"The solution was an immersive intro in disguise as a retrospective on the Fantastic Four's many successes in their first four years, a whistle-stop tour of the team's constant line of defense against supervillains, plus Reed's scientific advances and Sue's diplomatic efforts. However, large chunks of these efforts - including whole characters - were left on the cutting room floor, and now we're starting to see bits and pieces of the original vision."
"This scene would've come in between the announcement of Sue's pregnancy and the visit from Galactus' herald, when the movie was still establishing the Fantastic Four's role in this world. In the final cut, we barely saw any of Mole Man during this stretch: he pops up as a villain, but we soon see a magazine cover about Sue reaching a peace deal with him, an event that's handled off-screen."
The film had to introduce four superheroes and a previously unseen Earth, so it used an immersive retrospective presenting the team's first four years. The montage highlighted the team's constant defenses against supervillains, Reed's scientific breakthroughs, and Sue's diplomatic efforts. Significant sequences and even entire characters were cut from the final release, leaving narrative gaps. A deleted scene titled "Subterranea" focuses on Sue Storm's peace deal with Mole Man (Paul Walter Hauser) and would have appeared between Sue's pregnancy announcement and the arrival of Galactus' herald. In the final cut, Mole Man appears briefly and his peace deal is implied rather than shown, while Subterranea functions as the evacuation site during the climax, diminishing the character's earned weight.
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