Most of the trailers for The Fantastic Four: First Steps have focused on the titular super team, but in the film’s final trailer before its July 25 release, the film’s Big Bads come out to play.
First up is Julia Garner’s take on the Silver Surfer, who surfs down to Fantastic Four: First Steps‘ retro-futuristic Earth to deliver a chilling message. She heralds the end of the world at the hands of Galactus (Ralph Ineson), a cosmic entity who loves nothing more than to chow down on planets. Earth, apparently, is next on the menu.
While Fantastic Four: First Steps‘ trailers remain committed to not showing Galactus’s face, this one includes more footage of one of Marvel’s most formidable villains, emphasizing his massive scale in the face of our puny Earth. It’s enough to make the Fantastic Four — played by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — flee in terror from his lair, so the stakes have never been higher.
Don’t worry, though, it looks like Fantastic Four: First Steps won’t be all doom and gloom. Director Matt Shakman (WandaVision) and screenwriters Josh Friedman and Eric Pearson appear committed to emphasizing the Fantastic Four’s family dynamic, from Reed (Pascal) and Sue’s (Kirby) roles as new parents to Johnny (Quinn) and Ben’s (Moss-Bachrach) familial teasing.
Also a highlight of the trailer? Ben/The Thing’s refusal to say his catchphrase, “It’s clobberin’ time.”
“That’s just in the cartoon,” an exasperated Ben tells a fan.
Still, I’ve got a feeling the Thing will bust out the clobberin’ in the actual film. We’ll have to wait until July 25 to find out for sure.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters July 25.
