This article contains spoilers For "Fantastic Four: First Steps".

The fantastic four are characters with comics that make the perfect sense on the pages of the "largest comic book magazine in the world", as the slogan Stan Lee has for decades. Kinematically, they are much more complex. This is because the history of superheroes on the screen is different from their history in comics, and the comic book films have been established early as stories of single heroes. When the first big movie with a comic book for a team of heroes with the 2000s "X-Men", a new dynamics were established, the one who built Following the films "Men of Mission" from the past (like "Dirty Tens") and eventually developed in films like "Avengers". The fantastic four, as seen in the comics, were created by Stan Lee and Jackack Kirby in response to the age of the then popular trend of films and shows that chronicized the adventures of narrow family units. Examples include everything from the "Swiss family Robinson" to "lost in space" to Munters and "Partnidge".

In other words, there is a difference between the aspect of "Family Found" of most team films and the dynamics of the real family in a fantastic four. Although FC certainly has its own differences, they are usually not as internally unstable as the avengers or guardians. This can leave some of the accompanying characters to feel a little lost, which is exactly what happens This month "Fantastic Four: First Steps". While Reid Richards (Pedro Pascal) and Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) have clearly defined the roles as the Patriarch and Matriarch of Family Family, Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bahrach) and Nyoni Storm (Josephsef Quinn) are not so clear. Ben is listed by Nyoni as the group's uncle, who feels close enough to his crushed but warm character to fit. Nyoni also refers to himself as an uncle, but he is literally the brother of Sue and the brother -in -law on a hill. He also has a desire for breakfast cereals, which helps inadvertently encode it as a manic, rather than brothers and sisters. In the past, Nyoni has seen a much more defined, but ancient way, something Quinn and producer Kevin Jegie have tried to avoid it. The choice leaves Johnoni to feel as if approaching the "first steps" and Quinn - otherwise a wonderful actor - feeling wrong in the role.

It is abundant how Nyoni should function as a "first step" character. It is the Sardon comic book relief and it is traditional how the human torch is written and shown for almost every iteration. On paper, Quinn would be a fantastic casting for the character, as his previous film and television work proves. In Season 4 of "Stranger Things" and "Silent Place: One Day", he played sensitive young people who were cruel nerves, and he was able to channel that intensity for his order as A soldier in the war in Iraq in "warfare" earlier this year. In the last fall "Gladiator II", he played emperor Geta as a terrible He used punk -rock icons as a template for his character. All of this seemed to suit Nyoni Storm's character as it traditionally shows: Funning, self-agricultural, a hotel that does the right thing when counting.

However, it is precisely that version of Nyoni that Quinn wished to avoid, Saying that a young playboy type would not be so "sexy" for a modern takeover of the character and that he wants to be "less awake with other people's feelings". Although these elections can certainly be seen in Quinn's performance, he leaves Johnoni to feel more tricky in the film's ensemble than expected. It's not like he needs to be brazen or female to be engaged, but he feels like neither Quinn nor director Matt Shakman (or several film screenwriters) found anything else to replace those qualities.

The most unusual example is the awkward tone of Nyoni's relationship with a hill. There is a clear drawing beef, because Johnoni Reese Reed every chance he gets. He insists on being the one to solve the mystery of the Silver Surfer (Iaulia Garner) and her tongue instead of a hill, which makes it, and it's a great way for Johnoni to be active in the film's plot. However, the way Pascal plays Reid, he seems to be completely undiscovered by digging and digging nyonies. When Johnoni Rifs in a hill in one scene tells the scientist that he is returning all the bad things he said about him, potential humor is currently falling flat - both because Nyoni does not require it to be and a hill does not seem to worry. Compare it a little with a very similar moment from Ghostbusters in 1984, and it is clear that a joke as which needs a certain advantage and contrast to work, and that is something the "first steps" do not contain.

One of the biggest problems facing Marvel's entire universe is that most of his classic characters were created or written by Stan Lee, so there is a lot of overlap of characterization. Of course, one actor would like to take place in the other direction from what happened earlier (as seen in Chris Evans' films like Nyoni in the Fantastic Figs in the fox and Last year's "Deadpool & Wolverine"), but also in terms of previous characters in the same universe, namely Tony Stark, as Robert Downey Runior played, the first two films "Ironoal Man" did not try to tone Stark's unwanted qualities, portraying him as a blow to Playboy, just as good as a good man. It is quite likely that Quinn, Shakman and other people "first steps" did not want Johnoni to echo only Stark, because, as such a characterization would fit in perfectly with the right period set in the 1960s, the alternative country of the "first steps" should not match our real history.

The problem is that the latest act of "first steps" sees Johnoni to make a choice that strongly remembers Stark's actions in the first film "Avengers". After FF opened a portal to send Galaktus (Ralph Ineson) to another point in space and almost push it, the raging villain begins to raise his way back without another member of the four capable of stopping him. Then, Johnoni offered a good goodbye to his family, preparing to relax in galacutus and push both through the portal, which would probably mean his immediate death. Fortunately, the silver surfer has decided to sacrifice itself, partly thanks to Johnoni to form a connection and get to it earlier in the film. However, the moment still has that allusion when Stark tried to sacrifice flying through the portal at the end of the "Avengers" and rings less hollow. Stark was a character who started as a selfish man and eventually found selflessnessSince this Johnoni storm, already kindly and mildly, feels like he does not change all that much since we first meet him.

Fortunately, there is every opportunity that future adventures with this fantastic four could deepen the characters further, and Quinn is a great actor in the role when and if that happens. Until then, this Johnoni will feel strange incomplete. It is a little ironic that one of Johnoni's running in "First Steps" begs Ben to say his iconic "clobberin" time ", but no one begs to say his phrase on" flame on! "Besides me, it's; I hope you say that next time, nyoni.