The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the latest entry in the 2025 movie schedule to dominate the box office, and for many, including me, it’s a great soft reset of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One of the things I most liked about it was that it wasn’t heavy on the MCU-cameos like so many others have been.

This iteration of the Fantastic Four has a standalone adventure without all the burden of the MCU's history and cast of characters.

First Steps has cemented itself as one of Marvel's biggest films in recent years, bringing the first family into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in glorious fashion, delivering what many have already proclaimed as the best live-action iteration of Fantastic Four to date (not that there's much competition to begin with).