I don't think the Fantastic Four could beat any of the other main super-teams. First off, they're woefully understaffed. Four? That's not even enough to field a basketball team. Most of your other super-teams these days could practically play football. Look at the X-Men, they're like a biker gang or something. The Avengers, the Justice League of America (AKA, "Superman's Bitches")...these teams have so many members they are often reduced to squabbling over who gets dibs on the criminal.
Secondly, quite apart from not having enough people - look at who they do have. What good are they? Admittedly, at least they aren't saddled with some non-powered lame-o (who is still always somehow supposedly the most badass dude on the team, despite they have no powers) like Batman or Captain America. But they might as well be, because each of them only has one power. Four people. Four powers. Superman alone has twelve powers - not even counting where he starts doing all that crazy shit at the end of Superman II. The Fantastic Four has what. You've got fire guy, who can set stuff on fire. You've got rock guy, who is super tough and strong. You've got rubberguy. He stretches (credulity, mostly). And then you've got invisible-and-frequently-naked chick (which sounds like two powers, I know, but if you think about it the one kind of cancels out the other?).
This is not the team that ought be dealing with intergalactic menaces and end-of-the-world stuff. They might be useful for like, bank robberies, but other than that, come on. Send in the big guns.
On the other hand, to be fair to them, despite being one man short they probably could beat most pro basketball teams.
In a fight, I mean.
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