First Steps" just introduced the most powerful being in the MCU and was pretty nonchalant about it. Franklin Richards - the newborn son of Reed and Sue Richards – made his debut in the latest MCU film and drew the immediate attention of big bad Galactus.

Curious how Franklin Richards ended up with one of Marvel’s most powerful forces in The Fantastic Four: First Steps? The newborn wields the Power Cosmic, an energy so immense it once sustained Galactus and now fuels Franklin’s reality-shaping abilities.

In a 1982 arc by John Byrne, Franklin gets frustrated trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube and uses his powers to age himself into an adult body, though he couldn’t actually gain more emotional maturity. He winds up going back to being a kid, placing restrictions on his own abilities to allow him to have something of a normal childhood.