Johnny Storm

Incoming Storm warning! The most popular member of the Fantastic Four, known for his fiery attitude and charming personality, Johnny Storm spends his weekends chasing thrills and teasing his sister, Sue Storm. It's always surprising when toymakers do a plain Johnny Storm. Like, his flamed-on form is so eye-catching and toyetic that it seems like making a human version of him is an utter waste (from a business standpoint, not a collector's). Imagine you're trying to sell toys to kids; who would you rather put on store shelves: the bright orange guy made of fire, or a random blond boy in a blue jumper? The former, obviously. So any time a line does make a totally normal Johnny Storm, it almost feels like the FF equivalent of releasing a civilian character. I'd almost expect to see a Willie Lumpkin before a non-flaming Johnny Storm! First Steps Johnny Storm was played by Joseph Quinn, and we can't wait to see who he plays in the MCU later! What, the first Human Torch became Captain America and the second became Killmonger, so tradition dictates that the third will get another role at some point in the future as well. The likeness is good, giving him the sort of "1960s teen heartthrob" look the character was always implied to have in the comics but, since Jack came up on monster books and not romance books, he was never actually drawn with. Johnny is wearing his version of the team uniform, which is slightly different from Reed's. For one thing, his actually gets white on his shoulders (and down his arms) instead of just being blue. You'd think they could have simply reused the Reed molds, since he was also "plain guy wearing sweater," but the cut of their suits is slightly different, the seams falling in not quite the same place, so while it would have been "close enough," apparently Hasbro didn't feel it was sufficient. Which is to their credit, I suppose. Also, Joseph Quinn is slightly taller than Pedro Pascal, so this figure is slightly taller than that one. Attention to detail! The First Steps costumes are baby blue with white, the same colorscheme seen on the 1994 FF animated series (the first season, at least: Season 2 was moved to a different production studio and they redesigned things slightly, adding heavy shadows that made the team look more like John Byrne intended), but adding a little bit of black on the boots, belt, and gloves makes things more interesting. And of course, he's wearing his silver wrist communicator. On his left arm, not his right. You probably already know what the articulation is going to be like: balljointed head, hinged neck, swivel/hinge shoulders, swivel biceps, double-hinged elbows, swivel/hinge wrists, a balljointed chest, swivel waist to duplicate part of the chest's range of movement for some reason, balljoint hips, swivel thighs, double-hinged knees, no shins despite the boots being separate molds and thus there being no excuse not to do them, and swivel/hinge ankles. Everything moved smoothly right out of the box. Johnny has open or closed hands, and energy swirls molded in translucent orange and then painted yellow. Since this figure's molds are the same as the flamed-on Human Torch, you can trade some of those parts over here to make a semi-flaming version if you feel like. 2005 Johnny Storm was perhaps the 2005iest character to ever 2005, an annoying prankster you had trouble believing anybody would like, even if they were related to him. 2025 Johnny Storm is a little bit goofy, but in an endearing way, and he's so earnest that it makes sense people would want to be around him. He's smarter than he looks, and the movie doesn't bend itself over backwards to try to make him the main character, so it's a better representation overall. It's surprising Hasbro would make him as a powered-down action figure, but not unwelcome. It's nice to get one without weird flames sculpted into his hair or something. -- 09/08/25 Would you buy a Willie Lumpkin action figure? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.