If by some miracle Marvel reacquires the rights to the fantastic four and you were asked to give suggestions to the producers/director what would you tell them to ensure we finally get the Fantastic Four done right?
Personally I'd go with a suggestion lots of people have been making and make the MCU Four contemporaries of Hank Pym. Say they were massively popular public figures during the cold war, but they disappeared in some kind of time travel incident before reappearing in the modern day MCU. There is a lot of potential with this plotline. You could use it as a big metaphor for the FF as a whole. The biggest problem facing the FF is while they were revolutionary in the sixties they can seem rather run of the mill. For example there could be a few scenes that show how the modern world has rendered their super-gadgets obsolete. Maybe in a world of higher gas prices the fantasti-car is too expensive to drive. Smart phones can do everything their supercomputers could. H.E.R.B.I.E just can't keep up with modern A.I.s like Jarvis, Friday and Ultron. Perhaps as a little bit of a gut punch when the news first announces the fantastic four's return we could cut to some civilians going "who?"
Then just when things seem like they couldn't get any worse and the FF might even be getting a little jealous of the Avengers, they meet one of the modern day heroes stealing their thunder and said hear goes completely fanboy! Maybe Reed Richards is the reason Bruce Banner got into science. Maybe some version of the Things fight with the champion occurred in the past and when Thor heard about it he looked upon Ben Grimm as one of the greatest warriors to ever live. Maybe Tony Stark intentionally mimics the Human Torch as a "celebrity superhero." Maybe Spider-man has their poster on his wall. Maybe Star-lord stops by and not only does he remember these guys from his time on Earth, but there are parts of the galaxy where there still legendary. Eventually while showing their fan around the Baxter Building said fan picks up some random gadget and ask's "What's this?" and the four reply "Oh that's just a Skrull detector I'm sure there are much better one's now." "What's a Skrull?" they ask.
Cue horrified expressions as it turns out earth has a massive skrull infestation. It's up to the FF to root them out as there the only one have any experience dealing with skrulls. The climax would of course be an epic battle with the Super-skrull. The after credits scene is of course Dr. Doom.
This would also add another bad guy faction to the MCU so we could stop seeing hydra as the bad guy in everything.
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