a later herald of Galactus originally from Earth

Normies are too braindead to know Galactus has any heralds other than the Silver Surfer, or even that Galactus has been a herald himself.

The fact that they might be going the same route as the X-Men films and simply doing the same stories yet again shows how bereft of ideas the company is, or how little they think an audience will understand. FF have a lot of villains in their rogue lineup even before bothering to touch planetary threats such as Galactus, the Negative Zone, or even Doom.

Alicia's father is a villain, and while relatively small time compared to others still more than a problem for the FF and others since he can not only puppet the FF roster but then send any number of other Marvel hero/villain after the FF, too. It would even serve to both include some kind of cameo and create the repetitive "the heroes fight each other" trope that most comics and other media end up using.

In fact, here's a basic outline that could be used for such a film.

• The FF get their powers, it's always the same way so that's just going through the motions in the first act.

• They learn to use them, throw in some "random" cameos from other MCU faces along the way, and in doing so discover a series of breakins at various locations all committed by completely unrelated and random individuals, [which will all be hwuite ofc 🙄].

• Reed tries to figure out the pattern between the randoms and the breakins, Ben meets Alicia and gets closed to her while also ending up getting in close proximity with Alicia's father, and Ben becomes the next puppet setting up internal team drama and fighting.

• Reed figure's out Alicia is somehow connected to the pattern and goes alone/with the other FFs to find her and Ben.

• Ben vs Reed and Sue and Johnny [who is now a black trans wheelchair bound hacktivist with a porn tache after the last film made him black, so the new one needs to go even tarder].

• Alicia's father is revealed to be the one behind it all, his big plan is revealed, the FF confront him and those "random" MCU cameos end up being the final fight because Puppet Master is a wet tissue in a hurricane as far as resilience goes so would never actually work himself in a fight.

• Ben fights the cameos and ofc says "It's clobberin' time!", Reed helps solve the problem at hand, Sue must ofc be the one who actually does it because "woman, RAH!", and Johnny berates Puppet Master for not using his puppet powers to kill "the Right people".

• Film ends, cameo of Silver Derper because even when adding in a new villain normies still need something familiar enough for a Youtuber to make a 29 minute long video telling them why this person is special and why they need to clap when it happens.

END OF FUCKING FILM