Marvel is notorious for keeping the content of its films under tight wraps, but after Thunderbolts, it feels like the plot of the MCU’s next movie is already laid out. Marvel’s First Family is gearing up for their MCU debut in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and their role in upcoming films like Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars is already a foregone conclusion. But we also know that Fantastic Four will take place in a universe outside of Earth-616, where the vast majority of Marvel projects have been set.
After the most recent Fantastic Four trailer, it was assumed the planet-consuming entity known as Galactus (Ralph Ineson) would devour their world, forcing them to flee to a new Earth. That theory seems to be confirmed in Thunderbolts’ post-credits scene, where the Thunderbolts see the Fantastic Four’s spacecraft approach Earth. Their tech calls the ship “extradimensional,” confirming they’ve come from a different universe. Now, Marvel seems to be revealing how and why the Fantastic Four left their own reality.
