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“A lot of those guys are, really, sort of lone ranger kind of characters,” says Moss-Bachrach, who plays The Thing in First Steps. “Well, I mean, they seem like they get along a little bit. The Guardians of the Galaxy, a lot of those guys, they’re like, ‘I guess I’ll be on the ship with you if I have to.’ They seem kind of thrown together in a way, and they’re like bands of misfits and outcasts and kind of whatever, these sort of reluctant teams, I think, in some ways.”
This, of course, isn’t the case with the Fantastic Four. They’re not a reluctant team. They’re a family unit. “Whereas this, I mean, this unit is, you take away one of these characters and it’s like taking a wheel off of a car. The whole thing kind of doesn’t work. They love each other deeply, and they’ve loved each other since long before they had any kind of powers or global responsibility.”
Fantastic Four is a New Kind of MCU Team
We’ve seen Marvel Studios introduce teams like The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thunderbolts (aka The New Avengers), and even the Eternals. As noted by Moss-Bachrach, most of these teams have come together reluctantly, at least at first, to do good. This is especially true of the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, with the Avengers having all fought against the idea of a team in the first movie, and the Guardians all distrustful of one another at first. While they all became like families later on, the Fantastic Four are a family from the very beginning. They came into their powers together. They spend Sundays having dinner, even after they’ve gained superpowers. They prioritize family time no matter what. It’s what makes their bond different than the others.
