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Originally Posted by algo448

While it's a nice idea, how would they explain the previous Fantastic Four never being mentioned?
The team has always been public, it's one of their main traits, for your take to work it'd have to be changed, like Pym's stint as Ant-Man, not a bad thing per se, but definitely a new take.

I think it'd be along the same lines as Captain America not being mentioned until 2010. It simply never came up. Stark Industries and PymTech are far from the only companies in the MCU. The Baxter Building and the Future Foundation would exist, but they'd have their own little corner in the MCU.

Let's say the Fantastic Four became active in the 1970s, initially as a covert expansion of the Space Race. They're active for a decade or so, then retire from superheroics in the mid- to late-1980s/early 1990s. In that time, Reed and the gang devote their time to the advancement of science, and launch the Future Foundation for that very purpose in the early-2000s or mid-2010s.

It'd require some finagling, but the history of the MCU isn't developed enough to complicate it too much.