[Thing] Ta-ti-di-um!
Presentin' the Four Freedoms Plaza,
the new home of the Fantastic Four!
Man, Ben, that cake's big enough to move into!
I'm sure we can store most of it in the freezer.
Or the garage.
Yeah, the bakery had a slight problem deciphering Ben's order.
Hey, inches, feet, ounces, pounds.
Anybody could've made the same mistake.
Who wants the first slice?
Hey! Relax, there's plenty for everyone!
Earthquake!
Whoa! Whoa!
Fortunately, I designed our building
to withstand a seismic shock of 9.5.
Whoa, check this!
Floods in Spain.
Hurricanes in Tahiti. Fires, volcanic eruptions.
Yeah, and while you're yakkin', the whole city's crackin'.
Ben, that overpass, it's going to collapse!
If we can just get there in time!
Come on, Susie.
To Benjamin J. Grimm, the ever-lovin' Thing,
"if" is a four-letter word.
Help! Someone help me!
I can't stretch any further!
Grab my hand!
Thanks, Iron Man.
If you and the Avengers could continue your rescue operations,
we'll return to Four Freedoms Plaza
to find out why all this is happening.
My tachyon radar indicates that the sky fire is being generated
by an object penetrating our atmosphere at enormous speed!
Just where's this object headed, Reed?
Whoa. Whoa...
Ow! Gee whiz!
Ben, look!
That's the hammer of Thor, the thunder god!
What's the matter?
Can't that long-haired, lantern-jawed lummox ever knock?
Gotcha.
It's obviously a summons from the God of Thunder himself!
Follow its energy trail, Ben.
Not to worry. Aunt Petunia's favorite blue-eyed nephew
ain't never lost a hammer yet.
Dead ahead! It's Thor!
[Thing] Oh, goody.
Where'd I put my autograph book? Can you believe it?
Somebody trashed his tush and he still looks pretty as a picture!
Get ready! My force-field bubble will pull him in.
Who or what could possibly do this to the God of Thunder,
the most powerful being on Earth?
Most powerful?
Hey, when did I become Wimp of the Year?
- Uh, April. - What? Hey...
Reed, what kinda chance do we have
against anything that could rough up Thor like this?
Well, for once, Johnny, I don't have an answer.
[Reed] Instruments are showing something ahead, Ben.
[disembodied voice] Creatures of the third planet, heed me!
- Huh, check, please. - I am Ego, the living planet!
[Ego] Feel my wrath!
Pull it up, Ben!
What do you think I'm trying to do? Win the Pillsbury bake-off?
- [Reed] Can you land us, Ben? - Yeah, I'll keep her upright.
If you'll step outside and pave me a landin' strip!
There's oxygen down there. Let me go, Sis! Flame on!
One runway for the orange gentleman in the blue diaper comin' right up!
Welcome to Ego International Airport!
Sorry, but your luggage has been eaten.
Ah, this is no time for levity, Johnny.
Once Ego pinpoints our position...
Reed, what's that? It looks like an enormous city!
That's no city. It's some kind of an array of thruster rockets.
They must be Ego's means of propulsión!
If we knock out those thrusters,
it might stop Ego's progress towards Earth!
Great! Knockin' things out is my middle name.
Hey!
It's Ego! He's located us, and he's... [muffled]
[Ego] Across the boundless reaches of the cosmos,
I have tracked my sworn enemy!
Now, for his transgressions,
I shall destroy your worid and all its populace!
Flame on!
Hitch a ride, Sis.
Yuk!
- What a revoltin' development. - Fear not, Benjamin Grimm!
Thy plight hast caught the eye of Thor, son of Odin!
Son of Odin, eh?
Thou has ticked off Ben Grimm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grimm!
Now, when I need your help, Goldilocks,
I'll leave a message at the beauty parlor!
We're grateful for your intervention, Thor.
'Tis Thor who owes a debt to thee, Reed Richards.
Time doth grow short. We must converse.
I knew not this creature until mine enchanted hammer, Mjolnir,
detected Ego's presence with the first storm wind.
Using the Uru hammer's power,
I did unlock a portal to the very depths of space.
And there came I face to face with Ego, the living planet.
I learned of his mad plan to destroy Earth
and engaged him in battle!
But how does one, even a god, battle a planet entire?
I was defeated.
'Twas then, with the last of my strength, I summoned thee!
Perhaps where the might of the gods hath failed,
the power of reason and intellect may prevail!
You shall never prevail against Ego!
Whoa!
This ain't lookin' pretty!
[splutters]
Don't you ever get a coffee break
in this blasted superhero business?
Hot dog! Somethin' to clobber.
Heh, heh.
One little, two little, three little mud guys.
Four little, five little, six little mud guys.
Head for the thrusters!
Johnny, lay down a barricade of flame behind us.
These are sidereal thruster rockets, all right,
but on a scale I'd have thought impossible.
And yet the technology seems oddly familiar.
Well, I say we turn 'em into scrap metal
and halt this pain-in-the-neck planet
right in its loudmouth tracks.
Thor echoes thy sentiment!
Ow! Gee.
By Odin! This metal resists even the blows
of mine enchanted hammer.
Ain't done wonders for my manicure, neither.
Apparently, part of the thrusters' power
is used to shield them from direct assault.
I'm afraid there's only one being with the power to destroy these engines.
And that's the one who put them here, Galactus.
- Reed! You can't be serious! - Never more so, darling.
The devourer of worids is well known e'en on distant Asgard.
Yeah, he knows us, too,
and we ain't exactly on his Christmas card list.
Since his last attack on Earth,
I've been monitoring Galactus' movements on sub-space radar.
Thor, if I provide coordinates, can you take us to him?
Mjolnir's magic can protect myself
and one other on such a journey!
Will thou face the devourer alone, Reed Richards,
with only the Mighty Thor at thy side?
I'll do whatever I must.
Johnny, you fly Ben and Sue back to the ship.
You can all join me when I return with Galactus.
Ben, remove these lower power packs, the auxiliary units.
It'll slow Ego's progress and buy us some time.
But handle them with kid gloves. They're highly explosive.
Explosive, huh?
Oh, yeah.
Darling, please be careful.
Stand thee back, all, whilst mighty Mjolnir doth open
a portal through the very fabric of space.
But what if Galactus refuses to help?
We have to do something.
You got my vote in your back pocket, Susie.
Now if Stretcho says I can rip out a few of these things, who am I to argue?
Look out! They've mutated.
The fire's not holding them back. Grab hold. I'll fly us out of here.
No! Ben, grab that power pack and follow me.
- I have an idea! - "I have an idea. "
The four scariest words in the English language.
- Johnny! Follow us! - Where to?
Down.
Not again!
[Reed] Galactus has fed on yet another worid.
And you would seek alliance with such a villain?
We've no choice, Thor.
Cringe before me.
I am Terrax the Tamer,
now herald to Galactus, devourer of worids.
He awaits within.
Reed Richards.
You have come where you are unwelcome.
Your hour is struck. Your final page is writ.
Threaten us not, villain!
Thor hath brought giants larger than Galactus to their knees.
Wait! Galactus, hear me.
I come not to challenge you, but to ask your help.
And why should Galactus involve himself
in any petty mortal affairs?
Because you're the reason Earth faces total destruction.
[groaning]
I feel like I been flushed.
Susie, this brilliant idea of yours
better include a medical plan with a real low deductible.
Hazard pay would be nice too, Ben.
But look, if we can locate the center of Ego's consciousness,
the explosive energy of that power pack
might be enough to destroy him.
That sounds like a suicide missión, Sis.
What choice do we have?
With every passing second, Ego gets closer to Earth.
And if Reed fails to convince Galactus,
then Alicia, Crystal, the entire Earth, will perish.
- That does it. - Ben! Where are you going?
Where else? To blow Ego's mind.
So Ego is rushing toward Earth,
using the thrusters only you could have attached to his body.
No! The all-mighty Galactus cannot be bothered
with the fate of fleas!
Enough, herald. As you surmised, in all the universe,
only Ego's power has challenged my own.
It was when the mad planet threatened
to destroy this galaxy, my galaxy,
that I did battle him.
But to no avail.
His powers were equal to mine.
Ultimately I attached the thrusters,
and bid them exile Ego
into the vast void of interstellar space.
Then the rest is obvious.
Ego must have somehow gained control of the thrusters
and used them to come after you,
following the trail of dead planets all the way to Earth.
Finding Earth teeming with life, he no doubt assumed
you were a friend to our planet and thus spared it.
And therefore, Ego determined to draw my master out
by destroying your worthless worid.
- How fitting. - Enough talk.
Undo the harm thou hast done
or face the wrath of the God of Thunder.
Galactus shall help, not because of your laughable threat,
but on his own condition.
Reed Richards, I shall aid you in vanquishing Ego,
provided you release me from the vow you once extracted from me,
to spare your planet called Earth.
By Odin's beard!
He would trade us one death for another!
An immediate threat for a distant one.
We have no choice.
Offer accepted.
[Sue pants]
Sis...
I can't go on. The air pressure.
I feel it, too.
Don't know how much deeper I can go.
You ain't goin' nowhere. This is where you guys get off.
Ben, this is no time to play John Wayne.
No, Johnny. Ben's right.
He's the only one who stands a chance.
That flash, it's Reed and Galactus.
We'd better alert them that Ben's still down there.
Reed, come in. Reed.
The communicator's dead!
It must've been damaged when we crash-landed!
Well, Galactus...
Guess who's coming to dinner.
There's our ship.
Good, they made it back to safety.
Galactus! At last my quest is done.
My vengeance is at hand. Let this then be your end.
This time, the triumph shall be mine!
You mouth madness.
You are but a simple being.
I am an entire worid!
Your words are true, but in all of space, I stand alone.
I am Galactus! The be-all and end-all of the universe!
By Heimdal's eyes! The villainous titans are too evenly matched.
Thor! Come with me!
Pressure's even gettin' to me.
But I can't stop!
I have to keep movin' or I'll never get goin' again.
Now, that's what I call a brain.
And I thought ol' Stretch had all the marbles!
By altering the circuits of your dimensional generator,
I can channel the mystical energy of Thor's Uru hammer
- into your own cosmic power. - Ah!
'Twill make the mightiest weapon the universe hath ever known!
Then let it be done.
Galactus stands ready.
Oh, my gosh! Galactus is trying to blow up the planet
with Ben still inside! We've got to reach Reed and stop it.
I'm trying! Those blasts aren't helping.
Here's the wind-up and the pitch!
Strike!
[yells]
[Ego yells]
- Reed! Thor! It's Ben! - He's in the center of Ego.
Mjolnir shall fly me to his side!
- He's coming around, Reed. - Tough day on the job, big guy?
Jeez, Louise.
Anybody get the number of that planet?
Only your rock-hard hide saved you from explosive decompressión, Ben.
Yeah. That, and holdin' my breath.
Y'know, if Thor hadn't dragged your orange buns outta there,
you'd have been space krispies.
Oh, no. Come on, you're kidding?
You mean I owe my life to the Fabio of the fjords?
'Twas Thor's privilege, Benjamin Grimm,
to rescue one as noble as thee.
Yeah, well, don't let it go to thy bleached-blond noggin.
Galactus bids you farewell, Reed Richards,
but remember, a bargain has been struck.
You have released me from my vow to spare your planet.
I hunger not at this moment... but perhaps another day.
Yes. Another day.