Pro-life themes in new Fantastic Four movie which features window to womb scene

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The Latest Marvel Superhero movie, Fantastic Four: First Steps, has strong pro-life and pro-family themes, whilst also showing the power and beauty of motherhood, with pro-lifers praising it for featuring a scene that offers a window into the womb revealing the unborn child within their mother.  

Towards the end of last month, Marvel Studios released the latest remake of the Fantastic Four movies, Fantastic Four: First steps, with a storyline that is centred on the pregnancy and motherhood of Fantastic Four member Sue Storm, played by Vanessa Kirby. After suffering two years of infertility, Sue discovers she is pregnant with her husband Reed Richards, also a Fantastic Four superhero, where news of the pregnancy is received with joy.  

However, as Sue prepares for the birth of her son, the Fantastic Four come to face Galactus who seeks to consume the planet. Galactus negotiates with the Fantastic Four saying he will spare the planet if they give up Sue’s unborn child who he has perceived will become very powerful, but they refuse. Whilst the people are initially angry at this, Sue introduces them to their child, baby Franklin, who has since been born, and vows to find another way to save them without sacrificing her child.

Ultimately, while they use baby Franklin as bait to defeat Galactus, it is Sue who comes to the rescue of her son, overpowering Galactus and dying in the process; but in return, her son baby Franklin restores Sue back to life.

Speaking on the core themes in the movie, Live Action explain that the role of motherhood in Sue’s character “is heavily emphasized, as is the importance of every life.”

Jacob Immel said on LifeNews that the film was “beautiful and shows just how far a parent, especially a mother, will go to protect their baby. I believe the movie had a beautiful pro-life and pro-family message.”

Also featuring in the film is a scene where Sue uses her power of invisibility to reveal her and Reed’s son in her womb, providing us with a window into the womb, showing a beautifully formed baby and the beauty of the life of the unborn child, which has been praised by pro-lifers.

This is a scene from the new Fantastic Four movie, highlighting the humanity of an unborn child in the womb—showing her fingers, eyes, and nose—countering Hollywood’s usual pro-abortion stance.

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This is a scene from the new Fantastic Four movie humanizing an unborn child, directly defying Hollywood’s pro-abortion agenda.

The baby is sleeping, her tiny fingers and nose clearly visible.

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Speaking to Variety, Kirby, who is currently pregnant with her first child, shares about taking on her role in the film as a mother, praising motherhood, calling every day mothers “warriors” and “superheroes”.

“It was so helpful to know that it was a mother’s rage, and a mother’s love, because it felt animal. I wanted it to feel more primal, rather than just, ‘I’m trying to defeat this enemy for everybody.’ It’s more like, ‘I’m fighting to save my child.’ I wanted to tap into how fierce the feminine is, while knowing that Sue also embodies a very soft femininity as well,” she said.

“Sometimes action females can feel invincible. We don’t see the softer sides of them,” she added. “For Sue, undeniably, since the ’60s, she felt like this maternal force. I think for all of us and [the film’s director] Matt Shakman, it was asking the question of what the maternal feminine is really like. I really hope women like the film, because that’s what I responded to Sue about in the comics so deeply.”

“In a way, it taught me so much about motherhood, because that’s what motherhood is. It’s not a passive thing,” she continued. “To give birth, you have to be completely, totally fierce. I’m so happy that you feel that. That’s so moving to me, and all I could have hoped for her.”

“Mothers are honestly warriors, everyday superheroes. We all know that, because we all come from one.”

Sandra Parda of the Life Institute commented, saying: “This is amazing to see a recent film from Hollywood that has a storyline that centres on pro-life and pro-family themes. Not only does the film show the value of an innocent little baby, but also the power of motherhood and the love of a mother that enables one of the title characters to save the planet without having to sacrifice her own child.”

“Society wants us to believe that motherhood is a drawback, that we must sacrifice our children in order to succeed, but it most certainly is not the case. Women are very capable of accomplishing many things whilst entering into motherhood. As Vanesse Kirby says, mothers are superheroes!”