A lot of the problems in Marvel’s Multiverse Saga arose when they dropped the ball on the Kang the Conqueror storyline. Before Robert Downey Jr.’s casting was announced, Avengers: Doomsday was initially titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and would have focused on Jonathan Majors ’ villain character.

First Steps” begins to falter slightly when it stops being a Saturday morning cartoon and snaps into the mode of a traditional MCU film. The arrival of the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) brings news that Earth 828 will be destroyed in short order by the planet-consuming villain Galactus (Ralph Ineson).

More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy ’60s-era romp, bathed in retro futurism and bygone American optimism,