Fantastic 4

45 mistakes - chronological order

(1 vote)

Revealing mistake: Intro Mission 2: Lots of the destructible objects in the hospital can be broken simply by just jumping on them. Some of these objects are large plant pots with a small green tree in them. When you jump at them, the foot only has to just touch a leaf of the plant, and it causes the whole vase to shatter.

Quantom X

Other mistake: Intro Mission 2: When the flying torsos of the security bots go to the pods to connect with arms and legs, they go in and turn around as their limbs begin connecting. The metal tentacles on them just instantly vanish in a jerky animation.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Intro Mission 1: During the opening cut scene, Ben is about to go out an air lock to go close the Adamantium shields on the space station. When the level starts, Ben is in the same air lock, only now the door is much larger.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Intro Mission 1: At the end of the level, you go to the edge of part of the space station that was just destroyed, and you hear Reed yell to Ben he has to jump. You go to the edge and instantly a cut scene starts. When it does, there is now a weird looking sensor array or something on the deck right behind him, that was not there as you moved him to that spot. The 'ground' or part of the station Ben was on also significantly changes from game to cut scene.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Intro Mission 1: During the opening cinematic, Ben is in his space suit and daydreaming about how they got there. When Reed speaks to him to snap him out of it, he is facing out of the air lock. You can see a reflection of the space station parts on his visor. But when the camera angle cuts to his back, what is in front of him is nothing like what is reflected on his visor.

Quantom X

Other mistake: Intro Mission 1: In the opening cinema cut scene as Doom tells Ben that their futures are all depending on him, Reed is in the background typing on a computer. He begins putting his right arm down towards his side with a bent elbow. Half way down his arm suddenly jumps to being almost all the way down in a jerky, glitchy animation.

Quantom X

Bug: Intro Mission 1: If you take Ben off the space station, Reed starts shouting at him to stay on course. If you go off too far, it is game over. Hit the restart option and then press A to skip the cinema cut to return to the level. As soon as the level begins and you hear Ben begin to breathe, hit the pause button. This leads you into the pause menu, and this is where the glitch happens. You will hear Ben inhale sharply during the menu, despite you not being able to hear him when paused, and he sounds almost like Darth Vader. But before his breath is finished, you hear part of Reed's rant play, where he is just yelling the word "Course!" This plays rapidly on a loop of hearing Ben breathe once, followed by Reed yelling "Course" over and over again until you unpause it. The glitch ends after that.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Other mistake: Intro Mission 1: Once the characters get their powers, pressing Z uses up their "Cosmic." Cosmic is the blue bar underneath the green health bar. On Mission 1 of the Intro level, it is before the cosmic cloud hits the station, thus none of them have any powers or cosmic yet. However, you are controlling Ben in a space suit out on the space station, and he has a blue bar of cosmic below his health. If you hold down Z, you see the Cosmic begin dropping from 100 and the blue bar move.

Quantom X

Bug: Character Sue: Sometimes after performing powers, the sparkling effect of it stays on her hands even when she's not using them. Like she's walking around with a perpetual energy ball on her fist.

Quantom X

Bug: Character Reed: Sometimes after making a move, the blue motion animation that shows the stretching of his limbs will remain with the arm after the move is done. Reed will be walking around with the weird effects just lingering on him as he walks or does other movements.

Quantom X

Bug: Underground Mission 1: Moleman's hair passes right through the hood of his hoodie as he turns his head in the cut scenes.

Quantom X

Other mistake: Brooklyn Missions 1&2: When a fire escape is broken and collapses to the ground, it kills any enemies on or under it, and hurts any of the Fantastic 4 in its path unless they, like Ben, bring it down. Yet any civilian walking by, even being right under it when it falls, is completely unscathed.

Quantom X

Plot hole: Brooklyn Mission 2: After Reed and Sue confront Ben, he smashes down a fence and takes off. Only on the other side of the fence are 3 members of the Yancy Street Gang. The fence even hits these three guys and Ben runs between them. Yet, despite the fact in the previous mission, Ben took out many of their fellow gang members, including their leader, they act like they don't even see Ben. They ignore him completely as he hits them with the fence and plows between then. And then they charge at Reed and Sue to attack, and they have never even seen Reed or Sue before, nor has any of their gang.

Quantom X

Bug: Sometimes a fallen enemy's body doesn't fade away fully. You'll often find the outline or faded remains of a dead enemy.

Quantom X

Plot hole: In the film, it is shown that Ben is the only one knocked out by the cosmic storm, with the others conscious to get them back to Earth safely. However, in the game, things are changed so all four of them and Doom are knocked out and wake up in the hospital. They were the only five people on the station and were knocked out there, with Ben in the airlock. There would have been nobody to get them on the shuttle and take them back to Earth for a rescue. In the film, only Ben got knocked out, but by changing it in the game version, it opens up a plot hole about how they made it back to Earth safely after all being knocked out and then waking up in a hospital.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Other mistake: Intro Mission 2: When using Reed to walk up to a computer to "hack" it, he will start a typing animation hunched over. Oftentimes the model will be off to the side or not even next to the keyboard, still hunched over typing on thin air rather than the computer next to him.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Intro Mission 1: In a small cut scene, a meteor hits just next to the 3rd blast shield control knob and knocks it out of the wall. The red light on it turns off as it floats in space. Then suddenly, in the next shot as the camera is going back to Ben, the red light is back on. It is also suddenly further away from the socket it goes in.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Revealing mistake: Intro Mission 1: After the first meteor hits and explodes the space station path behind Ben, several pieces of the debris clip through each other and the rest of the station as they start to float away and spin. Models overlapping and occupying the same space. This also happens in other instances of debris exploding off the space station from meteor hits.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Intro Mission 1: When Ben closes the initial blast shield over the window, the shield is only halfway shut as he's still holding the control knob. The camera angle then changes, and even though the sound of the shield finishing its closure continues, Ben is suddenly hovering further away from the knob and facing down the path. A meteor then strikes nearby, making it appear as if Ben suddenly teleported between shots.

Quantom X

Fantastic 4 mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Intro Mission 1: As Ben is floating along the space station, a small cut scene is triggered when the first meteor hits and blows up part of the walkway behind him. Regardless of where you actually have Ben just before the cut scene starts, the cut scene will have him positioned back several feet from where you were, back in the direction you came, and will put him in the centre of the path even if you were cutting around the corner.

Quantom X

[after throwing a robot through the hospital wall].
Ben Grimm/The Thing: What the hell is happening to me?!

Quantom X

More quotes from Fantastic 4

Trivia: Intro Mission 2: In the second room you go to, if you go to the doors right next to the security drone you can hack and turn to your side, look through the glass windows of this door. You can see two doctors, a male and female, with arms locked and making out. A funny little Easter Egg the game developers placed there.

Quantom X

More trivia for Fantastic 4