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Marvel Studios has outdone itself again with \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d [spoiler alert<\/strong>]. \u00a0At the heart of the plot is the importance of family life\u2014centered on the child to be born.<\/p>\n

The movie briefly explains how four astronauts turn into super-heroes via cosmic rays while in space, Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), his wife Sue (Invisible Woman), her brother Johnny (Human Torch), and their best friend Ben (The Thing). They form the Fantastic Four, more of a family than a team.\u00a0 Early in the movie it\u2019s revealed that after a prolonged struggle to get pregnant, Sue is finally expecting. The family of four rejoices\u2014number five is on his way.<\/p>\n

Enter Galactus, a planet-consuming supervillain from outer space with extraordinary power rivalling that of an ancient pagan god. Thanks to Galactus\u2019 messenger, a female Silver Surfer who travels through space on a surfboard, the earth learns that it\u2019s next on the menu. \u00a0Our four heroes spring into action and decide to head Galactus off at the pass\u2014deep in space. They manage an audience, and Galactus agrees to spare the earth in exchange for Reed and Sue\u2019s unborn child, due at any moment. Apparently, the child has sufficient power to enable him to replace and relieve Galactus of his own undesirable journey of perennial planetary consumption. Our family of four balks and are, barely, able to escape Galactus and the Surfer.<\/p>\n

Once back on earth our heroes reveal that Galactus is still coming to consume the earth and that they rejected sacrificing their son (born on the return trip to earth) to save the planet. Naturally, a frightened society thinks it a reasonable exchange\u2014the child for the world. In perhaps the film\u2019s central moment, Sue declares to a worried crowd, \u201cI will not sacrifice my child for the world; nor will I sacrifice the world for my child.\u201d \u00a0Our four heroes now mobilize the world to fight Galactus. Plan A fails, but eventually the four lure Galactus into a trap that sends him far from earth and unable to return, but not before Sue dies in expending all her energy to protect Franklin, her infant, from the supervillain. After failing to resuscitate his wife, Reed places the crying baby on Sue\u2019s body, and through some power of his own, the baby shocks his mother back to life\u2014a defibrillating hug of sorts.<\/p>\n

There are several lessons here.\u00a0 Let\u2019s focus on three: the fear behind child sacrifice, the mystery of the child, and the gift of the child.<\/p>\n

Firstly, Galactus represents a pagan god not only in his power but in what he demands\u2014a type of human sacrifice to spare the earth. \u00a0Human sacrifices and specifically the sacrifice of children to pagan gods was common in numerous pre-Christian cultures. The same held true in the Old Testament, with the Canaanites sacrificing their children to Baal<\/a> (see Jeremiah 19:5). The idea was to appease the gods. If there was no sacrifice, there might be a drought or some other calamity. The motivation was fear.<\/p>\n

Even our four face an Abraham-like dilemma, knowing that only their child would draw Galactus into their trap. Like Isaac, however, the child is spared.<\/p>\n

Today, fear is a prime motivator of abortion. As one pro-life blogger<\/a>\u00a0put it, statistics show that women don\u2019t have abortions because they don\u2019t want a baby but because \u201cthey don\u2019t believe they have the support they need to raise a child.\u201d Sue found that support from her family, which enabled her to resist both Galactus and societal pressure to do otherwise. As a Church, we must continue to support women who find themselves alone in a crisis pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the child is a mystery. Due to their superpowers, Reed, a scientific genius, is particularly concerned that the baby is born healthy. At one point, he tells his infant son that he\u2019s tried to figure him out and that \u201cyou will just have to show me who you are.\u201d The child is not an object to be calculated and managed, but a person to encounter.\u00a0 Parental responsibility notwithstanding, a mother and father stand before the enigma of their child\u2019s personality, gifts, and vocation\u2014all given by God, and all to be gradually revealed.<\/p>\n

Finally, when the baby saves his mother\u2019s life, he represents the amazing gift every newborn is to his parents and to the world. The child\u2019s need inspires generosity in the parents and siblings. Children\u2019s innocence helps the parents and grandparents renew their own childlike simplicity. Even one-time atheist and communist, Whitiker Chambers, became a believer after contemplating the intricate beauty of his infant\u2019s ears, which \u201cwere not created by any chance.\u201d\u2019 It has been said that every newborn child is a sign that God has not given up on humanity. How much life, grace, and joy a baby brings to a family!<\/p>\n

Family values are omnipresent in this movie. There is no sense of it being \u2018preachy,\u2019 it simply tells a beautiful story. Through super-hero-level challenges, our foursome knows itself blessed with the fifth and smallest member. \u00a0Even saving the world seemed to take second place in their joy. \u00a0Marvel might have to rebrand the sequel to \u201cThe Fantastic Family of Five.\u201d<\/p>\n

Your Friend in Christ,<\/p>\n

Fr. John Bullock, LC
Author of the RC Essay\u00a0A Heart Like Jesus: A Regnum Christi Essay on Contemplating and Imitating Jesus<\/a> and book\u00a0A Cyclist\u2019s Spirituality \u2013 Spiritual lessons learned from riding a bike<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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