10 Big Questions From The Fantastic Four Trailer

6. Does Johnny Storm Die?

If you choose to take the brief shot of Sue crying over the prone body of Johnny at face value - and you probably shouldn't given that they wouldn't have spoiled something that massive in the trailer (surely?) - it would appear that something pretty terrible happens to The Human Torch. You could theorise that this is a shot from the origins sequence in the N-Zone, but frankly you'd be wrong. That's clearly the costume that presumably comes later in the film's events, when they're set up as a unit to take on Doom, and while the background looks very extra-dimensional, it's more likely to be Latveria. Anyway, location is a secondary concern here: the real question is what has happened to Johnny, and how permanent it might be. Will there be an element of Doom being a sorcerer who calls the being inside Johnny into existence? Could he thus hold the key to reviving the prone hero?
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