RDJ is Doctor Doom and I am...confused

Kevin had two “Break in case of Emergency” buttons in his office: One for RDJ, one for Doom. And for some godforsaken reason, he decided to smash both at once

Doom can't exist in 616, his ego wouldn't have allowed him to lay low for this long.

my crack theory is that in the scramble to replace jonathan majors, one person pitched RDJ's return to replace him because a variant iron man as kang has precedence, but then another person seperately pitched replacing kang with doom and they ended up doing both ideas, to questionable results.

Get ready for "Avengers 17: Oops, All Iron Man."

"Somehow, Robert Downey Jr has returned." - Poe Dameron, 'The Rise of Skywalker' (2019)

Don't worry, we are all confused. I honestly don't know how to feel about the news. There are so many actors in the world, and yet they got RDJ to play Doctor Doom.

this really is Nando v Movies

I had no idea the MCU was at Terminator series "for the love of God, see we're bringing back Arnold" levels of desperation.

On the one hand, it's a very sudden pick for this character and honestly the casting itself doesn't bother me as much as the possibility they might only have a post credits scene or two with Doom before the Avengers films. I would very much have liked at least one Fantastic Four film that established the relationship between Reed and Victor because it's just another reason I find him so captivating as a villain. I also am waiting to see if they even address his Romani background because it's one of the things that makes his POV on magic and science being equals such an amazing dichotomy to Reed being a slave to logic and reason On the other hand, RDJ just won an Oscar for playing a man who tried to systematically dismantle the life of a successful scientist, driven by the insecurity that he is smarter than him. That's very on-brand for Victor

It's surreal how we got hit with this news after a couple years of those "RDJ back at MCU?!" and "Doom Is Coming" clickbaits.

Honestly, the Fantastic Four trailer has more personality than any Marvel movie I've seen in years. It really impressed me

I think it was a PR move, but I think he’ll still do a good job.

He'll be good but I don't want him overshadowing the Doom character That's like casting Michael Keaton as someone not Batman in a DC team up film

While I do think RDJ is one of the few actors who has enough screen presence to finally make a strong Dr. Doom, it does just feel like they didn't know how to get butts in seats for the F4 and Avengers movies. Imagine how cool it would have been to leave Doom's actor anonymous, see a good performance, and then see who was playing him after a public reveal. But right now, this moreso seems like "Fantastic 4 is infamous for flopping at the box office, we need to make damn sure people go and watch that to be ready for Doomsday."

You can't do 'Secret Wars' without Doom. He's an essential character in the story.

I feel like this could also be a misdirect where he's playing a multiversal variant and that we'll still get another Doom at some point

One odd thing. Doctor Doom never removes his mask. Why hire a famous face if you aren't going to show it? What will be different about Doom if showing his face is a thing? It seems inevitable this is a variant Tony Stark. An evil Tony from another universe is the only way this breaks down.

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Marvel is desperate at this point. Instead of giving us the best characterization possible for Doom, they are playing with the nostalgia factor.

Nando, you literally pitched that evil alternate universe Tony Stark should replace Kang as the villain in the next Avengers movies, like, six months ago. That's what this is. You were right. Take the victory lap.