• WindyRebel@lemmy.world
    25·
    3 months ago

    I don’t like it. Seems weird. An article I read said that he would NOT be playing a multiverse version of Doom, but actually Victor Von Doom.

    Now, based on that I have two thoughts:

    1. He was originally a Tony Stark multiverse version but became corrupted and no longer thinks of himself as Tony so he IS Victor Von Doom (like an identity shift).

    2. He has Tony Stark’s face and will be revealed in a mask off moment. However, the twist is that it’s actually a Doombot and Tony’s face is used to mess with the Avengers. Maybe Doombots can have any face he chooses?

  • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    I mean it’s definitely odd, but if he’s masked the whole time, then I guess it’s the same as any other actor doing it.

  • CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 months ago

    So they’re doing a hard pivot away from the Kang stuff after the combination of the Majors scandal and underperformance of Quantumania?

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    3 months ago

    No way lmao. It’ll be good I’m sure, but Doom seems like a bigger bad than just one movie. Is he really jumping in for another round of films?

    • Thatuserguy@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 months ago

      Is he really jumping in for another round of films?

      His bed of money wasn’t as comfortable anymore, so he wanted a bit more padding

    • Schal330@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      I think it was announced he’d be doing 2 movies. Then I guess they can hand it over to whoever replaces him as Doom from the multiverse.

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        that would just be setting up the next Doom as a major letdown. nothing about this makes any sense other than $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

  • esc27@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months ago

    I’m kind of weirdly excited because I’ve been wanting him to come back as Doctor Doom for awhile now but didn’t think it would actually happen.

    There’s just so much room for character drama with our avengers having to make sense of a villainous version of their hero. Also room to play with the dichotomy of stark being a man of science and Doom more into magic.

    • CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 months ago

      Is there a reason you wanted RDJ for Doctor Doom? I haven’t read the comics so I’m unfamiliar but I would have expected him not even to be in the conversation. Is there some kind of cannon connection between stark and him? I always thought his link was to the Fantastic Four primarily.

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Tony Stark and Victor Von Doom are entirely separate people. Unless there’s some bizarre series I’m not aware of connecting them.

        • David_Eight@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 months ago

          There was a short comic run where Dr. Doom becomes Ironman after Tony dies that I really liked. The only thing connecting them is that they’re both dudes in suits of armor otherwise.

          • Microw@lemm.ee
            3·
            3 months ago

            Now that you say it, Infamous Iron Man could be part of the influences they want to draw from for a movie script here…

            • Dlayknee@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 months ago

              I thought the same thing, except this is like a reverse-Infamous plot where (presumably) Tony is Doom rather than Doom is Ironman.

              I trust Marvel & the Russo Bros quite a bit at this point, but this is definitely a weird casting.

      • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        3 months ago

        There’s a “What If…?” comic where Tony, not Reed Richards, is Vic’s college roommate and Vic ends up stealing Tonys identity, literally a “Freaky Friday” Marvel version.

      • Pronell@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        I suppose they could make him Howard Stark’s illegimate son but that’d be a bad move.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldOPM
      15·
      3 months ago

      Heaven forbid someone actually enjoy something on Lemmy. Perhaps I should wax poetic how I hate everything and should thus be considered cool.

      In before “I don’t hate everything”

      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        I also enjoy things too but they often get wrecked by the influence of PR teams turning it all into giant commercials while using heavy censorship to control negative opinions of their product.

        • MimicJar@lemmy.worldOPM
          6·
          3 months ago

          Well rest assured if you have a critical complaint about the MCU you can say it here. You have to say more than “I don’t like this” but if it’s a thought out idea you don’t say it. (And there is plenty to criticize)

  • BJHanssen@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    MCU doesn’t really have a ‘proper’ Reed Richards, so the alternate universe Evil Reed from Secret Wars couldn’t work that way. The only brains of the MCU that could fill that role in that plot would be either Stark or Bannon, and the latter is a) still alive and b) already his own foil and his genius isn’t really played in the same way anyway. B-list alternative would be Hank Pym but he’s not been central to the MCU in anything like the same way as the other two.

    Honestly I think it might work pretty well story-wise. Though actual reason is just… well, money. And the course correction aspect previously mentioned in these comments.

      • BJHanssen@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Sure, and that will be great I’m sure, but an evil version of a character we’ve just been introduced to won’t hit the same.