Marvel Just Gave Joseph Quinn's Human Torch a New Hairstyle

Marvel Just Gave Joseph Quinn's Human Torch a New Hairstyle

Joseph Quinn will make his MCU debut in The Improbable 4: First Steps, and his character has been proven sporting some completely different appears to be like within the movie’s advertising and marketing.

The Improbable 4: First Steps introduces 4 main new MCU heroes: Mr Improbable/Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Invisible Girl/Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), The Factor/Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and the Human Torch/Johnny Storm (Quinn).

The primary movie in Section 6 of the MCU options a completely different aesthetic than some other Marvel Studios movie. It takes place in a retro-futuristic, Nineteen Sixties-inspired alternate Earth, which radiates all through the entire designs and advertising and marketing for The Improbable 4: First Steps.

Johnny Storm’s New MCU Hairstyle Revealed

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A brand new piece of The Improbable 4: First Steps promotional artwork has hinted at an alternate coiffure for Johnny Storm within the MCU.

The paintings, which originates from a puzzle discovered on Korean web site Puzzle People, depicts all 4 unbelievable characters in heroic poses and a retro artwork type. Nonetheless, eagle-eyed followers could notice that Johnny Storm’s hair appears to be like completely different from the way in which it’s depicted within the films. 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps promotional art, Fantastic Four puzzle
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Johnny’s haircut within the poster seems to have extra quantity and is swept again, maybe to signify the wind-blown look from the hero’s high-flying adventures. 

That is barely completely different from Johnny’s have a look at different factors in The Improbable 4: First Steps trailers, wherein the character’s haircut is flatter and covers extra of his brow. Some moments of footage even present Johnny with a comb-over.

Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Whereas it isn’t a vital shift in coiffure, the artwork does signify a extra trendy and ruffled search for Johnny, which might be designed to match the hero’s outgoing and reckless character.

Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, Johnny Storm artwork
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It is unclear whether or not Quinn will find yourself sporting this coiffure on-screen in The Improbable 4: First Steps (maybe present process a heroic makeover by the film’s finale) or if it is purely for advertising and marketing functions. 

The same search for Johnny, that includes longer hair in a messy combover, was included within the very first advertising and marketing supplies for The Improbable 4, hinting that it could be a coiffure that was altered all through filming.

What to Count on From Johnny Storm in Improbable 4: First Steps

For these unfamiliar, Johnny Storm is the sibling of fellow Improbable 4 member Sue Storm. The crew’s journey into area resulted in Johnny getting pyro powers that enable him to show into a burning fireball of a human (which is already impressing followers within the trailers). 

Little of Johnny’s storyline in The Improbable 4: First Steps has been revealed, however the latest reveal that Sue Storm is pregnant within the film confirms that Johnny has a new function as an uncle forward of him.

Johnny Storm is usually generally known as a hot-headed hero in Improbable 4 comics, however Quinn spoke to Entertainment Weekly about how this may occasionally shift in First Steps, with Johnny being “humorous” and “much less callous with different individuals’s emotions:”

“He is a man that leads with a lot of bravado, which may be an affront generally. But in addition he is humorous. Myself and Kevin [Feige] had been talking about earlier iterations of him and the place we’re culturally. He was branded as this womanizing, devil-may-care man, however is that horny today? I do not assume so. This model of Johnny is much less callous with different individuals’s emotions, and hopefully, there’s a self-awareness about what’s driving that attention-seeking conduct.”

Whereas The Improbable 4: First Steps will not be a strict origin story for the group (they’re already established as superheroes when the story takes place), it is going to be the crew’s biggest problem but, and one which propels them into a new period as heroes and as a household (and proper into Avengers: Doomsday).