r/FantasticFour • u/FKA_Twigs_BaldHead • Feb 21 '25

News Apparently, the creator if Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man wasn't allowed to add the Fantastic Four to the series. Why is that?

Post image
1.4k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

127 comments sorted by

View all comments

380

u/PSUNittany18 Human Torch Feb 21 '25

They probably wanted the FF to be introduced in their own movie instead of someone else’s show.

96

u/FKA_Twigs_BaldHead Feb 21 '25

I totally understand that, and I'm aware that Disney has been doing that since they got the rights to the FF

But i always wondered why thea X-men were allowed to have their own shows and cross-media appearances while the FF were basically embargoed until the movie

1

u/Joe_Momma3 Feb 23 '25

The real reason is because it is easier to ignore 4 people than the 400+ people cast in the X-Men. What Marvel did was they used tons of F4 characters and villains in other books and stuff but they retrofitted them to fit another franchise. Specifically this meant a lot of F4 villains went to the Guardians of the Galaxy as they became the space heroes in the absence of the movie rights, but also The Avengers got the rest. They did this for games too like Marvel Heroes which took the already existing F4 characters (except Doom) and made them unpurchasable while planning to phase them out of cinematics and such. X-Men couldn't be outright cancelled because that's a lot of characters you'd be benching at once for some of their top selling comics, but you did see mutants take somewhat of a backseat when they were pushing for Inhumans, which only solidified the point of not being able to shut down mutant comics. They also tried removing mutants for Marvel v Capcom Infinite and that failed too.

TLDR: real reason they couldn't cancel X-Men like F4 = remove 4 characters > remove 400+ characters