The Fantastic Four’s robotic friend gets a much-deserved spotlight behind-the-scenes for the upcoming home release of ‚First Steps.‘
After stretching across movie screens this summer, Fantastic Four: First Steps is coming home next week. To celebrate, io9 has your first look at one of the behind-the-scenes featurettes being included—and it’s all about the unsung hero of the movie, the little robot that could, Herbie.
The fifth member of a team that famously has the word “four” in its name, Herbie was the breakout star of First Steps. The adorable little ‘bot operated as the team’s jack-of-all-trades ally, from assisting Ben Grimm in the kitchen for family dinners to providing Reed an important hand or six in his lab to looking after little baby Franklin—even in the face of the arrival of Galactus, destroyer of worlds!
Suffice to say, Herbie was just as much of a member of the First Family as Johnny, Reed, Sue, or Ben, befitting the legacy of how he came to be in animation and the comics all those years ago.
