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The first trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps is here, though the powers of Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards are surprisingly missing. Possessing a brilliant mind and the patriarch of Marvel’s First Family, Mister Fantastic also received unique abilities alongside his family members during their space mission. However, Reeed doesn’t get the chance to show them off in the first official footage from Marvel Studios.
In the new trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps, each member of the new MCU team gets to display their impressive powers. Johnny Storm is shown flying through the city and into the atmosphere as the Human Torch. Ben Grimm is the impressively strong Thing. Sue Storm turns invisible and is shown creating force fields. However, the new MCU trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps does not show Mister Fantastic’s abilities (though perhaps for good reason).
Mr Fantastic’s Powers In Marvel Comics Explained
Superhuman Elasticity
In the original comics, Reed Richards is known as the Smartest Man on Earth. However, Mister Fantastic also gains the amazing power to stretch and mold his model with incredible elasticity at will after he and his family are exposed to cosmic rays during a mission into space. Extremely durable, Reed can make his entire molecular structure as malleable as needed, and he can also stretch and elongate to incredible sizes and lengths.
That said, the MCU’s new Reed Richards does not get the chance to show off his amazing powers in the new trailer. It’s also worth noting that the MCU’s previous Mister Fantastic variant played by John Krasinksi in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness barely got to use his powers either. That said, there’s probably some good reasons why Marvel Studios is seemingly holding back for the time being.