The Fantastic Four: First Steps Trivia
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49 free The Fantastic Four: First Steps trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Fantastic Four: First Steps trivia quiz covers Marvel Studios' 2025 reboot, the film that finally brought Marvel's first family into the MCU and opened Phase Six. The easy questions cover the cast, from Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn to Julia Garner's Silver Surfer and Ralph Ineson's Galactus, and the basics of the plot: the retro-futuristic 1960s, Sue's pregnancy, the herald's warning, the trip to Galactus and the plan to teleport the whole planet. The harder ones dig into Earth-828 and why it is numbered that way, Shalla-Bal and Zenn-La, Mole Man and Subterranea, the Excelsior, H.E.R.B.I.E., the 1994 cast cameos, John Malkovich's cut Red Ghost, Javier Bardem and Adam Driver not being in it, the Oviedo shoot, the Fortnite reference for Galactus, the box office and the mid-credits man in the green cloak. If you want the older films too, try our Fantastic Four movies quiz. Every answer was checked against the film's encyclopaedia entry before publishing.
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Q 01Who plays Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
Pedro Pascal
Pedro Pascal. He worked up a clipped Mid-Atlantic accent to suit the period setting, but Marvel kept pulling him back towards his own natural voice.
Q 02Who plays Sue Storm in The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa Kirby. She says she is itching to play Malice, the dark alter ego Sue takes on in the comics, and wanted this Sue to be more than a sweet, perfect mother.
Q 03Which star of The Bear plays Ben Grimm / The Thing?
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Ebon Moss-Bachrach. He plays the Thing through motion capture, and says a text from Mark Ruffalo, Marvel's Hulk, took the mystery out of it: just treat it like normal scene work.
Q 04Who plays Johnny Storm in The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
Joseph Quinn
Joseph Quinn. Best known as Eddie Munson in Stranger Things, he inherits a part once played by Chris Evans and Michael B. Jordan, both of whom went on to bigger Marvel roles.
Q 05Who directed The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
Matt Shakman
Matt Shakman. He took over in 2022 after Jon Watts, the director of Marvel's Spider-Man films, stepped away, and brought much of his WandaVision crew with him.
Q 06The world of First Steps is designed in which style?
Retro-futurism
Retro-futurism. The designers pictured tomorrow as the 1960s imagined it, working from the Space Race and even from the original blueprints of the Apollo rockets.
Q 07Earth-828 in First Steps is numbered for which comics legend's birthday?
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby. The artist who co-created the team was born on August 28, 1917; the film closes on a quotation from him, after which the number 828 turns into his dates.
Q 08As First Steps opens in 1964, the world is celebrating four years since what?
The team gained their powers
The team gained their powers. Rather than stage the accident again, the film recaps it in a television tribute presented by the talk-show host Ted Gilbert.
Q 09What philanthropic organisation set up by Sue has brought the world demilitarisation and peace?
The Future Foundation
The Future Foundation. In the comics it is Reed's creation; the film hands it to Sue, who has used it to talk the world's nations into laying down their arms.
Q 10In the backstory of First Steps, what gave the four astronauts their powers during a space mission?
Cosmic rays
Cosmic rays. The accident happens off screen: the film opens with the four already world-famous, a way of sparing audiences an origin story they had seen filmed before.
Q 11Who plays the Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
Julia Garner
Julia Garner. The Surfer's gleaming body is all motion capture, but Garner still took surfing lessons before filming so that she would move like someone used to a board.
Q 12What is the name of the Silver Surfer's home planet?
Zenn-La
Zenn-La. The Surfer became Galactus's herald so that he would spare her own world, and has paid for it ever since by leading him to other planets to devour.
Q 13Who plays Galactus in The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
Ralph Ineson
Ralph Ineson. The planet-eater was not his first Marvel job: he had a blink-and-miss small part as a Ravager pilot in Guardians of the Galaxy back in 2014.
Q 21Who finally pushes Galactus through the portal in First Steps?
Shalla-Bal
Shalla-Bal. Johnny is about to sacrifice himself when the Surfer stops him, rams Galactus through the portal herself and vanishes with him as it closes.
Q 22What happens to Sue after she holds Galactus back with all her power?
She dies and her baby revives her
She dies and her baby revives her. Reed cannot bring her back, but the newborn can, the first real sign of the power that Galactus sensed in him.
Q 23In the mid-credits scene of First Steps, who is the man in the green cloak holding a metal mask?
Doctor Doom
Q 14What does Galactus demand in exchange for sparing Earth?
Reed and Sue's unborn child
Reed and Sue's unborn child. Galactus senses in the baby a power great enough to take over his endless hunger and so set him free of it.
Q 15What is the name of Reed and Sue's son?
Franklin
Franklin. He is born in space on the flight home, after Galactus brings on Sue's labour; none of the earlier Fantastic Four films had given the couple a child at all.
Q 16What celestial object helps the team escape the Silver Surfer on the flight home?
A neutron star
A neutron star. The team dives into its pull to shake off the pursuing Surfer and uses the same gravity to sling the ship back towards Earth, just as Sue goes into labour.
Q 17What is Reed's plan for saving Earth from Galactus?
Teleport Earth to another solar system
Teleport Earth to another solar system. The plan needs giant bridges built in cities around the globe and all the world's power to run them, which is where Sue's diplomacy comes in.
Q 18Where is Galactus lured for the team's last stand in First Steps?
Times Square
Times Square. The crew built it as a vast outdoor set at about four-fifths of full size, with a giant tube television standing where today's screens would be.
Q 19How does Johnny finally get through to the Silver Surfer?
By learning her language
By learning her language. He decodes it from old space transmissions, then confronts her with the last messages of worlds she helped destroy, and she flees in remorse.
Q 20Who is Harvey Elder, played by Paul Walter Hauser?
Mole Man, ruler of Subterranea
Mole Man, ruler of Subterranea. Once the team's enemy, he makes a truce with Sue and shelters the people of New York in his underground realm when Galactus arrives.
Doctor Doom. Robert Downey Jr. plays him with his face kept out of shot, in a scene filmed during the making of the next Avengers film.
Q 24What is the name of the Fantastic Four's robot assistant?
H.E.R.B.I.E.
H.E.R.B.I.E. Short for Humanoid Experimental Robot B-Type Integrated Electronics, he was a real puppet on set, and proved three times harder to build than the team's flying car.
Q 25What is the Fantastic Four's spaceship called?
The Excelsior
The Excelsior. The name is Stan Lee's famous sign-off, the film's salute to the writer who co-created the Fantastic Four in 1961.
Q 26The team's rocket launch pad juts out from the Baxter Building over which New York waterway?
The East River
The East River. To launch a rocket from midtown Manhattan without chaos, the designers imagined curtains of steam drawn up from the water to smother the flames.
Q 27Which Stanley Kubrick film inspired the look of Reed's three-room lab?
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey. The director wanted the whole film to feel as if Kubrick had made it in 1965, so the crew built real sets and model spaceships rather than leaning on green screen.
Q 28Who plays talk show host Ted Gilbert in The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss. He says the director simply offered him the part, a rarity at a studio where, as he put it, almost everyone has to audition.
Q 29Who plays Rachel Rozman, the schoolteacher who catches Ben Grimm's eye in First Steps?
Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Lyonne. Her schoolteacher is an original character: in the comics Ben's usual love interest is the blind sculptor Alicia Masters.
Q 30Which actor's role as Red Ghost was cut entirely from First Steps?
John Malkovich
John Malkovich. His scenes sat in an early montage of the team's first battles; the director, who had worked with him before, called leaving them out heartbreaking.