Fantastic Four

Corrected entry: Dr. Doom's fictional kingdom, Latveria, is supposed to be located somewhere in Eastern Europe. In the closing shots, as the ship with Dr.Doom's container sails "LATVERIA" is written on it. Right under that are 3 Russian words that make no sense whatsoever. Basically, it translates as "the head of the toe." Evidently, the screen writers just flipped through a Russian dictionary when writing the scene.

Grigory the Wanderer

Correction: Just because it doesn't make sense in English doesn't mean it's a movie mistake. It could be some sort of meaningful metaphor to Latverians.

Xofer

Corrected entry: Dr.Doom picked his mask from some sort of store. Thus, it was unlikely to be made of titanium or some other heat resistant alloy. The heat generated by the fire during the final battle is big enough to melt Dr.Doom himself, yet the mask is intact. It should have melted first.

Grigory the Wanderer

Correction: The mask was actually shown to be a gift from his home country of Latveria. It can be seen in his home earlier in the movie and you can see the plaque on it when he smashes the case to get it out. So there is really no saying what the metal was, that the mask was made out of. And since Doom didn't actually melt in the final battle - it actually seems to solidfy the alloy that has taken over his body (and as evidenced by the play with electricity in the cargo hold, showing that there is still life in him). It seems entirely probable that the mask could survive as well.

wolfchild

Corrected entry: In the scene where The Thing walks into a pub, the pool table bounces up and down. Beneath the green ball is a ring, holding the ball in place.

Correction: That's not a ring, that's where the number 6 is, and its pointing down (towards the table).

Corrected entry: Reed explains that the suits they wore when they were hit by the cosmic storm adapt to their physical abilities (for example, Susan's suit turns invisible with her). But when Reed saves the fireman on the bridge, he wears "normal" clothes. Nevertheless, these clothes stretch together with Reed's body. He wouldn't have made special clothes by then because he didn't want to be a superhero at this point. Also, Susan Storm's clothes do not disappear with her on the bridge moments earlier.

Correction: In the shot on the bridge when Reed is saving the fire fighter, his clothes do not stretch, but his arms stretch past his clothes. The stretching of his arms wouldn't have to affect his clothing.

Corrected entry: On the bridge Jessica Alba strips down to slip by the police. Yet afterwards when she is putting her clothes back on both Reed and Johnny have gotten by the police as well. Why was it necessary for her to become invisible if the other two got by the police without much trouble?

Correction: Well, a VERY attractive woman stripping down to nothing, who suddenly turns invisible, may have distracted the police long enough for two other people to slip by them.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Johnny leaves the building after having a fight with Sue he is wearing a blue jacket. Later when he sees that the machine had been activated and runs back he is wearing a red jacket.

Correction: It is not unrealistic to think that he could have bought a similar jacket at some point after the explosion.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where The Thing and Human Torch are arguing in the lobby you can see in one scene the door leading to the outside with people around it Then, when Invisible Woman comes, Human Torch heads out through a different door with nobody around. (01:11:30)

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Susan Storm: You were at 4,000° Kelvin! You were approaching supernova!
Johnny Storm: Sweet!
Susan Storm: No, not "sweet"! That's the heat of the sun!
Reed Richards: You could kill yourself, other people, and burn up the atmosphere, ending all human life as we know it.
Johnny Storm: Got it. Supernova bad.

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Question: When Reed, Sue and Ben see Johnny on TV, they see that he has a four on his uniform. Sue asks where it came from and at this point a brief glimpse of a four is also on Reeds uniform but then he quickly hides it giving the indication that he put one on his uniform as well as the others. If Reed only wanted to find a way of getting rid of their powers, then why would he place a four on his uniform? He didn't want to use his powers to help people at all. He only wanted to find a way to cure himself and the others.

Answer: From the look on Reed's face, I assumed he checked to see if he had the patch on his suit as well. He sees that he does and in order to hide it from the others in fear of Ben and Susan thinking he was involved, he hid it quickly and did not mention it.

T Poston

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