First Steps and Superman stack up at the box office and with critics? With both films launching in July 2025, fans and analysts have been comparing every number and rating to see which superhero epic came out on top.

First Steps" captured $218 million in its box office debut while "Superman" and "F1" crossed major milestones.

Even before they released, just two weeks apart from one another, we knew that Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps would have a lot in common. Both movies feature founding characters from the comics, both embrace the qualities that made their characters uncool in the past, and both have a hopeful, optimistic tone.

Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps going head-to-head in one of the biggest box office showdowns in recent memory.

First Steps and James Gunn’s Superman hold very different positions within their respective franchises (the former is the 37 th movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and technically set outside of the canon;

First Steps, and while Marvel's First Family was beaten by Superman in North America, the team reigned supreme overseas. Read on for

With this being 2025, you can't escape Rotten Tomatoes discourse when it comes to a major movie release. All eyes, then, are on Fantastic Four: First Steps – and if it has beaten Superman on the review aggregation site. Fantastic Four is now certified fresh, currently sitting at 86% on Rotten Tomatoes after 130 reviews.

The dust has yet to settle on Marvel’s latest MCU entry, but Fantastic Four: First Steps is off to a strong start this weekend. In terms of critical reception, it’s doing about the same as James Gunn’s Superman, at least as far as Rotten Tomatoes is concerned.

First Steps is coming in lighter than projections in its first box office weekend with $117.6 million. Still records were broken.