Watch The Thing Shave His Beard in a Wild Fantastic Four Day Deleted Scene
Marvel’s First Family cleans up nicely: the home release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps drops a cheeky deleted scene where The Thing shaves his rocky beard, a light lift in Matt Shakman’s 1960s-set romp with Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Marvel is rolling out the home release for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and to nudge everyone back into Baxter Building mode, they dropped a new deleted scene. It is exactly the sort of grounded, slightly absurd detail you want from this team: The Thing shaves his rock beard with what is basically a power sander. Practical. Loud. Weirdly charming.
The new clip, the setup, and the very 60s vibe
Marvel Studios premiered the deleted scene as part of the film’s home-release push, with Rolling Stone getting the first look. It also made the rounds on social via Cosmic Marvel on September 22, 2025. The clip is titled 'Fantastic Four Day' and finds Ben Grimm getting ready for TV, taking a sander to his stony stubble backstage while the team preps for the fictional Ted Gilbert Show. That show is a winky nod to The Ed Sullivan Show, which tells you exactly where the movie’s head is at: 1960s variety-show America, all the way down to the hairspray and stage lights.
How and when you can watch it at home
- Digital: September 23, 2025 on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home
- Physical: October 14, 2025 on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD
- Extras: five deleted scenes, a gag reel, audio commentary, and four featurettes
- Special editions: a SteelBook and a Walmart-exclusive pop-up Blu-ray
- Tie-in book: The Fantastic Four: First Steps – The Art of the Movie Deluxe Edition Slipcase arrives in November, a hardcover packed with concept art and production design
Quick refresher on the movie itself
Directed by Matt Shakman, First Steps plants Marvel’s First Family in the thick of the 1960s space race and leans hard into the Silver Age tone. The cast is stacked: Pedro Pascal is Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby is Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn is Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach is Ben Grimm/The Thing. Julia Garner shows up as Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer, Ralph Ineson looms as Galactus, and Paul Walter Hauser plays Harvey Elder/Mole Man.
If you are wondering whether a rock-skinned superhero taking a sander to his face is too silly, the scene actually lands because it is played straight. It is practical problem-solving in a world where everything else is bigger than life. First flagged by SuperHeroHype’s Anubhav Chaudhry, it is a fun little window into how this movie handles the mundane parts of being fantastic.