The Fantastic Four: First Steps delivers one of the greatest and most triumphant fight sequences at the end of the film - but do all of the characters make it out alive? Warning: spoilers ahead for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. In the 2025 superhero film directed by Matt Shakman, Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) attempt to stop cosmic entity Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and the Silver Surfer/Shalla-Bal (Julia Garner) from destroying the Earth.