Fantastic Four: First Steps Funko Pop Spoils Reveal of Major New Marvel Character

Funko unveiled their lineup of Funko Pop! Collectibles for Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps connected Friday, spoiling the uncover of an important caller quality that fans didn’t cognize (for certain) would beryllium successful the movie.

If you don’t privation to cognize who that quality is past STOP READING NOW!

No, seriously, this is your final warning!

The Funko Pop figures for The Fantastic Four: First Steps see Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, Thing, Silver Surfer, Galactus and Invisible Woman, who is paired with … her and Reed’s toddler lad Franklin Richards.

In the Marvel comics, Franklin is Reed and Sue Richards’ archetypal child; their girl Valeria would travel years later. The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer revealed that Sue is large successful the movie. These collectibles suggest that either First Steps takes spot implicit a agelong capable play of clip to spell from Sue announcing her gestation to Franklin being of toddler age.

Given that Reed and Sue were exposed to cosmic rays during the fateful abstraction formation that beget the Fantastic Four, it’s not astonishing that their offspring would beryllium calved with powers. Perhaps the archetypal manifestation of Franklin’s mutant abilities is accelerated maturation upon birth?

It’s the sheer scope of his mutant powers that makes Franklin 1 of the astir almighty beings successful the Marvel Universe. His powers scope from telepathy and telekinesis to warping world and substance to creating pouch dimensions and communicating connected the astral plane.

You tin spot the Sue and Franklin collectible successful the slideshow below.

As IGN’s Jesse Schedeen precocious wrote, “Franklin is the 1 being connected Earth whose powerfulness is truthful large it rivals that of cosmic entities similar the Celestials and Galactus. And he’s destined to lone turn much almighty with age. The FF person met aggregate big versions of Franklin from the future, suggesting that he’ll 1 time turn to go an immortal defender of the full Marvel Universe.”

With the MCU’s adjacent 2 lawsuit films being Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, it’s rather imaginable we’ll spot a aboriginal big mentation of Franklin Richards successful 1 of them, possibly alongside his younger sister Valeria.

This wouldn’t beryllium the archetypal clip – and astir surely won’t beryllium the past – that merchandising products person spoiled a Marvel task up of its release. Toys spoiled reveals for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Thor: Love and Thunder and Captain America: Brave New World. Heck, this wouldn’t adjacent beryllium the archetypal clip toys revealed thing from The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

While determination are cases wherever a artifact oregon tie-product showed a character, determination oregon costume plan that wasn’t successful the last movie, much often than not the products – which are made good successful beforehand of a film’s merchandise – are retired successful the nationalist and connected store shelves earlier the film’s successful theaters. (That’s the main crushed wherefore Jon Favreau successfully fought to support the uncover of Grogu successful The Mandalorian a concealed until the bid premiered.)

The Fantastic Four: First Steps opens successful theaters connected July 25th.