The Fantastic Four

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Reed Richards

Age Lift: He's a young adult, not a complete adult.
Motor Mouth: Sue wants to talk with Reed, but he's busy. To prove it, Ben simply aims the phone towards him, so she can hear him talking about science gibberish.
The Smart Guy: He's the brain behind the spaceship program.

Sue Storm

Adaptational Backstory Change: She does not board the ship with the gang simply because of being Reed's girlfriend: she's the owner of the whole project, before Wingfoot took it from her.
Badass Normal: Even before having powers, she could hold herself in a fight.
Barrier Warrior: Her other power.
Invisibility: It's one of her powers.
Required Secondary Powers: Sue turned herself invisible, along with her clothes. Reed understood that meant she also had the power to project invisibility onto other things.

Johnny Storm

The Casanova: He even has a disposable girl in his very first scene.
Nepotism: He has a stake in the spaceship program, and he's required to initiate the launching codes, but only because he's Sue's little brother.
Wreathed in Flames: His main power as the Human Torch.

Ben Grimm

Age Lift: Like Reed, he's now closer in age to Sue and Johnny instead of being a middle-aged man.
Adaptational Backstory Change: He's a veteran of The Gulf War, not WWII.
Heroic BSoD: Turning into the Thing left him shocked, to the point that the moloids took him, placed in a sacrificial rock and summoned a giant beast, and he could only keep saying that this was not happening.
Rock Monster: He became one after being exposed to the cosmic rays.

Villains

Wyatt Wingfoot

Adaptational Villainy: Downplayed. At first, he appeared to be this, a mole for Dr. Doom inside of S.H.I.E.L.D. However, that "Wingfoot" turned out to be the HR version of the Super-Skrull and the real Wyatt is indeed a good guy.
The Men in Black: As a SHIELD agent, it's almost mandatory.
The Mole: He's a SHIELD agent. Actually, he's a Latveria agent. Actually, he's a Skrull posing as a Latveria agent that poses as a SHIELD agent.
Time-Passage Beard: When Wingfoot The real one shows up after his ordeal, asking for the help of Reed Richards.