First Steps surreptitiously continued the tradition of the Stan Lee cameo in Marvel movies, but it was pretty subtle.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the latest entry in the 2025 movie schedule to dominate the box office, and for many, including me, it’s a great soft reset of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One of the things I most liked about it was that it wasn’t heavy on the MCU-cameos like so many others have been.

Endgame, in a throwback to his 1970s-era self. His visage has popped up here and there in the subsequent years — did you catch him in the fake Stanley Steemer ad in Deadpool & Wolverine? — but in Fantastic Four: First Steps,