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Watch It's Clobberin' Time: The Cast of Fantastic Four with Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis from Chicago's C2E2!
Half of the OG cinematic Fantastic Four - Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis - brought a piece of the Baxter Building to C2E2 2026, and you can watch their panel right here, right now
You know that Pedro Pascal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (love them though we do) weren't the first cinematic occupants of Marvel's Baxter Building, right? No, the first two to suit up in the Mr. Fantastic suit and The Thing... er, rocks... were Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis, which you would absolutely know if you, like Popverse, made it to Chicago's C2E2 2026.
That's because the veteran Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, respectively, joined a hall full of fans for a Main Stage panel recounting their time in the 20th Century Fantastic Four universe, and because we love both them and you, dearest reader, we filmed the whole thing. Just check out the video below for more.
This is one of the many C2E2 2026 panels Popverse is filming at McCormick Place's Main Stage. Consult our C2E2 2026 livestream/VOD panel schedule
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