{"id":280709,"date":"2025-11-09T05:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/280709\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:43:17","slug":"fantastic-four-every-live-action-version-of-sue-storm-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/280709\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Four: Every Live-Action Version of Sue Storm, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"

When The Fantastic Four kicked off a new age of Marvel Comics adventures in the early 1960s, Sue Storm\/Invisible Woman<\/a> was right there alongside Reed Richards\/Mr. Fantastic, her brother Johnny Storm\/The Human Torch, and Ben Grimm\/The Thing, duking it out with evil. Naturally, she\u2019s been a staple of all non-comics adaptations of the characters since then, including their various live-action movie appearances. All four live-action Fantastic Four movies have featured various actresses portraying one of Marvel\u2019s most legendary superheroes.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no disputing Sue Storm\u2019s towering presence in the world of superhero media. However, not all versions of the character are created equal. Ranking the live-action movie versions of Sue Storm from worst to best shows that the character\u2019s been done dirty in many movies before\u2026 though her most recent incarnation certainly helped do her justice.<\/p>\n

Here are the live-action Sue Storms ranked, from worst to best: <\/p>\n

4. Kata Mara\u2019s Sue Storm\/Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four (2015)<\/p>\n

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Among the many creative bunglings of the 2015 Fantastic Four reboot was Kate Mara\u2019s iteration of Sue Storm\/Invisible Woman. The film\u2019s jagged script didn\u2019t give the character much of anything of substance to do, hence why her most memorable attribute was those distracting wigs Mara donned in the film\u2019s reshoots. <\/p>\n

This Storm didn\u2019t even have memorable chemistry with any of her three fellow superheroes, a baffling shortcoming for a superhero team that\u2019s all about familial bonds. The character\u2019s personality was also vaguely defined, while the visual depiction of her superpowers wasn\u2019t especially evocative or interesting. This Sue Storm was a total blank slate that offered nothing for either moviegoers or Kate Mara as a performer.<\/p>\n

3. Jessica Alba\u2019s Sue Storm\/Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four (2005) & Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)<\/p>\n

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Here was another version of Sue Storm that tragically wasted an actor\u2019s potential in favor of sloppy screenwriting. The iteration of this character in Tim Story\u2019s two 2000s Fantastic Four movies mostly existed for \u201cjokes\u201d about the character having to get naked to be invisible and being put in jeopardy to motivate her male cohorts (and even the Silver Surfer). It was a total waste of the character\u2019s potential and didn\u2019t provide Alba any room to be interesting. <\/p>\n

At least this Sue Storm got more low-key scenes to hang out with Johnny and Ben compared to Mara\u2019s version. That\u2019s the only real upside, though, to yet another underwhelming depiction of a Marvel superhero who deserved more.<\/p>\n

2. Rebecca Staab\u2019s Sue Storm\/The Invisible Woman from The Fantastic Four (1994)<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,\u201d and so it is with the live-action versions of Sue Storm. One iteration of the character never got to appear in movie theaters, technically, but is still superior to the first two 20th Century Fox iterations of the character. Rebecca Staab\u2019s take on Sue Storm from the Roger Corman-produced Fantastic Four film of the 1990s still doesn\u2019t have much to do; however, save for the unspeakably creepy age discrepancy between herself and Reed Richards when they first meet, there\u2019s also nothing too embarrassing about Staab\u2019s Invisible Woman. <\/p>\n

Her performance as the character is endearing enough and fits right into the retro aesthetic of the entire movie. There\u2019s a tangible personality to her work, which is more than Mara and Alba were able to exude in their on-screen work.<\/p>\n

1. Vanessa Kirby\u2019s Sue Storm\/The Invisible Woman from The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)<\/p>\n

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With The Fantastic Four: First Steps,<\/a> Sue Storm\/The Invisible Woman finally got a proper live-action version thanks to performer Vanessa Kirby and director Matt Shakman. Kirby\u2019s contributions to the role are especially impossible to understate. She\u2019s transfixing in this part and lends Storm some serious gravitas, particularly in the best scene in all of First Steps, with Sue delivering a grand speech to worried New York residents. While past versions of Sue Storm were just props for male characters, this incarnation of the superhero has a commanding presence, making it obvious why people would follow her to the ends of the Earth. Plus, her superpowers are brought to such vivid life throughout First Steps, particularly in a finale where the life of her child, Franklin Richards, is on the line. There\u2019s absolutely no question, Vanessa Kirby embodies the pinnacle of Sue Storm in cinema.<\/a><\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When The Fantastic Four kicked off a new age of Marvel Comics adventures in the early 1960s, Sue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,125058,206,148601,4861],"class_list":["post-280709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-list-feature","tag-movies","tag-sue-storm-invisible-woman","tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}