The Trippy Experience of Watching the Fantastic Four Birth Scene While Pregnant

The Trippy Experience of Watching the Fantastic Four Birth Scene While Pregnant

Warning: This post contains light spoilers for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. I knew, based on the title The Fantastic Four: First Steps, that Marvel’s latest superhero movie would introduce a pregnant superhero, Sue Storm, and deal with the birth of her super-baby, Franklin Richards. I did not expect, when I stepped into a screening eight months pregnant myself, an exegesis on the anxieties of pregnancy and early parenthood. I certainly did n…