Having been a part of the Major Spoilers backstage crew for the better part of a decade, sometimes I forget that not EVERYONE is exposed to teasers, trailers and spoilers 24/7. Recently, while watching a trailer for the upcoming Fantastic 4 (or ‘Fant4astic”) film, my daughter suddenly sat upright and asked “Why doesn’t Ben have any pants on?” When I told her that it was meant to be a more realistic take on the heroes, without magic stretch pants, and she looked me in the eye and opined, “HE STILL NEEDS PANTS!” It’s a fair point, which leads to today’s exposed-shale query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) expects that this is going to be a major talking-point, whether the film fails or succeeds, asking: The Thing’s Pants: Necessary or Unnecessary?
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The entire current FF movie is unecessary. But even considering the question, why would Ben’s cosmic ray mutation cause him to not have genitalia? He’s still got arms, legs, fingers, eyes, etc. So other than the fact that this entire movie sucks so bad that I agreed with Marvel cancelling the comic book and putting the Torch and Thing in other groups until it dies a slow and painful death at the box office there’s no need for him NOT to have pants. Someone have some originality and create NEW heroes that are diverse instead of treating minorities like retreads. Someone sell the XMen and FF franchises back to Marvel and be done with it, please.
“why would Ben’s cosmic ray mutation cause him to not have genitalia?”
This. I’m more confused by that than I am about the pants.
The cosmic rays did give him 4 fingered hands and turn his eyebrows into a rocky shelf. I don’t want to know what might’ve happened Down Below, so I vote for pants.
I agree.
Setting aside magic stretching pants, there is no realist reason he can’t wear pants. It’s not like large people don’t exist or pants only come in certain sizes, fresh off a machine.
I find no pants more unrealistic, unless he’s on stage dancing in a ladies club. Ben as a Chippendale. That makes sense.
If I was transformed into a rocky form, I’d still want to wear pants, and so I’d like to think that Ben Grimm would too.
I think she should wear pants. It… goes with the rough edged dignity of the character. He may not wear giant sized shirts, but wearing pants has – it’s a very human thing to do. Even if he doesn’t need to for decency’s sake. I can’t imagine him wanting to embrace that much of being the Thing just ’cause he doesn’t have a thing.