The ruler of an underground country, an enemy of the Fantastic Four who becomes an ally, mostly by being asked properly.
Harvey Elder, called the Mole Man, is a former enemy turned ally of the Fantastic Four and the human ruler of Subterranea, an underground society whose people call themselves Moloids. Paul Walter Hauser plays him.
He matters in First Steps out of proportion to his screen time because he is the film’s proof of method. The Fantastic Four are not written as people who win fights. They are written as people who talk to whoever is on the other side, and the Mole Man is who that is tested on first.
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Wikipedia records him in two: the film and the one-shot comic Fantastic Four: First Steps, both from 2025.