The Fantastic Four: First Steps Final Trailer Reveals How Galactus Devours Earth

Marvel Studios conscionable dropped the last trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Among different things, that trailer includes speaking lines for Julia Garner's Silver Surfer and a person glimpse of Ralph Ineson's Galactus. The trailer stops abbreviated of showing Galactus' look (despite the information that the movie's merch has already revealed it), but we bash get a existent consciousness of the monolithic scope and imposing menace of this bare villain.

In fact, the trailer adjacent seems to uncover precisely however Galactus plans to transportation retired his program of devouring Earth successful the movie. It's each acknowledgment to 1 little but important shot. Read connected to larn however Galactus volition devour the Fantastic Four's location planet.

How Will Galactus Actually Consume the Earth?

One of the much mysterious shots successful the last trailer shows a monolithic instrumentality successful Paris. This machine, composed of strange, arcing metal, seems to beryllium beaming vigor into the sky. Is this 1 of Reed Richards’ inventions? Probably not. We’d conjecture this instrumentality is cardinal to however Galactus is really going to devour the planet.

This appears to beryllium 1 of respective Elemental Converters.

In the comics, Galactus usually relies connected a instrumentality called an Elemental Converter to assistance him devour planets. As monolithic arsenic helium is, Galactus isn’t really large capable to conscionable swallow planets successful 1 gulp. His Elemental Converter helps him interruption down the substance and integrated worldly of a satellite and person it into sustenance to satiate his endless hunger. That’s not to accidental the Devourer isn’t supra conscionable virtually chomping down connected a satellite if he’s feeling impatient, but that’s not however helium usually prefers to hole his meals.

We’re astir apt seeing the Elemental Converter successful enactment successful the trailer. We presume Galactus and Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer deploy these arc-like devices astatine assorted spots crossed the globe to statesman the process of converting Earth into food. So it stands to crushed that if Reed and his household person immoderate anticipation of stopping Galactus, they request to onslaught astatine these machines and chopped disconnected Galactus’ nutrient supply.

Normally, Galactus doesn't virtually bash this. Art by Neal Adams. (Image Credit: Marvel)

Will they really succeed? That’s truly the large question starring into First Steps (well, that and whether we’re going to spot immoderate of Robert Downey, Jr.’s Doctor Doom). Something needs to springiness the FF a crushed to leap vessel from their location beingness and transverse implicit into the MCU. We already spot them fleeing to a caller satellite successful the post-credits country of The New Avengers. Could they beryllium escaping the demolition of their Earth astatine Galactus’ hands? That’s a sobering thought, and it would beryllium an unexpected, though precise interesting, mode to headdress disconnected the Fantastic Four’s archetypal MCU movie.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters connected July 25, 2025. For much connected the caller film, find retired wherefore it's specified a large woody that Vanessa Kirby's Sue Storm is large and brushwood up connected each Marvel movie and bid successful development.

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