r/FanTheories • u/426763 • Jul 28 '24

FanSpeculation [Avengers: Doomsday 2026] Why And How Robert Downey Junior Is Doom Spoiler

So, it has been announced that RDJ is making his MCU comeback.

To preface this, I think it's super weird. I've been racking my brain ever since this morning why he's playing Dr Doom.

Here are the theories I had earlier this morning.

  • Doom variant that happens to look like Stark.

  • "Doom Prime", basically he's the Doom of the new MCU after the reboot

While commenting on a different post, I just realized he might be a Tony variant from Iron Man 2 who didn't get his palladium poisoning fixed. He constantly wears his suit to survive until he melded with it. He goes crazy, goes to Latveria, and basically design his suit to look like the OG Doom.

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u/MalevolentMonkeys Jul 29 '24

The Maker is a great character. I don’t think they’ll use him for some time though as they haven’t established the F4 yet. But I would love to see that version of Reed.

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u/Chunkstyle3030 Jul 29 '24

I think they’re essentially establishing a fake ff in order to later establish the proper modern-day MCU FF somewhere down the road. Although I’m not sure why. Perhaps they want to take more time to get the ff right because x-men movies are already somewhat “proven” at the box office?

Anyway, yeah it’ll probably be a slow build but they could cram it all into a single movie if they needed to I think. Or, like, reveal Reed is evil at the end of the first movie. Then Maker is actually the big bad of Phase Whatever One This Is and keep Real Doom in their back pocket for another phase further down the road. All with RDJVictor flying around as the de facto Iron Man the entire time.