Since their beginnings in 1961 Fantastic Four # 1 (by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, George Klein, Christopher Rule, Stan Goldberg and Artie Simek), Marvel’s first family saved the world several times in their heartbreaking adventures. Be scientists and explorers above all, The Fantastic Four found themselves in some of the largest and strangest stories of Marvel Comics. Led by the most intelligent man in the universe, Reed Richards, certain plans of the team scrambled the line between genius and madness.
Often confronted with impossible ratings, the fantastic four had to go out of the beaten track to save everyone. Despite other superhero teams that rely on their powers to face super bad guys and planetary threats, FF have always used their minds and compassion to solve some of the biggest problems in the universe. To find common ground with galactus to combat hackers and extradimensional beings over time, The Fantastic Four have found quite creative and downright crazy ways to save the Marvel universe.
The fantastic four change the future
After removing Sue Storm, Doctor Doom obliges the other members of the FF to travel in time to steal the Treasury of Blackbeard. Using its temporal platform, Doom sends the FF over time. The first family found pirate clothes and designed a plan to infiltrate the famous pirate ship and steal the treasure. However, when the team is captured by another ship, the thing is obliged to take over and inadvertently becomes the famous Pirate Blackbeard de Legend. Coming back with the treasure, Doom opens it to reveal that it is empty, which gives the team the opportunity to defeat it and save Sue.
Marking the first appearance of Doctor Doom and Time Travel, the plan of the Fantastic Four to stop the new villain could have been terribly bad. Although this is only the first appearance of Doom, and it had not yet been shown that readers of the evil genius know it today, deceiving Doom with an empty box is a crazy bet. Doom believed that the treasure contained jewels enchanted by Merlin who would make him invincible, that Doom would have undoubtedly used to take over the world. Their initial plan to infiltrate the ship is also a little silly, because they have put the fate of the future and on the hands of chance and hoped that they would not be discovered.
Horrible family holidays
In the 2020s Fantastic Four: Road Trip (By Christopher Cantwell, Filipe Andrade, Chris O’Halloran and Joe Caramagna), the team takes long -term stopping time on vacation at the Grand Canyon. While the family is trying to relax away from super-lives and cosmic threats, Reed Richards simply cannot close their brain and begins to experiment on samples of preolar canyon soils, which leads to horrible results. Discovering that the soil had been poisoned by the cosmic radiation, the bodies of the family begin to deteriorate at the cellular level, and they are forced to merge their bodies into a disgusting flesh creature for Franklin to manipulate their biological matter and reform their bodies.
A terrifying adventure for the First familyAll this problem and their solution were crazy. To make it even more bizarre is that they could not find this plan only after Valeria and Franklin had already merged their body together in a monster of disgusting flesh, which made Valeria to return her intelligence. Revalled being a conspiracy of the crazy thinker, the incident almost killed the team and led to its craziest plan to date because they were at times of death.
The world is saved by cows
Fantastic Four # 2 (by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, George Klein, Stan Goldberg and John Duffy), saw the introduction of the extraterrestrial race which changes its shape known as Skrulls, which had come to take control of the earth. Disgurating like the famous superhero family, the Skrulls are soon discovered and defeated by the team. Stoping their invasion by convincing Skrull’s army to withdraw, Reed then transforms the Skrulls captured into cows and hypnotizes them.
It is one of the strangest ways that the fantastic four saved the world, and the cows of Skrull have become legendary. The idea of an extraterrestrial invasion is avoided by transforming the extraterrestrials into cows is the cutting -edge comics of the age of the money in the best way. While the FF would later find even more unorthodox means to save the planet, this previous adventure remains one of their most ready -to -use solutions.
The fantastic four save the world by ignoring it
Another first adventure for the Fantastic Four, the team met one of the strangest characters in comics, the impossible man. Appearing in Fantastic Four # 11 (by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Stan Goldberg and Artie Simek). The impossible man is an extradimensional being who came to Earth for entertainment, becoming a threat to the city and The Fantastic Four. Being able to change reality at will, Reed concluded that the impossible man wanted attention and that the whole city ignores it, which led him to get bored and leave the earth.
Despite being more a joker than a villain, the impossible man could be a powerful threat that can reorganize molecules and travel through different dimensions. The extradimensional nuisance could have easily gone further and threaten the whole planet, which makes the team’s solution to ignore it more than risk. Although the plan would work, it was always a crazy bet and could easily have gone in the other direction, which allowed the impossible man to become violent and to want to extend his high jinks throughout the dimension.
The Fantastic Save Galactus
During another attack on earth by Galactus, the world becomes defeated by the FF alongside the Avengers in Fantastic Four # 243 (by Johnny Byrne, Jim Novak and Glynis Wein). Near death, Reed decided to save Galactus because he was a living being and refused to let someone die if he could prevent him. Reed can save the cosmic villain, but is then judged by Shi’ar for crimes against the universe due to the future destruction that Saving Galactus would cause.
Until then, the role of galactus in maintaining the cosmic balance was unknown, which made Reed’s decision to save him a crazy plan for readers at the time. It was only when eternity came to the defense of Reed that it was revealed that Galactus was not bad but an essential part of the cosmic balance, whose death would result in the collapse of the whole universe. Despite his hero colleagues and the whole universe telling him that it was a terrible decision, Reed stuck to his arms and his ready -to -employment thought saved everyone, including Galactus.
The fantastic four of the Jurassic period
When you take a vacation at the family property of Ben Grimm in Arizona, the team is sucked in an energy portal towards an alternative dimension where everyone is dinosaurs Fantastic Four # 12 (by Ryan North, Iban Coello, Jesus Aburtov and Ariana Maher). After having fought with the dinosaur version of the Avengers, they are confronted with Doctor Doom and his Dinosaur counterpart, who plan to merge their two universes into one and to be his supreme leaders. Ben and his dinosaurs’ counterpart follow the attractors through their portal and stop them by opposing them to each other on whom the new universe would go.
Although knowing that the Doom ego was its greatest weakness, this Ben’s plan was a massive risk. Doom could have easily killed Ben and The Thing Dinosaur as soon as they arrived, but he could not help showing how smart he was, allowing Ben to put himself in the head with praise. Usually, the group’s muscle, this crazy plan by Ben Grimm has not only saved the world, but also showed how all the members of the Fantastic Four are able to find creative solutions that line crazy to save the day.
The fantastic four meet God
When Doom’s mind escaped from a pocket dimension created by Reed, he began to own the other members of the Fantastic Four, which led Reed to be forced to kill Ben to stop him. An event that has torn the team, they come together when Reed discovers that a spark of life has remained in Ben’s body, and the team uses Doom technology to go to paradise to bring their soul back to their body. Once the soul of Ben is found, the team has the opportunity to learn the solution to each mystery of the universe, to which he refuses, who gives them an audience with God, who turns out to be Jack Kirby, and he brings back Ben.
A drastic plan to save their nearest friend, this diagram of the Fantastic Four could have caused a disaster on a biblical scale. Throughout their stay in paradise, they were constantly attacked by angels because they did not belong to it, and it is not known what kind of action they could have taken if the team failed. The fantastic four literally traveled through paradise and hell to save each other, but this reed scheme was one of his most questionable.
Mr. Fantastic stretches in another dimension
In Fantastic Four # 5 (by Ryan North, Ivan Fiorelli, Jesus Aburtov and Joe Caramagna), the team is attacked by Nicholas Scratch and the Salem Seven on the highway. Despite defeating him during their first battle, the team soon discovered that he had found a way to use the dark dimension to enter the fourth dimension and reversed the family DNA, killing them slowly. After having traveled in the dark dimension, Reed stretches all his spirit and his body to be able to understand the space of 4th dimension and to rotate the team’s plan of existence in a 3rd dimension space.
The most extreme use of the powers of Reed ever seen, this scheme to save the world was the definition of Forced. If it is not for the impossible feat of Reed, Nicholas Scratch could easily have done the same for the whole universe and plunge the world into the 4th Room Plan of dark dimension, completely under its control. Pushing his mind beyond the limits of the possibility, it is a miracle that Reed was able to succeed despite his massive intelligence and his understanding of what he had to do.
The fantastic four almost destroyed the universe to stop Galactus
When Galactus came for the earth for the first time Fantastic Four # 48 (by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott and Artie Simek), the Fantastic Four had to resort to fairly drastic measures to defeat the devourness of the world. After the Silver surfer traced Galactus, the Herald is still unable to stop it, but allows the time of human torch to steal the ultimate nullifier of the Galactus ship. Reed confronts Galactus with the nullifier and threatens to destroy it, even if it means destroying the universe, and Galactus agrees to leave the earth in exchange for the weapon.
Not only is this one of the greatest adventures of Fantastic Four, but it was also the biggest bet in Reed. Described as the most devastating weapon of the universe, the nullification can destroy whole deadlines, including the multiverse. When Reed puts his hands on the weapon, the observer must even warn him that shooting the bad lever would erase the solar system in microsecond. Despite this crazy plan that really works, even Reed was only sure that Galactus would believe that his threat and could have ended the Marvel universe when he was just beginning.
The Fantastic Four: First steps
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July 25, 2025
- Execution time
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115 minutes
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Pedro Pascal
Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic
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Vanessa Kirby
Sue Storm / Invisible woman