And the only way he’ll spare Earth is if Reed and Sue give him their newborn son, Franklin.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Let’s dig into that cataclysmic ending,

Thanks to the Thunderbolts* post-credits scene, we'd all assumed we knew how The Fantastic Four: First Steps was going to end; with Marvel's First Family having hopped on a ship and travelling, somehow, to Earth-616 on the Sacred Timeline. You know, the universe in which the Avengers exist...

First Steps premiered in theaters last week and kicks off Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It drops viewers into a retrofuturistic world where -- due to an accident that mutated them and gave them powers -- the heroes are Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal),