Summary

2015’sFantastic Fourends on a perplexing and underwhelming note , despite featuring a classic confrontation between the titulary Fantastic Four following their rootage andDoctor Doom , their biggest curse from the original Marvel Comics . Styled asFan4stic , the controversial movie directed by Joshua Trank was an attempt by 20th Century Fox to revive the Marvel place pore on Marvel ’s First Family . However , Fan4sticwas both a critical and commercial-grade flop , and the ending trifle a big part in the negative reception .

Fan4sticstars Miles Teller asReed Richards ( Mister Fantastic ) , Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm ( Human Torch ) , Kate Mara as Susan Storm ( The unseeable Woman ) , and Jaime Bell as Ben Grimm aka The matter . The picture also stars Toby Kebbell as Victor von Doom , the movie ’s primary opposer . Featuring a darker tone and a more grounded take on the Fantastic Four ’s origins compared to preceding iterations of the team in live - action,2015’sFan4sticends with a mystifying final struggle as well as some challenging set up for a dealership future that was n’t meant to be .

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How Did Doctor Doom Return From Planet Zero?

Using The Second Quantum Gate

Having been stranded during the first Quantum Gate incident that gaveFan4stic’sheroes their exponent and abilities , Victor von Doom was " rescued " when the government finally captured Reed Richards a year later and had him fix a raw gate they ’d built . Although Reed ab initio escaped " Area 57 " and had been on the running from the government in the hope of building his own gate to try and restore Ben Grimm ’s rock - covered state , Grimm himself had been turn into a government artillery who helped make for Reed in . As such , Reed was capable to put up the second Quantum Gate with the final pieces postulate to start a new explorative military mission .

Thanks to the politics sending a team of soldiers to stay search Planet Zero ( the movie ’s version of the comics ' Negative Zone ) , Doom was brought back with his wooing having immix over his entire side and dead body . However , Doom awake up with a much darker agenda , completely transform by Planet Zero ’s primordial muscularity he ’d fallen into a year prior during the first incident . As such , he immediately get attacking the Area 57 facility , off several agents as he sought to return to Planet Zero .

Doctor Doom’s Powers And Plan Explained

A Form Of Brutal Telekinesis

Thanks to the energies Doom has absorbed on Planet Zero , Victor advance the seemingly unbounded powerfulness of telekinesis , allowing him to move object and people with his mind while also implode his enemies ' brain with a mere thought . This was one of the most controversial elements ofFan4stic’sending as this version ofDoctor Doom should have been far too overpoweredto ever be defeat by the rival Fantastic Four . It certainly seems as though the only reason he was overcome was because Victor forgot he could have detonate their brains any meter he desire .

endeavor to create a raw world on Planet Zero , Doom sought to use the remain resources on Earth , creating an ongoing liaison between dimensions using the Quantum Gate to displume in materials and resources from Earth . They ’d then fall into an vigor converter which Doom had somehow made using his big businessman alone and a collection of floating rock ( no real explanation is ever given ) . It ’s also never explain how the Fantastic Four were able to follow Doom back to Planet Zero without come inside the Quantum Gate , the implication being that their unexampled office were enough to protect them during the journeying and upon their arriver to Planet Zero itself .

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How The Fantastic Four Defeated Doctor Doom

Destroying The Energy Converter

While Doom easy cover each extremity of the Fantastic Four , it was only once Reed said they all had to work together that they get going gaining an reward ( which is n’t exactly a innovative strategy ) . Furthermore , nothing really changed once they did set out working together , and this telekinetically - powered edition of Doom should still have been able-bodied to take them all on . Again , there was nothing to imply that he could n’t have just go down on up their brains , kill them right on then and there .

Instead , The Thing punches Doctor Doom into his own energy converter follow a very short battle once the heroes rallied together . As such , the classic Marvel Comics villain is unceremoniously disintegrate mere hours after his debut in this franchise . This was also a massively controversial and inexplicable determination given Doom ’s status not only as one of the biggest andmost muscular baddie in Marvel Comics , but also the fact that he ’s the Fantastic Four ’s arch - nemesis . Unless the plan was for Victor to somehow restructure himself in future films , Doctor Doom ’s lasting defeat inFan4stickwas largely seen as way too promiscuous and not worth his report on the page .

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How Fantastic Four’s Ending Set Up A Sequel

Fantastic Four’s New Headquarters And Mission Explained

grant its poor performance at the box office and the overpowering wave of negative reception for both critics and audience alike , 20th Century Fox did not move forward with its plans for aFan4sticsequel . However , the movie ’s final scene were undoubtedly setting up a futurity for the squad , generate The Fantastic Four their official team name as well as a new headquarters destitute of administration oversight cognise as " Central City " . The significance was that their adventures had only just begin following their origins .

alike , there had even been talks before the moving-picture show ’s release thatFan4sticwould have finally been unveil as being a part ofFox’sX - Menuniverse of filmswith crossover potential . The heroes themselves were also considered for cameos in 2018’sDeadpool 2.Prior to the motion picture ’s reshoots where his character was stamp out by Doom , Tim Blake Nelson ’s Dr. Allen was going to be set up as a future Fantastic Four villain Mole Man . However , theFan4sticfranchise is by all odds over now that Disney owns the rights to the franchise with plans for their ownFantastic Fourmovie do in the MCU .

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Doctor Doom and the Quantum Gate in 2015’s Fantastic Four

Toby Kebbell as Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four 2015

Doom in Fantastic Four 2015, seen only as a backlit silhouette

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