What? You didn't see that coming?
[Susan] Storm is a fierce protector of her family and friends. Sue possesses the superhuman ability to turn invisible, allowing her to sneak up on her enemies completely unnoticed.
What is this, the Fox Fantastic Four movies? "Sneak up on her enemies"? That's how you want to sum up her powers and character? That may be a fair summation of the 2005 Sue, but if you saw First Steps and thought Sue's strength was "sneaking up on her enemies," then you may have walked into the wrong theater. MCU Invisible Woman may have lived in a world that looked like the 1960s, but she was the fully post-1980s, "strongest member of the team" incarnation. We've gushed before about how great Sue is, but First Steps showed the world she's more than a professional hostage.
Movie Sue is played by Vanessa Kirby (no relation), best known for bringing some class to the Mission Impossible and Fast and Furious franchises. She was up for the role of Black Canary in Harley Quinn, but this is her first official comic role. The likeness is great, but it's funny that even Hasbro's own stock photos can't hide the fact that her long hair is going to make the head functionally immobile.
Invisible Woman is wearing her version of the team look, of course. Unlike Reed, hers gets white detailing on the top; unlike Ben and Johnny, hers doesn't have any white on the sleeves; it's just a bit of a collar, but it does look more like the classic comic costumes than any of the others do. We'd love to hear from costume designer Alexandra Byrne (also no releation) why it was chosen that the suits would all have their own little stylistic differences rather than being uniform.
The costume is a mix between the FF's two main looks, mixing the light blue of the originals with the white accents John Byrne created. To keep the things from looking too plain, the belt, boots, and gloves have some small black details. The soles of Sue's shoes are the same blue as the suit, which isn't a case of a missing paint app or anything: the blue is visible even from the sides, so it's an intentional choice. She doesn't get the black lines underneath there Reed did, though.
The figure includes two right hands and two left hands.
The lefts are either relaxed or holding, and the rights are a closed fist or a special splayed version that has a large hole in the palm so you can plug in the included invisible shield. Why they did it this way instead of just having it fit on her fingers like the comic figures did is a question only Hasbro could answer. It's sculpted with a jagged edge and a few pock marks to make it look like she's blocking bullets or something. So it's a pretty cool piece, it's just weird that it attaches in such an old-fashioned way.
We already mentioned that the hair prevents the head from moving, but if it could, there's a balljoint and a hinge, rather than a disappointing barbell. The joints that do work are the shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, hips, thighs, knees, and ankles. Thanks to the way the "shield" hand is bent back, you can get a really nice approximation of her Marvel Rivals idle stance character select intro pose - and since the First Steps costumes are available as skins in Rivals, this would almost count as a Gamerverse figure! Since the chest is a balljoint, there's really no point in having a swivel waist, so you know what would have been good instead? Swivels anywhere in the shin! There are plenty of places to hide it.
The Fantastic Four movie toys are really good, but with the major drawback of availability: I've seen each of the figures exactly one time each, which means whoever came to the store behind me has seen them zero times. The movie was terrific, and Invisible Woman was a true standout, but retailers don't seem to have been very interested in carrying the merchandise.
-- 12/15/25
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