-Man, except on the Game Boy Advance platform.
• The Fantastic Four are video game stars based on the 2005 movie Fantastic Four and his sequel.
• The Fantastic Four are also playable characters in Marvel Heroes and Lego Marvel Super Heroes.
• The Fantastic Four starred in their own Fantastic Four pinball virtual game Pinball FX 2 released by Zen Studios.
• All the Fantastic Four are playable characters in the video game for android MARVEL Future Fight.