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Galactus Asked Too High A Price is an exploitable meme featuring a scene from the 2025 film Fantastic Four: First Steps. The meme shows Reed Richards, played by Pedro Pascal speaking to the press and saying "We tried to negotiate, but Galactus, he asked too high a price." The reporter asks, "Well, what does he want?" with memes altering Reed Richards answer to fit a punchline. The original scene shows Reed Richards saying, "Our son." The meme began making the rounds in late July 2025 after the release of the film

Origin

The film Fantastic Four: First Steps follows the group going up against the supervillain Galactus, who has offered to spare Earth from being devoured in exchange for Reed Richards and Sue Storm's super-human son. The snippet featuring a scene where Reed Richards debriefs the press on their failed negotiation with Galactus was posted to YouTube^[1] by Marvel Entertainment on July 14th, 2025, where it gathered over 700,000 views in two weeks.

The earliest known meme featuring the scene is a July 14th, 2025, post in the Facebook^[2] group "Marvel: Multiverse of Shitposting," where Facebook user Chip Douglas posted a meme that read, "$80 for a popcorn bucket of his head. I don't even know where I'd keep it." The post gathered over 300 reactions in two weeks.

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On July 15th, 2025, Redditor /u/Sir_Endgame posted a version of the Galactus meme to the subreddit /r/marvelmemes^[3] where the "price" was "Epstein's Client List." The post gathered over 2,000 upvotes in two weeks.

On July 22nd, X^[4] user @Telecinemas posted a version of the "We tried to negotiate but Galactus asked too high a price" meme to Twitter, where the "price" was "Stuff." The post gathered over 27,000 likes in a week.

On July 22nd, Redditor /u/thatpoliteboi posted a version of the Galactus Asked Too High a Price meme to the /r/marvelmemes^[5] subreddit, editing Reed Richards into Toby Maguire as Peter Parker from Spider-Man. The post gathered over 8,000 upvotes in two days.

On July 26th, X^[6] user @roryofffilm posted a version of the meme where the "price" was "2 bands," gathering over 120,000 likes in two days.

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